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TIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN.
READ FOR PROFIT-AMEKItAN WANT AOS>USE FOR RESULTS
ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1913.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
ANSLEY PARK—7-ROOM
i BUNGALOW
4RIGHT OFF PIEDMONT AVENUE OAR LINE
THIS brand n*-w hnm<> is a HKAT'TY; 7 large rooms, sleeping
porch, beautiful fireplace. FITRNACK HF.AT, hardwood floors,
fine baseruent rooms, large lot. Ij'lug absolutely perfect This Is
the best bungalow for the money In that entire section. $fi,r>0<> on
terms.
(iRANT PARK ( OTTAGE—$3,500
ON GEORGIA AVENI R, right at the Park (Georgia Is going to
be some avenue soon, tool, five large rooms and hallway,
elevated lot, all conveniences, laisy terms. See ua.
GRANT PARK COTTAGE—A BARGAIN.
$2,r>:,o.
AT .124 ORMOND STREET, right ul the Park, we have a dandy
little cottage of five good rooms, hath, water, gas, and on
good lot. cash and the balance like rent. Why pay rent when
you can get your own home in this home section on the same terms.
THOMSON & LYNES
18 AND an WALTON street.
PHONE IVY 718.
Twice as Many Cattle Could
Be Raised in the South By
Use of the Modern Silo
Permits Greatest Amount of Food Per Acre, Con
serves the Waste, Furnishes Appetizing,
Succulent Food.
By CHARLES A WHITTLE.
Atlanta Beats Building Average of Big Cities
4**4* 4*«4* 4**4* 4**4* •*•••?• 4**4* 4**4* +•+ +•+ 4*#4*
Hot Fight Begun for Realty Convention in 1916
~i§ TYPICAL BUNGALOW OF INMAN PARK SECTION §T
WHITEHALL STREET
WITH thc rihange in the grade of this the main artery of the
Sotrth Side, values will advance rapidly, and the eyes of the
foresight tod buyers are already turning that way. Buy now,
before the grade is finished, then sell and take your profits.
CORNER OF WHITEHALL AND BROTIIERTON STREETS,
lot 491-2x110. Two-story brick building, divided into
two stores, loft and one five-room apartment. Stores and loft
are rented to neliablo tenants under lease. Apartment has hath,
stationary washstands, gas and sewerage connections. Prices
and terms giwen at our office.
WHITEHALL^ TERRACE. In a few feet of Whitehall Street,
we have an,apartment house of ten rooms, divided into two
five-room apartments, now renting for $32.50 per month.
House in good shape. Lot has an alley around two sides. No
loan to assume. We are authorized to sell this property at a
price, which makesdt one of the best investments in this section.
THE L. C. GREEN CO.
305 Third National Bank Building.
Phones, Ivy 2943, 4546.
J. R.
SMITH
J. H.
& EWING
Real
Ivy 1513
Estate, Renting, Loans
130 PEACHTREE
Atlanta 2865
EDGEWOOD AVE.
$325 PER FRONT FOOT will buy 60 feet frontage
on Edgewood Avenue, in the busy retail section.
Only a short distance from the center of the city.
Will consider some first-class renting preperty as
part payment and give attractive terms on the bal
ance.
CONE STREET
$600 PER FRONT FOOT will buy 25 feet of front
age on the east side of Cone Street, 75 feet north
of Luekie Street. Will consider 5 to 10 acres
of suburban property or small farm in part pay
ment. Thi6 lot should soon be in the $1,000 PER
FOOT class, as it is in the shadow of the Candler
Building, Piedmont Hotel, the Ansley Hotel, aud is
within 600 feet of the most valuable section of
Peachtree Street.
EXCHANGE
WE CAN exchange a splendid piece of acreage on
the North Side for improved property inside
the city. A GOOD TRADE can be had in this
tract and the lucky party will make A BIG
PROFIT.
SMITH & EWING
SPECIAL
SACRIFICE PRICE— REAUTIFUL PIEDMONT AVENUE 7
ROOM BUNGALOW, in that expensive section this side of
Piedmont Park. Fixtures, mantels and everything in the house
is jam-up. Has east-front, 50-foot, shady lot. If you want a
home in this high-class section at a low price, it will pay you to
investigate this at once. Price only $6,250. Positively cut
from $7,250. See or call
GALLOWAY & SMITH, Agts.
