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Show A HEAL ESTATE SCHEME THAT PAID HIQ MONEY In tho March American1 Magazlno la an account of O. P. and M. J. Van Swerlngen of Cleveland, Ohio, two brothers whoso real ostato methods aro perhaps the mo3t unusual in tho country. Recently they bought a stoam railroad to assist In tho development devel-opment of a piece of property they owned. A few years ago they purchased pur-chased somo woodland on tho outskirts out-skirts of tho city and literally compelled com-pelled Cleveland to grow that way, making their land tho most fashion-able fashion-able rosldonco district In tho city. '"My Idea,' explained one of tlio young men, 'Is to build a fow hlgh-prlcediomes hlgh-prlcediomes and offer them so much less than cost to the peoplo of tho right sort that they will bo irresistible irresisti-ble In that way we'll get tho placo pioneered. Onco it Is started tho rest will not bo difficult. We'll provide pro-vide big automobile vans to tako tho children of our settlers to tho nearest near-est school and deliver then back homo again each noon and evening. "Tho Van Sworingen imagination won tho day. In an astonishingly short period, these moro boys had laid out moro than four thousand ncro3, or tho greater part of two townships, In a high grade residence allotmont; guilt and endowed several sev-eral street car lines; given to tho city several hundred acres of publlo parks; bulltmlles or winding boulo-vards; boulo-vards; mado millions of dollars worth of homes spring from vacant lands. "They are building at tho present time a big Interurban passenger station, sta-tion, freight terminal, and hotel, on ono of tho costliest down-town sites In Cleveland. And hero Is tho reason rea-son they aro building tho brelght terminal ter-minal which is to be ono of tho most efficient in tho wholo country; 'Bo' cause,' said theso real estate gonl-uses, gonl-uses, 'Cleveland will never really come Into its own until It has bettor freight facilities. And everything that help3 Cleveland as a great commercial com-mercial center increases the purchas- A 1 ing power of tho persons to whom wo hopo to sell high grade resldenco Iota." |