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HEAR ST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN.
READ FOR PROF! f-AMER!CAN WANT ADS-USE FOR RES* ILTS
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1913
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Millions of Beef Cattle Can Be Grown
On Waste Lands of Southern Larins
Meat Can Be Produced ;it 2 < 'cuts Per Pound That Will Sell This
Year for 9 Cents—Pasturing Will Enrich Worn Acres.
By CHARLES A WHITTLE. -
ffeorgia State College of Agriculture.
Forsyth Street Now Leads in Big Structures
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Hurt Building’s ‘ Who’s Who’ Still a Secret
Reef rattle will bring 9 rents per
pound this winter. By living up to
its opportunities the South ran pro
duce beef at from 3 to 4 cents per
pound, live weight. No other sec
tion of the country can do so well.
The South has great areas of waste
land, such as cut-over pine lands,
worn-out farm lands, rough hill
lands, swampy lowlands, on which
cattle can graze for nine months of
the year A litti* cottonseed meal
cake put in the field accessible at will
will complete the ration of beef cat
tle for the greater part of the year
in the South.
Bermuda grass ns a permanent pas
ture, with Japanese clover, both of
which will grow on the po rest d
land, constitute ideal grazing food.
These* grasses, together with cotton
seed meal, will put on flesh at from
1 1-2 cents to 2 cents per pound when
pasturage is charged up at $1.50 per
month per head.
When it is considered that waste
land, such as has been * mentioned,
would not yield that much revenue
when used In any other way, in fact,
would usually be looked to for no
revenue at all, then will the value
of turning waste places into profit
by grazing beef cattle be appreci
ated.
Making Fine Pasturage.
The writer saw only recently a
piece of land that had been abandon
ed for years, which had been gullied
until only a few scrub pines found
footing now furnishing excellent pas
ture of Bermuda grass. The pines
and blackberry briers had been clear
ed off and thrown In the gullies, some
Bermuda grass was sown on the land
and harrowed in. and the Japanese
clover seemed only to be waiting
the opportunity thus afforded to be
gin to thrive. The land was still
poor, very poor. For cropping pur
poses it would he considered worse
than useless. But the land is fur
nishing pasture for some flne-bred,
high-producing dairy cows. Of course,
there is big profit in dairying when
milk-producing food Is obtained upon
such lands and with so little in
vestment.
Another Bermuda-Japanese clover
pasture has been seen by the writer,
created on another gullied, worn and
useless tract of land. The gullies are
not yet filled, except by brush taken
from the land On this tract was a
large herd of white-face Hereford*,
the mothers and their calves. They
were turned into the pasture as soon
as any pasture had appeared in the
spring They had been fed nothing
else since, except occasionally some
salt. They wore living under range
conditions. The cows wore not milk
ed except as the calves, which rang
ed with them from time of birth, at
tended to it. These cattle are round
ed up ai the stock barns and fed
silage during the winter months.
Every Advantage in South.
Each year this herd will produce
a carload or more of feeders for the
market. Where can calves be raised
and brought to marketing a go with
so little cost? Where can grazing
land be obtained more cheaply? In
what so-called beef-growing section
of the country will berrnuda grass or
any other grass of such fine nutri
ent properties grow as successfully
as in the South? In what country
ran cotton seed meal be obtained so
( hen
But th»' advantages are not alone
In pasturage on land that ran he ob
tained for a song, but the South has
a distinct advantage in producing
barn feed. In the first place, the
South has a shorter bai n-feeding pe
riod. and over a great part of the
Smith there is some pasturage the
year round. In the second place, the
South can grow silage crops in great
abundance at the lowest possible cor
Take corn and sorghum, for instance.
No better silo filler* can he found.
Both corn and sorghum have found
their finest development and largest
yields in the South.
Of course, the silo is the economical
feed supply. Winter feeding wlih
anything else would be unwise. In
fact, to buy feed with which to fat
ten cattle, even with the South's long
grazing season, would moan loss. Th *
food must be grown on the farm, and
if can not be grown in any form so
ipl
and
so good for the
*ttle as
Thoroughbred* Not Necessary.
