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TTEATIST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN,
REA') FOR PROFIT-AMERSCAN WANT ADS-USE FOR RESULTS
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1913.
real estate for sale
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
AUCTION SALES.
AUCTION SALES.
AUCTION SALES.
For Sale By
FOSTER & ROBSON
11 Edge wood Ave.
ON PONCE DELEON avenue, near Ramett street, a high-class
modern 2 story, 8-room residence; attractive appoint
ments; furnace heating; slate roof. Lot 50x200 feet. Servant’s
room, etc. Price, $12,000. Reasonable terms. See Mr. Martin.
A HOME ou Piedmont avenue, between Eighth and Tenth
streets. Only $8,000. For particulars see Mr. Eve.
A HOME on Gordon street, near Howell Park, at a big bargain.
Forced sab . This is your chance to get more than your
money’s worth. For particulars sec Mr. Radford.
ON THE NORTH SIDE, a good 6-roorn bungalow on good
lot; stone front; hardwood doors, and all conveniences.
Price, $4,250. This is absolutely below market value. See
Mr. Bradshaw.
WE HAVE some lovely grove and open tracts of land at De
catur, from 5 to 10 acres, and ranging in price from
$250 to $500 per acre. Come out and buy 5 acres, and have a
little farm. See Mr. Eve.
WE HAVE 282 South Boulevard and 138 Grant street to ex
change equity for other property. Both are always
rented for $30 each. See Mr. Radford.
ON W. TENTH street, a new bungalow, with all conveniences.
Price $5,000. Easy terms. Sec Mr. Cohen.
ON WEST CAIN STREET, near In, 1m proved property, for $300 per front foot.
This •will make one of the beat Investments In the city of Atlanta.
KING’S HIGHWAY. IN DECATUR.
HAVE a splendid five-room house and lot. 50 by 150. worth $3,000 or more,
and also one vacant lot, 60 by 150, adjoining, worth about $1,500. for quick
sale Will sell both for the sum of $2,250
IN ONE of Atlanta’s prettiest suburbs, we have a five-room cottage on lot 75
by 130, that wtl will aeJl for $2,00 0, on terms to suit
GRAHAM & MERE
313-310 EMPIRE BUILDING. MAIN 4376.
GRAND
AUCTION SALE
2,600
Acres Subdivided into
SMALL FARMS
LOCATED AT
DAKOTA, GA.
Near Ashburn, Turner County
THURSDAY, AUGUST
2,600
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SALE BEGINS PROMPTLY AT 10 A. M.
GREATEST s;ilc of high-class farms ever hold in the State, comprising location,
line quality, high state of cultivation, and everything that goes with an ideal
farm.
FREE band concerts all day! Barbecue dinner! Silver souvenirs! Only 10 per
cent cash balance 1, 2, 3, 4 and f> years. Notes commencing January 1, 1914.
Low interest, only 6 per cent.
EDWIN P. ANSLEY,
Carolina Development Company, Auctioneers,
Greensboro, N. C. Americus, Ga.
WILL NEGRO CONTROL FARM LANDS OF SOUTH?
NOTE OF ALARM IS BEING ROUNDED BY LEADER
Community Villages Will Solve Rural Racial Problem—Breaking Up
of Large Estates Into Small Farms With Village Centers Affords
the Opportunity—Whites Will Be Encouraged to Become Land-
Owners.
CHARLES A. WHITTLE -
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
LANE REALTY CO.
504 GOULD BLDG.
WE BUY, SELL AND EXCHANGE REAL
ESTATE—SEE US.
J. H. LANE, Mgr.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
ORMEWOOD BUNGALOW-NEW
$250 CASH—$25 PER MONTH
ON a eherted street, with city water and
electric lights, 6 rooms, well built and
well arranged. Good lot. $3,750. On easy
terms. You will surely like this home.
