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11E ATLANTA GEORGIAN |;S|»AV. pnrnMBER 1?. lyi. 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 th l 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.