To obtain the foundation stock, it
Is not necessary to go in for both
pure bred males and females. Tm*
pur* bred mal. crossed on the horn*
sc rub cow is suf lcicnt provided that
the grade hulls arc* killed. Wonder.*
hav»* been wrought with crossing of
Hereford pure bred bulls or Short
Horn bulls on piny woods cows.
Somebody, of course, should have
pure bred f* males, so that pure bred
sins -an be produced and dissemi
nated for developing beef unimalt
from the scrubs.
For the next few years those who
introduce’ the most pure bred sir-*** -
into th- South will be the- South'
greatest benefactors of animal hus
bandry.
Of course, it is poor business try
ing to grow beef cattle without hav
ing an animal that will produce flesh
in the largest measure- for what ho
eats Ordinary, scrub, tlck-lnfestjd
cattle of the Sfoujlj will not fatten
profitably.
Again, It Is not worth while to at
tempt beef production with ticky cat
tle. In th-- first place, a pure-bred
sire from an uninfested territory will
die of the tick fever when he gets
into tick territory, thus preventing at
the outset the foundation for a beef
industry. In the second place, cattle*
of whatever breed are stunted from
their youth up when raised in tick-
infested territory.
The bar to hope is up against suc
cessful beef raising in the South
where the tick remains. Fortunately
the farmers have awakened to the
seriousness of their situation in this
respect and more tick - Infested terrl
tory is being cleared now than at any
time since the work was inaugurated
several years ago.
It is easy enough to getf rid oif the
ticks permanently, so easy that the
tick can hardly ha said to be a serious
obstacle in the way.
Bought Jersey Bulls.
Along with the campaign of tick
eradication the farmers are tuklng an
interns! in introducing pure-bred
sires Where the dairy inclination is
strong, of course the Jersey and Hol
stein bulls are being purchased.
A Georgia community began to get
interested in dairying only a few
years ago, after getting rid of the
ticks, by investing in Jersey bulls of
high breed®.
The farmers went in for butter fat.
They separated their butter fat and
sold It to the milk and butter'com-
panles of the larger Southern cities.
They have prospered beyond their ex
pectations A gentleman driving
through the territory said that he
could invariably pick out the dairy
farmer, solely by the appearance of
the farm lands. There was evidence
of prosperity, increased soil fertility
largely brought about by barnyard
manures from cattle.
These farmers were utilizing thf
skimmed milk for building up a hog
industry. Thus one step of progress
opens up opportunities for others. All
Of the prosperity of the d.drying
farmers in that region hangs upon
tick eradication and the pure-bred
Aside from th*- food value and the
foundation for a live stock industry
which permanent pastures of Bermu
da and native legumes afford, there is j
the Important consideration of the
grazing cattle bringing up the fertil
ity of the land by reason of their
droppings (’an any one think of a
better way to rebuild the abandoned
and gullied lands of the South? The
poor land is actually restoring itself
by furnishing food for rattle that re
turned valuable fertility to It, while
at the, same time yielding a profit of
milk ami butter through the cattle.
Grass Checks Erosion.
Again an important consideration
favoring getting Bermuda grass on
the waste lands, especially on the
gullied slope*, is that It will serve to
cheek erosion, hold the fertility which
lues been created in the land free from
the power of the rains to wash or
leach. In doing so the Bermuda is
not only saving the land on which
It grows, but is t*aving the soli of
the rich bottom lands from being cov
ered with washed sand, and saving
the streams from being choked with
accumulation that creates overflow or
swamp lands of fertile acres.
While Bermuda grass is unques
tionably the solution of the perma
nent pasture problem outside of the
bluegrass region, there is widespread
prejudice against it on the part of
farmers. The belief obtains among
them that the Bermuda grass is a
l**st which, once in a field, can not
be eradicated, or that, if It is sown
in one field, it will spread to another
and, after a while, take the farm.
