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IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUUUB'i* *Z4, i»ia.
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More Attention to Homes of Medium ^r/ce HEAVY TOLL FOR Alabama Singer Lauds Accent
WHERE S. J. WEST LIVES IN OAKLAND CITV
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Sees Fame for Dixie Song Birds
The one-story bungalow ha
one of the prettiest types. It is t
unbroken front lawn. Note how
s long since invaded and found a place in Oakland City, and the accompanying illustration shows
he home of S. .T. West, of 72 Avon avenue. Characteristic of this house is its side entrance with
skillfully the shade trees have been preserved, and how the bungalow fits in them.
Renting Agencies Report Great Scarcity
Dwellings, and Builders Must Meet Need.
Problem in Growing Population.
Real Estate Operators Seeking to
Protect Persons Who Go Too
Far From Town.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—At a recent
meeting of a number of prominent
New York suburban rdal estate opera
tors several pathetic instances of un
wise investments by persons with
small means on the eastern end of
Long Island were quoted.
Several suggestions were made for
protecting legitimate operators, who
have had this unfortunate condition
to contend with, and who have had to
suffer in the-public mind regardless of
the reputable manner of conducting
business by major companies.
Advice of Leading Dealer.
Speaking on this subject, J. C. Mc-
Knight, vice president of the Mc-
Knight Realty Company, was of the
opinion that the general public should
seek out for themselves the real estaie
firms of known reputation, and^whose
properties are so situated that trans
portation facilities are close at hand,
whose character and appearance are
such that will appeal to most every
one. and whore- present and future
growth of population insure increased
values. Mr. McKnight said:
“The man who wishes the nearest
approach to absolute safety in the
, purchase of real estate should invest
where the properties offered are es
tablished by the large amounts of cap
ital poured into them by the oper
ating companies.
Worthless Property Bought.
“There are thousands upon thou
sands of people scattered throughout
this country who have been persuadeo
by unscrupulous real estate salesmen
to purchase lots for investment that
are situated miles from a railroad sta
tion. and that have no general use
either as a site upon which to build a
home or even for farming purposes.
"If these people had taken the trou
ble to investigate the property, an
the concern from which they conte-
plated purchasing, rniilions of dollars
would have been saved and div^erted
into investments that would have at
least returned a normal income.
“It is a known fact that no one
would lend $10,000 on a first mortgage
on real estate without having th
examined by a competent lawyer d
getting a title and trust company to
insure it. Either plan cc*ts a small
fee. and the investor goes to people• of
established reputation when he needs
such service.” '
DAKOTA FARM AUCTION
TO BE HELD THURSDAY
The well-known Dakota Farm
*.M0 acw. at Dakota. Oa.. ha. been
subdivided into small farms and
be offered for sale at auction August .
28 at 10 a. in. by J. Hope Ti&ner
the Edwin P. Ansley Rea! Estate |
Agency. Mr. Tigner will conduct a
special party down from Atlanta.
Features of tha sale will be an all-
dav band concert and a barbecue. Da
kota is in Turner bounty, near Ash-
burn. The Tarolina Development
Company, of Greensboro, N. C., and
Americas, Ga„ will be the auctioneer*
The terms will be 10 per cent cash
and the balance in one, two, three,
four and five years, at 6 per cent.
Many real estate agents think that
the signs of the times point to much
more activity in house building dur
ing 1914 than ever before. Fall is
here? new business enterprises are
opening up for people coining to At
lanta from elsewhere, and additional
places to live must be provided. Fur
thermore, facts gleaned from real es
tate agents indicate that the tempo
rary lull in trading on central and
semi-central property will cause more
general attention to investments in
the moderate-sized, moderate-priced
dwelling. In other words, trading
will be less of a speculative nature
and more of a “constructive” nature,
judged by present signs.
Pendulum Swinging Back.
This tendency is taking shape with
pendulum-like precision. For a year
or more the attention of real estate
dealers has been focused more on
central and semi-central deals than
on home propositions, because of
larger profits. Now the home propo
sition is coming into its own.
More residences are to be built to
care for the 15,000 increase in popu
lation, and the tenants arq going to
get better homes than ever before.
