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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN,
READ FOR PROnT-AMjtKICAN WANT ADS-USE FOR RESULTS ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913, 7 D
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
W. M. SCOTT & CO.,
210-212 GOULD BLDG.
WE HAVE CORNER LOT, 25 by 90,
small store and dwelling, three rooms,
well settled community western part of
city, should rent for $7.00, now rented
for $5.00, paying 10 per cent on $600.
$475 cash buys it; can be made to pay
20 per cent net
WE HAVE some wonderful good bar-
gains in the way of apple and chicken
farms in the Ellijay section, in the heart
of the Apple Country. This is a sam
ple:
160 ACRES all fenced, seven miles from
Ellijay, 3% miles from two railroad
stations, on main good road, eighteen
acres bottom land, 100 acres cultivated,
200.000 feet pine saw timber, good creek
through the place; clay loam; red clay
subsoil; 800 15-year-old apple trees —
Ben Davis, Renards Choice, Limber
Twig, horse and sugar apples; some
grapes and peaches; good garden; two-
story (white) six-room dwelling; well
finished out and in, screen doors; good
frame eight-stall barn; corn crib; spring
house, smokehouse, etc.; six springs;
very tine one at the house; house
shaded; three-fourths miie to church
and school on R. F. D. route.
150 acres at *4.00 per acre $ 600.00
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Great Demand for Agricultural Brains;
Many Openings at Attractive Salaries
Marietta and Broad Corner To Be Improved
Fences No Longer Included in Dwelling Plan
Agricultural Education Pays on Farm; Farm Demonstration Agents,
for Agricultural High Schools, for United Stages Bureau of Agri
culture, for Agricultural Propaganda of Railroads.
- By CHARLES A. WHITTLE. -
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
Back to the farm with your brains!
Brains will pay well on the farm,
especially if they have been trained
in things agricultural.
At this season of the year the sons
of the farm are preparing to fill the
halls of learning and get brain power.
Many of them have no definite idea of
Pw e )Iin'E. S sta4e' 00 etc eraC ™.;::; I.M&OO - what they are golne to do when they
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apple trees at $5.00 4,000.00
$6,550.00
NOW THINK OF IT, what an oppor
tunity for chicken and fruit farm. Only
$1,850, $1,000 rash, balance 1 and 2 years
at 8 per cent. Kell out your home,
even at a sacrifice, and* buy it.
WE CAN add adjoining 160 acres good
timber land for $600.
WRITE US for list of bargains in chick
en and apple orchards.
THE BEST pick-up between here and
Marietta, between Worley and Fair
Oak. 15% acres (you can’t buy an acre
cither side for less than $500). 12 acres
eu dvated, 2 branches, orchard apples
and peaches, new six-room and hall,
built for home, cost $2,500: eight-stall
barn, smokehouse, etc; house in grove.
$6,500. Say $750 cash, balance long term
of years at 7 per cent. Possession Jan
uary 1st.
119-ACRE FARM on Hartwell public
road. Elbert county, 4% miles from
Elberton, 1% miles from Goss Station.
55 acres cultivated, 60 acres in timber,
two creeks, gray and red soil mixed,
orchard for family use. four-room dwell
ing in grove of walnuts, smokehouse,
etc.; well-shaded; school and churches,
corn and wheat mill 600 yards; owned
by widow: easy worth $40 an acre. She
wi'l exchange it for $3,000 income prop
erty.
24 PIERCE STREET, between Tift and
Alline streets, nine-room, well-built
house, two lots, 102 by 150; all street
Improvements; two car lines: garage;
owner going to country. $3,500; say
$800 cash, balance monthly, semi-an
nually or yearly.
NEAR WATER WORKS, five-room cot
tage. three lots; big garden. fruit,
stc. Small payment, balance long term
of years—like rent.
W. M. SCOTT & CO.
have completed their courses. Others
have a notion that if they get an edu
cation they must forsooth turn to
other occupations than farming. Most
of both classes may find that, after
futile efforts to struggle up into place
In the fiercely competitive commer
cial world, their hearts pine for the
farm land, and they would return
to it for that longed for Independ
ence, wholesomeness and inbred in
stinct for husbandry. But with all
their getting they have failed to get
agricultural knowledge, and to return
to the farm is to drop into the ruts
of time-worn and profitless ways.
