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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
5«-Acre Improved Farm
Near Atlanta
JUST 13 the city, one mile from street car line and railroad.
Splendid i-room house, granite foundation, barns, outhouses, 30 acres
under cultivation. SI,OOO cash, assume loan $2,000, due in two rears, balance
$4,500 in five equal annual*payinents.
50 ACRES,
\\ ELL IMPRO\ ED, near <‘hamblee, just miles from Chamblee on .a good
mad, 6-room house, barn, fine orchard. 35 acres under splendid cultiva
tion, balance in tine timber. Owner going to SOUTH GEORGIA and must
sell. SI,OOO cash, balance $2,500 in five equal annual payments at 6 per
cent.
40 ACRES—SBOO.
IMPRO\ ED FARM—Just 20 miles from Atlanta. 5 miles from Roswell, line
little fruit farm, good 5-room house and barn. S2OO cash, balance S6OO in
three equal annual payments at 8 per cent.
EDWIN P. ANSLEY
Land Department
Ivy 1600 Realty Trust Bldg.
Grand Auction Sale, Monday,
22d, at
COLLEGE PARK
30 Choice Residence Lots and
One 10-Room Residence. This
Property is Located Between
Cox College and G. M. A. Col
lege. Terms 25% Cash. Balance
One, Two and Three Years.
Several Presents Will Be Given
Away Free During Sale, Includ
ing Suit of Furniture, Bag of
(Sold and Silver. This Sale Will
Be Conducted bv
j PENNY BROS.
The World’s Famous Twin Auc
tioneers of Greensboro, N. C.
AMERICAN REALTY &
AUCTION CO.
ANSLEY PARK
Seven-Room Bungalow
BRAND NEW, with large living room, music room, dining hail, kitch
en, two large bedrooms, one smaller bedroom, rile bath, sleeping porch
and Jam-up in every way. Servant’s room In bas- menr large lot.
lying perfectly. $6,500. No loan and terms. Right off Piedmont Ave.
car line. See us for this fine little home.
THOMSON & LYNES
18 and 20 Walton Street. Phone Ivy 718.
ARCHITECTS. , T EC T S _
W. C. MEADOR, Architect
516 Empire Building. Phone Main 1587.
residences. bungalows and apartment houses.
American Want Ads.
Use for Residts
ESTATE FOR SALE
FOR PROFJT-AIVIERICAIN WANT ADS-USEJOR RESULTS
J* EAL ESTAT EFO R SAL E.
Bankers and Merchants
Can Check Weevil Loss
Credit Should Be Refused Except W hen Right
Methods of Fighting Pest Are Used.
By CHARLES A. WHITTLE.
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
If the Georgiy banker and mer
i chant advance money on cotton crop*
■ when the boll weevil is present and
1 the weevil is not properly opposed by
* the farmer, it means ruin for farmer,
banker and merchant.
Likewise, if the banker and mer
chant fail to advance credit when the
weevil is present there is financial
ruin.
But if the banker and merchant
wil’ finance only a limited amount of
cotton on condition that the weevil is
fought by the most approved and suc
cessful methods, and at the same time
j finance other crops, then will all be
I saved loss and be made even mere
. prosperous.
Which of these things will the
j bankers and merchants of Georgia
do? If they know where their inter
ests He. they will undoubtedly take
tiie latter course.
The banker and merchant, more
than anyone else, c an save the State
from financial depression on account
of the boll weevil. Theirs is the pow
er to compel. No amount of effort to
educate, arouse or excite the tanner
is going to save the day. Ignorance,
unbelief, prejudice, indifference will
oppose any educational campaign,
enough to undo all that a majority of
intelligence farmers may undertake.
For be it understood that it takes but
very few farms in a county to furnish
enough weevils for all.
Indifferent Farmer Is Menace.
It will be found that the ignorant,
indifferent and aimless farmer is the
one who is dependent upon the mer
chant and banker to make his crop.
