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< 4 B HKARST'8 sl'NlMV AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 191.1 IfO^JfcPsix-room cottage J& Crew Street Apply 815 Capitol Avenue Bell phono Main 8635 28-24-4 OUR RENT list describes everything for rent. Can. write or phone for one. Ivy 3390 Charles P. Glover Realty Co., 244 Walton street. 2-13-49 T'Oih RENT—fiUven-room modern cot" tage. $30; instantaneous water heater; near comer Pine and Jackson Apply 310 East Pine St., or phone Owner, Ivy 4814-1*. 4-27-200 The American’s Rent Bulletin # Historic Peachtree Homes QTToi^ A/I 1 • U T r T A • UlLflLJ! Making Wav lor Business mi rn (CULLS 1 A Home Neighborhood Out Peachtree Office Space For Rent. TO DOCTORS: I will share my nice famished office* wltli an ethical phy sician Regular, care Georgian *8-27-4 HALF of office with uae of telephone; reasonable. 420 Empire Bldg Main i860 4-86-29 DESK SPACE with uae of telephone. Apply 538 Candler Bldg 4-26-9 GROUND FLOOR, smnll store or office: rent cheap; long lease, fi Auburn Avenue, two doors off Peachtree, Phone Ivy 1372. 4-24-14 Hotels For Rent. assays"'Hurar wsgTmRrrr:.": w E offer the Eureka Hotel for rent from September 1, 1913. to reliable and enterprising party. Only hotel In city of 6.000 population, and a splendid prop osition for right party • ABBEVILLE HOTEL CO., Box 38, Abbeville. R. C. 4-27-1 ATLANTA REAL ESTATE Is Increas ing in value dally. Many bargains are offered In the Real Estate columns of he "Want Ad" section of The Georgian. FOR RENT—A fine new brick store, next door to Jacobs' pharmacy,' Gor don and Lee Streets. West End. Suit able for any first-class business. Phone Ivy 190. 4-23-201 Furnished or Unfurnished Rooms Wanted. Two room., with or without I kitchenette, furnished or unfurnished, state location and price. R. J. M., car#* Georgian 4-23-46 ! Housekeeping Rooms Wanted. children, two or three rooms on North j Sid© for'light housekeeping Must be | In respectable neighborhood and rent reasonable The best of references given and required. Box 200. care. Georgian. _____ _ _gq Houses Wanted. 'thT lTase ^ Tufy^l or September i, a | couple of unfurnished houses, near to- | aether preferred, with at least three bedrooms, North Bide. J. H. B., phone Ivy 234. 600 Forsyth Bldg. 26-26-4 r : y % where building is active. Forty-two lota wi .lohnston for the E. Rivers Realty Company. ild at auction here WANTED -The flrei of May. a S or «- room cottage with all modern con veniences Renter, Box 60. care Geor gian 206-24-4 Furnished Houses Wanted.. TTC^TT , T^}?tr^7 M or^ , ^6^roorir^TuTrrr»?red house for 3 months; will take best of care Box 611 care Georgian 28-26-4 Wanted—Furniahed Houses. WANTED—Furnhdred 'cottage, fiat or apartment for summer months Screened, hot bath, good lights. Best North Side location. Must have three bed rooms. Reasonable rates X 7 Z , Box 4, cate American. Extensive Improvements to Be Put on Old Bul loch and Elkin Residence Sites. Houses For Rent. Houses For Rent. FOR RENT BY FOSTER & ROBSON 11 EDGE WOO I) AVENGE. 7 r. h., 66 Austin Avenue $40 00 6-r. h.. 41 Howard Street . Kirk- «-r. h.. 22 Grady Tlare 20.00 Wood, (»a $22.60 6-r. h . 41 Gordon Avenue, Kirk « r. h„ 693 S Boulevard 25.00 wood. Ga 30.00 6-r. h.. 12 Howard street . Kirk- 6-r. h., 1170 DeKalb Avenue 30.00 wood. Gh. . .. / 22.50 6-r h., earner Harvard and 6-r. h.. 61 MUvnsff.Jd 26.00 Maiden Lane. College Park 20.00 6-r. h . 40 White ford Avenue 30.00 6-r. apt Stockton Apartments.. 36.00 6-r. h., 28 s. Warren . . : 15.00 fi r. flat 193 Capitol Avenue 33,10 25.00 6-r. h . 140 Drexell Street 26.O' 6-r Hat 40-A Eugenia Street 6-r h., 9 Lyons Street . 25.00 6-r. h.. 21 Warren Street 20 00 6-r. h., 49 Mills Street .. 17.50 6-r h.. 17 Lucile Avenue. 25.00 6-r. h.. 127 W. Boulevard DeKalb 20.00 6-r. h. 1166 DeKalb Avenue 27.50 6-r. h.. 60 HlghlandaAvenue 20.00 6-r. h., 411 Greenwood Avenue. 26.00 6-r. h., 210 Bells Avenue 30.60 6-r. h . 36 Murray Hill Avenue. 22.50 «-r h , DeKalb Ave., Oakhurst. 17.50 289 East Fifth Street... 