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NEW ATLANTA HOMES THAT SHOW CONFIDENCE' IN CITY
Traces Growth of City
To Peoples* Confidence
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JOHN GILMORE.
Res! estate man who says At
lanta’s ernwth ean be traced di
rect!.' to the confidence the city’s
people have in the future.
NO PESSIMISTS
LIVE IN fiTLANTA
City’s Growth Is Due to Confi
dence of Its Own People,
Says John Gilmore.
The secret of Atlanta's growth, ac
cording to John Gilmore, right-hand
man for E. P. Ansley, is the confidence
of her own people, for confidence is the
basis of all business. One doubt ex
pressed can do more harm than a dozen
optimistic speeches, but Atlanta has no
doubters. A short residence here will
convert the most confirmed pessimist
Into an optimist, so far as Atlanta’s
prosperity and success are concerned.
People from other sections call it "hot
air.” We know it is CONFIDENCE.
Ailanta has up
tate values simply keep pace with its
growth, though In some instances this
ihas not been the ease. Take the North
Forsyth street section. Five years ago,
although business was rapidly en
croaching on this section, property on
CN'orth Forsyth could be bought at S3OO
(to S4OO par front foot. Then came E. P.
(Ansley's development, and people wak
ted up to find these prices had ad
vanced to $2,500 and $3,000 per front
foot
Terminal District Expanding.
Another section which is rapidly
coming into notice Is the Terminal
•ection. lying between South Forsyth
street and the railroads. On account of
Sts proximity to the Southern and Cen
tral of Georgia freight terminals and
(the Terminal station, this Is an ideal
•ection for wholesale and retail busi
ness. Home of the long-headed ones
tare realizing this, and obtaining loca
tions while they can be had at moder
ate prices.
Colonial Hill Draws
\ Atlanta Homeseekers;
Many Lots Are Sold
Atlanta people are looking for beau
tiful residence lots in Colonial Hill, and
S E. Davidson, manager of the Colonial
Hill Realty Company, announced a
number of sales there today. They fol.
low
H A Burton. SB6O. Albert E. Ixmg
and Maurice H Thomas. $500; Louis
N. Reid. $600; Miss G B. Gates. $550;
Mrs. Daisy K Loveless. $1,250. Mrs. M.
D Spencer, $650; Mrs. <'. F Fairer
$3o0; H M. Rantln. $1,350. James Full
er, $650; Oscar McYere, $850; J. Bela
Rustin. $500; ,J. A. McCrorey, $750;
A. O. Gates. $600; Miss C. E Mendel,
$600; R. A. McDonald. $850: B E. Den
ny. $1.0.00; Miss John R. Bowie. $1,500.
Mrs. Louise Lyerly, $700; A L Neal.
$850; H M. Vaisberg. $850: Gibson
Rose. SBSO. John D Harrington. $l."O0.
Dixie Realty Company. $2,100: II R.
Jones, $750; I>. C. Gonedy, $850; L. H
Ginn. $600; H M. Dutton. $650. R.
Frank Taylor. $600; John D. Babbag
s6so. John G. Harris. SIOO. t;. Pot
ter. $1,000; Miss Carrie Harris. S4OO,
Mrs. Mae Wallace. $750 Miss M 1.
Bellamy. $750; A. S. oxenham, $750;
Mrs. Mell L Everett. S6OO. G. B Ev
erett, $600; <B. Apperson. S6OO W 17.
Burt. $1,000: J. L. Satterwhite, sson;
D. M. Parker. $l.ooo: M. S < ralg. sss<>.
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New Real Estate Man
Says That Land Here
Will Soar in June
Marcellus W. Anderson, broker, has
entered the Atlanta real estate field
and announced today he will open two
large acreage tracts suitable for the
erection of homes during the next few
weeks. One tract of 30 acres is near
East Lake; the other, of 20 acres, being
In West End on Gordon street.
