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SATURDAY, HKI'TKMRRR 22, lww.
ANSLEY PARK AUCTION SALE
UL1TS#11 It se MONHY, SEPTEMBBI24 1:11 Ml.
Sale will begin on
Piedmont avenue near
the Driving Club.
if you want a high-
class let for a home
or speculation, don't
miss Ibis opportunity.
FOlRESTAND CEOnCE ADAIR
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WHAT JOHN TEMPLE 6RAVES SAYS OF ANSLEY PARK,
From The Georgian, September 17.
ATLANTA WILL NEVER KNOW
A RESIDENTIAL SECTION
TO SURPASS ANSLEY PARK
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
When the children of Edwin P. Ans-
ley are crown to manhood, they will
And that one of the etntelleat monu
ment of architecture and ityneetlc
beauty which adoma this famous city
will bear the name of their strenuous
and enterprising parent, who had tbe
sagacity to see, the liberality to spend,
and the tireless and. energetic courage
to dare the achievement which will
hand his name down on the list of
famous men among Atlanta’s bulldsra
and workers.
There Is never any need to consider
the question of advertising Ed. Ansley.
He advertises so largely himself In
the newspapers that no man ever
grudges him a notice that Is without
financial consideration, and he la so
constantly advertising the city of At
lanta and magnifying It at such
rate that he Is richly entitled to all
that Is said of him In this or any other
newspaivr In the city. To one whc
saw the broken chain of ru-ged and
ragged hills that lay along the Peach
tree Hoad from Fifteenth street out
ward a year ago, the changes that a
year has wrought, look a little short
ot marvelous. With an enterprise and
daring which fow men of his ags have
risen to, Mr. Ansley has expended near
ly 3160,000 In beautifying the magnifi
cent piece of residence property whose
possibilities he had the sagacity to
foresee some two years ago. If one
had no desire to buy or to Invest. It
would be worth a trip to Ansley- Park
and a study of Ansley Park just to
observe the possibilities that rest In
the landscape artist and the resolute
business man combined.
It Is no exs
annex to our _
which Edwin P. Ansley has framed,
must Inevitably become. In the course
of time, -the most beautiful and the
most elegant residence section ot At
lanta The very beauty and variety of
Its building sites, the hills and valleys,
the rolling slopes and the little Swit
zerland ravines, which Intersperse It
will make It Indeed the garden and the
ornament of all Atlanta's, residential
section. The city has never hod. and
In the nature of things can never have
a finer section of homes than this.
What Euclid Heights Is to Cleveland,
Ansley Park will be to Atlanta
One has only to look at the marble
mansion now going up for Mr. Wlne-
coff on one of those lovely elevations
and follow around the graceful curve
of Peachtree Circle to see Just what
transcendent residential loveliness Is
growing out of Ansley Park.
There are lots enough already sold
In Ansley Park to make Its power and
Its prosperity If no other purchaser
over came. But the demanp Is so rich
and so constant for this gilt-edged
property that Its prospects are simply
brilliant with promise tor profit and for
repute to Its enterprising founder.
Drive from Atlanta's court house
nut In the direction of Ansley Park.
Take a circle through the side streets
and a sweep through the lots that were
vacant two years ago, and everywhere
the observant will be struck with such
a remarkable growth and development
and eager a demand for building lots,
that It takes no prophet to foresee the
great glory that la coming to Ansley
Pork.
Not yet have these lots on AnVey
Park reached the high prices which
mark our Peachtree Road, but to those
who wait too long the time will come
when the man who has the honor and
the privilege to live In this beautiful
section will have to pay for It as he
pays today for the best lots on Peach
tree street within the older limits of
the city.
Without hesitation the writer coun
sels every ambitious young man who
aspires to live In the loveliest section
of his native or adopted city to util
ise the present opportunity, nnd, while
he may do so with comparative econ
omy, to purchase a lot In Ansley Park.