Better homes will come with a more
thorough knowledge of what the
homeseekers want. A close study by
well-posted renting agents reveals
that the demand is greatest for me
dium-sized houses renting for $35 to
$50 a month. Agents declare they
can’t find enough of these and that
more must be built.' The same ap
plies to homes for sale from $3,000 to
$7,000. Hence the opportunity of the
builders.
Big Amount for Dwellings.
Atlanta spent $2,924,283 during 1912
for frame dwellings, and other kinds
of dwellings probably would bring the
total up to nearly half the total
amount of construction—$10,000,000.
The year 1914, think many realty
agents, will surpass either 1912 or
1913, and dwelling figures well above
half the total would not be a great
surprise. It is probable that some ef
fort will be made to estimate the
amount of building outside the city
limits, since this is a considerable
item which never shows in the build
ing figures.
REAL ESTATE GOSSIP
Let’s be fair about these “swaps”
in real .estate! Swaps are perfectly
legitimate, but they should be an
nounced as such, and not as straight
transactions involving the usual cash
payments. Swapping prices are usual-,
ly 25 to 100 per cent higher than
prices which prevail in bona fide
sales. Each party raises the price,
and the one raising it higher gets
the advantage. There would he few
er misunderstandings and better feel
ing if each found it possible to trade |
at the initial price.
"Swapping prices are misleading to
the public and demoralizing to the
real estate market," declared a suc
cessful real estate dealer the other
day. “It isn’t fair to announce that
Peachtree or Whitehall or Marietta
street property has been sold at a
record price when the swapping I
price prevails. If I have a lot on
Peachtree that I hold for $5,000 a foot
and an adjoining parcel is sold for
$7,000 a foot at trading price maybe
I can’t sell mine for the same. The
$7,000 price is established, and if a
prospect happens to buy at that rate
and pay one-fourth or one-tenth
down he is at a distinct’disadvantage
with the man who has swapped a lot
of ‘junk’ and actually paid about half
the price.”
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People passing up and down Peach
tree are wondering when the high
banks at Baker street are to be cut
down. It was the purpose of the
Board of County Commissioners to
Berlin Structures 72 Feet at Max
imum—Rome’s Record of
S&45Q a Square Foot.
reduce the«ie very brief front yards
use the dirt on Ivy street, but the
intention never was carried out.
1 The result has been that the red
clay banns remain like they were a
year ago, when the monumental en
gineering feat of reducing the Baker
street “hump” wane accomplished.
Strangers in the city have puzzled
over this anomalous situation on clas
sic Peachtree and have asked when
action will be taken to make the
street in this neighborhood as pretty
as it used to be.
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Several of Atlanta’s suburbs have
a unique system of naming streets. I
College Park ~ has thoroughfares j
named after leading American col-
leges, as Princeton avenue, etc., and j
East Point has Maryland and Penn
sylvania avenues. Washington City !
has set the fashion In this respect j
with its streets named after the va- |
rious States.
There are many reasons why
streets get the names they do. Som<>
are after families, some after heroes
in politics and battle and Dome are
named for no particular reason at
all. A local admirer of Woodrow
Wilson has called his subdivision
Woodrow Park.
Atlanta has a street and an avenue
named after Christopher Columbus,
who, it has been facetiously re
marked. was the first American real
estate agent. Sir Francis Drake,
Martin F'robisher and other land ex
perts, have been disregarded.
NEWS OF BIG CONTRACT
COMES TO LOCAL OFFICE
W. B. Paye. manager of the loea.
office of the Caule . .1-Wingate Con
struction Company, has received word
that the home office of the concern
has signed a contract to construct ,n
New York a $600,000 apartment hotel
for the Goelet estate.
Record Frontage Price.
T. G. Holmes, of the Holmes &
Luckle Realty Company, reports that
a record price—$27.50 a foe —has
been attained in his concern’s Hedge-
rose Heights subdivision on East
Pace's Ferrv road, about a quarter of
a mile east of Buckhead.
