The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-12
SEE CANDLER IN
 MANSION SCHEME
Immense Promotion Scheme Connected With Move
 ment in Georgia

Atlanta, July 11.-(Special )-There is a over the proposal which has been sub mitted to the legislature by the special committee appointed to report upon the disposition of the present executive man. sion property owned by the state and the location of a new executive man sion. that the state shall buy a building site for new mansion in Druid Hills, a residence suburb located some five or six miles out and across the lines in DeKalb county.
 Prominent Atlantans, free to express their opinion are emphatic in the decla- ration that Druid Hills is not the place for the executive mansion They do not make any point of the fact that the pro- posal to put the mansion in Druid Hills is an Asa G. Candler plan, and calculated to boost his interests and the interests of those allied with him. Mir. Candler has done and Is doing much toward the de- velopment of Atlanta, and Is expected to do still more; but there Is feeling that the mansion should not be located solely in his interests when there are other considerations which would seem to de-
 mand the selection of a more advan- tageous site.
 It has been reported all along that Mir Cander was back of the bid for the pres ent executive mansion property propos- ing lease for 99 years. This bid was made through B. M. Grant x Co.,, local real estate men, and is the bid which the committee recommended favorably to the general assembly. MT. Candler already owns half the block in which the mansion property is located.
 Color was lent to this report when the committee decided to recommend the Druid Hills site for a new executive man sion, for 1t is there that MT. Candler and his associates have large interests. They are developing a residence park which, 1t is true, is full of handsome homes and will have others, and there are some who express the view that the effort is being made to get the new executive mansion there in order to boost the residence park proposition.
 But the objections made by Atlantans are chiefly on the ground of location They declare the new mansion should be located on Peachtree street and as near as possible to the citys center
 They think ft should be on Peach tree street because that is Atlantas main residence boulevard, and a street which Is known all over the south. Visitors coming to Atlanta see Peachtree street when they don't see much of anything else
 Then again, it is pointed out, the ex- ecutive mansion is in effect, at times, a public office, the governors office, where often Georgians coming to Atlanta are obliged to call on officials business. This makes it undesirable to have the man. sion located five or six miles from the city's center.
 off to itself, and there is large, un- developed territory between the city and that section. Then there is objection
 raised to locating the executive mansion in different county from that in which
 the state capitol is situated,
 Atlantans generally want to see the
 mansion located on Peachtree street. They are not particular about any special loca- ton on the street, so that 1t is con- veniently near the business section and yet in the residence portion of the city. Plenty of advantageous sites can be found within distance of a mile and half to two miles which will be right in the heart of the residence section. and easily reached by frequent street car schedules, whereas there Is only 20-minute sched- ule to Druid Hills.
 For one reason or another the At lanta papers have not taken the matter LID, but the subject has reached a point with number of prominent Atlantans where they may be expected to burst into protesting print within a short time. It is safe to say the executive man.
 sion will not go to Druid Hills without a lot of hard and determined kicking, and in pretty strenuous language at that
 before the legislature decides to put 1t