Get a plat and
drive through the park,
make pr selection
and attend the sale.
An aMute sale,
without reserve or
limit, to the highest
bidder.
ANSLEY BROS.
CHARLES M. ROBERTS.
Officers
Stats Society.
Prtsldsnt:
Dopcmt^ Gusrry,
tTivite,
Atlsotz.
8ecreUry*Trsssurer:
Dr. w. T. Jones,
Attests.
Annual 5teetlug In
May, 1107, at Macon.
SOCIOLOGICAL
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE—Rev. C. B. Wilmer, J.
D. Cleaton, E. Marvin Underwood, Dr. R. R. Kime.
Officers
Atlanta Society.
Trealdent:
Dr. R, R. Kltue.
Vice-President:
E. M. Underwood.
Secretary-Treasurer:
Dr. E. C. Cartledge.
Regular Meeting on
Hecond Thuredny
Night ot Each
Month at Carnegie
Library.
“ATLANTA A MODEL CITY’
The above Is the motto of the At
lanta Sociological Society, and If the
alms and ambitions of those compos
ing the membership are ever realized,
there Is no question mark attaohed to
the quotation. And more: When such
realisation takes place tt will be large
ly due to the growth of sentiment along
the policy pursued by the society.
Already the Influence for good this
society has exerted has been felt. The
employment of children In local liquor
houses was brought to public notice,
nnd the law correcting the error was
proposed, the ordinance framed and
pressed for passage by council, by
members of this organization.
The Atlanta Sodolorlcal Society Is
now bringing to bear a strong Influence
favoring the establishing of a system
of playgrounds for children In tho con-
Heated districts of the city. The es
tablishment of more permanent parks,
(epcctolly near the center of the city, Is
another end to which strong effort Is
being directed. Atlanta la building for
time, e\ ry year marks the occupation
"f more and more space, and the tow
ering structures are cutting off, pro-
portlonately, more and more of sun
light, and. In view of the fact that we
are "building for time," the question
comes forcibly home to everyone, How
long will It be until our central dis
tricts become as sweltering nnd suf
focating ovens, where labor of any
character will claim new victims dally?
And the suggestion Is not unreason
able. Other cities, populous and close
ly hullded, furnish examples of this In
their dally mortuary reports.
Sunstroke In Atlanta now Is practi
cally an unknown term. The reason
*e are fr-e from It la found In the
(oct that our high altitude and the
freedom of air circulation maka It Im
possible; cut off this freedom of cir
culation of pure air and our high alti
tude will not alone protect ua. And
thia is but one phaae of the question.
■Ureases that reap their richest hsrv-
J*t* In congested city districts will, In
hue time, begin their work In our fair
chy, too, and we will be scourged, as
ether cities are scourged.
The Atlanta Sociological Society, at
meeting on Thursday evening, the
llth Instant, discussed the question of
barks and Playgrounds for Children.”
“ml the enthusiasm aroused over the
discussion of the subject was most en-
Cou raging.
Mr Walter R. Brown, chairman of
tno hoard of park commissioners, led
, discussion of the evening, his sub-
l"t being, "Parks as an Investment.”
Ju t. aside from the pleasures and com-
‘" r ts Grant park alone afforded our
feature ot good derived from parka
Mr. Brown demonstrated the fact that
the park had been a paying Investment
to the city, In drawing large excursions
from neighboring towns to Atlanta,
when, on each occasion, there was a
large sum expended among the mer
chants, thus adding to the volume of
trade, and proportionately to the profits
ot our city business. Mr. Brown un
consciously Impressed his audience
with hts zeal and genuine Interezt In
the cauze of parkz for Atlanta, and
those present could but feel that, with
a free hand and fair, if not liberal,
support, the board, under such lead
ership, was bound fo accomplish still
greater things In the near future. We
say this ns warranted also by the Im
provements thnt have been made In
park circles; these, too, with small ap
portlnnments of funds. Tho city coun
ell has been unable to do for the
board any more than was needed for
running expenses. Next year It Is ex
pected that more liberal appropriations
will warrant a widening of the scope of
park work by the board, which, we are
assured, will be greatly pleasing to that
body.
