Atlanta City Directory 1922, Part 1

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Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Atlanta City Directory Company
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L. Key Golf Course on the south side of the City also opened. A new con- crete fire-proof building for the famous picture of the Battle of Atlanta built. Two new swimming pools opened, and several rest rooms constructed at the parks and one at the City Hall. Four additional small parks and playgrounds opened.

BOND ISSUE.

The validation of $8,800,000.00 Bond Issue for the improvements as fol- lows: $1,250,000.00 for sewers; $750,000.00 for Spring Street Viaduct; $4,000,- 000.00 for Schools, and $2,800,000.00 for the Waterworks.

GAS.

The rates on manufactured gas furnished by the Atlanta Gas Light Company follows: First 10,000 cubic feet, $1.75; next 20,000 cubic feet, $1.70. All over 30,000 cubic feet, $1.65.

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 $10,000,000. Water rates are 80 cents per month for each house, store, etc., for an allowance of 6,000 gallons per month. Wholesale or manufacturer'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 35,644 times. In 1921, there were 8,935,909,385 gallons of water pumped into the mains, or an average of 24,482,000 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 $1.50 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.

The assessed valuation of taxable property in Atlanta is $321,774,722, 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, desirabilty of locaton, 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 oper- ations 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; 1921, $11,236,776.

Atlanta is essentially a home city, principally of separate houses with spacious verandas, deep lawns and gardens. There are 48 hotels in Atlanta with more than 3,000 rooms, and 750 apartment houses representing a total investment of $25,000,000 and housing 6,000 families. Atlanta has 50 build- ings in the "skyscraper" class. Two hundred and seventy-two churches, rep- resenting 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 territory 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, wood-working plants, pre- serve and pickle plants, using cheap hydro-electric power.

To the south of Atlanta lies 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, road building stone, 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.

A branch of the Department of Commerce has been established in the Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta.

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 States 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 track 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 indus- trial 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, Tennes- see, 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 conveinent 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.

Educational Center of the South has 52 institutions of learning in addi- tion to 73 high schools and commercial colleges. Public Schools of Atlanta have 42,000 enrollment. Some of the leading institutions of learning are: Georgia School of Technology, Emory University, Oglethorpe University, Agnes Scott College, Cox College and Elizabeth Mather College.

FACTS ABOUT ATLANTA.

Recognized as the financial center of the great Southeastern trading territory, a zone comprising one-half of the cotton belt, one-seventh of the population of the entire United States, and with manufactures valued at more than a billion dollars annually, Atlanta is the location of the South- eastern Regional Bank.

Atlanta business houses have 90,000 customers in seven Southeastern States,

In population, Atlanta has increased something over 35 per cent. since 1910, according to carefully gathered statistics. The population was on January 1, 1920, 200,616, according to U. S. census, as compared with 154,839 in 1910. School attendance of 51,000 in 1920, as compared against 23,337 in 1910, an increase of 60 per cent .; water services of 32,900 in 1920, as com- pared with 20,800 in 1910; total average daily consumption of water 26,000,000 gallons, as compared with 13,600,000 in 1910.

Of the 200,616 individuals in Atlanta, white population is estimated at 138,527, negro 61,088, other races 115; of the white population, 137,980 are of native parentage, 9,696 of foreign parentage, and 6,615 foreign born. Males number 111,751; females, 120,507. The number of families in Atlanta is esti- mated at 53,720. Estimated population Jan. 1, 1922, 215,000.

Atlanta has 27 banks and trust companies, including five national banks. Its clearings for the fiscal year ending Jan. 1, 1922, were $2,108,957,591.61. Savings deposits total $26,000,000, or $125.00 for every man, woman and child of city's population.

Atlanta had, in 1921, more than 500 factories, turning out 1,500 different articles, valued at $225,000,000 per year. These factories employed more than 25,000 industrial operators whose wages totaled more than $25,000,000 per year. These figures fall far short of the present situation, but no record of the tremendous expansion of the last few years is available other than the figures showing the total annual output of Atlanta factories for the past year, $200,000,000, or an increase of about 105 per cent.

Postoffice receipts for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1921, were $3,102,- 084.65, a gain of $357,430.15 over the previous year, or about 18 per cent.

The assessed value of Atlanta property is: Real estate, $186,831,957; personal property, $79,942,765, not including exemptions on public buildings, churches, hospitals, etc., of about $55,000,000. The total assessed valuation (which, of course, is not more than about half the actual value), plus the exempted property, is, therefore, about $321,774,722.

The total revenue of Atlanta from taxes at $1.25 per hundred, licenses and fines was $3,026,056 for the year 1920.

The assessed value of property in Fulton County is $229,800,642. At- lanta, it should be borne in mind, while located primarily in Fulton County, also takes in a part of DeKalb County, but does not include a number of important industrial suburbs, such as Decatur, which are, in reality, in all other respects a part of Atlanta.