Much of this prejudice is without
foundation. Its spreading habit is
mostly by root and not by seed. Cor
rect cultivation of any land will kill
out Bermuda—that is, if a crop is
cultivated as It should be in order t>j
make a good crop of it, the grass will
be killed. Where a Bermuda pasture
is desired for cultivation, plowing in
the fall, a repetition in March, fol
lowed by a harrowing'to pull out thj
roots, will serve the purpose. Iloga
turned on the field after the sod has
been turned will eat the roots with
relish and thus t make away with
them.
It has been found profitable to sow
Burr clover with Bermuda, the Burr
clover furnishing an early pasture
and the Bermuda grass following to
carry tlx* grazing through for the re
mainder of the season. While cattle
do not readily take to Burr clover,
they acquire a taste for it in the ab
sence of other pasture, and learn to
thrive on it. Burr clover has an ad
vantage as a soil builder over Ber
muda, but none over the Japanese
clover or lespedeza. They are le
gumes. therefore nitrogen gatherers.
Putting in of Winter
Crop Essential in South
Putting in a winter cover crop Is
the most important thing for the
Southern farmer to he looking after
during the fall. The great staple
winter cover crop has come to be
oats Nothing is better.
Oats can be sown In the fall be
tween the cotton rows, three or four
rows of oats between two rows of
cotton. Next siting or in late winter
the oats will furnish light grazing
without harm and in summer pro
duce a good crop of oats
Of course, the great purpose of a
winter cover crop is to check the
wash and tBe leaching away of the
soil fertility during the winter. Enor
mous loss has been going on each
year by reason of bare lands in win
ter. It is the bane of cotton grow
ing that it leaves the land exposed to
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
HOUSES FOR RENT.
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h., 21 Lena St
h, 140 Euclid Ave (Apt.).. 40 00
h., Vaughn St 16.00
h , 201 N Ashby St 13.10
h., 223 Humphries 10.*0
h.. 18 Brooks Ave 22.60
h., 144 /hand Ave 40 00
h., 16 Grinewood St 16.60
h., 249 Clifton St 15.00
h., 670 Central Ave 26.00
h., 60 Berne 18.10
h., 61 W Cain 25.00
h., 61 Lena 1100
h , 21 Park Place (Oakhurst) 22 60
h., Kentucky Ave 15.00
FOR RENT.
$12 50
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h., 18 Alice
h. t 90 Glenn wood Ave
h., Boulevard DeKalb
h., 498 Bass
h . 150 W Baker (flat)
h., 32 Virgil St
h. HUH Highland Ave....
h., 799 Simpson St
h . 49 PeOress Ave
h , 36 Ormewood St
h., Hillcrest Ave
h., 16 Leonard
h., 12 Oxford
h.. 14 Edge hill Ave
.$20.60
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FOSTER A ROBSON. 11 Kdcewood Avenue.
erosion and leaching during a great
part of the year.
By using oats, rye, barley, wheat,
crimson clover, vetch or some other
good cover crop., the Southern farm
er gets two crops off of his land a
year Instead of one. Two crops ob
tained while saving the loss of the
fertility of the soil is certainly at
tractive economy.
The second crop following oats in
tile summer is cow peas as a rule and
nothing better can be grown in the
South. It Is a soil building crop and
will make a larger crop of that which
follows it than would have otherwise
been obtained.
A point about selecting oats. Rust
proof oats alone should be sown. If
the farmer 1ms oats which did not
show rust during the twist year he
should sow them rather than pur
chase seed oats the rust proof quali
ties of which he can not absolutely
know* as he does those which he has
grown himself.
Another important point which
does not have to be emphasized after
the experiences of this year’s oats
corn is that the oats be sown not
later than November, preferably in
October. Wherever oat£ were sown
early in Georgia there were good
crops this year Where they were
sown late, that Is, in winter or early
spring, the crop was a failure. The
spring drouth prevented the late
grown crops from getting a good
start, and it was the late sown or
spring sown oats that suffered most
from rust.
FOR RENT.
