Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-23
MEMPHIS.
How Our Enterprise Is Understood and
Appreciated at Nashville.
what We Are Compared TO st. Louis
Generous and Friendly CritiQUe.

The editor of the Nashville Journal Of
Commerce recently paid Memphis a
visit. and thus gives expression to the
impressions he received here compared
with those received at st. Louis a few
days before. He says: W. want to
write a little, on the spur of the moment,
before we again are under the influence
of the narcotic atmosphere of Nashville
before we become the slave Of that
sweet content that comes Of iudifser-
enee as to how the world moves so we
live comfortably. We might have gone
along in the delightful delusiOn that we
were residents of a secure nook in Para
/ disc, but for the unfortunate necessity
that led US into the precincts of st.
Louis and Memphis. These places were
of great interest to US, in this respect es-
pecially-they appeared to be part
of the living, acting organs Of the
world. The instant one enters them
he feels the mighty pulsation. We ex-
perienced a strange sensation as We saw
the currents of hfe-not the dizzy, lazy
whirl of the eddy, but the grand,
sweeping, onward current, bearing the
thoughts and works Of man past US to
noble ends. There was an unaninity
and consequent power in the influences
about us that was as fascinating as it
was unique. We were scarcely in Mem
-phis before knowledge of its business,
It's works, its advantages and prospects
were literally thrust upon Us; and we
were not there more than a half day be-
fore we could tell the leading firms in
dry goods, manufactures, groceries, cot
ton, etc.
THE DAILY PAPERS
were all aglow with announcements of
grand business projects; the weeklies
were full of demonstrations of peculiar
merits of firms and factories; circulars
paraded individual advantages; and all
manner of schemes, characters and de-
vices illustrated the general and particu-
lar attractions Of the city. Time was
regarded as money, and everything pos
sible appeared to be done to save time TO
the purchaser as well as the seller.
These were individual efforts, but upon
so generous u scale that the whole city
prOfted by them. Then, Memphis has
the appearance of a city in every re-
spect, and nothing is more attractive to
a business man than business broadly,
promptly and quickly carried on. Mem
phis has probably but one-tenth the
population Of st. Louis, yet the same
Impulse, the same contagious energy is
to De found in the former that distin-
cuisines the latter, and this is born only
Of enterprise. No amount of material
advantages al give it, norequal it.
ENTERPRISE
is the recognized power Of the day. 1t
laughs at obstacles and shows q sOver-
eign contempt for natural aid. 1t makes
a city in the wilderness and reduces
more favored and older cities to vassal-
age; and the key to the success of en-
terprise is saving of time. Railroads,
bridges, steamboats,, and everything
that will facilitate communications and
quicken business transactions. Ma
chinery TO hasten work and advertising
to thrust knowledge of what's done and
being done upon every one that ap-
proRches the city. Both in st. Louis
and Memphis we found the business
men best posted as to the material topics
of the hour. We found no man, nor
could hear of one, doing business-aRd
some do a pretty large business-that
did not have time to read the papers,
especially those relating to business. As
a rule, their
BUSINESS
was done promptly and generously;
then they sought Information how to do
more extensive work on tine morrow.
Their time was not spent in puttering
about and contriving how to saw a
nickel or make their neighbOr lose one
Save time, Of purchaser and seller, by
making known, through advertisements,
market reports and reviews, just what
can be done, and where and when.
Secure the most prompt and efficient
and cheap transportation aud cOmmU-
nieation, and encourage everything that
will concentrate power in the city and
develop its resources. These, if not the
notices, are the characteristics Of st.
Louis and Memphis, and the results are
an increase in wealth, influence, popu-
lation and power commensurate with
the noble and generous means employed.