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SIX REAL ESTATE NEWS ■< ».. Ain Hr# Eggs for Hatching $1 Per Setting g. C. White foghorn. Inman Runner Duel*. Agents for Xrnv Tneubntors and Brooders. DUNNINOTON POULTRY RANCH Phone 7521. R F. D. Augusta, Ga. For Sale Cheap At No. One (1) East Clifton Avenue, North Augusta, there is an eight (H) room, two (2) story house on a good hig lot that is a pick uj> at s2.<><»<U><>. Small cash payment, balance $12.50 per month. This proposition is all right, and someone is going to g< t a nice home at a bargain, all because the owner is moving away. Jas. R. League & Co. 212 UNION SAVINGS BANK BUILDING. Phone 17H. A BROAD PIAZZA is one of the luxuries of our Southern homes—and in this house you have this luxury. We offer for rent during the Summer months to approved ten ant one of the most attractive homes in QROVETOWN House contains eight rooms, completely fur nished, screened throughout, two baths, water works, gas, servants’ quarters, garage. Apply to GOODWIN l DUVALL 2 and 3 Union Savings Bank Bldg. LOOK_AT THIS Mr. Householder and Investor. Homo of the l>e-t lots on Monte Sano for sale so cheap you would he astounded if you knew the price. Not only are the lots cheap, dirt cheap, but you can make the terms yourself, and in addition to all of that you will not have to pay interest or taxes until paid for. This is your opportunity. See me early Monday morning. Clifford R . Dawson REAL ESTATE. 311 Union Savings Bank Bldg. Augusta, Ga. Phone 3077 W. T. Houston & Co. Sells $40,980 in Month The firm of W. T, Houston ft Co, matin «n extraordinary showing In the amount oT real estate transfers made through them lent month. It has lu'i'ii very saidotn in Au gusta's history that n real estate firm has made such a showing hh this, hut wo enumerate tho vsrlous transfers Mew, which totals over *lO 000. Tuxedo Park lots entne* first with MOST INTERESTING REVIEW OF AUGUSTA REAL ESTATE Mr. R. Rov Goodwin, of the Firm of Goodwin & Duvall, Waxed Eloquent in Discussing Real Estate Yesterday When seen by a Ifrrn'd mpreiMintatlve ye ate May find i**kM for tin interview Mr, OooeSwln, n* iiaiihl, win ve*ry bu«x blit hh Id be* could not derllfir* to diN niAA a subject ao deny to b n b<*nrt an real estrtte: “Hex eral years Mid Mr. Oood wln. “there wha a feed lire delivered In AllKilAtu under ttie title of 'A«Te* of IM i rnondn.' It w;»a not rnv |ile:iaure to tienr ttda lecture but tt w:i* very fav orably commented on ley theme* who b iel the opportunity of heaviiiK It. In the main it elwelt upon ttie ignoring of b eri! opportunity and the going aft** Imaginary gain* In other pines*. “To nix mind, thin lecture wan nn ex cellent II hurt rat ion «*f what ha a occurred In Auguiun in recent yanfn. Mmy < f eeiir progrsnilvi and at the aarnci time coriMcrvatlvc business men have **nt large (|ii.i ntitieA of *goo<V money after 'bud.' They have been Influenced bv promlaen of gr**;it rtturns to Invert thetr money in all Aorta of Achemea. In fact I wan told on one occasion by n stork hrviker. that he bad n Mat of tin* Au gttfrtn ‘Kaay MaTka’ and It would coriAerv.itlve» to eatlmnte In the laat ten yenra at leant a hi If million dollar* baa been b at In fake enterprlaea and atork apeculatlona. “Augusta real eatnte hna been ignored. We men who have been engag/d In thia bualneaa for yeara. realist that It h s hern an uphill Job to Intercat the monied people In the purchase of Au guAta realty, particularly well located I’rood atreet property. “There may bax’e been cauaea for thl« lack «»f Interest on the part of our lor I investor.