He is within the hands of the cred
itors to make do what is necessary
for his own protection, as well as
tor the protection of his creditors. By
this compulsion every other farmer
i in tpe region will be saved loss from
' weevils.
One weevil killed at first will pre-
Gent a handful of weevils from being
, produced to eat cotton later on. A
• handful of weevils can destroy' an
1 immense amount of cotton. See to it
1 hat every man is killing weevils and
the tide of destruction is greatly
stemmed.
It must be apparent that if some
i farmer, by reason of ignorance or in
i difference, is permitted to let weevils
»-eve lop. his premises wil! >oon de
velop enough weevils to destroy ail of
his cotton and Hundreds of acres oi
his neighbors’ cotton.
The last man must be whipped into
line in combatting the weevil. The
1 whip is in the hands of the banker
i and merchant. If not applied, will
the merchant and banker not be re
sponsible for the destraction of prop
erty?
Argue as he may. that he is not
responsible, when all is staid, ran the
banker or merchant tell how else the
necessary work is to be done?
Check Money Advance.
It would b* l a wise thing for bank
| ers and merchants to form an organ-
I izalion in each county and pledge
I that no money would be advanced for
' the raising of cotton where the as
' sura nee is not convincing that the
■ man who proposes to grow it in the
j presence of weevils, will follow im
[ plidtly all instructions for holding
the weevil in check.
It. would be wise for such organiza
tion of bankers and merchants to
agr -e that only a comparatively small
amount of acreage should be put to
cotton until the farmers have become
acquainted with the weevil and have*
; learned the best methods of opposing j
I it. It may oe that in some of the
! poorer sections of Georgia that the
exbeTJW of lighting weevil will be so
great as to leave no margin of profit
to th" farmer. The banker and mer- j
ch4nt ought to go slow in crediting |
• ottop growers unt’l exp* riments in a I
limited wav demonstrate what can I
be reasonably expected of profit f»r *
I each community. |
The banker and m**r<hant of Geor
gia an- not g"ing to find parallel von
-1 Citiun.? fur : .elr guidance In Loui ~
Will Capital City
Keep Country Home?
Club Has Been Four Months at |
Brookhaven, and Summer Sea- j
son Was Big Success.
. 1
The completion of almost four months
of occupancy of the club at Brookhaven
has caused a great many i»eople to ask
if the Capital City Club will keep the
property by exercising its option to buy
at SIOO,OOO. While no official declare- '
tion has been made .the success of the '
summer season has caused a good many :
of the members to suggest that the 1
property be bought and improved ex- j
tensively. In fact, the club has spared,
no pains or expense to beautify the ;
grounds and club house, although as yet 1
it is only tenant.
The Capital City Club moved in June;
1 The terms of the lease provided that
the club should rent at SIOO a month
and have an option to buy at SIOO,OOO.
Included in the reserve are 150 acres
of land, a $20,000 clubhouse, boating and
bathing facilities and a golf course that t
has been pronounced by experts to be
one of the best m this section.
ERECTION OF APARTMENT
POSTPONED BY H. L M’KEE
Former Postmaster Hugh L. Mc-
Kee, who bought part of the Winv
coff lot in Ansley Park recently with 1
Geoige W. Parrott, has made no plans I
for an apartment house, either in the
park or on the site of his residence.
No. 721 Piedmont avenue. Mr. McKee
recently took up in a general way
with Architect George E. Murphy
plans for an apartment on Piedmont
avenue, but nothing further lias been
done.
iana, Texas\and Mississippi, unless
they can find it in some particular
I community where conditions are ex
i actly similar. Texas is so entirely’ dif
ferent as to be of scarcely any value.
The weevil will never be an affliction
in Texas that it will be In Georgia.
