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11E ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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ATLANTA’S RECORD-BREAKING YEAR IN BUILDING
PROMISES TO BE LEFT BEHIND BY GROWTH IN 1907
the oppressive or predHtory corporation*.
ExpressmenWill Have
Busy Days During
Big Rush.
UROCOi'CUU
BUT ONE CITY OF HEP SIZE
CAN COMPARE WITH HER IN
INCREASE IN BUILDINGS
Locair.g
liah on
Ramus' Magazine.
cn top
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Cost $75,000.
•ow or stores being built by J. W. Eng
Five Million Mark
Passed Long Before
Years’ End.
MANY HOMES AMONG
LIST OF STRUCTURES
$2,000,000, or 2-3 p<
only city that can be classed as At
lanta's size which has had as much
building us Atlanta.
“The building permits for Los An
geles will amount, I should say, to
about $11,000,000, as compared to ail
approximate $0,000,000 for this city.
When one considers that labor anil
material cost about one-third more
there than In Atlanta, the difference
dwindles down to a comparatively
small figure.
A Remarkable Year.
“1 consider that the year now about
to close has been the most remarkable
In the history of, Atlanta. There
building permit* represent substantial
growth. The $5,000,000 was not spent
for one building or for one hundred.
“It whs s^vent on new ntoren a* well
as new of:Ice building*, commodious
new cottages, as well as palatial Peach
tree street residences. It was spent
■*n business establishments, srnull and
iarge. In the suburbs a* well as In the
center of the city.”
This much for what has been done.
It’s easy to "dope** nut the statement
that if the building permit* for 1906
loubled the permits for 1905, then the
permits for 1907 should double those
If-Qf*. Hut dope Is dope. If the
pci mils for 1907 doubled those of 190G
land if 190S doubled those of 1907. ami
so on. why, In 50 or loo years New York
would be as a hamlet and the Atlanta
of t< day a wide place In the road.
This, however. Is a story of figures.
The books In the building Inspector's
office show that at the present time
the buildings and residence* In course
of construction uinount, in figures, to
about one million and a half dollars.
The actual figures on December 10
were 3*1,470,200. With this actually go
ing on at the beginning of the new
year. It Is fair to assume that much
more than $G.000,ooo in building permits
will be Issued before 1907 will have
joined the ranks of the past. This,
Camera Shows Many Exam
ples of Atlanta’s
Growth.
"I know hut one city In the United
Rtate* whose growth, us Indicated in
the building permits, has been as great
this year as the growth of Atlanta. This
ta I>on Angeles.”
Tills was the statement of Frank
Pittman, building Inspector. It was the
preface to some figures, which speak
louder and far more eloquently thun
Is the power of mere words.
Mr. Pittman said this on December
10. that date the building |»enults
for file year 1900 amounted to about
375,000‘nioro than five millions of dol
lar*. On that date the year before, the
permits amounted t« little more than
half this figure.
No one lies ever been heard to say
that 1905 was not a prosperous yeur for’
Atlanta. The growth was unprece
dented. Atlanta hud already come Into
bar own. Her population had Increased
by the thoiU'anda, Idle hand* were few
Mwl. had U wot been for Idle hrnlws,
would have been much fewer.
Tim buzz of the saw and the ilng of
the hninmer were heard In ull *<+t|oti*.
Capitalists, manufacturers, merchants,
clerks and manual laborer* shared alike
In the gieut good fortune that swept
over the city. New factories were
added to I he old and all were on a
boom. Handsome new residences were i
built and great apartment stores were i
enlarged io meet the Increased tie- i
rnands of a greatly Increased popula- i
lion.. Everywhere there was prosperity.
Were Nearly Doubled.
Yet, with ull this, the building per
mits Issued for the following year. 190«,
have been neurly twice ns great. On
December 10, to cite the actual figure*
AS taken from the building Inspector’s
booka, building permits to the amount
of $5,077,930 had been granted. For
the whole of 1905 the building permits
Issued amounted to $3,312,951.
round flguies the Increase In eleven
.months and one week of the present
year over the full twelve months of
8t. Luke's Episcopal church on Peachtree street. Will bo finished in a
few weeks end reed/ for worship.
Firet Christian Church r.t Pryor street and Trinity avenue to be com
pleted in e few weeks at a coot of $50,000,
rRANK A. PITTMAN.
