The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-01
MEMPHIS - HIS PHE6Ou uENAL
GROWTH-ITS PROSPERITY.

GROWTH-ITS PROSPERITY.
The advertising columns OF the AP-
PEAL this morning emphasize the bus
iness revival-,he unbounded prosper
iiy OF Memphis. The encrosehment
of advertisers upon our large double.
sheet PAGES lcf ffty-six columpstel's
the ttory moro eloquently than col
umns Of editorial argument. This
large smount Of advertising is not the
result Of a mere design to make big
show. By accepting advertising at ie-
ducei ra es twelve columns of addi-
tional advertisements could have been
added. But newspaper which gives
away its advert sing oo'umus to make
a show OF popularity and prosperity
will soon find itself in the condition of
the merchant who foods the country
with goods to prove that he
is doirg a large business. There
was celebration in Memphis of
tAe completion of the Memphis and
Charleston railroad, in May, 1857.
People fo:ked here by thousands
from all parts OF the country, and a
new tide of population constantly
poured into the city. The hotels and
the boarding houses were full to over
a owing, and every business and dwell
ing house was rented at fabulous
prices before completion. The popu-
lation was cosmopolitan. Nearly all
the old States were represented here,
and in the fl5wing tide prominent was
the foreign element. The prosperity
which has egain dawned upon Menu
phis reminds the old citizens OF the
flood tide boom of thirty years ago.
Indeed, our city has never exhibited
such substantial, steady and uuinter-
rupte1 progress, since it emerged from
q crude frontier settlement. Memphis
has surmounted every misfortune and
every cit.zsn has implicit confidence
in the future of the city. And it
could no. he otherwise, when on
every side is feen all the forceI
by vhich great cities are constructed.
Trade is fl furnishing, population in
creasiDg new d yelling, new business
houses ara springing up on every side
and the limi OF residence for families
pushed far5her aud farther every day.
Our people ara surprised a! their mar
velous progress and prosperity. But
they will not be If they viii look TO
the causes. NJ mphis is the natural
tral.ng ceot;r Of an immense radius
ot e3rntry which for productiveness
csnpos unsurpassed by the same scope |
in all this broad Union snd, there
nothing to preyent it becoming large
ranking with the imp3r
cites OF the Uoited States. AS rail-
road center Memp' is will b. in tie lead
of all Southern ctits. Beside the
r5ads already ia opera'ion-roads
which OF themselves you'd make
great city--there a-e hhf q dozen
others, either under contract or being
surveyed and al will ba built in the
near future. There is no longer any
doub1 OF the destiny tast awaits
Memphis. To her upequaled
development no fictitious cir
eumstauces have contributed their
aid. The growth has been based upon
the intrinsic and inht rent advant lgt S
of the city and Surrounding county
great ia urll laws, aided by eni erpris-
ing, shrewd business men Of local
p ide and ambition. Toe great future Of
Memphis is una'tersb!y written in the
book OF destiny. Men con hstten, but
they cannot hinder il. Our great pri-
mary advantage consists in the situs-
ton Of the city; and what nature be-
gan man is supplementing and filing
out by the coDstruction of multi.
Piled system Of railroads csntering
here, aud all the prerequisites to a
progressive, prosperous city. Tie
growth Of Memphis is phenomenal,
and the APPEAL congrat u aies its read
srs on the flcs that the city is yet to
be one of the chief interior centers OF
he continent; that we have the prom.
ss OF that destiny for which the AP-
PEAL has labored for fjrty six years,
md whose dawn has broken upon our
view in all its tnch snling beauty.
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LEARNING TO RESPECT HIH.
The New York Post direc attention
% significant fact when it says that ,,