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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-17

The Baptist Tabernacle property is to
be subdivided into eight lots by Mr..
Whisenant and put on the market. This
VIII neceSsitate the demolition Of the
old church. The lot is 104 feet on
Luckie street and I49 feet on Taber-
nacle place Mr. Whisenant refused A
profit Of $500 on IL
Dr. u. q. Jones has bought through
w. r. thurman, of the Truman. Black 81
Calhoun agency. from A. s. Harris, of
Macon, lot 10Ox420 feet on the west
side of Springdale road, near Ponce De-
Leon, and viii erect a handsome home
on it, The price was S10,25O, or a little
over 800 a front foot.
Lowry Porter has sold through
George Ware, OF the Ware & Harper
agency, a bungalow at 631 North Jack
son street. to client for $3.50.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-17

EAST LAKE ROAD. q choice ele-
waited lot. 75x2OG. near car line,
has big oak trees: price $3.50.
terms.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-17
Some Big Sales.

Announcement of sales during the
past week. aggregating nearly $4,000,
was made today by the William A. Yer
noy Real Estate Agency This agency
sold an undivided half interest i'm the
two-story brick building at the south
east corner Of Houston street and Pied
mont avenue and two adjoining lots on
Piedmont avenue, for l.. c. Butler. OF
Morrow, Ga, to the Phoenix Invest
ment Company. for $17,5O0; for Mrs
Esther Pierce to John J. Eagan trus-
tee, lot 293X420 feet on the Gordon
road for SG500; the z. A Donehoo
place of if acres In Adamsville district
to J. G. Hutchins, for $3.25O; the old
Baptist Tabernacle property, southwest
! corner of Luckie street and Tabernacle
place, Tor Pete Poolos and J. :. Watson,
to }. II. Whisenant. for S32, 500; for j.
&. Elutchlns to a client. No 272 Waldo
street, one-story frame house. for So
loo cash; No. 40 Lee street, West End,
one-story frame house, for John l. Grist
to client, for $1,000; No. As Rogers
street, one-story frame to l.. G. But
Ter for w. v Ogletree, for $4,000: No.
% I)lll avenue, one-story frame. for
same to same, for $4,000: No 40 May
son avenue, kirkWOod, one story frame,
for same to same, for $4,000: 20 Lake
avenue, one-stOry frame, for same to
same, for S2,250; and, through I. ].
Lochrldge for G. ID. Gam to J. II.
Whisenant, a 50xi65- foot lot on Ward
avenue, near Highland avenue, for $3.50.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-17

The = ? BOttenfIeTa ReaI Estate
Agency announced today the sale If
eleven lots for total Of SO, 500, Eight
Of these We're In the f. Rivers subdi-
vision and brought $6.S00; two were in
Kirkwood Heights for S2.200. and one
was on Piedmont avenue, 81 500.
Big Loan Deeds Filed
Sryera. loan deeds have gone to res
ord, Mrs Elizabeth L. Andrews has
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-17

\ canvass Of Peachtree street from
the Aragon hotel at the southeast cor
ner of Peachtree and Ellis streets 10
Eleventh street shows that out of near
ly 100 garage and store establishments
only eleven are vacant. The vacancies
exist almost entirely in the new build
ings which are being held for acceptable
tenants. Garages erected have cost
about 100000. and stores, which are
nearly twice a 5 plentiful, about $500,
000
Approximately. $50 residences be-
tween Ellis and Fourteenth streets cost
about $4,000, 000 when built and could
not now be bought at the old figures.
Churches cost approximately 100000
apartments $1,500,000, hotels about
So 600 600
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-17
REAL ESTATE AND
CONSTRUCTION NEWS

