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Show H THE TOWN BEAUTIFUL BBI MOVEMENT BBB. Tho real estate promoter Is a se- BBB! cessary element in town derelop- BBb ment. His faith In the town and rn BBH, terprlso as an Investor naVcs a BBB place grow. He takes chances -with BBB his funds, and his advertising puMi- BBB eg a town along. But his laying obi BBB , of new tracts of land is not JJwtr . BBBL conducive to town beauty. BflflF" There hag been n groat tendency- BflH to cut up land into too f-mnJl Ixin-tr BBB lots. Outlying tracts may be wni BBB but a small fraction of a font ir BBB equaro foot. There is plenty -no ' BBB' f()r lawn and garden for earn It. BBB lut the dealer may think tbat one BBB 0 foot lot would bring nearly as Bflflj mch money as two of thirty foot (rentage each. Vlleal estate auctions, with gift fea turn's, balloons, band concerts, r-tc, BBS Uavo been a feature of development BB i many places. If they Induce poo- BB . lc- to buy tiny little lots to bo cov- WMm WLj Totl ,atcr "'"' Insignificant, II. Ho I B r ' - Tnrii yoHgcsted dwellings, -they do not pro- BBB luotu tho Town Denutlful Move-, BBB BBB Thickly placed houses on Uttlo B lots glvo lvn impression of poverty. I BBB ' 'l'liu pcoplo nro too closo to cneh BBB other. There is no elbow room. BBB f Children, dogs, and liens roam nt H will In n thickly settled district. It BBB becomes impoBslblc to develop How- BBB era or shrubbery. If qrasa is plant- BBB cil, the hurrying feet of children, B W" seeking in vain for n real piny- W 1 ground, soon wear it out. B Tho cutting up of real estnto lit a BB j, dilllcult matter to control by law. BB i If it could bo well regulated, It would B L Uo a blessing, but public sentiment B p is hostile to much Interference with BBB prlvnto property. BBB People should oxerclso moro sensu r in choico of homes. Let them Insist' " J . on decont sized house lots. A him- ' dred or, two added to cost of land. followed by planting of grass and Hhrubs nnd trees, will add many .,,, times the nddltlnnai cost to the val- BBB uo of tho property. BUIIIIIH inula - - |