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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA-. TUESDAY AUGUST 31 18$6
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MR. CLAYTON'S MISTAKE
THE BUSINESS MSN SKY HIS
“FACTS” WEBB MIKED.
Sails,M SuNot B,en Broken Up, the Old Town
is Hot Deserted, sad We are Kot -'Rained'*—
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The Article pnbllrhed in the New York
Evening Toet, containing t letter from Mr. J.
W. Clayton, of this city, waa the topic of cot*
versation on the atrects ell day Friday.
Mr. Clayton's letter contain! thomoit ex
treme statements that have yet been made ah
to the effect of prohibition on Atlanta. Pub
lished on the editorial page of the New York
Evening rest, which is recognised aa one of
the meet careful and conservative paper, in
the country, the injury Inflicted by it on At
lanta is inealcnlahlo. The Coxstitutiox
presented Mr. Clayton's letter, with his con
firmation of tho statements contained therein,
in older that the question might bo pat fairly
before the people. Today it preeente testimo
ny of leading citizens in rebuttal of Mr. Clay
ton's statements.
ae to atlahta’b commercial tkekitory.
One of Mr. Clayton's statements was that
Atlanta had lost her commercial territory end
la now confined on heavy lines of goods to a
radios of forty or fifty miles. Mr. B. F. Wyly,
of tha firm of Wyly A Greene, one of our beet
merchants, and an anti-prohlbittenlst, offera
the following evidenoe.
Mr. Wyly said: “We do net dram territory
within forty or fifty miles of Atlanta. The
trade of that territory come, to ns without
dramming. Oar drummers go as for os two
hundred mile,, end It would bo safe to lay
that tho bulk of their bnsinoao b done between
seventy-five end two hundred miles. Ido
not know when we hove missed a day of cell
ing goods at a further radios than a hundred
miles from Atlanta, and often twioo as far.’’
“Tho commercial territory of Atlanta hat
not been decreased?’’
“It certainly hu not. My line of btulness,
which It groceries, would be tho first to fool
the (fleet of competition; bat wo hold oar ter
ritory, and will continue to hold it. Thoro is
one point that clears prohibition of the reopon-
slbillty of shortening our territory even if it
should bo shortened. In ligbtgooda which ore
leu affected by freight we luve sold more
goods this year than last In heavy goods
which are affteted by freights we have sold
lets. It b the freight discriminations against
Atinrta that harts the business, and Tfany
merchant finds his business curtailed, or hb
sales shortened, ho will toll you that it b the
discrimination in freight, against this city and
not prohibition which hu bod that affect”
A TALK WITH MB. C. W. HUSJH1CUTT.
Mr. C. W. Bnunlcutt Said: ‘-Tho statement,
in Mr. Clayton's article are not correct lie
bar cither boon misled or hu been misin
formed. I hare never had as many oontracts
for fitting np new houses in Atlanta In any
Auguit eince my buslneu began, as I have
this August. My books will show this. I
have douo a larger buslneu thb year than
over lieforo. I have had to borrow every sum-
mer from six to tent thouund dollars to sorry
me through tho dull teuton, but I have had to
borrow this year only two thousand dollars.
My trade b better and larger and the people
pay more promptly than nt any time alnoo I
have been in businers.”
"lathe territory for.yonr trade diminish-
bgr
- Not at all, Mr. Clayton’s statement that
onr trade is restricted to fifty miles of Atlan
ta Is untrue. On theeontrary very few of onr
merchants drum tho trade within that small
area. Take John Silver, ha never unde
mlleeof ‘ “
drummer within tl
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Atlanta. Tho
i mountains The only advortbomont I
ever taw of hb house was the other day whoa
I taw it In an AsharUle paper. Tho commercial
territory of Atlanta i, u Urge as it over was,
and is steadily lncreutng.’’
"What about the vacant homes?”