ANSLEY PARK BUNGALOW
SE V EN ROOMS and sleeping porch, hard
wood floors, tile bath, servants’ room,
brand new, right off Piedmont Avenue.
$6,500. O11 terms.
THOMSON & LYNES
18 & 20 Walton St.
Phone Ivy 718
YOUR OWN IDEAS IN A HOME.
EVERY person has his own ideas In regard to his own home. To
get these Ideas worked out properly, there is only one solution:
that is to build it himself. Most people haven't the time and mon
ey 10 do this, so have to take the ideas of someone, else, which, nine
times out of ten. are all wrong, since very few of us have the same
ideas In regard to details which, as we all know, play a very impor
tant part in each home.
VVE are just about to compete a modern, stone-front, 7-room bunga
low In one of Atlanta's prettiest residence parks—West End Park.
The foundation and hody are almost completed. The plastering,
painting and inside details are just about to be put in.
WE offer you an unusual opportunity to come in. talk over your sit
uation with us. give us your Ideas and let us work them out in this
unusuully attractive location.
THIS home Is on a lot 60 by 160 feet, facing two streets, which
gives you a permanent outlook.
THIS place has furnace heat, sleeping porch, hardwood floors and
every conceivable improvement.
THE price and terms are such that it places this individual home
within the reach of all.
FORREST & GEORGE ADAIR
LOAN Alfl'.NTS NEW E X'< 11 ,.\ N 1 > Ml'TUAI, I,IKE I NS ITiA N<' [■; <'O
Color Scheme Is an Innovation
In Exterior of Public Buildings
Terra cotta work on the Healey
Building has attained a height of
about tight stories, and in two weeks
It is expected that this part of the
Jot) will be completed. The decora
tive work is unique and will <jo a
great deal toward making the Healey
Building one of the most attractive
skyscrapers in Atlanta. Stone has
been laid around part of the base of
the building.
Builders of skyscrapers and other
high structures have long since real
ized the desirability of attractive ap
pearance, and have given much
thought to artistic effects. Thus the
decoration of the Hotel Ansley, the
Winecoff Hotel and the Hurt Build
ing are in keeping with the new
order. Architects have naturally con
tributed their share.
A departure from the old-style lies
in color combinations. These are par
ticularly noticeable in the three struc
tures just named. Color has here
tofore played little part in the ex
heavy decorative cornice work has
terior of Atlanta skyscrapers, but
been stressed. The Candler Building,
for instance, is devoid of outside col
oring, but great attention has been
given to the marble base, the en
trances and the finishing touches gen
erally.
The Candler Building stands alone
in its ornamental stone and marble
w'ork. Thousands of dollars could
have been saved through plain effects.
Typical of the artistic effect Is the
building's rotunda, which boasts i
very handsome gargoyle and deli
cately-fashioned likeness of mem
bers‘of the Candler family done in
stone.
Great Investments
Of Foreign Capital
in Troubled Mexico
Americans Own More in Railroads
and Other Enterprises Than Na
tives Themselves—Some Figures.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—It is re
ported officially that American la-
vestments in Mexico aggregate
$1,057,770,000. More than 50,000
persons in the United States are
shareholders in these enterprises.
As against the American invest
ments the English have interests ag
gregating $321,202,800, the French
$143,416,000 and other foreign coun
tries $1 18,535,380.
In many industries, particularly
railroads, mines, smelters, timber,
factories, oil, rubber and insurance,
the American capital employed in
Mexico far exceeds that of the Mexi
cans.
No section of the United States has
a monopoly of the investments ?n
Mexican undertakings. New York
naturally has the largest share, but
Pittsburg has a considerable interest.
So have St. Louis, Kansas City, Bos
ton, Columbus, Cincinnati, Duluth,
Denver, San Antonio, San Francisco
and Los Angeles.
The enterprises of Americans cover
the whole of the republic south of the
R1o Grande. They are scattered over
Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa. Durango.
Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas,
Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, Guana-
juanto. Queretaro. Jalisco, Michoacan,
Hidalgo, Vera Cruz, Guerrero, Oaxaca,
Juebla. Aguas Calientes and the State
of Mexico.
In railroads alone the investments
total $644,000,000. In mines and min
ing accessories they exceed $253,000,-
000; in oil and rubber. $30,000,000; n
timber, $8,100,000; in factories of va
rious sorts. $10,800,000; in genera!
stores, $4,280,000, and in ranches and
cattle, $11,350,000.
“A REAL VALUE”
ONE AND ONE-HALT STORY BUNGALOW, built for home, that
must be sold at once. Has seven rooms, sleeping porch and is on
a lot that is perfect in every respect. It Is to your own Interest that
you Investigate at once. Price, 16,000; on terms. $6,000. Would not
have bought this place 60 days ago.
L. P. BOTTENFIELD
1021-5 EMPIRE BUILDING. MAIN 3010
T. A. GUMM, Manager City Sales Department.
SUBDIVISION
THIRTY-SEVEN fine lots, streets graded, stakes set, plats made—all ready
for the market.
EVERY LOT inside the two-mile circle; strictly white neighborhood
$6,500 WILL BUY IT. and it will sell readily In lots for double that
ONLY $2,000 CASH and the balance on terms that the lot sale** will more than
take care of
MIGHT ARRANGE to take property or purchase money notes for part of cash
payment.
H. C. BAILEY
1217 FOURTH NATIONAL BANK BUILDING
Office. Main 663; Residence, Decatur 606
Great Improvement
Seen in Regrading
Hundreds of Automobiles to Use
West Peachtree When Good
Paving Is Laid.
Listings. Listings. Listings.
"T HAVE a d../en customers on our list wanting homes AT ONCE, rang-
n in prii f from $3,600 up to $10,000: most of these people have the
‘ .! •! want to buy before September. List your property with us for
quick results.
il.W K also six loans for private money, amounting to $1,500 to $5,000, at 7
and 8 per cent on property of good value.
OUi: connections pay highest price for good PURCHASE MONEY NOTES.
“LET US 8HOW YOU.”
ADAIR & HOLT
r -i i . achtree Street.
•4
REAL ESTATE AND LOANS.
Phone Ivy 10.
Part of the stone intended for the
retaining walls for West Peachtrees
egrading having been hauled, prop
erty owners are awaiting eagerly the
time when this thoroughfare can be
thrown open to general vehicular
traffic.
Some idea of the importance of this
Improvement can be gained when it
i6 stated that hundreds of automo
biles will use West Peachtree in pref
erence to Peachtree, greatly reliev
ing the congestion on the latter
thoroughfare. People in the West
Peachtree section now ride along
Peachtree, unless they happen to be
going after a train, and then they
use the straighter route. With better
grades and good paving, the use of
West Peachtree will be a considerable
time saver to hundreds of people.
The same number of people will use
Peachtree south of the southern Junc
tion. but the congestion will bo less,
because Peachtree will be much wider
from that point to Forsyth street.
The plan is to fill three or four
feet at the lowest point—Hunnicutt
street—and to cut down a bit from
Linden street southward. For the
present the improvements will extend
northward only as far as North ave
nue, but property owners farther out.
particularly at Fourteenth street, are
expected to ask soon for an extension
to meet very bad road conditions.
Completion to the northern Junction
of the Peachtrees will make West
Peachtree one of the busiest streets
in the city, and will suggest widen
ing as the next necessity.
Mutual’s Ambition
Is Realized in Buy
Insurance Concern Comes Into Pos
session of Entire Newark Block.
Last Price $541,000.
CHURCH FOR THE BRONX.
NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—On the east
side of Prospect avenue, 90 feet south
of Crotona Park East, Is to be con
structed a two-storv brick church and
parish house with a frontage of 91.5
feet and a deptii of 88 feet for the
New York City Baptist Mission So
ciety at an estimated cost of $40,000.
