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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
IN REALTY CIRCLES

What can be done to give Atlanta
relief IN the matter OF broader and
better graded streets and more paw
ing where It is badly needed?
Now that West Peachtree regrad.
ing Is under way, people are suggest
ing that It would be as we'll to widen
the thoroughfare now, rather than be
faced with more intricate problems in
the hereafter. The widening OF
Peachtree is also wanted, before big
buildings are built flush with the
sidewalk. and widening will cost ten
times as much a few years hence.
A we'll known realty dealer de-
clared the other day that he favored
a s20,OOO,O0O issue OF bonds, to be
paid by posterity when there Is more
money than there is now. This. he
said, would make Atlanta ship shape
and a place really worth living in.
Another dealer favored bonds, but he
was not so ambitious in the amount.
lie asked for 100000, with which
he said the city could at least pave
It's streets.
This street question is a vexing
one" he declared. The same ma
terial is called for in Western Heights
that is laid on Whitehall, the differ
ence being that whitehall gets as
phalt and Western Heights nothing
but promises. Council intends to do
its duty by the outlying districts, but
the day never comes. Then why not
make temporary improvements at
one tenth the cost rather than no i'm
provements at all?
"Cinders and gravel make a side
walk or a street paving that is fairly
good for ordinary purposes and that
will last ten years. Maybe at the end
of the decade there will be money
enough for asphalt or macadam. and
in the meantime the citizens have had
the advantage of improvements that
have enabled them to keep out OF the
mud A man who can't afford to
build a mansion dosen't go out and
sleep In the trees. He builds a bunga-
low for 81 600 and lives I'm II ten years,
until he can have a more pretentious
house. The same principle should
work in city paving.
AS for grades. all the streets now
being worked should be fixed def
nitely and finally now Under the
present scheme. a man builds his
house on a high lot and far back from
the sidewalk. His neighbor builds
on a low lot and tam-up up to the
street. These things should be regu-
lated after a definite plan, and the
city would find that 1t had saved
hundreds Of thousands of dollars and
much trouble after a few years"
Visitors to Atlanta have been i'm
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28

pressed with the comparatively greas
distance between most Of the local
Ekycrapers. The outside limits are
Peachtree and Houston streets (Can-
dler Building) on the north, White
hall and Alabama streets (Atlanta
National Bank Buildlng) on the south,
Edgewood avenue and Exchange
place (Hurt Buildino) on the east,
and Forsyth and Walton streets (the
Healey Building) on the west.
The most genuine cluster of sky
scfapers Is made up of the Empire,
the Grant, the Healey and the Third
National Bank Buildings and the near
est approach to a cluster is the Hurt
and Trust Company of Georgia com
bination.
The Gambler Building is a long
block from the Empire Life Building.
two blocks from the Trust COMPANY
and Hurt Buildings, five blocks from
the Atlanta National Bank Building,
three from the Third and Fourth Ma
tional, the Grant and Empire Build-
ings, and two long blocks from the
Healey Building. The Healey Build
ing is three blocks from the group TO
the east and four from the Atlanta
National Bank Building to the south.
In circumference the skyscrapsr
area is some twenty blocks. which
gives, roughly, two blocks for each
typical skyscraper in Atlanta. The
actual ground space which the ten
skyscrapers occupy, however, would
total about three or four average size
city blocks When il is considered
that they could be brought closer to-
gether at a great saving Of space ana
trouble. the situation is apparent.
A well known developer of real es-
tate explained Saturday that the sky
scraper district occupied a wide area
because desirable corners in the CEN
ter could not be secured by people
who wanted to erect high buildings.
Substantial low structures built many
years ago are Welding such a good
percentage on investments that own
ers won't tear them away.
When a man gets along in years
his ambition is usually to have a lit
tie place in the country where he can
relax from business cares and spend
his time cultivating a garden patch
and possibly an apple orchard. The
skysCraper life is essentially for the
young man who has the strength to
weather the commercial storms that
beset him, and the man of gray hairs
seeks to draw away into more peace
full and quiet surroundings.
Atlanta fnanciers who have passed
into the autumn" are still as active
as the youngest, but few of them
have failed 10 provide a choice spot
out i'm the country where they can go
when they are bent ON retiring.
"Frenzied finance" has no charms like
gardening. The fascination of max
ing money is not to be compared with
the pleasure that lies In making
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
MILLIONS ARE
NOWINVESTEDIN
SKYSCRAPERS
Fourteen Office Buildings Worth
$6,l00,O00-First Erected in
Early Nineties and Hurt Is Last.

