Atlanta City Directory 1921, Part 1

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Publication date: 1921
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The volume herewith presented to patrons embodies the forty-fourth Edition of the Atlanta City Directory. Espec.al care has been exercised to secure a thorough enumeration of the residents of the City and its manifold business interests. The work presents as complete and compre- hensive a Directory as it is possible to produce, having in view the volume of information assembled for compilation.

The several features of the Directory which have given such satisfac- tion to patrons in former issues have been retained, while several have been amplified and improved, as suggested by experience.

The statistics presented in this Introduction are impressive as indicat- ing the wealth, industry and culture of the city and of the territory of which Atlanta is the center.

The Miscellaneous Department, pages 17 to 28, include a variety of miscellaneous information such as the City and County Governments, Cemeteries, Churches, Courts, Homes, Hospitals, Labor Organizations, Libraries, Newspapers, Parks, Post Office, Schools, Secret and Benevolent Societies and Organizations, etc., etc.

The Buyer's Guide. This feature occupies pages 29 to 180. In the Guide will be found classified according to lines of business and professions attractive display advertisements and business cards of those engaged in various industries and professions. "The Directory is the Common Inter- mediary between Buyer and Seller."

The Alphabetical List of Names of citizens, business firms and corpora- tions is embraced in pages 181 to 1214.

The Street Guide and Directory of Householders is included in pages 1215 to 1472.

The Classified Business Directory is contained in pages 1473 to 1602.

The Index to Contents and Index to Advertisements will be found on pages 6 and 14 to 16.

THE STORY OF ATLANTA THE GATE CITY OF THE SOUTH

Its Commerce, Finance, Industry, Climate and Other Advantages.

(Courtesy of Secretary Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.)

Atlanta is situated in the north central part of Georgia, near the foot- hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on a ridge which divides the watershed of the Atlantic from that of the Gulf of Mexico-is 1,050 feet above the level of the sea, being in this respect the highest city of its size or larger in the United States, east of Denver. The Chattahoochee river, flowing with- in eight miles of the city, is the source of its water supply and hydro- . electric current. Atlanta lies in one of the world's richest sections, yet a section which is far from fully developed.

The first house built on the present site of Atlanta was a log shanty erected in 1836. The settlement was called Terminus and continued to be so called until 1842. From 1843 to 1847 was called Marthasville. In 1846 the first railroad came in and in 1847 the legislature incorporated the city of Atlanta. The population had grown in 1859 to 11,500. At the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 the inhabitants numbered about 13,000. It was then a busy, thriving, bustling, energetic town. Those characteristics have been retained to this day.

BANKING FACILITIES.

If a city's prosperity is reflected in the reports of its clearing house, and the bank is the arbiter of industriaal and commerciaal enterprise, for- tune has smiled on Atlanta. The city has twenty banks and trust com- panies, seven of which are in the Clearing House. Clearings given below cover only the Clearing House banks. Other figures are for the entire city.

The following figures show the remarkable strength and growth of Atlanta's banking institutions.

Capital $ 10,889,998

Surplus and Profits

11,711,983

Deposits 109,314,558

Total Resources 170,738,745

Headquarters of the Sixth Federal Reserve District are in Atlanta. Legitimate business entitled to consideration receives the hearty co-opera- tion of Atlanta bankers and accommodation in keeping with its needs. Atlanta's bankers are keenly interested in the industrial advancement of the city. Atlanta's bank clearings:

1893

$ 60,753,911

1901.

111,755,849

1910.

574,164,917

1918. 2,528,485,083

1919

3,290,186,378

1920.

3,256,765,739

DISTRIBUTING CENTER.

Five hundred northern and eastern manufacturers and producers have southeastern sales agencies in Atlanta and many of them carry stocks in

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warehouses here. Atlanta's location with relation to the South Atlantic and Gulf ports may be likened as it was by Sherman on his march to the sea, to the opened hand of a man. The palm represents Atlanta; the five fingers, the routes from Atlanta to the sea and the gulf; and the tips of the fingers, the ports of Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Mobile and New Orleans. All of these ports may be reached over-night from Atlanta, as may also Memphis, Nashville, Cincinnati, Louisville and other important cities.