Stoughton & Stoughton are the archi
tects.
THE REST Want Ad days In The At
lanta Georgian are Monday. Tuesday.
WViinesdH) Ibursiiay. Friday and Sa:
urda> On Sunday read them in Hen si's
Sunday A*'i-■.!•, Try them all. Tha
results will surprise >ou.
NEWARK. N. J.. Aug. 23.—The
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com
pany has completed negotiations for
the purchase of the Scheuer Building,
at Broad and Commerce streets. With
this property secured the Insurance
company will realize its ambition of
holding title to the entire block on
Broad street between Clinton and
Commerce streets, one of the most
valuable in Newark.
Last May at an auction sale ordered
by the Orphans’Court to settle the es
tate of the late Simon Scheuer the
Scheuer Building was bid in by the
Mutual for $541,000. Since then the
heirs took the matter into the higher
law courts and the Court of Chancery
on appeal, but the Mutual has won its
fight for the site.
When the building was contemplat
ed several years ago the Mutual com
pany sought to buy it, but the price,
$500,000, was considered too high. The
Scheuer Building was erected at
cost og $170,000.
LOT ADVANCES $20,000
Confusion Is Found
In Mountain Grants;
Overplus of Acreage
Forest Service Surveyors Locate Dis
crepancies In Appalachian and
White Mountain Regions.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—In survey
ing mountain lands in the Southern
Appalachian and White Mountain re
gions with a view to Government pur
chase under the Weeks law, the forest
service surveyors find that the tracts, in
many cases, contain more land than the
acreage set by the original surveys
Taking the region as a whole, the acre
age of lands surveyed by the Govern
ment exceeds by 1 per cent the acre
age believed to be in the tracts by the
people offering the lands.
In certain instances the discrepancies
of the old surveys, made generally with
a compass and by surface measure
ments, are much more than this
amount. Such an instance is that of a
tract in Northeastern Tennessee, which
was supposed by the owners to con
tain 850 acres. The survey by thi
forest service, made with a transit and
by horizontal measurements, credits the
tract with 1.481 88 acres. Over runs of
this kind, amounting to from 5 to
per cent, have been shown in a good
many tracts.
On the other hand, these increases are
partly offset In other cases in the rough
er hill country, where the old surface
masurements gave an excess over the
actual amounts th tracts contain by
the Government’s horizontal surveys.
Perhaps the most frequent cause of
shrinkage Is In the location of over-
ACTfD QFV/FPA1 VA/rrkQ ! lappings by some older grant which re
nt I Ln ol¥ LfiflL YVllixo suits in the elimination from the tract
of some part or parts which were con
sidered as belonging to it.
NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 23.—Two
transactions for the same property
in the center of the city reported by
Feist & Feist show an increase of
$20,000 within a few months. Sev
eral weeks ago the firm sold the plot
at Branford place .•fnd Treat place f >r
August and William Meiselbach to C.
Louis Fitzgerald for $200,000
Two weeks ago the property was
sold for Mr. Fitzgerald to Frank and
Frederick Ewan, who paid $220,000
for It.
NEW YORK REALTY $8,006,647,000.
NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—The assess-
MRS. DILL BUYS AT ORANGE.
NEW YORK, N. Y.. Aug. 23 — Pay
son McL. Merrill Company has .‘■•old
to Jacob Schuster. Jr., the property
of Mrs. James B. Dill, corner of Oak
wood avenue and Berwyn street, Or
ange, N. J. It consists of a dwelling
and one acre of land; also sold for
Mr. Schuster a plot of land on Wild
wood avenue. Llewllyn Park. West
Orange, to Mrs. Dill and an acre ad
joining on Tulip avenue for Fred
erick W Browning, on which prop
erty Mrs. Dill will erect a residence
for her occupancy.
