Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-09-01
IMPROVEMENTS FOUND IN
ALL PARTS OF AMERICUS
MANY HOMES Being BUILT
Evidences Of Progress Are to
Be Seen on All Sides

Torn up streets, baTricaded streets,
sewer pipes of terra Gotta, water pipes
of iron. digging machines, gangs oil
men busy with the shovel the sound
of the saw and the hammer, recently
completed dwellings, and dwellings in
various stages of construction, these
are the visible signs of activity and
growth that meet the eye in all parts
OF the city.
Not in some years has there been as
much evidence of progress as can De
seen today. Go where one will there is
something to impress the fact that AM
eTicus is alive and doing things that the
city is building up. and that a period
Of progress has been entered upon
that is not likely to be soon checked.
The municipal improvements, of
course, are responsible for the condi-
ton of the streets. A quarter million
dollars cannot be expended in street
paving, in water and sewer extensions
without a general tearing up of the
districts that are to be benefited. AS
far as possible the area that is dis
turbed is limited Just now Jackson
street is in a chaotic condition from
Church to Lamar, Forsyth from Jack
son to Lee, and Lamar from the
Windsor Hotel corner to the artesian
well. Lee street also has been closed
from Lamar to Church, preparatory
to the upheaval of it's surface by the
advance gang of the PAYERS. Over on
Hampton street, where the severe con- |
tractors are at work, a great ditch dig
ger is making the earth fly like
small sized Panama canal eXcavatOr, /
at points the sewer pipes there being
sunk twenty or more feet below the
street surface. Other streets will feel |
the effects of these important i'm
provements as fast as the thorough .
fares now affected are finished
When it comes to building opera
tons it is necessary to tour all parts .
of the town to appreciate what is go /
ing on in that line. Hardly a neigh
borhood exists except where the homes
are so compactly built that location
for a new building cannot be had, |
where improvements are not going on
or recently finished. Driving around |
the city one finds on Jackson avenue, |
south of Furlow, three pretty bunga- |
lows, recently completed, erected by
Messrs. Fred Morgan, - - Vorus and |
Albert Thayer. Swinging over into
Harold avenue two other beautiful
bungalows are found, one recently
completed by Mr.. w. A. Humber, and
the other adjacent to it, on the corn
er, being now built by Albert Harris. |
These complete Bungalow Row." ls
Harold avenue from College to Fur |
low is generally known, making il
one of the most attractive blocks in
the city. Not far off on Hancock ave-
hue near Furlow is the bungalow re-
Gently built by Mrs. Lucy c. Taylor,
and on Furlow, near Lee. another at
tvactive home of this type, built Dy
Mr.. c. w. Collins. Still further on,
at Furlow and the S. A. L., comes the
large two-story brick machine shops
and foundry of Sawyer & Sons, near
ing completion.
Over on Hill street two attractive
cottage homes have recently been Dullt'
one by Mr. C. A. Ames, the other oy
Mr.. Tomlinson. Around the corneH
on Fielder street is another pretty cot
tage home, the property of MI II. u
Horton. This neighborhod gives pro-
mise of rapidly filling up.
In the neighborhood of the shops
several minor improvements are un-
der way in the residence line MI
G. J. Sherlock is improving two small
cottages on Elm avenue, close by, anu
several cottages for negroes are oeihS
built west of Elm avenue and souIh
Of Glessner.
Going on to Elm avenue, which one
Of these days will develop into THOR
Oughfare of handsome homes, TO ltS
junction with Lee street the site IS
reached where Mr.. r. L. Mcleod Will
soon begin building a fine dwelling
! n the old John V. Price homestead,
recently bought by him. Swinging
around into Lee street are seen the
lots recently bought by Messrs. j. H.
D. shipp, NJ. NJ. Lowery and Edgar