POSTAL RECEIPTS.

Draw a straight line across the United States from Washington, D. C., to Los Angeles, Cal., and the receipts of the Atlanta Postoffice exceed those of any city south of the line. Note the phenomenal size and steady growth of Atlanta's receipts:

1915

$1,396,013.19

1916.

1,465,543.49

1917

1,614,004.51

1918. 2,162,333.11

1919

2,525,597.41

1920.

2,744,654.39

CLIMATE.

Atlanta's altitude-1,050 feet above the sea-and its proximity to the Atlantic on the East and the Gulf on the South serve to modify the heat of summer, give nights that are cool and comfortable, produce abundant and uniformly distributed rainfall and an active wind movement that renders oppressive humidity an almost unheard-of occurrence. Sunstroke deaths are unknown to the city.

Atlanta's mean temperature of 61 degrees is not the result of extreme variation, but of a consistent and temperate vacillation between an average of near 45 degrees during the coldest days of winter and summer heat that rarely ranges above 75. A temperature of over 100 degrees has been felt in Atlanta only twice in forty years, and a temperature slightly below zero has been felt only three times during the same period. The crop season covers 221 days.

Thus does the climate of Atlanta add to the large category of oppor- tunities offered to the business man in a large and progressive city features distinctly pleasant, conducive to health and favorable for all manner of business pursuits as well as for outdoor occupations and amusements throughout the year's four seasons.

HEALTH CONDITIONS.

Among the vital facts concerned with the health of a city is the water supply. In this, Atlanta is fortunate. It is taken from the Chattahoochee River and pumped nearly six miles to large reservoirs where it is filtered and passed through coagulating basins. Here it is repumped through the city mains and furnished to the populace in as pure condition as science can compel. It is clear, pure, wholesome water. The entire system is municipally owned. A municipally owned sewage disposal plant, the only one of its kind in the United States, prevents contamination of the source of water supply. A splendid system of sewers, reconstructed and extended at a total cost of $3,912,292.84, serves practically every portion of the rapidly growing city. Atlanta is the medical and hospital center of the Southeast. Its death rate for several years past have averaged about 15 per thousand and is lower than that of Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington. There are a large number of well equipped hospitals and sanitariums in the city. The milk supply of Atlanta is especially good and infant mortality has dropped steadily for years. In 1919, deaths of infants equalled only eleven and two-thirds per cent. of the total number of deaths. The location near the city, during the war, of two large army camps and a general hospital is proof that government experts consider its climate healthful and a splendid place for the rapid conditioning of men. The co- operation of Federal Health experts with municipal health officials has served to bring Atlanta into the front rank of cities, viewed from the sanitary standpoint. There are at present near the city, Camp Jesup (Motor Transport, General Depot); Ft. McPherson (Headquarters Fourth Corps Area, U. S. A.); and a U. S. Public Health Service Hospital.

PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS.

Eighteen parks and playgrounds, valued at nearly two million dollars, furnish recreation and amusement for Atlanta's populace, the city itself covering only twenty-six square miles. A $150,000 concrete home for the cycloramic painting of the Battle of Atlanta is being erected in Grant Park. Playgrounds are in charge of a supervisor and directors. Several rest rooms and other buildings will be added to the parks during this year.

On March 8, 192€ N ORYBOND ISSUE.

Atlanta voteda Bond issue of $8,850,000.00 to be expended as follows: Four million for school

for extension of sewer ystem; three quarters

one and a quarter million of a million for a large viaduct from Spring street to Terminal Station; two million eight hundred fifty thousand for additions and infpibyements in Department of Water Works. AT A 228 GA

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GAS.

The rates on manufactured gas furnished by the Atlanta Gas Light Company follows: First 10,000 cubic feet, $2.00; Next 20,000 cubic feet, $1.90; All over 30,000 cubic feet, $1.80.

WATER WORKS.

The city owns and operates, through a commission appointed for the purpose, a system of waterworks supplying the entire city and valued at $7,218,602.15. Water rates are 80 cents per month for each house, store, etc., for an allowance of 6,000 gallons per month. Wholesale or manu- facturer's rates are on a sliding scale ranging from $1.00 down to 70 cents for 1,000 cubic feet. There are 425 miles of water mains in the city of Atlanta, and the main is tapped 32,000 times. In 1920, there were 8,775,- 447,321 gallons of water pumped into the mains, or an average of 23,921,987 gallons per day.