213 EMPIRE BLDG. MAIN 140.
WHY PAY RENT
WHEN $20 PER MONTH WUL BUY this brand-new six-room bungalow,
located In Ormewood Park, on the corner of Ormewood and Woodward
avenues, a modem six-room bungalow with all conveniences, price $3,750;
$250 cash and $20 per month. Just one block from car line This section is
being rapidly built up and offers splendid opportunities to home-seekers
with moderate means.
L. P. BOTTENFIELD
1021 Empire Bldg.
•THE MAN THAT SELLS "
M. 3110 See Mr. Lynch or Mr. Bell, Sales Managers
With a silo It Is possible to grow
two cow9 where one was grown be
fore.
More succulent, food can be groan
on an acr** for the silo than can be
grown In any other form. When con
verted Into ensilage more of the food
content of a plant is conserved than
when kept In any- other shape. Tattle
fed from the silo with suitable quan
tities of other food, are kept health
ier and thrive better than when fed
in any other manner.
The silo 1* both a source of econ
omy and efficiency. 'Pen times as
much space is required for storing
corn field-cured than when put In
the silo. Three times as much space
is required to store hay in the barn
than in the silo. So it is that the
silo makes 1t possible to have smaller
barns, carry less insurance, save cost
of repairs.
In feeding, the silo preserves from
waste a larger quantity of food ma
terials than is possible in any other
1 way. True, there Is some waste from
j fermentation in the silo, but the cur-
j ing process of corn 1n the field or
{other flHd-cured crops, exceeds by
far the waste from the silo.
Economy of Silo.
The chief economy In using the silo
Ih that it is the means of converting
portions of the plant Into appetizing
food which otherwise the cattle would
discard In the trough.
The equivalent of four tone, of hay
In feeding value can be easily ob
tained from an acre of silage. Four
tons of hay per acre, of course, arc
not to he had, except from a good
patch of alfalfa. Crops for ensilage
can be grown on most any kind of
land and with little trouble. It is
not ho exty to get hay crops.
No part of the country affords the
opportunity that the South presents*
for growing at lowest cost, abundant
allage matter. Corn and sorghum
with cow peas can be gathered in
great abundance from a field of ordi
nary fertility. Nothing like the equal
amount of feeding matter can he
grown in any other way. Consider
ing that the silage crop can b*
grown as a second crop of the long
growing season in the South, it is
apparent, of course, that the kinds
of crops that can be grown are not
alone the South's advantage.
Necessity of the Dairy.
To keep a dairy up to maximum
milk production all the year, of
course, requires care In feeding. Ex
perience has put beyond all question
that no food eouree betteT serves the
j dairyman than the silage which he
can get in great amounts from a small
tract of land.
Aside from the unquestioned econ-
^ FARMS FOR EXCHANGE.
LANDS FOR SALE BY
THOS. W. JACKSON,
4TII NAT. BANK BLDG.
BELL PHONE M. 5214.
392 ACRES.
VALLEY plantation, on chert road, 85
acres of level bottom in high state
of cultivation; nice residence, large
barn; cost $1,500 to build two years
ago; two tenant houses, an ideal
country home. Owner non-resident
and will offer at a very low price on
easy terms for the next 30 days*. Own
er will be on the place to show it. In.
vestigate and make your offer.
450 ACRES.
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA, on two
good roads, nice residence, barn,
tenant houses and other outbuild
ings; good, strong land, level and In
high state of cultivation. Will sell for
half its value If trade is made on or
before August 15. If you want a farm
I it-will be to your interest to see this
j place at once.
1,869 ACRES.
NO BETTER location for a large
.«tock farm; f»00 acres of open land,
500 acres in timber, 200 In pasture,
fine waterpower, 7-room residence, 5
tenant houses, several barns and other
c-uthouses. I am In position to give
you a bargain or exchange for At
lanta property.
728 ACRES.
ONE MILE front on the river near
Atlanta, can be bought for less than
$20 an acre; 100 acres of bottom, 7
settlements. 250 acres In cultivation,
165 1n pasture, with wire fence and
running water, 400 acres in timber.
Will include 8 head of mulee, imple
ments, tools necessary to run the
place.
60 ACRES.
18 MILES from Atlanta, large creek
running through the place, 10 acre?
bottom, 40 acres timber. Enough to
pay for the place. Price. $1,250 cash.
82 ACRES.
17 1-2 MILKS from Atlanta, two good
house?, barn and other outhouses,
two fine snrings, 45 acres In cultiva
tion, balance pasture and timber.
Owner non-resident. Will take $2,000
cash.
OTHER LANDS.