With the completion Of the Hurt
and Healey Buildings, Atlanta has a
skyscraper total Of IA and a total
value in the higher buildings of
100000 and an estimated aggre-
gate value Of $4,000, 900 in all kinds
Of office buildings. big and little.
The Hurt Building is valued at
100000.
The Healey will be completed
about January l, at a cost Of $500, 900.
and Will be finished later to cover
the entire block bounded by Forsyth,
Walton, Broad and Poplar streets.
The Fourth National cost 5000, 900.
as did the Gambler Building
The Empire Building cost half a
million, and the Equitable cost about
the same. or something less.
Cost of Bank Buildings.
The Atlanta National and the
Third National Bank Buildings cost
$3.50, 900 each.
The Grant Building cost 1926, 900,
and the Austcll Building t315, 900.
uE I'm pllt lAilt huu IOlS y III
Buildings cost 5000 900 each.
The Peters Building cost S120 900
The Steiner-Emery Building cost
$4,000, the Thrower Building SOS 900,
the Atlanta Trust Building 100000
and the Rhodes Building $4,000
The Oldest Office building in Allan
ia is the Equitable Building, which
was constructed I'm the early nlneties.
and failure was predicted for It.
Tenants soon filled Il. however, and
at no time in Office building history
has there been any trouble filling
skyscrapers with tenants.
Another Skyscraper Due.
Application for a permit to build
the Austell Building was made July
Is, 1896, for the Empire Life Build
ing, May 5, 1897, and for the Grant
Building, October 20. 1897 The date
for the Empire Building was August
3, 1900 for the Atlanta National Bank
Building. October 80. 1901, for the
Fourth National Bank Building, Au-
gust 10, 1908, and for the Gambler
Building, August 9, 1904. The Third
National date was April s, 1910, the
Healey. October II, 1912, and the
Hurt, the same day.
Intense interest centers Ia an
nouncement of plans for the next
office building There are several
sites under consideration and sew
eral parties figuring. Inasmuch as Il
requires a year or more to plan a
skyscraper, a declaration Of inten-
tons from some CIrce is expected at
any time.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER

things grow out Of the ground-for
men Of mature years
There Is William T. Healey. for in
stance, who has found the Creature
Circumstance so hard as to make him
live most Of his life downtown, Not
that Mr.. Healey is old. Far from II.
But the fact remains that he has pro-
vided snug place out in the coun-
try where he can go some day and
enjoy life"
What matters It that he paid r. d.
Dorsey 81, 800, or $50 a front foot, for
$50 by $50 foot lot on Peachtree
road, Just south Of Buckhead? He
has good neighbors, and, besides, he
has refused a profit Of 81 1000 on his
lot and considers that II IS worth
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28

Edwin P Ansley and other leaders IN
the development of Atlanta real es-
tate.
The original land lot of 2O2 1-2 acres
in Ansley Park cost Edwin P. Ansley
100000 from the George W. Collier
estate seven years ago. Mr.. Anslay
has since added a number of smaller
acreage tracts, notably that which
he bought from Mrs. Harriet F. Bran
don, for less than $1,000 an acre, and
that from Mrs. Sallie J. Bearse, l.
acres, for $3.50
Mr.. Ansley has spent $500,O00 OF
more putting his subdivision in shape.
z. Rivers bought in 1906 I42 acres
from the Golfers north of Peachtree
Creek and east of Peachtree road 70.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
Kirkwood Lots Bring s12.4oo.

