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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN,
READ FOf! PROFIT-AMEFISCAN WANT ADS-USE FOR RESULTS ATLANTA, G A.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, 1013. 5 D
Big Money in South’s Sweet Potato
Crop if Properly Stored and Marketed
Value of Sweet Potatoes Increases 80 Per Cent During Last Ten
Years—Ninety Per Cent of Crop Grown in South Atlantic States.
Great Demand Not Supplied.
* CHARLES A. WHITTLE.
HOME FOR EDGAR DUNLAP IN DRUID HILLS
Speaking of big money-making
crops suited to the South, what is
the matter with the sweet potato?
For sure corps, good returns and a
growing market, take your hat off
to the sweet potato patch. Georgia is
"pulling down" some $5,000,000, Ala
bama some $4,000,000. Mississippi
13,500,000, Louisiana $3,000,000. Ten
nessee $4,000,000. North Carolina
$5,000,000, South Carolina $3,000,000,
Virginia $3,000,000 Kentucky $1,000,-
000, Arkansas $2,000,000, Texas $2,-
500,000. Florida $2,000,000 In sweet po
tatoes each year.
Ask any groceryman if he ever ha-
enough sweet potatoes to supply the
demand. If he has, he is the excep
tion to the rule.
The South Is? the natural habitat
of the sweet potato. It is up to the
Southern States to supply the de
mand. The demand is growing, the
sweet potato patches are growing,
but the demand is quite a lap ahead
and gaining. In fact, there is a wide-
open, attractive opportunity for the
Southern farmer in growing sweet
potatoes. Why not "go to it"?
The Spread of the Potato Patch.
Under the inspiration of a growing
prjce and an enlarging market, the
sweet potato patches have extended
their area during the census decade
previous to 1909 39.3 per cent for the
country as a whole. While the South
ern States have them all beaten In
advantages, every State In the Union
is growing potatoes and only four
are falling away from the habit and
show a decrease in the decade period
mentioned. These are Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Illinois and Texas.
Georgia takes first place in the
amount of revenue derived from the
sweet potato according to census fig
ures. Other Southern States in their
order are North Carolina, Alabama.
Mississippi. Virginia. South Carolina.
Louisiana. Texas. Tennessee, Arkan
sas. Florida and Kentucky.
The increase which the census
shows for the last report for each
State is as follows: Louisiana 174 per
cent, Oklahoma 155 per cent, Arkan
sas 154 per cent. Alabama 112 per
cent. Mississippi 110 per cent, North
Carolina 104 per cent, Georgia 85 per
cent, Tennessee 84 per cent. South
Carolina 70 p«r cent, Kentucky 66 per
cent, Virginia 56 per cent. Florida 37
per cent.
The Southern States grow a very
great part of all the sweet potatoes,
and will continue to grow them for
the special reason that the soil, cli
mate and long growing season favor
this kind of tuber. Therefore, the
Increase in acreage and jrevenue from
this source will belong to the South
In the future as in the past.
Increase in Price.
The census report tells us that for
the last decade reported that the
value of the sweet potato crop in 1909
in the South Atlantic States was
three-fourths greater than it was in
1899: in the West South Central
States nearly twice as great. Since
the South Atlantic State? grow over
90 per cent of the sweet potato crop,
it is important that particular refer
ence should be made to this territory.
In Georgia, for instance, the aver
age value of a bushel of potatoes in-
c reased 13 cents during the census
decade and has increased more since
then. In North Carolina the increase
in price per bushel during the last
census decade was 14 cents. In Ala
bama the increase has been 1.8 cents
per bushel, in Louisiana 9 cents per
bushel, in Mississippi 17 cents.
The Increase in the value of sweet
potatoes in the country as a whole
for the last census decade was 13
cents per bushel, or 30 per cent. The
increase has been continuing. While
there has been a general increase in
the value of all crops of the United
States, contributing to the higher
cost of living, yet. the larger demand
for the sweet potato has pushed
ahead of the general average consid
erably.
