Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-09-01


the mile posts of 1884 s.. Others will
be found only less so, scattered through
the plethOric pages of this issue of the
APPEAL, many OF them iairer and better
indexes OF the growth on which we have
reason justly to pride ourselves as a
people, because they are more imwe-
diately the work of our own hands, the
results of individual effort. Stretchicg
their hands away across the States of Ar
kansas and Missouri, where they fad
most encouraging trade, our manufactu-
rers have in the States of Kansas and
Iowa entered into successful competition
with those of Chicago and Kansas City,
while nearer home they have almost
forced St. Louis out of competition with
them Our merchants, too, have pushed
their enterprises into distant and new
fields, and have developed them with an
energy that surprlees their competitors.
They no longer grope or feel their way
as if on forbidden or hazardous
ground. They go boldly forward,
backed by ample capital, the result
OF years of their own thrift
and economy, and buy and sell in oppo-
sition to any of the cities that are their
close competitors. The result of this
push and energy upon the city itself has
been very encouraging. Our population
has increased in five years from
$4,000 to something in the reighbor-
hood of 10000, and the demand for
homes Las forced the building of hun
dreds of new houses, most of them taste
full and modern in design and solid of
construction. This growth, reactipg
upon the people themselves, has been
great stimulus to their pride as well as
ambition. The lines of sorrow and
care, OF apprehension and dread,
the marks of twenty years of succeeding
misfortuues have been covered out of
sight by FIVE years of freedom from epi-
demic disease and constant prosperity.
They now have faith in themselves and
in the place that has passed into history
for its sorrows and suffering, borne with
heroic fortitude and courage. Public
confidence, the strongest factcF In the
upbuilding of cities, is an assured and
assuring fact in the present and future
of Memphis This is the keystone in
the arch on which all our future is to
rest, and it could not have better.
The people believe, and no longer
doubt, Memphis is to be one Of
the great cities Of the Union. This
=. L. l,gf1nr- and 10
rea,.,v for it. In the engrossing anxieties
and car,s that attend on trade and com
merce we must not forget that there are
other and equally essential things TO be
done to assure that destiny. The salts
faction and benefit that arises from the
public work completed in the liking
District gov ,rumeut siuce the spring o.
1SSl is an 1; surance that more in the
same line vi be at least equally profit
able. Besides the paving of the streets,
which cannot be pushed too energetic
ally, and the steady increase and i'm
proyement of our sewer system, some
thing must be done for health giving
amusements for the people. While land
in the suburbs is still comparatively
cheap enough, park of 800 or 600 acres
should be purchased and laid out, and so
accessibly located that it might readily
and easily be reaehed afoot where people
are so minded. This is an essential to the
growth and life of the city and should
be an especial care with those charged
with the conduct of public affairs. Next
10 this, and equally important, is the ex-
tension of the city eastward and free ac-
cess to its eastern suburbs. If it can be
done, the Memphis and Charleston Rail
road Company should be urged to find
freight and passenger accommodations
in Fort Pickering, near the other rail-
roads, so that Court, Jefferson and Mon
roe streets may be extended with
out interruption. If this were
done, aud the City Hospital
and Medical college were removed
TO the neighboEhood Of the Marine Hos
pitai, we mil 1t hope to see grouping
tan, { :, :, ;.pdsoms fesidences along new and
han they,r ave enies, clustering around the
Sew York; grounds turned into hand
all ana walublic square, as cannot nov
u "l- Nd in any direction. The cit!
EOhen be comparatively free OF rail
It 26s Faterference aud check, and woulC
'etive mSapidly out in the on'y direction
my. &c there IL unlimited room tor ex
snrrou ision. Itwould then have o2ly th'
they Ouisville line on the north and the as
tentOciated lines on the south entering tn
city by Broadway TO encounter, Cha
on Washington street being abolishe,
by the removal of the Memphi
and Charleston depot, aud tn
crossings of these could easily b
provided for. The effect of this radios
change aud improvement would be i'm
mediate, and it would give a fresh i'm
petus to building. For the safety an
comfort OF the city and convenience i
trade, lumber district in the vicinity q
of the mills on Wolf river and the navy
yard should be laid out, and after Ger
tain date the storage of lumber or th
establishment Of lumber or planning mill
or wooc. works of whatever kind shoul
be prohibited save within the distrit
thus set apart. And as much as poss
bic the proprietors of the manufacturiu
establishments and cotton warehouse
should be ENCOURAGED to locate in otht
than the inhabited parts of the city,
that there may be the utmost latitude f,
growth and expansion. These and il
creased facilities for the maintenance
the public health are what are now mo
needed TO assist in the Development
the future. The bayou must bs mat
an absolutely eiss,i channel for the wat
that finds its way to It as the surfa
drainage ofthe streets a2d alleys, and Il
sewer outlets into the Mississippi riYs
originally provided for by Col. WARM
must be put down. When this is don
and we have a supply of cles
pure water, we shall be ab
10 boast Of as perfect sanitary prov
sion as is possible. To this let us add 4
crying necessity for more public schc
buildings, and we will have covered
the pressing needs for a rapidly incre'
ing population We urge these 81
gestions upon the attention of the peol
as quite in the lines Of progress L
have been pursuing, and as essential
the future of the city. They are 81
as eestiens the force of which will beco-
3, more and more apparent as the years
P, by, and as they are enforced will m,
Withau justify the expense that may alta
their consummatjon