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THE ATLANTA GEORGIA!?? ftATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. lwo. ANSLEY PARK AUCTION SALE t3 UR$ WU BE MUI MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24,240 P. M. Sale will begin on Piedmont avenue near the Driving Club. If you want a high- class lot for a home or speculation, don’t WHAT JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES SAYS OF ANSLEY PARK, From The Georgian, September 17. ATLANTA WILL NEVER KNOW A RESIDENTIAL SECTION TO SURPASS ANSLEY PARK By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. When the children of Edwin P. Ans- tey, are grown to manhood, they will flpd that one of the atatelleet monu. ment ot architecture and domeatlo beauty which adorns this famous city will bear the name of their strenuous and enterprising parent, who had the sagacity to see, the liberality to spend, and the tireless and energetic courage to dare the achievement which will hand his name down on the list ‘of famous men among Atlanta's builders and workers. There Is never any heed to consider the question of advertising Ed. Ansley. He advertises so largely himself In the newspapers that no man ever grudges him a notice that Is without flnandat consideration, and he Is so constantly advertising the city of At lanta and magnifying It at such a rate that he Is richly efttltled to all that Is said of him In this or any other newspaper In the city. To one whc saw the broken chain of rugged and ragged hills that lay along the Peach tree Road from Fifteenth street out ward a year ago, the changes that a year has wrought look a little short of marvelous. With an enterprise and daring which few men of his age have risen to, Mr. Ansley has expended near ly 1160,000 In beautifying the magnllt- cent piece of residence property whose possibilities he had the sagacity to foresee some two years ago. If one had no desire to buy or to Invest, It would be worth a trip to Ansley Park and a study of Ansley Park just to observe the possibilities that rest In the landscape artist and the resolute business man combined. It Is no exaggeration to as? that the annex to our famous Peachtree street, which Edwin P. Ansley has framed, must Inevitably become. In the course of time, the most beautiful and the most elegant residence section of At lanta. The very beauty and variety of Its building sites, the hills and valleys, the rolling slopes and the little Bwlt- xerland ravines, which Intersperse It will make It Indeed the garden and the ornament of all Atlanta's residential section. The city has never had, and In the nature ot things can never have a finer section of homes than this. What Euclid Heights la to Cleveland, Ansley Park will be to Atlanta One has only to look at the marble mansion now going up for Mr. Wlne- coff on one of those lovely elevations and follow around the graceful curve of Peachtree Circle to see Just, what transcendent residential loveliness Is growing out of Ansley Park. There are lots enough already sold In Ansley Park to make Its power and Its prosperity It no other purchaser ever came. But the demand Is so rich and so constant for this gilt-edged property that Its prospects are simply brilliant with promise for profit and for repute to Its enterprising founder. Drive from Atlanta's court house out In the direction of Ansley Park. Take a circle through the side streets and a sweep through the lots that were vacant two years ago, and everywhere the observant will be struck with such a remarkable growth and development and eager a demand for building lots, that It takes no prophet to foresee the great glory that Is coming to Ansley Not yet have these lots on Ar.Vey Park reached the high prices which mark our Peachtree Road, but to those who watt too long the time will come when the man who has the honor and the privilege to live In this beautiful section will have to pay for It as he pays today for the best lots on Peach- tree street within the older limits of the city. Without hesitation the writer coun sels every ambitious young man who aspires to live In the loveliest section of his native or adopted city to util ise the present opportunity, and, while he may do so with comparative econ omy, to purchase a lot In Ansley Park. Get a plat and drive Ihrougli the park, make your selection and attend the sale. An absolute sale, reserve or lit, to the highest bidder. ronnrsT and george amir. eseeeee ANSLEY BROS. CHARLES M. ROBERTS. Officers •tats Society. P.eeldtat: Dupont Ouerry, Macon. Atlanta. Second Vlco-Prcs.: Dr. E. C. Paste, Mscon. Secretary-Treasurer; Dr. W. T. Jones, Atlanta. Annual Meeting In May, 1387, at Mscon. SOCIOLOGICAL EDITORIAL COMMITTEE—Rev. C. B. Wilmer, J. D. Clcaton, E. Marvin Underwood, Dr. R. R. Kime. Officer* Atlanta Sociaty. President: Dr. R. R. KIuip. Vice-President: E. M. Underwood. Jlecretary*Trea»urer: Dr. E. C. Cartledge. Regular Meeting on Hecond Thuliday Night of Each Month nt Carnegie Library. ‘ATLANTA A MODEL CITY” The above Is the motto of the At lanta Sociological Society, and If the Mine and ambitions of those compos ing the membership tire ever realised, there la no question mark attached to the quotation. And more: When such realisation takes place It will be large ly