It's a Liberal Education.
The farm lad can find no education
better suited to him than on agricul
tural course. Since an agricultural
course also means a liberal educa
tion in other courses, nothing is lost
in culture, or whatever the uses of a
general education, by specializing
upon things agricultural. Nothing
will ever stand him in better stead,
whatever life pursuit he may follow,
whatever disaster may befall, than a
knowledge of the principles of agri
culture and how they can be b?st
applied for the greatest success.
The demand for trained agricul
turists is great and growing. It wbi
be an immense task for the agricul
tural colleges to furnish the men that
are required for the new farm era.
The agricultural teachers are more in
demand to-day than .any other kind
and at better salaries, because of their
growing scarcity in consequence oH
the great demand. No institution is
coming ito existence with such tre
mendous rapidity as the agricultural
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
For Sale By
FOSTER & ROBSON
ii Edgewood Ave.
NEAR CLARKSTON, GA., on new Stone Mountain car line,
10% acres. Will sub-divide into 18 big lots. Pick-up for
$2,700. When cars are in operation should make fine profits.
See Mr. Martin.
ON W. TENTH STREET, a new bungalow, with all conven
iences. Price $5,000. Easy terms. See Mr. Cohen.
40-ACRE FARM on Redan Road, fourteen miles from Atlanta.
Upland, bottom land, beautiful wooded land; no improve
ments, but cheap for $40 an acre. See Mr. Eve or Mr. Hook.
A HOME on 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 bar
gain. Forced sale. This is your chance to get more than
your money’s worth. For particulars see Mr. Radford.
ON THE NORTH SIDE, a good 6-room bungalow, on good
lot; stone front; hardwood floors, and all conveniences.
Price $4,250. This is absolutely below market value. See
Mr. Bradshaw.
SHELBY SMITH
REAL ESTATE.
LOANS.
WEST END—Two-story, 10-room house, lot 30x150. This is a cor
ner tract aud a very flue bargain. Price, $5,500, on very easy
terms.
EAST NINTH ST.—One-story, 6-room bungalow, with all conveniences;
excellent neighbors and close to school. Garage aud servant’s room.
Lot 50x185. Price, $5,000, on very easy terms.
COPENHILL 6-room cottage, gas, electric lights, tile bath, sleeping
porch; lot 60x150, elevated and shaded. A cozy little home. Price,
$4,2fk), on very easy terms.
NORTH SIDE, TWO-STORY, 10-room house, two baths, vapor heat
ing system, hardwood floors and stairway; has reception hall,
parlor, living room, dining room, kitchen, breakfast room, butler’s
pantry, four sleeping rooms; eastern exposure; lot 110x240, with garage
and servants’ house. Price, $14,0b(), on easy terms.
SHELBY SMITH
W. D. HOYT,
Sales Manager.
401-2 EMPIRE BLDG.
EUGENE H. CARROLL,
Salesman.
PHONE MAIN 2627.
EAST LAKE DRIVE.
PRETTY five-room house, on lot 103 by 425 or more. This is a great bargain
at $4,000, on terms.
EAST FIFTH STREET
SIX-ROOM BUNGALOW, new, double-floored, with hot and cold water;
storm-sheathed; on lot 50 by 130; Is elevated. Price $5,000; $500 cash,
terms to suit.
EAST FIFTEENTH ST.
ONE-STORY five-room and sleeping porch; lot 100 by 2S0 to 10-foot alley;
it has servants’ house, hot air heat, and is new Rents for $100 per
month; has no mortgage. Price $28,000: $500 cash and rest on terms to suit.
SALESMEN:
ROBERT W. PARRIS, W. M. JEWRIES AND WALTER O. WITHERS.
GRAHAM & MERK
319 EMPIRE BUILDING.
MAIN 4376.