I CAN place you In an*- county in th(
State, any size tract, and price and
term? to suit you. Let me know what
you want. Have 40 agents always 01
the lookout for bargains.
THOS. IV. JACKSON,
4TII NAT. BANK BLDG.
"OXYGEN-ACETYLENE
WELDING.
"It STICKS like a
bull pup." But this
. process doesn't sim
ply stick things to
gether. It MELTS
the inetal at the
crack or break and
runs it together
again. We weld any
thing made of any kind of metal.
Nothing too small or too large.
AT LA NT A W ELDING
COMPANY.
BELL PHONE IVY 5367.
74 IVY STREET.
omy, the silage has special value ! n
maintaining a healthy condition of
the animal. It operates ag a mild
laxative and when properly balanced
with cotton seed mea) and some dry
hay, the cow is in prime condition
for ths maximum production of milk.
If a dairy Is maintained on small
acreage near a city where land ‘s
expensive, pasturage is out of the
question, and the silo alone is the so
lution of an economic feed. For mos f
parts of the South, however, pas
turage is abundant and easily main
tained, bo that it 1b the cheapest pos
sible source of food tor cattle. Con-
eiderlng that there is a nine-month
pasturage season on lands covered
with Bermuda grass, where one might
consider that from $1 to $1.50 per
month would he a fair charge as pas
turage cost, it is apparent at once
that cattle growing in the South need
not be an expensive proposition. The
cheapness of pasturage, together with
the long growing season, makes it
unnecessary to go to the lengths in
providing silage to which more
Northern farmers have to go during
the longer period of stall feeding.
But a long glazing season on In
expensive pasturage does not abate
the necessity of a silo. The mere
fact that cattle graze so much in tjie
South makes the silo the more neces
sary, for no food better follow* or
precedes pasturage than succulent si
lage. They supplement each other
splendidly.
For Beef Production.
Because of the healthy condition
which silage produces In the animal,
and because of the enlarged capacity
for food which feeding silage creates,
beef growers have long recognized
the value of leading up to the fin
ishing season by using silage.
Recent years have developed that
silage is not only good as a succu
lent food between pasturage seasons, j
but is a food that can be carried along !
till the feeding Is finished. Former- i
iy it was said that cattle fattened by
use of silage did not kill out well,!
that the meat did not have good j
color and the bone was too hard, that
In shipping the shrinkage was greater
than in the case of strictly corn fed '
animals. Careful experiments have!
largely disproved these claims. At '
the Virginia station 124 beef animals 1
were fed with reference to testing si- I
lage in beef production, for a period j
of 149 days and were then sold on
the market. These cattle were fed »
from eight to nine pounds of con
centrates per day from twenty-five
to thirty-nine pounds of silage per
day and about two pounds of dry
stover or hay. When shipped to mar
ket the shrinkage was not as large as
usually prevailed on shipment of
corn-fed cattle from the same terri
tory. The lot of cattle dressed out
56.9 per cent; a very creditable rec
ord, considering that they were
grades, fed only 149 days. Instead of
the meat being Inferior, it turned out
superior In quality. The fat and lean
were well blended and the color was
excellent.
It will be noted that some dry mat
ter was fed. This Is generally ad
vised as a check on the laxativeness
of the silage. Professor Charles
Plumb, one of the greatest feeding
experts of this country, connected
with the Ohio State University, while
strongly advocating silage, believes
that to feed silage twice a day and
hay once would prove a good policy.
Others, however, claim that no more
dry matter need be fed than by ex
periments prove Is necessary to pre
vent too great a laxativeness of the
animal.
The most rapid and economic gains
made in a car load of cattle averag
ing 800 pounds each and fed from
March 17 to July 15, by the Indiana
Station, were those made from feed
ing 33.81 pounds of silage, 14.6 pounds
of com. 2.34 pounds of cotton seed
meal, 2.38 pounds of clover hay. This
experiment, as will be observed, was
conducted during the summer months
The cattle relish silage in the sum
mer as well as In the winter. For
those sections of the country where
droughts occur, the summer silo is
considered a most important adjunct
to cattle raising.
The Illinois station used silage for
finishing choice Hereford steers along
with a ration of broken ear corn and
alfalfa. The cheapest gains were
made where the silage exceeded the
alfalfa, but the most rapid gains were
made where the proportion of alfalfa
to silage was greater.
Corn silage, when supplemented
with oats and hay and used for calves
intended for beef production, will
produce 35 pounds more gain per
steer during the season at the same
cost of ration than when shock corn
similarly supplemented is fed, ac
cording to experiment conducted oy
the Illinois station.
