Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-18
ATLANTA ON THE BOOM.
THE REAL ESTATE BRIGADE
MAKING THINGS LIVELY.

| The REAL ESTATE BRIGADE
MAKING THINGS LIVELY.
| Gilt Edged Property Auctioned OFF to
! Martial Strains and Toasted in Free
LemOnade-A Slaughter of the Inno-
cents, and other Notes of Interest at
the Capital.
ATLANTA, May 16.-Atlanta has seldom
seen, in ordinary times, such a busy week
as the past has been. Picnics, sometimes
three a day, have given the women and
children an opportunity to turn out in
force, and the military, the Knights
Templar and the Knights of Pythias have
afforded the men ample means of social
enjoyment and street display.
But nothing has riyalled the real estate
brigade in the way of street sensations
and a good time. Bands OF music, free
carriages, in long procession, hung with
flaming red placards, and free lemonade,
''ice cold," aud other refreshments on the
grounds, have created a sensational boom
in real estate and "gilt edge property,
unimproved, has gone of under the auc-
tiOneer's hammer like hot cakes in mid
winter. Atlanta is expanding like bal
loon, and some of her real estate specula-
tors say there is no limit to her future ex-
pansion.
Just now we are having more fatal
sickness than ever before known. 81
never saw so much sickness here befOre.v
said prOminhnt druggist. "and / have
known the place for twenty years." Some
families have suffered in the loss of little
children, four being buried in one day re-
Gently. Bowel complaints are the most
common fatal diseases, but Il sudden
change to cold, chilling winds last
night Will produce good crop OfpneumO-
mia, for which everything is quite favOra-
bic. Many doctors predict a sickly sea-
son all over the South, so that Atlanta is
no exception in this respect.
The two negroes who killed young
ROundtree at the University at Athens
some months ago passed through here
this morning to the Dade coal mine. Few
persons knew of their presence, and their
departure was as quiet as that of any or
dinary stranger. They are young, good
looking fellows, and will prove valuable
accession to Senator Browns force of long
term convicts.
Commander Richards and his Sir
knights from Savannah, gave Atlanta
most gratifying surprise as they paraded
our streets in their elegant and martial
uniforms, it being new thing to us to see
the knights of Pythias in such gorgeous
dress. AS the procession passed gentle
man asked who they were, and when told,
fOrcibly remarked: savannah, the
d! does every fine company come
from Savannah? When Governor Ste
phens was buried it seemed as though
everything was from Savannah. Can't we
have anything fine up here"'
OUR NEW ENTERPRISES.
Atlanta never had more activity mani
tested in her industrial pursuits, and in
the absence of any financial troubles in
the near future she will soon be a great
manufacturing centre and distributing
point. One new enterprise is followed in
quick succession by some other, and so it
goes.
President II. B. Plant has put the At
lanta steam cotton factory ON a solid basis
under the name of the. Atlanta Cotton
Mills, and ]. c. Plant, Lorenzo Blackburn
and Rufus b. Bullock are his associates.
With ample capital and eX-GOv. Bullock
in charge this enterprise is bound to be-
come profitable investment.
The latest manufacturing interests to
be incorporated here is the ParkwOod
Mills, which will make cotton yarns
and fabrics. James Swami, HOke Smith,
S. NJ. Inman, EX-Mayor English, w. A.
Hemphill and others are the incorpOrators,
and two hundred thousand dollars are to
a probable increase to five hundred
thousand dollars in the future.
The Metropolitan Street Railroad Com
pany is preparing to perfect its Organiza-
tiOn and go to work laying its tracks at
once. H. b. Plant, John Ii. James, L. p.
Grant, Theodore Cook, Jacob Haas and
julius i. Brown are among the leading
cOrpOratOrs, which shows that money,
brains, energy and experience are we'll
represented in this new enterprise.
MINOR TOPICS.
Some time ago the Hon. John Fl. James
and his associates bought the Mcpherson
barracks property and soon after cut it up
into streets and squares, altered the bar
racks buildings into tenement houses.
and made other improvements, giving the
place the name of jamestown. Owing to
the real estate boom now prevailing this
property has been put on the market, and
mechanics and workingmen are given
good chance to purchase homes on easy
terms. In fact, that whole section of At
lanta has been renovated and improved
since the departure of the troops, and
vacant lots are now few and far between.
l stated in letter written before the
Inauguration of Gov. Mcdaniel, that he
would require the officials in the EXecu-
tive Department to attend strictly to pub
lie duties, and in no way allow their pri-
fairs. He now applies this rigid rule'to
his own official conduct, and has employ
ed Major Charles Howard Williams,
well known young lawyer and journalist,
to attend to all his private correspondence
and business matters that could in anv
way interfere with his public service.
Gov. Mcdaniel proposes to run an honest
and economical administration.
Personal MENTION.
The Rev. George l.. CLANCY, of Boston,
having decided to remain here perma-
nently, has established a Unitarian
Church, which will be a new departure in
Atlanta religious circles. An attempt to
establish Universalist Church last year,
by Rev. Dr. Bowman, proved a failure,
but Rev. Mr.. CLANCY has a rather better
support.
The friends of Mr.. NJ. F. Gonder are
deeply panied to learn Of his sudden death
at Leesburg, Fla, where he was residing
with his beloved sister, Mrs. Col. 7. j.
Smith. Although in the prime of life, he
fell a victim to an inherited disease, apo
pleXy, and in moment, while seated
with his sister and friends, his spirit
passed from earth. His remains tenn
porarily rest in the cemetery at Lees
burg, but will be brought to Georgia for
final Interment.
The death of General Gorgas at Tusca-
lOOod' Aldss icLlluuS uS ludI lue OlQ COn-
federate warriors are fast passing away.
Gwinn, Talcott, Quattlebaum, Wayne and
Gorgas are among the latest-and all
West Pointers. General Gorgas was a
Northern man, but having married a
daughter of Governor Gayle, of Alabama,
he cast in his fortunes with the South
during the late war.
PATRIOTIC SENTIMENTS.
Bishop Henry c. Lay is giving the
CbuTchmdn a sketch of the return of the
Southern Bishops of the Episcopal Church
to the General Conference in 1865, and
among other documents is long letter
from the noble and sanity Bishop Stephen
Elliott, of Georgia, who, among other
things, writes these two strong and posi-
tive paragraphs:
81 do not very well see how we can
avoid returning into connection with the
Church in the Union, but / think that it
should be done with great deliberatiOn,
with proper self-respect and only with
the hearty cooperation of the clergy and
laity, as we'll as the Bishops of the Church.
l, for one, shall make no acknowledgment
of wrong, for / still think that the South
acted properly both in its civil and eccle-
siastical action. We may not, as things
have turned out, have acted wisely, but
we had right on our side, according TO the
Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States.
Our people are acquiescing in the con-
dition of things, and are striving to keep
their hearts and their tempers. Most
heartily and sincerely do l pity the ne
grOes, who have behaved admirably
through the whole war, and who are still
showing good sense and good feeling. 1t
is their future which l lament far more