ed value of real estate in New York
< ity on March 1 1913. was as follows SMALL FACTORY FOR WEST SIDE
Manhattan. 25,126.942,00ft; The j NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—In the rear
Bronx, $640,340,593; Brooklyn. $1,680,- ] property at Nos. 633 to 641
West Thirty-ninth street and Nos. 634
013.591; Queens. $477,792,836; Rich
mond, $81. > >8,246; total, $8,006,647,000. J to (540 West Fortieth street is to be
j built a four-story factory of fireproof
WOULD YOU BUY a automobile construction for Joseph Stern A Sons
cheap? The automobile columns of I Incorporated. It will be 48. < b\ bo.6
;he "Want Ad” section carry - a list of feet and, according to the estimate of
automobiles and utgkessories. ‘Edward J. Poirot, will coat $30,000.
Clarence Poe, editor of The Pro
gressive Farmer—a leading Southern
publication—has stirred wide interest
in favor of segregating the races in
the rural South. ’’The negro now has
an advantage in the itruggle for con
trol of our rural districts, and it is
only to equalize matters, to give the
white man a fairer show, that segre
gation. the grouping of races in sepa
rate communities, is proposed,” says
Mr. Poe.
He Insist* that there is nothing new
or radical about hi* proposal, in
stancing that the races are separately
grouped in Southern cities, that thev
have separate churches, separate
schools, are separated in trains, that
California has its Chinatown, the In
dian* their reservations.
Summing up his argument*. Mr.
Poe holds that segregation is neces
sary to £lve the Southern white farm
ers and their families a satisfying
social life, to insure them greater
safety and protection, to give them
better schools and churches, to open
the way for co-operation and co-oper
ative enterprise* now impossible as
between whites and blacks, to improve
moral conditions in the relation of
the races, to give the South a greater
proportion of white people, first, bv
stopping the crowding out of white
farmers hv the negroes, and. second,
by providing all-white communities
such as white people of other sec
tions will be willing to move into; to
induce whites to become tenants in
white communities who are now un
willing to compete with the negro in
mixed communities, and to induce
white tenants to aspire tc become
landowner*
Would Arouse Sentiment.
How to bring about a segregation
of race* in Southern rural communi
ties, Mr. Poe does not venture 10
say other than to arouse public senti
ment and to indicate that it will
doubtless be necessary to go further
and adopt some legislation such as
Atlanta has passed, which provides
that when a majority of the property
owner* in a block elect they can for
bid the selling of any piece of prop
erty in that block to a person of a
different race than their*. “Why can
not Georgia, or any other State, pass
a law giving a similar privilege to its
country people?” is the query of the
leader of the movement.
The assumption is that property
holding will automatically segregate
the race*. But it may well be asked
when. If ever, any considerable por
tion of the black race will be pre
pared to become landowners and
thus bring about effective segrega
tion. and where will the white*, as
the dominant landowners sell, or per
mit to be hold, to the negro any of
their acre*, especially when such a
law as that mentioned increase* the
power of the white owners to resUt
Increasing the domain of the black?
Would not segregation by such terms
be merely a mirage and the negro
more than ever a wanderer and social
menace?
Issues Are Vital.
Bo vital are the issue set forth by
Mr. Poe that they may well evoke
public Interest, as they are. The South
needs to be setting itself hard at the
large and man-sided problem, bear
ing faithfully in mind that each race
should be hindered the least by the
other in working out its own salva
tion.
Any solution of the Southern rural
problem must take Into consideration
the one vital need of the South, the
community village. Indeed, it may ho
doubted if the problem will ever be
rightly solved until the South's rural
population is recast into a community
village life.
The village at once solves the
Southern rural school problem, the
rural church problem'; it provides pro
tection from the negro fiend, makes
for better sanitation, for co-operative
enterprises affords the satisfying so
cial life so much denied by the iso
lated farmhouse.
Where the village is established in
the rural South there will be the ne
gro town, that segregation now exist
ing in Southern cities which Mr. Poe
want* so much for the country.