288 HOUSTON
ON THE SOUTH SIDE of Houston, between Hilliard and Jackson, first floor
five-room brick fiat, has gas. hot and co’d water, porcelain bath, wash-
stand. closet, sink, electric lights; in good condition. Jackson street car in
half block; $25 on lease ,
JOHN J. WOODSIDE
REAL ESTATE. RENTING. STORAGE.
Phones. Bel! Ivv <571. Atlanta. 61S. 12 "Real Estate Row"
Bril Apartments.
FOR RENT
Corinthian Apartments.
DeLeon, we have one
IN THE BELL, corner North Boulevard and Rone
four and one five-room apartment for rent.
IN THE ' ’ *R1NTHIAN, 136 West Peachtree, one four and one five-room
apartment for rent
BOTH of these apartments are strictly modern and ate steam heated.
Apply
Chas. P. Glover Realty Co.
Phone Ivy 3390.
2»(. WALTON STREET.
ARCHITECTS.
ARCHITECTS.
\Y.C. MEADOR, Architect
516 Empire Building.
uijyi ENciss, bungalows and ap.
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Phone Main lo
ENT HOUSES.
Immigrants Coming
To Settle on Farms
Neighborhood Around Ashburn on
Boom as Result of Recent Land
Activity—Good Crop Section.
ASHBURN, GA., Sept. lS.-Residents
waiting to welcome new* farm immi
grants to the number of probably 250
who will come soon to occupy tracts pur
chased In the Dakota farm subdivision,
'turner and surrounding counties are on
a boom, and it is expected thfiT popula
tion will experience a substantial in
crease In the coming year
The success of the Dakota farm auc
tion has turned the attention of a num
ber of developers fn this section to farm
subdivisions One of the members of
the Atlanta party which came down for
the auction dec ared that he believed
‘there was more of a future in acreage
transactions than in city property, since
twice as much could be raised on the
fertile lands of this section as on the
hills of North Georgia
( UNIQUE BUILDING PLAN.
NEW YORK. Sept. 13.—An unusual
scheme of real estate co-operation has
been made public through the announce
ment of the sale of sixty-two lots on
the Wins! w estate at Rnsedale. Long
Island Thirty-one men. all employed in
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, have pur
chased as many pints, each 50 by 100
feet, and have formed themselves into
an uss-n ation known as the Rosedale
Realty Club
Members of Local Colony Busy
Signing Renewals—Interesting
Question of Legal Status.
Atlanta Chinamen are busy signing
up business leases on central and semi-
oentral property. The past year has
been an unusually good one with mem
bers of the local Chinese colony, and
renting agents report much activity in
the renewal of leases.
According to John J. Woodslde, the
well-known renting agent, the Chinese
make very acceptable tenants. They
pay their rent promptly and give very
little trouble. One of Colonel Woodside’s
tenants on Edgewood avenue has rented
from him for eight or ten years, and
in addition to paying the usual monthly
stipend, has generously sought the
Woodslde family each Christmas with a
cornucopia of teas, incense, trick boxes,
Chinese lilies and nuts.
“The Chinaman is true to his contract
as long as business is good,” declared
Colonel Woodslde. “Occasionally, in a
dull season, the tenant moves away
without notice, and he can’t be found
ag^Lin. I have sought his neighbors, but
have never been able to locate him.”
That local Chinamen are doing well is
evidenced by the fact that they have
been able to pay medium rents with
out trouble and have started handsome
establishments. Conspicuous in lately
acquired things is the electric sign, a
shining example of which is seen at
the chop suey establishment at the
southw’est corner of North Broad and
Luckie streets.
There seems to be some doubt among
real estate men if Chinamen can be
forced to meet contracts. Colonel
Woodside is of the dpinion that the obli
gation in a lease agreement is only a
moral one.
Here is the first picture taken from the top of the new Healey building at Forsyth, Walton and Poplar streets. It shows in
striking manner how North Forsyth street has grown in public buildings. The view is toward the northeast, and shows the Pied
mont Hotel and the Hotel Ansley and the Forsvth, Atlanta Trust and other buildings.