32.60 6-r. h.. AND A LONG LIST of larger and smaller houses, and always take pleasure in showing them. Come tQ see u» FOSTER & ROBSON. Another wartime mansion of At lanta, the home of exGovernor Rufus H. Bulloch, at 233 Peachtree Street, has been torn down to make way for improvements in t$he path of commer cial progress. Just South of it is the old W. S. Elkin home, which i© also being torn away by the owners of the Bulloch lot. In a few years none of these Peachtree landmarks will be left. There Is the Maddox place at the Northeast corner of Peachtree and Ellis Street©, and North of it, the Jackson place, both of which will give way to extensive improvements. The same is true of the Abbott home, now occupied by the University Club, and built by Robert H. Richards, who was at that time president of the Atlanta National Bank . The Leyden house at 198 Peach tree owes Its continued existence to a recent reprieve. Although work men had been ordered to tear it away they were stopped by Asa G. CandW, whose plans caused him to postpone the destruction of the property. N« :ct to the Leyden house, the Governor’s mansion must eventually give wav to extensive improvements. The late lien Hill, United States Senatv ", lived at the place- known as the B< 11 house just North of the Capital CP.y Club. This home still stands, but it is likewise marked for demolition. Jefferson Davis was entertained the To at the unveiling of the Hill mono ment, and it was on this occasion that Gen. James B. Longstreet, wearing the uniform which he wore at Gettysburg, clasped Mr. Davis to his breast. Another landmark is the Walker P. Inman home at the Northwest corner of Peachtree and Howard Streets, which was the scene in the early days of many a royal entertain ment. There are many others which might be mentioned in connection with the business development along Peachtree. Some have staved off the tide temporarily, but the last of them will some day go like the rest. FOR RENT. FOR RENT— 143 JACKSON STKKET -Un the east side of North Jackson, be tween Houston and East Cain, we have a three-at dry,' seven-room frame, has gns. hot and cold water, porcelain bath, washstand,. closet and sink In good condition. Street car in front. Lot 26x100 Vacant May 1 $25 JOHN J. WOODSIDE. WE PUBLISH A WEEKLY RENT BULLETIN, giving a good description of everything we have for rent. Get a copy, JOHN J. WOOPSIDE. Atlanta Phone 618, 12 AUBURN AVE. Bell phone Ivy 671. Apartments For Rent. Apartments For Rent. APARTMENTS ON GRANT PLACE, t.he now street running through to West Peachtree Street, we have those new Apartment Houses. They have 5. 6 and 7 rooms, with servant’s room and storage room with eaeli Apartment. They are new, and have every convenience; refrig erators. gas stove; janitor service, with White Way lights on the entire block, Tn e a s y walking distance. Price $35, $45 and $50 per month. GEO. P. MOORE REAL ESTATE AND RHVITNG, 10 Auburn Avenue. Plaza Plan Finds F avor With State Legislators Indication!! point to a spirited re vival In the coming legislature of the so-called Bleckley plaza plan to cover the ratlroad tracks in the cen ter of the eltv and connect the Norm and South Shies In a manner thit will be Impossible otherwise. Leg islators all over the State are inter ested in this plan because of the prospect of obtaining fur the State from the City of Atlanta a modern depot and office building combined. In return for easement rights given the city over the railroad tracks. Fulton County's legislators are likewise enthusiastic. Ralph O. Coch ran, the well known real estate mar, and Robert B. Blackburn and John V. Smith, members of the local b ir, have come out tn strong terms for the project. "The Improvement wou.d make abutting real eatate Jump to git),ouo a front foot,” declared Mr. Cochran, "and If necessary the prop erty owners affected could afford to pay out of their own pockets the amount required. Now they lave 'hack yard' frontage and the im provement would put them right in the path of progress. livery inch of that railroad space is valuable. It has lain dormant for years. It might have a double use and yield a ten fold return. 1 am heartily in favor o' the project and will do all l can to help It.” Legislator Smith’s Comment. John Y. Smith was Just os enthusi astic. "The business men of the city should get together and renew tile demand for this big Improvement," he said. "The Fulton delegation 1 fed sure will take it up and hqve a hill introduced in the legislature, of course looking after the interests of the RtHte as well as the interests of the City. • If this scheme did nothing else than connect the North and South sides of tile city it «ould fully com pensate Atlanta, and the state would get In return a magnificent new sta tion and office building." Robert B. Blackburn also thinks the project can be carried through. "I am in favor of it in the event tn.it the state's interests can be protected. The state must not lose at the ex pense of the city, but 1 think