The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-07
SALES WERE SLOW
SLACK BIDDING AND LOW PRICES
WERE THE RULE.
OFFERINGS VERY NUMEROUS.
But RESULTS TO OWNERS NOT
WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN.


Members of the Family Were Pur-
chnsers in Almost Every Case.
Large Tracts of Country Property |
Also Sold and Some of 1t Went for
SOnE-IsIe of Hope Property Also
at "A Discounted Small Joke on
AuctiOneer C. III. DOrsett-ReaI Es-
tate Men Wcarled by Results.
The public sales of property before
the Court House yesterday were the
slowest and in many respects the most
unsatisfactory to auctioneers and own
ers that have been held for months.
Although the offerings were numerous
and in many. cases desirable and at
tractive they did not seem, save in rare
instances, to catch the fancy of bid
ders
There was a big crowd, too, but 1t
seemed to contain relatively few who
had come to bid. At present there is
always a considerable number of peo-
pie around the Court House, most of
them drawn there by interest in the reg
istration or for the discussion of poll
teal plans and differences and these
have sufficiently little to do to permit
them to form part of any crowd that
gathers. They gathered around and
among the bidders at the sales and
with the help of other idle hangers-on
got in the way of those who really
desired to buy property.
1t was hot, too. The auctioneers put
in operation a plan of rotation selling,
which didn't seem to work we'll, and
generally the whole day was unsatis-
factory in incident and result.
Property of Fulton Estate.
The largest collection of city proper
ty sold was the estate of j. E. Full
ton which was placed on the market
by Youmans & Demmond. This includ-
ed number of desirable residences in
various parts of Savannah. Most of it
was bought in by members or repre-
sentatives of the family. several pieces
by Mrs. Leila A Fulton, Mrs. Mar
garet Webb and j. E. Fulton.
The family residence, fronting Mon
tereY Square and known as No. 10 Tay-
lor street. was bought in by U. H. Nc
Laws, attorney for $3.50. The house
is a handsome, three-story brick struc-
ture, while the lot fronts sixty feet
| on Taylor street and extends back to
the lane.
The lot and two-story residence at
207 Waldburg street, west, was sold to
Mrs. Margaret Webb for s., OPS. The lot
has a thirty-foot front on Waldburg
street and extends back to Waldburg
lane. The lot and residence just across
the street. the house on which is No.
| 204 Waldburg, west, was exposed for
sale, but withdrawn.
The lot and Improvements at 500
Jones street, east, the Improvements
consisting of a two-story frame resi-
| dence, was bought in by ]. E. Fulton
| and other members of the family, for
| 1000 while the same purchasers
bought the lot and residences, the lat
| ter numbered 40S and 410 Price street,
| for $2,175. The Jones and Price street
| lots have both a frontage of thirty feet,
more or less. Members of the family
bought also the lot. containing a six
room cottage, at lila West Broad
| street.
Five shares of the capital stock of
the Citizen Investment Company, of the
| par value of $50, sold at $54 each, while
| twenty shares OF the stock of the Unit
| ed Hydraulic Cotton Compress Com
pany, for which $50 per share was Of
fered were withdrawn.
Mr.. 1. d. LaRoche sold two lots of
| land i'll the part of Springfield planta-
and $25l, respectively. The purchaser
in each case was G. B. Whatley.
Country Lanes Went for "a Song.
Mr.. LaRoche sold 115 acres of land
in the eighth district of the county for
| S4.25 an acre, the purchaser being H.
| Shearouse, and 297 acres in the same
| locality. to John L. Archer, for 20
cents an acre. In both cases, parttc-
ularly in that of the piece of property
bought by Mr.. Archer, there is certain
| to be fat profit.
The property at 4O3 Perry street, west,
situated near Montgomery street, was
sold by C. H. Dorsett to James Nc
| Donough, for S1,7S0. The lot fronts
thirty feet on Perry street. and has a
depth of ninety feet to a lane.
Platshek & Co. sold the two-story
residence at PA Duffy street, west. to
Holm c. Rowland for 81, 500 The lot
has front of thirty feet, while the
house contains seven rooms and a bath.
| There are also servants quarters on
the lane.
The house at No. 10 Thirty-second
street, formerly the residence of the
late Maj. N. o. Tilton, was sold by
John L. Archer to Rivers & Gibbes. 1t
| brought $1,710. The lot has front of
forty-two feet and a depth of one hun
dred and five. Mr.. Archer sold also
lot 100 by $50 feet at Thunderbolt,
with five-room. cottage, for $S15, the
| purchaser being W. NJ. Coney.
The store and residence at 120 and
122 Bryan street was sold by Youmans
| q Demmond to T. ]. Dooley for 81, 800.
! The lot fronts about thirty feet on
! Bryan street and extends back to Bay
! lane.
Isle of Hope Place Cheap.
The old Holt Place" at Isle of
Hope was sold to George H Miller. by
Mr.. Archer, for 81, 900. The property
includes five acres of land, an attrac-
tive summer cottage and other decided
| improvements. 1t went under the
hammer for little more than fourth
/ of the amount its purchase and recent
| improvements represented.
c. II. Dorset sold the property at
the northwest corner of Jefferson and
| Fortieth streets. thirty by hundred
and seventeen feet in dimensions, the
! improvements consisting of ten-room
| residence and store, for $780, The pur-
| chasers were Mercer & Mercer, agents
Joke on an AuctiOneer.
| A rather amusing incident attended
! the attempted sale by Mr.. Dorsett of
| the property at 400 Gordon street, east.
! The fun of the situation was not APP
| parent to Mr.. Dorsett at the time, but
| ne probably came to realize and appre-
| ciate it later in the day.
A solemn and solid looking individual
had been watching the sales and when
this property was being offered and