Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-09-13
WHAT KNOXVILLE Is DOING.



We had the pleasure of drive around
town yesterday morning with Mr.. w. G.
Fulcher, one of our most reliable and enter
prising contractors and builders. We saw
evidences of improvement wherever we
went. During the season houses have gone
up in every direction and others would be
going up if the material could be had for
| their construction, and mechanics and labor
ers to do the work. Mr.. Fulcher himself
has done enough work this season to make
a good sized village.
Among the houses erected by him, COM
pleted and in process of construction, we
note the business house on the west side of
Gay street, built by Col. G. NJ. McGhee and
now occupied by Z. G. Buckweli Il Co.. as
| hardware store. 1t is 25xlI0, two stories
| high, pressed-brick front and handsomely
finished. This whole building WAS CON-
pleted in FIVE weeks.
On the east side of Gay street, little
further up, is the block, now nearly com
| pleted, for Judge Brown and Judge ID. X.
Young, at a cost of about $12,0 900. 1t is so
feet by 1870, four stories high, including
basement. The front is of pressed -Hrick,
| trimmed with marble, and is very handsome.
We visited Mr.. Fulcher's brick yard, on
the west side Of Second Creek, Immediately
south of the Brookside farm A busy Scene
presented itself there. The yard is under
| the efficient foremanship Of Mr.. II. L.
Boggs, the right man in the right place.
Since the middle Of June, they have made
and laid up 1900, 600 bricks, 200, 900 OF
which are pressed brick. They have now
on hands 300, 900 and are running four mills
and moulding 26, 900 bricks every day. His
machine for making pressed brick is kept
busy all the time, turning out about 1900
per day. This will be kept up as long as the
weather will permit. The pressed
brick turned out by Mr.. Fulchel
are of the very best finish, comprising fs-
vorably with those manufactured in the
great Eastern cities
From the brick-yard we drove to the
Knoxville College (colored) where Mr.
Fulcher has the contract Tor the brick worf
Of the large and splendid dormitory build
ing, of which full accounts have appeared il
the CHRONICLE. The carpenters Work Is
being done by Anderson & Cooley. W.
could but notice the good order in which
work was going on here with Mr.. l. N
Clarke as foreman The work is mos
excellent job
We visited the elegant mansion Of Mr.
VIM. A. Henderson, the carpenter worl
of which was done by Mr.. Fulcher
The whole inside work is the naturs
wood finish, beautifully vanished, no pain
being used. The workmanship is first-class
and the designs show the most exquisit
taste Mr. Fulcher and his able assistant
have good reason to congratulate themselve
upon their ability to do such a job; ant
Knoxvillians may congratulate themselve
upon having such skilful mechanics.
Mr. Fulcher is also doing the carpenter
work in the new building opposite Colone
McGhee's residence, being erected for Mr.
G. w. Baxter. 1t is to be finishe,
in the very best style. He is nov
working 120 hands, and his week.,
payroll amounts to about $1,000. He EN-
ploys about 100 Of these in the brick busi
ness and the others are carpenters. He un
dertakes all sorts of building, and inform
US that he has been busy throughout tn
season and has every prospect Of beinl
kept so. He is only one of our contractor
and builders, and we learn that others ar
also busy. This shows healthy state o
affairs and that Knoxville is going on al
right