it will benefit the state as well as Atlanta.” The plaza plan was first put Into definite shape by Haralson Bleckley, the well known architect. It is as follows, stated briefly: All the via ducts over the railroad tracks are to be connected from Forsyth Street on the West to Washington Street on the Hast, with a concrete plaza which Rhall be about 150 feet wide at the narrowest point and 300 feet wide ,t the broadest point. The plaza shall he ornamented with shrubbery, park spaces and fountains. Kither on the site of the old union depot or West of the Forsyth Street bridge a pas senger station will be erected with a giant office building above, the gift of the city to the state for easement privileges. An Incline shall be run from the South end of the Forsyth Street bridge to Madison Avenue, making the Terminal Station easily accessible. The plaza plan contem plates the use of electric engines >y the railroads (from the city limits in) lo reduce the smoke and noise evi's. The train platforms would be down stairs, and reached by Inclines, steps and elevators, like the Hudson Tun nel tracks tn New York City. Tilts question was agitated before the legislature in 1911, hut no defi nite action was taken. The project had the indorsement of such leading citizens as Asa tJ. Candler, Samuel M. Inman, the late Hugh T. Inman, ("apt. James W. English, John E. Murphy. Edward C. Peters, J. K. Ot‘- ley, Frederic J. Paxon. Robert F. Maddox. Forrest Adair and I.inton I'. Hopkins. Governor Brown received it enthusiastically, and a legislative committee reported it favorably. The cost of the plaza has been s- timated at $2,000,000, which is consid ered in business circles to be very small in protajrtion lo the benefits. Houses For Rent. Houses For Rent. FOR RENT BY , Chas. P. Glover Realty Co. 2V> WALTON ST. 12-r h. 17 Last North A venue. $100.00 6-r h , 123 North l.awi . 825.00 12-r h. 82 Central Place 35.00 6-r h., 137 Venable Street . 1 8 00 IC-r h., Ponce DeLeon Avenue. 75.00 6-r. h . 21 Daley Street . 12.00 10-r h 185 Ivy Street 50 00 6-r h.. 166 Highland Avenue. . 30.00 9-r. h 423 Gordon Street . . . 46.00 6-r. h.. 227 Peeples Street . . . . 32 60 9-r. h 83 Ashby Street 35.00 6-r h . 29 Palmetto Avenue. 15.00 8-r h. 219 Forrest Avenue 40.00 6-r h , 31 Turman Avenue 25.00 S-r h. 3 West Eighth Street 5-r. h . ,135 Grew Street . 18.00 (furnished) 76.00 6-r h . 989 Glenn wood Avenue 16 50 8-r. h 531 Courtland Street *17.60 4-r. apt. North Boulevard 10 00 8-r h 739 North Boulevard 42.50 4-r. h 111 Kelly Street . . IS 00 i-r h Si Hast Cain Street. 4-r. h , 211 Va Whitehall Street . 15.00 7-r. h.. 107 Gapitol Avenue.. 45.00 4-r. h , 1 Forrest Street 9.50 8-r. h. 261 East Georgia Ave 27.50 4-r. h . 1 Connecticutt Avenue . 8.00 Workers on Winecoff | All in Readiness For Making Record Time | W. Peachtree Work Walls Go Up Almost Overnight and Watchers Are Filled With Wonder. FOR RENT In Heart of Whitehall EIGHT light, airy rooms, suitable for offices or light manufac turing 100 1-2 Whitehall. N. H. BULLOCH American Theater The workers on the Winecoff Ho tel at th southwest corner of Peach tree and Ellis Streets are making a record for speed that has never been equaled in Atlanta. Business men in the Candler Building were astounded to look out of windows yesterday morning and see the 200-foot south wall almost completed. Three men 160 feet from the ground put bricks in place faster than the watchers had ever seen them placed before. The same has been true of the steel work. Never in the history of the city has a frame been constructed so quickly. The Winecoff Hotel will not only be read$* for the Shriners in 1914, but it will pick up a good trade during the summer months of 1913. Interior work is occupying the at tention of the- Hotel Ansley builders. Just a few weeks now and this hand some hotel will also be ready for busi ness. Ministers Not to Marry 'the Unfit' Cleveland Pastors Start Move to Require Health Certificates With Licenses. CLEVELAND. OHIO, April 26.