“1 have heard a great deal about that, bnt I
do sot sco it. I know Atbnta u well as any
man In it, and I give yon my word thet I soe
no more vacant houses than usual at thb time
of the year. I do not think there are many.
Colonel John T. Grant telb mo that for tho
fir,t tune in yean ho has all of hb houea
filled. Be had only one store honao vac ml.
As to the depreciation of roal ortate, I hivo
had sevtml dealers looking for bargains for
me, and they havo not fonnd any yet. The
bottom dropped out or everything on May tho
10th, 1. Atbnta suffered k u than any other
city in the etato, thongh it was followed by
tho failure of James's bank. She hu hod lui
time to recover than moat other cities and has
made leu furs about it, but you cannot get good
property In this city for leu than lb value.
Tom Gli nn told me that he offered to pay Paul
Jones every dollar for the property be held In
Atlanta that he paid for It when ha bonght It
on the boom, and Panl Jones declined to trade.
1 myself have backed ont tiro or three men
who have been talking of sailing below cost.
I >aw a man point ont two lots yesterday that
had jnst sold for tight hundred dollars that
were bonght six months ago for four hundre t
dollars. If I know any thing I know Atlanta,
and 1 tell yon tbb town b in batter condition
today in every rupee! than I hare avaraoan
it. The only possible trouble b a division be
tween onr people, which ought to be abated by
all good men.”
A banker's views.
Mr. Bobert Lowry said: “Thoro b no truth
in tho useitlsna either in Ur. Cbyton's letter
or interview. Banks are the financial pulses
of the community,and I know of no better wsy
to ccmputa the amount of business transseto t
in a place than by examining the amount of
businers done by the banks. Now onr bail-
than it
do not honestly believe that I will hare more
houea on my rout list tha first of September
thb year, than I had on the corresponding
data lost year, and I have rented u many
housu this Anguat u I havo any August dar
ing tho put ten yean. If a man would take
the trouble to go all over thb city and count
every dcor that is for rent, no matter what
kind of a homo the door led to, whether
a garret, cellar, store, ohinty or mansion, I
feel sore that the nnmbor would not exceed
five hundred,tnd of thb number three-fourths
of them would be houses in which a negro
wonld not lire. Whore a man builds a nice
house, or fixes up an old one, ho can rout It
’ * orklng on it. That
houses in Atlanta is
Tory faw, and that such housu are In demand,
there can be no quutisn, and the fact will be
attested by every real estate agent lu the city.”
“Whkt shout so many having left the city?”
“There, my fiiend Clayton is wrong Again.
A few people boro left but they wo not many
and I believe that a census now would show
u many people here u there wore at thb time
last year. A great many now housu havo
been built, end u soon u they were flnlshec
people who were living in old and undesirable
houses exchanged them for the new onu. This
b tha reason so many old houau are on tho
market. The people are getting so they want
better bonsu and are getting them end luring
the old hornet idle, in which condition they
will bo until their owners fix them op to they
can be Inhabited.”
"What about the value of real estate?’ 1
“Real citato bu held its own all the time
end Is still holding it. I havo msdo several
ules thb month and got tho umo prices that
I asked last year during August and could not
at that time get a purchaser. There Is a good
demand at reuonablo pilcu for desirable
property.”
sin. FLETCHER LEAK,
Mr. Leak, of the firm of Leak & Lyle, said.
“I do not think that Mr. Cbyton would
willingly misrepresent the state of things in
Atbnta, but he la certainly very incorrect In
bu arseriloiu. Why, 1 am sore that five hun
dred homes will cover ercry homo now for
rent In Atlanta, and three-fourths of the
hense anogro wonld hardly lire in. N<
to tho nnmbor of peoplo who havo left tho city
ho b tqnel.'y as far wioog.”
Taming to Mr. lylo Mr. Leak naked him
what be thought of tho assertion that ten
thousand people had lift Atbnta on account
of prohibition.