LABOR.

The great diversity of the manufacturing interests of Atlanta make it possible to secure almost all kinds of labor. Negroes form the backbone of the common labor supply in the South. An employer's association looks after the supply of labor and furnishes a service to the employers of Atlanta which they have found of inestimable value in reducing labor turnover and in other respects. Atlanta is an open-shop city. Ample street car service, efficiently connecting every section of the city, aids materially in providing the most convenient of transportation facilities for employees to their work.

TAXES.

The city tax rate in Atlanta is $1.25 per hundred. Property is assessed on the basis of 70 per cent. of its value. The State and County assessment is on a basis of 70 per cent. of the city assessment on real estate and 100 per cent. on personal property.

The county tax rate is $1.00 per hundred, and the state, 50 cents per hundred. Under the Constitution of the State of Georgia the tax rate can- not exceed 50 cents. A special school tax of 75 cents per hundred is levied in the county outside the city. This does not affect the city property-holders, but in 1920, there was an emergency tax in the city of 371/2 cents per hundred for increased expenditure on teachers' salaries.

The assessed valuation of taxable property in Atlanta is two hundred fifty-five million dollars, showing an increase of over two hundred and one million in twenty years. Real property is assessed on the basis of seventy per cent.

FACTORY SITES.

This subject can only be dealt with in general terms without knowl- edge of specific cases. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Atlanta has 80 miles of good factory sites with railroad frontage-suburban, semi- central and within a block or two of the heart of the city. Prices of land depend, of course, on the kind of property desired, desirability of location, etc. Excellent sites for factories not requiring railroad facilities are also available. Owners of sites give careful consideration to propositions from reliable business concerns desiring to have buildings erected for use on suitable lease.

POWER.

Atlanta's power is furnished from water developments of the Georgia Railway and power Company, whose lines are situated near those of the Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Central Georgia developments. Physical connections are made with practically all of these sources.

HOUSING AND BUILDING.

Phenomenal but steady increase in building activity since the war period is solving the housing problem in Atlanta. Despite the fact that 1919 and 1920 outstripped by far all previous years. Atlanta realty men and builders are planning still greater programs. The following figures on building operations show the situation since 1916. 1916, $3,685,663.00; 1917, $4,967,675,00; 1918, $3,572,086.00; 1919, $10,442,739.00; 1920, $13,343,011.00.

Atlanta is essentially a home city, principally of separate houses with spacious verandas, deep lawns and gardens. There are 44 hotels in Atlanta with more than 3,000 rooms, and 650 apartment houses. Atlanta has 20 buildings in the "skyscraper" class. Two hundred and seventy-two churches, representing 20 denominations, indicate the home character of Atlanta life.

ELECTRIC LINES.

All of the electric city and interurban lines of Atlanta are operated by the Georgia Railway & Power Co., securing its hydro-electric power from the streams of Georgia and adjoining states. There are about sixty miles of interurban lines handling both freight and passengers. There are 225 miles of city and suburban trolley lines, radiating in all directions from the center of the city and reaching the factory districts. Universal transfers are used, making it possible to go from any portion of the city or suburbs to another for one fare.

RAW MATERIALS.

Atlanta is the center of a trritory rich in natural resources. This region is an ideal location for all kinds of cotton mills, finishing plants for cotton goods, canning and dehydrating factories, preserve and pickle plants, us- ing cheap hydro-electric power.

To the south of Atlanta lie the great forests of long-leaf yellow pine; to the north and west, the hardwoods and cedar of North Georgia and Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia. The annual value of southern · lumber is over $450,000,000, plus over $25,000,000 for naval stores.

Within a few miles of Atlanta are great stores of marble, granite and limestone. Portland cement requires for its manufacture limestone and clay adjacent to cheap fuel.

The mines of Georgia produce asbestos, bauxite for the manufacture of aluminum, coal, iron, corundum, pyrites, mica, copper, gold and other precious metals. At the Tennessee-Georgia state line, sulphuric acid is made from smelter fume in the manufacture of copper.

