Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-01-15
"RELE AND RUM"


How the City Might be Enlarged by n
New ''RuIe.''+&
"The organ" partially owned by one of
the real estate ring unless the records in
the Registers office lie) and run in their
interest in this election for Mayor,
facetiously calls meetings opposed to the
ring Rule or ruin ring. They may style
it the Rule and ruin party if they choose,
for Mr.. Rue will be our next Mayor, who,
with majority of "anti-ring Aldermen,
will not go beyond the real boundaries (not
corporation line) of the city's limits to
spend immense sums of the peoples
money, TO open up and grade, gutter and
curb thousands of feet of streets that are no
service to anybody except "the ring,nl
where none of our citizens live except a
few pioneer families, scattered by great
exertions of "the ringn as nucleus around
whom they hope to gather the future
growth of the city, while streets that are
lined with buildings, owned aud occupied
by taxpayers, are only half graded in many
places no stones and the mud often nearly
impossible; many street-erossings need
ed, and many cutters where streets cross
each other so bad that buggies can not
cross them with safety. A different rule
from this we hope and trust.
we will see after the election. This will
ruin the hopes of "the ring" The one
hundred acre farm recently bought with
not be all beautifully laid out, with broad
open streets, with curling, ditching, gut
tering in the most improved style and out
of the choicest material, at the peoples eX-
pense, thereby opening several hundred
town lots in one of the city's suburbs,
while not one cent is spent on the improv-
ed property of others who have not the ell
tire control of the city expenditures. All
these fine land schemes to grow immense
ly rich by opening up others, thereby fore
ing the town to extend to and upon "the
farm" will be ruined" we hope and the
peoples money spent where it will do the
people mot ring the most good. If not,
let us but notify Atkins, Temples,
Payne's, Ramsey's and Deaderick's addi-
lions and Mechanicsville-go all the way
around to Mabry's, on the river-that we
will spend but one-fourth the money on
their additions that has been spent Oh 1.-THE
FARM of ''the ring' and we will
then have them all in hurry, rush.
ing inside the corporation, and we will
add more than million dollars taxable
property, and from four to five thousand
people to the city. Does anybody suppose
they do not know and see where the city
taxes are spent? that they would be re-
quired to pay much more than they would
receive, as long as 1.-THE ringp rules the city
officers. Many of them prefer to grade,
survey and open up theiradditions at their
own expense, and are now doing so. But
the ring laughs, for how can others afford
to buy fifty or hundred acres of land near
the city and spend thousands of dollars
rendering it accessible by streets, &C.,
, while 'the ring' gets its thousands to open
up their addition by being Mayor and AL
dermen and ruling the city? We want a
new and different rule from what we have
, mao; and some of the schemes to grow rich
by the means Of real estate ring speculation
We expect to see "ruinedn next.
AN OBSERVER.