While values have been estimated
in generalities of a census report, it
goes without saying that the intelli
gent, thrifty farmer has little to do
with such general averages. They are
very far beneath him. His yields per
acre, his returns per bushel are al
ways much in excess of the general
average. It is possible for the Intel
ligent farmer, planting on good land,
to grow from 100 to 300 bushels of
sweet potatoes per acre. It is easy
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
enough to average from 75 cents to
$1 per bushel. It is possible by good
storing to get froni $2 to $3 per bushel
or even more by home canning.
Profits Can Easily Be Increased.
When a farmer finds the local mar
kets flooded at potato gathering time,
and can get only 50 cents a bushel,
he is disposed to believe that there
is not much in the sweet potato busi
ness. A great many growers are
content to market their crops under
such unfavorable conditions, rather
than go to a little more trouble and
get much better prices.
In some of the potato-growing sec
tions of the South the co-operative
marketing societies which have han
dled the strawberry, cantaloupe, beans
or other early crops, also handle the
sweet potato crop in its season, ship
ping to some Northern market. Usual
ly better prices can be had in the
Northern market than prevails In the
local Southern markets.
Where canneries .have been estab
lished an increasing amount of sweet
potatoes are being canned each year,
netting the farmer who knows how to
can successfully large returns. Even
where the potatoes are turned over
to the commercial canning plants the
revenue is larger as a rule than is to
be obtained upon a flooded market.
Scoring Is the Best Method.
More can be obtained from sweet
potatoes by storing them than by any
other method, with the possible ex
ception of canning. Since canned
sweet potatoes are not in as great
demand as the natural tuber, of
course, there is a danger of overdoing
the canning business at the first.
A very valuable bulletin has just
been issued by the United States De
partment of Agriculture, entitled,
"Storing and Marketing Sw’eet Po
tatoes,” by H C. Thompson. This
has appeared as Farmers’ Bulletin 548,
and should be In the hands of every
farmer in the South who is interested
in growing and marketing sweet po
tatoes. Its particular value is in its
information as to how to store sweet
potatoes. It is well know'n to every’
grower of sweet potatoes that the
storing proposition is quite different
from that of the Irish potato. Many
methods have been used for storing
the sweet potato in the South. Some
of them are successful, but most are
not.
The usual method Is to bank them
—that Is. bed them In straw and cov
er up with dirt, preferably under a
shed, but if in the open, the mound Is
covered with hoards. This method,
while serving well for the Irish po
tato, is not so good for the sweet po
tato, which carries a greater percen
tage of w'ater in its makeup.
It is for the purpose of giving the
farmers who grow sweet potatoes a
•practical, workable storage plan that
the bulletin referred to has been is
sued.
Many Potatoes Spoil.
The writer says that from 25 to 50
per cent of the sweet potatoes stored
in pits or banks spoil, and those that
remain are not to he considered of
first-class quality. He says that the
only safe and practical method of
storing sweet potatoes is in a storage
house.
To keep sw'eet potatoes in good con
dition they must be well matured be
fore digging, carefully handled, w'ell
dried or cured after being put in the
house, and kept at a uniform temper
ature after they are cured.
A potato is ready to be dug when
after breaking one, the exposed
broken surface dries in a few minutes.
If it remains moist, the potato is not
mature.
The potato should be carefully han
dled when It Is intended for storage.
It should be put in baskets or boxes
and placed In the bins with the least
Jolting and bruising possible. If
stored in the kind of house which is j
suggested, they can there be properly
cured.
The Best Storage House.
While a cheap storage house can
be made to serve the purpose, expe
rience has taught that to maintain
right temperature the cost of fuel and
the trouble will soon offset the extra
cost of erecting a good house at the
start.
A desirable w'ooden house Is pref
erable because It is cheaper and eas
ier to keep dry. It should be built on
posts or piers to admit of the circu
lation of air all around it. The “dug-
out" or house partly built under-
SACRIFICES.
485 feet fronting Angler avenue at $12.00 per foot.
Angler avenue is passed up for grading as soon as sewer Is completed.
This will then he easily worth $30.00 per foot.
Terms easy. . _
OTIS & HOLLIDAY.
1505-6 Fourth National. Phone Main 175.
For Sale By
FOSTER & ROBSON
n Edgewood Ave.
