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C CHAPTER 90 1912 OURTLAND S. WINN continued to preside over Atlanta's municipal affairs during 1912, though the first of the year brought a number of new faces to the city council. The new aldermen were: First Ward, Alonzo J. Johnson, general agent, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. Second Ward, John E. McClelland, lawyer. Third Ward, James E. Warren, lawyer. Sixth Ward, James R. Nutting. Seventh Ward, Fletcher J. Spratling. Eighth Ward, Dr. A. H. Van Dyke, physician. New councilmen were: First Ward, Samuel A. Wardlaw, proprietor, Dixie Tile & Cement Company. Second Ward, Charles D. Knight, secretary-treasurer, Piedmont Laundry and Harvey Hatcher, lawyer, who succeeded Dr. Monroe Smith, deceased. Third Ward, Carl N. Guess, lawyer, and Orville H. Hall, manager, Southeastern Underwriters' Company. Fourth Ward, Albert D. Thomson, real estate. Fifth Ward, John D. Sisson, carpenter, Continental Gin Company. Sixth Ward, George H. Boynton, real estate. Seventh Ward, Roy M. Abernathy, contractor. Eighth Ward, Clarence Haverty, vice-president and general manager, Haverty Furniture Company. Ninth Ward, Charles Whitefoord Smith, lawyer. Tenth Ward, Claud C. Mason, bookkeeper.1 Atlanta's ministerial officers for 1912 were the same as for 19II.2 The county elections of 1912 produced no changes in Fulton's official family, and only two in De Kalb. J. A. McCurdy succeeded B. A. Morris as sheriff, and J. E. Forrester succeeded E. O. Reagin as tax collector.3 Downtown and close-in residential landmarks continued to fall before progress and to make way for business during 1912. The former Grant Wilkins' home, a one-story frame cottage on the northeast corner of Peachtree and North Avenue, sold for $60,000, or $682 a front foot.4 The site is now occupied by a branch of the First National Bank. The Thomas L. Langston homeplace, on the east side of Peachtree between Harris and Baker streets, brought $1500 a front foot. The old Dr. F. H. Orme home, at the southwest corner of Forsyth and Luckie streets, the site now being occupied by the Rialto Theater, was sold to Hugh Richardson for $2166 a front foot; the R. A. Hemphill property, east side of Peachtree between Baker and Ivy, brought $850 a front foot, the Samuel Y. Tupper homeplace , at the northeast corner of West Peachtree and North Avenue, brought $250 a front foot, while the Morrison corner at Peachtree and Merrits Avenue, changed hands at $600 a front foot.5 590 ATLANTA AND ITS ENVIRONS The Chamber of Commerce took a long step forward in 1912, under the presidency of Wilmer L. Moore, when it purchased the former Y.M.C.A. Building at the northeast corner of Pryor Street and Auburn Avenue. Quartered in the Empire Building since 1907, the Chamber, after making extensive alterations, occupied its new offices in 1914. At the time of this move, five persons constituted the staff: Walter G. Cooper, secretary; Henry H. Robinson , now vice-president of the Adams-Gates Company, assistant secretary; Miss Sadie S. Workman, cashier; Miss Mary Latham, stenographer, and an office boy. When the move was made in December, 1948, to its present quarters in the Volunteer Building, under the presidency of A. L. Zachry, the staff had increased to 17, including Miss Workman, as head of the accounting department. Its activities had become departmentalized, under the direction of W. Roy Ulrich, as general manager.6 Another important step taken* by the Chamber of Commerce during the Moore administration (1912-1913) was the organization of the Atlanta Convention Bureau. Originally, and for many years thereafter, directed by Frederick H. "Cousin Fred" Houser, former publisher of the Southern Hotel Journal, the Bureau was a prime factor in developing the recognition Atlanta has secured as a convention city.7 Nineteen-twelve is claimed as the birth year of two of Atlanta's popular golf and social clubs, Ansley Park and Druid Hills. The Ansley Park Club, situated on a segment of one of the oldest roads in the Atlanta area, that leading from Decatur to Montgomery Ferry on the Chattahoochee River, started as a semi-public golf course with a 15-cent green fee. The 9-hole course was actually laid out in 1910, partly on the old Wash Collier estate, under the supervision of Al Doonan and Stewart Maiden. When opened, the "club-house" was located on the end of a tool-house and stable at the corner of present No. 8 fairway. An original voluntary association organized in 1913 was headed by C. B. Bidwell...

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