During the ante-bellum period each
plantation, with its mansion and ne
gro huts, constituted a social unit.
The relationship of master and serv
ant sufficiently segregated and em
powered for control. But with the
freedom of the negro came naturally,
drifting and irresponsible habits, and
the plantation unit was destroyed.
The white landowner felt the humil
iation of hi* loss of Independence and
became more and more helpless as
the negro asserted his independence
as a laborer, until Anally a great
many of the landowners leased their
plantations to the negroes and went
to the towns and cities to follow other
pursuits. One ha* only to consult
the census reports to note the appall
ing number of absentee landlords
throughout the South. Nor has the
drift of landowners to town ceased.
Those remaining on the farms claim
that the lease system has left only
the poorest and least reliable negroes
available for hire.
Soil Is Depleted.
Poor methods of agriculture, prac
ticed by negroes under the present
lease system in the South, has ac-.
compllshed nothing so much as the*
depletion of soil*. Land values are
low. Absent landlords who have felt
financial sires* have parted with some
of their lands to thriftier negro ten
ants, and thus the negro is slowly
becoming a landowner.
Facing the fact that the lease *ys-
tem is ruining Southern farm lands,
much of which is destined to go into
the hands of the negro race at a very
low price, unless there is a check to
the movement, Mr. Poe has been con
strained to say, “The negro now has
an advantage In the struggle for con
trol of our rural districts.”
The lack of co-operation among
white landowners i* largely respon
sible for the demoralization in land
conditions, and the lack of co-opera
tion, of course, is largely due to lack
of the community village.
It is not too late for landowners
to organize and consider lease terms
that will conserve and build up farm
lands. The South can well turn to
European countries for guidance in
making leases With proner co-op
eration in this direction much may
be saved that will eventually be lost
by present methods. Right crop ro
tation, right cultivation and right fer
tilization for soil building when pro
vided for in a lease, benefit*. of
course, not only the lessor but the
fessee.
But permanent agricultural ad
vancement is not based on leases and
never can be. The problem of the
rural South will be solved most near
ly aright when the man who culti
vate* the land owns it. The planta
tions must be broken u-> into small
farm* and sold to men who can not
have the inspiration to succeed with
out a sense of ownership.
Opportunity Has Arrived.
With the breaking up of the large
plantation* comes the opportunity fur
establishing the community village
and the practical solution of the prob
lem of segregation of race*. The
plantation owners can assemble the
tenant house* Into a village. Of
course, there must be something in
it for the plantation owner, and so
there would be. • If the landowner*
are willing to sell off small farms,
a village house would be sold ■with
each tract. The house in the village
would be worth more than a hou*e on
the tract of land, and once the owner
is located in it and enjoys the priv
ileges of village life, he will prefer
to live there and go out to his farm .0
work during the day; he will prefer
the ichool advantages, the protec
tion of his family while he is away
from the house at work.
Unquestionably too, there w’ill be
found plenty of thrifty tenants who
will be willing to buy house and land
on easy terms. Certainly If such are
not to be found Ln a community, a
colony of thrifty people from some
other section of the country or from
foreign land* can be found. Thus, vil
lage construction In the rural South
may find its greatest Incentive in
the direct profit to those establishing
them and in the disposal of their farm
lands.
To what end would this operate to
help or hinder the negro in his land
owning aspiration? It has been
stated that each village would nat
urally have its negro town. This
means segregation. What matters
then to the white man if the acre*
adjoining his are owned by a negro
so long as he or the negro are living
on their respective tracts, so long as
the family of the white man has white
neighbor* in the village and is not
isolated on a farm and surrounded by
negroes? True, there will always be
racial prejudice. There will always
be white men who will be opposed to
negroes owning land, but there will
doubtless always be opportunities for
the negro to buy land, and racial fric
tion will be at least only where the
adjoining white and black land-own
ers are not neighbors, and this can
be only where the population dwells
in community villages.