IN ANSLEY PARK, the prettiest home in Atlanta. Roeep-
tion hall; parlor; library; dining room and kitchen. Second
floor has 3 bed rooms and 2 baths and sleeping porch. Large
elevated lot, overlooking park. Really the nicest homo to be
found anywhere for $15,000. Terms. See Mr. Martin.
ON ST. CHARLES AVENUE—Two lots, 50x200 feet each,
for $2,100 each. These are by far cheaper than anything
else on this street, or on the North Side.. Terms can be ar
ranged. See Mr. Bradshaw.
IN THE thriving little town of Smyrna, Ga., the coming su :
burb of Atlanta, on Marietta car line, and W. & A. R. R.,
situated on large lots, near depot, we have two nice 5-room
cottages, with plenty of porch room. We recommend these
for either homes or investment. See Mr. Eve.
NORTH MORELAND, near Druid Hills, 2-story, 8-room,
modern home. Furnace heat. East front lot. Cheap for
$6,650. See Mr. Radford.
A VERY DESIRABLE cottage on Park avenue, overlooking
the park. Six rhoms; nice elevated lot. Good buy for $4,350.
Terms. See Mr. White.
ground is advised against for use in
the South because of the practical
impossibility of keeping such a house
dry. Moisture, of course, means rot.
For building a storage house that
will hold 2,500 to 3,000 bushels of
potatoes, a house 20 by 40 feet may be
erected. On the sleepers a rough floor
(an be laid, and on top of this a layer
of heavy building paper placed, and
cn top of this matched flooring.
The walls can be built by putting
on the outside of the studding board
an inch thick nailed on diagonally.
Over this a layer of building paper
should he put, and then matched sid
ing. On the inside of the studding a
layer of ceiling should be placed; on
top of this a layer of building paper,
and then matched board of wainscot
ing. In the lower South it is claimed
that the first layer of ceiling on the
studding inside may be omitted.
The sides should be well tied to
gether with scantlings four feet part
so as to he over the partitions for
the bins. Any kind of roof may be
used provided it be made tight to
keep out the cold. Galvanized iron
Is preferable. A layer of roofing pa
per over the rafters will nerve to keep
the cold air out.
Coat of Paper Needed.
On the lower sides of the rafters
should he put a coat of building pa
per and on this a layer of matched
material.
The space between the walls should
be left open. No filling serves 11s well
as the air itself for keeping the build
ing free from moisture.
Thorough ventilation is necessary.
Put three windows on each side, a
door in each end and at least two
ventilators in the top of the roof. The
windows should be within 18 inches
or two feet of the floor and windows
and doors should be made to fit tight
and keep out the cold. Where glass
windows are used, outside shutters
should be employed. It is needflul
that there should be one or more glass
windows to admit light, while working
inside in the winter. Ventilators in
the roof must also he provided with
coverings to keep out the cold.
The bins should have movable
floors, made of slats one inch thick
and four wide, leaving one inch space
between each slat. The same Is true
of the walls of the bins. The pur
pose in making a movable floor in
the bln is to admit of removing,
cleaning and disinfecting it durng the
summer. Between 6 and 12 inches of
space should be left In the walls and
the bins to admit of the circulation of
air In slatting up the bins, space
to the width of the separating scant
ling can also be made, that is, each
bin should have a separate end.
Log House Can Be Used.
Instead of going to the expense of
erecting the building described, many
Southern farms will be found a ten
ant house, perhaps a log house, which
can be converted into a sweet potato
house at little coat, remembering to
make them air-tight as far as pos
sible and introduce the ventilatihn
features which have been described.
After the potatoes have been put
in the storage house the tempera
ture should be maintained from 80
to 85 degrees Fahrenheit for ten
days or two weeks, depending on
weather conditions. Ventilation Is
absolutely necessary at this period
and whether the temperature can be
maintained at the height mentioned
or not, it is better to keep all win
dows and ventilators open to drive
out the moisture-ladened air. If
moisture collects on the wall or ceil
ing at this period a Are must be built
at once to dry it out.
