Atlanta City Directory 1923, Part 1

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EMORY UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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ATLANTA, GA. 30322

F 293.2 A8 A 18 1923

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OFFICERS: J. Martin Gardner, Pres .; 76 Church Street Toronto, Canada. R. L. Polk, Jr., First Vice-Pres. 431. Howard. Street, Detroit, Mich. P.A. Manning, 2nd: Vice Pres. 191 Main Street, Springfield, Mass F. J. Loranger, Sec'y Treas 524 Broadway, New York, N. Y.

AMERI

WHY AND HOW DOES THE

ATLANTA CONVENTION BUREAU

SERVE ATLANTA AND THE SOUTHEAST IN A PRACTICAL WAY? YOU KNOW

The fundamental purpose of the Atlanta Convention Bureau is to bring Con, ventions to Atlanta.

The fundamental reason for desiring to bring Conventions to Atlanta is that their coming means more business.

Visitors in a town spend money.

Hotels spend money to entertain visitors.

Transportation companies receive money for transporting visitors from, ta and about the town,

Merchants receive money from selling to visitors.

Every business is more or less directly benefited by the presence of visitors.

WHY

Should the individual people of Atlanta be particularly interested in the Atlanta Convention Bureau?

BECAUSE

The Atlanta Convention Bureau not only goes and gets the Conventions to come to Atlanta for the good of the town as a whole

BUT

If desired, the Atlanta Convention Bureau will take charge of arranging details for a desired gathering or will advise individuals or organizations How to call a meeting.

How to advertise a meeting.

How to finance a meeting.

How to arrange program for a meeting.

How to preside over a meeting.

How to furnish entertainment for a meeting.

THEREFORE

The sole purpose of the Atlanta Convention Bureau being the handling of. conventions, be they large or small, at home or abroad, if you need its assis- tance you have but to ask to receive it.

S.O MAKE YOUR WANTS KNOWN TO ATLANTA CONVENTION BUREAU

FREDERICK J. PAXON, President FRED HOUSER, Secretary

JOHN RUSSELL, Asst. Secretary

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Atlanta City Directory Company's

ATLANTA CITY DIRECTORY 1923

CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BUSINESS FIRMS, CORPORATIONS FOLLOWED BY THEIR OFFICERS, COPARTNERSHIPS GIVING NAMES OF PARTNERS AND PRIVATE CITIZENS WITH THEIR OCCUPATION, BUSI- NESS CONNECTIONS AND HOME ADDRESS, A DIRECTORY OF ALL CHURCHES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS, BENEVOLENT, LIT- ERARY, RELIGIOUS AND OTHER SOCIETIES, BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES, A COMPENDIUM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, OFFICERS OF THE STATE, COUNTY AND CITY GOVERNMENTS, A STREET AND .AVENUE GUIDE

A BUYERS' GUIDE

AND A COMPLETE

Classified Business Directory

. VOL. XLVI

DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYERACSELLER

$15.00

PUBLISHED BY Atlanta City Directory Company

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Member Association of North American Directory Publishers

F2.93.2 A.8A.8 1923

INDEX TO CONTENTS

Abbreviations

167-168

Alphabetical

169

Board of Education

Buyers Guide

Cemeteries

Classified Buyers Guide

1519

Churches

City Council

17 -

City Courts

City Licenses

City Taxes

Clubs and Societies

Convents

Court of Appeals

Fire Department

Fraternal Organizations

Fulton County Officers

Health Department

Internal Revenue

Labor Organizations

Libraries

Miscellaneous Information

Municipal Court

Parks

Police Department

Postoffice

Public Schools

Recorder's Court

Referees in Bankruptcy

Relief, Humane and Benevolent Or-

ganizations

R F D Routes

Secret Societies

State Game Laws

State of Georgia

State and County Taxes

Street Guide

1239

Superior Court

Supreme Court

United States Commissioners

United States Courts and Officers

United States Dejt of Agricultude.

United States Local Officers

EMOF DRY UNIVERSIT LIBRARY

OCT 29 1963

ATLANTA 22,

INTRODUCTION

The volume herewith presented to patrons constitutes the forty-sixth edition of the Atlanta City Directory. It has been compiled with great care after a thorough enumeration of the citizens and manifold business interests and activities of the municipality, and presents as complete and accurate a work as is possible to be produced, having in view the great volume of information and statistical data assembled for compilation. The high standard established in previous editions has been fully maintained. The Directory has kept pace with the uniform progress of the city and is steadily devoted to the advancement of all its vital interests.

The statistical review which follows this Introduction is especially noteworthy as clearly visualizing the greatness of the city in its civic, social, commercial and industrial aspects.

In the present volume all of the essential features which have proven so satisfactory to our patrons in previous issues have been retained and amplified and improvements added as suggested by experience, in order to add to the value and usefulness of the Directory.

The volume is compiled in several essential departments which are set forth in the order following:

The Miscellaneous Department, pages 17 to 28, includes information con- cerning Cemeteries, Churches, Clubs, Courts, Associations, Convents, Labor Organizations, Libraries, Parks, Postoffice, Benevolent, Fraternal, Humane, Relief and Secret Societies, Public Schools, U. S. Courts and Officials, Etc.

