The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914, April 11, 1909, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR THIS YEAR A BANNER ONE IN BUILDING OPERATIONS Work Aggregating Mil lions Now Under Way or in Prospect in and About the City. ‘ • A retrospect of building and con struction contracts issued within the last few weeks easily justified the prediction that the close of 1 9u9 will mark a banner year in point of pro-j press and general upbuilding i#T Au | gusta. Real Kstato was never morn active. Within tho lant week a d' al wa* clos ed for Summerville property that In volved the largest stun of money ever p-nld for a single residence, the trans fer of the home of the late Hon. Frank H. Miller being the case In point. There never was a truer saying than “where so much smoke Is visible there must be some fire." and the old adage lends color to the many ru mors that have been current recently regarding the erection of two splen did new hotels lu Augusta, one a corn rnerclal hostelry tn the heart of the business district, and the other a tour ist resort. Augusta Is assured a new theatre, snd there Is reason to believe that the next twelve months will find an other amusement place of high-class attractions in full swing The an nouncement of Mr. Juke Wells' lease of the MUlor-Wulker hall was the cut Dilnatlon of a business transaction whereby he acquired control of the place for five years to remodel the entire Interior uiai ill out a beautiful vaudeville tbeaiiV And for a long time It has been whispered that no gotlatlonsc are underway that will result, If carried through, In the es tubllshment of still another splendid vaudeville play house In the city. The construction of u levee by the city, und consequent elevation of the canal banks, will mean the turning Into circulation of several hundred dollars The Twin City Power Com pany will In the development of the Price's Island shoe Is employ severs! hundred men for at least a year. The Center street bridge will he built this summer. The development of the tleorgla-Carollmt Power Co., will nl so mean employment for many men, for good wages, most of which will be spent tn Augusta. Two new bank buildings are now in course of construction, and another bank will soon change ItH abode, no cessltatlng a liberal expenditure. Hand some new houses ar** going up In Summerville and other suburbs, llutldlng in the city has taken on marked activity. There Is not an idle contractor in the city. Collectively the operations repre sent an expenditure that will run In to the millions, and point a sure In dex to unparalleled prosperity. EREENE STREET PROPERTY SOU Among Ihr tlrods recorded at (hr rourt house Saturday was that of Mr. J. T. Arnold to Mrs. M. W. Arnold both of New York city. The sale wa tt house and lot at No. 1219 Green street. The sale Is shown to have been made December 24th. Tho price of the property was *5,200. Tho bouse |s one of the prettiest on upper Greene street. Mr. 11. H. Cummins* has sold n house and lot on Campbell street, iieur South Boundary to A. W. Wlm berly for $930. HARRIMAN’3 YACHT AT TAMPA. TAMBA. Flu The yacht Sultana, owned by E. H. llarrlmau, arrived here this afternoon front Now Orleans and will still tomorrow for I’enaaeola. A party of ten guests of Mr. Harrt mnn are on board, headed by Gen eral Manager Young, of the Southern l’aclflr. Mr. Hnrrlman may Join the yachting party nt Pensacola the weather. WABHli\; Ton, 1> e._ Fore cast : South Carolina und Georgia: Faif Sunday and Monday, with slowly rising temperature; mod erate variable winds, becoming south. FOR SALE HOMES ON GREENE, TELFAIR, . REYNOLDS AND ELLIS STS. A ' ===== APPLY ===== T. D. Carey Irish American Bank Building, Telephone 918 Augusta, Ga. MEDICAL COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT MAY FIRST * Rev. E. F. Dempsey Will Deliver tbe Baccalaureate Address at the Court House. The regular meeting of the Medical College faculty was held Saturday night. Routine business occupied the attention of the assemblage for a brief period, after which the details of commencement were taken up and discussed. Fiiral examinations begin tomorrow, and last until April 30, The fresh man, sophomore and Junior classes will be examined first. Then come the seniors, for a ten-day grind. They are required to stand about 12 ex aminations. Commencement exercises will be held on the evening of May 1, at the Richmond county court house. It has heretofore been the custom to hold the commencement at the Grand but for the date set this year the house has already been engaged. Rev. E. F. Dempsey, pastor of the Itroadway Methodist church will de liver the hhcoalaurcß.te address. Chau cellar Harrow of the University of Georgia will make an address and ten der the rlplomas. Judge James R. Lamar, president of the board of trustees of the Medical College will preside. Rev. George E. Gullle, pas tor of Greene street Presbyterian church will offer a prayer. Appro priate musical selections will inter sperse the program. The graduating class of ’lO num bers 22 students. Their work has been well done. They will go awav from the Medical College with the very best wishes and the congratula tions of the faculty for their thorough preparation, and a bright