For saleH5Y
GREEN E
REAL 'V Y
CO M PANY
ATTRACTIVE SIX-ROOM HOME, on
Ormond street, in the prettiest block
of street; beautiful elevation. We offer
very attractive six-room home, with all
conveniences, and we have a special
price on above place for short time.
See us for particulars or use the phone.
Ell EMPIR.5 BLDG REAL ESTATE. KENTING, LOANS. Phones 1599
Georgian Waimt§==Use For Results
high school.
nothing
much as
hinders
lack of
and
t<~ 'ncreaee so
trained teachers.
Movement Sweeps U. S.
A movement which is sweeping the*
country from one end to the other is
the farm demonstration agent move
ment. The educated and trained ag
riculturist can not complete,his course
without innumerable demands upon his
service at excellent salaries. The ideal
farm demonstration agent, of course,
is the educated, college-trained agri
culturist, whose scientific knowledgc-
and general information the farmers
want. Here in the South the farm
demonstration agent is in great de
mand. The great difficulty is to g°t
men with agricultural training, ani
those In authority have to be con
tent to use such men as they can
find among the farmers for inaugu
rating the work.
In other sections of the country the
demonstrator is a superintendent, his
services are rendered to all farmers
who join In his employment, by ren
dering advice, assisting them to adopt
new methods. In a sense he Is the
modern efficiency engineer for th3
farm.
This movement of employing agri
cultural specialists has only begun In
this country. It is bound to assume
great proportions, and as an inviting
avenue of occupation for a young
man on the farm, farm demonstra
tion work or farm superintendency
work, is very promising.
The trained and scientific agricul
turist is not only in demand for the
schools and for demonstration work,
but there is a great demand, hard to
fill, created by the Bureau of Agri
culture of the United States. The
army of agricultural workers employ
ed by this bureau is large and con
stantly growing. Legislation prom
ises soon to be enacted that will
greatly increase the demand for this
class of workers, not only for farm
and laboratory work in this country,
but in the foreign dependencies.
Colleges Are Increasing.
The agricultural colleges with their
experimental stations are increasing
every year in their magnitude and in
their scope of operation. These in
stitutions present exceedingly attrac
tive places. They are continually on
the lookout for the most promising
graduates of every agricultural in
stitution in the country. The sala
ries which they pay are higher than
that paid in other lines of education.
Railroads and large industrial con
cerns have taken up the cause of ag
riculture, and the demonstration farm
and the trained agriculturists assist
ing the farmer with advice is coming
to be a work of large proportions,
necessitating the employment of a
large body of men. These industrial
enterprises realize that it pays to
invest in brains trained in agricul
ture. *
But with all
any kind of vocational training to be
gained. Why should not the fanner
have brains, culture, refinement as
much as a man in any other call
ing of life?
„ Cultured Planter Passing.
The day was when the Southern
planter as a rul(* was as refined and
cultured as anybody on earth. It is
not so much so now following the
devastation of the Civil War and with
the departure of the slave system
which made possible a life of greater
luxury and 4 refinement. Many who
then received their collegiate educa
tion found that they were not able
to give it to their sons and too often
the sons have not felt able or in
clined to give a collegiate education
to their sons in turn. Thus has the
rural South fallen away to an ap
prtciable extent from its former glory
of culture and refinement.
The former high status of the
planter of the South in the social sys
tem of the State can not now be re
stored except by agricultural educa
tion.
The Southern States being agricul
tural in resources and activities, is
it not fair that its leaders In legisla
tion and civic promotion should be
agriculturists? How far is It so?
It can be almost literally asserted
that farmers as a class are not repre
sented in legislation. It is the lawyer,
the doctor and the newspaper man
who assume the political power. Why
is it htat a measure affecting
the welfare of the farmer Is turned
lightly aside in the legislature? Why,
for instance, would a legislature turn
down an appropriation for $2,500 in
Georgia for farmers’ institutes at the
very time the newspapers were re
cording that as many as 41,000 farm
ers had attended the institute during
the summer, instites which had been
held by the use of a similar amount
asked for?W hy these and many other
inequalities falling upon the farming
class at the hands of the legisla
tures? The answer is that because
the farmer is not represented in the
legislative halls. The reason he is
not teftre is that he has not been edu
cated and trained to meet other class
es there represented and demand and
contest for his rights.