Atlanta leads the entire South in new building construction: 3,840 building permits issued in 1921 for total of $11,236,776.00. Of this, 1,286 for residences (frame dwellings) $4,916,425.00, and twelve brick homes cost $60,000.00. Thirty-five apartment houses cost $872,753.00. Twenty-two churches, $444,200.00; 111 brick business houses, $1,428,670.00; three pub- lic buildings, $1,565,600.00; 109 frame business structures, $128,025.00; six factories, $176,000.00, and other in general improvements; 300 per cent. gain in home building over 1920.

Atlanta has 50 buildings in the skyscraper class, two of which are assessed at more than $1,000,000 each, and at least four others are actually valued at more than $1,000,000 each. It is estimated that building for the year 1922 will exceed that of 1921.

Atlanta has 44 hotels, with more than 3,000 rooms, representing a total investment of more than $10,000,000; and has 750 apartment houses, repre- senting a total investment of $25,000,000, housing 6,000 families.

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It is THE Convention City of the South, 353 conventions having been held in Atlanta in 1921.

Atlanta is the largest live stock center in the South, handling more than $18,000,000 worth of live stock annually.

Atlanta is one of the healthiest, if not the healthiest city in the South. Its death rate per thousand of population in 1920 was 18.2, notwithstanding the influenza epidemic which touched Atlanta lightly.

Atlanta has 279 churches, representing 20 denominations, with 99,603 members.

Atlanta's average mean temperature is 61 degrees, and its altitude is 1,050 feet.

Atlanta is the important automobile center for the Southeast. In At- lanta alone, 5,000 cars valued at $6,000,000 are sold annually to Atlanta peo- ple.

Atlanta has 425 miles of water mains, 3,570 water plugs for the use of the fire department, and 34,144 water connections.

Atlanta's fire department is completely motorized.

Atlanta has the only municipally owned sewage disposal plant of its kind in the United States, costing $3,912,292.

Atlanta's municipally owned Auditorium-Armory has 20,000 feet of floor space, and a seating capacity of 8,000; it has a pipe organ costing $50,000. In this Auditorium-Armory are held the annual seasons of Metropolitan Grand Opera, Atlanta being the one city outside of New York where Metro- politan Grand Opera pays. In the last season of grand opera, 50,000 people paid more than $112,000 to attend.

These figures are impressive as indicating the wealth and culture and the territory of which Atlanta is the center.

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 merchants.

Twenty-seven banks and trust companies.

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

The best hotels in the South-44 of 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.

GOLF IN ATLANTA.

Atlanta is said to be the golfing hub of Dixie. The East Lake Course is easily the finest in the South and is generally considered one of the best ten in the United States. Here have been staged several Championship Tournaments. There are two other 18-hole courses, two of nine and one of six. There are two public golf courses of nine holes each-Piedmont Park and the James L. Key courses. Golf is not only possible but enjoyable in Atlanta the year around.

Visiting golfers identified by letter or card from clubs affiliated with the United States Golf Association will be extended the courtesy of the links and clubhouses of Atlanta Clubs. They are: Atlanta Athletic Club (East Lake), Capital City Country Club, Druid Hills Golf Club, Ansley Park Golf Club, West End Golf Club, and Ingleside Country Club.

PLACES OF INTEREST.

Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia, located in East Atlanta, is supported from funds of the State of Georgia. The United States Peniten- tiary, one of the largest and costliest prisons, established by the Federal Government and contains some of the most notorious criminals in the country. Present capacity of prison is 1,000. Fort McPherson, one of the largest and most completely equipped military posts of the United States Government.

STONE MOUNTAIN.

Largest solid rock in the world is sixteen miles east of Atlanta on good automobile road. This mountain is one of the nation's wonders, one mile up from base to summit and eight miles around the base. The Con- federate Memorial Monument is being carved on the steep side of the mountain.

The sobriquet "Pinnacle City" is sometimes applied to Atlanta because the elevation of the city is much higher than the leading cities of the coun- try, being 1,050 feet above sea level; assessed valuation, real estate, $322,- 000,000; bonded debt Dec. 31, 1921, $3,633,513.21; tax rate, $1.50 per $100; miles of streets, 236; miles of paving, 258; miles of public sewers, 346; miles of sidewalks, 523; miles of electric street railway, 225; miles of gas mains,

280.55; parks and parkways, 44; value over $2,000,000; water works: capacity, 8,935,909,385 gallons; daily average number of gallons pumped, 24,482,000; miles of water mains, 425; value of plant, $10,000,000; fire department: num- ber of men, 259; station houses, 17; the department is completely motorized; value of buildings and lots, $480,000; value of apparatus, $407,375; police de- partment: number of men, 338; stations, one; public schools, 51 white, 21 col- ored; teachers, 812 white, 198 colored; pupils, 28,318 white, 12,042 colored; value of property, white, $2,465,312, colored, $235,912; miscellaneous schools, 52; public library: number of volumes, 785,074; postoffice receipts, 1921, $2,674,758.70; banks and trust companies, 25; deposits, 1921, $108,704,412.03; clearings, 1921, $2,108,957,951.61; theatres and motion picture houses, 19; hospitals, 14; hotels, 44; manufacturing: factories, 600; operatives, about 48,000; wages paid about annually, $33,300,000.00; value of annual output of production, $235,000.000; value of building permits, 1921, $11,236,776; value of building permits for January, February, March, 1922, $4,000,000.