future Is In store for them. The members of the class are as follows: Walter Bonner King, Georgo Causing Carpenter, Charles OBcar Bates, Everett .James Stothart, Ben iamin Arastus Deal, Calmus Hinton, Ralph Freeman, Franklin Cullen Harp, John Randolpt, Gum pert Ilenry St off el Gelnken, Herber Jones Norton (Jutnney Arnold Mulkey, Joseph Ham ilton McCleskey, William Wyoltff mills, Walter Elliott Simmons, Jas. Carlton Holliday, Thomas Rufus Ay cock, Cleveland Thompson, Sheddio l slier, Edward Payson While, Chs White Churchill, Bry son. 51 SLASHED SEEK SCALP Joint Murray Worsted in Fight With Another Darkey, Who Has Not Been Captured, and is at Lamar Hospital. As the result of what appeaYs to have been a drunken fight between two negroes, John Murray uod an other whoso name Ims not been learn ed, on May avenue, a while after midnight Saturday night, the former Is at tho Lamar hospital with sev eral dirk cuts, nnd hts assailant is wanted by r the police, Murray was slashed across the top of the head, the dirk laying open hts rcnlp lu a slit five inehes long, as deep as the pericranium, has fourth linger of tho left hard was cut off, ami the thumb decorated with a complete ring He suffered (yom loks of blood and was revived from a comatose condition soon after being taken to the hospital. He was drink ing and refused to give the Internes particulars of his difficulty. He has a fair chance of recovery. JAY GOULD IS CHAMPION. BOSTON. Jay Gqytd, the Interna t tonal court tennis champion, sue cessfullv defended Ills title of Amer ican champion in n hard fought con test with Joshua Crane today The scores were 6-5; 20; 6-3; 6-3. Mr t-rane has won the champions!* p several years Until the entry of Mr Gould upon tho sport, he was one of the best experts in this country WANT TO RETAIN TOE Ilf 105 Representative* Make Fight on Closing of the Yards at Pensacola and New Orleans. WASHINGTON, D C.- Within a few ; days B*crp-tHry of the Navy Meyer ia ‘ expected to tak© up for active conalder atlon the question of the continuation In i operation of the navy yard* at Pensa cola, Fla., and New Orleans, La.., which Mr. Newberry, just before he rented from office, save orders should be closed A settlement of the issue is of import ance to the cities in which these yards are located for more than one reason. Before Mr. Newberry’s order had been officially served on the commandants of those yards ine congressional delegation* from the respective states In which they are situated took up the matter with Secretary Meyer and presented argu ments to show why they should bo con tinued in operation. Mr. Meyer felt that u.elr protests against closing should re ceive thorough consideration and con cluded to call for data from the com manding officers showing the amodnt of work that was being done and reasons. If any, for or against the closing of the yards. The character of the data which he asked for was so elaborate and com prised so much detail that the com mandants have not yet been able to fur nish it. The secretary Is determined to bo fully advised of svery feature of the case before reaching any decision. The fact that appropriations nave been made for a continuation of work during the fiscal year Is tne least argument ad vanced why the stations should be main tained in all their efficiency. But this is not the only proposition put forward along this line. It Is admitted that the work done at these places is not very material at this time, but the contention is made that the future should be taken Into consideration. Yards Important. For tactical and for strategic purposes if for no otnor, It is declared these yards should be maintained at a high state of efficiency in order that the gov ernment may be prepared for repairing nnd equipping war vessels for any ser vices which might be required of them in that, section of the world. The point is made that the amount of money actually required for this purpose is not very great by comparison and that the yards ready for business In case of emergency are a valuable asset for tho navy to always have at hand. The plant at both these stations is said to be in good shape. Both are equipped with floating dry docks, that at Pensacola having a ca pacity of 12,000 tons and that at New Orleans a capacity of 16,000 tons. Mr. Meyers' decision is awaited with a great deal of Interest and the hope Is ex pressed that he will revoke Mr. New berry’s order for it is generally felt, that the relatively small amount of money required to keep the yards in operation I* 2s; comparison wrth the value they may be to the navy in the event of the of any war like operations. It is the best kind of economy, say the advocates of the yard, to keep them In a state where they may render effective service to the govern ment should the necessity therefore arise. * Naval Appropriation Large. Vast sums were carried by the naval appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1910. While considerable of the various amounts appropriated for specific pur poses were for the pay of officers and men, for maintenance purposes of all sorts, nnd for repairs to battleships, both building nnd completed, yet the measure ajao contemplates great uotlvlty in pub -11 c works under the various bureaus. A study of the itemized features of the bill shows specific appropriations for work In the south at tho various yards and stations as follows: Norfolk Yard. Yards and docks; Navy yard, Norfolk, railroad tracks, extensions $10,000; elec tric plant, extensions $20,000. Charleston. Navy yard, Charleston; Paving and grading $20,000; unuerground conduit sys tem $6,000; intercepting drain s3o,6vg; pneumatic system, extension, $6,000; dredlng $25,000; increasing and improv ing torpedo boat slips $50,000. Pensacola. Navy yard, Pensacola; Remodeling, building No. 29, $15,000; to repair rifle rung* and wharf $6,000. Key West. Naval station, Key West: Katrines f&,- ! 