The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-27
PAVING PROGRESSING.
WORK GOING ON ALL OVER THE
CITY.
Opening New S~treefs-The Check TO
Growth offered by Cemeteries
Notes.

ANY one interested in pubic work
will find a great deal TO interest him
in a walk about the city. No mater
in what direction he goes he will find
something to fix his attention. Here
are some of the things being done:
Jackson street, from Second to the
bridge, is being paved.
Intersections of block stone Of a
cCsly character are being put in az
Court and Monroe, on Third strt els.
These crossings have been very bad
fer a number of yea s, and have been
the cause OF the breaking OF a great
many vehicles. The intersections are
are of a permanent character, and can
be read ly joined when the cross
streets are paved.
Pontotoc, from Cynthia east, which
has been almost impossible in winter
for years past, is being graded and
sidewalks pu! down.
s.. Paul street, from Orleans east to
Mckinley, is bling graded and the
citizebs will pave II, as it is looked
upon as a very desirable locality.
Orleans street has been graveled
from JEFF, rson street extended to
Ma shall avenue, where it joins that
aved thoroughfare and leads out the
Union venue pike.
The chain gang, under Foreman
Jewe |, has been at work for over a
month past with an average of forty
five bands a day, paving and opening
UP Madison street east Of the bridge
over the Memphisand Charleston rail
road. 1t runs through the property of
Mr.. w. T. Bowdre, who generously
donated a strip of land sixty feet wide
for the public use. That he hes been
a gamer by his generosity cannot bs
denhted when it is stated that proper
ty in that locality which was formerly
worth $40 foot, is now saleable in
the open market for $25 or more.
Madison street east Of Dunlap ruus
into Henry avenue, upon which the
county has already done some work.
Connected as it now is with Madison
street it promises to become one Of the
principal thoroughtares leading into
the city from the east.
The city is now building O thirty
six inch ~intercepting sewer on Monroe
street from the river east to connect
With that already put down from the
bayou east to third street. 1t is al
most impossible to keep up with the
demand for sewer connections, much
less TO extend the large mains, which
must ~imperatively BIS done this year
or next
Thelcity carpenter force is busy re.
pairing bridges, laying culverts and
putting in curbing ip a number Of To-
calities hitherto neglected.
1t becomes daily more apparent that
some measures should be carried out
looking 10 the obliteration OF the vari-
GUS cemeteries within the city limits.
There are three in all: the Jewish
cemetery at the head Of Adams street,
the old Catholic burning ground on
| Henry avenue, and Winchester Gem
ete,y on Winchester avenue. They
are all closed, no burials in either hav-
ing been permitted for some time. A
number OF bodies have been removed
to Elmwood or Calvary, but
these cites Of the dead are still we'll
peopled, and the problem is how best
to entirely obliterate everything, even
to the memory Of the sad uses to
which they were once put. They
stand directly in the way Of improve
ment OF contiguous property, aud pre-
vent the extension Of streets whose
opening up would greatly facilitate
public business. In Elmwood there
Il still room for thousands, but within
the last few years handsome villas
have sprung up thickly all around it,
much needed streets stop short against
its tall fence, making long circuits
Necessary in order to reach any OF the
neighborhoods from the city. 1t will
be years before It can seriously inter
fere with the building up of
the city, but that the hour for
closing its gates rapidly approaches,
no one can doubt who has watched
the new growth OF the city and who
believes in its union depot, its belt
road and its great bridge.
There is one other institution the
necessity for whose removal becomes
daily more appaTent-the City Hospi-
tai. Members of the City C1uu-
Gil are of the opinion that,
il practicable, it would be well 10 OBJ.
tain tine necessary legisla ion for sell
ing the present site and buildings and
investing the proceeds in property
mo remote from the city. The
reighhorho,d in which it is situated
is ratidly coming into notice since the
paving of Mas all avenue, the run
n,ng OF street cars ont that way and
/ he opeping up Of Madison street,