“I'll bet,” said Mr. Lyle, “that Atbnta hu
not lcat that many citizens in tho lut twenty,
five ycer.i. I do not actually believe that ten
thousand people have left Atlanta In that
length of time. As to the number of vacant
houses I believe that there are fewer real good
housu for rent In Atlanb, according to its
size, than there are in any city in the south
ern statu, and I believe that five hundred
will cover every house of any kind
now for rent In tho city. If yon remember a
few wceka ago tho Macon Telegraph had a list
or tho housu for rent in Atbuta and male
the number ont about 900. To get this miur*
her the reporter wont to each real estate agent
and counted every list ho had. and the total!
footed np 800, Now, two thlrOa of onr lists
are made up of rooms. Takethe second floor
of an ’ Alabama street building that has
fourteen rooms on It. Eich ono of
thoro rooms we have for rent uparately, and
they are pnt on our list one under another, a
separate line given to each room. Tho Tele
graph's reporter called each ofthou rooms
homes, and accordingly there were fourteen
homes on tho second floor, and perhaps as
many on tho third floor. Besides this, eaoh
real estate agent hu a lbt of tho bonsu given
him for rent, end frequently a man who has a
homo for rent will put It in tho hands of flva
or six agents, thinking if ono dou not rent It
another will. In thb way the Telegraph's re
porter counted ono house somotimos aa often
u six times, and with all this ha could not
make the lbt larger than 000. I am satisfied
that five bundled will cover everything that
can bo called a house now for rent In At
lanta.”
MB. N. E. FOWLER.
Mr. B. W. Goode was not in tho city. Mr.
N. B. Fowler, who was In Ur. Gooilo s olUoj,
said:
'There b no troth In the statements mads
by Mr. Clayton as to tho nnmbor or housu
now vacant in the city and tha nnmbor of peo
ple who havo loft tho town. I am utblad
that there are not as many housu for rent
today as there wore a month ego. Thoro ora
practically no good houses for rent. Good
homes are lu demand. Only threo days ago
Mr, Alex. Thweattcama into this otHro and
ness is better
has boon for several
not vote for It, and I miko thb statement
simply as a fact and not as an effort to boom
the town. Ism still an antl-prohlbltlonbt,
hnt am in favor of law and order.”
What do yon thing of three thousand
‘ “ for rent?”
elleve there is anythiag llko that
unmoor, orurr if yon count every old shinty
on tho outeklrte of tho city which la nninhtb-
liable. Mr. W. A. Haytood and
Or. B. M. Woollnv both snare
sao that tkoy are building houses by the block,
•nd they are being inhabited Just os fast as
they are flnbhcd, and they are spoken for be
fore they are finbhed. Take Abbtma street,
for Irstsnce, and for tho first time in years
every store on it b occupied. The store right
next door to mo has bun vacant I can't tall
how long, and is now being fixed np to bo oc
cupied on tho 1st. I do not think there are
any desirable honata for rent in tho city. Tho
houses that are for rant are anch that no ono
would live In, and tha inatant a now houw is
luilt the old ono ia left vacant and the new
one is occupied. I havo several housu rented
aid none e f my trnsnb desire to move.”
“How shoot Atlanta's trade?”
■That hu not suffered to any extent on ac
count of prohibition. Tha general depression
through the country bu been augmented a
little in Atlanta by tha prohibition light, bnt
I consider her territory u large nowu it over
wu. Wry, ono firm In tha cite, Ztchry Bros,
millers, sell tho produce of their mills in
Sonth Carolina and in all parts of Georgia.”
"What about tho city not mooting her Ha-
billtlea?”