MARKETS.

Atlanta's location in the geographical center of the Southeast, its proximity to the South Atlantic and Gulf ports and the inland cities of the country, make it at once a desirable point from which to reach the markets of the world, including the greatest opportunity of American foreign traders, Latin-America. Its rail lines to the ports and inland have already been described.

It is also true that the density of population increases as one goes from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic Seaboard. There are within the territory of the Southeast, of which Atlanta is the center, a great many cities of five thousand population and over. This furnishes a wonder- ful market within a reasonable compass.

FOREIGN TRADE.

. Atlanta business houses, abreast of the times, are increasing their foreign trade. At least one Atlanta trade journal is printed in a foreign language and nearly a hundred Atlanta manufacturers are interested in foreign trade.

Atlanta Foreign Trade Club, composed of business men of the city, meets twice monthly and is the outgrowth of a Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and a school in foreign trade held under the auspices of the Chamber.

An evidence of growth in the movement of freight traffic from points in the United State to the foreign countries through the South-Atlantic and Gulf Ports to which Atlanta is the natural gateway, is the recent action of the railways in placing the rates from the Central West to these ports on a parity with rates to the Eastern ports. A special tariff has now been issued by the roads carrying these through rates to the ports.

Atlanta's position with relation to the ports and foreign trade, when taken in connection with her recognized advantages as the central distribut- ing point for the southeast, gives her a very great attraction for those whose vision wisely leads them to consider these two branches of trade at this time.

TRANSPORTATION.

Eight thousand miles of railroad form a network over the State of Georgia. Atlanta has eight systems of steam railroads operating thirteen lines in all directions, four belt lines entirely encircling the city, many miles of additional industrial tracks, two interurban electric lines, one gas propelled interurban line and splendid freight terminals conveniently located near the center of the city. The total mileage owned and operated by Atlanta's eight systems of railway is 20,827.

In addition to 23 miles of Belt Line, the A. B. & A. Ry. has two and a half miles of double-track main line which is being developed for in- dustrial purposes. This line extends from Bellwood to the freight station, which is within a block of the Atlanta Passenger Terminal Station. Other railroads have industrial districts with many miles of track facilities not of the nature of Belt Lines.

PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE.

Through Pullman cars to and from nearly every important city in the United States touch Atlanta, and mail deposited in the Atlanta postoffice before eight o'clock at night finds its destination the following morning at points in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi or Louisiana.

One hundred and twenty-four passenger trains arrive and depart daily at the passenger stations in Atlanta. Eighty of these are through trains and forty-four local. All but five of the total arrive and depart during the convenient hours from 5 o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock at night. Atlanta's passenger schedules are very convenient for the traveling public.

PACKAGE FREIGHT CAR SERVICE.

Three hundred and seventy-eight merchandise or package freight cars originate in and move out of Atlanta over its various steam railroads every day. This does not include solid carloads from one consignor to one con-

signee, nor freight transferred from one road to another, nor does it include freight passing through Atlanta. Computed on the basis of 15,000 pounds to the car, this means that Atlanta's business houses ship 5,670,000 pounds every day in package cars.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.

Atlanta is an educational center, having 52 institutions of learning in addition to 64 public schools and commercial colleges. Among the leading institutions of higher learning are: Georgia School of Technology, Emory University, Oglethorpe University and Lanier University. For young women: Agnes Scott College and Conservatory and Elizabeth Mather College. There are five colleges for negroes.

INTERESTING FACTS CONCERNING ATLANTA.

Atlanta is-

The financial center and central distributing point of the southeast.

The leading city of the entire south in building construction.

The Convention City of the South.

One of the most healthful cities in the entire country.

The most important automobile center in the South.

The one city in the South which liberally supports an annual season of Metropolitan Grand Opera.

The Southeastern center for most of the government's important activities.

Film distributing headquarters for the Southeast.

Headquarters Southern Division American Red Cross.

Southeastern headquarters for the railroads, telegraph, telephone and express companies, railway mail service, insurance underwriters, U. S. Public Health Service, Federal Board for Vocational Education, Fourth Corps Area, U. S. Army, and scores of other organizations.