*. The freahet of 190 S and the freabet of 1912, nf neceaalty gave Broad street property « black eye, but with Hie woik already completed on the levee and with tin* assurance that thle wink will be brought to »r speedy conclusion, t hereby giving Augusta practically an absolute guarantee against overflows, tills former criticism cannot now he di rected at our bualneaa property. “It Is an open secret In real estate cir cles, that business property in Spartan burg, Greenville. Columbia, Macon and other towns of the size of Augusta, Is selling at from twenty-five to fifty p«i* cent higher per front foot than our Au gusta property. “It would seem, however, that we have BEARING B 9 DEAD, STEAMED AMID SILENCE, STEAMS INTO ST. JOHNS Tell Awful Story of Suffering Men in Blizzard. For Two Days and Nights Helpless men in Ice Floes. Some Were Raving, Others Were Ice Blind. I St. Johns, N F. Amid silence Ilk.* a funeral hush the sealing steamer Helm- | venture unearned slowly up the harbor at usk toil iv, heaving sixty-nine of the dead and fifty of the crippled survivors of the disaster that overtook hunters from the steamer New Koundland on the .• f!..is near ellllc Isle Straits In last ’lurhdty's blizzard. Thirteen of the living were removed to a hospital In a critical condition. SeviVal others were aertqyisly 111 and all hut one <>f the remainder bore seats of iheti thlrtv-eight hours' exposure 111 the Arctic g tie in which seventy-seven of their comimnions met death. This tin* n.lutvd survivor vus stricken blind after being picked up. but it is believed he will v«»« over bis sight Five thousand persons. many of them telutlvcs of the v.rtlm*. Imd lined every v.nitftKc point alonf the harbor front 11 day, walling f r the Itellaventure * arrival and foi some new* of the misus ing scaler Southern Floss, catTylng men. Not a word has been heard from the latter vessel Vince she wav seen tirl\ tig before the vtorm Tuesday morn ing Hope aroused by report* that she had made harbor were dashed when In \ es* Igat ion proved an error 111 identifi cation had been made. , 1 here at 111 l* faUh In many quarters that the Southern Fross weathered the bllsvnrv). No wreckage hue been re ported In the absence of rtoverndf Davidson and Premier Morris, the acting premier, Mr lienneit, ulreeted the work of car ing for the dead and wounded. Kvery physician and nurse In the city volun teered Pv service. They were aided by squads from the naval reserve slop Cal ypso, and various military organisa tion*. The new (Irenfell institute was turned into ii morgue. The d waster which overtook the New Koundland's huntevs was unavoldube, acc rdlng to Captain Randell, of the He lis venture, Tuesday dawned some what overcast, but with no hint of bits sard conditions, lie said, so that It wn« quite perm enable to put men on the ice after seals. Arctic Suddenness. The storm broke with typical Arctic suddenness. The hunters from the He» laventure and the Plortsel were fortunate enough to reach their ships sitely. The Hiepheno's men, being near the Florise*. hurried on board her. The Stephan*, meanwhile, steamed towards the *po% where her crew had been seen before the snow shut In This took her away from the New PoundlamVs gr> up. who were far from their own ship. As s s>n ms the Stephano was noels ted b\ the FlortaeTs wireless of the safety of her men, she heeded Kick Into the storm to pick up the N« w K umlalnd's hunters it was impossible to see a ship's length ahead Into the snow curtain, ano when the Stephana's captain thought he was within a mile of the stranded hunt ers he lay to and kept his whistle going in the hope that they might be guldeq towards him. As hours passed and net a man re ported. he concluded all had reached their own ships. Hut the New Found- THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA. a total or S*B,OOA. Kitchen estate- to F P Fleming Farm on Dean Bridge Hoad. s'-’.700. G W. Shackelford to Mr. N. A MoKlmtirray, roddem on Fenwick Street. »*.