dueto the growth of sentiment along the poI y pursued by the society. Already the Influence for good this society-has exerted has been felt. The employment of children In local liquor houses was brought to public notice, and the law correcting the error was proposed, the ordinance framed and pressed for passage by council, by members of this organisation. The Atlanta Soclolorlca! Society now bringing to bear a strong Influence favoring the establlehlng of a system of playgrounds for children In the con gested districts of the city. The es tablishment of more permanent parks, especially near the center of the city. Is another end to which strong effort Is being directed. Atlanta- is building for time, e\ ry’Vear marks the occupation "f more and more space, and the tow ering structures are cutting ofr, pro portionately. mors snd more of sun light, and, In view of the fact that we are "building for time,” the question comes forcibly homo to everyone, How long will It be until our central dis tricts become as sweltering and suf focating ovens, where labor of any character will claim new victims dally? And the suggestion Is not unreason able. Other cities, populous and close ly bullded, furnish examples of this In their dally mortuary reports. Sunstroke In Atlanta now Is practi cally an unknown term. The reason we are fr-e from It is found In the fact that our high altitude and the freedom of air circulation make It Jm- p")«lble; cut otf this freedom of cir culation of purs air and our high alti tude win not atone protect us. And this Is but one phase of the question, niwases that reap their richest harv- *"<* In congested city districts will. In due time, begin their work In our fair city, too, and we will be scourged, as other cities are scourged. ■ he Atlanta Sociological Society, at meeting on Thursday evening, the IJJh instant, discussed the question of 'Parks and Playgrounds for Children," and the enthusiasm aroused over the discussion ot the subject was moot en couraging. ■Mr. Walter R. Brown, chairman of the board of park commissioners, led me discussion of the evening, his aub- l"'t being, "Parks as an Investment," “Ud. aside from the pleasures and corn- torts Grant park alone afforded our feature of good derived from parks, Mr. Brown demonstrated the fact that the park had been a paying Investment to the city, in drawing large excursions from neighboring towns to Atlanta, when, on each occasion, there was a large sum expanded among the mer chants, thus adding to the volume of trade, and proportionately to the profits ot our city business. Mr. Brown un consciously Impressed his audience with hla seal and- genuine Interest In the cause of parks for Atlanta, and those present could but feel that, with a free hand and fair, if not liberal, support, the board, under such lead ership, was bound to accomplish still greater things In the near future. We say this as warranted also by the Im provements that have been made In park circles; these, too, with small ap portionments of funds. The city coun cil has been unable to do for the board any more than was needed for running expenses. Next year It la ex pected that more liberal appropriations will warrant a widening of the scope of park work by the board, which, we are assured, will be greatly pleasing to that body. Dr. Theo Toepet, physical director of the public schools of the city, and an enthusiastic sociologist, rend a strong paper upon the subject of playgrounds, stressing the athletic feature, as so very essential, as a developer of mus cle and bone, and the producer of a plentiful supply of rich red blood. Dr. Tocpel's wide experience, thoughtful study and extended observation lend great force to whatever utterances he makes upon this subject, and his paper made a strong Impression. Mrs. Warron Boyd, who has devoted much thought to the subject, treated It from the viewpoint of the economic, social and hygienic value of parks. We have been fortunate In securing a very full and comprehensive resume of this most Instructive paper, which we em body herewith. There Is nothing like successful ex periment ns a support for theories pro mulgated, and practical application was given of this In the timely ad dresses of Mr. C. E. Folsom, a former citizen of Minnesota, now a full- lledged and loyal Atlanta citlsen, and Mr J. C. Logan, general secretary of the Associated Charities of Atlanta. Mr Folsom gave account of the recla mation of a barren island In the Mis sissippi river nt St. Paul, which had been; within a few years rendered the most pleasant spot In all that section; and, while the effort at flrst was ridi culed as an unpromising and unprofit able project, It had. In these few years, become not only the pride and Joy of a great city, but It Is also a paying Investment, while affording bathing and to carry convlcltlon, If summed up In the single statement that his experi ment at Fair Street school yard dur ing the past summer afforded health ful sport, pleasant recreation and a world of fun for sixty children for sixty days upon an expenditure of 3*7.41. THE IMPORTANCE OF PARKS AND PLAY GROUND8. (Mrs. Emma Garrett Boyd’s Paper.) The need ot parks and play grounds arises obviously from the concentra tion ot great masses of population in cities. The