In Louisiana the weevil is as bad as
‘ he will ever be in Georgia, perhaps* a
i little worse, on account of the ranker
cotton vegetation and favorable win
ter quarters for the weevil in Spanish
moss, but the lands of Louisiana are
• so much more fertile the expense of
fertilizer niil, that the glowers of cot
ton can get from three-quarters of a
j bale to a bale an acre with the weevil
. present, provided the insect is prop
-1 i erly opposed. Georgia Linds, as an
j average, are not so fertile and pro
l ductive, and what with the cost of
fertilizer and perhaps the higher cost
' of fighting the weevil, the cutton
saved may prove short of paying ex
penses.
Loss m Some States.
Unquestionably there is cotton ‘n
Mississippi and Alabama which would
not more than pay for'its growing
, were the weevil not present. The ex
pense of fighting the weevil has been
added and the cotton is a loss. The
tenants who have grown it are mak
ing a living working by wage for saw
mills or for farmers who have diversi
fied crop*.
With al: the enlightenment that can
be received from States that have
faced and contested trie boll weevil
problem, it remains for tach com
munity to meet its own phase of th«
problem. How to fight the weevil
can be learned from the outside, but
whether it will pay to continue to
grow cotton has to be determined by
experience.
While the last word about how to
fight the boll weevil may not have y t
been said, the merchant and banker
would do well to be conservative and
recommend only such methods is
have been thoroughly tried by farm
ers and found the most useful.
Every drummer, business man. etc.,
will be ready on every occasion to ad
vance a theory. Some may claim that
they know it has worked. While there
can bi- no harm done in experment
ing, provided wetl-knpwn methods »r.
continued, it is dangerous to rely
upon any other than the most ap
proved way. The Federal farm dem
onstration worx a.is recommended th
plan which farmers sty Is practb-.i
and which plan they almost univer
sally adopt. The farm demonstri
tion agents of Western Georgia t <•
prepared to tell the farmers what tn;s
plan is and huw it must be applied.
Bankers Should Get Busy.
It necessarily follows that if tlx*
bankers and farmers take the stand
that they will finance only a limited
amount of cotton thev will be ask* i
what crops the;, wi : finance. Arc th*-
bankers and merchants prepared to |
answer the question? Local condi-1
tlons will make diff rent answers. '
Marketing facilities will cut some fig
ure. Unless the banker and merchant
have worked out the problem, row is
the time to ge*. ready. They should
make no mistakes. The information
on which they should base their i ’.-
vice shouh] be from the best possible
source. The information may not be
available in the r county. As a rule,
I there are dnlv a few men who have
studied agriculture in its broadest ap
plication. who know "soils, crop
adaptability, marketing possibilities,
that can give intelligent answers. T i
local bankers and merchants would i
do well to get in touch with heads of
agricultural colleges and > et the ben
efit of the Information which they
can give.
Talk Rotation of Crops.
Whatever new crops the banker* i
and merchants determine to adv se
should be remembered that best re- 1
salts will ndT be obtained unless there
is a rotation of crops, included xn'.
which rotation there should be a
legume grown at least once every
three years. It must be borne in mind,
too, that lands w hi'h hnvt- been
cropped with cotton for years are de
( ficlent in organic or vegetable ma:-
■ ter, and that all the stalks, stubbh .
' grass or cr<i, s that can 1
plowed under should b»* incorporate D
into the soil. The githering of d
bris from -he bind and b: ruing It is ,
robbing the land of what it most ;
I needs.
When answering wh: t nevs < r ;
; must be mown, bear in nrnd th *t ,
permanently su- cessfal agricult ’r* i
’and animal huy’.iandry go togeth*- \
INo farruer s nott i« so good as th*.
farmer's whose lands feed cattlo. |
sheep, hogs, and .'hose work stock!
is bred on the farm |
STONE POPULAR IN HOUSEBUILDING;
CHIMNEYS FURNISH STRIKING EFFECT
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Houses of the pretentions kind in Atlanta are eallin<r more and more for stone foundations and chimneys, and in many cases.