Plantations to Blame.
Slavery and large plantations are
largely the reason* for not having
settled in villages, as has been the
case In other sections of the country,
where smaller farms permitted the
following of this natural instinct for
closer social contact.
The holding of the large planta
tions intact by absentee landlords
and their attempt to operate the
plantations by a lease system has in
no wise affected the isolation of
Southern rural homes. The landlords
have follow'ed the custom of the
South and have built cabins for ten
ants on the tract of land which each
was to cultivate. Where *0 many
negroes are tenants the white tenant
i* isolated not only by distance but
by race and unequal competition. It
is, therefore, natural that more and
more of the white tenants of tna
black district* should be drifting
away to the towms, leaving the land
to the undisputed tenant claim of
the negro.
Just as naturally does it come to
pass that when the negro dominates
as a leaseholder in any territory
that the land becomes le*s desirable
to the white man. Since the white
man's ownershin or willingness 10
buy gives land its chief value, it fol
low’s that when only negroes are in
the market to buy. that property
goes for less. It is because of the
black population and the black lease*
a* well as Ignorance of how to main*
tain soli fertility that land value*
in the South have not increased as
rapidly as in some other section*
of the country. Here, too, Is the
plausible excuse of the absentee land
lord for holding onto his great plan
tation acreage. He does not want o
sell to the negro at a sacrifice.
Hope for Good Price.
These landlords have been hoping
that they would get a white man’s
price for their lands, somehow, some
time. The time wdll probably never
come until they haye established r*
communltv village for whites and am
then ready to .sell off their lands Ln
small tracts to white farmers.
Occasionally, one sees advertise- '
ments of a sale of a large plantation
in small tract*— a step in the right
direction—but if another step is taken
and there is created a village cen
ter, - both tracts and village lots could
be sold for more than the tract*
separately. A hint to the wise real
estate agent and colonizer is suf
ficient.
Bo much of the worse *lde of racial: #
differences ha* gone out to 'he worlc,
in the press dispatches that it will
be found more and more difficult to
influence colonists, or home seekers,
to buv land in the rural South, except
in connection with the community
village, an assurance to the strange* 1
of safety for his family.
Most of the home seekers who wllj
come into the South to buy land aro
people who have lived in village*
and towns and who can not be fully
satisfied until they can find such a
situation in the South.
Newcomers will be looking up the
schoolhouses and the churches to
observe what advantages they offe*
for the growing up of the children.
Unquestionably, there i* not much to
show of either in the average coun
try community of the South. The
village center* make It possible to
assemble the largest number of chil
dren at school and thus so reduce the
expense of teaching as to make >t
possible to have long terms, and w’lth
money enough to get good teachers.
The same is true of the church en
terprises. Better church facilities,
better paid ministers, and, therefore,
better minister*
The Coming Settlers.
Furthermore, most of the desirable
home seekers wdll come from regions
and countries where co-operation
among farmers ha* been In force morn
than it is in the South. • They will
expect to find an opportunity to com,
bine the little that he can grow <•£
vegetables, fruit, fowl*, etc., with that
of his neighbors *0 that a carload
may be shipped to the best markets.
The centralization of the population
in villages or towns, of course, admit*
not only of co-operative selling for
the best prices but also of co-opera
tive buying, and from present indi
cation*. opportunity for co-operative
borrowing.
The village affords the nucleus and
point of radiation for agricultural in
formation and exchange of experienco ,
—factors that have made agriculture*
successful in European countries more
than anything else.
Some wise landowners who ro';:!
like to dispose of his hundreds >*
acres to the best advantage cculd
mortgage his property, if need be,
to obtain sufficient money for tear
ing down the tenant houses and re
building them at a desirable point
for a village, add to them and make
them nicer construct a schoolhouse
and a store building, and then pro
ceed to plat hi* land into small farms,
each plat to be sold with a house ami
lot in the village. It would surprise
the landowmer to find how much the
value of hi* land has been enhanced,
how much more he can get for it
by offering the social advantages of
school, church, and the protection
that village life affords.