THE ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce has been called the "Dynamo which generates the Atlanta spirit," and has for many years been the medium through which public-spirited men work together for the common good. The Chamber owns its building, in which are quartered its own offices, meeting rooms, assembly hall and offices of such organizations as the Atlanta Freight Bureau, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the Retail Food Dealers' Asso- ciation, the Credit Men's Association, Atlanta Convention Bureau, Coal Mer- chants' Association, Printers' Board of Trade and the Boy Scouts of America, Employers' Association and Southeastern Fair.

If you have money to invest in business, if you are interested in a new and favorable location, or if there is further information regarding Atlanta which you desire, write to the Secretary.

DIRECTORY LIBRARY.

A library of directories of the principal cities of the country and State Gazeteers is maintained by the publishers at the Atlanta Chamber of Com- merce for the free use of patrons. As the latest directories are issued they will be added to the library, thereby keeping it up-to-date. We extend a cordial invitation to each and every one of our subscribers to avail them- selves of the privilege of consulting the library as frequently as desired.

ADVERTISING ATLANTA.

Copies of this Directory are placed by the publishers in Directory libraries, which are maintained in the principal cities of the country, where they are readily available for reference use by the public. There they serve as perpetual advertisements of Atlanta, for business men generally realize that the City Directory truly represents the community as does no other medium.

ATLANTA CITY DIRECTORY CO., Compilers and Publishers.

Index to Advertisers

Reference is especially invited to the following Alphabetical List of Responsible, Enterprising, Advertising Business Men, and also to the names in BLACK TYPE throughout the book of those who take pride in sustaining the Directory, and who do not borrow their neighbor's Directory.

Page

Acme Electric Co 76 Belle Isle Ed Transfer & Truck

Acme Repair Shop

Co 163

Acme Teachers Agency 161

Belmont Dairy, right side lines and 69

Adair Realty & Trust Co 139

Bennett Printing & Stamp Co. 135

· Addressograph Co 125

Berrien R N Jr & Co 51

Aetna Life Ins Co 97

Bettes T J & Co . 111

Akin Bros 87

Alexander D C

Betty & Glenn, right top lines and 98 Bickerstaff, Richards & Co, left top lines and 94

Allen Ivan-Marshall Co, right side lines and

155

Bingham's Saml Son Mfg Co 138

Black Dameron & Co 34

Black & Maffett 41

Blackstock, Hale & Morgan 64

American Audit Co, left bottom lines and

Bookout J J

105

American-European Art Glass Co 35

Boyt & Brocklesby Co

149

American Laundry, right top lines

107

Brigman Motors Co

American Transfer Co

158

Brotherton F M

159

Brown-Beasley Co

140

Browne W E Decorating Co

Bruce & Bruce

Anschutz Nursery 80

Ansley Garage Co 39

Burdett Realty Co

140

Armstrong Cork & Insulation Co ..

Armstrong R S & Bro 117

Asphalt Roofing Products Co, left

side lines and 148

Atlanta Battery Service Co, left bot- tom lines and

Atlanta Business College, right side lines and

Capital City Tire & Supply Co

Atlanta Cadillac Co

Atlanta Convention Bureau

Atlanta Electric Machine Co ..

Atlanta Furniture Co

top lines and 64

Atlanta Independent Publishing Co 4

Atlanta Journal

123

Atlanta Leather Co.

110

Atlanta Loan & Savings Co

Atlanta Mutual Ins Co

Carter Electric Co, left top lines and

Cathcart Van & Storage Co

157

Atlanta Paper Co, right bottom lines

129

and

Atlanta Rubber Stamp & Stencil

125

Chappell & Ray .... Legal Blue Book

Atlanta Savings Bank 48

Citizens & Southern Bank

Atlanta Show Case Co 153

City Realty Co

140

Clarke Logan Insurance Agc

Atlanta Storage Battery Co 40

Atlanta Taxi Co, back cover and. 161 Coleman Watson E 130

Atlanta Terra Cotta Co 162

Atlanta Title & Trust Co, right top lines and

Commercial Trust Co 98

Cone Jno F. 141

Cone Realty & Investment Co, left side lines and 141

Connally Realty Co 141

Consumers Ice Co 93

Continental Trust Co, left side lines and

Austin & Boykin ... Legal Blue Book

Autocar Sales & Service Co

Cox Shoe Craft Shop 153

Crane Co 132

Automatic Sprinkler Co of Am 37 Credelle Lon 37

Awtry & Lowndes Co. .. 164

Acock C G Realty Co, left bottom lines and

139

Cridland R B 106

Cromer & Thornton Inc, right side lines and .

Crystal Carbonic Laboratory

Dahl C A Co, front cover and 80

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Atlanta City Directory 1922, Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Atlanta City Directory Company Number of Pages: 1632

Author:
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Atlanta City Directory Company
Number of Pages: 1632