*:,o, .1 l„ Williams to J. It Reynolds cottage on Meyer Street. *B7.n, Mr Houston stat -d that the out look for selling iHrma u* well na city property Ih unusually good thia hprint;. ranched the turning In the road and Hint the connervatlve investors have nt laat decided that It in better to buy Auguntu dirt than to send theft- nr ney after InuiKlnary tiroftln. During my twelve yearn' experience an a real estate nalen rnan I have never necn a more active demand for well locatd business prop erty. "Hinee the first day of hart October. Ihe flrtn of Goodwin ft (auvail han Mild over tltiO.MO of bunlnenn property. In the main thin property han been lo cated between MoKlnne and Jacknon afreetn I am advlned t,v nearly all nf ttie purchanctn that they have been of fered and declined profit* on their pur clianen. and I c*|i nay Without lienita. lion, that I do not believe a single piece of property wlilcli we have nold ninco Octolier could not be nf Id w ithin ten dnyn to nlmw a handnome profit to the recent purchanern. “In conversation M>me weekn ngn writh one of the larK'St real entate operatorn In the West, who wan a guest at the Hampton Terrace Hotel, the ntaternem was made to me hy thin gentleman that he had- been in Augusta for two wicks and that lie had watched ttie town through tile experienced even nf a re > estate operator. He believed tlint Au gusta had it last awakened to the red ixatlon of Ins- resources, and that par ticularly well located property bought on a basis of loday'n market, would within a very limited number of years, show substantial profits. He thought so well of Augusta's future that he stated to me he wan willing to buy heavily In Augusta property, which we would recommend to him na being de sirable. “If thin Impression wan made upon an outsider, il seems ntn me that out local people might well follow title lead ership, and wc are beginning to believe that the investment public ts seeing Iltcre are acres nf diamonds in Augusta ready for them for the asking, and un less nil signs fall, Augusta In the next year nr two, will witness the most active re d .state market ever seen in Iter hla tta-y.” land had no wireless, and nil that day ■ hml Wednesday, while the blizzard raged with unabated fury*, the fleet remained in ignorance of the fate of the 150 uicn maVooned on the floes. On Thursday the weather cleared and the HeMaventure was making ready to start her men after seals again when a lookout reported men on the ice. Cap tain Randell Immediately ordered every available man on the ship to the rescue. The main party of castaways w«*e four miles away over a broken field of le% The Bella venture was driven toward FOR SALE On Thirteen Hundred Block cf Ellis street. I have n Two Story House of six rooms and Bath; also Cot tag? of three rooms. Will sell these separately or to gether and at very s»ttract ive prices. JOHN W. DICKEY them with all possible speed, but n.» hail were h ■ conditions that It rsqulrew time hours to cover the four miles. Only a Few Conscious. In the .meantime Captain Kandell's men hud re tebed tbs castaways. Only a few of the hardiest were conscious and aide let help tliemse.ves. Many Were In a stupor. Sums were raving, others had been stricken with Ice h induces. Many I >al . s were found frosen so fast In tin- Ice Hint pickaxes were necessary t„ (hop them out. Two of the survi vors were nearly mail front their own suffering* ami from grief. Kiel) hud w tilled a brother die 11. good fortune thirty of Hie New Koundlanil's hu s» » who had not stray ed far from the vessel had been aide to reach their Ship, else the death list un doubtedly would have been greatr. In tli meantime th- Htepliano had worked within striking distance and had picked nil a few of the survive*# and recovered a few bodies. Alter the Mtow-fllled hollows had been sen relied for more bodies the llelluven lure turned her prow homeward, bat tllrg severe be conditions and a second gale nearly all the way to port. Building Permits Il.obn: Mrs. Mary Klllott, one-story dwelling. 1314 Steed street. $150; Henry McKlne, repair fire damages. 1640’ Twiggs street. s:iuu. M. I>. Williams, change roof ing from shingles to metal, 907 Moore avenue. $ ifio T. J. Reid, one-story dwelling, corner W* st View and Edgar streets. $250: George Street, Sr., general re pairs. 