Show JQ- JQ up OPPORTUNITIES WHICH ARE MISSED Colonel Thomas De Kay ICay must ha hate hae e turned 0 over oter er in his grave rave sev several eral times In 1724 be h traded 60 lacres acres of land In which Is now the th business heart hearl of New York Cit CIl for a farm arm over In New Jerse Jersey The fhe farm today Is i worth orth The 60 0 acres In New York are worth million dollars The Th colonels colonel's great treat grandson now owner of the th farm his h a far far- faraway ar- ar away eway look In hIs bis ees eves as he din cusses how bow It might have been dl dir different ferent He lIe Ba sa S philosophically I abl abi would hae hav ha e done the tho same thing m mi self at the time Who would ha hae have e dreamed In 1724 that 60 cres at Broadway and Canal street would e ever eter er become the priceless eless parcel of land it Is It to to- today today today day The DC De Kay iCay incident it will Ill ill Inter cst cat ever everyone everyone one for It Is just lust a big experience that no one es the capes the 0 overlooked bet The Theman Theman Theman man who ho pass up a big bl op opportunity himself Is I sure to have en an ancestor who ho did The Tb trouble is the they are not op- op opportunitIes opportunities op opportunities at the time lime They are made opportunities by the passing of time Many a reader will start rem and say Gosh I remember remember remember ber when I could ha have hate e bought such and uch-and and such a property properly for a song Bong one To Toda Toda da its it a worth orth a barrel of money mone People are passing up big bic future opportunities today lust just as much muchas muchas muchas as a II a century ago aco when Colonel De DeKay DeKay Kay sold his farm For Instance cities as large larr as 11 New ew York Is I to today today today day may spring sprint up on what now Is remote farm landUp landUp land landUp Up to no now there have been three main factors in making cIties large large- large commercially strategic Inca loca tion at the tb seashore with good har harbor harbor barbor bor facilities location to drain large farmIng territories location logical for tor manufacturing A fourth factor will Ine in location develop location at points where air traffic will w focus Flying flivvers livers ers vers ers by the th millions million are ar not ins ins- Improbable Im Improbable probable nor even fling fI Ing freight trains If It you can figure out the future traffic centers center of ot air lines linesa a snaIl small Investment may you to leave leav many millions million to your descendants Of course by the th time the descendants got get on the th job lob calory taxation may make mak the th null mil millionaire M as extinct as a a II dodo or pas paa passenger pigeon |