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IIKARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, LA., SUNDAY, MAY 11. 1913. 7 B TO BE REAL CITY Four Thousand Acres on Ocean and in Forest Go to Seekers of Year-Round Homes. Atlantans who are accustomed to visiting Atlantic Beach have re ceived with more than ordinary In terest the news that this popular Florida resort Is undergoing a re markable land and building develop ment. Four thousand acres of land have recently been purchased for homes and a fourth of thle has been cleared for Immediate building. A number of bungalows and other styles of houses have been erected and a great many more will be built this summer, in fact, before the tourist season has got well under way. A complete new city will be built at Atlantic Beach. The plan con templates an area as large as the present city limits of Jacksonville. Ample capital is available and expe rienced men are the promoters. Near ly 200 laborers have been changing the thick jungle into a park-like ex panse for a mile north from the county road to the beach and west of the Florida Hast Coast Railway tracks. A score of tasty bungalows has been built. More are to be start ed as fast as a supply'of building materials can be turned Into a steady stream of loaded cars bound beach- ward and a force of carpenters and masons’ can be .assembled to han dle it. J , Double Advantage of Site. The situation o; the Atlantic Beach Corporation’s land is such that It offers two distinct advantages.i There are miles of picturesque ocean front and tropical forests as well. Resi dents can be either on the bluffs over, looking the Atlantic Ocean, with its dancing spume, or they cari ideate In the tangled and sequestered nooks of the inland. The officers of the Atlantic Beach Corporation arc: E. R. Brackett, of New York and Jacksonville, presi dent and organizer; J. C. Turner, of New York, vice president; A. L. Tay lor, of New York, secretary, and William C. Byram. formerly of New York but now of Jacksonville, general manager. Thera is a Jacksonville of fice in the St. James Building and Mr. Byram is, in charge of it. Among the improvements put in by the company are an electric light ing plant, an artesian well and miles of splendid streets and.roads. Pros pective residents have in many cases already gone io Atlantic Beach, and many of them will stay the year- round, since the climate of the Flor ida resort is particularly favorable. L John W, Grant Pays Record Price of $1,100 for Ivy St.—Three Cash Deals. A. S, Hook, of Foster & Robson -ency, has sold for the Houston- y Realty Company to, John W. ant the northeast corner of Houa- i and Ivy Streets for approximate- $98,000. The property fronts 90 *t on Ivy Street and 132.5 feet on xuston Street. This is a high water irk for Ivy Street frontage. bein& nroximately $1,100 a front foot. If ured by the Houston Street front- e, the price paid is approximately 15 a front foot. Phis is the old Evins property. It is bought less than three years ago the Houston-Ivy Realty Company r $100,000, then 1C2 feet on Houh- n Street and 202 feet on Ivy Street, on after the purchase the Hous- n-Ivy Realty Company sold a 10'i- 3t lot on Ivy street for $40,000 to a ndicate of South Georgia capital- s. and recently this syndicate sold a syndicate of Atlanta capitalists aded by E. C., Callaway for $60,000. Mr. Hook has sold for Mr. Grant the Hrrtiston-Ivy Realty Company South Pryor Street for $52,000. or the rate of $2,000 per front fooC d residents of Atlanta will remem- r this property as th<* old poli — rrac-ks. The proper”- '« a three- *rv brick civ 1 ) c - rent building, bn lot 2 : j by “ :*• fee*/ with alley <5n le and rear. Mr. Grant’s father Is it safe to build on Peachtree closer to town than the northern junction of the Peachtrees? Owners of lots seem to think it is. They are building, anyway, with the belief that if business ever comes as far north as Fourteenth Street It will stop there automatically. Well and good, but will it? What is to keep little trading centers like the one at Tenth Street’ from springing up at intervals along the route, and gradually extending until they connect in a more or less broken chain with other trading cen ters? Residents are hoping that no such calamity will befall the section men tioned as has befallen the section to the southward. Rigpht now’ they seem secure In a hide-hound residential neighborhood. Maybe it will take years to force