consequent overcrowding In our largest cities can scarcely be realised. The eastern half of London has only one acre of open space to every 7,481 persons; In Chicago there JJJ**" 1 are 23 wards that average a population of 4,720 to a single acre of park space, while more than 800,000 people live over a mile from any large park; In New York 20 wards south of Fortieth street have over a million of popula tion to only 80 acres of parks; that Is, there Is but »ne acre of park space to every 12,600 people! No wonder Pres ident Wilson, of the board of health, reports that the population of New York Is more dense In the tenement house district than that of any other civilised city from which returns-have been received. No wonder, with 1,018,- 136 people massed In these tenements and almost completely cut off from the fresh air of tree-covered areas, there arises the fearful mortality that has given so terrible a fame to New York slums and so potent a warning to other cities where rapid growth Is Inducing a similar congestion. The summer mor tality In New York rises about 30 per cent over the average for the year. Little children are .the chief sufferers and In 1887 nearly 1,000 died In one week. In Lung Block, a fearful struc ture bounded by four streets and swarming with 4.000 people, there are over 400 dark rooms and 20 bed rooms without windows ot any son, while for nine years there has developed on nn average a new case of tuberculosis for every 12 days, whole families hav ing been wiped out In the same room. Health authorities tell us that there Is practically no third generation In the average New York tenement With hldenua conditions such as these In the largest cities of the world, and with a constantly Increasing ten dency toward such conditions In all rapidly-growing ettlea, the flrst Impera tive need for parka Is oblous—that they may serve as great ventilating shafts In congested areas. The annual exodus of the well-to-do to the coun- other facilities at such small cost as try reveals tneir recognition ot a great to place these In reach of all. Mr. Lo- deficit on the part of our cities; the generation In tenements shows that failure In appalling statistics; while the Identity of the lll-ventllated and dirty with 1he vicious and poverty-stricken districts has In It more than a mere coincidence, our generation Is begin ning to realize that disease and crime are not merely the producers of crime, but are ofttlmes Its product. Deprive a child of fresh air, a sufficiency of food, and decent surroundings, und you can no more expect to make a normal being of him than you van expect a perfect flower of a plant shut up In darkness and out off from air and water. Truly, "foul air prompts to vice and oxygen to virtue." How Im portant a life-saving agency proper ventilation may be Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted when, In a speech ad vocating parka, he said; “A single phy sician by a single measure (the pro vision of ventilation In a lylng-ln hos pital) saved more lives than were lost at Waterloo by the British army and all its allies, the Prussians alone ex cepted." But the physical uses of parks are not limited to the serving as mere ven tilating shafts for fresh Mr; they offer much needed opportunities for physi cal exercise In their walks, ball grounds, play grofinds, drives, bridle paths, etc.; they tempt many away from streets and saloons who are driven thither, particularly In large cities, merely' by the stifling streets too strenuous and crowded,. unattrae tlve homes, nor can their Invitation to rest be regarded aa useless In our teo strenuous American life. Nor should the direct physical ser vice of the trees In parks be over looked. They not only lower the tem- e ernture and help to circulate breefces, ut by giving out oxygen and absorb ing carbonic they directly promote human vigor. Eminent authorities claim, moreover, that they act aa bar riers against disease by absorbing nox ious vapors. Even the ancient Romans recognised the value of surh tree bar riers against malaria and enforced the planting of trees by law, as the Roman tablets bear witness, while Germany, undoubtedly the foremost country In the world In scientific knowledge, places such a high value upon her trees that a person Is not allowed to fell one, even upon his own premises, without the consent of the authorities. Moreover, parks do not merely serve to better the physical being of the peo. pie in cities; they have a psychic func. tlon that Is less marked and yet of great Importance. No onp has ever satisfactorily defined beauty or ac counted for Its peculiar combination of pleasure with rest and stimulus. Yet about the beauty of nature and the beauty ot human nature have been woven practically all that we have of poetry and Imaginative literature. It Is Incredible, and yet It Is true, that nature Is absolutely unknown to hundreds of thousands of dwellers In big cities; that there are tenement chil dren who have never seen so much as a plot of grass; that tenement workers living In Inside rooms, without so much as a glimpse of the sky, have been terrified by the awful bigness of the logical gardens and botanical gardens In parks have always been centers for naturalists and botanists: but In the f >ast