Dr. Theo Toepel. physical director of
the public schools of the city, nnd an
enthusiastic sociologist, read a strong
paper upon the subject of playgrounds,
stressing the athletic feature, as so
very essential, as a developer of mus
cle and bone, and the producer of a
plentiful supply of rich red blood. Dr.
Tocpel's wide experience, thoughtful
study and extended observation lend
great force to whatever utterances he
makes upon this subject, and his paper
made a strong Impression.
Mrs. Warren Boyd, who has devoted
much thought to the subject, treated
It from the viewpoint of the economic,
social nnd hygienic value of parks. We
have been fortunate In securing n very
full and comprehensive resume of this
most Instructive paper, which we em
body herewith.
There Is nothing like successful ex
periment ns a support for theories pro.
mutgated, and practical application
was given of this in the timely ad
dresses of Mr. C. E. Folsom, a former
citizen of Minnesota, now a full-
fledged and loyal Atlanta citizen, and
Mr. J. f\ Logan, general secretary of
the Associated Charities of Atlanta.
Mr Folsom gave account of the recla
mation of a barren Island In the Mis
sissippi river at St. Raul, which had
been, within a few year* rendered the
most pleasant spot In all that section;
and, while the effort at first was ridi
culed as an unpromising and unproflt-
able project. It had. In these few years
become not only the pride and Joy "?
a great city, but It Is also a paying
Investment, while nffordlng bathing and
other facilities at such small cost as
to carry convlcltlon. If summed up In
the single statement that his experi
ment at Fair Street school yard dur
ing the past summer afforded health
ful sport, pleasant recreation and a
world of fun for sixty children for sixty
days upon an expenditure of gS7.dl.
THE IMPORTANCE OF
PARK8 AND PLAY GROUNDS.
(Mrs. Emma Garrett Boyd's Paper.)
The need of parks and play grounds
arises obviously from the concentra
tion of great masses of population In
cities. The consequent overcrowding
In our largest cities can scarcely be
realised. The eastern half of London
has only one acre of open epace to - - - .
evorv 7 4S1 nersonn’ tn Chlenen there looked. They not only lower the tem-
every J.tsi persons, in inieago mere hreeree
generation In tenements shows that
failure In appalling statistics; while the
identity of the lll-ventllated and dirty
with the vicious and poverty-stricken
districts has In It more than n mere
coincidence, our generation Is begin
ning to realise that disease and crime
are not merely the producers of crime,
but are ofttlmes Its product. Deprive
a child of fresh air, a sufficiency of
food, and decent surroundings, and you
can no Ihore expect to make a normal
being of him than you can expect a
perfect flower of a plum shut up- In
darkness and cut off from air and
water. Truly, "foul air prompts to
vice and oxygen to virtue." How Im
portant a life-saving agency proper
ventilation mny be Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes asserted when, In a speech ad
vocating parks, he said: "A single phy
sician by a single measure (the pro
vision of ventilation In a lylng-ln hos
pital) saved more lives than were lost
at Waterloo by the British army and
all Its allies, the Prussians alone ex
cepted."
But the physical uses of psrks are
not limited to the serving as mere ven
tilating shafts for fresh air; they offer
much needed opportunities for physi
cal exercise In their walks, ball
grounds, play grounds, drives, bridle
paths, etc.; they tempt many away
from streets and saloons who are
driven thither, particularly In large
elites, merely by the stifling streets
too strenuous and crowded, unattrac
tive homes, nor can their Invitation to
rest he regarded as useless In our too
strenuous American life.
