Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-22
FACTS ABOUT EAST I TENNESSEE.
Knoxville as a Home.


things we have heretofore said on this SUBJ
ject, we propose now to treat all these sub
jects under the head we have chosen above |
i. G. Knoxville IA q Home.
First on the list, and in our judgment
first in the consideration of most immi-
q rants, let Us say word about
KNOXVILLE SCHOOLS.
A few years ago it became very serious
question with some of our mechanics who
came from the North, whether it would
not be better for them to leave here and go
West-all because they found it took 80
much of their hard-earned wages to edu-
cate their children. But now thanks to
the persistent and discreet efforts of the
friends of public schools, we can say to all
immigrants, Knoxville affords to your
children good free schools. We have q
system of public schools in successful ope-
ration, taught by good teachers and sup
ported by n liberal public tax. In these
schools your children can secure q good ell
ementary education, and in time we feel
confident they will be improved and the
grades of these schools advanced.
In addition to these public schools,
Knoxville offers successful and growing
University. East Tennessee University,
established many years before the war, has
now an endowment of near four hundred
thousand dollars. 1t has the Agricultural
College Fund of the State, fine corps of
Professors, and promising future before
it. Here parents can give their sons, at n
trifling expense, the benefits of a thorough
collegiate training, fitting them either for
the professions, for the farm and mines or
for business. We consider the advantages
Knoxville affords in this college one of the
greatest and well worth change of homes
T., 10
cate under their own direction.
In addition to the public schools and the
Agricultural College, we have an East
Tennessee Female Institute, and private
schools, with musical and classical depart
ments exclusively for young girls and Ia
dies. These schools afford superior advan-
tages for their class, and will be improved
from year to year, as they are under the
control of progressive teachers.
With these three classes of schools open,
we may well challenge persons looking
South for homes, to find any other point in
all the South so lavish in inducements in
this respect. To the workingmen, to the
middle classes or to those aspiring for
superior educational facilities, we say
Knoxville offers you all the advantages
you want.
KNOXVILLE SOCIETY.
The social advantages of Knoxville are
good. Our society is largely composed of
people who have lived here all their lives,
whose fathers and grandfathers lived here
before them, and it is therefore more cX-
elusive than in Western towns where peo-
pie gathered from all sections of our coun-
try, make society freer and more cordial.
But we have very many Northern people
here, representing every Northern State,
and persons coming here in good faith "a
make this their home, will find cordial
treatment and general good will extend.
ed to them. We propose to be frank on
this as on all subjects. There are people
here possessed of that foolish idea that
money and family connection make the
man, but they are quietly left to hug their
delusion and live grandly in the recollec-
Lion that their paternal or maternal anceS
tors had some brains, manhood or money
if they have not. Most of our people are
inclined TO lay aside the family record a
an index of worth, and take every man fol-
the intrinsic worth he shows himself tC
possess. There are some people here who
have prejudices against Northern men hui
az general rule, when their record i.
hunted up, their ancestors were hard-fisted
Yankee peddlers or traders, and their pre-
iudices found to be silly Weakness thai
is about the only trait they possess thai
would ever give them notice.
The mass of our people are kindly dis
posed towards Northern people and anN-
ious 10 have them come here N live.
KNOXVILLE CHURCHES:
We have in Knoxville, churches of al
most every denomination. We have botl
branches of the Methodist and Prcsbyte-
rian denominations, churches of the Bap-
tist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Catholic, WelsI
and Congregational.
The church buildings are nearly all of
superior kind, are ali well attended anC
well supported. There are few cities of tn,
size of Knoxville with better sustaine,
church societies. The Sunday schools ar
largely attended-indeed q very remarka
BILE interest is conferred in this part of tn,
church work. Persons coming here from
the North would find their church rela
lions cordial and very pleasant from tn
beginning. The sectarian feeling is quit
az strong here rs in most places, and tn
zeal of church associations very commend
able.
OUR RENTS AND MARKETS.
The rents paid in Knoxville are highe
than they ought to be, and yet quite q
low as in other Southern and Western cit
les. Comfortable houses rent for from
twenty 10 fifty dollars per month, and ar
not over abundant. There are some fey
vacant now, but heretofore the deman
has kept pace with the supply. As n rule
houses are not as compactly or as conven
iently built here as in the North, but Il
two respects there has been great i'm
prOvement in the past few years. Gu
wlnters do not make It necessary to bull
houses az close and tight IA North, but as
convenience there Is still room for Improve