When the potatoes are thoroughly
dried or cured the temperature should
be gradually reduced and kept a? near
as possible around 55 degree
during the storage season. If
the temperature goes below 48 de
grees a fire should be made in the
house, or the house opened in the
middle of the day if the temperature
is high enough. If the temperature
in the house goes above 60 degrees,
the house should be opened In the cool
of the day to lower the temperature
to 54 or 55. The house should have
some ventilation every day.
Secret of High Prices.
Potatoes bruised and cut during
the digging and handling accounts for
the poor price which many of them
bring. The secret of getting high
prices is to carefully clean and pack
and to put on the market when there
is a good demand. The storage house
will provide for the latter.
To clean potatoes requires very lit
tle trouble hut It pays. To pack the
right kind of potatoes is easy enough
wl\en proper precautions are taken.
First it is better to use plows with
rolling colters on the beam to cut the
vines, and with rods attached to the
mold board to fre e the roots from the
soil and vine. The potatoes can then
be taken from the ground with hand
and should he sorted at this time.
Those of uniform size and good qual
ity should go into one pile for the
market, those selected for seed In an
other and the remainder can be
canned or fed to stock. Potatoes
should not he tossed from row to row.
nor packed In bags even to haul to
the storage house. It Is better to
handle them in baskets or boxes to
storage and to market and thus save
waste from bruises and rotting.
Some Sweet Potato Facts.
Based upon the discussion of the
bulletin referred to in this article cer
tain conclusions have been summar
ized as follows:
The value of the sweet potato has
increased about 80 per cent in the
last ten years. With methods of stor
ing and marketing the present value
could be doubled.
Sweet potatoes can he kept satis
factorily in a storage house where
the temperature and moisture condi
tions can be controlled.
Sweet potatoes to keep well must
he w'ell matured, carefully handled,
thoroughly cured and kept at a uni
form temperature while in storage.
Thorough ventilation is essential
during the curing period.
The temperature should be kept at
about 80 degrees or 85 degrees Fah
renheit during the curing period and
reduced gradually to 55 degrees after
the potatoes are cured. Fluctuations
of temperature should he avoided
throughout the storage period.
The potatoes should be carefully
graded, cleaned and packed In neat
and attractive packages. 1
Sweet potatoes should never be
marketed in bags nor in hulk.
Veneer barrels or bushel hampers
ase desirable packages to use during
mild weather and double-headed
stave barrels or tight boxes in cold
weather.
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' The illustration shows the handsome residence which Edgar Dunlap will erect on the south side of Ponce DeLeon avenue east of the bridge. Work will start
in a few days, as soon as the contract is let. The house will be of the New England Colonial type, of two stories and brick veneer, with a slate roof, dormer
windows, tile porches and terraces. The cost is estimated at $17,000. Gardens at the side and in the rear will be a feature, the desire of the occupants being to
cultivate old-fashioned effects with Crimson Rambler, hollyhocks, dense hedges and other things that grow. The architects are Hentz & Reid.
SEEK IRE PUS
Real Estate Owners See Welcome Relief
In Numerous Movements for Tax Reform
Leading Citizens After Tract for
Mothers and Children of Crowd
ed East Side of Manhattan.
Income and Inheritance Measures Taken as Good Sign of Better Times
for Land—Suggestion Is Made That Homeowners be Exempt.
NEW YORK. N. Y., Aug. 9—The
park idea is gaining ground in New
York. Not only has the city laid off
many acres in parks, but more tracts
are coming to Join Central Park,
Bronx Park. Washineton Park and a
score of others.
When the Board of Estimate met
on July 31 a large delegation of
Queens Borough residents was
present to assist the members of the
board in making their decision on the
acquisition of the proposed East River
Park for a public playground.
The desire to add this enjoyable
spot to the park property of the city
is great, especially among the resi
dents of Long Island City and the
nearby districts. A number of the
most prominent settlement w’orkers
In Manhattan are co-operating with
the people of Queens in their endeav
or to obtain this park, for these work
ers see in the park a recreation place
for the mothers and children from the
crowded uptowm East Side Manhattan
section under their care.
Tract of 56 Acres.
The territory covered by the park
contains about fifty-six acres. It has
a waterfront of about 2,800 feet, with
a shady beach, where the bathing is
delightful.
