Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-06
BETTER ROADS
BRING CLOSER
SMALL TOWNS
Chas. P. Glover, President Atlanta
Real Estate Board, Makes
Timely Suggestion,

Build more and better roads. urges
charles =. Glover president Of the At
lnnta Real Estate Board 10 make the
country estate more accessible and
attractive 10 Fulton County residents.
Extend car lines. erect concrete
bridges, establish more automobile
gasoline stations iu the outlying dis
tricts. develop suburban towns and
bring them closer TO the city. Make
90 possible for every man of comfort
/, able salary to own n few acres in tIe
country, as stimulus to good citt-
zpuship and step toward the real
enjoyment of life.
Z All this can be done, declares Mr.
Glover. by systematic EFFORT. Al
Z though the country estate around At
lauta has long ago passed the en-
bryGuiC stage, il can be brought TO a
point much nearer the ideal Let a
suburban development association OF
leading citizens be formed with OBJ
iects as aboVc-statcd in view. Have
regular monthly meetings TO discuss
aud perfect plans already laid. Keep
I'm close touch with the work Of other
mUnicipa in this direction. Let
the lahgrs OF this association be for
the whole community and not In the
interest OF any particular locality or
individuals.
"The Importance OF the country es-
tate" declared Mr.. Glover, demands
some such concerted action and SUI
pervisiOn. The suburban place has
come To stay. and we should make il
really worth while. The country gem
tleman'. sO-called, disappeared very
suddenly about 1865. lie reappedred
with good roads. suburban railways,
telephone and electricity built by a
far-seeiug Citizeuvy. The call back
10 nature could never have been
needed in this county but for the
improvements which the inhabitants
have made. These Improvements
should be extended constantly Haa
pioneer workers not struck out into
the forests. we should not have in our
midst today Mr.. Williams 'Bidc-a-
wee Mr. Ottley's JOyCuse,' Mr.. HUI
mans 'Oct8gou Hail. Mr.. MaddONs
'Woodhaven.' Alr. Griy's 'Gruystoue.
and such estates as have been built
bv CfuyeruoT-eIegt SiatOn. Henry
Jackson. Morris Brandon, James T..
Uiekav. n. e.. kiser, Thomas b. Field
er. Walter J.. Andre s, Clark Howell.
clifford H. Anderson. Judge Lamar
and a host uf others.
"Wllt q short bark back Co the day
II
County started az Fourteenth Street!
BroOkWOpd WAS far removed ard
RuCku-Hl was "a trading post and vIt-
ing ulac=. where the CuuUtryman tied
up HE steer and prairie schooner ON
the spot ne nov uses to hitch his
automobile. Peachtree Creek was Il
stream TO wade across. and the Pied
mont Avenue extension was a dim y
defined wagon trail, one had only TO
step fifty feet or Pc5cutr-e Road iutp
the selge 20 sea e Up the uim1le raD-
bit. The foot citizen could stand
at the Aragou Hotel and see all ~ tac
houses Go the uu-tIwavd, Now u re-
Qui-e~ citizen very much taller ana
an office building top % see il all,
THE groups OF country homes men
toned above are the pioneer OutpOSts
OF what is destined 90 be- one of the
most beJUJifu ana widely known res
idputiaL sections in the entire South.
Not many years now and the inter-
yaning acres VIII Doe buil- uU with
comfortable homes. churches. city
schools. fire stations and apartment
houses fH. same gll hr said lf the
Drr Hills preserve. tle story of
r..sr -..l.-- a-r for -re telling. Uf
b.. ...a- districts and tine quiet and
r-ar .1G' .uEEHas 60. tle East I...-
territory. Remarks. Die growth h. .l.n
"H. .". T--Iau- 600 t.s south and
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