Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-06
Peachtree Lease
Made at $4,000
Drug Company Takes Peck Corner
Eight Years-Important
Meeting Monday.

Peachtree Street, being the Peach
tree and Houston Streets corners of
the Cruickshank Building, formerly
known as the Peck Building. The
floor space is about 1900 square feet.
This entire property was leased
some tine ago from the Peck estate
through B. NJ. Grant & Company to
the Cruickshank Cigar Company. The
Cruickshank Cigar Company has now
leased to the James Drug Company
the store at 141 Peachtree for a term
of approximately eight years at a
total consideration of about $4,000,
or more than $4,000 a year. The
Cruickshank Company has also dis
posed of its soda water business to
the drug concern.
The James Drug Company has in
stalled one of the handsomest sets of
fixtures in tlanta and will do a gem
eral drug, soda water and prescrip-
ton business. When the Cruickshank
Cigar Company has taken out the
soda fountain they will install one of
the largest and most expensive hu
mdors in the South Mr.. Cruick-
shank states that in this additional
space he will increase his cigar ia
Cilities.
B. NJ Grant e. Company have also
leased for Mr. CruiCkshank the en-
tire second floor and most of the third
floor to Veltrie & Harmon, for a
term Of about eight years. TheIessees
will conduct a mems tailoring estab'
lishment.
Important Realty Meeting.
A meeting of the utmost Importance
to real estate men, office building
orally will be held Monday at noon IN
the Chamber of Commerce rooms on
the fifth floor of the Empire Building.
At this time the question Of the pend
ing income tax measure Of the Federal
tariff bill will be thoroughly discussed.
and II is belieevd that a formal pro-
test against some items of the meas
ure will be lodged with United States
Senators A. 0. Bacon and Hoke
Smith.
The bill has passed the House and
is now up to the Senate. A provision
which realty men and building man
ayers find obnoxious is that which
h provides that tenants shall withhold
q rents from landlords The bill, II rs
commended, represents double taxation.
Expenses will be taxed rs wei as IN
come, and corporations doing business
at a loss will be taxed on their losses.
.NNr
tees Of the meeting in the name OF
the Atlanta Real Estate Board, ana II
is expected that a large number OF
people will be present.
Leases by Cochran Company.
The Ralph o. Cochran Company has
rented or leased the following places
within the past few days:
For Mrs \. II. Perkins to K. j.
NTrGaughey. 269 East Hunter street;
or Mrs \. NJ. Campbell TO T. NJ.
RIiFd1ebrooks. 29O Ormond Street; Tor
Ers f. NJ. Holman to d. W. Hilley'
Al Drlathorpe Avenue; for L. II. Eur
Inc IN M w. Cole. % Rogers street;
for pfUin- Norris Company to X. j.
NerliIe 23S Lake Avenue; for jacob
tuprbach TO j. J. Slappy, go WlnusoT
street. for C.. p. Murphey 70 MIS-. ~. ~.
T. Spruiu. IS Wellington Str eel, 20 o.
Mrs NJ. o. Trippe TO Walter Cone -
NIius street. for NJ Leiverson to }.
4 Finch. 324 Houston Street and toF
~ d Palmer to Mrs. W. c. smith
"a Cooper Street.
Realty Business Good.
The past few days in the real estate
market have instilled a great deal OF
rnnfdence in local land dealers. Pros
meets for good crops, easier money
and general confidence have hao Ine''
effect. -, -, che
A
prevailing sentiment.
business is picking up, declared
RaIph o Cochran, head OF the hfW
that bears his name
we expect an unusually good sum-
mar" asserted Charles p. Glover, mead
of the Atlanta Real Estate Board ana
the clover Realty Company.
THURSDAY we had more inquirIeS
for property than We have ma IN
halt
going to be good" was The comment
81 n Ewing, of the Smith s. Ewing
Things look better to me" said
Milton Ii. Lehman. OF the A. F. LEO
man Company. .-,.,-..-
Il can't see anything but good times
ahead" declared Lowry Porter OF
Porter & Swift.
@The man who's not selling real
estate Is not working up TO capacity,
was the comment Of 4. z. HOMES, u
the Holmes & Luckle Realty I'm IN
nanv. I'VE have no cause 10 conf
p'1 Edwin p. Ansley Shelby Smith,
Forrest Adair. s B. thurman. b. NJ
Grant. George P. Moore, l.. +. BOT
tenheId. John D. Babbage. NJ. I, riser,
Harris @ White. William A. Nernoy
and others Joined in the general
chorus
Mr.. Gamblers Purchase.
Considerable interest was nahlIesl
ed Friday in local realty circles over
the purchase by Asa G. Cancler OF
tract IN Chicago for the erection OF a
reu-stsry building at cost OF SoUv,-
H60 Mr.. Gambler now has holulnss III
Chicago. Washington and New 90 a.
as well : in Atlanta and otner GU
there his soft drink business assumes
large proportions 90, b., AK
The price paid for the Y /. BY 4fo
foot marcel was $4,000 or Sl,254 Z
Sron+ foot about the price that WouIg
he najd in Atlanta at Peacntree an an
Currier or Poplar and Luckle- -
tract adioins property already gM ne
nv Mr. Gambler. which gives MN
Combined frontage Of ll4 Is Ieel'
West Peachtree Houses. .--
Three new bungalows are ogiil=
t,,i1t In West Peachtree Park. WhllL5
,..Irras,-7or5s TO Thirteenth street anu
i inst TO the east Of West PeatAlIs
Street The houses face hoIlA -
~ an attractive addition 70 neiz-=
borbood composed Of mealdIll-
ms very artistic dwellings.
Ten wears ago West PeacnIrev We
,-frrua1iv "wiIderness.' with onlE az"
occa sioral house north Of sixth stree ie.=,.
mt TODAY IL is almost soilatf '''s