Many families take advantage of
this place now, and once Improve
ments have been made there that will
make the beach more convenient and
safer for the bathers it will become
one of the most popular bathing
beaches on the north shore.
One of the advantages of this spot
is the fact that the w'ater is never
contaminated by sewage. It is only
a short distance above where the
tides of the Sound and the East River
meet, making in part the whirlpools
of Hell Gate, and for this reason sew
age from the city and the settlements
further along the Sound can not pos
sibly contaminate the waters.
A number of landscape artists who
have looked at the proposed park have
said that with a little expenditure of
time and money the place could be
made a beautiful recreation ground.
Grassy slopes, covered with trees and
shrubs, rise from the river bank, and
it has such natural possibilities that
it could easily be made one of the
noted parks in the city.
An additional attraction to the park,
should it become one, will be the
great steel viaduct of the New York
Connecting Railroad, which will pass
through it and will give a constant
view of the incoming commerce from
the New England States.
Constantly Changing Picture.
Another continuously changing pic
ture will be the view or the river traf
fic. Vessels of all kinds are almost
always in sight from the small row
boats to the stately Sound steamers.
Many trim and graceful yachts of mil
lionaires pass by, and heavily laden
barges move slowly past tow'ed by
chugging tugboats Railroad barges,
carrying whole railroad trains, are
mother sight frequently seen on the
river.
Tax reform measures which have
recently been passed over the coun
try have given hope to holders of
real estate that eventually land will
be relieved from what is now char
acterized as an "unjust burden." In
other words, Federal, State and mu
nicipal governments are shifting
some of the load where realty own
ers believe it belongs—to the shoul
ders of bondholders and others who
have managed to escape just taxa
tion. These governments need a cer
tain amount of money each year to
defray the expenses of such govern
ments. This nmst come from some
where. Real estate is convenient,
but owners have been paying what
they consider to be too large a pro
portion.
income and inheritance taxes are
part of the general scheme to dis
tribute the weight which has borne
so heavily on land. Once a complete
schedule is arranged, declare prop
erty owners, rates on land can be
reduced considerably.
Will Home-Owners Be Exempt?
"I firmly believe that before many
years the home-owner will be en
tirely exempt from taxation on hia
home," declared a leading Atlanta
real estate agent Saturday. "The
taxes will come from other sources,
and not from the man who is enter
prising enough to build a house.
This is as it should be. Why
shouldn’t we encourage such enter
prise? As things are now, we are
doing what is calculated to drive out
the man who wants to establish him
self in the community as a desirable
citizen.
"Take another class—the million
aire who has invested in non-taxable
stocks and bond3. He may have hun
dreds of thousands in securities, but
frequently he doesn’t pay on them or
on anything else as much tax as the
city fireman or policeman pays on a
modest home. That can be proven
by municipal records.
Shifting Load From Realty.
"The millionaire sails away to
Europe. He doesn’t even stay In the
home that he has created. Tax as
sessors search for his securities, but
can’t find them. Nothing that he has
seems taxable.
"What good does the big factory
do a community? It makes one mil
lionaire and 1.500 paupers. Then the
millionaire does not return it at fair
valuation, and he yells ’confiscation.’
if the assessors insist on a raise.
"Now the tendency is to work a
reform in taxes that will place more
of the load where it belongs—on the
big fellow—and lighten up corre
spondingly on the little fellow. When
this is done, the home of the $15-a-
week man can be exempt and real
estate owners in general will benefit
greatly.”
TWO WOMEN LEASE HOTEL.
The Hotel Belleview, a 12-story
building at 203 and 205 West Fifty-
fourth street, has been leased for a
long term by John Kirwan. through
David H. Hyman as broker, to Mrs.
Lindeman and Miss Sheit. The build
ing covers a plot 75x100 feet, being
54 feet east of Broadway, New York
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The lessees have for several year*
been associated in the management of
hotels at Edgemere.
North End of County
Soon To Be Toured
Seve.ral County Commissioners will
accompany Chairman Shelby Smith
early this week on a tour of Inspection
of the northern end of Fulton County,
a similar trip having been taken on the
Houth side some weeks ax«>. The idea
Is to see what the various gangs are
doing in roadmaking and to get a
glimpse into the camps.