MANY INQUIRIES MADE
CONCERNING FARM LOTS
Many inquiries have been received by
J. B. Jackson, agent, concerning the Me-
Gravy farm tracts which he will sell
September 2 before the courthouse door
in Marietta. Most of these tracts are
1 to 20 acres each and are located on
the Western and Atlantic Railroad 2
miles south of Marietta. The auction
sale starls at 10 o’clock, and the terms
are one-half cash and the balance In one
and two years, at 7 per cent.
New York Property Owners.
Statistics show that there are 95,u00
property owners and 600,0000 rent
payers in New York City.
That Asa G. Candler saw only six-
story office buildings in London and
skyscrapers little higher elsewhere in
Europe, is explained by the fact that
in most European cities building re
strictions are so rieid that it is im
possible to erect structures of ordi
nary American height.
The limits prescribed for the height
of buildings in European cities are
more stringent than in any city in
America. Berlin permits a maximum
height of 72 feet, but no building can
rise higher than the width of the
street. The maximum height allow
able in Cologne and in Dusseldorf.
known as the “park city” of Europe,
is 65 feet 6 inches.
Munich draws the line at a build
ing having a ground floor and four
stories, not counting a mansard. In
London, in 4 street less than 500 feet
wide, all buildings are limited in
height to the width of the street. In
wider streets the limit is 80 feet.
Paris does not permit a facade
higher than 65 feet, and in Rome the
limit of height is set at 78 1-2 feet.
Amazement at Skyscrapers.
These figures explain the amaze
ment which overcomes the average
foreigner who visits this country when
his eye first rests upon the imposing
heights of our towering skyscrapers.
Fie is totally unprepared for the rev
elation which is forced upon him.
In the big cities of the Old World
the highest value seems to belong to
a property In Rome. Here is where a
value of $450 a square foot Is found,
and the land Is not used for an in
come-producing building, but includes
the property of the Germany Embassy
to Italy.
Business property in Rome does not
bring nearly this high price. In the
principal centers of offices and shops
values do not mount much above $200
per square foot. In Berlin is a prop
erty which recently sold for $180 per
square foot, and thereby established a
new high record value for real estate
in that city.
Five Stories in Berlin.
Buildings are limited in Berlin to a
height of not more than five stories,
so that it is not possible, by erecting a
skyscraper on the property, to in
crease the value sufficiently to ap
proach values in New York.
In F'rance, In what are regarded a«
the most valuable locations, prices
quoted on six buildings vary from
$150 to $280 per square foot.
London real estate values have not
varied to any extent for many years,
and the principal values still range
about the Bank of England property.
The land there is largely held by
estates, and sales are very infrequent.
Colonel Gailliard, of South Caro
lina, Breaks Down Under
Tremendous Task.
More than any other section of
the country, the South is expected
to realize in prosperity and .develop
ment by the opening of the Panama
Canal. But the South is to pay its
toll and pay for It dearly.
just when the canal was an as
sured fact, Senator John T. Morgan,
of Alabama, father of the Isthmian
Waterway idea, died as a result of
his years of ceaseless labor impress
ing the necessity of rthe canal on
Congress.
Nok Lieutenant Colonel David Du
Bois Gailliard, of South Carolina, the
army engineer who dug the Culebra
Cut, has had to abandon the scene of
his triumph and return to the United
States to give his nervous system
shattered by his work, a rest which
it has needed for months.
And that is not all. From the zone
the advices come that Colonel Wil
liam L. Sibert, of Alabama, the army
engineer in charge of the work on
the great Gatun Dam, is on the point
of a breakdown and it is extremely
doubtful if he will be strong enough
to stay in the zone to see nis work
completed.
Careers of Two Similar.
The careers of Colonel Sibert and
Colonel Gailliard have been remark
ably similar. Gailliard was born In
South Carolina; Sibert, in Alabama.
They entered West Point the same
year and both graduated in 1884
among the first five men in their
class.
After their graduation, both were
sent to Willets Point and in 1908,
when the canal work was put in the
hands of the army engineers, Colonel
Goethals immediately picked the two
Southerners as his chief aides. Sibert
was put in charge of the work on
the Atlantic side, which Included the
building of the Gatun Dam. while
Gailliard was in charge of the work
in the interior of the zone. .