Legislation favorable to the farmer
is, therefore, another reason for brains
on the farm.
South Is Reorganizing.
The South is undergoing a period
of reorganization of its rural life, into
which enters a serious racial prob
lem. The white man’s school and
church in the country the involved.
Men of trained minds and large and
clear vision are needed to work out
in every community its local prob
lems. It is the call for brains.
The agricultural South will come to
be more and more co-operative in Its
growing, buying and marketing en
terprlses. To the extent the farmers
these incentives for | are and are
their business in a highly business
like way. without having to hire
brains for the purpose on the out
side, the more profit there will be to
the fcirmer. A call for brains on the
farm!
The days for entering college have
arrived. Which college? Will the
farmer make a mistake at this Im
portant point? Will he spoil a splen
did farmer? Will he have his sons
educated away from the farm?
agricultural courses, the young man
on the farm will find that there is a
very important one in addition, and
that is the possibilities of the old
farm itself, when they are opened up
to his vision by agricultural informa
tion and training. The story o^ suc
cess of men who have received the
highest agricultural training could
be told over and over. The writer
has one in mind, that of a horticul
turist, a teacher in a State university,
who, feeling the call back to the _ ti i
farm, forsook his salary and attrac- fi-Vpaf r.Tl h H Tl P.P.TTl RT1 T.
live surroundings and went into thelultjdl 11II allOC III C11 U
trucking business.
He never spent
year on the farm that he did not
make several times more than his
former college salary. But he was too
valuable a teacher to be left at the
farm, and the insistent call came till
he went hack t© the college and went
to the the position of dean of the
State College of Agriculture of Penn
sylvania.
Agriculture Diversified.
The educated agriculturists of the
Southern colleges are doing most in
their farming operations in the South
by growing other things than cotton,
by applying their knowledge of live
stock husbandry, of trucking, diver
sified agriculture, their knowledge of
crop rotation, their information about
soil fertility, how to supply the de
ficiencies at least cost by miking their
own fertilizers, by using advanced
methods of marketing to get the best
prices; by dairying, by raising pure
bred stock, by raising rather than
buying feedstuff and live stock for
food and for work.
Of course, there are many men who
have not had the advantages of an
agricultural education who have
learned and are practicing with great
success some lines of agriculture.
These are exceptional men. They are
men with progressive Ideas, men who
will tel] you that one of the things
they would appreciate most Is an ag
ricultural education. None of these
successful farmers stand In the way
of agricultural education by their
own volition. They are always its
best friends. It is always the un
successful former who is attempting
to discount agricultural education.
But there Is more than success In
. In Phelan Property
Central Corner Bought for $20,000 15
Years Ago Now Worth $100,000.
Estate Incorporated.
The incorporation of the S. H. Phelan*
Company, an organization to handle the
estate of the late S. H. Phelan, suggests
an interesting story of enhancement at
the northwest corner of North Broad
and Poplar streets. About fifteen years
ago this 25 by 90 foot property was sold
to Mr. Phelan by the A. J. & H. F.
West Real Estate Agency for $20,000.
Taken with the building, it is to-day
worth at least $100,000, an increase of
more than $5,000 a year since the pur
chase.
M. G. Phelan and others are the execu
tors of the estate, and other parcels
are the following: The northwest cor
ner of Richardson street and Whitehall
terrace, 250 by 135 feet; the southwest
corner of Peachtree street and Peachtre*
place, 68 by 200, including the homestead
and the Palmer Apartments in the rear,
on Yonge street. 57.5 feet south of Cham
berlin street, 115 by 150; South Pryor
street, 139 feet south of Alabama street,
32 by 71; 60. 62, 64 and 66 Connally
street; northeast corner of Mangum and
Mitchell streets; Luckie street, 47 feet
northwest of Cone, 40 by 100; southeast
corner of South Pryor street and Ken
ny's alley, 4 by 71, etc.