The trip to the southern end of the
county revealed that the convicts w’ere
accomplishing wonders with good
thoroughfares, and the commissioners
expect to find the same situation north
of the railroad tracks.
One of the most Important jobs on the
North Ride has been the repair work on
Peachtree from Fifteenth street to
Buckhead. This is now nearly done.
(>nly about six blocks remain uncom
pleted.
BAN PLACED ON SIGNS
OF REAL ESTATE FIRMS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Auf?. 9.—
Vigorous enforcement of the law' re
cently passed by Congress prohibiting
the placing of more than three real
estate signs* on any lot or parcel of
land in the District of Columbia has
been begun by order of the District
Commissioners.
Instructions have been issued to the
police department to report all lots
and premises which contain more
than three advertisements of this
character, and warrants will be is
sued for all the agents of such prop
erty whose signs appear.
ROSWELL ROAD WIDENING
DEPENDS ON ONE OWNER
The widening of the Roswell road
from Buckhead northwest to Piedmont
avenue depends on one property owner,
it was announced Saturday. An ar
rangement is being made to acquire part
of a triangle where the Peachtree and
Roswell roads intersect, either by pur
chase or by changing the origina 1 plan
so as to cut off the point at a different
angle.
E. T. Luckie, the well-known real es
tate man, is working on the improve
ment, and lie reports that all other
property owner have signed, and in
cases where sides of the road
couldn’t he secured, owners have given
all of the twenty feet needed.
White and Glover
Think Delegation
Will Win Big Meet
Two Local Realty Officials Confident
of Outcome In 1916—On Way
Home From Winnipeg.
SAVANNAH, GA.. Aug. 9.—Harris G
White, president of the Atlanta Real
Estate Board, and Charles P. Glover,
former president and now vice president
of the National Association of Real Es
tate Exchanges, arrived In Savannah
by steamer from New York and were
given an enthusiastic reception by lo
cal capitalists and real estate agents.
They are oi\ their way home to At
lanta.
Mr White and Mr. Glover gave glow
ing accounts of their trip to Winnipeg,
and expressed the belief that in 1915
the delegates at Los Angeles would vote
the 1916 convention to the Gate City.
They declared that they were confi
dent that a delegation of twelve land
brokers would be sent from Atlanta
to Los Angeles to formally present At
lanta’s Invitation.
Park Board Wants
Secretary of Play
The Park Board is seeking to create
the position of secretary of recreation
and to pay a man something like $1,-
800 a year. Who wants the Job? Ap
plicants should see the members of
the Park Board—not now, but as soon
as Council authorizes the position, If
it finally does.
At a meeting last week a resolution
was offered by president J. O. Cochran
to put the matter before Council. At
first the resolution called for an $1,800
a year salary, but the figure was later
stricken out
In explaining the work Mr. Cochran
declared that ’Atlanta has good parks,
l»ut she has no person to stay around
them to instruct children In games, and
how to play properly to develop them
selves. We need such a man to give
this his entire time and attention."
New Equitable Building, 200,000
Tons, Will Tax Foundations.
Rock Found Like Atlanta’s.
NEW YORK Aug. 9.—Some of the
greatest problem? in engineering his
tory are confronting local engineers
who have sought to lay foundations
for the new Equitable Building, which
is to be 32 stories high and of such
size at the base that it will be prob
ably the heaviest office building in
New York City. This structure will
take the place of the old Equitable
Building w’hich was destroyed by fire
two years ago, and will be located on
the old site in the entire block bounded
by Broadway, Cedar, Pine and Nas
sau streets.
Fortunately the engineers have
found a rock bed similar to that
which supports several office buildings
In Atlanta, and they are confident
that with this as a base the heavy
structure will be stable. There are
twenty buildings in lower Manhattan
which rest on bedrock.
When it is realized that the new
Equitable will weigh more than 200,-
000 tons, as against 103,000 tons of
the VVoolworth Building. 82.500 tons
of the Metropolitan Building. 188.500
tons of the Municipal Building, 82.580
tons of the Singer Building, it will be
seen that the foundations must be
absolutely solid. The steel framework
is now being forged $nd rolled at the
mills, and will weigh approximately
45,000 tons when In position, as
against 25,000 tons of the Woolworth
Building, 23,000 tons of the Municipal
Building, 6,100 tons of the Singer
Building, and 7,000 tons* of the Metro
politan Building.
