Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-10
VERY UNCLEAN CITY.

A street Brigade so Rare as to be a
Natural Curiosity-The Street Corner
ss8Ierohants'' to Give Way to the Law
The Exposition Assuming shape
LouisviIIians to Migrate for the Winter
to the Land of Flowers.
Correspondence Of
LOUISVILLE, Aug. Tt is some
times great advantage to the appear
ance Of a city to be agitated by an cpl
demic scare. She goes to work and cleans
up. Since we have been on the outlook
for cholera the subject Of street cleaning
has actually been discussed by the NUM-
cipal powers. 1t must be confessed that
Louisville, at the present, is very, very
dirty. In the epOchs Of her deepest, dead
lest dirt-and she has some tall records
on that scOre-she never exceeded her
present condition. The most fashionable
avenues and drives leading out through
the southern. suburbs are slightly enough.
but elsewhere the street brigade is so rare
q spectacle as to be almost a natural
curiosity. On almost every thOrOughfare
leading to the west end there are whole
squares given up as a hog wallOW. DR..
Blackburn, our high priest in all things
pertaining 10 cholera and yellow fever
epidemiCs, has assured US that cholera
prevails most severely in limestone
countries, and that granite regions are
comparatively exempt, and that boiled
water and strong green tea Will probably
pull US through should we find the dreaded
foe in our midst. So it would seem the
good people OF Louisville are prepared to
place a serene confidence in the protection
Of green tea and boiled water, and not
give so much as one little kick for sanitary
efforts. But the city treasury is
really in quite a bad way; it is empty:
and a treasury in that condition can
hardly meet great expectations. a new
law Tor the taxpayer is to be tried this
year, and an altogether smooth time is
not anticipated. The office of back tax
receiver has been abolished, the brilliant
financial manRuvers Of the last regime
having rendered the Office unsavOry in the
public mind. 1t is now determined that
each years taxes shall be collected in
that year, by distress warrants or gar
nishments of rents if need be, and the
work Of collecting outstanding bills be-
gins this month. As many citizens have
refused 10 pay their dues promptly be-
cause others are five or ten years in ar
Fears. they will doubtless show light and
put the new law to the test, and a breezy
time will probably ensue Tor the ruling
powers.
THE DEATH-KNELL HAS BEEN SOUNDED
for all vendors of wares on the street cor
ners and sidewalks by the same arbitrary
DOwer that sealed the doom of the delight
some. frisky and airy Mother Hubbard in
this progressive city. During the sum-
mer vacation of the courts these pIctur-
esque trafficers are enjoying their last
1aYs Of grace before folding their tents
and silently stealing away. something
Of nearly everything under the sun IS bar
tered on the Louisville streets, and 1t was
time the general nuisance was abated,
but the flower girls viii be a feature large
Iy missed. On these sUltry July and Au-
gust mornings a boy and girl stood by
turns on the principal corners OF
Fourth avenue, each with a bas-
ket laden with fresh sweet water
lilies, full Of great dew crystals and as
purelv fragrant as though they still
iOated on the bosom Of their cool and
limDid birthplace. SONY nickle apiece
fresh water lilies!' and there are few
who do not stop and invest some odd
change in the beautiful silvery white
fbings Ladies' pin several on their
bOsOms, making a complete howery
breastplate, and gentlemen buy them to
present in lovely clusters to young lady
friends. knowing how much more real is
he appreciation than that bestowed upon
Tie stiff Offering from the florist, repre-
senting Just so much hard cash IN every
bud. 1t makes pretty picture IN the
morning hurry and hustle OF the thrOnged
street and one is 10th to spare it. The
banana man also must go, and likewise
the peanut man, but we are an advancing
people. and must even go with the great
world.
THE EXPOSITION HAS SPRUNG INTO
SHAPE
and color BY a kind of magic. There is a
regular army of WOrkmen inside and out,
and every department viii be nearer COM
DIete than ever known at an opening be-
fore. There is one space on the Fourth
street side where every variety of cotton
grown anywhere in the world viii be on
display. Music Hall has been fitted up
with a huge shell to act as a sounding
board. and there is a fountain in the cen
ire of the building of mammoth proper
lions. which is to be lighted with a mil
lion tinv electric sparks, and Will be the
most brilliant spectacle conceivable. At
this stage of proceedings everything is
on amuch handsOmer scale than last year,
and the arrangements muchm more tasteful
and beautiful. The Art Gallery is GER
tainlv very fine; both the pictures from
the Art Union and the private loan col
lection could hardly be surpassed. There
are several genuine old masters in the
lot which will be given PROMINENT place,
Of course, though old masters-rank
leresy though the assertion be-are such
a lot of dingy, dreadful old boresl 1t Is a
blessed thing they have been gathered to
predecessors and can never perpe-
trate any more of those unspeakable
things in browns and purgatOrial yellOws.
The ceremony Of the opening is lett IN
delightful state of doubt. The directors
invited Blaine to be present and assist
Gov. Knott IN the exercises, and CleYe-
land was asked 10 come and preside over
the competitive drill and be treated to
weak lemonade. This created a most
enormous tempest-frst cousin IN a
cvcIOne-right here at home. Gov. Knott
would never. consent to stand under the
shadow of the Plumed Knights crest and
permit him to mOnOpOllze attention. Did
ANYBODY ever hear Of Kentucky Cover
nor who PLAYED second fiddle to any
human in shoe leather on this mundane
sphere? Ii was an unfortunate Dlunder
on the part of the directors TO invite either
candidate at such time, so the only nope
is that Blaine will have sense enough to
see that he is not wanted and stay at
home. otherwise our Governor won't put
in An appearance. So here we are, in a
rightfui middle. and the way out very
haZy and hazardous.
The live stock exhibit will contain some
Of the bluest equine blood in the land.
Fellowcraft viii be here, and LOngfelloW,
and Ten Brock, and FalsettO, and Him.
var, and HindOO, and King Ban, and
Wanderer, and a hundred other familiar
great names. OF itself, that will be some
thing worth coming to see.
Several prominent Louisville people
will pitch their tents in Florida the CON-
ing autumn and with the view OF making
Il their permanent home. Mr.. G. +. ).
Allen. a retired Louisville merchant, has
bought the BlOxham place, and Mrs. DR..
John Bull, Of sarsaparilla memory, has
property in Winter Park,
where she viii erect magnificent resi-
ience and spend her winters there in fu-
ture.
sarsapariIla and cough syrup have
done a great deal for the Bulls in world
IL sense. When the doctor suddenly de- I
parted this life, not many years since, ne
a his widow one of the mnst masslNelE !