; for ail stone. An interesting fact in this connection is that ;>ra<« icull.v :dl of this material is quarried around Atlanta. There
ar-quarries all over the county, and frequently the hou<r-lmjld<-r in the country finds enough stone on his acreage to supply his
house. Ihe dwelling shown in the illustration is < . 11. ( amlier >in Inman Park. Note the striking effect of stone foundations
and chimneys.
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FOB MEBJTlflffi
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Public Taste Changes and Mer
chants Seek to Meet Needs.
Summary of Expenditures.
Merchants in downtown sections
are spending half a million dollars a
year in changes 6n buildings. This
work includes new stole fronts, me.,
zanine floors, skylights, shelves,
I counters, elevators and similar im
l provements to meet the needs of a
public that is constantly growing more
discriminating.
Many of the luiildings of old At
lanta are giving way to the influence
of the new city which has sprung up
in the last few years Structures*
which did v«*ry well for ordinary pur
poses a score of years ago are not at
all suitable to twentieth centurv uses.
Alteraiions, tnerefore, are constantly
going on.
In rhe first eight and one-half
months of 1913 a total of $238,390 was
spent in t’.iis way. The items in the
figures are alterations, additions and
changes of store fronts, of which al- ■
terations furnish far the greatest to- 1
tai. The largest outlay for alterations*'
this year has been by the Chamber of [
<’ nnnurce on its new home at North j
1 Fryer street and Auburn avenue. SSO.- !
and the next by the McKenzie I
Building Company, at Nos. 6-8 De- '
catur street, $41,500. Foote & Da
vies spent $14,000 at North Pryor
street and Edgewood avenue; Rosser
& Porter $15,000 on the old Dough
orty-Little-Redwine building on North
Pryor street, south of Auburn ave
nue; the Masons’ Annuity slo,oou at
Edgewood avenue and Ivy street; the
i Masonic Temple SIO,OOO at Peachtree
i and Cain streets; Eugene V. Haynes
' 310,000 at No. 49 Whitehall, and John
W. Grant $12,500 at No. 95 White
hall.
Store fronts are gradually being
made more attractive, and the new
arrangement frequently calls for stone
bases where brick used to be. Among
such changes have been those ol
Eiseman .Bros., the Cerf Tailoring
Company and the Hightower Hard
ware Company, on Whitehall, and of
M. L. Thrower, at No. 22 West Mitch
ell street, and Sig Samuels, al South
Forsyth and West Mitchell streets
Store fronts have also been changed
I as noted above in building alterations.
I FOUR COTTAGES SOLD
THROUGH WEST AGENCY
Genual A. J West has bought from
i J. A. Nowell, through A. J. & H. F.
West, No. 410 Davis street, a six
( room cottage on a 50 by 175 foot lot.
for 51.250 cash.
The West agency also reports the
sale «>f Nos. 510, 512 and 514 Chest
nut street, three five-room cottages
on a 130 by 16* foot lot, to Miss
Clifford Morgan West from J. W. and
fl. Ellison G.r $2,750.
RESIDENCE PROPERTIES
ARE SOLD FOR $21,000
.vhx Reaves has sold to a client of'
W. P. Clark, of the Everett X- Ev» ’ Ptt i
j real estate ageru y. No. 104 East Ellis j
street for and to another
• lient of this Nos. 68 and 70 •
i West Linden street, corner of Wil- |
i liams street, a store and residence, •
I for 8,500. I
■Benefit to Entire City ■
In Whitehall Regrading
Last Objection Overcome ami Work Will Start!
Ort. 15—Land Values to Jump.
Property owners in the path of re
grading on Whitehall street are ar
ranging to adjust themselves to the
new conditions following announce
ment that Mayor Woodward had
indorsed this project unco iditionally
and that work will actually start Oc
tober 15.