The cofferdam, when completed, will
be a solid concrete wall, six feet
broad and eighty feet deep, strength
ened or reinforced by heavy steel rods.
Progress Claiming
Historic Old Sites
and use the dirt on Ivy street,^ hut the
several Brooklyn landmarks will soon
be covered with modern buildings
During the past week not less than three
figured prominently in the trading
The (>’Berry house was demolished
to make way for the erection of four
two-story stores; the site of the old
Marietta mansion at the corner of Gates
and Bush wick avenues was purchased
by Masons of the Eastern District for
Improvement with a three-story brick
building, to contain a banquet hall, au
ditorium and meeting rooms, and a Flat-
bush landmark adloinlng the Erasmus
Hall High School is to give way to a
business building
The old building on Flatbush avenue
which is being demolished is believed
to have bt ei: built before the Ameri
can Revolution. Documents found In
the attic- bore the date of 1784. and car
penters making repairs found wooden
pegs and hand-rnade nails which they
said were at least a century old.
The sites of the landmarks and other
parcels purchased, with the proposed
improvements, .will cost considerably
more than $150,000.
TO DISCUSS CONVENTION
AT NEXT REALTY DINNER
Charles P Glover, Harris G. White,
S. R Turman and Fitzhugh Knox are
expected to tell of the Winnipeg con
vention of real estate men at the next
monthly dinner of the Atlanta Real Es
tate Board. At this time a plan of
action will probably be adopted in the
fight for the ninth annual convention of
real estate men in 1916.
Memphis Is supposed to be after this
convention, and local land dealers are
expected to start an early campaign
Los Angeles is due to have the conven
tion when the 1916 award is made, and
it is the desire of local land brokers to
have as large a committee there as pos
sible.
LOT FOR CARNEGIE LIBRARY.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—The new
Carnegie library in Brooklyn will be
located on a 100xl20-foot lot at the
southwest corner of Schenectady ave
nue and Eastern Parkway. The lot
way bought by the city of New York
from Miss Mary L. Anderson for $21,-
500.
POWER OF ATTORNEY GIVEN.
Helen W. Chase, of New Hampshire:
Mary C. and Edward Kirkland, of Ver
mont. and John H and Elizabeth Chase,
of Ohio, have given power bt attorney
to local representatives to sell certain
parcels of land on Beckwith. Vine, Wal
nut, Culver and Lowndes streets.
Objection Is Voiced
To Regrading Plan
Leading Realty Operator Believes Re
paving Sufficient—W. Peachtree as
a Relief to Traffic Congestion.
Although members of the West
Peachtree Improvement Club are
heartily in favor of the regrading as
well as the repaving of West Peach
tree, one or two outside protests have
been heard.
"I don’t see any use in spending so
much money," declared a prominent
real estate dealer th e other day.
"Look at the engineering feat which
removed the hump from Peachtree
at Baker street, what a lot of trou
ble and expense it w'as. It seems to
me the best thing to do is to repave
West Peachtree and not to regrade it.
Make the thoroughfare travelable
from one end to the other and 1 guar
antee that as many people will us e it
as now' use Peachtree. I prefer to
travel it now. That is, where I can
ride the car tracks with my aute-
mobile. The grades don’t worry me—
it’s the cobblestones!"
People who favor the project have
no such misgivings. They believe
that the regrading of West Peachtree
will be a permanent improvement of
lasting benefit to the city in helping
to relieve Peachtree congestion and
in making a travelable thoroughfare
straight to Brookwood and saving a
quarter to a half mil© which lies in
the winding curves of Peachtree.
NEW MINING Ed'JIPM'ENT.
CEDAftTOVVN, Auk. 9.—Th* Pulaski
Iron Company is building a^four-log
washer and preparing to inst)m an ex
tensive mining equipment at its mines
east of here. H. E. Lucas, of Pulaski,
Yu., has taken charge of the work.