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62 WINNETKA TALK October 8, 1927 NORTH SHORE SUBURBS HOLD BUILDING PACE Winnetka One of Eleven Towns in Illinois to Show Gain Over Last Year; Evanston Active Building activity during August in- creased 30.1 percent over July as shown by permits issued last month in twenty-eight Illinois cities. Eighteen cities, including Chicago, showed gains in August over July, and sixteen cities reported an increase in the Au- gust figures over August, 1926. The total estimated value of building for the twenty-eight cities in August is $36,302,668, as compared with $27,- 902,973 in July. There was a decrease, however, of $9,701,966, or 2.1 percent in the August figures as compared with August a year ago. Eleven cities reported gains both over July, 1927, and August a year ago. These citigs are Canton, Cicero, Danville, Decatur, Elgin, Murphys- boro, Oak Park, Peoria, Quincy, Rock- ford, and Winnetka. E ton Is S d In the metropolitan area, outside Chicago, Oak Park leads in total value of building authorized during August with $939,576, and Evanston is second with $779950. In homebuilding in the same region, Berwyn leads with house- keeping dwellings for sixty-eight families, and Evanston is second with fifty-eight families. Outside the metropolitan area, Waukegan leads in value of building with a total of $914,645. Rockford is second with $658,805. Chicago shows a total of $261,543- 485 for the first eight months of this vear, which is a gain of $13,771,210, or 56 percent over the first eight months of 1926. Many New Homes in Evanston In the metrovoiitan area outside Chicago, Evansten with a total of $12,020,395. leads ir value of building authorized during the first eight months of 1927. Next is Berwyn with a total of $5,651,330 for the same pe- riod, and Oak Park ranks third with $5,361,920. Home-building in this re- gion during the first eight months of the year provides for eleven hundred twenty-six families in Evanston, nine hundred fifty-two families in Berwyn, and five hundred fortv-nine families in Oak Park. Edward Judd Gives Real Estate Class Important Pointers Edward S. Judd, the first president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards and chairman of the Program committee of the State as- sociation, spoke at the opening of the fall term of the real estate classes of the Chicago Central Collese of Com- merce of the Y. M. C. A. These «lasses are given in co-operation with the Chicago Real Estate board. It is interesting to note that during these past twenty years since Mr. Judd first instigated this real estate training course, Chicago has come to lead all other cities in the world in real estate education. The city's pon- ulation has increased one million with a subsequent rise in assessment and pronerty values. "The man with proper mental eq: ment, education and training in the real estate business will always find demand for the kind of service he is able to render," said Mr. Tudd "The better general education the young man has who is about to enter upon the real estate profession, the more likely will he be to succeed. The profession of real estate reaunires the exercise of will power which is not daunted by any obstacles. Absolute fidelity to. instructions of both em- plovers and clients is a prime requisite to success." Do You Know-- HAT Evanston is to have a $1,100,000 co-operative apartment building. Work is about to be started on the structure at the northeast cor- ner of Hinman avenue and Grove street overlooking picturesque Ray- mond Park. That one Golf club has failed to prosper, which is odd in these days of increasing popularity of the sport. This is mentioned incidentally to call attention to the fact that the famous Dixmoor Golf club of Homewood, a suburb to the south of Chicago, is "dead," and residences are soon to rise on the ground where golfers sought to lick Old Man Par. This property, forming a part of the village of Homewood, was purchased some weeks ago by the Loonnquist company and already it is announced that im- provements are such that it will be possible to start residential construc- tion shortly. That lumber prices are slightly above prices of 1926, according to cur- rent quotations for both hard and soft woods in the principal markets throughout the United States. The study made by the Greenebaum Sons' investment company is based on composite or theoretical prices for all principal varieties of hardwoods and softwoods. The hardwood composite price for this year is $43 per thousand feet as against $40 a year ago. This vear's softwood composite price is $31 per thousand feet, or one dollar more than in 1926. That a huge tract of land in Chicago which cost $200 an acre in 1838 and has remained in the same family since that time is to undergo the sub-dividng process. The tract of approximately 100 acres which ninety years ago was known as Galewood farm, fr 1900 to 1923 comprised the site of the West- ward Ho Golf club and from 1923 to date was known as the Galewood pub- lic fee course is to be subdivided im- mediately under the name of Galewood Estates. In 1838, practically ninety .vears ago, Abram Gale, grandfather of G. Whit- tier Gale, present owner and subdivid- er, preempted from the federal govern- ment 320 acres, a half section. The property to be subdivided was included in this tract. And the records of the general land office show that the 320 acres cost him the sum of $200. That wood is by far the most popu- lar material for the stairway of a home, and if the staircase is well con- structed it offers adequate resistance to bending and usage . To prevent any "shakiness" to it, the walls adja- cent should be well constructed and the floor and landing joists should be firmly fastened. A little time and the faults of a poorly built stairway begin to make themselves known. Erwin H. Rinder, manager and treas- urer of the Insurance Exchange Build- ing corporation, plans to erect a home on a lot which he has purchased in Baird & Warner's Deere Park subdi- vision. OIL HEAT Let us care for all your problems in Oil Heating--whether it's a new burner that's wanted or repairing the old one. OnioMatiC North Shore Dewey Hoke 448 Oakdale Glencoe 101 Alterations by Landlord Give a Tenant Free Rent Here's an odd case. 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