Another experiment where cattle
were fed a ration of silage, shelled
corn and cotton seed meal, as against
another group that was fed all the
corn and clover it would eat. The
cost of gain per 100 pounds in the
first was $9.79 and in the second
$12 .99. This experiment was con
ducted by the Indiana station.
Many instances might be multiplied
giving the advantages of silage feed
ing in the cost of beef production,
but enough has been given to indi
cate the general results.
The more live stock grown per acre
the greater the amount of manure
available for enriching it. Since the
silo makes it possible to raise two
cows where one has been grown by
other methods, so the silo makes it
possible to get twice as much soil fer
tility for the same outlay—a matter
well worth considering in these days
when acquiring soil fertility is be
coming more and more expensive.
Moreover, the silo la a means for
returning to the soli the largest pos
sible amount of the plant food con
tents which the crops have taken out.
Each plant grown on the farm robs
the soil of a certain amount of fertil
ity. If It is corn that is grown and
the grain is sold off of the farm, rath
er than fed on It, that much of soil
fertility that has gone Into the grain
leaves and If its equal is to be ob
tained the farmer must go forth and
buy It. If a part of the stalk of the
corn Is permitted to waste in the
field, or is permitted to cure in a
form that th£ cattle do not eat, so
much of food content of the soil Is
thrown away. But when It is cut
up and put in the silo, all of the plant
is made palatable and available for
food. Thus, the least possible amount
of soil fertility taken up by plants
is permitted to go to waste. After
being fed, of course, it goes back to
the soil to that extent which the ani
mal has not converted into bone,
blood, sinew and fat. It is estimated
that about 75 per cent of the elements
of the plant get back to the soil
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The accompanying cut shows a typical bungalow of the Inman Earn section. There are many more, costly homes, hut few
that are prettier. Inman Park is essentially a residence neighborhood, and its citizens give a great deal of attention to lawn, gar
den and tree effects, as well as to homes. Big dwellings of earlier days have been superceded largely by pretty bnngalows.
Bradstreet’s Shows 119 Places
Spent $352,857,205 in Con
struction First Half 1913—Gate
City Ahead of Average $150,000
Bradstreet’s review of building sta
tistics throughout the United States
for the first six months of 1913 re
veals that Atlanta has beaten the av
erage of 119 leading cities by $146,691.
These cities spent $352,857,205, or an
average per city of $2,965,196, while
Atlanta spent $3,111,777.
New York City, with its $84,036,496
expenditure, does not figure in the
above calculations. Taken without
New York, the other .cities gained
$26,494,702 over the same period last
year.
Atlanta’s Good Business.
Atlanta’s business in the first half
of 1912 was $3,624,840. and this year
shows a loss of $513,063, which is
considered normal on account of the
fact that 1912 was an unusually pro
ductive year.
The gain in the 119 cities was 7.9
per cent over 1912 and 10.7 per cent
over the first half of 1909. In other
words, the country’s building expen
diture during the first six months of
1913, New York excepted, was larger
than in any preceding six months in
its history.
A precise measure of the past eight
years’ building record is to be had by
comparing the building returns at 66
identical cities for halt-yearly ana
annual periods back to and includ
ing 1905. This permits of the fol
lowing comparisons:
Interesting Table of Fi
gures.
Sixty-five First
Second
Tot ul for
Citle*.
Six Months.
Six Months.
Y ear.
1905...
....$294,536,160
$300,823,254
$595,359,414
1906. . .
.... 347.035,084
277.091.712
624.126,706
1907...
.... 315.256.543
239.691,717
.554.948.260
1908. . .
.... 222.6S4.84S
287.264,561
509.899.409
1909. . .
.... 382.498.361
311.04S.65S
723.547.019
1910 ..
.... 354,903.233
312.4S9.260
667.452,493
1911...
.... 320.991.141
322.119.1S6
643.110.327
1912.. .
1913.. .
.... 350,229.622
.... 333.470.571
330,322.018
680,561,650
This year the expenditures at 65
cities for the first six months were
$333,470,571, which fall behind those
of a year ago at the same cities by
4.7 per cent, but exceed those of the
last half of 1912 by almost 1 per cent.
Compared with the boom year. 1909,
the decrease in the first half of the
year from last is 12 per cent, while
the gain over the first half of 1908,
the low-water mark year, was 5ft per
cent.
when fed through the silo and re
turned to the soil in the form of ma
nure.