Thirty-one city lots in Kirkwood.
comprising about eight acres have
been sold by the receivers OF the
Guarantee Trust and Banking Com
pany 20 Collier brothers for $4,000.
This is known as the Robson subdi-
vision, with AGO feet OF frontage on
Hardee street, $40 on Robson place.
h5O on Kirkwood road $50 on Emery
street and $50 on Norwood avenue.
The terms were practically cash. j.
y. Pritchett OF the l.. p Bloomfield
Real Estate Agency, represented
buyer and seller.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28

banners. These are not only attrac-
tive, according to the owners, out
they lend an air Of life and patriot
ism wherever seen.
The average subdivision inside the
city limits is in a peculiar position.
Although a part of the city. its pri-
yate nature tends to make council
PLAY hands off" Take Ansley Park
for instance In the beginning. Ansley
Park was the property of Edwin Z.
Ansley. and the city did little. If any
thing for it. Now it is largely the
property of individuals who pay city
taxes, and the city still does nttIe
or nothing for It,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28

100000, or at the rate of s704 an
acre. and in 1910 493 acres on the OPP
pOsite side Of the road for $3.50, 000,
or at the rate Of 1888 an acre. The
former tract is known as Peachtree
Heights and the latter Peachtrea
Heights Park, on which he has spent
$4,000 and 100000, respectively.
Atlanta home owners are trying a
new way TO decorate handsome or
modest residences, adding substan-
TALLY to the attractions provided by
a liberal use of flowers and shrubs.
This is the use Of American flags
from fiagpoles on front laws. a
number of Peachtree property own
ers heve recently raised handsome
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28

High prices of subdivisions around
Atlanta prevent developers from en-
joying a very wide margin OF profit,
and what they make after years Of
developing and waiting is well de-
served. This Is the case with For
rest & George Adair, Charles P. Glow
or, Eretus Rivers, Edward c. Peters.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28

nearly double what he paid for it.
Mr.. Healey is a man of ideals,
moreover. and this fact is going to
keep him some time away from the
perfect peace" Of his country home
Il do only one thing at a time, and
try to do it WELL" he explains, and he
goes on with the erection of his sky
scraper.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
office Building Urged
For Professional Men

Indications early revival
leading
100000 for
The professional would be much better building
cia Saturday 1T
fessonal office than business
special of
doctors and dentists this
building
would
would be generously
Louisville
professional only, aIha later
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28

Pyrono Panel Door Showing Fireproof
Sheathing Indented to the Core Inset
Magniied. All Pyrono Products Have
This Distinctive Protection.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-28
PYRONO
DOOR
MAKE "Fire-
Proof Buildings
FIRE PROOF!

Pyrono Fireproof and Airproof
Doors and Trim have NATURAL
Original, Scientific and Protective.
WOOD VENEER FACINGS and are
The PYRONO PROCESS, the same
as used in THE HURT BUILDING.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-16
DoINGs IN NEW YORK

New York, Dec. 16.-Police Com
missioner Waldo has approved of a
new and interesting system by which
desk men in the stations can get
into quick touch with patrolmen on
post.
The system is to be tried out in
q busy downtown precinct. Ten iron
posts will be set up, at various cor
ners. each having on top green
globe II inches in diameter. Lower
on each post is telephone appa-
ratus.
By turning switch the desk lieu
tenant in the station house causes
the lights to flash simultaneously in
five globes. This will summon all the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-16