Realty Values Advance 500 Per
Cent in Seven Years—Effect
of Regrading.
Forsyth street has at last passed its
rival streets in the race to erect pub
lic buildings. From a sunken little
street leading diagonally off Peach
tree seven years ago it has become
a thoroughfare that to-day is a power
in the competition with its older and
more favored neighbors. Property
values have jumped 500 per cent, and
the percentage of building has been
even greater. The completion of the
Hotel Ansley and the Healey Build
ing puts Forsyth ahead of Broad, its
closest competitor, in the matter of
high buildings. As for Peachtree, it
is not in the running with these two
in office buildings already built.
There is the Healey Building on
Forsyth, witli sixteen stories; the
Grant, which is likewise common to
Broad street, with ten; the Piedmont
Hotel, also fronting on Peachtree,
with ten; the Forsyth Building, with
eight; the Hotel Ansley, with eleven;
the Atlanta Trust BuUding, front
ing also on Peachtree, with nine, and
the Patterson, Federal, McKenzie and
Studio buildings, with a total of four
teen more. Farther to the south is
the Austell building, a pioneer in
office structures which grew up be
fore the later building influence set in.
Future of Thoroughfare.
There are only about three vacant
lots on North Forsyth, and real es
tate agents are asking what is go
ing to happen next. Eyes have turn-
mi more than once on the Hugh Rich
ardson frontage, southwest corner of
Luckie street, where there is 150 feet,
only partly improved. Mr. Richard
son bought this last year for about
$340,000. or $2,666 a front foot, and
he now holds the inside lot for $4,000
and the corner for $5,000 a foot, an
advance of practically 100 per cent.
Another vacant lot which is due
to be handsomely improved in the
near future is the lot bought by Al
bert Steiner, of the Atlanta Brewing
and Ice Company, at the northwest
corner of ’ r street, opposite the
Healey Building. j
People w.. ..ve been in Atlanta
ten years remember the low brick
and frame residences and shacks
which formerly lined Forsyth, par
ticularly in the “dip” at James street.
About seven years ago Edwin P.
.Ansley bought a total of 600* feet on
both sides of the street and filled in
this depression. The result was a
new and respectable street which has
fulfilled every hope of its maker.
Remarkable Enhancement.
The average price paid by Mr Ans
ley was $750 a foot, or $375,000. and
to-day this same frontage, without
improvements, is probably worth $2,*
000,000. Among the owners from
whom Mr. Ansley bought were
Messrs. Parrott, Flanders, Orme,
Phillips, Smith. Richardson. Griffin
and Emery, and parts of the prop
erty had been in estates for many
years, the section having once been
a choice residential neighborhood of
Atlanta.
In 1910 H. M. Patterson bought a
lot on the west side of Forsyth, north
of James, for $1,250 a front foot, and
to-day it is worth $4,000. Morris
Brandon bought about 100 feet on the
opposite side, at the corner of Luckie,
for $1,760 a foot. This lot now ex
tends through to the junction of
Broad and Peachtree, and was ac
quired by James R. Gray through
agreement of heirs of the Walker P.
Inman estate.
j Peal Estate Gossip
What influence, if any. does a big
criminal case have on re<M estate?
Most local real estate dealers think
it is considerable. They point out
that the mind of the public is di
verted to such an extent that real
estate trading is a secondary con
sideration.
This was the opinion of a large ma
jority of local agents in regard to
the Prank case. At. leant 6ne agent
was found, however, who believed
that quiet real estate was due to
something else than psychology and
crime.
♦ * •
Colonization in South Georgia and
Florida continues to occupy a good
part of the time of leading Atlanta
real estate agencies. A leading agen
cy. for instance, is seeking to estab
lish a colony on a 60,000-acre tract at
DeLand, Fla. This is one of the most
extensive acreage tracts that has
been listed in Atlanta in several
weeks.