The withdrawal <u all formidable
oppesition to this improvement
marks the end of a tight tint: has lasi
cd actively two yc:.rs or more, aad
which has been w; cd by people who
are seeking to open up the south
side to a more easy operation of
trade and traffic
r’or years the dip” at Brotbert-m
street has kept the city’s retail dis
trict from growing south,vaid and
has depressed property v: Im s. Now
there will be a fill of eight feet at
this point and a < oyrespondii g cut of
eight feet at Trinity avenue, two
blocks northward. Brotherton street
| is at a sharp turn in Whitehall, two
! short blocks north of the South For
syth street intersection, ami the till
; of eight feet and th- nforem - itioae I
I cut win make an easy grade up to
1 Mitchel! st rm t
Business District to Extend.
The cost of tt-e work is estimated
at $47 000. $30,000 being needed from
the city and $17,000 having be, n
guaranteed by properly owners. It
Is the plan eventually to extend this
Work to the railroad tracks nt West
End. in which case the cost «ill nec
essarily be much greater
Up to the present time retail stores
have not gone to any extent below
Trinity avenue, but after the regrad
ing is done it Is believed that I <
b isiness district will b extended to
the Intersection < f Forsyth street, nd
the Improvement ol the 11 ter street
together with developments around
the Terminal Station. w : !l add ■.neatly
to a commercial area that has bec:i
badly cramped for years. Not only
this, but it is pointed out that, the
Crowded Districts
Cause of High Rents
i
High rents don’t affect the average
grocery store, according to J. It
Smith, , f the r> al estate firm of
Smith & Ewing, in adding to the dis
cussion which has artsen over the
cost of living in Atlanta. They affel
directly only those businesses wid b
are located in the central zone, where I
the rents ir, naturally high. ~
‘■Renting prices are where they are
in the een'ra! district.” de. inrod Mr. j
Smith, “I,' cause of tile (lisim 1 nati -n
> whi -la j h:<v.- to spr. u! out ov-r :
! a larger area. When it becomes pos-
I slble to enlarge this greatly conges'
‘ area, it will be possible eith. r to r -
I dm-.- rents ‘-r to ks.-p them from go- i
I Inga good deal hlg ur W, an- boon )
'to get away sooni r or later to tin
I sections wher.. -‘properly Is low at
i price ami where trad< can be Indue
I ■■ t xist in im asurn.'
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1913
- | tributary streets, that is, the streets
between Forsyth and Whitehall, will
. be built up wonderfully.
Limits of District.
' The ultimate consummation of this
scheme would mean that the city’s
retail district in general would fall
in the territory bounded on the east
“ by Pryor street, on the south by a
point nt Forsyth and Whitehall, on
the west by Forsyth street, and on
I the north by a point at Peachtree
' and Not th Forsyth streets. Varying
from these bounds would, of course, ■
be the sub-sections radiating east
ward and westward from Peachtree
and Whitehall, such as Marietta
street. Decr-tur street. Edgewood
avenue. Hou ton street, and East and
West Mitchell streets. The plaza
plan of bridging the railroad tracks ■
. would tit admirably into the general
'! scheme.
Any limit fixed for the retail dis-
■ f rift would necessarily include a few
whob sale houses which have begun
.to si, ! the South Side almost ex- 1
jcl tsiveiy Where the retail district
ends and the wholesale district be- ;
■ im; is bard to detine, but in general i
j the limits outlined exist for the for- ,
mer. Wholesale dealers, by the way, ,
are rejoicing that the southern head
tiuarters of Fairbanks, Morse & Co.,
of Uhieago. are to be on lower White
hall. according to announcement of
Saturday, and that a new freight ter
minal is to be built to care for the
wholesale trade.