The second largest mule market in the country. Cattle, sheep and hogs also find a ready market in Atlanta.

The largest manufacturer of soft drink syrups in the world and has more fine, well-run soda fountains than any other city of its size.

The largest advertising center south of Philadelphia and ranks fourth in the United States in this respect. Besides local contracts, $8,000,000 goes through Atlanta annually for advertising.

The largest manufacturing and distributing center for plows, farm tools and agricultural implements in the South.

The South's manufacturer of ornamental terra cotta.

The center of the photo-engraving industry of the South.

The largest manufacturer of market and packing house coolers in the South.

One of the largest manufacturers of furniture in the South.

The largest manufacturer of mattresses in the South.

One of the largest manufacturers and distributors of high grade lumber and lumber products in the South.

The recognized dental center of the South.

Southeastern headquarters for window and plate glass.

The largest manufacturer of high grade candies in the South.

Headquarters of the largest ice manufacturing concern in the world, producing one million tons annually.

The largest distributor of office furniture and commercial station- ery in the Southeast.

Noted for the great diversity of its manufacturing interests, and there is ample room for others.

The golfing center of the South-with three 18 hole courses, Druid Hills, Brookheaven and East Lake, a championship course; and four nine hole courses-the municipal links at Piedmont Park and those in Ansley Park, West End, and Ingleside.

The home of "Bobby" Jones, the youthful golf marvel of America; and of Miss Alexa Stirling, National Woman's Champion.

Largest mail order seed house in the U. S.

ATLANTA HAS-

A large municipally-owned charity hospital.

The model orthepedic hospital of the world for crippled children.

The oldest and largest manufactory of disinfectants and is the largest distributing point of disinfectants in the South.

The trade of ninety thousand Southeastern marchants.

Twenty banks and trust companies.

Five hundred factories turning out more than 1,000 different articles. An industrial pay-roll of $35,000,000 annually.

The best hotels in the South-44of them, with more than 3,000 rooms. Two hundred and seventy churches, representing 20 denominations.

Four hundred and twenty-five miles of water mains-tapped 32,900 times. Eighteen public parks and playgrounds, valued at $1,853,625.

One hundred and sixteen educational institutions.

An auditorium with a seating capacity of 8,000.

The largest ostrich farm east of the Rocky Mountains, with over one hundred birds-open throughout the year.

A good aeroplane landing field.

A completely motorized fire department, with fifteen stations and 212 picked men.

More miles of street railway per thousand population that any other city in the country except Salt Lake City.

The largest commercial printing plants in the South and has more publications than any other southern city.

The only factory in the South making a full line of school and college stationery, envelopes, tablets and box stationery.

The largest overhauled locomotive business in the South and the largest rebuilt car and locomotive plants in the country, with pay-rolls aggregating half a million dollars annually.

A large spring vehicle plant.

The largest Southern plant for the manufacture of all kinds of indus- trial brushes.

Headquarters and a large factory of the largest manufacturer of cor- rugated culverts in the South, and one of the five largest in the entire country.

The pioneer packing plant of the South.

The largest shoe manufacturer south of Virginia.

The largest mail order seed house in the country.

The largest secret paraphernalia house in the South.

More overall factories than any city in the South.

Several good paint factories.

IN ADDITION-

The value of Atlanta's manufactures is upward of $180,000,000 each year.

The postoffice receipts of the past calendar year were $2,760,184,58. The assessed value of Atlanta property is $255,000,000.

The Southeastern Fair, one of the largest and best agricultural, and live stock exhibits in the country, was founded by the Chamber of Com- merce and is held annually at its permanent home, Lakewood Park, in Atlanta. During the 1920 fair, 204,655 people entered its gates.

The first casket factory in the South was built in Atlanta, and Atlanta makes more burial goods than any other southern city.

Atlanta leads in machinery for sharpening safety razor blades.

Atlanta leads in the manufacture of ladies' and children's hats.

Atlanta leads in the manufacture of paper boxes, including corrugated shipping cases.

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Atlanta City Directory 1921, Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Atlanta City Directory Company Number of Pages: 1616

Author:
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Atlanta City Directory Company
Number of Pages: 1616