— Cleveland ministers plan to marry no couples unless they are in perfect health. A movement to require health as well as marriage certificates will be inaugurated next Thursday night when 200 clergymen and many lay men will meet to discuss marriage of physically unfit persons. The movement is initiated by Rev. T. S. Williams, pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church. Engineers Have Finished Blueprints and Regrading Should Start by May 10. After weeks of laborious efforts, en gineers have completed a set of blue prints showing how West Peachtree will be affected by regrading, and the subcommittee of the West Peachtree Improvement Association will meet in a" few days to accept the grade scale. This committee was named by the executive committee of the associa tion, and is composed of Judge Spen- eer R. Atkinson, ex-officio; James T. Wright, Frank P. Rice and Dr. Wil liam Owens, West Peachtree regraded will be one of the most prominent streets in the city. The lowest point in it is at Hun- nicutt Street, where it is estimated that a fill of about ten feet will be reiiuired. There is a huinp at Linden Street which will he reduced probably five feet.' West Peachtree will then slope gently northward from the southern junction. Money for this Improvement is in hand and work should start in a week or so. The regrading idea is comparatively new in Atlanta. A few years ago streets were made irrespective of grades, and this work now must be undone to make West Peachtree, Ivy. Whitehall. Peachtree and other streets what they ought to be. J. Hope Tigner, of Edwin P.; Ansley Agency, Analyzes Wide spread Movement. Atlanta is fast becoming a thriving market f*»r farm lands. In fact, it ! has been such for a number of years; j but in the pr* *-nt it is especially j active because of the attention to this- j section which the Panama Canal has' attracted. The “back to the f arm” movement has gained an unusual de gree of popularity, and there is more behind it than talk. Thousands of people aii coming into the State to I develop vast tracts of land. The At- { lanta interest in this movement con sists of < fforts to place agricultural- ! ists on truck and dairy farms in Ful ton County and to plant coionie* in i other parts of the State, particularly in the fertile regions of South Gear- | gia. Every few weeks a trainload of j settlers from the middle West passes through Atlanta on the way to theii j new-found homes below Macon/ These people are not to be confound ed with immigrants of the ordinary- type. They are shrewd and indus trious tillers of the soil who know something about the scientific meth ods of farming; they are of the type I of Swede and Norwegian that has transformed Minnesota, Wisconsin and other States into thriving agri cultural communities. Atlanta real estate agencies and the railroads are largely responsible for this influx. The railroads need more passenger traffic along their lines and Atlanta is the center where most of the in quiries for farm lands come. Office Buildings for Farms. Local real estate men report also that better-off classes in the East and the West nave become interested in Georgia farm lands. Big land- owners in these sections are willing to swap off hotels, bank buildings, apartments, and office buildings for Georgia plantations. If you don’t be lieve it, inquire of any agent who is in this line of business. Just the other day, J. Hope Tigner, who han dles farm lands for the Edwin P. Ansley Real Estate Agency, received the following telegram from a client in Chicago: "Will trade my equity in $600,000 apartment house for Georgih. planta tion of 7,000 acres, subject to ex amination of same. Please have owner of farm come to Chicago im mediately to investigate my proper* ty and sign contract to deliver Geor gia plantation.” A Washington, D. CL capitalist owning a $210,000 building lost a Georgia farm of 2,755 acres worth $320,000 because he was too slow in trading. The farm was sold "out from under him.” "There are a great many more in stances,” declared Mr. Tigner. “which illustrate the point. There never was a more steady demand for Georgia farm lands. The cities will soon be come too crowded for a large part of the population, and the man who has a plantation will come into his own. For Rich and Poor Alike. ”1 believe the safest investment of fered the rich and the poor of to day is the well-seleeted farm home In Georgia, near good markets good roads and good schools. The new settler should buy the best land that can mnv be had. and as the years roll by tht lands that are considered poor will become productive, The wealth of the world comes from the soil, and a farm home is a short cut to independence. “A marvelous increase in farm land values is shown in a table com piled by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, covering the period *of 1850 to 1910. It shows that the aver age value of lands and buildings per acre was $4.20 in 1850, $5.89 in 1860, $3.20 in 1870, $4.30 in 1880, $6.03 in 1890, $6.95 in 1900 and $17.68 in 1910. The Increase from 1910 to 1913 has been greater than the increase from 1850 to 1900. “The eyes of the nation are to- | ward Georgia and the South. James Wilson, fi rmer Secretary of Agricul ture at Washington, said in a recent speech before the people ot Augusta. 