Asa g. Gambler SET at rest today ru-
mors that have been flying around
town to the effect that he would begin
in the near future the Improvement Of
his extensive frontage on the west side
Of Peachtree. north of Ellis street. Il
have absolutely no plans, except that /
don't intend 10 do anything for quite a
while declared Mr. Gambler. 1T may
BE- year or two before things are in
the proper shape for building"
4 rumOr that Mr. Gambler had pur-
chased the First Congregational church
property on the northeast corner of Ell
lis street and Carnegie way. was en-
phaticalIy denied by Mr. Gambler, as
well as the report that he some time
ago took an option. 4 haven't tried
10 get it and don't want it," asserted
Mr.. Gambler In fact ] think / have
enough land now TO do all I may want
to do in future"
GimbeI Brothers have not approach
ed him about a department store, de-
clared Mr. Gambler, and Mr.. Woolworth,
builder of the highest office building in
New York city, hasn't been trying to
erect an office building next to the gov
eruors mansion
MIR. WOolworth Is like great many
other people" said Mr. Gambler. He
has about enough Investments. He has
more money in his building than he is
ever apt to get out Of it,"
rumor that Mr.. Gambler had taken
over the English home at Peachtree and
Howard streets from the Realty Invest
ments was denied by Forrest Adair.
Mr.. Gambler is losing enough in inter-
est each year 10 pay the salary Of the
president of the United States, vet he
is in no hurry to proceed
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-17

SHORTS-Wnite. 100-lb. sacks. Sl75;
nai1tag. W an e. iog5o scAs. ELt2 dan5dy
sacks, s1.75: P w. T5-Ib sacks, 81 IS:
brown, 10o-lb. sacks, $1.55: Georgia feed.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-17

PIEDMONT AVE, between South
Prado and Prado; fine, east
front lot, 60xl60. No 10, in block
1G Price $3.50.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-17

Harvey Hatcher has bought OF VII
liam J. Simpson for s., 400 a tract o
1923 acres on the Brown Mil and Mt
Zion roads and esq acres at the inter.
section Of the Brown Mil road an,
the northern land lot line Of land 10
70
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-17

QuttcIatm Deeds.
S31S--Railway Postal Clerks Investment
Association to William Watson, lot so by
feet east of Atlanta street. March IA
SD. G. Porter, trustee for mino,
children of Calvin Bell. to Paul S Ether
idge, 81 Berean avenue, 40 by SO feet
for levy and sale. March IA
S1-Jacob w. Seaver to Central Realt!
Company, lot 113 by ISL feet. northwes
side Forsyth street. 200 feet southwest o
Marietta street and along Western ant
Atlantic railroad. March Is
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13

Considering that three-fourths
of the Mexican people are 50
densely ignorant that they do not
know how to vote, that they do
not know a ballot from a patent
medicine advertisement, we should
like to know how President Will
son expects them to hold a consti-
tutional electionthat is, an cleo
tionthat will prove satisfactory
to the enlightened Christian gov
ernmentof the United States.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13

ST. Pefe,

Reader, if you have never visit
led st. Petersburg, you ought to
go there Immediately. It's well
worth your time and money. We
don't mean the Russian capital,
but the metropolis of Pinelas
county, Florida. 1t is one of the
original places of the state; that
is, it is sui generis, original in
character. There's not another
such place outside of the Great
Desert.
The citizens fuss and cass and
scrap and quarrel for an hour or
two, and then 90 out and build an
elegant editice of some kind and
pave ten miles of public highway.
After this, they quarrel some
more and build some more and
keep everlastingly at it. There
are about eight thousand of them
and they are the greatest hustlers
and most enthusiastic and gener
Gus and quarrelsome people you
ever saw. This is no joke; it is a
fact, with every letter a capital.
Now, bear in mind the fact that
there are only eight thousand regu-
lar, all-the-year-round citizens, and
you may form some idea of what
pluck and enterprise they possess
when we tell you that they have
bank buildings as fine as any in
the state and they have built a
theatre that, IN size and elegance.
would adorn the city of Paris in
France. There is not a finer
theatre in America.
Another thing about st. Peters
burg; they have real streets there.
They are not lanes and alleys,
-uch as other cities have for
streets, but genuine streets over
a hundred feet wide, and they are
beautifully paved.
They have street railway, too,
and it is well supported. There
is not another town of the same
size in the state, not even Miami,
that has the audacity to install
and the ability to support an cleo
trio street railway system. Mi
ami tried it and failed. AS is
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13