Gradually the local agencies are es
tablishing departments to look exclu
sively after farm lands. One well-
known agency has a dozen pamphlets
telling the advantages of farm tracts
in South Georgia, and urging the bet
ter class of immigrant farmers to
come South for agricultural oppor
tunities.
Indications point to a great influx
this winter which will swell the pop
ulation of the State. It will be re
called that last winter many train-
loads of immigrants passed through
Atlanta for South Georgia and Flor
ida. and in the next few months it is
expected that a record will be set,
since the railroads are offering more
and more inducements for settlers
who have little money for mileage.
The local situation, while not as
pronounced as to foreign elements, is
still quite as interesting. Thrifty
Germans who speak only broken Eng
lish are In great demand as land
scape gardeners and truckers. Greeks
by the score have forsaken fruit
stands in the city and gone to the
outskirts to cultivate small farm
tracts. A good example is near the
Soldiers’ Home, southeast of the city.
Greeks bought some lowland there for
a song. Nobody else could utilize it,
but the new owners made it pro
duce fine vegetables, and the money
from their produce has made possible
the erection of comfortable cottages.
In a different section of the county a
hard-working Greek has acquired a
fine spring from which he supplies a
good part of the city population with
drinking water.
The real estate agencies are lending
encouragement to this kind of thrift,
confident that the utilization of waste
spaces which have agricultural pos
sibilities will help that much gener
ally to enrich the State.
• • •
The victory of the woman property
owner in her fight to prevent a
change in the name of McDaniel
street to Oxford place has directed
attention *o previous efforts to
change names, and has opened up
the whole question of rearranging
street names and house numbers.
People are discussing what might
have been accomplished had a defi
nite pl^in been followed when Atlanta
was a village. Streets should have
been run universally north and south
and avenues east and west, or vice
versa, and the numbering of resi
dences should have been after the
“hundred block” system. In the early
days a few ounces of prevention
would have sufficed, but failing to use
them, pounds of cure are now neces
sary.
It is extremely doubtful if Atlanta
will ever have a systematic method
of naming streets and numbering
houses. Opposition to change always
develops, and It Is difficult to make
a start. Real estate men recall viv
idly the effort to change the name of
Peters street—how it gained support,
then lost it, and is once more under
consideration. Names of Governors
and other men of note, it is contend
ed, will always adorn Atlanta streets
While It has often been suggested
that an entirely new plan be tried, n
well-known abstract lawyer pointed
out that this would be almost impos
sible. “This would involve endless
confusion in the examination of ti
tles,” he said, “and also muddle the
tax situation and cause no end of in
convenience to citizens. Take an ex
ample. I was examining a title to a
piece of property on Hume street. I
went to a map and found the thor
oughfare designated as Walker street
and in the tax records I found it des
ignated as Mansfield street. This
street runs from North Moreland
avenue to Euclid avenue, and I un
derstand that it is now known as
Mansfield. The reason for changing
from Walker street was that there
was another Walker, and this sue-
gests that what is needed is to weed
out the duplicates, and there will be
less confusion.
“Titles must necessarily read ‘for
merly Hume, then Walker, and now
Mansfield street.’ just as we say ‘Ful
ton, originally Henry County, Geor
gia.’ ”
e • •
Frequently the officials In the re
cord room of the County Court House
are perplexed over omissions and er
rors that creep Into the land deeds
which are filed. The omission of a
date is frequent, but something more
unusual happened the other day.
Parties in a real estate transaction
dated their papers September 1, 1913.
Since very small things sometimes
tangle realty transactions, a dealer
remarked that this error might some
day caune trouble, if not corrected
in due time.
# e e
Acreage tracts around Atlanta are
not as high as around most cities of
the country, according to James H
Ewing, of the firm of Smith & Ew
ing. In fact, says Mr. Ewing, coun
try land is as high at Lawrenceville,
near Athens. Mr. Ewing hails from
Lawrenceville, but he denies respon
sibility for prices that exist there.