Tho mansion with its extensive lawn is not the only type of house which is without a fence. The same rule is being followed
with the suburban bungalow, as this attractive residence at Hapeville will show.
Historic Inclosures Are Passing on
Peachtree—Only 21 as Far
North asBuckhead—Governor’s
Mansion Fence 40 Years Old.
Cast off your fences in building your
homes—that is, your front yard
fences!
This is the latest edict in Atlanta’s
polite building circles. In fact, it has
been an order of long standing, and
now it is being generously and gen
erally obeyed. The front yard fence,
especially-of the wooden variety, has
long since lost its hold as a necessary
or desirable part of home surround
ings, and the glamor of the iron fence
is likewise beginning to pale. The
difference in the two varieties lies In
the mutability of the former and the
comparative immutability of the lat
ter, which gives to the one only a
and to the other
IN REALTY CIRCLES
Although for some years there has
been talk of an organization of ten
ants to combat alleged high prices on
downtown leases, nothing definite has
been done. Renters occasionally take
the position that they must vacate
certain premises because of too-high
rents. Announcements of this kind
are sometimes seen.
“Consider a definite example,” sug
gested a leading retail^ the other
day. “Suppose I have a central cor
ner that costs me $1,000 a month.
That is $12,000 a year, and $12,000
is 6 per cent of $200,000. 1 must do
$200,000 worth of business a year—
nearly $700 a day for 300 working
days—to meet that obligation, and
my profit on goods sold must be con
siderably above 6 per cent in order
to allow for clerks’ salaries and hun
dreds of incidentals, ©and finally, a
net profit for myself. My volume of
business is nearly fixed. The rentai
price remains absolutely fixed. It
Is as sure to be paid as the water
and light bills, or I must move, and
One dollar was the cheapest ever
recorded for a local building permit,
according to Louie P. Marquardt,
clerk in the office of Building In
spector Ed R. Hays. This permit was
taken by a Peters street citizen who
wanted to fix a stove flue. Another
low price of last week was $4, which
went for repairs on Dora street.
temporary existence a ^ ^
long life. Rains and heat and 1L sto 1 r _ m f ! maybe*face a'awsult
“If my gross profit is less than 20
THE BEST Want Ad days in The At
lanta Georgian are Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Sat
urday. On Sunday read them in Hearst’s
Sunday American. Try' them all. The
results will surprise you
Owner Must Sacrifice Home
BEST section of Decatur, one block of Agnes Scott College. Six
large rooms, stone front. A very low price for quick sale.
Small cash payment, balance like rent. Phone Decatur 55.
SPECIAL IN LOTS
WE HAVE A SPECIAL LIST of vacant lots ready for building. In
every section of the city. See us.
DRUID HILLS LOT, 100x400, on Springdale drive; beautiful shade,
elevated and in best section. Want offer.
A BP iUTIPUL six-room bungalow, just off Ponce DeLepn. Stone
front and all conveniences, $500 cash, balance monthly. Bee this.
PEACHTREE ROAD, orf National Highway, we have 75 acres with
600 feet front on road, $100 per acre. Bargain.
ADAIR & HOLT
97% Peachtree Street.
REAL ESTATE AND LOANS.
Phone Ivy 10.
ARCHITECTS.
ARCHITECTS.
W. C. MEADOR, Architect
516 Empire Building. Phone Main 1587
RESIDENCES, BUNGALOWS AND APARTMENT HOUSES.
„_ay beat with all fury upon the iron
fence and leave it unscathed except
for a thin coating of rust, but weather
eats into the very fiber of wood and
rots it away.
This explains why, in the competi
don between the “fit” and the “unfit.”
the iron fence has survived, and why
it is seen up and down Peachtree and
other residence streets to-day. That
is why the white picket fence around
the Duncan place (now the downtown
home of the Capital City Club) ate up
so much money in repairs that it
finally gave way as one of the last of
its kind on Peachtree. That also ex
plains how the few remaining Iron
fences happen to be standing yet,
waiting for improvements which will
send them to their last resting place
on the scrap heap.