All sections of the United States
have better appreciated and made use
of the silo than the South. True, some
sections of the Sowth devoted to dai
rying and beef raising have been
using silos with great profit for a
number of years. One can ride half
across some of the Southern States
and never see a silo. It is the great
est need of the Southern dairyman.
It Is doubtful if beef production can
be generally carried on with success
in the South without the use of the
silo.
A silo can be constructed cheaply:
in fact, more cheaply in the South
than elsewhere. A farmer can build
one himself at little cost. Usually
it pays to have one built according
to some of the best designs and at
greater expense than the cheapest and
more temporary kind, because of the
lasting qualities, as well as its better
arrangement. A silo can be built at
a cost anywhere* from $50 to $250.
In the South they should be built with
less diameter than In the North, be
cause Of climatic conditions.
Any college of agriculture or ex
periment station will furnish plans
and specifications for a silo. Some
of the railroads will also do the same.
It would seem that there is no ex»
cuse for the Southern farmer not
having a silo.
HISTORIC INMAN PARK
LURES HOMESEEKERS
Sixty Acres Laid Off in 1892 by Joel Hurt—Story
Of Venture in Early Subdivision.
Probably few people in Atlanta real
ize that Joel Hurt, who is construct
ing the Hurt Building, who built the
Equitable as the first office structure
In Atlanta, and a street car line out
Edgewood avenue as the first trolley
line, is in reality Atlanta’s first sub-
aivisionist as well.
Mr. Hurt laid off about 60 acres of
land in 1892 and called it Inman Park.
He had plats made and invited his
neighbors to buy large lots, with am
ple restrictions for the protection of
the residents. He reserved a 20-foot
strip around the entire tract to keep
others from encroaching.
Many lots were sold and many fine
homes built, and along with a realiza
tion of Ids dream of a second large
office building Mr Hurt is about to
realize an ambition In Inman Park—
completed Inman Park, for there is
very little land left to build on.
Early Project Abandoned.
An interesting story is told of Mr.
Hurt’s early operations as a street
railway magnate. In planning for a
suburban street car line, his eye fell
on West End as a good prospective
terminus. About that time a land
company was organized which bought
considerable acreage where Mr. Hurt’s
line was expected to go. Mr. Hurt
thought he would take advantage of
the enhancement, so he built out
Edgewood avenue rather than into
West End, and opened a subdivision
of his own.
His idea was to make of Edgewood
avenue a broad and popular boulevard
leading into the city, and he has never
got away from Edgewood, for both
his office buildings are on it, and he is
planning other buildings either on or
adjacent to it.
Beautiful Home Neighborhood.
Inman Park is completed in the
sense that there is very little land in
the original acreage tract that has
not been built up. Beautiful homes
with large front yards and yards of
great depth are seen on every hand,
and there is an air of quiet and rest
about the section that is felt In very
few city neighborhoods.
Most of the lots built up with the
finer houses are of 100 feet frontage
and 200 by 300 feet deep, but since
restrictions lapsed in ten years, or
about 1902, bungalows and narrower
lots have found a place.
Several nice apartment houses re
cently have been completed in Inman
Park, and the section which was for
years the home of the Candlers, the
Hurts, the Inmans and the Kings i*
assuming an appearance that is as
progressive as it has been aristocratic.
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Van B. Smith, newly-elected secre
tary of the Atlanta Real Estate Board,
has taken hold of his new job in a
hurry. Having been named at the
dinner of the real estate men Friday
night a week ago he dropped
around on Saturday by the of
fice of John D. Babbage to pay
a social call. During an intermission
Mr. Babbage called his stenographer
and said, "Please take a letter," and
he dictated to the Atlanta Real Es
tate Board the following, which the
presence of Mr. Smith had inspired:
“Please accept my resignation to
take effect as of this date."
"Wait a minute—don’t do that!"
broke in Mr. Smith. And thep Mr.
Smith went into the history of real
estate boards and their advantages.
So eloquent was Mr. Smith's major
premise, his minor premise and his
peroration that Mr. Babbage was
overcome and he tore up his letter
forthwith.
If you don’t believe it, ask. Mr. Bab
bage!
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It pays to "tote fair" with realty
clients, according to George P. Moore,
of the real estate agency which bears
his name. "Some people believe," de
clares Mr. Moore, "that a real ('state
agent will knowingly sell them a
‘slow’’ pieop of property. 1 believe this
is a mistaken idea, because when an
agent sells a money-maker the cus
tomer will buy from him again; but if
he loads you you will pass him up in
the future. We know that It is to the
agent’s interest to put up live propo
sitions, so that customers will come
back.”
