Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-07
RICHmOyDEgs IN CHARLESTON.
ipgs and Architecture Of tho
Palmetto Ciiy.
10 Ne ID Tor Of The Dispatch

CHARLE.TON, s. c., October 3, 1856.
The e.cursiOn-tI.in rom Richmond b.
Charlie Ton for tie be leiit o. the earthquake
sufferers arrived hc,e, after much tribuh.
ton. this porDing ri IL O'Clock, consuming
something Ike twenty hours 10 cover DIS.
= ice Of say 40 miles, and thus yeriyIno
The charge so often made OF the ,lowne and
Gross misman1 !Cmcnt oi southern IA lr0~d-
and The "wOrse the management the farther
south you co." The tain upon which we
came contained gOodly number OF Rich
mond's most enterprsiug contractors.
builders, aud iOurneymen brlckllycrs.
among the contractors being Me Fritz.
Siltcrdin0, DrewIy BOwes, C..ptaln A. H..
Phillips. John {. Bachelor, d. VI. BatkIns,
and Rol crt IIudCins, making quite te m,
a. the above list contains all the sub-co1-
tItctOrs Necessary 10 complete house
that is, the mTJrtant parts OF q building.
In regard 10 the condition OK Charleston,
| came heie under the imprcs ION thlt me
newspaper had given an eXag Seiac1 col
ori,-g To- the effects OF the late eIrthuulke /;
hut thus far, from what h.ve seen IN q
limited walk over part OF the city, sid o
lie She least injured. find the worst d.
scrption given Of the direiul edecta OF
earltpuake tIue-or not go fully described
as il might have been. But in this cOnuec'
ton am forced to say that, 1iterau iusp =
ton 81 the Tck.Work aud the style OF &
architecture Of the place. am surprised
that these buildings have not lumblcd down
lGrg before this OF their own weight.
Most o. the injured house are old. buito
the very woI,t desc Upton ~ material IN
The matter OF bricks and mortar-tbe bricks
being made OF loan or 7dV sol Ia +.
burned. and laid IN mud mortar. | will
not ch9racl 'riZe it ~ lime mor,.,r. AZ lime
seemed rot to have entered mo rs comp, =
.iticr. and clean. sharp s.nl IL no case w
used. At This wonder, a sand ccms t.
he everywhere, even in the stree And
the vo KIN shin d'Spllycd in The mlrl"c'
ucnt az eYCa this bad mat rili = 0tthe w)rat
sort: not superior 10 that OK an apprenti
II a years standing with ne OF 70 lr
Eict mopd bTick-WoIk contractors. In no
case was paid the proper att antion to tie,
la the brickwoIk 10y the WlS0ns wfo laid
tie briefs. IN feet al this destruction IN
CHARLESTON is due II th.Cc u.es--sand7
foundations. bad lrick-work. aud defective
aicbit cturc. ne primary cause being Tie
horrible brick-WCrk, which was done ~
negro slave labor, which negro labor
Charlie ION and other southern ciiics insist
upon Nflu~ ~ lf' 'H-'i'fi'h VI n 'ii''
white labor - tLiS dag, the bI.cSl-yct'
and plastcrers Of lie a. y being mo>t'y
ncarocs. There ore lew sectional
cases Of skilled neHO mcc1anic', but they
are few INDEED.
lnrcg.rd TO the architecture Of the town
! Il is II anticul,cd form; no particular
s.ylc, unless Al be- that ErIrlv every hodse
| his heavy tWC-stoly p0rche, o. rpriCO',
| with the heaviest ara no TiI'CIlJu, oF p
| hanging CoTuiceS Icyet-.W; a'dtbc LclYj
| soruices are WhJt pJllcu he hOu. t., down
| TLeclucaCs talt d. d lHi'r.--eS seemed u
| haye lccn built M SOW AMI eat words
| Ire butir.s>os wee stuck % - the de OF
the cdi.5t, VITA a,h. iDlt nJiut in>,c 1t %
| being tied On. In many eases The walls o
! The main building re >tGndinS. aud orA
| gre c'uusi.y.bui.t lut'icSsC5 Sided OH
! Tue Toor mat rial- ~ which the tdmbei
| down houses were built would not have
! stood llc frecziuz ard thawiug OF five Of
| or Virginia winters, much lCSs the centu',
! that some have stood. C13rlr cons great
| est rftd n present is q few men. 2rrh'
! t,cl,-such o, We have in RichmOni-whC
| know how to have house properly cor
| sttuUrG. ! 90 not want % live IN Charles
! t.n, nor aic there many houses here II
! Uhich would be wiling 70 trust my Pre-
| ,ious carcass, cor hquakc or no earthqu k
,crcat thai I W0ude- that thee house
| stood nc l0n.gs they diG, butt o. they ger
! without rcgard 90 tie DIST principles O
| architecture. c. I. ID.