1704 Jenkins street. 1X00.50: Moore estate, remodel resi dence, 1465 Broad. $1,000: C\ •}. W. Parnell, one-story residence, corner Moore avenue aipl Parnell street. s'.so: J. I). Thomas, one-story cot tage, Magnolia street, near Wrights tporo road. $1X0: W. F Burton, work on roof, .147. 349, 351 Taylor street. $1,300: Joseph A. Bailie, two one storv dwellings. 1471 and 1473 Cooper street. $2,800: G. Lloyd Preacher, three one story cottages, corner Drubl Park ave nue ami (iwlnnett street. $4,300: K. H \B*u-elsang. build resi dence. 1111 Milledge road. $4,050: Wm. E. Andrews, two-ksory residence, corner McDowell and Glenn streets. . $500; W. H. Hi rlson, Jr., one-story house, 1045 Marison street. $3,000: Lake Side Club, build club house, Broad street at Lake. MRS. C. M. HARRINGTON BUYS LOTS ON HICKMAN HOAD. Monte Fano lots continue to be sold every day. There is always a buyer ready and waiting for Hill property. A few days ago Mrs. C. M. Harrington bought three very desir able lots on Hickman Road for a con sideration ot $1,550. This transfer was made through Mr. Jos. W. Beasley; the property was sold by Mr. C. E. Miller. TRANSFERS MADE THROUGH D. W. MARKS. • Among the real estate sales this week were a couple of considerable Interest, made through D. W. Marks. House and lot on Wrightsboro Road was svild by Citizens Trust Co, to W B. Brawner for a consideration of *3,1 (tO. No. 1210 Gwinnett Street was sold by the Marks estate to J. W. Sweid, the consideration *2,100. Money To Loan ON REAL ESTATE. $10,(K)0 immediately available. T. 0. CARY Irish American Bank Building. Three Special Bargains For This Week That Must be Sold . INVESTMENT Here Is a 15 per cent Invetg ment for you. And n piece of prop erty that Is located near a bus.ness street and where property Is ad vancing In price. We arc offering for sale three new cottages that are rented to good tenants for 435.U0 per month. If sold this week cun be bought for *2.769.00. We would advise you to buy this proper ty. It U really worth more money than we are asking for It. BARGAINS IN LOTS We nre going to offer you n nice building lot at the foot of The Hill near Walton Way, with sewerage atpl water all ready on the lot, for $350.00, In order to sell It by 12 o'clock Monday. The lot Is worth *500.00. The other lot la located on Starnes street, near Wal ton Way that we ure going to sell for $500.00 and It Is worth *650. If you wish to buy a bargain this Is your opportunity. W. T. Houston & Co. Haris on Building. Phone 607. Augusta, Ga. For Sale Desirable two-story, G room frame residence on Woodlawn Ave.; very attractive inside and out; handsome wainscoted stairway; large lot; splendid neighborhood. Price $4,500 See ns for offerings of houses and lets in the city and on the Hill. Martin & Garrett 137 Jackson Street. REAL ESTATE—INSURANCE Walton Way Homes For Sale On the 1500 block *of Walton AVai' I have a six room Cottage, all conveniences, that I can sell very cheap and make terms to suit purchaser. Price, $2,200. On the 1600 block of Walton Way, a House of 8 rooms, all modern conveniences, on lot 40x160 ft. It is cheap at $3,200. Easy terms. On the 1500 block of Walton Way, a two-story House of 8 rooms, practically new, in perfect condi tion, and good neighborhood. This place is well worth $5,500, but will be sold to a quick buyer for $4,750. On the 1700 block of Walton Way, a two-story. 7-room House, built two years ago; all conven iences; large corner lot. Cheap at $4,500. JOSEPH W. BEASLEY Phone, 6868 W. 215 Dyer Bldg. POWER 0 The development of 40,000 Hydro-Electric Horsepower means much to Augusta—it should and very probably will treble the number of industries here. The power is available and cheap, and indus tries in other cities will take advantage of the many opportunities here. • Learn the Advantages of Augusta and Tell Every body About It SUNDAY. APRIL 3.