That Lieutenant Colonel Gaillard
had suffered a nervous breakdown
was known only to a few of his inti
mate friends in the army. A few
weeks ago when his condition be
came serious the matter was brought
to the attention of General Biiby,
the chief engineer in Washington, ami
by General Bixby called to the at -
tention of Secretary of War Garrison,
who immediately granted the strick
en engineer a long leave of absence.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Ma
son, Medical Corps, U. S. A., the di
rector of the Ancon Hospital, in the
Canal Zone; Mrs. Halliard and Lieu
tenant Colonel Gaillard’s young son
came with him and went with him to
Baltimore, w’here he will enter the
John Hopkins Hospital. There he
will be under the care of some of the
most eminent specialists in nervous
disorders in this country.
Leave Did Not Aid Him.
Colonel Gaillard was in New York
less than two months ago after a six
weeks’ leave of absence that he had
taken in the hope that the rest would
benefit his health to the extent that
he would be able to remain in the
Canal Zone. He sailed from New’
York on June 27 last, again to take
charge of th e work in the Central Di
vision.
Those who talked with him at that
time remember that he expressed a
desire to get away from the Isthmus
as soon as his work was finished, hut.
he added, with a touch of sadness in
his soft Southern voice, “When 1 do
leave it will be with deep and sincere
regret.”
Lieutenant Colonel Gaillard is the
first of the famous army engineers
employed in the construction o. the
Panama Canal to he stricken as a
result of *his work. A few weeks
ago Colonel William M. Black, Corps
of Engineers, the chief of that branch
of the service in this part of the
United States, the officer who was
head of the engineering hoard which
solved the problem of raising the old
battleship Maine, was in Panama and
was Gaillard’s guest.
Close Friends for Years.
The two officers have been inti
mate friends for years. During his
stay at FImpire, the headquarters of
Colonel Gaillard, Colonel Black noted
and realized that the builder of Cil-
lehra Cut needed a long and complete
rest.
“Gaillard,” said Colonel Black last
night, “is one of the most wonderful
organizers the army has developed.
FI is work in the Canal Zone has been
little short of marvelous. He laid out
his plans In such a way that he got
the maximum out of everything, es
pecially in the handling of the rail
road part of the work. He was also
able within a few months after he
took charge at Empire to double the
work accomplished in a specified
time. Some of the things that he
did experienced railroad men had
sadd were practically impossible.”
Miss Neida Humphrey.
BUYS PEACHTREE LOT
UNDER MARKET PRICE
Hudson Moore, the well-known at
torney, has bought a Peachtree Road
lot at a price that is considered quite
a bargain. The lot is south of Wes
ley avenue, close to a lot whose own
er some months ago refused $100 a
foot cash, and cost Mr. Moore $77.50
a foot. The dimensions are 100 by
400 feet The seller was Charles T.
Hopkins, and the lot !s in the Peach
tree Heights Park subdivision.
FIB If sira
Harness Race Purses at Panama-
Pacific Exposition Will Total
$225,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.—Th«
greatest live stock show in the his
tory of the world is assured at the
Panama-Pacific International Expo
sition in 1915. Following the appro
priation by the exposition manage
ment of $175,000 for awards for prize-
winning live stock, and the news that
$225,000 is offered In purses for har
ness races. each new announcement
by Chief of the Department of Live
Stock D. O. Lively discloses increas
ing interest in the forthcoming live
stock exhibition.
The live stock department has at
its disposal 50 ac res of ground which
will be devoted to the erection of live
stock buildings, a hall for live stock
congresses and agricultural meetings,
a race track, ami an open field upon
which will be held drills, International
cavalry horse contests, polo contests
and exhibitions of the prize live
stock of the world.
The live stock buildings will be con
structed more from an exhibition
standpoint than in keeping with any
farm utility plan; the vast rows of
barns which have characterized the
live stock departments of other ex
positions will be avoided. Every
separate section will be shown under
a single roof.