"1 believe June will bring one of the
most busy months for real estate men
they have had this season.” said Mr.
Anderson.
"The annual building of suburban
homes has been somewhat retarded by
the weather this year, and the trade In
suburban lots, usually heavy In April
and May. will open in June."
DEMAND FOR HOMES
IN ATLANTA SUBURBS
BREAKS ALL RECORDS
"The demand for suburban homes,
both bungalows and two-story houses,
has been increasing at a rapid rate
within the last thirty days," says E R
Greene, of Thomson & Lynes agency.
"We find that there are not enough
well located houses for sale to supply
this demand People are asking fi' r
homes anywhere on or near a good car
line in Ansley park, off Peachtree road,
the Decatur car lines. West End and
Ormwood park. A number of sales in
these locations have been made within
the last ten days, and the next three
months will be record-breakers for
homeseekers
"Owning a home has become much
more attractive than paying rent every
month, and people are realizing more
and more that it is much more profit
able to pay a cash payment down and
the balance like rent and have a home
to tak< an interest in than it is to
wake up some day. knowing that they
have nothing to show for their money. I
For tie next few months we expect to
have our hands full show ing houses I
and building lots for home buyers."
BUNGALOWS AND LOTS
ARE SOLD AT AUCTION
The Charles P (Hover Realtx Coin- I’
pany will offer 41 building lots and two i
newly erected bungalows at auction!
‘his afternoon at the site of the prop- ‘
♦ rt> near Ponce DeLeon avenue and
North Boulevard. Being in the neigh- .
borhood nf Piedmoni and Pone- De-
Leon parks*, the property is excellent- <
l\ situated for location of t evident es.
COMMISSIONER RE-ELECTED.
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Scarbrough, onr of th»* best known
h'isinews: men in <'<»Jumbus arid ws-<-t
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY,, MAY 25, 1912.
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’ hcMI K2E SAJ/U TTOURrUS
Truck Gardens Near
City Passing; Turned
Into Country Homes
Atlanta Is threatened with having to
Import all Its country produce from
other sections of the state. Even the
vegetable gardens of suburban resi
dents have grown smaller and smaller
until very few are left. This was an
nounced by the Georgia Home and
Farm Company, which added farm
lands around this city have grown so
valuable they can no more he used for
raising potatoes, corn or beans and are
being subdivided for country homes.
As the farms grow scarcer the num
ber of persons to be fed in Atlanta
grows correspondingly larger, and
merchants wishing home-grown prod
uce find they have to apply to growers
in distant sections of tile slate for the
larger part of their supplies.
But within a short radius of the city
the Georgia Home and Farm Company
has obtained a number of desirable
acreage tracts, not too costly for agri
cultural purposes, which are offered for
sale. The company also has a number
of larger farms in other parts of the
state.
EXPENSES OF STATE
EXCEEDING RECEIPTS
The quarterly report of the state treas
ury department from January 1 to April
1 shows that the expeieiitures of the
state exceeded the receipts by 5UU,507.51.
The expfenditures xvero ?3. and
the receipts were 52.910.378 83
The biggest items in the expenditures
were ttye pensions and the appropriation
for th** common seho» i fund. ?L ;1 7'.«40 for
pensions and £1.*>79.<8.»,81 tor the schools.
The biggest item of receipts was general
taxes of $2,153,400.
FLOOD IN LAWSON'S DEN
RUINS $15,000 RARE BOOKS
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ATLANTA MS
‘BUILT ON ROCK’
Forrest Adair Says Inflated
Conditions He Found West
Do Not Exist Here.
"There is no city in the entire coun
try. other than New York, that has such
sound real estate values and such ex
cellent backing as Atlanta," said For
rest Adair today, w ho has just returned
from an extended trip through the West
and North.
"There is no city with such substan
tial growth or with so much that prom
ises wealth in the future as our own
Atlanta.
