Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-19
WEST TENNESSEE ASYLUM.
A Mckenzie Delegation seekiDg 10 Sc.
cure Hts kocat.on There.
Peculiar Advantages Claimed for That
Town-IrIastice TO Memphis.

Nashville american, 18th: "a delega-
ton OF representative citizens of Mckenzie,
Messrs. A. G. Gilbert, FL. W. Wall, 7. q.
Baker, N. @. Lawhan, editor of the Tri.
County Nel0s, and DIR. S. B. Jones, were in
the city Yesterday looking after the inter-
| ests of Mckenzie in reference to the loca-
ton of the Insane Asylum tor West Ten
nessee.
A reporter of the American met up with
them at the Maxwell House, shortly after
the visitors had returned from an audi
euce with the Committee OF Location.
They all claimed for Mckenzie peculiar
advantages for an institution of this char
acter because of its situation to enjoy the
benefits OF competing trade e~--sSss nft,S11H.
ing Of the f}nnliess fiIss & lor iu1 it's eco
| nomical maintenance after it is built. The
interest in West Tennessee in this asylum
is becoming more intense as the time sp-
proaches for a decision by the comr,is-
sioners.
In answer to an inquiry from the re-
porter as to which West Tennessee town
was offering the most vigorous opposition
to the location in Carroll county, DIR. Jones
of the delegation said: "Undoubtedly
Memphis; and, strange to say, Memphis
charges all other towns in our end Of the
State with presumption, that aspire to Sc
phis."
upon what particular ground does
Memphis desire the location within her
limits ?"
"Well, she claims it mainly upon com.
mercial considerations ON the ground
that Memphis tradesmen alone have the
right to furnish the material for the build
ing and the supplies for its maintenance
We claim, on the contrary, that all trade
centers in the State have an equal right to
enter into an honorable competition. Your
merchants and manufacturers here in
Nashville realize the disadvantages to
them if the asylum is located in Memphis,
and several of them have said to me to-
day that If located st Mckenzie then
Nashville and Memphis would stand on
equal grounds, with only advantages of
propinquity in favor of Nashville"
"Yes," chimed in Col. Wall of NJ Ken
zie, ''lf the Memphians cannot secure the
location at Memphis their next choice
would be Brownsville, upon the assump-
tion that from its nearness Memphis con-
tractors and merchants would be enabled
to furnish the supplies. Now" he added,
mckenzie and the section of West Ten
nessee contiguous feel sincere friendship
for Memphis, and take pride in her pros
perity, growing importance and bright
future. Mckenzie makes no war upon
Memphis or any other point that has been
offered as site. The institution is to be
created and sustained by taxes levied on
all divisions of the Stste-on all the peo-
pie of the whole State at large-and all
the people have an equal right to COM
pete with Memphis or any other place in
the State in furnishing building materials
and supplies"
Another gentleman of the party referred
to the fact that Mckenzie was as near the
center Of the western division of the State
as suitable site could be secured; that it
was about on the same latitude as Nash
vile, and equidistant between Nashville
and Memphis.
All the gentlemen seemed sanguine
over the possibilities of the location of
the asylum at Mckenzie. They left for
home last evening on the o'clock train,
west. S>