dn;ndo there has been a constant- y growing movement to utilise parks and park collections as direct material for the nature study that has proved Itself so popular nnd valuable In our schools. In Washington, Boston and other large cities little children are taken In groups to the parks and there ntudy living plants and animals. Teach ers are more and more realising the Importance of the visual nr objective element in leaching and of training a child to make hla own observations and deduction!; In other words, to see and think for himself. This method has not yet reached Atlanta, except per haps In sporadic cases. Grammar school teachers who assign such sub jects as "Trees” for a one-page com position to a fourth grade class are not yet extinct, nor are those who ramble desperately through Carnegie for material, Instead of studying the specimens In their own school yards. Nature study, properly speaking. Is not study In books about nature, but the flrst-hand observation ot such factg as go to make up books. Akin to the movement to utilise parks and park collections as un Integral part of the city's educational system Is the movement to utilise bits of waste space as little pnrks, accessible to the very poor, to tired mothers and to bnbles, and the great and very recent movement to supplement city parks by a host of small playgrounds especially for children. New York city Is author ised by the laws of 1887 lo s' -nd 11,000,808 a year nn email parks and playgrounds; In Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, Baltimore and Chicago such playgrounds have been most sue cessful for several years. Of the play, ground established by the University Settlement In Chicago the locat lieu tenant of the adjacent police station skys that It has saved not less than fifteen lives from the electric car and decreased Juvenile arrests In the vicin ity by at least one-third. nut these playgrounds, established as they are under trained supervisors, do not merely save children from the dan gers of the crowded streets, prevent crime by employing the Idle, and teach children respect for property In teach Ing them to respect the rights of oth ers; they serve to satisfy what Is one of the most fundamental rights and needs of childhood. The Instinct to play Is common to the young of all animals, and play Is absolutely essen tial lo the proper physical develop ment of young creatures. For this rea son even roof playgrounds are being established In some cities, while many cities are opening yard after yard of their schools and placing them at tha service of the children not only In vaca tion, hut also after school hours. Such a movement , has been begun In At lanta by the Associated Charities, which this summer equipped Fair Street school grounds and opened them, under proper supervision, to the children. The success of the experi ment has. been so great that a plan Is already on foot to have the city equip and open a number of other school yards as an experiment for the next summer. It Is to be hoped that this move ment will meet with heartiest success. Already frequent accidents on the streets attest tha need of taking the children away from tha traffic fur play; the many Juvenile Idlers on tin; streets are being constantly graduated Into potty offenders; and the constant ly widening area that has been denud ed of trees and grass bears testimony to the Immediate need of Inviting spots for recreation purposes. Wo boast thnt our building permits are doubling every two or three years, but wo must be most careful lest we begin to congest our central districts and then face, tot late, a problem such as other cltlce have faced, Increased by all tho hor ror of the length and fierceness of Southern summers. EMMA OARRETT BOYD. STRANGLED TO DEATH; THROWN IN SWAMP. Speelsl to The Georgian. McRae, Os., Sept 22.—Tho body of a negro womap was found dead In Gum Swamp creek near here Thursday aft ernoon, with her hands tied and a cloth tied over her face. ■ The body was Identified as the wife ot a laborer employed here since June by a sewer construction company In laying the sewer system for the city of McRae. The negro gave his name as Jecns .Anderson, and two weeks ago he mar- •rled Rena Coleman, a daughter of a negro preacher here. A coroner's Jury rendered a verdict to the effect that the woman was strangled to death and the body placed In the water. Anderson has not been caught. REMEMBER The Great China and Glassware Sale will go on all next week—-everything goes at a tremendous reduction. , We are closing out this department. sky and quiet of the country. Clvlllza. tlon Is a development out of, not a deviation from, nature. When tt be comes as complete a deviation as this, then Its product Is Inevitable decay. Besides Its physical and esthetic functions, the park has yet another that la being generally recognized In the greatest of our cities—that Is, Its educational function. Even the casual visitor, consciously or unconsciously, gains some knoweldge of native plant and animal life while the untold delights of a "soo” are only equaled by Its pow- !^p,e. whlc^SterML tottTm32 ^tfa speech would be forceful’enough decimation of the second and third ers of Instruction. Great aquaria, too- KING HARDWARE CO., 53 PEACHTREE STREET.