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THE aMXPRA CEO ROTA#, SATURDAY, HKI'TKMRRR 22, lww. ANSLEY PARK AUCTION SALE UL1TS#11 It se MONHY, SEPTEMBBI24 1:11 Ml. Sale will begin on Piedmont avenue near the Driving Club. if you want a high- class let for a home or speculation, don't miss Ibis opportunity. FOlRESTAND CEOnCE ADAIR HHtMMIIIIIIHWHtWHHIHIHHMMWIUI WHAT JOHN TEMPLE 6RAVES 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- ley are crown to manhood, they will And that one of the etntelleat monu ment of architecture and ityneetlc beauty which adoma this famous city will bear the name of their strenuous and enterprising parent, who had tbe 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 bulldsra and workers. There Is never any need 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 financial consideration, and he la so constantly advertising the city of At lanta and magnifying It at such rate that he Is richly entitled to all that Is said of him In this or any other newspaivr In the city. To one whc saw the broken chain of ru-ged and ragged hills that lay along the Peach tree Hoad from Fifteenth street out ward a year ago, the changes that a year has wrought, look a little short ot marvelous. With an enterprise and daring which fow men of his ags have risen to, Mr. Ansley has expended near ly 3160,000 In beautifying the magnifi 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 exs annex to our _ which Edwin P. Ansley has framed, must Inevitably become. In the course of time, -the most beautiful and the most elegant residence section ot At lanta The very beauty and variety of Its building sites, the hills and valleys, the rolling slopes and the little Swit zerland ravines, which Intersperse It will make It Indeed the garden and the ornament of all Atlanta's, residential section. The city has never hod. and In the nature of things can never have a finer section of homes than this. What Euclid Heights Is 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 If no other purchaser over came. But the demanp Is so rich and so constant for this gilt-edged property that Its prospects are simply brilliant with promise tor profit and for repute to Its enterprising founder. Drive from Atlanta's court house nut 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 la coming to Ansley Pork. Not yet have these lots on AnVey Park reached the high prices which mark our Peachtree Road, but to those who wait 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, nnd, while he may do so with comparative econ omy, to purchase a lot In Ansley Park. Get a plat and drive through the park, make pr selection and attend the sale. An aMute sale, without reserve or limit, to the highest bidder. ANSLEY BROS. CHARLES M. ROBERTS. Officers Stats Society. Prtsldsnt: Dopcmt^ Gusrry, tTivite, Atlsotz. 8ecreUry*Trsssurer: Dr. w. T. Jones, Attests. Annual 5teetlug In May, 1107, at Macon. SOCIOLOGICAL EDITORIAL COMMITTEE—Rev. C. B. Wilmer, J. D. Cleaton, E. Marvin Underwood, Dr. R. R. Kime. Officers Atlanta Society. Trealdent: Dr. R, R. Kltue. Vice-President: E. M. Underwood. Secretary-Treasurer: Dr. E. C. Cartledge. Regular Meeting on Hecond Thuredny Night ot Each Month at Carnegie Library. “ATLANTA A MODEL CITY’ The above Is the motto of the At lanta Sociological Society, and If the alms and ambitions of those compos ing the membership are ever realized, there Is no question mark attaohed to the quotation. And more: When such realisation takes place tt will be large ly due to the growth of sentiment along the policy 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, nnd the law correcting the error was proposed, the ordinance framed and pressed for passage by council, by members of this organization. The Atlanta Sodolorlcal Society Is now bringing to bear a strong Influence favoring the establishing of a system of playgrounds for children In tho con- Heated districts of the city. The es tablishment of more permanent parks, (epcctolly near the center of the city, Is another end to which strong effort Is being directed. Atlanta la building for time, e\ ry year marks the occupation "f more and more space, and the tow ering structures are cutting off, pro- portlonately, more and more of sun light, and. In view of the fact that we are "building for time," the question comes forcibly home to everyone, How long will It be until our central dis tricts become as sweltering nnd 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 hullded, furnish examples of this In their dally mortuary reports. Sunstroke In Atlanta now Is practi cally an unknown term. The reason *e are fr-e from It la found In the (oct that our high altitude and the freedom of air circulation maka It Im possible; cut off this freedom of cir culation of pure air and our high alti tude will not alone protect ua. And thia is but one phaae of the question. ■Ureases that reap their richest hsrv- J*t* In congested city districts will, In hue time, begin their work In our fair chy, too, and we will be scourged, as