homes farther out, hut tl\is Is not at all Impossible in the ultimate. People Just south of Four teenth Street are already uncom fortable. Many would not have built when and where they did had they known what was coming in the busi ness advance. A few blocks farther north there Is less trepidation. Sev eral new' and handsome homes are now under construction or recently completed. The step is not a long one. What has already happened is evidence enough. Atlanta Is growing at the rate of 15,000 people a year. In five years the population should be close s v o 250,000, and in ten years more the population should be half a million. What will the business district be? More congested in the half-mile ra dius with Five Points as the center, it is* true, but. spread out northward to an unbelievable extent as well. Unless the retail district can become nearly as broad as it is long, it may go as far north as Brookwood. it is in spots half ihat far now. An analysis of Peachtree north of the Georgian. Terrace shows some in treating revelations-'. Signs are up oh the old Ladson lot at: the southeast corner of Peachtree and Third Streets. This* has long since been subdivided. Back of it is the business-like Geor gian Terrace garage, and diagonally across frd'm it is the Winship corner, on which it is proposed to put a modern apartment house of many stories. The J. Carroll Payne place at the southwest corner of Third will soon be on the market. The next “link” is the Peters prop erty. on the west side of the street between Fourth and Fifth Streets, which has been suggested for eariy subdivision or a city park. The next is the McBurney home at the south west corner of Peachtree and Fifth Streets, and just north of it, the M. L. Rates place. The McBurney home is now occupied by Dr. Hugh K. Walker, pastor of the First Pres byterian Church, but he will move in the early fall and the lot will be sub divided into 25-foot parcels. Separate bonds for title executed on the Bates place will make it possible for this to. be cut into six store lots at any time, four of which will front on Peachtree and two of which will front on East Sixth Street. A syndicate of business men has bought the old Ryan home at the .‘■'oiitheast corner of Seventh Street and Peachtree and may’ turn it into a business proposition at any time. Going back a few doors, the Todd residence has been in the spring trad ing, and the Jacobs home is on fhe market as a speculative proposition. Across from the Ryan property at the northwest corner of Peachtree and Seventh the E. J. Powers home has passed into the hands of Geo. W. Parrott, who has indefinite plans for a big department hotel. People in the next two blocks are clinging on. A deal was pending for the Cab- aniss home at 762 Peachtree Street, just north of John D Little’s place, but it fell through. • Mr. Cabaniss is still the owner. The next “link” is in the neighbor hood around Tenth Street, and here it is better defined ^han anywhere north of the Georgian Terrace. Two drug stores, a meat market, a pressing club, a postoffice sub-station, a garage, four grocery stores, a Chi-, nese laundry and a 'plumbing estab lishment have made a small business center. Two mitre stores are to go up north of the Elysee Palace Apart ments. and some disposition wiil probably he made soon of a fine res idence in this* neighborhood. Trav eling farther northward, the W. T. Ashford home at the southeast cor ner of Peachtree and Eleventh Streets has been in the speculative market to the extent of $5,000 profit* in a recent re-sals. Thence to Fourteenth Street there has been no well-defined business activity’, but the stores at Tenth are sure to have a radiating influence. How long then, before shrewd trad ers will be picking profit plums from the choice corners at Fourteenth Street and gaining a foothold in the region beyond? It may be ten years and it may be two! It may be that the property owners will succeed in holding back business Indefinitely: but if they do, they will accomplish more than their neighbors closer in! When the First Methodist Church moved from the Candler Building site to the northwest corner of Peachtree and Porter Place the congregation thought they were safe from encroach ments. The same with the First Bap tist when it went across from the Governor’s Mansion. Both churches now find business pressing close. A notable fact in this connection Is that the First Methodist’s property has enhanced much