Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-05-21
Knoxville as a Home.

schools, society, churches, rents and mar
kets that at the risk of repeating some |
things we have heretofore said on this sub
iect, we propose now to treat all these sub
iects under the head we have chosen above
/. e. Knoxville as a Home.
First on the list, and in our Judgment |
first in the consideration of most immi-
grants, let us say a word about
KNOXVILLE SCHOOLS.
\ 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 90 |
West-alI because they found it took so |
much of their hard-eamed 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 a
system of public schools in successful Ope
ration, taught by good teachers and sup
ported by a liberal public tax. In these
schools your children can secure a 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 a 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, a fine corps Of
Professors, and a promising future before
1t. Here parents can give their sons, at a
trifiing expense, the benefits of 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 a change of homes
to those who have sons they desire to edu-I
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
lnents 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 ofschOOls open,
we may well challenge persons looking
South for homes, to find any otherpOn in
all the South so lavish in inducements in
this respect. 70 the workingmen, to the
middle classes or to those aspiring for
superior educational facilities, we say
Knoxville offers you al 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 gTandfatheTs lived here
before them, and 1t is therefore more GX-
elusive than in Western towns where DeO-
pie gathered from all Sectinls Of u0un-
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 to
make this their home, will find cordial
treatment and a 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 recOllCc-
ton that their patCrnal or maternal ancCS-
tors had some brains, manhood or money,
if they have not. Most of our people are
inclined to lay aside the family record as
an index of worth and take every man for
the intrinsic worth he shows himself to
possess. There are some people here who
have prejudiccs against Northern men, but
as general rule, when their record is
hunted up, their ancestors were Manifested
Yankee peddlerS or traders, and their pre-
JUDGES found to be Il silly weakness, that
is about the only trait they possess that
would ever give them notice.
The mass of our people are kindly dis
posed towards Northern people and anX-
iOus to have them come here to live.
KNOXVILLE CHURCHES
We have in Knoxville, churches of al
most every denomination. We have both
branches of the Methodist and Prcsbvte-
rian denominations, churches of the Bap-
fist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Catholic, Welsh
and Congregational.
The church buildings are nearly all of a
superior kind, are all well attended and
well supported. There are few cities of the
size of Knoxville with better sustained
church societies. The Sunday schools are
largely attended-indeed very remarka-
bic interest IS Centered in this part of the
church work. Persons coming here from
the North would find their church rela-
tions cordial and very pleasant from the
beginning. The SectaTian feeling is quite
as strong here as i'll most places, and the
zeal of church associations very commend
able.
OUR RENTS AND MARKETS.
The rents paid in Knoxville are higher
than they ought to be, and yet quite as
low as i'll other Southern and Western cit
les. Comfortable houses rent for from
twenty to fifty dollars per month, and are
not over abundant. There are some few
vacant now, but heretofore the demand
has kept pace with the supply. AS rule,
houses are not as cOmpactly or as COnven-
iently built here rs in the North, but in
two respects there has been Il great i'm
provement in the past few years. Our
winters do not make it necessary to build
houses as close and tightas North. butas to
convenience there is still room for improve
ment.
Our markets are well supplied and on
the whole lower than anywhere else i'm the
South. By consulting our market reports,
readers can see that living here is not ex-
pensive.
We have written heretofore about the
erraat heaithfulnesS of our city. TalyinU
that and what we have herein fairly cX2
pressed together, and we insist most seri-
ously that in all the South there is not an
other so desirable point for immigrants.
and all things considered, We think that
there are few places anywhere in the
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