OFFICE BUILDING OF GLASS
LATEST THING IN NEW YORK
‘Windowless’ Structure on Tenth Avenue to Cost
$600,000—Vibration and Air Problems Solved.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—New York
city is going to have a real glass
house, not where transparencies are
to be made, nor a greenhouse to grow
flowers in, but a full-fledged com
mercial building, where the business
of five growing magazines is to be
conducted, besides a half-score or
more other enterprises identified with
engineering activities.
This glass house novelty, moreover,
is to be a skyscraper, twelve stories
in height, and it will have a greater
head-room clearance between floors
than the average building designed
for commercial purposes. Between
the floors and ceilings of the first
ten floors there will be a space of
fourteen feet—the customary distance
being 12 feet, and the top two floors
will be made as one, having a clear
ance of 22 feet. These unusual fea
tures are not all of the oddities that
the new building W’ill have. Anti
noise contrivances and anti-vibration
schemes to offset rapidly rotating
machinery are to be installed, and,
best of all, there is to be a system of
ventilation that w’ill permit the doing
away with all windows.
Site on Tenth Avenue.
This unique structure is to be erect
ed at the northwest corner of Tenth
Avenue and Thirty-sixth Street by
the Hill Publishing Company, John
A. Hill, president, from plans by
Goldwin, Starrett and VanVleok.
The architects have provided a
plan, probably not duplicated in this
city or elsewhere, the windowless
house being adopted because it was
deemed that windows are insanitary,
as they endanger life through
draughts, are noisy, and permit dust
to sift into the lofts. The front of
the building and its interior sides are
to be entirely of glass. In fact, 78
per cent of the walls will be ofglas?
Problem of Vibration.
One wonders how the building will
get its ventilation. This will be ac
complished through a specially de
vised system of ducts, through which
will be forced cooled and washed air.
and let into the offices at whatever
temperature the tenants may desire.
experiencing lately, will not be felt
in this building, as it will all bo
washed out of the air, which will bo
cool and dry and free of all dust. In,
winter the same system will furnish
heated air.
Defects from vibration noted in
many buildings where heavy ma
chinery is operated were taken ad
vantage of by Mr. Hill and hi* as
sociates, who studied the problem
before undertaking the erection of,
the structure, and therefore solved
a problem beforehand w’hich many
would like to do, but can not do un
less they reconstruct.
Publishers’ Roost.
There will be eight floors which
will be let to engineers and allied
professions. The four upper floors
will provide a home for five techni
cal magazines, the Engineering and
Mining Journal, Engineering News,
American Machinist, Power, and Coal
Age.
It has been estimated that . the
structure will cost approximately
$600,000, the glass alone costing some
thing like $78,000.
The structure will be called the Hill
Engineering Building. Mr. Hill bought
the land last year, and had put the
project off until next year, but, hav
ing obtained an advantageous loan
and some $55,000 subscribed by em
ployees, the undertaking was started
a few days ago, when ground was
broken. At this ceremony a box of
the earth, labeled “pay dirt,” was ex
pressed to Mr. Hill at his home in
Orange. One of the officers, in seal
ing the packet, remarked that when
the magazines were installed in their
glass house “they could not throw any
more editorial stones.”
BUYS AT ESSEX FELLS.
NEW YORK, N, Y., Aug. 23.—Fred
erick P. Collins ha* *old to the trus
tees of St. Peter’s Church a dwelling 1
at the corner of Rosebank avenue
and Oak lane, Essex Fells, N. J , ad
joining the church, on plot 100 by 200,
for use as a parsonage. Mr. Collins
has also .sold a dwelling on Mountain
avenue. North Caldwell,
Humidity, such as every one has been 1 Curden. * It'is' on'a'plot' 75° b/-160. J