more rapidly at Por ter I*]ace than it did at Houston Street. Asa G. handler paid the church about $1,000 a front foot for its downtown location, and the “up town” site is expected to attain $2,000 within a year! The effect of Peachtree trading and demolition has been to drive people farther out Peachtree and into Ansley Park and Druid Hills, where business restrictions exist. A beautiful resi dence street is passing, but out of it will rise a classic and distinctive thoroughfare. * * * Where will residents land when they . “Jump” out Peachtree? The good “settling places” are becoming fewer and fewer. Ansley Park is nearly full. So with Peachtree as far as Brookwood. The Collier tra^fr just north of Seventeenth Street has not been opened up and there are no definite plans for opening it. Even should Peachtree be built up solid to Buckhead there would still be a great demand for home-sites. Owing to the peculiar topography of tht country surrounding Peachtree as far north as Peachtree Creek there are few residential sections. “Drop off of Peachtree and drop out of sight.” Several years ago E. Rivers skipped over the lowlands and planted his flag. On the left-hand side of Peach tree 200 yards north of Peachtree Creek lie pitched his tent and called the place Peachtree Heights Park. “When you hit ground out in this direction.” Mr. Rivers said of the home-seekers, “you’ve got to hit on my land.” People are hitting there to-day in goodly numbers and Mr. Rivers is taking splendid care of them. He has provided all modern convenience?, parks as well, and his building re strictions are a comforting protection. Now Mr. Rivers declares that good roads have switched so many auto mobiles through the section that Hab ersham Drive does not look unlike Peachtree Road on a clear summer afternoon. Mr. Rivers has started a development that is more than a pri vate enterprise. It is a civic, necessi ty. like Ansley Park and Druid Hills, and any number of high-class resi dence sections, and as such it is spoken of here. * ♦ * “Would-be investors are not wise they think the present financial un steadiness is going to depress At lanta real estate,” said a well-in formed local dealer the other day. “If they are looking for bargains they might as well get them by purchas ing now. Real estate is not going down. On the other hand, it is going up, as it has always done more or less, I can remember only one forced sale of importance, and that came about because executors could not agree on the way an estate should be administered. People are very sel dom so hard up that they can’t hold their real estate over until the next year, when times are better. Nearly every man can put some kind of ‘prop’ under it, to tide it over. Skit tish investors have been waiting 40 years for property to depreciate, and they have never been able to buy any good property. There are exceptions, of course. Occasionally a man will have to sell because he needs money, but it Isn't often.” Another real estate man said: “I I had a client who wanted to find somebody that was hard up and ' forced to sell. I told him there wasn’t j a chance .in a hundred that if he j found such a man he would find \\hat he wanted in the house and lot. I ! advised him to buy at a fair price and wait for the legitimate enhance- j ment, and I am sufe he will be glad 1 he took my advice.” bought this pronerty several yea.s ago for about $1,100 a froht foot. These sales make a vei?y interesting story of the steady enhancement of Atlanta property, both on the North Fide and South Side of the city. The A. S. Harris Real Estate Agen- cy has sold for G. C. Rogers to a client 20S (’rew Street, a six-room house, on a lot 54 by 120 feet, for $3,500 cash: also 286 Crumley Street, a five-room house, on a lot 58 by 54 feet, for $2,000 cash, and for W. P. Shannon tj to a client 204 Crew Street, a six- room cottage, on a lot 50 1-2 by 173 feet, for $3,650 cash. If you have anything to sell, adver tise in The Sunday Am«rican. Larg est circulation M any Sunday news paper in the South. ACCOUNTANTS TO TAKE STATE TEST MAY 21-22 A half-yearly examination of pub lic accountants will be held In Atlan ta May 21 and 22, according to an an nouncement issued by Joel Hunter, chairman of the Georgia State Board. The examination will be held in accordance with the certified public accountants’ law, passed in 1908. Those passing the examination will be awarded the degree of certified public accountants. Candidates