Another effect of Whitehall regrad
ing is expected to be a readjustment
>f Son’ll Side prices, which certain
j real estate men contend have long ,
imen t'«> low Luckie and Peachtree. ! ,
! for instance, is set down at SB,OOO
a front foot, ami land the same dis- 1
'nrice on the other side of the rail- '
: 'old tracks, at Mitch il street. $3,000 1
Baker street is put at $2,000 a f<s>t t
ad th* Forsyth street junction at ;
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I Realty Men Gather
At Prandial Board ;
t
Members of the Atlanta Real Es- i
rate Board .ire await’ng with a great 1
i Lf.il of p t asure th»‘ir next monthly s
lun heon. TheUancheon for Septcm- i
ber at th Hotel Ansley Friday was <
si ch *i suet essful affair that the real- i
i ty n want to rep it it as early is*j
I p<».--ihlt. and it has been suggested
I th;»t tv.<> luncheons be held each I
! month instead of one. '
The fallowing attended: Harris G
■ W pr»- iurnt of the board; Gen-
r:H A. j. West, J. H. Ewing. John H
i Maddo.x M. I). Eubanks. Hal Steed,
’ L I’■ G rrnan. Jr. F. It Graham.
I Fitzhugh • Kn.-x, H. . Dillin. T. B. t
G;tv J« <•: ii ’ Givi n .R. L. Turman .
<’h r -< P. Glover. \V. A. Foster. P
A. * Vhi-n. H. W. Dews. Van H Smith,
i i , t i > . (’ 1> GiHowav G. T. R. t
Er . r W H F Hamilton. Edgar;!
Morris, J- hn I>. Babbage. Charles L. i t
, Gr> • * . Wail • r Duns-m, M. C. Kls-r. :
1 L W •»* i ! ;ht ib<•gf H. Bonnell, A. B. t
• J. V i f <-lev. Eugene S. Kt : t
‘*r ; n is I- r lt. ••. <' Radford and ■ r
J M. George D
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Apartment and Dwelling Business
on Boom—Advance Greater in
Proportion Than Population.
Growth of the apartment houst
business in Atlanta is strikingly illus
trated in figures taken from the oflic*
of Building Inspec tor Ed R. Hays. Th*
city is erecting three apartments .n
1913 where it built one five years agj
During the first six months in 1913
there were thirteen apartments bulk,
an average of more than two a mont<-
or a total of 26 a year. The total
of these war $314,200, or an average
of $25,000 per apartment.
During the first six months in
eleven apartments were built at a con:
of $95,250, or an average of $8,659.
A comparison of these figures show***
a big increase in price of apartments
rather than In number. The higher’
priced structure during the period *n
1913 was $168,000 and in the yeir
1908 $27,250.
The number of dwellings in the pe
riod jumped nearly 100 per eeht. m
did the cost. There were 398 in 190 S
and 612 in 1913, and the respective
aggregate costs were $815,320 and
$1,435,026, a difference of $629,706.
These increases are much greater
than the population increase in thd
same time.
Locating Tenants
for Skyscrapers
The question of where tenants arje
coming from to occupy new office
buildings is not worrying managers of
the buildings very much, since it Is
remembered that skyscraper space
has never yet gone "begging.” Many
tenants will come from outside cities,
and many will move from cramped
quarters which they have been forced
to take because they couldn’t locate
in other*office buildings. A few wil!
change from the older skyscrapers to
the newer ones.
The policy of the management of
the Hurt Building is not to canvass
fur tenants until the said prAspects
have first made inquiry about floor
space, in fact, this is t onsidered the
1-roper thing by practically all local
office building managers, who make
no effort to disturb tenants satisfied
in other locations.*
FIFTEEN LOTS SOLD
IN NEW SUBDIVISION
A new subdivision of 90 lots worth
$6t».900, known as Eastman Park, has
been opened by the owner, Frank C.
Eastman, just east of E. W. Grove’s
Fortified Hills on the western side of
the city Fifteen lots have recently
been s<»ld at prices ranging from s4oo
to $1,200.
The tract is wooded aud lies less
than three miles from the center of
the city. Mrs. M. R. Randolph, who
recently entered the real estate busi
ness. is assisting in selling the lots.: