The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-02-08
METROPOLITAN LETTER

GRAND STRIDES.
KNOXVILLE, TENN, Feb. 4, 1882.
To the Editor OF The Morristown Gazette:
The metropolis continues to grow in
every direction In business, in popu-s
lation, in manufacturing and in big
ways. (The latter was brought to
mind on reading the proceedings of the
| st meeting of the City Council, whore
the Board of Health presented bills for
vaccinating nine hundred pauper chill
dren. According to that charge, our
population ought to be one hundred
thousand. Should the Board of Health
and the School Board continue to grow
as fast in the next two years as they
have in the last twelve months, these
organizations will STOP over on some of
the smaller cities.) 1t is impossible to
find dwelling for rent, and hundred
new houses would not supply the de.
mand. Contractors and builders are
already overrun with demands for
work 10 be commenced as soon as
spring opens. The gaps along Gay
street are fast filling up. Col. Powell
and DR.. r. NJ. Rhea have purchased the
lots north of the Hattie House, and will
erect handsome block of four story
buildings, with store rooms on first
| floor. Mr.. NJ. L. Ross will put up q
fine building on Gay street, north of
Woodruff s. Co., and occupy it with
his wholesale grocery business. Mr..
Jasper Lillard will also erect another
large business house on Gay street near
| Vine. The National Bank moves to the
McGhee block, and Huff s. Davis, from
Virginia, will occupy R. S. Payne's old
stand with large stock of dry goods
and notions.
A beautiful iron bridge now spans
First creek on east Clineh street, and
the citizens are well pleased with the
strength and beauty of the structure.
Trade in early spring goods has open
ed with rush, and the various whole
sale houses are in the fight with ire
naendouS stocks of new goods fresh
from the factories. The great basin oil
East Tennessee, the borders of Virginia,
Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia and
| Alabama, all look to Knoxville for their
supplies. This creates splendid bust
ness for the thirty-three wholesale
houses.
If the Knoxville people would do hall
the blowing that Chattanoogans do, the
city would soon spread over two coun-
! ties.
Knoxville is not given to blowing and
her daily papers say very little about
city affairs-her enterprise or her bust
| ness-but the merchants and the me.
chanIcs buckle square down to business
and reach out.
1t is claimed that Knoxville sends
more goods through Chattanooga for
points beyond than Chattanooga sells to
her entire trade. 1t is also claimed that
| Knoxville sells more goods in one day,
than the former city sells in four weeks
and in fact there is more business
zone on Market Square alone than there
is throughout the entire corporation of
Chattanooga, aside from her Rolling
mills.
THE BOOM IN MORRLST0WN.
1t is evident that Morristown is on a
boom, and it is to be large city. The
road from the Carolinas will be finished
and pouring its passengers and trade
into Morristown by the 10Th of the
coming March, SoQn on the heels of
that boom, will come boom from to.
ward the Cumberland Gap, with great
trtins of people and traffic pouring in
from Cincinnati and Chicago. Then
let sturdygoing old Knoxville look to
her laurels-for Morristown in the near
future is 20 be great business and
commercial centre. EsDRAELoN.