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/ r i i < * > 41 6 D HEAR ST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. READ FOR PROF! f-AMER!CAN WANT ADS-USE FOR RES* ILTS ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1913 i j 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 *r*e*I- t»+ +•+ *!*•+ •!*•+ +•+ ^#4* 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. 5- r 6- r 6-r. 5-r. 5-Y. 5-r 5-r. 5- r. 6- r 5-r 5- r. 6- r. 5-r. 5-r. 5-r. 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 5- r. 6- r. 4-r. 4-r. 4-r 4-r. 4-r. 4 I* 1 r 4-r. 4-r. 4-r. 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 15.60 . 16.50 . 20 60 . 38.10 . 10.00 . 28 10 . 12.60 . 15.00 . 16.00 8.60 . 8 00 . 13.10 . 12 60 . 1000 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. t 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 *7, 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