'You are going to find your lands get ting away from you and prices ad vancing. People from the North and West "arc coming Southward. This is the "ealrn of future prosperity. A new epoch In its history is now be ginning. Opportunities for develop ment in the South are unrivaled, and are here for both capitalist and home- seeker.’ Xfb ; *.;/ ,<r ** •” " l ' ;_0 - - ,v* .§£$ ■ '••"•SfU V < \ Auction Sale to Bring Out Host of Homeseekers. Section of Country Estates. Auction sales of residence property in immediate demand for building purposes have been few and far be tween this season. In fact, there are few remaining subdivisions where building is in progress, which have not been entirely sold out. This*fact lends special interest to the auction to be held by E. Rivers in Peach tree Heights, at Peachtree and Lake- view Avenue, just beyond' the city limits, on Wednesday at 3 o’clock. Peachtree Heights has for several years been in demand as a home- building section, and some twenty modern homes have already been built there, while as many more are projected to be built within the next twelve months. There is no pret tier hpme property anywhere in or around Atlanta. It is a series of attractive hill crests surrounding a gently-sloping ravine where approx imately six acres have been set apart as parks, to be used for play and rec reation grounds. The four homes presented in the accompanying illustration occupy a part of one of these hill crests and overlook the large park space where tennis courts may be set up and where the children may have their playgrounds. The frontage of these lots varies from 60 to 100 f“et. In depth they are 200 to 400. and in a few instances more. All have water and sewer con nections, with every essential home convenience. They are right at the Peachtree trolley line and only about twenty minutes irom the business center of the city. “I don't know of any more desir able or attractive home section any where around Atlanta than Peachtree Heights,” said Steve R. Johnston, the well-known auctioneer who will sell the lots. "Peachtree Heights is lo cated right in the heart of Atlanta’s most popular residence section. The many permanent homes of prominent and wealthy Atlantans already in this section speak more forcibly for it than I can hope to speak in mere words. It is naturally the prettiest part of Atlanta; hundreds of thou sands of dollars have been expended in improvements throughout this sec tion; it is the 4 art of Atlanta to which the sight seer first turns and, then—it is Peachtree. "I am going to conduct the auction in Peachtree Heights Wednesday and am anxious to have all my friends come out, for I am sure it will be worth their while If they are look ing for nothing else 1 can at least assure them of « pleasant, afternoon and, perhaps, a profitable one.” Venable’s Stone Castle Is Nearing Completion EVELYN SEE IN JOLIET. CHICAGO. April 26.- Evelyn Ar thur See, founder of the absolute life cult, was sent to the State peni tentiary at Joliet to-day. See was convicted of contributing to the delin quency of a minor girl. Preserve Streams, Urges Realty Man E. Rivers Would Rather See Peach tree Creek Flowing By Than Put It Under Ground. Although the suggestion has been made several times that Peachtree Greek be put under ground for a dis tance of 500 feet above and below the bridge, there is little likelihood that this will be done, at least not in the present. Since the sewage fonnerly turned in above has been diverted, the creek is no longer an objection. Speaking of this the other day. *E. Rivers, the well-known real estate man. said: “I don’t think it would be necesL- bary or desirable now to cover the creek. We need all the unpolluted streams we can get. The (’hatta- hobehee Nancy's Creek. Peachtree Creek and a few others are the only streams we have in the county, and vve should preserve them for the fu ture.” JOY! PEACHTREE WORK HAS STARTED AT LAST! Peachtree citizens are at last en joying better paving between Sixth and Fifteenth Streets. While the re pair work mapped out some time ago lias not progressed Car, a start has been made, and some of the deepest holes* have been filled. A party of grand opera visitors went out automobiling with an At lanta host, and several