Northern Outpost Established.
When the DeGives tore away their
Iron fence from the home place on
North Pryor street, near Peachtree,
the Robert F. Maddox and Henry S.
Jackson inclosures at Peachtree and
Ellis streets became nearest to town,
and when Colonel Walter P An
drews built just south of Buckhead,
he established the northern outpost
with a fence of wire. Gradually many
old fences have disappeared, making
way for business improvements, and
now there are but 21 of all kinds be
tween Five Points and Buckhead. and
not a simon-pure wooden one in the
lot. The farther out Peachtree, the
fewer the fences. When Colonel An
drews tears his away to make room
for a fast-growing hedge, there won’t
be a fence of any kind in a distance
of five miles north of Fifth street.
The Gramling picket fence at Baker
and Peachtree was one of the last
wooden fences to be torn away.
When John H. James, the well-
known banker and real estate dealer,
built an iron fence around the Gov
ernor’s (then his own) Mansion, he
had one main object in view. It was
to keep stock off the premises. Cat
tle ran at large through the then
choice residential section of Atlanta,
and housewives’ cannas calladiums
and violets were never safe. Like
wise their garden products, which
were even more tempting to the bo
vine taste.
Needless to say, the fence that Colo,
r.el James built was the wonder of
the town, and his neighbors were
quick to follow his example. So pop
ular was the iron fence among the
well-to-do Peachtree citizens that
families were never without it who
could afford it, and, indeed, the iron
fence denoted wealth and social po
sition.
Fence Forty Years Old.
The present fence around the Gov
ernor’s Mansion was built more than
40 years ago, and to-day it looks good
for many more years. This fence, ac
cording to Col. James, was one of the
first iron inclosures in Atlanta. Peach
tree was not literally a “cow path,”
but a “lowing herd wound slowly”
from Baker street to Ivy and back
again. Perhaps there were other cow
paths, but the imputation that Peach
tree wits a continuous pasture, thinks
Colonel James, is unjust.
It is noteworthy in this connection
that after building the Governor’s
Mansion and putting a barrier
around/it, Colonel James departed
from the fence custom. Even as he
was a pioneer in fence building, so
was he a pioneer in the new order.
When he built years later, at No. 314
Peachtree, he left off the fence, and
when he built ?till later his present
home at Deerland Station, on Peach
tree road, he did the same. “Cattle
days" had passed.
Old citizens Recall the erection of
per cent, I am not making anything
and if profits should happen in a bad
year to slump I have probably lo.'it
the amount of upkeep, salaries and
many other items that might be
named.”
“All very well,” remarked a leading
real estate agent in reply to this line
of reasoning, "but there is another
side. Who causes this condition of
so-called high rents to exist? None
other than the lessee himself! A mer
chant who desires to better his con
dition in the matter of position or
price, asks me what ‘Jones’ is paying
for his lease across the street. When
I tell him the price is $600 a month,
he will raise it to $700 in order to
get the store.
“I don’t believe there is such a
thing as excessive rents in Atlanta or
anywhere else. These matters are
regulated by an economic principle
that never suffers change. It is the
principle of suppy and demand. Water
seeks its level in no more positive
fashion. If a concern takes a lease,
that Is fair evidence that it is able
to pay the price, and failing to meet
the obligation, it must stand out of
the way for the firm that can. When
we have reached top prices and th»
last firm in the market can’t meet
the rine, then will the price tumble,
and only then. The fittest will sur
vive, Just as in everything else. The
strong will be at the top, the less
strong in the middle and weak .it
the bottom, where they respectively
belong.
“If an establishment finds rent too
high, it should move to a quieter
street, which is its proper sphere.
Its successor may be able to make
more money under the high rate than
the other can under the low, another
seeming anomaly in the economic
situation which Is explainable in the
fact that the former’s business sa
gacity and methods are superior to
those of the latter
‘I repeat that rents are not too
high and that If they ever become
so, they will drop of their own
weight.”
