Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-27
CHATTANOOGA.
What the Rnterprising Yankee has
D0me-Biast Furnaces, Rolling
Mills. &c.-A YeTitable Hive
of Industry.


Mr. EDITOR: Chattanooga is en-
phatically Yankee town. The most
of her sold men merchants, man
ufacturers, &c-are from the North.
1t is this element that has made
Chattanooga what she is, one of the
most prosperous and promising cities
III the South. 1t has given her that
push for which she is noted, infusing
yigor into everything she teaches
and transforming "a apathy into a
living, moving power. A stanger, as
soon as he enters the city, discovers,
at once, this state of things. He
beholds life and activity on all
hands. There is, in fact, no room
for laggards. They are eIbowed out
OF existence and compelled either to
go to work or betake themselves to
some other region. Chattanooga is
not the place for them. They can't
plead want of employment. There is
plenty to do and at fair wages.
Again l repeat that it is the YAM
kee element, so predominant i'll this
city, that has made her what she is
She owes her all to the practical
business men of the North. But for
this energy, this enterprise and their
means, Chattanooga, no doubt,
would still be an insignificant
town located at Ross Landing.
For the most part they are men of
large brain power, of broad intelli-
gence and of pluck and energy.
They are cool, self-possessed and dts
termiaed.
Do you ask what they have done
Look at ChattanooSas smoking fur
naces Listen to the thudding blows
of her foase hammers. Catch the
ringing, gathering notes of her spin
dies. Go into her rolling mills-into
her foundries and machine shops
into her tanneries and car buildings.
Who put these industries in motion
Who founded them? Whose capital
and enterprise are keeping them
alive? / answer, the live and ener-
getic men from the North.
What are these establishments do
ing for Chattanooga? Much, every
way. Without them she would be
nothing more than an insignificant
river town, with dull and stupid
population and with no encouraging
prospects of the future. These in
dustries have quadrupled her popu
lation and multiplied her wealth al
hundred fold. They have given EN-.
ployment to thousands of laborers
and furnished peace and cheer
fulness to innumerable households
L am not wide of the mari
when I say that more than three
thousand laborers find constant anC
remunerative employment in these
establishments. This is no exagger
alton. Is it small matter to fur
nish labor and fair wages to this class
of men?
But this is not all. These three
thousand and upwards Of operatives
are to be fed and clothed. This
affords a fine market, on the ont
hand for breadstuffs, and on thu
other, an active mercantile trade
More than $4,000 are paid out a
the end of every month to these la
borers, and the most of this is lief
with the merchants and provision
dealers Of Chattanooga. This &C
counts, in measure, for the activ
retail trade of this city, which Ii
somewhat remarkable.
Abuse the Yankee, if you choose
but while you are abusing him he i
bending every energy and subordi
mating every means and appliance t
the one naked end of creating ant
putting to work those mighty force
which build up communities an
make u country prosperous.
ALONzo DANTE
Chattanooga, Tenn, Nov. q, s.