“Tho straight of that is tbb: Several of tha
city contractors, who were anxious for work,
went to tha city ofilcbls end offered to pave
the streets end wait for their money until the
city collected it from tho citizens redding
along the streets thus pored. If they have
not received their money It b because the city
hu not collected it, end they ore ont of tbobr
money on their own propultlon. Tho city b
able to meet every debt she incurs, and does
meet them. If any ono hu tny city hoods to
toll, they can get rail prices for them. I ein
rime pnrcba’crs for $50,000 or more At over
$1 83 for 7 percent bonds. And like pricer for
other interest retu.”
GEORC.R W. ADAIR.
Colonel Georgs W. Adsir sold:
“Mr. Cloyten b o good friend of mine, end I
sm sore tbit what ho hu uld ha really halbru
to bo tree; bnt ho b rosy mock mistaken in
bb statemenb In thb moralag'e paper. I
hnt I do not believe that ho hu boon
get the heuso up to now.”
“What sort of prices Is real estate bring
ing ?”
“Bui estate Is selling right alongatgood
prices. Ido not too any falling offend I hare
my first uoilfice of Atlanta property to ue.
Yon can hear of such things occulonally, bnt
wltsn yon try to get a bargain yon will find
that real utato it about u high now uit ever
was, tnd there b Just u good a demand for
nice renting property u nt any time In sever-
el jure. It is my bonut opinion that the
property on Decatnr street from Peachtree to
the Air Lioeobopo instead of depredating hu
Incteoitd from ten to twenty por cent since
low groggsrica hare been abut upon that
street-”
MB. BODKBTS’ LIST.
Ur. HcKennan, who hu charge of Mr.Bob-
oita' rent Hits, uld:
“ We hero no good houses for rent, and I do
not believe that there are any In tho city. Wo
an rent os many bonsu u wo can got if they
are cnly convenient to tho olty end are fit to
live is. Wo havo calls every day for anoh
housu and have had eight or ten today. Thoro
are a good many old rookeries vaunt, but
* will re-
up.”
A TALK WITH HAJOB SLATON.
Msjor Bitten, superintendent of public
schcoli, uid to a reporter yesterday:
Blnca this time lsst year wo havo made pro
vision for 410 new pupils. That b, wo have
room for that many more pupils than we had
last year. In spite of onr increased room, I
expect a pressure as greet u wo bad bit year,
which forced aa to turn away 400 pnplls. I
hare already received oppllcatlona for 800
new pupils tbu have never mndo application
before. Tho pressure in the schools hu net
weakened a bit.’’
MU. T. J. KELLV’S LIST.
Recently Mr. & M. Inman, to get at tha Cuts
about Atlanta's vacant bonus, engaged Hr. T.
J. Kelly to make a lbt of the bonsu that are
for rent. Hr. Kelly was provided with a
horiosnd spent a week riding over tha city.
Ho worked oyitematlcally taking tba streets
Intcgnlar order one after another. Htora-
ports were mtdo every night to Mr. H. If.
Caban Us, and at thteonolasion ol tha work, a
fall summary wu pnblbhad in The Consti-
tition of last Sunday. Tba report b now In
Tux ConTrri'Tion’s pouurtoo. and wu to-
examined on yesterday. It appsars to have
‘ illy and
tv a
sin -
“To any ono posted In city afflUre, there b
not much to think of.”
“How much troth b there in it? Any?”
“Yes. some truth in tho bore statement that
the contractors have not bun paid all that b
duo them.”
: "And why haven't tboy?"
“Well, if I wu in my office I coaid giro you
tho exact wording of the contract and the ex
act figures. But in substance tho facts are
that tha taxca dno tho city, which are tha
main bulk of income, do not flow in until
mldanmmor and in the fall. Therefore, thb
year, as in former years, • clause wu inserted
In all the contracts in effect that the city could
not bo required to pay the contractor! until
tho money came into tho treunry, and that
the city should not lie liable for intoroot. The
contractors all agreed to this and alsnod tha
contracts with thtse provisions In them, and
are content with their contracts so
far as I have been informed. As troll
as recollected, tho work dono up
to this time amounts to sbont $.->5,000, and
although perhaps not strictly bound to pay so
much, yet tho city hu paid about $30,000 and
U that u the taxu come in tho contreetrrs
S t their proportion just u was agreed frsm
e beginning. There ia enough in tho grest
Income to pay for all the srork In qnootion
end leave o clean anrplua of ono hundred and
ninety-five thousand dollars. Bo the city b
not In default at all with her paymonte, and
any statement to tha contrary Is absurd. The
bat time 1 looked it the figures in the tax
effier, threo or four days back, tbs city’s col
lections were a littloover fire thousand dol
lars ahead of what they were at the samo date
bit year."