ADVICE OF L. C. GREEN
IS TO BUY PROPERTY
| L C. Green, the well-known real es-
1 tato agent, is a firm believer in the su
periority of land investments over all
others. “Slocks are good,’’ he declares,
“but from one cause or another fortunes
arc. lost Merchandise is good, yet how
many lose their all in it? With land,
you can't lose. Buy land. Own land.
Many thousands are coming each year,
i yet no more land is bei££ produced.”
?ihjf pr
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t tHAT do Atlantans mean by
V/V/ “city-planning?” Is it tear
ing down a space in the mid
dle of the town and building it over
to resemble a section of Paris or
Dresden? The Literary Digest opens
up this question from a new angle
and presents the following from The
New York Municipal Journal:
“The evolution of city-planning
from the architect’s dream of an elab
orate civic center of imposing build
ings to an attainable regulation of a
city’s growth to promote the conven
ience and health of its citizens is
making encouraging progress. Prob
ably nothing has done more to retard
real progress in city-planning than
the idea entertained both by the peo
ple in general and by its most con
spicuous advocates, that it meant
chiefly. If not exclusively, the expend
iture of enormous sums in the total
transformation of certain pentral sec
tions of the city and approaches
thereto. We now realize that real
city-planning is Intelligent direction
of the growth of a . with only
such changes in the oluer sections as
are necessary for health and economy
A city-planning commission might
well consist of merely a council of de
partment heads, the frequent meet
ings of which would help to give each
a more comprehensive view' of the
city’s needs and possibilities, while
each should direct and plan for th
future growth of certain branches
(the city engineer, for Instance, pre
paring the street plan), subject to the
approval of the others—practically the
commission plan of government ap
plied to this particular subject. But
whatever the method, the aim should
be intelligent and comprehensive di
rection of the growth of the city as a
whole and in all its branches.”
Solicitors Clamor for Names of
Tenants—Announcement Due
Before October !.
About a thousand representatives of
office supplies in Atlanta are waiting
patiently for announcement of the
new tenants of the Hurt Building,
which is due to open formally Octo
ber 1, For weeks canvassers have
been storming the llttla citadel at No.
33 Exchange place, anticipating that
when 400 brand-new offices are
thrown open there will be a genuine
feast for the office supply man.
The general public has also been
deeply interested, not only because
the opening marks a distinct epoch in
Atlanta’s building history but because
hundreds of people, apart from those
who come from other cities, will be
changing their business addresses,
and need to be found.
“Who’s who” in the Hurt Building
has up to date been quite a secret,
however, and the reasons are many.
Most of the prospective tenants have
requested the management of the
building to withhold publication of
names until the last moment. They
declare that announcement of this
kind would cause much confusion at
this time. It would mean misunder
standings with landlords in regard to
expiring leases, and a ffood of mail
would be sent to the uncompleted
Hurt Building before the tenants
moved in.
Tenants Will Listen Later.
Then a host of solicitors would be
on the heels of tenants to sell them
everything in the commercial calen
dar. The office supply rpen were the
first in the field as prospective sell
ers. They learned of the move to
keep names secret and they have
made every effort to find out whom
the occupants will be. A new office
building, they reason, calls for new
and improved furniture and fixtures.
The tenants likewise see it that way.
Wicker waste baskets will in many
instances give way to wire, and the
top of the fiat desk will be of glass
rather than of wood. Mahogany fur
niture will frequently take the place
of oak. The tenants are as anxious
to learn about good furniture values
as the supply men are to tell it, but
they insist that the argument come
after they are insta ,,r *d. and not while
they are in the act of moving.
Hence the temporary obscurity to
which the management of the build
ing has contributed liberally. "It
wouldn’t do to tell far In advance
who is to be with us,” explained a
Hurt Building official Saturday. “We
have so many requests from patrons
that we must respect their wishes. It
is part of our business to protect ten
ants, and this we have tried to do
from the start. When the proper tim*
comes, we shall give a complete list,
and that will be before October 1. 7n
the meantime people who have a right
to know can learn through private
sources.”
Building 90 Per Cent Finished.