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There la at least one thing that
Harris G. White hopes to do while
he is president of the Atlanta Real
Estate Board, and that Is to Increase
the number of agent? attending the
monthly dinners of the association.
“Out of 175 members of the board,”
declares Mr. White, "we should have
half at every dinner that we give.
In this way the good work of the
board can be carried out effectively,
whereas a lack of co-operation will
not do us any good. My plan Is to
make each member feel that he has
some little duty to perform, and In
this way more men will become ac
tively interested.
I expect the fall business of the
Atlanta real estate men to go beyond
their fondest hopes. We will prob
ably have a medium-sized crop, but
it will be a good one, and lots of
money Is going to be turned loose in
Atlanta. Then after that, we have
Panama Canal and immigration in
fluences to contemplate. This section
is in the path of progress and the in
fluence will be first felt in local real
estate."
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Complications having arisen in a
lease situation, the Atlanta School
of Medicine Building at the northwest
corner of Luekie ’and Bartow street*
will probably not be sold for some
time This property was to be dis
posed of, according to recent an
nouncement. following the consolida
tion of the two local medical colleges,
Then it was discovered that the
Southern College of Pharmacy held
triree years of a five-year lease, with
space on several floors of the building.
Some adjustment will probably be
made, however, which will enable the
medical college authorities to sell as
contemplated. The value of the
property has been estimated at $100,-
000.
Shelby Smith’s Return.
Shelby Smith, chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners, who
has been out of town on a short vaca
tion, is expected back this week. Dur
ing his absence S. B. Turman, vice
chairman, has been officiating at
county board meetings.
Atlanta and Memphis in Competi
tion for National Ass’n Meeting
•
Three Years Hence—Interest
ing Correspondence Exchanged.,
The Atlanta Real Estate Board has
been "challenged” by the Memphis
Real Estate Association.
Both of these worthy organizations
are members of the National Asso
elation of Real Estate Exchanges,
which meets Monday in Winnipeg,
and both want the ninth annual con
vention in 1916. For some time
Atlanta real estate men have n x 1
their sails set for this gathering, im
agine their surprise, therefore, when
the Memphis association sent along a
request that the Atlanta board sup
port Memphis for the convention!
Letter From Memphis.
A letter from President George M.
Person declared that the Memphis
delegation to the Winnipeg convention
would carry Invitations from the
Mayor, the Business Men’s Club and
the Merchants’ and Cotton Ex
changes; that Memphis would have
by 1916 a $1,000,000 auditorium-ar
mory, and with six large hotels and
a number of smaller ones could ac
commodate the crowd.
"The East will claim the conven
tion next year, possibly Pittsburg or
Buffalo," said the letter, "and in 1915
Los Angeles will secure It. In 1916
the South should win. and Mem
phis, in our opinion, should get it.
We sincerely trust you will instruct
your accredited representatives to use
their valuable influence in behalf of
Memphis, assuring you that we may
be counted upon for reciprocal fa
vors." *
Now, Harris G. White, president of
the Atlanta Real Estate Board, has a
sense of humor, and he did not fail to
appreciate the situation. He wrote
in substance as follows:
Mr. White’s Reply.
"I have your letter and thank you
for writing us In this connection. It
will be impossible for us to comply
with your request, inasmuch as At
lanta is also trying for the same con
vention. Your delegates to the 1912
convention at Louisville will recall
that there was a strong sentiment fa
vorable to Atlanta as the convention
city in 1913. many of the delegation*
so expressing themselves.
"The convention for this year was
tentatively offered Atlanta, and our
delegation decided to work for the
next possible chance, which, it seems,
is 1916. We need Memphis’ support,
and if it is possible for you to give it
for 1916, we shall be glad to pull for
Memphis In 1917. We have an audi
torium large enough to accommodate
any ordinary gathering, ample hotel
facilities and three more hotels build
ing, and expect to carry along invi
tations from the Mayor, the City
Council and other organizations."
Concerns Want Space
In Chamber Building
Some interesting announcements of
space leased to business concerns are
expected soon from the directors of
the Chamber of Commerce Realty
Company, which owns the new
Chamber of Commerce home at the
southeast comer of Auburn avenue
and North Pryor street. A local bank
is figuring on most of the ground
floor space.
The Chamber of Commerce execu- ,
tive offices will be on the second floor, 1
and the merchants’ and manufactur
ers’ exhibits on the four top floors.
One floor will have to be added to
make the six, the total cost of altera
tions to be $50,000,