Nor should the direct physical ser
vice of the trees In parks bo over
are 33 wards that average a population
of 4,730 to a single acre of park space,
while more than <00,000 people live
over a mile from any large park; In
New Tork 30 wards south of Fortieth
street have over a million of popula
tion to only 80 acres of parks; that Is,
there Is but one acre of park space to
every 11,500 people! No wonder Pres
ident Wilson, of the board of health,
reports that the population of New
Tork Is more dense In the tenement
house district than that of any other
civilised city from which returns have
been received. No wonder, with 1,018,-
135 people massed In these tenements
and almost completely cut off from the
fresh air of tree-covered areas, there
arises the fearful mortality that has
given so terrible a fame to New Tork
slums and so potent a warning to other
cities where rapid growth Is Inducing a
similar congestion. The summer mor
tality In New York rises about 3Q per
cent over the average for the year.
Little children are the chief sufferers
and in 1887 nearly 1,000 died In one
week. In Lung Block, a fearful struc
ture bounded by four streets and
swarming with 4.000 people, there are
over 400 dark rooms and 20 bed rooms
without windows of any sort, while
for nine years there has developed on
an average a new case of tuberculosis
for every 13 days, whole families hav
ing been wiped out In the same room.
Health authorities tell ub that there
Is practically no third generation In the
average New York tenement.
With hideous conditions such as
these In the largest cities of the world,
nnd with a constantly Increasing ten
dency toward such conditions In all
rapidly-growing cities, the first Impera
tive need for park* Is oblous—that
they may serve a* great ventilating
shafts In congested areas. The annual
E Braturc and help to circulate breezes,
ut by giving out oxygen and absorb
ing carbonic they directly promote
human vigor. Eminent authorities
claim, moreover, that they act ns bar
riers against disease by absorbing nox
ious vapors. Even tbe ancient Romans
recognised the value of such tree bar
riers against malaria and enforced the
planting of trees by law, ns the Roman
tablets bear witness, while Germany,
undoubtedly the foremost country In
the world In scientific knowledge,
places such a high value upon her
trees that a person is not allowed to
fell one, even upon his own premises,
without the consent of the authorities.
Moreover, parks doinot merely serve
to better the physical being of the peo
ple In cities; they have a psychic func
tion that Is less marked and yet of
great Importance. No one has ever
satisfactorily defined beauty or ac
counted for Us peculiar combination of
pleasure with rest and stimulus.
Yet about the beauty bf nature and
the beauty of human nature have been
woven practically all that we have ol
poetry and Imaginative literature.
It Is Incredible, and yet It Is true,
that nature Is absolutely unknown to
hundreds of thousands of dwellers In
big cities; that there are tenement chil
dren who have never seen so much a*
a plot of grass; that tenement workers
living In Inside rooms, without so much
as a glimpse of the sky, have been
terrified by the awful bigness of the
sky and quiet of the country. Civiliza
tion Is a development out of, not a
deviation from, nature. When It be
come* as complete a deviation as this,
then Its product la Inevltabls decay.
Resides Its physical and esthetic
functions, the park has yet another
that Is being generally recognized In
the greatezt of our cities—that Is, Its
educational function. Even the casual
visitor, consciously or unconsciously,
gains some knoweldge of native plant
and animal life while the untold delights
logical gardens and' botanical gardens
In parks have always been renters for
naturalists and botanists; but In the
f oist de;ode there has been a constant-
y growing movement to utilise parks
nnd park collections as direct material
for the nature study that has proved
Itself so popular and valuable In our
schools. In Washington, Boston and
other largo cities little children are
tnken In groups to tbs parks and there
study living plants and animals. Teach
ers are more and more realising the
Importance of the visual or objective
element In teaching and of training a
child to make his own observations and
deductions; In other words, to see and
think for himself. This method has
not yet reached Atlanta, except per
haps In sporadic cues. Grammar
school teachers who uslgn such sub
jects ns "Trees" for a one-page com
position to a fourth grads clus are
not yet extinct, nor are those who
ramble desperately through Carnegie
for material, Instead of studying the
specimens In their own school yards.