ether cities are scourged. The Atlanta Sociological Society, at meeting on Thursday evening, the llth Instant, discussed the question of barks and Playgrounds for Children.” “ml the enthusiasm aroused over the discussion of the subject was most en- Cou raging. Mr Walter R. Brown, chairman of tno hoard of park commissioners, led , discussion of the evening, his sub- l"t being, "Parks as an Investment.” Ju t. aside from the pleasures and com- ‘" r ts Grant park alone afforded our feature ot good derived from parka 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 expended 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 hts zeal and genuine Interezt In the cauze of parkz 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 fo accomplish still greater things In the near future. We say this ns warranted also by the Im provements thnt have been made In park circles; these, too, with small ap portlnnments of funds. Tho city coun ell has been unable to do for the board any more than was needed for running expenses. Next year It Is 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 Toepel. physical director of the public schools of the city, nnd an enthusiastic sociologist, read 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. Warren Boyd, who has devoted much thought to the subject, treated It from the viewpoint of the economic, social nnd hygienic value of parks. We have been fortunate In securing n 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. mutgated, 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- fledged and loyal Atlanta citizen, and Mr. J. f\ 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 at St. Raul, which had been, within a few year* rendered the most pleasant spot In all that section; and, while the effort at first was ridi culed as an unpromising and unproflt- able project. It had. In these few years become not only the pride and Joy "? a great city, but It Is also a paying Investment, while nffordlng bathing and other facilities at such small cost as 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 gS7.dl. THE IMPORTANCE OF PARK8 AND PLAY GROUNDS. (Mrs. Emma Garrett Boyd's Paper.) The need of parks and play grounds arises obviously from the concentra tion of 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 epace to - - - . evorv 7 4S1 nersonn’ tn Chlenen there looked. They not only lower the tem- every J.tsi persons, in inieago mere hreeree generation In tenements shows that failure In appalling statistics; while the identity of the lll-ventllated and dirty with the vicious and poverty-stricken districts has In It more than n mere coincidence, our generation Is begin ning to realise 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, and you can no Ihore expect to make a normal being of him than you can expect a perfect flower of a plum shut up- In darkness and cut off from air and water. Truly, "foul air prompts to vice and oxygen to virtue." How Im portant a life-saving agency proper ventilation mny be Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted when, In a speech ad vocating parks, 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 psrks are not limited to the serving as mere ven tilating shafts for fresh air; they offer much needed opportunities for physi cal exercise In their walks, ball grounds, play grounds, drives, bridle paths, etc.; they tempt many away from streets and saloons who are driven thither, particularly In large elites, merely by the stifling streets too strenuous and crowded, unattrac tive homes, nor can their Invitation to rest he regarded as useless In our too strenuous American life. Nor should the direct physical ser vice of the trees In parks bo over are 33 wards that average a population of 4,730 to a single acre of park space, while more than <00,000 people live over a mile from any large park; In New Tork 30 wards south of Fortieth street have over a million of popula tion to only 80 acres of parks; that Is, there Is but one acre of park space to every 11,500 people! No wonder Pres ident Wilson, of the board of health, reports that the population of New Tork 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,- 135 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 Tork 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 3Q 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 of any sort, while for nine years there has developed on an average a new case of tuberculosis for every 13 days, whole families hav ing been wiped out In the same room. Health authorities tell ub that there Is practically no third generation In the average New York tenement. With hideous conditions such as these In the largest cities of the world, nnd with a constantly Increasing ten dency toward such conditions In all rapidly-growing cities, the first Impera tive need for park* Is oblous—that they may serve a* great ventilating shafts In congested areas. The annual E Braturc and help to circulate breezes, ut by giving out oxygen and absorb ing carbonic they directly promote human vigor. Eminent