In addition to the $175,000 set aside
by the exposition management to be
used in cash premiums, more than
$46,000 has been offered by organiza
tions representing various phases of
the live stock industry. Of the prizes
offered by the exposition. $50,000 will
be given to horses, $50,000 to cattle,
$25,000 to sheep and goats, $25,000 to
swine. $12,000 to poultry, pigeons and
pet stock, $7,500 to carloads of cattle,
sheep and swine, $5,000 for prize
winning dogs and cats.
The department is making arrange
ments for holding the biggest poultry
show on record, and birds from all
over the world will compete for in
ternational prizes. The pigeons will
take their place in the exposition not
only as applied to the fancy, but as a
utility, and some of the birds will be
used as carriers, taking part in races
across the continent from San Fran
cisco.
Under the auspices of the Pacific
Coast Trotting Horse Breeders’ Asso
ciation, the exposition will give two
harness race meets, one In the spring
and one in the fall of 1915, at which
there will be offered $225,000 in stakes
and purses. With one or two excep
tions, the special stakes included in
the grand aggregate of $225,000 will
be the greatest that ever have been
offered.
Miss Neida Humphrey, of Huntsville, Blames
Laziness for Dearth of Divas.
Employees’ Pension
Measure Approved
Pennsylvania Cities Are Permitted
to Establish Fund for Faithful
Municipal Workers.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23—Under
the provisions of nn act passed by
the Legislature, which Governor Ton
er has approved, this city is given au
thority to establish a municipal pen
sion fund for employees. The a ap
plies to all city employees wh
given twenty years of service
city.
The act provides that in th.
of the creating of the fund evt
ployee will be compelled to pay into
the fund 1 per cent of his yearly
salary.
The pension to be allowed the bene
ficiary will be equal to one-half of the
average yearly salary received by him
during the last two years before his
retirement.
HUNTSVILLE, ALA., Aug. 23.—
The soft, musical voice of Southern
women, which poets have raved
about, others have envied and the
comic papers have made subject of
satire, has a value in dollars, and It
has an even greater value In the
world of art.
So thinks Miss Neida Humphrey,
of Huntsville, who has just returned
home after a three-year course of
voice culture under Caruso in New
York.
Miss Humphrey, realizing the su
preme demand for American printa
donnas on the operatic stage, not
only in this country, hut in every
capital in Europe, thinks there Is a
world of opportunity for the young
women of her own section in this
field.
“The Southern woman’s voice,”
says Miss Humphrey, "possesses
more natural musical qualities than
the voices of any other women in the
world. With proper cultivation that
quality should make them the great
est opera stars. The world has long
known of this quality, hut the South
ern women of talent have Just refus
ed to grasp their opportunities.
Blames Indolence in Part.
“And I guess the laziness so gen
erally attributed to our people may
have a great deal to do with It. Sing
ing. I mean serious singing, is the
hardest sort of woi^k.
“There is hardly a girl of social
position in the Southland who has
not a smattering of musical educa
tion. The trouble is It’s only a smat
tering. When they reached the point
where singing meant real work they
retired gracefully to other fields.
“But I believe that the time is not
far off when the Southern girl of
talent will realize the life she is over
looking and then I am certain that
there will be girls of Dixie whose
names will be Just as famous os
those of Farrar, Suzanne Adams and
Louise Homer, all American born.
Miss Humphrey is very young and
she is very, very pretty, but that is
not all. She has a voice of remark
able power and dramatic quality, but
withal she holds In It that soft sweet
ness that declares her home as plain
ly as it would be declared were she
to walk on the stage waving the
Stars and Bars.
Has Charmed th® President,
She has already done things in
music and she intends to do more.
In New York she has sung before
the most critical audiences lir concert
and has won their high approbation.
It was she who charmed President
Wilson and a distinguished gathering
in New York recently at a concert.
In Chattanooga last May, during
the reunion of the Confederate Vete
rans. she sang before the old soldiers
and was given an ovation.
Miss Humphrey intends to return
to New York in the fall to complete
her studies. She has already been
assured of an operatic engagement
and Huntsville believes that it will
: soon boast an operatic celebrity.
Woman Toper Has
Thirst Amputated
Obstruction In Her Throat Was Be
lieved Cause of Her Longing
For Alchohol.