of them ex pressed the opinion that Atlanta streets were much smoother than Nashville’s The host let the remark pass w-ithout comments Some ten years ago Samuel H. Venable began laying away choice blocks of granite at his rock quar ries in Stone Mountain, intending at a feature date to build a fine house Jle had no idea where he would put it but he wanted the best materials out of wh4ch to make his “castle.' His workmen hewed on the rougher blocks and sent them away, on fiat freight cars. Finally Mr. Venable decided he had enough material and could go ahead with his house. He bought a lot in Druid Hills, put Ar chitect Edward #E. Dougherty to work on plans, and now his house is nearly finished, and it stands out as one of the finest in the city. Bungalows never appealed very strongly to Mr. Venable for* perma nent homes. He wanted a place that storms couldn’t shake, and that would stand almost as long as time. Furth ermore, he wanted It to be distinc tive. so he called for an English type of house, of the Tudor period, and incorporated some striking English features in it. The large dining room is after Haddon, Hall, Derbyshire, England. It is 29 feet long, with special treatment at the end where the windows are located. Back of the reception hall in the middle of j the house is a two-story hall, with an old-fashioned Gothic fireplace in the downstairs. In ttye basement is a summer living room, a sort of Rathskeller in heavy oak. opening in to a large wine room. Other features consist of four sleeping porches, a play room &ver the upstairs hall and a shaded slate roof. The location is at the northeast corner of Ponce De Leon Avenue and Oakdale Road, and the cost is conservatively estimated at $40,000 to $60,000. Other Houses in Section. Mr. Venable’s "castle” is not the only house recently built or building in Druid Hills. Residences estimat ed to cost in the aggregate $250,000 are either just finished, in the pro cess of erection or planned for the near future. Charles P. Byrd has recently com pleted a $30,000 two-story brick ve neer, red tile re of house at the cor ner of Ponce DeLeon Avenue and Oakdale Road. Thomas C. Erwin, W. T. Downing and W. F. Rawlings are to have houses in a row on the east side of Oakdale Road. Mr. Rawlings has completed his. a white stucco affair with a red tile roof, at a cost of about $12,000. Mr. Erwin will start soon the erection of a two-story brick veneer dwelling just south of Mr. Rawlings, and Mr. Downing is start ing his two-story brick veneer north of the Rawlings place. The Downing home will cost approximately $15,000. Frank Dean has started building a> two-story brick veneer house on the north side uf Ponce DeLeon Avenue, east of Luliwater Bridge. This will cost about $15,000. Brick veneers are tbe choice of most of the Druid Hills residents. J. C. Jarnigan has about finished one costing $15,000 ori the west side of Springdale Road, and W. A. Albright is building a house to the south of him to cost the same. Walter Candler is building at tin- north west coiner of Oakdale Road and North Decatur Road a two-story brick veneer to cost something less than $10,000. Beaumont Davison has recentlv completed a $30,000 home on the south side of Ponce DeLeon Avenue, at the end of the car line. This is an English type, half brick veneer and half plaster. C. V. Rainwater’s $20,000 house near Judge John S. Candler’s home is fast nearing completion. This is a two-story brick veneer. MEETING IS DUE SOON TO DISCUSS BARBECUE Real estate men in Atlanta have hailed with delight the suggestion that the annual outing of' the realty fraternity bl held this year at Cold Springs, and that it be in the nature of a big barbecue. The plan."’ for tin affair are nc/t definite as yet. and Charles P. Glover, president of the At lanta Real Estate Board, is expected to outline the scheme soon at a meet ing of the land brokers. GRAND OPERA’S EFFECT ON LOCAL REAL ESTATE A difference of opinion exists as to the effect of grand opera on real r late. Several dealers had lines out for well-to-do visitors, and the said visitors got a number of pleasant au tomobile rides; but the general belief in the real estate world is that grand opera and real estate don’t mix. * "People who come here to buy mu sic don’t want to talk about buying land.” declared a well-known dealer. Scale of Prices Fixed and Public Will Obtain Expert Advice on Property. Having adopted a scale of prices for local property the appraisal commit tee of the Atlanta Real Estate Board is now ready