Tallahassee has a new newspa-
per. 1t is called the Florida Rec
ord and is edited by A. j. Becker.
That it will be a factor in the de-
velopment of that section and aid
in spreading the fame of Florida
is attested by the first issue, which
was gotten out in fine shape. We
extend fraternal greeting to the
Record and wish it we'll.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13

That sixteen-page special Polk
county illustrated edition of the
Mulberry Herald was a fine one.
In general makeup and typo
graphical appearance, as well as
in the manner in which the read
ing matter it contained was hand
led, it would have done credit to
many plants that are larger than
that of the Herald.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13

generally known, the chief sup
port of St. Petersburg is the
tourist business. They claim thai
they enter tain over twenty thous-
and tourists every winter, and we
believe that they do. And
the tourists undoubtedly enter
tain the people. Many of them
play cards for amusement, mind
you. They never gamble and we
have never heard one of them
speak a naughty word. St. Pet
ersburg is too nice a place to
swear in. You may quarrel all
you wish, but you must not use
real cuss words; and as soon as
you get through quarreling, you
are expected to build two-story
house.
Besides playing every known
game of cards, the tourists amuse
themselves by pitching quoits on
vacant lots and fishing from the
docks. They are the only people
in America who pitch quoits:
hence, they give st. Petersburg
still another distinction.
Nearly all these visitors own
their own homes and they all
seem to be possessed Of the COM
mendable idea that, unless they
spend at least two or more win
ters in st. Petersburg, they will
never get to heaven. All of
them come from the realms Of
snow and billiards., but there is
no snow in their hearts. They
are generous, frolicsome and pro
gressive.
The st. Petersburg stores will
compare in size, style, elegance,
stocks, cleanliness, courteous pro-
prietors and clerks with any in
tho United States.
There is only one adverse criti-
cism that may be pronounced
against anything or anybody in
St. Petersburg, and that is that
neither of the excellent daily pa
pers published there. carry such a
good telegraphic news service as
Is found in the Lakeland Tele-
gram. With this slight exception,
St. Petersburg is genuine gem
If a town.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13

And still another newspaper in
DeSoto county. The Bowling
Green Times is to. make its APP
pearance this week. This county
will not want for opponents of
its advantages, resources and in
dustries. We hope the Times
will live long and be an effective
helper in the work.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13

Porto Rico's asking for legis-
lature moves the Tampa Times to
offer ours at half-price to the be-
nighted people of that island.
We are surprised that such a re-
ligious paper as the Tampa Times
should seek to trade off our "gold
bricks to those innocent and I'M
suspecting people.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13

'By the way new newspapers
are being introduced in Florida,
some people must think that a
newspaper plant is gold mine, !"
says the Jasper News. "The
newspaper business, like many
other vocations, is badly over
done, yet the new papers rise as
thick as mushrooms.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13
An Unwise Move

The Tampa Times of last Fri
day states that an effort il being
made In Tampa to induce Hon.
Herbert S. Philips to become a
candidate for United States sena-
Tor and that Mr.. Philips is seri
ously considering the proposition.
If he should decide to run, both
he and the friends urging him to
do SO will find that they have
made mistake. Mr.. Philips is
an excellent and capable gentle
man, but, in the honest judgment
of this paper, he cannot beat Mr..
Stockton. He is, we think, a po-
litical follower of Mr.. Stockton;
that is, he belongs to the same
wing Of the party which regards
Mr.. Stockton as its head, and the
adherents of that faction are not
Mt all likely to desert their cham
pion in favor of Mr.. Philips. In
deed, the Stockton followers are
already lined up and pledged to
him and they will stand by him
till the last. That's the kind Of
people they are loyal ut all
times and under oil circumstances.
The same may be said of the
friends of the other two candi
dates, Senator Fletcher and ex-
Coy. Gilchrist. In fact, a great
majority of the Democratic vot-
ers is already committed to the
three candidates now In the field,
and but few are left unpledged
from whom Mr.. Philips might
get any support. In Il word, it is
now too late to bring out Mr..
Philips.
If he should run, he would take |
no votes from either Fletcher or
Stockton, but he might make in
roads on Gilchrist's strength in
South Florida. This would de-
feat both of them.
II.
Is not Gilchrist a good enough
Tampa man? is he not II good |
enough South Florida man? Isn't
he good enough for the whole
stateg
If the Tampa leaders want
South Florida man in the United
States senate, unquestionably their
best chance is Gilchrist. But if
he is elected, they may depend up
on it that he will work as faith
fully for Pensae ola as for Tampa
and az earnestly for Key West
and Jacksonville as for Punta
Gorda, his home town. He cam
not but be as loyal to the interests
Of Tampa as any citizen of Tam
pa. He has already pronounced
in the press in favor Of
hose interests.
In view of all the circumstances,
t is wholly unnecessary and it
would be very unwise at this late
late to bring out any other South
Florida man as candidate for
United States senator.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13

