The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-20

The lateral streets are generally macadam
lied Or graveled with coarse, reddisf
gravel peculiar to this section.
4 FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Chattanooga possesses an efficient fire de
partment with one extremely neat stean
fire engine, built by Latta, OF Cincinnati
| three hose companies-the lookout, tn
| Vulcan, the NJ. d. Thompson and the Car
Isle Hook and Ladder Company, which
1employs the Skinner Truck. They hav'
some two thousand five hundred feet o
hose, and the members of the department
claim to be able to get away with a fir,
/ with reasonable promptitude.
THE FIRST IMPRESSION.
1 The first look at Chattanooga can scarcely
| be considered prepossessing, and yet
| fuller examination of the place reveals a.
great possibilities for future picturesque
| development as for future business out
| growth. and this is conceded to be second
4 to no city in all the South. In front O.
| the town is the Tennessee River. Thence
| the main or Market street runs due souti
| through a sort of valley, to meet
| the six completed railroads that en-
| ter the city. Railroad avenue and
| Chestnut street run parallel to Market. In
the higher ground to the east and west ol
| these lower streets, devoted as before
stated mainly to commerce, are situated
1 the principal residences of the inhabitants
| surrounded with exquisite grounds, flowers
1 and shrubbery, that are charming beyond
description. The temperature here. pro
| tected in winter it is by surrounding
| mountains, enables the cultivation in the
open ground without protection of the
delicate Bengal and tea roses, also of many
| semi-hardy shrubs that have to be pro-
| tected, besides many other plants that are
unable to withstand the vicissitudes of the
winter about Cincinnati without protec-
| tion. 1t may readily, therefore, be inIag-
ined how charming a residence may be
quired taste and means. On the ridge to the
east, extending along the hill, is superb
view of the Tennessee River for several
miles; In all directions are beautifully
wooded hills. To the east the famous Mis-
sion Ridge; to the south Lookout Noun
tain, rising Lass feet above the river at its
| feet. To the north the Walden Hills, the
barrier against which the Tennessee
surges in vain as it sweeps onward to the
sea, while to the west stretches the
frowning Raccoon Mountains. clad with
forests to their very summits. The outlook
is magnificent in whatever direction you
gaze. Over the beautiful undulating ridge
to tie east and stretching to.Fort Woods
pretty honelike villas are scattered in
picturesque confusion, embowered in roses
and honeysuckie and exquisite Towering
shrubs. Here is to grow the exqui>itely
beautiful city, fair as Damascus or Cor
dova, where the merchant and manufac-
turing princes of this future crowded hive
of industry are to reside. In the opposite
side of the city to the west rises a bluff
higher and about as abrupt as Mt. Adams
of Cincinnati, where the Highland House
is situated. On a spur but at lower
altitude of this is the present
CITY RESERVOIR,
with a capacity fdr two and a half millions
gallons of water, which is pumped up
from the Tennessee at its feet by pumping
engines having capacity of about 100000
gallons of water in twelve hours. We
learn from the busy Superintendent that a
pump of bout double the present capacity
will be put in the present season. There
is talk of removing the Water Works,
which are owned by private individuals, to
Fort WoO1s mile or more farther east,
where the water supply will be out of reach
of any possible contamination from sewer
discharge into the river. At present there
is nothing of this sort possible, although a
series of
PUBLIC SEWERS
are now in course of construction that must
year or two hence be carried into the
river above the present pumping-house and
the city unless the Water Works are first
removed beyoud the reach of this.
There now runsa five-foot sewer through
Railroad avenue, a street parallel with
Market, from Inc river TO Ninth street,
In to which lateral branches in the num-
bered streets will empty. This is very
wise precaution, as it does away with the
old surface open drains that have been the
great source of danger to public health.
Mr.. Bouscaren. brother'of the Engineer of
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, is the
City Engineer and appears to understand
his business.
There are three excellent banks in Chat
the First National chartered in
1885 with a capital of 5000, 900; the Mer-
chants and Traders and the Discount and
Deposit, all thought to be safe and prosper
Gus institutions.
All denominations appear to be repre-
sented here with Comfortable edifices, and
it is pleasant to state that the ground on
which the most of these are erected was
doaated to the several societies by the late
Mr.. Whitesides. whose family no resides
here and are the present owners of Look
out Mountain. The city during the
writer's residence has presented the ap-
and law-abiding people it would
be difficult 10 find outside of sober New
FROM CAMERoN's HILL.
If charmed with the beauty of the high
rolling country, dotted with tasteful resi-
dences, east of the city, as viewed from
the Courthouse, the charm is intensi-
fed by survey from .Cameron's Hill, a
bold. striking promontory. joining the city
on the west, where Chattanooga and the
country for miles lie spread out like a pam
Drama. The Tennessee witE its majestic
sweep, swings round this bold headlapd
and makes the busy city below almost a
Far to the northeast this mag
nifcent river emerges from amid the green
hills, yelled in their aerial haze, and wind
ing with graceful curve, it sweeps along
the city front, running nearly due east and
west. Passing sCameron's Hill, it swings
nearly to a southerlv course and is turned
back in a sharp loop, forming the we'll
known Moccasin Point, by the stately Look
out Mountain, and thence courses north
again and is lost to sight behind the
bold point of the verdant Wal
den's Ridge to the westward of the
city. Behind, and to the north and south
of Camerou's Hill, upon the river bottom.
are nestled the great iron works with their
towns of mill employees clus-
torad ahout them Awav f0 the Snutf,