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REAL ESTATE MARKETS VOL. X. NO. 231 WEST END AN IDEAL LOCALITY FOR BUILDING REAL HOMES Believes in Future Os West End Lands ||LvJ| ||||* W jH 0. J. Sala, of the Southland Es tates Company, who discusses newly opened Westland Estates, in Weqt End. wesTend now CONIES TO FOUNT Westland Estates. Mew Subdi vision, Proves Magnet to Draw Homeseekers. Within the last year the West End Beetion of Atlanta has, in common with every’ othe.r section of the city, been looking up from every viewpoint. Nu merous small tracts outside of the city limits have been developed by building sidewalks and making streets and have found a ready sale. A community is springing up at the Intersection of Peyton and Gordon roads. Captain J. M. Wright, who owns property on the north side of Gordon road and west of Peyton road, is erect ing a stone store building, now nearly completed. has already. built one bun galow. and is constructing another. Close by is Westhaven school, one of the new buildings which combines both perfect sanitation and attractive archi tecture. Across Peyton road from the school house .is Westhaven spring. As an evi dence of the value of property in this neighborhood, J. J. West, owner of the spring and twenty acres of the sur rounding property, holds this at $50,000. Westland Estates. By far the largest development plan and subdivision ie the Nash property, owned by Southland Estates Corpo ration, containing 250 acres, with en trances on both Peyton and Gordon roads. With the improvements con templated by Southland Estates Corpo ration, this property, which has been named Westland Estates, will become one of the most attractive sections of Atlanta subdivided. Westland Esta’tes has been the first real big subdivision put on the market beyond Battle Hill. The beauty of this property, itsjsattractive location and the possibility for the future for the owner of a lot in its borders appealed to the officers and directors of Southland Es tates Corporation as an ideal location for a subdivision, and that here could be erected a most attractive suburb of Atlanta. Nowhere around Atlanta is there a better paved street than Gordon road for a mile and a half beyond Battle Hill to the entrance of Westland Es tates. and the county- commissioners are now engaged in crushing stone and preparing to extend this cherted road farther west. The home of “Uncle Remus." among many trees of Gordon street, is one of the show places of Atlanta, and is passed on the way to Westland. From Battle Hill to Peyton road, also cherted. practically every piece of property has been platted and is owned by the people who live upon the place. Two entrances will be provided to Westland Estates, one on Gordon road and one on Peyton road, and the engi neer's plans, accepted by- the company, provide for the expenditure of some $25,000 for cherted streets this y-ear. Ideal country homes, locations for nu merous attractive bungalows, are to be found in Westland. SECOND SECTION DUSY RATTLE- se&*^s' M^°VEMEKTS m STREETS L- , " -—r MnM ii * . I •* 21 BK JI J Isl WO A BUS' \XFEST ENV CENTER. LEE GORDON ,y/ ftfrCZ-rQ/AM /A / *222 . J Jp . ■ PEACHTREE HOME FOE SALE \ MARTIN OZBOR.N ELtY CO I ’ 2 : ♦* ■ A i I '’ ’i s ‘ t- 4A Y k .-\ • 'WwßWtfinfA a’ ’■ ~ ■ • •OCCOMOC FEEPAieibg ENUrteATsICE B ESTATES GOCIXSTM Westland Estates provides for the man with small means who can save a few dollars an opportunity- to purchase property in the direct development of the city westward, with attractive fea tures in a contract which no other real estate corporation gives in the city of Atlanta, in that after ten payments iftve been made and the purchaser should die, the property- will go to the estate without further question and a warranty deed be issued. There are no taxes and no interest charges. Southland Estates Corporation, in whom the title for Westland Estates rests, has offices at 603 Third National Bank building, Atlanta. The crying need of all this section is a street car line out Gordon road to at least as far as Stratford and probably to Adamsville. A