Building Inspector, Who Predicts
Greet Things for. Atlanta.
Christmas day'. In fatt, the rush Is
even greater on that day.
Don’t Get Nervous.-
There Is one thing you must not do.
If you have_ had the tip from 8anta
Claus that.Jie Is sending you something
for Christmas and ydu don’t get it an
lime, don't get Impatient. Don’t go to
the office and w-orry the clerk* about
your package. If It I* Addressed you
w ill get It In time and If It I* not prop
erly addressed the expressmen will send
you a card telling you to cgll. If every
body expecting a package was to ask
for It and make the overworked ex
press employees look for that »partlcu-
lar package. It wrould be along about
New Year’s day before any packages at
all were delivered.
So don’t get In a rush. Let that he
for the expressman. He will be an
expert In the rush line. .
And above all don’t get eore at delay
and “cues out” the express employee*.
| Just remember that while you are en
joying yourself on Christmas they will
be working like (lends with a sandwich
for n dinner.
Yes. old Mr. Santa Claus ought to be
j thankful that he has a hundred ex-
1 pressmen in Atlanta to help him carry
his pack. And so ought the recipient of
these packages.
He couldn't get along witffbut the
expressman.
CON CRE 7E GROWS IN FA VOR
FOR USE IN BUILDINGS;
RE PL A CES W OOD IN HOMES
WHERE HONESTY IS DEMANDED.
Commenting on Kennlor Bailey’* con
duct mid predicament, the New York Even
ing Post siiy*: "Let no public man delude
himself by thluklug that he can flirt with
n trust mid retain the faith of hi* eon-
stitueut*. * We believe that this aentinient
1* genuine and widespread; yet It I* char-
icterlKtlc that n Southern state Mhotild be
the one to resent so promptly a mmumIiiI In
volving It* repre*entntlve. The Kouth doe*
not *lt passively under the Imputation that
Side of modern apartment house being erected at 249 West Peachtrte
street by E. M. Yow at a cost of about $90,000.
The prayers pt the righteous nvnllcth
much. SIIih florsford. a Connecticut farmer,
ha* Ihh>ii praying fur weeks for fodder,
plain fodder and nothing more, with which
Quoting Mr. Pittman further:
"Los Angeles Is not only the single
city that has hud a greater ratio of
Incre.iHe than Atlanta, but It Is the
htur.t.ey at i2w9
the building inspector says, Is a mod
est assumption.
Rapressnts tha People.
The best thing about the whole sit
uation Is that In this million and n half,
only two structures exceed $100,000.
These are the Atlanta, Hirininghaiu und
Atlantic railroad offices nt 4ti Walton
street, which will cost $200,000, and
the Louisville and Nashville freight de
pot on Central avenue, $230,000.
Of the buildings In course of con
struction there are 210 dwellings aver
aging $1,000 each, or $330,000 In all.
J There Isn’t a palatial homo In the lot,
j not a single office building, not a single
I large business establishment.
| It’s a million und a half dollars of
j building* In course of construction for
< the most part by the uveruge man and
the laborer. It reflects the prosperity
of the people ns a whole, and therefore
the city as a whole, and not the wealth
of u few Individual*.
New Apartment Houses.
A notuble fact In connection with the
nature of these buildings Is that sev
oral apartment house* and flats, some
! thing unknown to Atlanta until a few
1 years back’, appear In the list. At 249
! \yest Peachtree street Mr. E. M. Yow
j is having erected apartments, which
will cost I5S.090. At 139-41 Capitol
1 avenue. T. C. Laurens Is expending
$12,000 for apartments. Mrs. E. \V.
| MeCerren, of 101 Ponce DeLeon ave
nue. lias secured a permit for erecting
apartments which will cost $15,000. A
I similar sum I* being spent by J. M.
i Stephens for flats nt 26-K East Alex-
* under street. An apartment house I*
• also being built by the estate of V. V.
and H. Spalding at a cost of $10,700.
I To pits* Mr. Pittman again Into
| service:
“From what I tan learn, there will
j be In the neighborhood of u half dozen
steel framed apartment houses erected
during the coming year. There Is but
one building In Atlanta which can
| nroperly be called a steel framed
i a|Mirtment house, and this Is the Ma
jestic on Peachtree. 5li. Tow’s apart
ment house will be of steel."
