Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-02
ATLANTA AND HER BOOM.
INNUMERABLE ENTERPRISING
PROJECTS UNDERWAY.

INNUMERABLE ENTERPRISING
PROJECTS UNDERWAY.
Mercantile and Military Structures to he
Erected on Mammoth Scale-A Pri-
Vate Asylum for the Iusane-A Fair
Debutante's SOrrOw-Other Notes of In
| tereSt
ATLANTA, May 31.-The Gate CITY is
on the biggest kind of q boom just now.
Our leading citizens of wealth and infiu-
ence nave become aroused to our deficien-
cles as great city, and determined eff
forts are being made to supply some of
them.
The Gate City Social Club is already in
its elegant club house the Georgia Jockey
Club has already applied for a charter:
the Chamber of Commerce has over a
hundred new members and proposes to
own its building in future; Cotton Ex-
! change is also talked about; the Gov
ernOr's Horse Guards are to have an ele-
! gait new armory.
| Most of these projects are on sure
foundation, as they are backed by such
| men as ). NJ. Inman, B. +. Crane. r. J.
Lowry, h. T. Howell, Anthony Murphy.
y. l.. Vorhies, John I'll. James, John
/ AAOClf1 w dAlcI n. 1dHlof. ana TWO nun0-
red other leading citizens.
The paving of Marietta street is pro-
crossing rapidly, and the work is well
done. To-day an eight-mule team is plOW-
ing up the street i'll front of the capitol
and post office, and within a month the
work will be entirely finished to the
PeaGhtree street junction with Belgian
Capt. W. D. Grants force is coming in
to the city from the old Mcpherson Bar
racks on Peters street, where they are
macadamlZIng in substantial manner.
During the summer Decatur street will
have Belgian blocks, and other main
steeets be macadamized.
Judge III. +. w. Palmer, of Washington,
ana Hon. W. ID. Harrison, of Lumpkin,
are III the city, and tomorrow will Occu-
py the chairs in the Executive Depart
ment now filled by Col. Isaac w. Avery
and Mr.. Z. A. Seidell. who retire to-day
from service.
The colored eXcursionists to Marietta
mad their usual experience yesterday. 1t
has come to be common thing for Deco
ration day in that place to be made a
nuisance to the white population. and n
scene of fighting and frOlic for the negroes.
Decent white people, outside of few
Federal officials, long since abandoned the
attempt to decorate with proprietv the
graves OF the Union soldiers in the Ma
tlOnal Cemetery. A reform in this direc
tion is earnestly demanded.
Atlanta has no Tybee or Montgomery to
eXcurt to on Sundays to eniOV the sea
breezes, but enterprising railroad men are
running well filled cars, on excursion
rates, to Stone Mountain and Marietta
every Sunday.
The recent visit of the committee of
Legislators to the State Lunatic ASYLUM
at Mllledgeville has given new impetus
10 the PROJECT for establishing private
resort in Georgia for a class of insane
people who are able to pav for proper
accommodations and good medical atten-
tion.
DIR. Henry BOyntOn, of Vermont, with
y. A. Ansley and other gentlemen of
this city, has inaugurated movement to
create such place at CatOOsa Springs,
and charter is applied for under the
name OF the CatOOsa Springs Sanatarium
Company. Thousands of people all over
Georgia will hail the advent of this long
desired Institution. 1t will soon have
plenty of patients of the better class of
insane.
1t is safe to predict that when the COM |
mlttee shall report to the July session in |
regard to their observations at the State |
Lunatlc Asylum, there will be some legis- |
latl0n to secure better classification of |
the patients, and to remove some of the |
most harmless from the institution This |
VIII result in making room for more vio- |
lent cases now confined in county iails.
Governor Mcdaniel has made the follow |
ing appointment of a Board of Visitors to
tn the state University, at Athens: Rev.
Thomas G. Pond, Col. Ii. Ii. Jones. J. Fl. |
Durham, S. A. Reid, Rev. j. G. RIVALS. |
Col. Mark Johnston, Thomas ?. Cleveland |
and Prof. w. J. Northen. Several of |
these gentlemen are quite proficient in the |
duties OF visitors, having served in that |
capacity for several terms.
The Alabama editors were full of hearty |
praise OF Savannah, and the ladies were |
Just delighted with the rare beauty and |
abundant hospitality of the Forest Citv.' !
While Atlanta gave them a kindly greet |
ing and pleasant drive about the city. |
they missed the varied scenery. the ocean |
Dreezes and the shell roads of Savannah.
ana the one brightest and IOveliest flower |
OF remembrance in the bouquet of their |
excursion will bear the image oil the grand |
old Forest City," whose brave sons and |
charming daughters so well know when |
and how to entertain.
Miss Selena Fetter, the talented yOunp |
debutante of Louisville, Ky., will reappeSf |
at the Grand Opera House in Chicago |
next week with heavy heart. 1t will be |
remembered that Miss Belle Abel, the |
brilliant young actress of Jacksonville. |
Fla, made her debut with a heart almost |
crushed by the sudden death of her below |
ed father. The same heavy blow has lust |
fallen upon Miss Fetter, who writes as |
follows to Mrs. Nellie Herbert, of this |
city:
''YOur kind letter came to me last week. |
and ON the day that was destined to bring |
me the first great sorrow of my life-the |
death of my beloved father. His illness |
mad been one of years, but the decay of |
health was so gradual that when at last |
the fatal moment came it found us un- |
prepared for so great a loss. The
arrangements for my Chicago enoaoa- !
ment are so far completed that it wot7Id |
be impossible, without great loss to |
the manager, to change them; so |
VIII go to my work Monday |
next with sore heart indeed. |
1t will be hard trial for me, but trust. |
with Gods help, may be able to do my |
duty, and with credit to both nv friends |
and myself There is here no boasfIno.
no expression of desire TO win mere /
fame, but holy, God d-consecrated pur-
pose to do her duty" So pure a woman |
and 50 conscientious an actress deserves. |
In tins hour of sore trial, the hearty ~God |
help yOu'' of every lover of pure drama |
and purer stage.
Gov. Mcdaniel not only haa an impedi- |
ment In MS speech, but also one III his |
but GENERALLY with rare wisdom and pru,
dence. He will take plenty of time to |
select his staff Officers-I say select, he.
cause l think he will not have them thrust 1
upon him nOLenS UOlen2, and to fully fnyesti- |
gate the affairs Of the convict lease svs-
TEN: He will not disappolpt his best |
friends by the appointme9t II unworthy
men to otice-nGt if he knows what he Is
aboHt, !he state House will get all the |
publication possible.
The paragraph in my last letter in re-
gard to Col. Isaac w. Avery as a success
sor to the late Gen. WA, NJ. Browne. of
the State University, is misunderstood bv
some o. the friends of this welI-known
gentleman. | merely suggested that So
gifted and experienced Journalist ought
lS not 10 be allowed to bids ais talents under
oneIt; Cne FGoes 9 SgHe9ge professor. do not
AXerX for the nnsitln,, Z. go. =. -. ~.