Newspaper Page Text
Ipeciai. numM
Augusta Growing Fast and On Solid Foundation
pews OF
kira SET PACE
B Standard Is One Rarely-
Bached By Men of Any Pro-
Bsion.
Bpista contractors have set a high
Bard rarely reached by th men
Ky profession. Both in the qual-
K their work and in the manner
Rich they have accomplished it
■ have proven themselves a body
■apable and honest city builders.
Bof graft and other unpleasant
Kres which have marked the
■ress of other cities has been con
gous here by its absence,
■splendid example of the integritv
■ugusta contractors is the fact,
(very few, if any, are on record
■bseonding and cheating their
|e o! the Hollingsworth Gandy Go,
' ■ ■■ ———
SAM TATE, President. ALEX ANDERSON, Ist V.P. & Gen. Mgr. HARRY H. MILES, 2nd Vice President. G. M. ATHERTON, Treasurer Wm. ANDERSON, Secretary
THE BLUE RIDGE MARBLE COMPANY
NELSON, GEORGIA
CONTRACTORS OF FINISHED WORK IN GEORGIA MARBLE
INTERIOR 5 D R.T H 1 BUILDING
EXTERIOR iVI I\ HDii Hi MONUMENTAL
... , ~, ■ .. '' * ' ' >
i§
The Blue Ridge Marble Company’s marble will be used in the building of Augusta’s new Post
Office. Also marble for use in The Chronicle building in this city
and other of G. Lloyd Preacher’s important work.
The U. S. Government Uses It
Canada Uses It Cuba Uses It Hawaii Uses It
Used in Fulton County Court House
Some Representative Examples of Our Work
Recent Contracts
Manufacturers and Traders’ National Bank,
Buffalo, N. Y.
New Orleans Postoffice.
Gettysburg, Pa., Postoffice.
Miami, Fla., Postoffice.
oS I ,? Ug many have made
conditions Thp’ A beeause of various
me-ts hit' J , Augusta contractor
meas his obligations. He considers
the preservation of his reputation
a “ d Peace of conscience of greater
value to him than a portly purse
t As „ a matt ? r of fact, local contrao.
tors, as a rule, will stick too long to
osing contracts and thereby injure
themselves when they would be en
worlf Justllled in abandoning the
D J n “i lle cases out of ten, it is prob
ably the fault of the man who, lets
the contract, and the fault of the man
who is awarded it, that a contractor
is sometimes driven in rare cases to
practices that should be condemned
In such instances the root of the trou
ble usually lies in unfair specifica
tions, or in other unreasonable de
mands. ij
Contractors Usually Conservative.
The contractor is a good liver of
the city. Nearly of them make
money, but the Augusta contractor
modestly declines credit for the some
wnat ridiculous general belief that it
takes a first-class man just a few
years to amass a great fortune and
at his death leaves millions for his
heirs to throw at all sorts of birds
from Broadway to Monte Carlo. How
ever, they make no bones that such a
state of affairs would prove entirely
desirable and welcome, but they, who
deal in other people's money, realize
as no other can how hard it is to
separate a man in any unseemly
hatches, honestly. Augusta contrac
tors, however, do make money, and
good money and live comfortably and
hones uy.
A fair contract and equitable speci
fications, with intelligent inspection,
go a long way to insure the honesty
and integrity of contractors and as
long as these ‘exist there is no good
reason to believe that the standard of
integrity among local contractors will
not remain the highest in the world.
The high standard of manhood and
uprightness maintained among them
of course is responsible in a large
measure for the almost entire lack of
political graft in the profession in
the city in the securing and awarding
of ipublic works contracts.
Facing Barrett Plaza Square
•—G. LLOYD PREACHER, Architect.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, UA.
In Atlanta
Fulton County Courthouse.
Fourth National Bank Building.
Candler Builling (interior).
Atlanta National Bank Building.
WILLIAM WILSON
Contractor, Painting anil Decorating
Work done in any part of the United States, our
specialty is decorating Churches, Theatres, Residences,
Public Buildings, and large painting contracts.
Inspect some of our Augusta work:
St. Joseph Catholic Schools (three buildings)
Augusta City Hospitals (four buildings)
The Augusta Chronicle Building
Or ask Mr. G. Lloyd Preacher.
Home Offices:
Forsyth Building
Atlanta, Ga.
Contracts Now on Hand
Art Museum. Cleveland, Ohio.
Augusta, Ga., Post office.
Capitol Building at Salt Lake City, Utah,
(Interior.)
“AUGUSTA IN 1914’”