The Buyers' Guide occupies pages 29 to 165. This section of the Direc- tory, printed on tinted paper, includes numerous advertisements of the leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Atlanta. They have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under classi- fied headings and otherwise in various parts of the Directory. A casual perusal of these advertisements will picture many interesting phases of the City's, activities. They are not display advertisements, primarily, however, but rather are reference advertising at its best. In a bustling, manufac- turing city like Atlanta the need for this kind of information readily at hand is very great, and the general appreciation of this need is evidenced by the liberal patronage the City Directory enjoys in many varied lines of trade.

The Alphabetical List of Names of citizens, business firms and cor- porations is embraced in pages 169 to 1238.

The Street Guide and Directory of Householders is included in pages 1239 to 1518.

The Classified Business Directory is contained in pages 1519 to 1649.

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 within 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 it 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 industrial and commercial enterprise, for- tune has smiled on Atlanta. The city has twenty banks and trust com- panies, six of which are in the Clearing House. Clearings given below cover the banks of the entire city.

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

Capital

$ 9,686,000.00

Surplus and Undivided Profits 11,333,411.87

Deposits 114,526,715.49

Total Resources 152,480,647.67

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

1901

60,753,911.00 $ 111,755,849.00

1910

574,164,917.00

1918

2,528,485,083.00

1919

3,290,186,378.00

1920

3,256,765,739.00

1921

2,108,957,591.61

1922

2,191,186,830.31

DISTRIBUTING CENTER.

Five hundred or more northern and eastern manufacturers and pro- ducers have southeastern sales agencies in Atlanta and many of them carry stocks in 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, California, 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

1921

2,674,758.70

1922

2,953,623.59

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 uniformity 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 opportu- nities 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 and wholesome water. The entire system is municipally owned. A municipally owned sewerage 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 now being greatly enlarged at a total cost of about $5,000,000, serves prac- tically every portion of the rapidly growing city. Atlanta is the medical and hospital center of the Southeast. Its death rate for several years past has 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 has recently been 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 the year.

GAS.

The rates on manufactured gas furnished by the Atlanta Gas Light Company follow: 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 Committee of Council appointed for the purpose, a system of waterworks supplying the entire city and suburbs and valued at $12,500,000. Water rates are 80 cents per month for each house, store, etc., for an allowance of 6,000 gallons per month. Whole- sale or manufacturers' rates are on a sliding scale ranging from $1.00 down to 70 cents for 1,000 cubic feet. There are 428 miles of water mains in the city of Atlanta, and the main is tapped 38,500 times. In 1922 there were 8,976,152,476 gallons of water pumped into the mains, or an average of 24,- 952,198 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 a backbone of the common labor supply in the South. An employers' association looks after the supply of labor and furnishes a service to the employer 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, and cannot exceed this rate. 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 cannot 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 $278,192,252.00. Tax exempt $55,000,000.

FACTORY SITES.

This subject can only be dealt with in general terms without knowledge of specific cases. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Atlanta has 80 miles of good factory sites with a 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.

HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER.

Atlanta is geographically located almost in the center of the wide dis- trict covered by the hydro-electric lines in the southeast. Practically all of the manufacturing establishments, office buildings, hotels and so forth, obtain their electricity now from the Georgia Railway & Power Company, the rates offered by this company being comparable to any that can be obtained east of the Mississippi River, Niagara Falls excepted. The local company now has in operation four hydro-electric and two steam plants, aggregating over 160,000 horsepower, and are undertaking the construction of new developments on the Tugalo and Tallulah River Systems, which will furnish 290,000 horsepower additional upon its completion in 1926. 208,000 horse- power of this amount will be available by the end of 1923.

FUEL.

Practically all of the high grade coal and coke used in the Atlanta district is obtained from Tennessee and Kentucky. The coals of the Knox- ville and Chattanooga districts are about 150 miles distant. Bituminous coals of almost any variety are available.

Fuel oil is obtained from Louisiana, often at a price which is more attractive as a fuel than coal.

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; 1921, $11,236,776.00; 1922, $20,584,734.00.

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 891 apartment houses representing a total investment of $28,638,450.00 and housing 7,000 families. In 1922 there were 2,250 residences erected within the city limits at a total cost of $8,345,951.00, and approximately the same number of dwellings at a similar cost erected in the adjacent territory and suburbs. Atlanta has 62 buildings in the "skyscraper" class. Two hundred and eighty-five churches, represent- ing 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 Company, securing the 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 trans- fers 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, potteries, linoleum plants, glass and pigment plants, using 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, barytes for manufacturing paints, bauxite for the manufacture of aluminum, coal, iron, corundum, fullers earth and kaolin, 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.

INDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITIES.

The facts available indicate several industries which, if located in At- lanta, would enjoy unusual natural advantages, such as: The manufacture of pigments; the grinding and blending of clays for the textile, paint and pottery industries; the grinding of feldspars, fullers earth, and rotten stone, oil cloth manufacture; the manufacture of refractories; the manu- facture of Portland cement; the manufacture of pottery products, sanitary ware, electrical porcelain, wall tile and floor tile, table and china ware.

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Atlanta City Directory 1923, Part 1

Author: Publication date: 1923 Publisher: Atlanta City Directory Company Number of Pages: 1686

Author:
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: Atlanta City Directory Company
Number of Pages: 1686