“Then
with its contract)
‘'Yea I think so.”
1*81111 they owe the contractors?"
“Fifty thousand dollars is tho amount of
tho contracts and oror thirty thousand dollars
have been paid ont, and tho contractors hsva
not yet completed their work.”
Tho two largest contractors foi street work
in Atbnta are S. H. Vanable A Co, and M. E.
Maher. Tbeso gentlemen havo tho contracts
In hsnd end were, of eonne, applied to.
A nil at the office of 8. It. Venable A Co.
mulled in ascertaining that Hr. William Ven
able wss ont o? the city with hb family, and
that Mr. Bam Venable was at Stone Mountain.
Tho gentleman in charge of the office could
giro no reel positive or satisfactory Informa
tion.
Mr. Clayton cblmed to hare recotvod hit
Information from Mr. Maher, and a reporter
•tarted ont to find him. Bovoral alia wore
made at hia office, and at the
capitoi building, where he hu o contract, and
at his home, bnt ha wu not to bo fonnd. Last
night, however, he was fonnd at his homo on
Mangum street, and when the subject was
mcMloucd was not dlspoied to ha very com-
monlcsttve. Tho following qusstlons wore
then submitted to him:
! “Is tho city indebted to yon?”
“How much?”
“When wu the money dno?”
"Hnvo you applied for It, and what roasoq
Isantgned for not paying it?"
“To whom hare yon applied for tha
mom.}?”
“Do yon k now any ono also the city owos?”
To these questions Mr. Maher doollntd to
giro an immediate answer, sayiog that ho
preferred to wait until morning, when ho
would bo In his office and wonld bo glad to
ansnor any and all interrogatories.
On Mr. Maher's answer hangs the justice of
Mr. Clayton's letter.
,' MB. HENDRIX INTERVIEWED.
Mr. J. C. Hendrix, ono of Atlanta's most
successful real estate agents and an old oitl-
lien, laid: “I was very much surprised at Mr.
Clayton’s statement. I havo known him for
twenty-eight years,andjdo not see how heoonld
hare msdo inch a mistake. There are vary
few hcoica for rent and I think that the lbt
ies in deorgle." Thb b awflU-ffw the whlity
men.
• nrsncisas in arr.Atrra.
The following am Urn qumtlona sent to alt corre
spondents, the mayoY* replica to the aaae and the
indorsement! thereof referred to anl inclosed In
Um above latter:
“1. Ia the report now being circulated by tele*
graph throughout the north that real citato la At*
lanta hu decreased In value 60 per centiinco the
adoption rftue prohibitory law true?
"2. Are not business proepectlgenerally a* bright,
If not biigbtcr, today tnan they were one year ago,
before the adoption and enforcement of prohlbi-
• A. All Unas of buslneu are. I think, better thau
they were a year ago, except the Utiuor bualuess.
The city has prospered m spite of the unrounded
reports circulated by tho whihk.v men.
••3. Hu not the inducement of prohibition had
a tendency to divert money formerly spent in the
saloons towards legitimate business enterprises.*
"A. The elkrt lu the particular named has been
dances built and more repaired since prohibition
than ever in tbc seme Icugth or time before.
"Geo. 1Iii.lv v:n, Mayor of Atlanta."