COPS in sight Of the posts. AS soon
as a policeman has reached one of
the posts and taken the receiver OFF
the telephone the flashing stops.
At present the police telephones
are equipped with call bells, which
no policeman ever hears unless he
happens to be standing within few
feet of the post.
-,
A "movie" star who fastened from
her uptown apartment to small
Jersey town, on telephone instruc-
lions from the firm she worked for,
arrived there, by some nlischance, a
day ahead of the rest of the troupe.
Discovering which to be the case, she
INQUIRED of the station agent, Can
yon direct me to the best hotel in
town."
"Yes'm, l can" he replied, 'but 1
don't like to do it"
"Why not?" asked the astonished
finer.
Because, after you've stopped at
it, you'll think I'm liar"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-16
UNEMPLOYED DISAPPOINTED
COUNCIL DIDN'T MEET

COONSlE DtON WEI
One hundred determined men, lead
by Jimmy Altman, chairman of the
agitation committee of the unen-
pioyed of Chicago, marched into the
CITY Hall last night, to present their
demands to the mayor and council.
The men were disappointed. There
was no session of the council, the.
next meeting being Wednesday even
ing.
A mass meeting Of the unemployed
will be held at S14 South State street,
First Ward Socialist Hall, this even.
ing at 8 o'clock. Arrangements will
be made for parades of the unem-'
ployed and plans laid as to what ac-
ton should be taken, if the mayor
and council should refuse to grant
the committees demands.
r.. -O-O--
II takes one-tWentieth of second
for a wireless signal to pass from
Washington to San Francisco. Beats
our telephone Service to standstill,
or Whereabouts.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-16

Joe Tinker to Brooklyn for $4,000,
the highest price on record. OF the
$4,000 Tinker gets $4,000 to COM
pensate him for playing outside of
the United States and salary OF
$500.
Thus three records were broken at
one sitting-the highest price ever
paid for an Individual player; the
highest salary ever paid a player for
short-stopping and the fact that
magnate voluntarily gave away real
money without being dynamited.
Cincinnati directors may crab the
deal, but the records still stand.
incidentally, with this light shed
upon Joey's stipend, the income tax
ers will have picnic.
Cincinnati also traded Speedy
Bob" Bescher to New York for
Charlie Herzog, the only Giant who
had dared adInitr1e had brains~-Her-
zog admitted it and proceeded to use
them, which is the why Of his be-
ing traded. Bescher, now the best
b. Sc runner in the league, will be a
terror under the McGraw system.
Catcher Hartley was sentenced to
Cincinnati for good measure.
st. Louis and Pittsburg ran amuck.
First Baseman Konetchy, Mike Now
nv and Pitcher Bob Harmon go to
Smoketown for First Baseman John
Miller, Pitcher Robinson, Outfielder
Wilson and Infielder Butler.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-31
THE WAGES OF ANGER.

In a music house Is the wreck OF a
piano which man with a temper
broke up in one of his fits of anger.
The wood In this instrument is mash
ed, the keys are broken and every
thing, In fact, except the strings has
been destroyed, says the Woman's
Independent incidentally, while the
man was at the job Of proving that
he was a fool, he broke up most of
the family furniture, even taking the
trouble to saw off the legs of the
chairs and tables when he could not
sever them with an ak.
This is temper at its most violent
and unreasoning stage. There are
grades, however, that while they do
not do quite so much physical damage
are quite as disastrous In the long
run to the chap who lets momentai Y
anger get the better OF him. Promis-
ing careers have been ruined and the
earning capacity of otherwise com.
petent men cut in half by untimely
demonstrations of the disposition that
units a man for responsibility.
The nervous, excitable chap wins
flies off tangent on slight provoca.
ton usually thinks that those he
comes in contact with realize his 1T
lie weakness and make allowances
for it They don't. They take his
rudeness, his believing assumption u
an authority he Is not fit to exercise
his uncertain moods, his outbursts oi
passion, at their face value. For 9
long time such man may escapt
serious consequences, hut some dag
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-31


he will vent his bad manners on some
one who has made memory fine at
and who twenty years after will lot
have forgotten an Insult. Rough words
as well as chickens come home 70
roost.
The pity of bad temper is that il
SO often is the possessor OF those who
otherwise are good fellows Bad
temper really is temporary insanity
either brought about by direct provo.
cation or by a general state OF extern.
sion due to attempting Responsible
ties which the individual is not big
enough to bear. One cannot help
feeling sorry, for the usually kind,
capable man who is so constituted
that he cannot control his tongue and
his actions when a crisis arises.
The wrecked plano is moral les
son. It illustrates what the extreme
Of bad temper will do and should
be warning against the lesser dem
onstratfon by which the climax OF
uglfness is gradually reached.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-31
a TRUTHFUL STATEMENT.

