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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’”