Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-06-22
OTTER BUILDINGS.

fronting on Union street, southeast corner
OF College, also a new structure, is con.
spicuous for its completeness in detail foi
banking purposes.
OTHER BUILDINGS.
The above list particularises improve
ments costing $1,000 and upward. Beside.
these there are innumerable stores, dwell
ings and other buildings OF lesser cost, o
which the following are from $4,000 tc
5000:
Henry Sperry, two story residence
5000
r. d. Goodlett, residence, $500.
j. ID. Palmer, two story residence, S5000
J. 7. Druillard, two-story brick, $1,000.
j. p Druillard, three story storehouse
$500.
J. l. Valentine. four-story storehouse,
5000.
". P. Rutland, residence, 5000.
q. L. Rose x Co., two story warehouse,
$500
c. :. Pearce, two-story residence, $1,000.
+ f. Lennon, storehouse, Sa0ee.
+. e. Scrusss, Eve two story frames,
sIoJn.
Louis Vogt, two-story residence, $500.
South Nashville Street Car Con pany,
brick stable, 5000.
w. II. Webb, jr., residence, 5000.
| VIM. Simmons, residence, $1,000.
Andrew Hamilton, three two-story resi-
| dences, $500.
James Gennette, residence, $4,000.
Nashville Mill Company. warehouse,
| 5000.
W. S. Duckworth, two story brick resi-
dence, $500.
Cooper & Brown, improvements to
building OffiNo Cherry, 5000
J. W. Orchard, residence, $1,000.
| DIR. Van ). Lindsey, brick storehouse.
S5009.
J. P. Druillard, storehouse, $4,000.
Nat. Baxter, Jr., two storehouses, 5000.
Pr. J. T. Mcfarland, brick storehouse,
$1,000.
Alfred Kayne heirs, brick residence,
| $500.
7. W. wrenne, two-story residence,
5000.
A. Crone, residence, $1,000.
Miss Eva A. lser, residence, $1,000.
Geo. W. Stainback, residence, $4,000.
Mrs. Catherine J. Fite, residence, $4,000.
r. +. Nelson, four-story storehouse,
W. X. Miller, residence, $4,000.
Nashville Mill Company, fourstory
! Touring mill, 10000.
Edgefield and Nashville Manufacturing
| Company, warehouse, $4,000.
J. ID. Goodpasture, three residences,
$1,000.
! In addition t. the above the books of
I tie fire chiefs Office show that since Sep
! tsmber lst last to the present time go
! building permits have been issued for the
construction OF houses costing less than
/ $1,000.
Low ESTIMATES.
In this connection it is proper to state
| that !hn price given as the cost OF
. tHes5 buildings give but faint idea of the
1 character of the work. This fact prompted
| the APPEAL man to ask why buildings
| could be erected 50 much more cheaply
in Nashville than lie knew could be -. d..,,,.
! 'r Memphis, with better f"",;;,irIas-at least
not 50 much expense in having to blow
J I~uudations out of solid rock. The ques-
! ton was not answered, but the APPEAL
! investigator thought
ng SAW NsotsF.
Applications for permits to build houses
! IN Nashville must be accompanied with
+ the estimated cost. The permits are issued
! IN duplicate, one cGry kept on file in the
4 Office rf thc Chiet OF the Fire Department
Now, 1t occurred to the APPEAL detective
| that II Jim Smith's' name appeared in
the list OF applicants, with the actual cost
OF his house in plain figures, it would be
had document To fll into the hands of
4
! Vow, the APPEAL man did not disclose his
| thoughts, aud consequently was not
| hUm:listed with thH fejoinder that
sych tHine5 might be done in
Ven hjs, but not in Nashville by blank
/ slgat. The APPEAL is indebted to the
| kindness of Capt. Carroll, chief of the
| Fire Department, for assistance in COM
! plhng the above building statistics.
THE CHURCHES.
Nashville ia proverbial for magnificent
I churches, whose spires pierce the clouds
1 from nearly every prominent elevation.
In other cities Of perhaps more religions
! pretensiOns, churches are generally To-
! Gated IN out-of-the way places, that would
not be eligible sites for dwellings or bust,
| ness houses. The contrary spirit seems to
| grow in Nashville. Sites are selected ap-
/ parently with view to adding beauty to
the grandeur oi the picture the city pre-
/ senis TO the visitor approaching its gates
! The Mckendree (Methodist), on Church
I street, has arisen from the ruins to which
I II was reduced by fire several years ago,
I and while there seems to be very little, il
anv, change from its original style OF arch
i ltecture. i appears more imposing 10 the
/ view-its beauty doubly iptensiis ed by the
/ thrilling history eme6died in the story of
I its destruction,
HIGH ART AND ELEGANCE.
J In TINS connection it is proper to speak
I OF the air OF elegance surrounding every
| thing in Nashville. The residences seem
/ - have been planned with care as to
I architectural appearance, conforming to
the most modern esthetic tastes. The
l grounds are almost without exception
! cared Tor with greatest care and are kept
I sCrupuloUSly clean; the lawns carefully
I, graded and grasses kept evenly mown and
I tree from trash and leaves. Shade trees
are carefully selected and located at
/ regular intervals The business houses
present the same evidence of taste in con-
! struCtiOn, and their occupants seem to be
skilled in the art of displaying goods to
! the best advantage, at the same time pre-
senting pictures of the most inviting
| character, calculated to make mans
Pocketbook rise up and tnrn over whether
Its contents footed up ten cents or $40.
THE CoLoRED CITIZENS.
A noticeable feature of Nashville es-
; pecially to visitors from cities con.
| tiGuoUs to the cotton-producing dis
! trctS, is the absence of the
dirty, ragged, loud-mouthed negro
I such a. on certain occasions render the
most frequented thoroughfares of Mem
phis a pandemonium. On the contrary
bat few pure black people are seen on the
! streets compared with the large proper
tion Oi colored population. The general
appearance of the colored people suggests
an industry and prosperity among them
/ which would excite the envy if not the
| cUpidity of the average Memphis ''nigger.
I The predOminance OF color among the
! negroes of Nashville is Quadroon, octorooI
and half breed, the absence OF the strictly
colored being accounted for in the suppo-
| sition that no pure black man need apply
their extremely esthetic tastes de
! n3anding modification or compro
| mise. so TO speak, between The pure
! Anglo-SaNon and the native African
But the colored people of Nashville are
proverbially neat in dress and general ap
! Pearance As well as polite and attentive tc
| their employers. They seem 10 be care
! fUl Of their trusts, especially those having
the care OF little children. The writer
who has witnessed the blood curdling
| cruel;ies and brutal treatment of children
| by colonei nurses in Memphis, was forciby
! impressed with this contrast in Nashville
| How do you account for it? is asked
! \ GU must ask an easier one, unless YOU are
willing to accept the theory - purely
| theory-that Memphis nurses are blackel
| than Nashville nurses, aud consequently
! retain in their natures more of the bruta
instincts OF the normal con niition of the
! African race. The remedy lies in the &c
| curing of the lighter shade-the source i:
ineNhauStibls.
rBE POLICE FORCE
appear to he under better discipline. One
j. never seen holding up lamp post OF
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