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Show .Timely Topics CHANCES IN 0R0WINQ CITIES. Too oftm. It Is chase rather thsn foraaijht, which rlTas man the bncflls of a bis- Increase In population, fortunes are made In arowing cities by people who own valuable real estate, who Just happened to own It and kept it because they did not know what a la to do with It. I'suaUy It Is the outsider rather than the native who Is first to observe what a town's population Is rloln- and how It can be turned to profit. The person who la part of the population la too rloa up to got a good perspective. . - Kor eiampla, In Rochester. X. T.. a while ajro, the representative of a big retail ooncern came along and rented a small corner space at a prlca that shocked the owners of real estate in that locality. The moment the deal had been closed, aeveral local atore proprietors wished they had taken the space, even at tha unheard of price. They began to realise Its great desirability. Kenta on similsr business property suddenly leaped upward and there waa a real estate revolution In that sect ion. vjn very thriving city there are chances for personal gain usually somewhat In proportion to how rapidly the pUce- is growing provided a man Is able to perceive what Is goina; o about him, and Is able to make a proper Interpretation of siens end tendencies. Kvrry decennial census reveals a story of opportunities grasped and opportunities lost chances to Invest, to acquire a home In a location of advancing values, to sell more ot whatever one haa to sell, and In a better market, regardless of whether one Is offeriar cigars, pianos, or chiropody. I imagine that everyi smart dentist, and even undertakers and palmists, hare gained by th in or ease In the number of persons who call Akron home. For population baa a definite value to everybody living la the city. The opportunities In a growing city are uaoally a matter of cause and effeet. Jt wasn't luck thai led a chain store concern Co obtain a lease, at a stupendous figure, on a small kit of space at the southwest corner of Euclid avenue and East Ninth street. In Cleveland. They had figured It out by scientific observation that that corner waa 'going to be a tremendously busy one, as to the total amount of traffic, and also that the traffic waa going to have- aceptional buying power. And laat year tha Increase In business at that storo was the greatest of any of the 1IM or more which tkesame company operates la tha principal citiea of the V Ailed States. . When It became evident that tha automobile was going to bo a commercial aueceaa, and that aeveral of the pioneer make were to bo manufactured la Detroit, one mlKht almost hava ru eased that that city would save a big boora. Td C. Kelly, in Leslie's. , |