The recent purchase of the little
triangle at the Intersection of the
Peachtree and Roswell roads estab
lished a record price for acreage in
that section, according to the finding
a well-known real estate man.
There is approximately one-eighth of
an acre in the triangle, and since
the price was $15,000, the rate was
about $120,000 an acre. Buckhead
citizens gasped when Jasper N. Smith,
of “House that-Jack-Built” fame, put
a price of $100,000 on eight acres in
that neighborhood. The worth of the
triangle, however, lies in its promi
nence as business property. People
of half a dozen counties pass through
Buckhead and trade Is brisk.
The erection of the golf club house
In Druid Hills Is expected to start
a good deal of building In that ex
clusive neighborhood. There will be
200 members and naturally they win
find it convenient to live close to the
club. Of course, there will be some
who live farther away, but most of
them will be found at a convenient
distance.
Subdivisions around the city have
been made attractive in various ways.
There are the clubhouse and the
boating. bathing and swimming
features of East Lake; the clubhouse
of the Capital City Country Club
at Brookhaven; the proposed club
house and golf course and swimming
pools of Ansley Park, and the pro
posed swimming pool for Peachtree
Heights
Real estate men have long since
realized that home communities must
be made attractive by the addition
of such features. Park spaces are
also not neglected, although they are
usually not exten^ve enough.
Whitehall street Is gradually ac
quiring a new style in building con
struction. It consists of the spic-
nn.l-span building front, and the in
dications are that soon all stores must
have it or be called out of date.
The Davie* n-Paxon-StokeB Com
pany have set the fashion with a
handsome tile front which extends to
the top of their new eight-story build
ing, and the Eugene V. Haynes Com
pany are following suit with a front
of similar design ut No. 49 Whitehall.
Before many years certain low, an
cient buildings on Whitehall street
must be torn down to make way for
more modern structures.
Two buildings have been con
demned of late on lower Whitehall,
and the building department has Its
i yes open for other structures. The
Building Inspector has already caused
an owner to sq>end $3,000 repairing
hl» building In the center of the shop
ping district. There is no danger,
says the Inspector, but sooner or later
Ten-Story Office Structure or a
Five-Story Hotel for E. C. Jones
Property—Lot Bought in’68 for
$2,000—Leases Expire in 1914,
newer buildings must be built.
iron fences around the Inman, Hemp
hill, Kiser, Everett, Cabanlss, Rid
ley.’ Clarke, Wlnshlp, Ragan. Black
and Lewis homes. Most rtf these
fences still stand, but they are mark
ed for early destruction. Among the
first to go will be the wall fence of
the Abbo't home, which is now occu
pied by the University Club.
While Peach tree’s experience with
fences has been unique, the movement
for open front yards adorned with
flowers and shrubbery has been gen
eral over the city. No less is this
true of Atlanta’s splc-and-span sub
urbs, where the fence has little more
place in the general plan than it has
in the plan of the mansion. In many
instances the stone or brick wall or
the well-trimmed hedge has taken the
place of the fence, but as a rule there
has been no compromise.
BIG ENHANCEMENT SHOWN
IN WINNIPEG PROPERTY
WINNIPEG. CANADA. Aug 30—As
Illustrating the increase of values of
Winnipeg property westward in the past
few years it is shown that five years
ago properties within short walking dis
tances of the north hank of the Assini-
boine River, especially along streets In
the vicinity of the Wellington crescent,
could have been bought for $18 to $25 a
foot, these same properties are being
held to-dav at prices ranging all the
way from $150 to $250 per foot.
Bulging Sidewalk .
Puzzles Passersby
Bulging prismatic lights have
caused a good deal of Interest of late
on either side of the Peachtree ap
proach to the Whitehall Street Via
duct. and the suggestion has been
made that the Peters Building, the
Fourth National Bank Building and
the Steiner-Emery Building are
trowdlng the viaifuct approach, or
that heavy traffic Is responsible.
At the line of the Fourth National
and Steiner-Emery Buildings the
lights have risen about three inches,
and there is another bulge in front
of the Steiner-Emery Building at
Viaduct place, and the same Is true
on the opposlde side of the street.