000; concrete cistern $26,000; to com plete marine railway $15,000. New Orleana. Naval station, Now Orleans: I*vee Im provements and grading $45,000. For Publio Works. Tinder the head of public works there is an appropriation of $6,600 for the pur chase of land adjoining the Charleston navy yard to be used as a reservation for tho marine corps. Under the head of the bureau of con struction and repair these appropriations are made: Norfolk. Va., $12,000; Char leston $20,000; Pensacola $12,000 to be expended for repairs and improvements of tlie plants at those yards. I nder the bureau of strum engineer ing an appropriation of $25,000 Is made to obtain additional machine tools to equip the machine, boiler and copper smith shors at Norfolk. Appropriations aggregating SIOO,OOO for repairs of barracks occupied by the marine corps, among the places men tioned in ths bill being Norfolk. Va., Port Royal and Charleston. 8. C\. Pen •ocal and Dry Tor Ingas. Fla., and New Orleans, I^*. VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS. MTNCHRURG, Va.—The state re publican committee in session here tonight selected Newport News for the place and July 28th as the time for holding the state convention this year fr the purpose of nominating candidates for governor and other •tat© office#. ilxL AwCUSTA iT r'fv.lT. 1 ). Augusta Dirt WJh Be Worth From 20% To 100% More In 1910 Than It is In 1909. Don’t wait until the prices are out of your reach! Don’t wait until the best in vestments are picked up by someone else! Don’t wait until the percentage of pro fit you would make has been decreased by the rapidly growing prices of prop erty. These three things you will do, unless you INVEST NOW! And these follow ing thirteen offerings of Augusta Real Estate present some of the very best Real Estate Investments you will ever have a chance tot ake advantage of. Instead of 4 %, or 6% or even 8% on your money, you can just as easily dean up 20% to 100%. Think About It! Look Us Up!! And Before It’s Too Late!!! Just a Short Description Of Each Property. 12% Rental On This Stores, with living apartments above, on south side of Broad St. Part Cash , Balance Monthly==Residence Per arrangements under which we are now handling this property, we can sell to right party, for part cash, balance on monthly payments, 7 rooms and bath, on corner lot, frontage of '* 17 feet, with house only occupying about 40 feet, leaving fine frontage for other buildings. Only $2,000 for this property. House and Lot For Less Than House Would Cost To Build Now Fine residence property, conveniently and desirably located, splendid brick residence, with stable and servants’ quarters on the lot. Present rental means high rate of interest on investment. Greene Street Cottage Very attractive little home of six rooms on Greene street, a 1 most reasonable price. For a small home you couldn’t do better than this. 8 Room Home on Greene Street Eight room home, and bath, on 700 block of Greene street —a bargain. City Residence Lot On upper Broad street, in new residence section, large lot, price $1,200. Worth every dollar asked for it. * Walker Street Residence Very nice brick residence on large lot, with 40-foot lot adjoining. You could n’t ask for a more reasonable price. Small Investment Property Think of 80 feet on Greene street at $2,000! Besides there are two small houses on it, paying good rate of interest. Rapidly Growing Section Lot 80x180 feet, the 180 feet fronting on Estes St., and lot has six bouses on it, all in good condition. Half dozen new residences have been erected directly across the street, costing from $3,000 to $4,500 each. This piece of property will be sold right away for $52,700. The houses alone are worth price asked. t Good Rental Property ~ Six-rs>om house, 4-room house and two 3-room houses on a very large lot. Good rental property, price asked $1,400. Summerville Property - —• Splendid modern horn e of 9 rooms, with every convenience, and on a lot 150x217 feet. .Stable, coal and chicken houses on the lot. The S. W. comer of Glenn Ave. and Helen St. Most attractive price is placed on this property. Lot In Summerville On Milledge street, fronting 100 feet, and running hack 175 feet. Lot faces east, and is very cheap at price asked for it. Glad to Show Any or all of these Properties to Anyone Interested. Out-of-Augusta Investors will do well to write for further Information. Corner Property On lower Broad, new tenement 8 rooms each side. This property thoroughly modern and up-to-date, 2-storv barn, lot 45x145. * MARTIN k GARRETT ” 137 BTH ST. AUGUSTA, GA. TSiJXSJA. I, iuriofi 11.