“We indorse ftuly the replies to the within ques
tions. *T. & G. T. Dodd,
"Wholesale Groceries."
"We Indorse every word >-aid on opposite page,
and will say our trade hu Increased this year over
last year to per cent.
"N. C. A J. ;T. Kiskk dc Co.. Whols&lc Dry Goods."
"Wo iully Indorse the within.
"Adair Bro’s. A Go., Cotton Corn's., Fertilizers,
etc."
"We fnlly Indorse the mayor'a answers to ques
tion on the reverse side hereof.
8. M. Inman A Co.,Cotton."
"I heartily concur with the wlthlu and forego
In* statements.
II. orkbn. Manager Clark's Core Guano Co."
a answer signed by Colonel Adair, and Incloa-
1th Chamberlin, Johnson <fc Go’s letter. ar»u
vtisj Tne report is noi true; were is no such re
sult from any such cause. The prevention of auy
class of business necessarily stops the Income "
capital in that particular line of trade and t
wages of those engaged in It, uutil the equiubrlu
is restored to trade bv their engaging In other pi
i-uiL*. a nat much It is injured. Bui the same cap
ital and samo men can be useful for other
purposes and therefore the Injury i«
nut temporary. (2) Crops are guod lu
Georgia. Trade of all classes Is picking up. Ido
not think prohibition has any thlug to do with de-
f renion or prosperity ono way cr the other—only
be temporary inconvenience of things as men
tioned in Hnt answer. (8) The dealers In provis
ions and the small merchants in this city in
ably answer that their sales are improving;
workmen who formerly lay around saloons
spend lb
Increase
proi _
•that
herly lay around saloons now
. -_jney for family supplies, and fhns
jelr trade. (I.) Atlanta is at all times a
pleasant place to live In, and tho enforcement of
prohibition 1* only a matter of taste."
Frasier A Morgan, merchant*: ‘-The-tcport Is
pot tiucthat resl estate has decreased In value
since the sdopUon of prohibition. Business pros
pects sre ss bright If not brighter than last yesr,
slid money before spent in the saloons now goes
Into legitimate trade*"
tv. k; Sootb, carriage and wagon manufacturer:
“The report la untruo. Central property bring, os
much aeor more than twilvo mouth, ago. No
burlieeo la damaged but the whl.kjr buslneu. Our
meichente are dung at well aa, and aomc,perhaps,
bettei than lut year."
John r. Stocka, cool merchant: “The report la
greet
minion merchants: “The report is not true. Pro.-
peoti in onr lino are decidedly brighter than ono
year ago.”
George Hum, retail clothier: “Tho report le an
unmitigated Ho. Trade thl. spring l>, to all re-
been cart full
honootly mado.
including every aort of shanty where anyeort
of bntlnoeo could bo transacted. Three-fourth,
ot them “etoree” are ondteiruble. Tho num
ed dwellioi
etcription.
her of unoccupied dwellinp ta put nt Biff of
every sort and d<
Mr. Andy Stewart, for whom Hr. Kelly
worked for quite n while, ray. he ia n reliable
man whose word ia worthy of full cooldaoce.
Mr. Caban Ire uyi tha work wal btthfally
performed and that tha figureo ore correct.
Ur. Kelly conld not bo teen. Ho hu gooo to
Tonne! Hill to teach eehool.
WHAA MAYOR HILLYEB OAY, I
No man In Atlanta ta more thoroughly
posted in regard to Atlanta’! financial condi
tion thin Mayor Hillyar. Ho knows tha
amount of expenditnrea and receipts annually
to • cent, ud ta thoroughly acquainted with
tvtry contract to which tba city lea party in
all Us details. Naturally h call wu made
-jjon h’m.
“Have yea uea the Ctaytoa letter aod In-
lla the Cojrerrrtmox
as it appean
ningr’ha w
“Ob, yea,” answered the mayor.ua bread
alto spread over hi, face.