Nature study, propsrly speaking. Is not
study In books about nature, but the
first-hand observation of such facts as
go to make up books.
Akin to the movement to utilise parks
nnd park collections ns an Integral part
of the city's educntlonnl system Is
the movement to utilize bits ot waste
space ns little parks, Accessible to the
very poor, to tired mothers and to
babies, and the great and very recent
movement to supplement city parks by
a host of small playgrounds especially
for children. New York city Is author
ized by the lnws of 1887 to spend
$1,000,000 a year on small parks and
playgrounds; In Boston, Philadelphia,
Providence, Baltimore . and Chicago
such playgrounds have been most suc-
I cessful for several years. Of the play
ground established by th# University
Settlement In Chicago (he local lieu
tenant of the adjacent police station
saya that It hu saved not less than
fifteen lives from the elsctric car and
decreased juvenile arrests In th# vicin
ity by at least one-third.
But these playgrounds, established as
they are under trained supervisors, do
not merely save children from the dan
gers of the crowded streets, prevent
crime by employing the Idle, and teach
children respect for property In teach.
Ing them to respect the rights of oth'
era; they serve to satisfy what Is one
of the most fundamental rights and
needs of childhood. The Instinct to
play Is common to the young of all
animals, and play Is absolutely essen
tial to the proper physical develop
ment of young creatures. For this rea
son even roof playgrounds are being
established In some cities, while many
cities are opening yard aftqr yard of
their schools end placing them at the
service or the children not only In vaca
tion, but also after school hours. Such
a movement has been begun In At
lanta by the Associated Charities,
which this summer equipped Fair
Street school grounds and opened
them, under proper supervision, to the
children. The success of the experi
ment has been so great that a plan
Is already on foot to have the city
equip and open a number of other
school yards as an experiment for the
next summer.
It Is to be hoped that this move
ment will meet with heartiest success.
Already frequent accidents on the
streets attest the need of taking the
children away from the traffic for
play; the many Juvenile Idlers on the
streets are being constantly graduated
Into petty offenders; and the constant
ly widening area that has been denud
ed of trees and grass bears testimony
to ths Immediate need of Inviting spots
for recreation purposes. We boost that
our building permits are doubling every
two or thres years, but wo must b»
moat careful last we begin to congest
our central districts and then face, toe
late, a problem such as other cities
have faced. Increased by all the hor
ror of the length and fierceness of
Southern summers.
EMMA GARRETT BOYD.
8TRANQLED TO DEATHI
THROWN IN 8WAMP.
Special to Tbs Gsorgitn.
McRae, Oa., Sept. 22.—The body of a
negro woman was found dead In Gum
Swamp creek near here Thursday aft
ernoon, with her hands tied and a
cloth tied ovsr her face.
The body was Identified as the wife
of a laborer employed here ‘since June
by a sewer construction company In
laying the sewer system for the city ot
McRae.
The negro 'gave his name as Jeens
Anderson, and two weeks ago he mar
ried Rena Coleman, a daughter of a
negro preacher hers.
A coroner's Jury rendered a verdict
to the effect that the woman was
strangled to death and the body placi-1
In the water. Anderson has not been
caught.
exodus of the well-to-do to the coun _
try reveals their recognition of a great and animal life while the untold delights
;hl»~in~reaeh of all Mr. Lo- deficit on Ihe part of our cities; the' of a "soo" ore only equaled by Its pow-
*op,e, whlcl^ sfter ali, la tha main ^.W£h wSuId* forceful enough decimation of the second and third .» of Instruction. Orest aquaria, soo-
REMEMBER
The Great China and Glassware Sale
will go on all next week--everything
goes at a tremendous reduction.
We are closing out this department.
KING HARDWARE CO.,
55 PEACHTREE STREET.