committee of prac tically all of the residents of that sec tion has been organized, with J. J. West as chairman, for the purpose, of dis cussing with the street car people the necessity- for the extension of some line from Battle Hill to Stratford. At this point there is at least five miles of territory untouched by a car line, and the building up of Westhaven and Westland at Peyton and Gordon roads has brought ‘he attention of the street railway officials to this locality. No section of Atlanta can give to the home buyer purer air, better building sites, more natural beauty or a better community of citizens than the West End, and particularly ’Westland Es tates. AUCTION ON MAY 25. The Charles P. Glover Realty Com pany will offer at auction two new bun galows and 41 vacant lots on North Bou levard near Ponce DeLeon avenue May 25. The sale of the property- is expected to bring $75,000 The one-fifth cash prop osition will be made. The Atlanta Georgian AND NEWS Mwai fft | ' rfdfar—- - -•’ M BEAUTIFUL BUNGALOW/ zjj COLONIAL. HILLS * * NEW CAMPAIGN STARTS IN MUSCOGEE COUNTY COLUMBUS. GA., May 4.—-While the returns are hardly in from Wednes day's primary, another campaign is be ginning in Muscogee county and the f'hattahoochee circuit. It noyv looks as if there will be a contest for judge of the superior court between Judge S. P. Gilbert, the Incum bent. and probably Judge Eugene J. ■Wynn, of the recorder’s court of Co lumbus. For solicitor general of the circuit, the incumbent, George C. Pal mer. will likely- be opposed by- C. F. Mc- Laughlin. Only three candidates are mentioned for representatives from Muscogee. They are Captain J. J. Slade and Ed Wohlwender, incumbents, and Herman H. Swift, who would fill the third place given Muscogee county by the 1911 re apportionment. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY. MAY 4. 1912. 5 FOUND GUILTY OF POISONING 89 WITH ALCOHOL IN BERLIN BERLIN, May 4 persons involv ed in the poisoning of 89 inmates of the municipal lodging house last January- with wood alcohol were found guilty today. Julius Scharmach. a chemist, who was charged with mixing wood alcohol in the spirits, was sentenced to five years im prisonment and fined SI,OOO. Three others, who were alleged to have retailed the mixture, were sentenced to imprisonment. Sentence was suspended on the fifth. Scharmach asked for a new trial BENTLEY BUYS HOME. James P. Daniels has sold to A N Bentley a house and lot on Seventeenth street between Peachtree street and Peachtree circle for $5,000 The ex change was made today through the Glover Realty Company. Kj T - GREENSPEARY, Z*e. NEW AVENUE ZX« SEVENTH WAEC> ON THE WAY Za WESTLAND. ' ; ”•■ lll -M 1 1 ■ w W ' c .- < c 1 Y v ** C'» >?A - * ■ ..L y .. - ;• »I £«£»*.**■" ■■' /LLx r . , , N L-. ,_L ,-^-^J 1 HOUSE &UILDINGS Z7 PEYTON >Se\_— . CORDON ROADS. - *• «*■■ * a-■ ’" '' a7‘'- ' WEB I “Ay-oEMBgaMBB won 3 mBwBCBS I =WW - ? I n -qjwifcel 3 Mljpry .. cJ4lui’ i t, 'HfjaggjjgJggM - •- ~~ t : f . «2 I ? jHK.iI/! FW?' I* ~ "•"’—~" ■- -- ■— <■■■•-■■ GORDON ST zs?e WEST END &EAUTIFUL .HOME of UNCLE I£EMUS J F ' ' r pz. ♦ ® lllpiit*, Jwatefc JLai. ' •-. p>W ni W 4 LL2-2Z: __.~ r - ,;■ L2±A WQME king GEORGE INTERESTED IN PANAMA-PACIFIC FAIR • LONDON, May 4.- The members of the Panama-Pacific Exposition expo sition touring Europe in the interests of the world's fair, which Is to be held in San Francisco to celebrate, the open ing of the Panama canal, were received iii audience by King George at Buck ingham palace at noon today.. The king discussed the approaching fair, and showed an unusual knowledge of the arrangements formulated. CLARKESVILLE SCHOOL CLOSES. CLARKESVILLE. GA., May 4 Clarkesville high school had its closing exercises last night at the school audi torium when severa! young men and women graduated. Prof S. V. Sandford, of the University of Georgia, delivered the graduating address. SECOND SECTION Colonial Hill Man Too Busy Selling to Discuss Real Estate An accompanying photograph is one of the many beautiful homes in Colo nial Hill. S. E. Davidson says he can't talk about real estate news in this hus tling subdivision, because he is so busy taking the customers to the property and selling them home sites. From the hustle and bustle around his office in the Candler building. It was evident that he yvas busy. Sales in bolonial Hill in April amounted to $31,500, and a half dozen new homes were either started or ar ranged for during this month. Colonia! Hill is on a par with the entire West End section, which is a community from West End to College Park of not less than 50,000 souls. The rapid sale of Colonial Hill is evidence of the heautv. the accessibility and en hancing value of this tract. STRENUOUS EVANGELIST HAS HIKED 18.000 MILES FAYETTE, MO.. May 4 —Rev. G. H Walker, a Christian preacher at severa! churches In Howard county, has walked 18,000 miles since he began his quest for converts in the county sixteen years ago. Mr Walker’s strenuous ideas of living amazed the rugged farmers of the com munity, one of whom recently saw him take off his shoes, roll up his trousers and wade a creek which was full of floating ice. The minister was on a 25- mile hike to fill an engagement where .the offering- v-«.r.» WANT ADS EDITORIAL PRICE. • I” Atlanta: TWO CENTS uucn. On Traln . FIVB CENTS McCullough Thinks Prices Reasonable I * ‘ JMy IrW F ■ z—' ; J. E. McCullough, an Atlanta realty dealer who thinks prices arc not too high for the grow ing citv. m PRICES NOIABNDRMAL J. E, McCullough Says Rates Are Merely Keeping Prog ress With Growing City. "Tno prices of Atlanta real estate ar# in line with the general progress ana development of the city, and its value can not be overestimated." aaid J. E. McCullough, of the realty firm of J. E. McCullough & Co., today. "There has been such a large in crease in values for the past twenty rears that many people seem impressed with the idea that they are forced to pay too much for property when they buy- it. However, the city has grown to be one with a future to it since an active trade in realty began over two decades ago. and this alone makes the property more valuable. “All investments in realty at that time were more or less speculative, for no one knew what Atlanta would amount to. Now it is different, for every one knows the city is the me tropolis of the South. Our resources are ' tried and we are not dependent on local or foreign conditions as we once were. "The growth of Atlanta and of the whole South is natural and healthy and the value placed on real estate in this city is entirely normal." JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS HAS A HEART OF GOLD WASHINGTON, May 4. —Some on# sent Senator John Sharp Williams a few hundred dollars (Confederate money) which had been lying in a Mis sissippi attic since that little confer ence between Lee and Grant at Ap pomatox. With his pockets full of this money, Williams was hastening by the nearest and most direct route to attend the session of a committee on irrigation which meets daily near Fifteenth street, when a man who had “the sad look” stopped him and asked for enough to buy- a lunch. “My friend.” said ’Williams. 'Tm no piker When I help a man at all I help him right. There is nothing in buying a cheap meal for a man The proper system is to give him enough to put him on his feet so he can help himself. Take this $5,000 and get started again. When you want to pay it back you can find me in this same neighborhood al most any day at this time.” Williams escaped before the man had time to examine the roll of bills thrust into his hand. ARGENTINA WANTS MORE FARM EXPERTS WASHINGTON. May- 4.—A request for American agricultural experts has come from Argentina, which desires men to assist in enlarging and reor ganizing its bureau of agriculture. To W. F Wight, an expert In plant introduction, now in Europe for the department, has been given the oppor. trinity to go to Buenos Ayres to organ ize the plant introduction work, and it is expected he will accept. Henry P. Schultz, horticulturist ant plant specialist, already is on his wa: to Argentina to supervise the govern ment’s propagating gardens. Severa other men are desired for variou Phases of the work.