“And wkat do you think of itt”
prepared by Mr. Kelly wuavory fair and im
partial ono at that time; bnt there ara not u
many stores and bonus for rent now at there
we. then. If yon remember hil report uld
tbcne'WRS two hundred and forty-two dwell-
fpgrand ono hundred and forty-two glome tar
rent; Ydir know well, and so does orory man
in Atlanta,’ that there ora very few
stores for rent now, and thoro ta not a, m»y
da tiling, for tint sow aa those wu when ho
aids out hit list."
‘ How about the poorer clou of houau, tuch
aa retiees occupy?’ 1
“They ate Yarn few, I think. We havo no
plutercd negro houtta to rent, and laat yur
at this timo we had any number. I wu talk
ing with Mr. Krouae's renting agent on yes
terday and he raid that orery homo on tuotr
list of good negro liouau wu rented. I no
ticed u I went out to my homo thia morning
that ovary aovro house la the
hollow on Hell and Fort atroete
wu cccnpied and this ta a moat unusual thing
for part of them ore vacant almost all tho
time. Take the houiu on tho atruti back of
tbe Boulavard. Tho houau on ail of thou
atreoti ara rented. Mr. May’s furniture factory
it touted near tbeae houses. Ho works about
alxty hands and they are unable to get hour'-.
tha factory and havo to
_ down town to live. Thoro ta not
m vacant houw in this neighborhood. You
ate that houu over there (pointing to a negro
ibanty); that houu wu put np when chup
hcn-cs conld ho rented to nogrooo, and did not
cut over $100. It ta not plutercd, and ta
butded otralgbt up and down. Such houau
that do not rent when any other bontot are
available, because they are poorly put up and
•re very cold In winter, and yet that houw ia
rented. I know of two or threo gentlemen
•ho bad bonsu put up lul yur
end they stood vacant the whole year. One
of them owned nine houau, and another four,
tnd theta houaer. which wore vaunt ell lut
year; are now rented orory one of them.”
“What about our population decreasing ?”
“Why, I have Just anawared that. When
tho houruthat wore vaunt all laat year are
rented there cannot bo o decrease of popula
tion. Another thing, there hu boon built
within the laat yur notion than 500 dwell
ings. Borne of there an vary targe and won
built for boarding houau and will accommodate
from fifty to sixty people. Notwithstanding
this great Incteaie In tha nnmboror honur
tbcie are not as many tojrent now u thoro wu
leit year at thia time, ao that a reaacnabta
perron must admit that wo havo Increased
eeveral thousand rather than decreuod.”
“What do yon think of tho vitas of reel
estate?”
“Aovthing Ilka dcrlrablo real utato bu
i held its own. In aoms ports of the
and the convonloncu for
to the bn.t-
mnch sought after. But whore the new
llnu of road penetrate property ta increased
In value. Thus ore no bargains to ho had in
any port of tho city, for I have orders now
from capitalists to purchase property whorever
1 uughi o bargain, and I hove op totbhtim,
betn unable to find any bargains. Thera ta
no doubt ao to prepetty in Atlanta holding its
own, and Atlanta to on a reck.”
hforo Testimony.
Supplementary to tbeu interview, tha fob
lowing oapresaion, of opihion collected by tbs
Now York Votes, the leading prohibition
paper of tbe country, will bo nod with inter-
ret. Tho Votes Introduces tho matter by aay-
log editorially:
I’rohlblilcn Icok effect In the city or Atlanta
JulyL Jut listen to the visible efrwu It ha. had
on etc bRiInea- lulunuU the city. The present
mayor of tho city write, us: "All kind, of hodnea.
ere. I think, better then they were o rear ego, ex
cept the whiiky bulnem.” Mr. W. U. I!sjgood,e
leading rial eitateegcnt.iari: “During tho pod
few montns there have been more house sold on
tho Installment plan than ever before daring the
asm* time.” Colonel John D. Great end Mr. elite.