As for the Hurt Building itself, it
is at least 90 per cent completed, ac
cording to Joel Hurt. The plan ha?
been to complete the interior from
top to bottom rather than bottom to
top, and this explains why the top
floors are ready and the ground floor
not easy of entrance just now Here
tofore the uncompleted condition if
the dow’nstairs has prevented would-
. be renters from inspecting the build
ing, but an elevator was started run
ning Saturday, and 11 tele parties of
business men have becun to go up
and down.
Hereafter it will be possible to show
the building to much better advan
tage, and it goes without saying that
there will be a great increase in
check marks o:. the rental cards. It
is expected that in a few' weeks all of
the space will have been taken, and
once this happens, Mr. Hurt will ordet
the workmen to go ahead with the
other section of ihe building that is to
face Ivy street, and. incidentally, cov
er the entire block bounded by Ivy,
Edgew'ood avenue and Exchange
place*
Recently Seeing New York, Coun
cilman and Realty Dealer Pre
sents Views on Building.
Albert D. Thomson, of the real estate
firm of Thomson & Lynes, recently a
visitor in New York, Is full of the
Gotham idea about building a city and
hopeful that Atlanta will soon attempt to
build likewise. This was not Mr. Thom
son’s first trip to New York, but it was
his best, for he studied more in detail
the civic plan which has enabled New
York to jump ahead of all cities in the
erection of buildings which serve the
public.
“What we need in Atlanta,” declared
Mr. Thomson, "is a proper conception of
how to go about building a city, and
then enough interest and action to build
it. We don’t seem to have either to the
necessary degree.. Most of us are too
provincial. We can't see beyond At
lanta, and some of our citizens don"4
believe there are any bigger buildings
anywhere than we have here. As soon
as we realize that we are not grown—
that we have only started to grow—
then we are in a fair way to proceed.
“And I tell you, New York is a fair
model. I never saw anything like it,
and every time I see the place, it opens
my eyes to the good things that we
might learn. I am told that 500,000 peo
ple visit New York daily, and that they
spend not less than $2 each, which totals
$1,500,000. The amount is probably a
good deal higher. We should start at
tracting more people to Atlanta.
“Our office buildings are being built
to meet present, rather than future,
needs, and in every way we are building
in a way to cause great traffic conges
tion. We made a mistake when we failed
to appropriate $10,000 Tor a preliminary
survey of the city under the direction of
the Civic Beauty Commission. Such
money would be returned to us tenfold.”
New clauses tending to strengthen
the local building code are badlv
needed, according to Assistant Build
ing Inspector Charles J. Bowen. Mr.
Bowen says that while it is within
the province of the department to
condemn buildings in danger of fall
ing or Are, there is no paragraph giv
ing the right to judge them for un
sightliness or other surface disabili
ties. That is why, he contends, so
many structures exist in the heart of
the business district which have no
place there. Mr. Bowen would not
tear down any buildings just because
of their outward appearance, but he
would welcome the power to make
owners dress up their fronts and
roofs when the same fall into disre
pute. The public good strikes him
with more force than the Individual
right.
There are buildings on North
Broad street, near the Broad street
bridge, said Mr. Bowen, some of
which are "rattle traps.” Yet, the
building department has no authority
to order them torn down unless the
foundation walls or other walls are
tottering, or there is other shortcom
ing.
“We need more latitude if we are
to serve the people well,” declared the
assistant inspector. “For a long time
we have been trying to keep small
metal shacks away from sidewalk
lines, but the City Attorney has ruled
against us. There ought to be a
paragraph in the code which gives us
the power to order buildings brushed
up as well as tom down.”
TAX LIENS ARE $244,000
IN NEW YORK CITY SALE
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—The city o!
New York held a sale in the Aldermanic
chamber of liens it holds against prop
erty owners who have failed to pay their
taxes, water rents or assessments for lo
cal improvements which netted the
treasury about $244,000.
On October 9. there will be another
sale of liens affecting properties above
Fourteenth etreeL