The Fellsmere Tribune is the
latest entry into the Florida news
paper ranks. May it flourish and
prosper.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1913-11-13

should be made by check, postal
nots, money order Unregistered letter; i and
scentstamps will be received in paymentof
ANAL amounts
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Advertising Kates--Spaceratesd depend great
Iy on position in the paper and will be farm
ished on application. Local notices, 10 cents
per line each insertion. Legal ADVERTISE
ments will be published only at rates pre-
scrIbed bv law
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-17
Eloquence for Its Own Sake.

I'm liftin' up a protest in an economic
way.
l want you folks to listen to the things
1 have to say,
Cause I'm tired O. bein' silent; and the
orators l see
In many cases don't appear to know much
more than me.
l want revision and reform and readjust-
ment, quick,
OF banking an the other branches OF
arithmetic
But the Greatest Public Need, which fur
my subject have took,
Is-er-something some one told me he'd
been readin' in a book.
Oh. noble art of literature, convincin',
brave and strong,
No matter what you think, some book
will show you you were wrong.
And so l holler for reform! The cause
is bound to win;
If one reform falls down, you kin reform
things back agin.
This is an urgent matter 1 am talkin' OF
to you.
1t concerns your homes an children an
your great-grandchildren too.
JeS' pardon me, while at my notes l take
another look
An see jes' what it was that Teller
quoted from book.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-17
The Local Tax Assessment.

From time 10 time il becomes neces-
sary. in combating the disposition which
prevails in Congress to regard the Dis
unworthy enjoyment of federal bounty,
10 demonstrate that the District citizens
pay. in comparison with the citizens of
other communities, heavily burdensome
tax for municipal maintenance. One of
the arguments occasionally advanced in
the effort to prove that Washington is
undertaxed is that the assessors value
the taxable property at an unfairly low
rate so that the tax return is inequitably
small. Inasmuch as it has been shown
conclusively that. on the basis of census
figures. the Washingtonian's per capita
tax burden is high in comparison with
that of other Americans living in cities
of compara able size, 1t would seem to be
necessary to go no further. since the per
capita tax levy is after all the true test
But the effort still persists to make IL
appear that Washington is an especially
favored city, and the claim is advanced
that the local assessors, by establishing
an inadequate basis, make the tax as
sessment too low. This In turn has been
enphatically refuted. In another part OF
The Star today will be found an extrac,
from a pamphlet issued by the Board OF
Trade on the Finances of the National
Capital Partnership" demonstrating th.,
the Washington assessors have done their
work conscientiously and that the loca
basis of assessment is re!an ~ high.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-17
The Turkish War.

While the people of this country are
most keenly interested in the Mexican
situation, the war in the nearer east, be-
tween Turkey and the Balkan allies. con-
tinues to command European attention
almost exclusively. 1t has not ceased
to be a source of great anxiety to states
men who feel that the peace of Europe is
in the balance AS between Turkey and
the allies the case may well be allowed to
develop as 1t will, for it has been shown
that apart from the continental complca-
tions the lighting can continue indefinitely
without harming others than those inter-
ests Immediately involved. But 1t may be-
come impossible for the antagonists to
proceed without involving other powers.
The relations between ROumania and Bull
garia continue strained. and n breoch
may occur there owing to the refusal of
Bulgaria to yield a liberal slice of terri
tory In return for Roumania's neutrality.
This In turn involves difficulties between
Russia and Austria. and the latest sim
by the government at st. Petersburg to
a note received from Austria suggesting
Russia's rehabilitation. the cars re-
Spouse being q short, decisive refusal.
Russia firmly announces an intention to
support the Slavic interests. Should Rou-
mania act aggressively these two larger
powers would almost Inevitably be In
volved, duplicating In turn other nations
Of the FIRST class and quickly precipitat-
Ing q general embodiment Meanwhile
the Turkish situation grows more desper-
ate. In addition to reyerses In the field
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-17
Another Senatorial Scandal.