"In the 'Vest I found the cities so
widely advertised, overgrown, the real
estate market dull and a sort of drowsi
ness in their business.
"I do not speak after only a few
hours' stay in each place, for I have
been visiting the West at different
periods for the past twenty years and
have kept In touch with each place 1
went to.
"Atlanta's real estate market is
founded on sound values apd this city
is about the only one I know of that
would not be affected by a panic or
general depression of business, it is
because the real estate here has grown
on a solid basis."
BROKEN SEWER MAIN
FLOODS GROCERY CELLAR
When (’. H Meckel, of 495 Peachtree
street, comes to work these mornings
i,» might take a swim in his cellar were
he >o inclined. For the past three
days xvater from a broken sewer main
somew here in his neighborhood has
flooded the cellar of bis grocery ’tore.
Al' Meckej says be has notified th?
<anita’*y department several thn» s and
*,'■ tinv got a promise nf relief Xs
yet the have not been kept.
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Here's Your Chance to
Get Yourself a Home
And Not Miss the Coin
Sensational is the sale of lots recent
ly put on the market by E. Rivers Real
ty Company in Decatur. The owner
of these lots has Instructed this firm to
close them out in a week. Purchasers
will undoubtedly double their money.
City water and sewerage are in and
paid for. Anybody can pay sl9 cash
and $lO a month on a hit. It beats a
savings bank. You put in your money
each month and the enhancement In
value brings more than three or four
times the interest you would receive
from the bank.
The lots are all desirable and located
between two car lines, near Agnes Scott
college and fine graded public school.
Prices range from S4OO to $450, SSOO,
$550, S6OO and $650.
Think how easily you can do it. If
you never had a home, never owned a
lot. start now and get some headway
in life. The lots offered are in one
of the finest sections of Decatur.
R. R. RATES INDEPENDENT
OF DESTINATION ABROAD
WASHINGTON, May 25 —On com
plaint of the New Orleans Board of
Trade against the Illinois Central rail
road and the Louisville and Nashville,
the interstate commerce commission
today held that the roads ean not col
lect any greater or less rates for the
transportation of tobacco to New Or
leans from Owensboro and Henderson.
Ky , destined to Liverpool and Bristol,
England, than they charge to other
points in Europe.
SANITARY KISS IS PUNK.
SAY COLLEGE SENIORS
CHI(’AG(». Max 25. —hi a secret vote
her* th? tailor class of the Northwest
ern univer«*'tv decided that “sani
tarv kl?s’’ i« punk'' and that the
m< inbets will hold to th* old style
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Real Old-Fashioned
Picnic for Colonial
Hill Realty Buyers
If you want to enjoy a real old-fash
ioned picnic June 8. just call on the
Colonia) Hill Realty Company, for they
will give one to their friends on their
own land on that date. An Atlanta
band will furnish music, sandwitches
will be served and lemonade will be
passed around any number of times.
The picnic is planned especially for
those who have purchased property in
the Colonial Hill section, but those who
are interested in the subdivisions there,
or even plain outsiders, are invited to
be present. S. E. Davidson, manager of
the company, will be in charge of the
entertainments for the day.
CANDIDATE WORKS
HIMSELF TO DEATH
SOLICITING VOTES
ROBERTA, GA., May 25.—Taken ill
while campaigning for the state senate
in Taylor county, R. M. Reynolds, of
Knoxville, Crawford county, editor of
The Crawford County News, is dead,
his funeral being held here today.
The arduous work of soliciting votes
caused a complete mental collapse and
Ihis was followed by a physical break
down.
Mr. Reynolds was one of the best
known men of his part of state, and It
is believed that he would have been
elected to the senate from his district.
He leaves a wife and child.
ANOTHER CHURCH FAVORS
RESTRICTION OF MARRIAGE
HOLYOKE. MASS., May 2«.—A doc
tor's certificate as a precedent to the
marriage ceremony was favored in the
report of the committee on moral is
sues at the annual meeting of the Mas
sachusetts Congregational conference.