Officials at the Building Inspector's
office thought the condition might be
due to the heavy traffic, which would
crowd the frail lights against, the,
building walls. None had made ex
amination, however, and could not say
definitely. A railroad official express#
ed the opinion that the Iron framing
of the prismatic lights had expanded
from heat and, in following the line
of least resistance, had bulged up
ward.
One of the liveliest contests ever
seen in local building circles is on
between would-be lessees, builders,
architects and real estate developers
for the Jones property at the north
west corner of Marietta and North
Broad streets, and it will probably be
settled when Enoch C. Jones, the
owner, takes up his last note for
about $9,000 on the place.
Among propositions is one for a
ten-story office 'building, for which
local capitalists are said to have
raised about $250,000; one for a five-
story, 100-room hotel for persons rep
resented by J. McSwain Woods; and
one for the United Cigar Stores Com
pany to tear down the three-story
building and erect a one-story struc
ture for the exclusive use of the
United, on a long-time lease. M. L.
Thrower, the well-known real estate
agent, would remodel the building and
take It on a lease.
There are other propositions. One
of them in the past had to do with a
15-year lease to a local concern which
wanted to erect an office building,
pay the owner about $25,000 a year
and deed away the building at the
expiration of the lease. This propo
sition was rejected.
Last Note To Bfc Taken Up.
Mr. Jones owns 55 feet on Marietta
street and 105 on North Broad to a
20-foot alley. Twenty-nine feet of
this Marietta frontage was bought
from various property owners, among
them Forrest Adair and John S.
Owens, in 1899, 9-14 having been
acquired from the French heirs and
others. Half interest in the corner
cost $10,000 thirty-five years ago, at
which time level-headed business men
advised Mr. Jones that $8,500 would
be a big price. The monthly rental
was then $100. Now the three floors
bring $450 a month, and the ten-year
lease Is nearly up.
Years later Mr. Jones bought an
additional 26 feet on Marietta street
from the Hulsey estate, and although
the last note is not yet due, Mr.
Jones wants to clear the property
and will take It up in November.
Then he will start actively with build
ing opfYations.
Tenants now in the building -want
to remain, but k is probable that an
office building improvement will be
made. Discussing the tentative plans,
Julian J. Jones, son of E. C. Jones and
member of the real estate firm of
Jones & Barge, said:
Substance of Proposition.
“The office building proposition Is
to lease the property 20 years and
let the building revent to the estate
at the expiration of the lease, and for
the lessees to pay half of the taxes
on the building and the owner ail on
the land. The tax clause is the only
thing that causes worry. Increasing
taxes might put the property on a
basis that wouldn’t pay much, like
certain Whitehall parcels. My father
wants to do the best thing possible,
and be is considering all the offers
carefully.
"Contrary to recent report, this
property is not In litigation, and has
not been. It has probably been con
fused with another lot In a different
estate of the Jones name. When the
not** is paid In November my father
will own the property in fee simple.*
History of Old Building.
The Jones building wks built in
1809 and is one of the oldest struc
tures in the city. The land lot of
202 1-2 acres In which it is located
was deeded to Jane Doss by the State
July 28, 1825, and .25 feet on Walton
street and 80 <>n North Broad to the
city June 1, 1861, by Ami Williams,
for a fire-engine house site. This
corner, now part of Cie site of the
Grant building, was bought for $1,000.
Charles Bohnefeld bought the Jones
corner from Peter Huge in 1868 for
$2,000. A quick turn that day to Mar
cus Bell enabled him to clear $1,000.
M. Bell and Claiborn Bateman then
erected their building, which was a
cause of wonder to early Atlantans.
SPRING STREET BRINGS
$5,000; $200 A FOOT
Mrs. Emily P. Wilburn has sold to a
client of the John D. Babbage real
estate agency, No. 228 Spring street, a
two-story eleven-room frame house
on a 25 by 98 foot lot for $5,000, or at
the rate of $200 a front foot The
property Is on the west side of the
street between Simpson street and
West Peachtree place. 4^
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