Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-17
AWAY FROM HOME.
Tennessee Editors on a Tare.

| growth. When one visits city that is
largely built up with fine, large business
houses and elegant dwellings, he is sure
to be impressed with the fact that it is
wealthy and prosperous. This is the
! impression Cincinnati makes upon the
stranger, and it needs only hasty glance
atthe trade statistics to confirm this impress
sion.
| MORE Ro NJ WANTED.
Cincinnati is one of the most compactly
built cities in the world. 1t contains fifty
eight persons to the square acre, and
this includes the streets and alleys
and a large tract of unoccupied
territory, while London and Liverpool
each contain but fifty-two. There are
over 1,400 tenement houses in the
city, with six TO eight families living in
each. In these houses there are about
$4,000 rooms and between $4,000 and
10000 people. There are living in thee
houses 4, 200 families, comprising about
10000 persons, who have but one room
to each family. The Development of these
facts has awakened the liberal spirited
citizens of Cincinnati 10 the importance
of providing better accommodations for
this class of population of the city. They
appreciate the fact that cheap homes are
a necessity, and efforts are being directed
toward procuring such homes. The city
proper already occupies nearly all the
level territory lying between the river
and the hills that surround the place, so
that parties looking for places to build
homes, must so beyond these hills. To
accomplish this, some of the adjacent
hills will have to be scaled by inclined
railroads, as at Pittsburg, and that is Sc
riously meditated, and will no doubt be
put in successful operation in q short
time. Suburban villages are already
springing up all around the city, and
lines of horse cars have been constructed
to sll of them not lying Immediately on
the great railroads leading out of Cincin-
natl, so that with cheap rents and cheap
fares, a large portion of the Ia
boring classes can iud pleasant and
comfortable homes in these villages.
Territory suitable for building purposes
is now the great want of Cincinnati, and
vigorous efforts are being made to over
come the natural barriers and secure terri
tory. What has already been accom-
plished in this direction shows that wealth
and enterprise can do wonders. The con-
struciion of three or four bridges across
the Ohio would furnish easy access TO the
comparatively cheap lands on the Ken
lucky side of that liver, and thus secure
for all classes pleasant and desirable
places of residence within sight of the
city.
CINCINNATI AS A MANUFACTURING CITY.
1t is not generally known that Cincin-
natl is one of the largest manufacturing
cities in the country. A gentleman thor
Oughly posted in these matiers, informed
me thst there is in This city an area of
two squsre miles which contains greater
number and larger manufacturing estab-
lishments, which employ more hands,
produce more articles and more varied in
in their character, than can be found in
any city on the continent. was sur
pTssd to learn from this gentleman that
Cincinnati is now the largest shoe manu-
featuring city in the Union, being ahead
of Lowell. These facts will show that
Cincinnati is making giant strides in the
matter of building up great trade and a
great city.
One OF the most remarkable of the es-
adjustments, of Cincinnati is that of Mr..
Joseph KIRBY, devoted exclusively to the
manufacture of bugs of all sizes for
barrels. He turns out from 60, 900 TO
80, 900 per day, and his sales average
about -, coo. They are made mostly OF
pOpar, but other harder woods are
used. Mr.. Kirby has enc customer in
New York 70 whom he sells one thousand
barrels OF these bungs year. The ma
chinese by which these bugs are manu-
featured are of Mr.. Kirby's own inven-
ton, for which he has obtained the pat
ent, and he refuses to sell the right to any
person to manufacture, SO he has a mon
opoly of the trade. Each of his improv-
ed machinery will turn out one hundred |
bungs per minute.
CLEANLINESS.
Cincinnati is model of cleapliness. 1t |
is remarkable to find any thing like dirt |
or filth in any of the streets or alleys. | |
haVe seen no city that will at all compare |
with Cincinnati in this respect. Her |
streets look as though they were swept |
almost every day. This explains why |
Cincinnati IS so remarkably healthy.
PARKS.
Il tNALuAN VI NlLCluudtl is lis DdIhS.
Qalte number Of small parks are to be
found in different portions Of the city,
bat they are very tastefully arranged and
decorated. Lincoln Park is the largest,
and il is probable that about thirty acres
viii be added to it. Eden Park, in the |
East End, D." has but recently been laid
off, and The work of improving and dec
Grating it is progressing. This park con-
tains one hundred and seventy acres, and
was purchased at a cost of something
over baf a million dollars. 1t will cost
from 81, 600, 600 to g, 00O,0 900 to COM
plete the contemplated Improvements.
The question of purchasing a tract of
one hundred and fifty acres in the vicini-
ty of Clifton for park has been sgitsted
for a number Of years, snd it is likely the
purchase will yet be made. Ten or twelve
y ears ago It could have been bought at
one thousand dollars per acre; now it is
held at three thousand dollars. The parks
already flushed have added greatly to the
attractions of Cincinnati, and have drawn
thousands of inhabitants to the city.
NASHVILLE PACKET COMPANY.
Il has been my good fortune to meet
Capt. James S. Wise, the Superintendent
of the Nashville Packet Company. do
not worder at the popularity of this com.
pany with so genial, wholesouled a man
as Capt Wise for Superintendent. The
Captain informs me that his company
will be in the Nashville trade this winter
again with two and psrhaps three boats,
plying regularly between Cincinnati ana
Nashville. Your merchants and business
men and those along the lower Cumber-
land will kuOT that this means business
MAMMOTH ESTABLISHMENT
a number Of The excursion party had
the pleasure to-day OF looking through
the vast wholesale grocery house of
Nlessrs. r NJ. Bishop & Co. Established
in 1917, by the senior partner, it has
grown into magnificent proportions un-
der his steady industry, intelligent enter
prise and unvarying integrity. Mr.. Bish,
op has three noble, well trained sons as
soCiated with him in the business. The
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