LIMA, OHIO. Aug. 23.—Mary Cala-
han, 22, submitted to a surgical opera
tion in the Chief of Police’s office to
day, and it is hoped Mary’s thirst was
cut out, literally and flgu?atively.
Several years ago she was shot in
the jaw A splintered bone lodged
against her palate, creating a contin
uous desire for drink. She insists the
desire was for strictly alcoholic drink
and that she had tried grape Juice in
vain. Since that time Mary and her
tickling bone have given the police a
ticklish time.
Chief Ernest May consulted with City
Physician Steer. Between them they
decided on the operation.
5-Cent Fraud in Ice;
5 Days on Rockpile
Portland Dealer Is Sentenced for
Cheating Customer in 25-Cent
T ransaction.
PORTLAND, OREO., Aug. 23.—Five
days at the rockpile for a 5-cent
fraud in the sale of a piece of Ice
was the sentence imposed by Munici
pal Judge Stevenson upon Thomas
Barnes, proprietor of the National Ice
and Coal Company.
Barnes delivered a 40-pound piece
of ice worth 20 cents, saying it
weighed 60 pounds and charging 25
cents.
ave
the
vent
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ANNUAL TAX CONFERENCE.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 23.—The
Seventh Annual Tax Conference will
be held at Buffalo October 23, 24 and
25, under the auspices of the National
Tax Association. Addresses will be
‘ made by E. E. Woodbury, former
chairman; T F. Byrnes, present
chairman of the Btate Board of Tax
Commissioners, Aa others.
Tight Skirts Make
Idle Factory Girls
Mill Men Assert Present Styles Cur
tail Demand for Goods and Cause
Lack of Work.
NEW BEDFORD, MASS.. Aug. 23
That the factories manufacturing
cloth are suffering from the present
styles in women’s wearing apparel,
owing to the smaller sale of cloth, and
that many operatives are being
thrown out of work in consequence. Is
the opinion of many leading New
Bedford manufacturers.
In the past three years the cir
cumference of women’s skirts has
been put down on the average about
two yards. The smaller sales of cloth
have necessitated a curtailment In the
I payroll an 1 hundreds of idle opera
tives are waiting until the styles
change before they will he put to
[ work - again.
Has $18 Salary Cut
To $10 to Spite Wife
Judge, However, Orders Bookkeeper
to Pay Alimony Just
the Same.
NEW YORK. Aug. 23.—G. Lester
Pinkham, a bookkeeper of Flushing
sued by his wife for alimony, testified
that he was receiving only $10 a week.
His employer, A, M. Ryon, called as
a witness, corroborated him.
“Is he worth more money?” asked
the Magistrate. -
“He certainly 1?,” replied Mr. Ryon;
“formerly I paid him $18 a week, but
he asked to have his salary reduced
to $10.”
The Magistrate prompt!” ordered
Pinkham to pay his wife $5 % a week
and furnish a bond of $520 to£uara|i-
lee payment.
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BERI BERI CAUSED BY
RICE DIET, SAYS EXPERT
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, Aug. 23.—The Berlin Med
ical Assentation reports that the w’ell-
known Investigator of beri beri, Dr.
Max Moszkowski, finds, after a re
markable experiment, that the disease
is caused by the use of rice.
Dr. Moszkowski for 138 days sub
sisted almost entirely upon rice. All
the symptoms of beri beri manifested
themselves.
At the close of the experiment an
injection of serum containing an ex
tract of rice resulted in a complete
recovery. ^
COUNTY TO GIVE COOK
BOOKS TO NEWLYWEDS
CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—Leaden biscuits
and leather-crusted pies and all the
other dinner delicacies of Mrs. Newly
wed soon may cease to cause physical
pain and matrimonial estrangement.
Their existence is threatened.
Authorities of Cook County are con
sidering the advisability of giving away
official Cook County cook books with all
marriage licenses Robert M. Sweltzer,
County Clerk, will present the plan to
the County Board.
WOMAN POLITICIAN IS MAD.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS. Aug. 23.—Countess Eliza
beth Emilie Von Wedel, a French
woman and a former “political agent,”
who was quite a celebrity, has been^
placed in a German asylum lk>r
\nsane.