will he examined in theoretical and prac tical accounting and auditing and commercial law as ulTecting account ancy. THE HOME BUILDERS’ PAGE Combination Gas and Electric Lighting Fixtures AT HALF PRICE Special Sale of High Grade Fixtures J. E. Hunoicutt & Co., 53 & 55 N. Broad St “Look for the Tile Store Front” M . M. MATERIAL-" 1 *" < MAN- OR I.MATERIAL either way you prefer, but it does take the combination of good puint and good painter to make a good job. Not a rare combination if you come to the right place. Georgia Paint & Glass Co. 35-37 Luckie St. The Best Paints for Every Purpose Prompt Delivery You know wbat this means when you are build ing. We fill your order and deliver when we say we will. Our big auto truck does the trick. We give you just what we sell you, and deliver just when we promise. ANYTHING IN WOOD. We are Atlanta agents for Texas Cement. As Good as Any, and Bet ter Than Most* Phoenix Planing Mill Office and Factory, 321 Highland Ave. Phones: Ivy 3200, 3201, 3202. Atlanta 65. t, “i! If i. |, P^iahaio-Fo^aa ~i! ir CHAMCtg. lfcrO'‘x«3o" .-Jl Jw ,i— Ir ■ I' — It UyiAiG iooqf' tV-o'v »*+-<,|’l -Jl JL. 1J — ip - • '• H DESCRIPTION ?he long’ ridge of roof parallel with the street line, and the low, broad eaves are the principal fea tures of this bungalow. The treat ment of the gables and the manner in which the columns are grouped are also worthy of mention. The living room chimney serves for this room and the two bed rooms, while the stove Hue is loca ted in the dining room chimney. The living and dining rooms are connected by sliding doors these two rooms having attractive beam ed ceilings. On a level lot and without fur nace heat this house could be built for about $1,800. &*■»£. Flam Plans furnished by LEILA ROSS WILBURN, Architect, 305 Peters Bldg., Atlanta Sargent’s Artistic Builders’ Hardware If ypu are building or planning to build, It will pay you to inspect our line of looks and other builders’ hardware. We cheerfully furnish estimates from your bluq prints. We are offering at this time es pecial bargains in looks from the Anderson Hardware Company stock which we purchase^!. If you would save money on your hard ware, see us at once, as these low priced goods will soon bq exhaust- KING HARDWARE CO. 53-55 Peachtree Street No modern home is complete with out BELL TELEPHONE SERVICE Call the Business Office Better Be Safe Than Sorry A well known phrase. The man who coined it is the proprietor of the “top notch” wall paper and decorating concern in Atlanta; newest ideas, best work—al ways guaranteed. You may set your watch by Burnett’s prices. They are absolutely right. J.L. Burnett 71 S. Pryor St. Slantwise Across From New Court House. Phones 48. WALTERBARTLETT Painting Contractor. Painting and Decorating in All Its Branches^ ENGINE PAINTING A SPECIALTY Contracts Taken Anywhere 90 JOSEPHINE ST. ATL ,™ 0NE ATLANTA BELL 4 ™ ONE ^ We Make Repair Work A SPECIALTY j STEWART & HUNT Plumbing Contractors 53 East Hunter Street : Atlanta, Ga. / Lighting Fixtures For the Home 1913 Designs LOWEST PRICES j^oeen Mantei & Tile Co. 56 W. Mitchell St. Phone 681 Main J. R. Hime Sand Co. 308 Empire Life?/ Building i Shippers of high grade, ] building and concrete aandT. , Our No. 1 is sharp and clean/ and will stand analytical test. Our No. 2 is a perfect sand for plastering, bri>ok work, and general utility; jmrposes. We ship only in thoroughly cleaned cars, and endeavor to make prompt shipment. Call Ivy 6071 QUALITY “AS GOOD AS WOODWARD’S” is the mo»t our competitors can offer you. 0uy your material from ui , and avoid any uncertainty. Sash and doors, lumber and rolllwork of & all sorts In hardwood or Dine. WOODWARD LUMBER CO., Atlanta. HEAT When you want it, where you want it, and at the right price. The Eichberg Heati ng Co. 445 Marietta St. Atlanta, Ga. Phone Main 4335 Home Furnishings We are equally well pre pared to furnish your new liome complete or supply the extra pieces of furniture needed here andlthei-e. DRAPERIES i All classes-of drapery'work cut and hung by anjexpert on , short notice. t I WINDOW SHADES ’ ' All styles and sizesjmade to^., order. " GOLDSMITH-ACTON? WITHERSPOON CO^ i 62 Peachtree. J * “Lifetime Furniture.’’# ,1 61 N. Broad Street. F. GRAHAM WILLIAMS brick ;s, y ce ATLANTA, GA* ANY KIND 601 GRANT BLDG. No House Is Modern or . Up-to-Date Unless It Is Wired for Electricity AND Piped for Gas Georgia Railway & Power Co, Atlanta Gas Light Company Phone 4945 !