Freign*. ccpot being built for the L. <1 N. railroad,
of re-inforced concrete and will cost $230,000.
Good Example.
j little Johnnie, having In Ul* possession *
j couple of iNiiitniu iirii*. which laid very
I itipall eggs, suddenly hit un n plan, doing
I tin* nest morning to the fowl ran. Johnnie’s
J fit Iter was surprised to And nil ostrich egg
[ tl.il l« on.* of llie Imwiii*. mi«l al*»vo It a
|<*anl. with the words:
"Keep your rye on this and do your beet."
-Tit-Hits.
By PAUL E. WILKES.
Old Mr. Santa Clau* would be a
hard-worked Individual If * he didn't
have help. He would probably throw
up the sponge and go out of business.
And then think of the thousands of
little hearts that w'ould not be light
ened with gladness and Joy on Christ
mas morning!
One of the tfhlef factors in helping
the old gentleman along with his load Is
the expressman. Santa Claus has to
use the express companies Just like he
has to dse the malls and his sleighs,
reindeer and nowaday*. his nutonnj*
biles. He<has so much business lie is
obliged to get a lift In this way.
If you don't think Santa Claus piles
up hard work on the Atlunta express
company employees just drop around to
the main office of the Southern Express
Company Thursday and take a peep In
there; for It Is on Thursday that the
big rush commences and It will con
tinue for several days after Christmas.
In ordinary times, when 8anta Claus
is not a customer of the express com
puny, about fifty men are employed in
addition to the wagon drivers. But
when Christmas time comes around an
other man for every employee Is put to
wmrk. Fifty additional men are em
ployed and even then everybody
hard worked.
The rush that begin* Thursday will
increase until It reaches the limit the
day before and on Christmas. Then It
will be that the fifty employees and the
fifty extra men will earn their mone:g
Everyone in a Hurry.
All day long there will be a big crowd
of people In the express offirfl with
packages under their arms, all trying
to get to the clerks at once. There will
be all sorts of confusion among the
people with packages, and above all
the noise will rise the voices of the
clerks In shouting out numbers and
’check marks to other clerks whoso,
pens and pencils dash furiously across
sheets of paper. There will be no rest
for the expressmen.
It Is a common thing for the Atlanta
office of the express company to send
»ff during one of -tnese rush days 10,000
packages from Hnnta Claus. Just think
of that number and then Imagine the
work required to get all those presents
away.
In addition to all the worry and
work, the expressmen are up agnlnst
another trouble. Many of the packages
are not properly wrapped. They have
flimsy covering around them and some
even are not addressed. To get them
light takes time.
In-coming Presents.
And It is about a* bad in the part of
the office where packages are received
for Atlanta folks from Santa Claus.
Boxes and packages nre piled high Into
the air and crowds of clerks are sorting
them out and preparing them for the
wagon drivers to deliver.
All these packages have passed
through the hands of express messen
gers on the trains and so heavy is the
rush that all of these have assistants
during the rush, and many of them
have to double bucksm completing their
run*. It’s none of the Christmas holi
days for their*. Instead it Is extra
work.
in ull thl* hustle and shuffle many
package* arrive In Atlanta with ad
dresses torn off and then there Is more
trouble. The clerks know’ and* realize
that somebody will be tllsappolnled be
cause the package that 1* expected from
old Hanta Claus does not arrive, but
how can they help It? They aye not
mind reader* and they don't ' know’
here H&nta Claus wanted them to go.
Ho It Is Just a case of wait until Hunts
Claus makes a kick about a (uu kare
not being delivered and then find out
where It was to go.
Because of this It Is a mighty good
„ .an to hold fast to receipts given by
the express company during Christmas
time and then you stand a bigger
hance of getting lost packages back or
their value.
All these thousands of packages that
arrive In Allan*- 'ally during the rush .. . „
have to be delivered and this Is where J*
lh« I rouble conic In for t|ie wugoii kmnr. Ik^nwtatom|J« un
driven. All day Ions and Into tint Lf U? '
plfbt they work. There 1* no rest os
It is made efitirsly
New Material Proves
Popular With the
Architects.
SEVERAL INSTANCES
OF USE IN CITY
Business Houses and Resi
dences Find it Worth
While.