"Our denomination can not legislate
for the individual minister," the report
says; "but we would commend to the
consideration of the ministers of this
state the recent action of certain Epis
copal clergymen of Chicago, who have
given notice that hereafter no persons
will be married by them unless a clean
bill of health, both mentally and phys
ically. from a reputable physician, shall
be presented with the application for
marriage. This byway of preventive
medicine for the divorce sickness.”
PASTOR LEAPS TO DEATH
FROM HOSPITAL WINDOW
PITTSBURG, May 25.—Eluding his
nurse this morning", the Rev. William
Bush, pastor of the church at Charen
tutn. Pa., who was a patient in St.
Margarets hospital, plunged headlong
from a window on the fourth to the
ground below today. Ho tiled a short
time later.
KENTUCKY TOWN WIPED OUT.
LEBANON JUNCTION, KY.. May 25.
Fire which started in the clothing store
nf Aa’on Davis wiped out the business
section nf the town, with $75,000 loss
Two men were hurt, one perhaps fa
tally.
Atlanta Is Noted for i
Its Rental Agencies J
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G. M. Taylor, manager of r°n.
tai department of the Ralph 0.
Cochran real estate agenev.
AGENTS CONTROL
mjWESS
One Atlanta Realty Firm Has
Charge of More Than Eight
Thousand Tenants.
Atlanta is noted for the many large
rental agencies that have been built up
in a comparatively few years. Most of
the houses for rent are in the charge
of agents. This is true not only of
dwellings, but store properties also. It
is said one agency in Atlanta controls
more than 8.000 tenants,
G. M. Taylor, manager of the rental
department of the Ralph O. Cochran
agency, said desirable houses have been
scarce in the past year. The city is
growing so rapidly the supply of houses
has been inadequate.
"Atlanta has no renting season.”
said Mr. Taylor. "In some cities all
leases run from September to Septem
ber. This is due. no doubt, in Atlanta,
to the fact that strangers are moving
here every month, and every day of the
year, and one month is as much the
renting season as another.
"Houses at the right price and in
good repair." he says, "do not stay on
our renting sheet long. The renting
public knows the value of a house, we
often think, better than we know ouf
selves
"Our business is growing very rapid
ly, and we give the closest attention
possible to all the details of the busi
ness.”
Atlanta Auto Owners
To Visit Cole Plant
While in Indianapolis
Atlanta automobile owners who are
going to the Indianapolis 500-mlle race
have been invited to inspect the Cole
Motor Car Company plant and make
use of the sales company's offices while
in the Hoosier capital. The invitation
comes from Frank Long, secretary and
treasurer of the Cole Motor Company
of Georgia. Southern Cole distributors.
The Cole, people in Indianapolis are
making extensive arrangements to care
for the newspaper men who go to the
city to cover the race, and every plan
for their convenience has been worked
out, according to Mr. Long.
DOCTOR MUNYON BUYS
MARK TWAIN ESTATE
NEW YORK, May 25.—Dr. Munyon,
the proprietor of patent medicines, has
purchased the Charles A. Gardner place
at Tarrytown. It consists of about 40
acres and is assessed at $90,000. This
estate was formerly owned by Mark
Twain, who lived there in summer.
ELECTED TO DIE BY
BULLETS, NOT HEMP
SALT LAKE CITY, May 25.—Five
riflemen, concealed behind a curtain,
sent bullets into the heart of a blind
folded man as he sat in a chair at the
state prison. Julius Sirmay, a mur
derer. was the target. He had selected
death by shooting in preference to the
gallows.
CITIZENS’AT COU NCI L
MEETING IN PAJAMAS
HAMMOND. IND.. May 25.—Called
hurriedly from their beds to talk at.
the all-night session of the cduncil to
consider an interurban franchise, sev
eral citizens appeared in pajamas,
spoke against and defeated the fran-