We learn slowly, when at all. In this
old world. Consider the scandal at
Charleston, W. Va.
1t is less than twelve months since VIII
liam Lorimer was bundled out of the
United States Senate on charges affecting
the integrity of his election. A protracted
senatorial deadlock at Springfield had at
tPacted to the capital number of pronl-
nent politicians of statewide influence,
and money was used corrurtly TO deter
mine the result. Many details were
brought out in the investigation of the
case. How the money was raised. how
approaches we're made to men thought
willing to receive it, what those who did
receive it did with tall this was eN-
posed
Naturally, all involved suffered in repu-
tation. Bribers. the bribed and the ben
ehcary of the corruption practiced were
held up to public scorn.
And yet. in the shortest time, here we
have a situation at another state capital
of a character regrettable in the extreme.
No election has taken place, and all the
Charges made are denied, but a cloud has
been thrown over the senatorial contest,
and many regulations are challenged.
man may come clear. But in order that
no guilty man may escape, the investiga-
ton of the charges should go to the bot
tom of what has actually taken place.
Such a proceeding is not easy, as was
shown in the Illinois case. Two efforts
were necessary to bring out the facts; but
they were made. and Mr.. Lorimer was
finally disodged.
Thus again is demonstrated the adj
Instability OF electihg senator's by direct
Vote. Not that by such means money
viii entirely disappear from the equa-
ton for money can be used in primary
as in. other contests. But legislatures
will be freed from dangers and delays,
and lawmaking. for which they were real
~ designed. facilitated.
y seat in the Senate is most desir-
bile place. There have been men in our
politics of great ability whose ambition
sid not rise higher. They had escaped
the presidential bee. and having reached
the Senate found the atmosphere SO en-
joyable and the opportunities for useful
ness so numerous they We're entirely sat
istied. And they wrote their names high
up on the list of valuable public servants.
But il seems unnecessary to add, not a
one OF these men was mere political
boss. or a man depending largely if not
wholly for his prominence in affairs to
a we'll flied pocketbook All We're asso-
ciab!e with the Senate by reason OF intel
lectual eminence, and worthy Of reward
for party services rendered of an intel
lectual character. IL only such could
reach the Senate we should have the body
designed by the fathers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-17

as open as his eyes. He had learned
shorthand to qualify himself for duty in
the press gallery of the house of COM
mons, and when he graduated from his
post of newspaper reporter into that Of
novelist, he carried his full equipment
with him.
His genius was distinctly that OF tax
ing pains and being able to take i'm
finite PAINS Some of the names in his
stories which brought him compliments
for their felicity he had picked from
business signs in odd places, and had
made the more striking by notes Of the
surroundings. And some of his pattest
use of slang and colloquialisms was the
simple result of taking down in his
strolls about London the actual talk OF
flesh and blood Hen tracks" had been
a great aid to gifts of an extraordinary
character.
A President of the United States is
an exceedingly busy man. 1t is amaz-
ing, indeed, how he gets through with
a days task. And day after day he is
hard driven. He cannot put off bust
ness, and lie finds 1T difficult to stand
Off the crowd. Tell him I only want
word is the message sent by. Tom,
Dick and Harry, heating, not cooling,
their heels i'm the anteroom. AS "A mat
ter of fact, each wants many words; and
presses for them if the presence is
reached.
Let Mr. Wilson sharpen his pencil, and
get we'll into his shorthand stride He
will have of course, stenographers on
his staff, but there will be many little
matters he will prefer to attend to him
self. Thrice armed is he who has his
memory reinforced by notes made on
the spot, or a. few minutes later.