authorities claim, moreover, that they act ns bar riers against disease by absorbing nox ious vapors. Even tbe ancient Romans recognised the value of such tree bar riers against malaria and enforced the planting of trees by law, ns 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 doinot merely serve to better the physical being of the peo ple In cities; they have a psychic func tion that Is less marked and yet of great Importance. No one has ever satisfactorily defined beauty or ac counted for Us peculiar combination of pleasure with rest and stimulus. Yet about the beauty bf nature and the beauty of human nature have been woven practically all that we have ol 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 a* 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 sky and quiet of the country. Civiliza tion Is a development out of, not a deviation from, nature. When It be come* as complete a deviation as this, then Its product la Inevltabls decay. Resides Its physical and esthetic functions, the park has yet another that Is being generally recognized In the greatezt 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 logical gardens and' botanical gardens In parks have always been renters for naturalists and botanists; but In the f oist de;ode there has been a constant- y growing movement to utilise parks nnd park collections as direct material for the nature study that has proved Itself so popular and valuable In our schools. In Washington, Boston and other largo cities little children are tnken In groups to tbs parks and there study living plants and animals. Teach ers are more and more realising the Importance of the visual or objective element In teaching and of training a child to make his own observations and deductions; In other words, to see and think for himself. This method has not yet reached Atlanta, except per haps In sporadic cues. Grammar school teachers who uslgn such sub jects ns "Trees" for a one-page com position to a fourth grads clus 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, propsrly speaking. Is not study In books about nature, but the first-hand observation of such facts as go to make up books. Akin to the movement to utilise parks nnd park collections ns an Integral part of the city's educntlonnl system Is the movement to utilize bits ot waste space ns little parks, Accessible to the very poor, to tired mothers and to babies, 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 ized by the lnws of 1887 to spend $1,000,000 a year on small parks and playgrounds; In Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, Baltimore . and Chicago such playgrounds have been most suc- I cessful for several years. Of the play ground established by th# University Settlement In Chicago (he local lieu tenant of the adjacent police station saya that It hu saved not less than fifteen lives from the elsctric car and decreased juvenile arrests In th# vicin ity by at least one-third. But 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' era; 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 to 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 aftqr yard of their schools end placing them at the service or the children not only In vaca tion, but 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 the need of taking the children away from the traffic for play; the many Juvenile Idlers on the streets are being constantly graduated Into petty offenders; and the constant ly widening area that has been denud ed of trees and grass bears testimony to ths Immediate need of Inviting spots for recreation purposes. We boost that our building permits are doubling every two or thres years, but wo must b» moat careful last we begin to congest our central districts and then face, toe late, a problem such as other cities have faced. Increased by all the hor ror of the length and fierceness of Southern summers. EMMA GARRETT BOYD. 8TRANQLED TO DEATHI THROWN IN 8WAMP. Special to Tbs Gsorgitn. McRae, Oa., Sept. 22.—The body of a negro woman was found dead In Gum Swamp creek near here Thursday aft ernoon, with her hands tied and a cloth tied ovsr her face. The body was Identified as the wife of a laborer employed here ‘since June by a sewer construction company In laying the sewer system for the city ot McRae. The negro 'gave his name as Jeens Anderson, and two weeks ago he mar ried Rena Coleman, a daughter of a negro preacher hers. A coroner's Jury rendered a verdict to the effect that the woman was strangled to death and the body placi-1 In the water. Anderson has not been caught. exodus of the well-to-do to the coun _ try reveals their recognition of a great and animal life while the untold delights ;hl»~in~reaeh of all Mr. Lo- deficit on Ihe part of our cities; the' of a "soo" ore only equaled by Its pow- *op,e, whlcl^ sfter ali, la tha main ^.W£h wSuId* forceful enough decimation of the second and third .» of Instruction. Orest aquaria, soo- 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. KING HARDWARE CO., 55 PEACHTREE STREET.