for business. Tbe com mittee is composed of J. H. Ewing, chairman, M. F. Ramsey, W. A. Fos ter and S. B. Turman, but any mem ber of the i eal estate board can make appraisals, subject to confirmation by the committee. Don’t pay too high for your property, Mr. Buyer, and don’t take too little, Mr. Seller, fdr yours! That is the advice of the appraisal board, who are experts through long experience in Atlanta real estate. They will charge $1 per thousand of the value of the property up to $25,- 000. with a minimum fee of $5; 50 cents per thousand on the excess of $25,000 to $100,000; and 25 cents per thousand on the excess of $100,000. f Thus the fee for the appraisal ol^ property valued at $4,500 would be $5, at $15,500, $15.50; at $125,000, $68.75. •Let Eugene S. Kelly, of the Chas. 11 C,lover Real Estate Agency, tell some of the advantages in the ap praisal plan: Outline of Plan, The plan under which property is # officially appraised by the board is. very simple apply to any. member of’ the board, youi (riend or agent, and I give him an accurate description of the property to be appraised. He in spects and gathers all data concern- ‘ ing it. and then submits his valuation to the board’s official appraisers, who further inspect the property and finally approve or modify the ap praisal. “One of the greatest benefits of this service is the protection it affords I to persons in real estate who are in other walks of life, such as profes sional men, merchants, manufactur ers and" persons and firms lending and borrowing money on real estate. "It is exceedingly difficult to ap praise real estate, since there are so many elements to be considered in arriving at its value. Theoretically the annual net returns is what deter mines the value of all investments, including stocks, bonds, real estate, etc. Thi is of little value, how ever, in appraising certain classes of real estate. There are to be consider ed possibilities for development, size and shape of property, character of business it is suited for and what it will he suited for ten, twenty or fifty years hence; also growth of city, direction of this growth, topography of land, objectionable features in its vicinity, taxes, and many other ele ments too numerous'to mention. Difficulty in Appraisal. “Hardly one half of the best busi ness men in the city can appraise any downtown corner within 20 per cent of its value, and the very fact that It is so difficult to appraise real estate makes expert appraisal necessary. "By having property expertly ap praised before making a purchase you^ will never miss, for there is no way of losing money on Atlanta real es tate except to pay too much for It, and oftentimes when this is done the values will overtake you before you find it out.” GREAT INTEREST SHOWN IN COURT HOUSE SALES Unusual interest attaches to the court house sales which will be held before the Court House door the first Tuesdav in May. Many real estate men will offer parcels and the prop erties are in several instances valua ble. A. J. & H. F. West will offer the Richards property on West* Tenth Street, and they expect the total of their sales to reach $100,000. R0G0WSKI AND JEFFERS TO SELL TWO PARCELS A. Rogowski, administrator of the estate of the la'c Mollie Rogowski, will offer for sale, before the Court House door the first Tuesday in May 15 Larkin Street, between Walker and Chapel Stress, on the north side of Larkin. Thomas A. Jeffers will sell for th* estate of Norma C. Jeffers the north east corner of Angler Avenue and Laws he Street, Demand Very Steady < For West End Homes Quiet of Parks Makes This Section a Desirable Place in Which to Live. Demands continue steady for home? in Wes. End, one of Atlanta’s most attracti\'< suburbs. A local renting agency which makes a specialty of West End hdmes rented six two-story houses and four bungalows in ten days’ time. Speaking of West End as a* desira ble residence section, a representa tive of this agency said: "West End has long been one of the best sections of the city for homes. Although a large number of people . have forsaken other sections for the | North Side, many pioneer citizens j have still continued to reside ori Pee ples, Gordon and Ashby Streets and other attractive thoroughfares In ’West End. With its park advantages and its quiet atmosphere, West End offers as much to the home-seeker as any section of the city. It is close to Five Points and yet it is far re moved from the noise, smoke and dusi which other neighborhoods are forced , to endure.”. ^,