c. R. Joy, who presided as chair
man of the water power celebration
exercises last Tuesday, made state
ment In which all well-informed citi-
zens will concur, when he gave credit
to Judge William Logan for efficient
activity In the water power develop
ment. In introducing Judge Logan
Mr.. Joy said:
He Judge Logan was the one
man who had been on the Job
from the beginning to the end
and that to him more than any
other man we are Indebted for the
success.
That the vast audience approved
and appreciated Mr.. Joys statement
was plainly indicated by the applause
that followed. Through all the trials
and discouragements, through the
varied intricacies and perplexities OF
development. Judge Logan's counsel
was required and contributed, often
to the point Of physical exhaustion. In
a general way, not only in Keokuk
but throughout the Mississippi valley
was his services recognized. but only
to those intimately connected with
the movement is the full force of his
work appreciated
Time is an effective efacement The
coming generations will give little
thought as to whose patience and
good sense vitality helped in giving to
them the great Industrial benefit, SO
it is all the more Just we who are
familiar with the proceedings make
public acknowledgement and voice
our approval of Mr. joys remarks
which were pertinent, deserving and
truthful The time will inevitably
come when the record will be written
that ION such day this man was
born, on such day he died" but be-
fore that event, which it is devoutly
hoped viii be long ways in the
future, tribute to Judge Logan for his
part in the water power enterprise
should be paid, and The Gate City
only voices the community feeling
when such reference is made to the
part he played in the gigantic plant
now serving humanity at the foot of
the Des Moines rapids.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-31
RAILROADS. AND PARCEL POST

Seventeen western railroads have
appealed to Postmaster Burleson for
increased compensation for carrying
goods in the parcel post service. The
appeal says in part:
THE extension OF the parcel post
Is certain to result in vast enlarge
ment of business. The government
will collect postage on this business,
but no provision has yet been made
to pay the railroads for transporting
it. Not only will they receive no COM
pensation for this increased business,
but will suffer the actual loss OF cam
ings previously derived from the same
traffic, when carried as express and
freight. No code OF business requires
service, without pay, and 1t is especial
ly unreasonable for the United States
government to require the railroads
or any other interest to serve 1t with
out remuneration.
Everybody must admit that 1t does
appear unfair to the railroads to put
all this business upon them without
some satisfactory arrangement for
paying for the service. The railroads
received about so per cent of the gross
receipts of the express companies for
carving the business which is now
going to the government. At best
they cannot hope to be paid half that
amount by the government. This
makes serious reduction In their
gross earnings, and at a time when
expenses Of operation are increasing
The railroads certainly should be
paid fair rate for carrying this mai
matter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-31
COST OF LIVING IN COLLEGES.


There exists comfortable sort OF
feeling that any wide-awake boy or
girl can go through the best Of col
leges. II his parents can't sign the
checks, he can earn his way.
A great many parents who have
young folks to go to college this fall
do not find the problem SO easy. The
thing they are up against is suggested
in a report just made, giving careful
ly prepared statistics of student ex-
penses at Williams college. The fig
ures show that the average cost per
student in 1887 was $685., while now
it is 1927. 1t is said that Cornell uni
versity average student costs have in
creased so per cent and many other
colleges even more.
A certain student known to the
writer takes care of a furnace, visit
ing it five times day He waits on
table, and serves as assistant In a
library two hours per day His class
room work takes three hours day
He has to study at night and aver
ages four hours sleep. He is report