K. Braytoo, two of tho wetllbled t men In
tbe city, era humming oror the feet that whore
toil year their bouse, stood empty, Ibey are now
filled Klthycnante. “Plasterers end paper boncer.
report more business In fills, up wtall booses
tbsn tier before," an the Obemutarley company,
* bolt rale dealers In oils; and lbs “deaden In pro
visions and tho smtll merchants InrerUMr an
swer that tut lr sates ore Improving." writes ftela-
nrl G. W. Adair. Oneiutcfen groeeryman adds:
miners hi. Increased ICO per cent In the tost
S o bite tho lari* dry good, firm of Duocr,
A Go,in answer te taolniiqlriuofTho
Vote*, writes: "More Improvements/hoth In num
ber end amount, ore in progress tnd propuaUoa
In Atlanta titht new than Tn gorennah, Angusu,
Matte, Cotonhtta aa* Bouo- tttfirt UrgaolcU-
any’Mfcu In real citato hero from* any
cause. More fine residence, are being erected than
it any lime preview. Our July nndnou wu
nryer than any nruloua July. Prospect* are good
’or tbc future. Tho laboring clarets ire spending
money toe groceries than evsr before. Pits
■ and paper hunger, report more buatnea In
I up small botrsea than over before.”
lesale grain dealers and mer-
■Mtlrra wa. adopted In No.
cares at Inorcoicil rental. Tbc si
irhl.-kywas fotmtrlysold ibotr uoitMM* _ ■■
Msna of Improvement. Real estate l» higher thin
11 wu rlx months ago. Tacro I. a groin Improve-
c?nt Utter Th* mimeJ f that lormerljr went lor
wbkkr. now goes for. neccmrlM-fnolaOiDg re*l
c*t«te on tbo iaitAllmeut plan. Them i* lea
noi»? and rotrdxJxmon (Iio»lr»eU and*general
feeling amoDjr the better cluies of greater eectirltr,
both of Ufa ami propcrtrA
Moore. Mai>f* 1 •’*•■ -*
our opinion. d»
f.Mivcr been. -
n* bright If not brighter
^JrauJtiig.ppauldlng&.Ca, wholesale bootzandl
iboca: "1 be report that real cstato ha* fallen flftjr
K v centiinco the adoption of prohibition I* not
io. Them U but little doing In roal cmUIo, but
central property!« In good denuud and prim*
Him. Boma parties are Mill aclllng liquor under
join or ure anu propcnj,
ttoorr, Maiib A Co., wholesale dnr \
- ‘ »ble real property u •
pirc, which will br In about thirty dtyt. We think
that our trade baa been hurt by cfo*tn< the whole-
**lo liquor houm#, a *
would have accompl
pre bititlon, but bop<
and much good may
Frank K. Block, confectionery and cracker*:
"Iherepcrt bunt rue. While the cimperatlro de
mand la light, there ha> boon no epprecUhlo do-
than!
ut hope the law will bo enforced,
1 may follow."
proTid ooi
aro Lrlehter than ono *( _
had a tendency to divert money (pent lu saloons
toward legitimate business enterprise!. It bet
made Atlanta maea desirable si a roriitence.hu 1
not as a tm<lncM locality. The t-xclurion of the
liquor I runic of over p.!,000,000 annually must bone-
fit a mpetlng points, and Injure Atlantaoorr*
ponding lye"
Diaper, Moore A Go., dry rood*, bfiotr end
ehcei: 'The report It abaunl, and was probably
rent out by dlreontenled entl-prohlMtlnouta. Our
city Is Improving. Nawjmosee motlly dvrei 1 lure,aro
It lnguiilu every quarter of the town, anl there
are fewer imply duelling* now then ever before
In tbe bhtory of Atlanta since tl. reconstruction.
Without wishing lo Iw considered eairavuant, U
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number and amount, ere In progress and prepare-
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