Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-20
IMPROVEMENTS.
Dwelling and Business Houses now I'm
Course Of Erection throughout
the City.
Water-WSrks-FWeIve Hundred Tons of
Pipe Landed-Water Promised by
the First Of October.

The sound of the hammer and trOwel
makes music one more in Our busy
streets. A great number of hitherto
important corners have been leveled
with the pavement, and are now a heap
of unsightly ruins as a preliminary to
the inauguration of active operations
which are designed to raise those cor
ners in more than primordial glory.
The corners of Shelby and GayOso
streets, both east and west, are in this
condition. Fine stores are to raise their
magnificent and gigantic proportions
over those ruins. At the north corner
Of Court and Front streets there is a
similar ruin. The northeast corner of
Second and Madison streets is in the
same plight at present, but will wear a
different appearance very soon. There
are many places about the city in which
the activities of mechanical skill
will be shortly eYinced, but which are
as Yet without any signs of stirring.
The business buildings viii be, so far
as is known, confined to stores. We
heaP Of no factories being projected
the very institutions we need. The
building activity will not be confined,
however, tO. business structures. On the
contrary, much more is expected to be
done in the way of erecting private
residences in the suburbs and the b1r-
ders Of the city and along the lines Of
these streets where elegance and fashion
have already obtained a foothoId. A
most decided improvement is noticeable
in the design Of those private residences.
Whether of wood or of brick, the houses
are all pretty in appearance. A better
taste begins to prevailamOng those who
wish to enjoy life in a sort of small
suburban palace. Besides a decided im-
prOvement in taste, there is also evident
a sort of excitement in the building line.
An immense number Of houses are
going up. The suburbs of Memphis are
so extensive, embracing a circuit Of
about six miles, that the extent of the
building Improvements going on does
not strike one at once or suddenly, he
only becomes ware of it after travelling
over the ground and noting what is
going on in each locality. Then, if be
reflects, the magnitude of our improve
ment will fash upon him.
PUBLIC WORKS.
If to these private and individual eff
forts we add the works of public enter
prise and utility now going on in and
LDJub UlE CAlNg IL VIII NC SEtn lAldE ALElL-
phis is making notable and healthy
progress in the world, and gives ground
to hope, if such progress be continued
for two hundred years, she will be
greater and richer than any city now on
the face of the -terracqueOus globe we
inhabit. The little road to Raleigh,
which promises to be an institution here
in a few weeks, will help to make Mem
nhfE opnoT Tho Ea1pna rood rr,a. hav
pily on; the grading is done now long
ways from the city. The Memphis and
Paducah road has several hundred men
working along its ''cuts and fills" The
Little Rock company are erecting their
fine depot. The elevator is pushing to-
ward completion. We are to have a
new cotton seed factory here shortly.
The Exposition building will be put un-
der contract in a few days, and
THE WATER WORKS,
of which so much has been said hereto
fore, will be in full operation within
four or five months. Yesterday the Die
tator arrived with three barges of mains
from Cincinnati-twelve hundred tons
in all. Two hundred men will be work
ing digging trenches for this pipe and
laying tin the ground before a week is
out. AS before stated in the APPEAL,
the company will confine themselves as
much as possible to the alleys in laying
their mains. Hydrants win be placed at
every corner, and we hear of some pub
lic-spirited people who propose to erect
a beautiful drinking fountain in Court
Square. The water will not be taken
from the Mississippi, as was thought at
first, but from Wolf river. The works
will be located a mile and a half above
the mouth of Wolf river, where it is
from any Of the impure influences of the
city. The waters of the Wolf are said
to rank third in point Of excellence in
the classification of the waters of the
United States. 1t is freestOne water
originally, but gets mixed with the sur
face-drainage of the great belt of coun-
try through which it flows. It was an
alyZed by DIS. CheesbOrO, of New York,
and Hermony, of Louisville, eminent
! chemists, who give it this classification.
1t has been used in boilers for six or
seven years, and during that time the
vessels never fouled. Whatever impure
ties may be in it, in the way of soil or
gravel, will be taken out by the filters at
the works. This great institution is to
be in operation by the first day of 0ctO-
her next. ..- ~