It seems that the death knell of lures
wooden btdlding* In Atlanta Inn lieen
sounded.
In the long list of large building* nnd
residence* now In process of construction
here, not n single one Is being built of
wood, llrfck and steel and stone and mar
ble lire displacing the less substantial
building material*.
Concrete, however, ha* made It* debut
in the society of building material* In
Atlanta, ufnl I* forging to the front.
True, It ha* not yet established x firm
Mtiiudlng In ilie community of material*,
but never Hide* It Ih becoming recognlxciL
There are two kind* of-concrete being
used In the coii*trtic|loii of building* here—
ferro-concrete. or concrete ,
il the block concrete.
Atlanta terminal station I* built
Tin
offs. .
flic |<ou<*vllle and Nashville Is also being
constructed of thl* material. The Mg
warchoUNc being erected by V. If. Krelg-
"haber on Whitehall street will also be of
ferro-eoncrote.
This material la quite expensive. The
block concrete costs nlwut the same *•
brick. It looks very much like stone, nnd
I* very ornamental and decorative, as well
it* substantial.
The home of Kd Jlel'ntidies*, on Peach-
tree street. Is built of till* material; a* I*
also flint of Julius Watts, on Crescent nve-
Tl|»*.
Wnlfsbidmer'a market house nnd Wllker-
soli Bros.' store on Edge wood avenue are
lining constructed of block concrete.
Another reinforced concrete building et Msngum end Chepel etreets,
built by 8outhern Express Company at a cost of $35,000.
Not Limited to Dencors.
Look* as though Mayor Schmitz, of
8an Francisco, believed everybody
should pay the fiddler.—Cleveland
Press.
Whether Davises nud Vnrdamaus arc more i to feed hi* chickens through the winter.
I The other day n train was derailed near hi*
—- - -- home, a . car containing several limidred
. debatable question. Mr. Bailey
pressed hi* contempt for 'those public men
who think they must remain poor In order
to Im» considered Imnest.' Of course, poverty
for Its owu Mice Is nothing in a statesman's
fnvor. Yet It Is much to the Honth's credit
that her leaders, as a rule, have not bar
tered ti scrupulous sense of public honor
for any other consideration.”
Many times and from Northern ntul Re
publican sources have tributes been paid to
the South’s scum- of houesty and the
has very, few rich one*, ff they were all
honestly rich It would uot be to their dis
credit. Poverty Is not necessarily a virtue.
But poverty In a man who gives his time
and energies to public office when oppor
•rldenoe of his . ___ _
many such. Most Southerners retire fi-oiu
office poorer than when they fntered. It has
always lieeu so. In thl* respect the iuteg-i
"Alfred,” said Mrs. dayboy, “the pastor
is coming to make a call this evening, and
I wout you to treat blui with proper re
spect."
‘quin
tlclatit. Menial houesty
and rational frankness. Il Involves ... ....
courage which many lack. Mental dlshou-
csty Is more common than financial dis
honesty. Mental honesty raeaus also fairness
and Justice. The mentally honest may be
prudent of simeeb, but they do uot neck
to mislead or deceive or to eoneeol that
which should lie made kuowu. Seim tor
Bailey does not seein to bo as mentally
honest as be should he. Because of the lack
of It he has Injured himself Immeasurably.—
Nashville American.
Nona Loft in Bill.
“A college education.” declared the
enthusiastic mother, “brings out all
that Is good In a boy.”
"Yes,” retorted William’s father, “and
In Bill’s case I wish a little of it could
have stayed In.”—Cleveland Press.
Before Pittsburg’s Day.
”1 wonder If money really went fur
ther 100 years ago than It does today r*
"Possibly. But you must remember
it didn't go so fast.”—Cleveland PresB.
That’s Different.
"Luahly kept his glass upside down
moat of the time at the bamiuet the
other night.”
"Yes. and with one end of It In his
face”—Cleveland Press.
bushel* of corn wu* dumped Into Kiln* Imek
yard. Truly the ways of Providence are be
yond our understanding.—Bristol .Herald.
Interested In.”—Chicago Tribune.
Beautiful New Residence Erected at 1095 Peachtree Street by Harvey
Andersen of the Anderson Hardware Company.
Elegant marble residence being built for W. F. Winecoff on Peachtree
circle.