The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-28
NOTES FROM TAMPA.
5YGIENIC CONDITION - PERFECT
EXEMPTION FROM DISEASE.

daunted Citizens New Improve
ments-Another Tobacco Plant-A
Mammoth Hotel-Bridging the Hills
boro-Electric Lights-Water Works
A Public Park-Marine Hospital,
Etc.-Revenue from Customs-Tampa
a Port of Entry-Quarantine Regula-
+ions-Trestle, Wharf and Ware
bouses-No Pilots Wanted.
In view of the startling reports flying
+. round that yellow fever had reappeared
and was prevailing again in Plant City and
.Dtber portions of Florida, it affords me
pleasure to say, both from inquiry and close
t,arsoual observation, that SO far as
fTampa is concerned, the sanitary condition
LII tbe town was never better nor its health
more perfect. There is absolutely little or
|no sickness at this date April 24,) and a
heading physician made the remark that
flor the first time in his practice he had not
Il single patient on his visiting list.
/ That there have been and still exist at
IPlant City, twenty miles from this place,
&cases of sickness, pronounced to be yellow
zfever by DIR. Palmer, of the National Board
III Health, cannot be disputed. There are
many. however, who believe from the mild
&nat1lre of the attacks and the paucity of
Nieaths that the disease is simply an agra
Waited form of bilious fever. This may, or
8mav not be true, but it is GER
&rainly the dictate of prudence to
8tqke every precaution in the premises.
hi would be well that no one should be al
lowed to board or leave the passing trains
$nt Plant City, until it has been decided by
NlC,.tk l. = n j
<pf contagion was at an end. This is all
That would be necessary in the absence of
<any sickness at Tampa, and to quarantine
Abat city while in a state of normal health
Elnd salubrity could hardly be justified.
But, happily, these questions must, and
1mil, be decided by those charged with the
Responsibility involved therein.
TAMPA TO THE FRONT.
3 Ny present object is to place on record
Sthe heroic efforts of the people of this city
No retrieve the misfortuneS and losses caused
5by the prevalence of the late epidemic,
(which carried off over 100 of their number
Never in the annals of the past has the
&vork of regeneration progressed more rap
Idly Usually it requires several years for
any place that has suffered from this fear
tul pestilence to shake off the glamor and
Numerical gloom which settles down upon its
&nhabitants. But the stranger visiting
ITampa would never realize the sad scenes
Through which she has so recently passed.
HER citizens, fully assured of the CONNER
8cial advantages of their town and the bright
+leStiny that awaits it, have cast deSpond-
5ency to the winds and gone to work like
Beavers to put in motion every ele-
sinent that will conduce to the general pros
Iperity. AS an evidence Of this
A WHOLE BLOCK
|of brick stores has already been completed
in the burnt area, and workmen are busily
engaged upon the foundations of another,
which will be an ornament to the city.
Quite number of handsome private resi-
denceS, also, are in process of erection, and
it can truthfully be averred that there are
fewer stores and dwellings Ito lett here
than in any town of similar population in
the State
And now let us enumerate some of the
magnificent improvements that have been
projected or are actually progressing; and
first l will mention the
IMMENSE TOBACCO PLANT
Of r. Nome Bros, New York for the
removal OF which to Tampa the arrange
ments have been about completed. The
matter, as stated to me by Mr.. Thomas A.
Carruth, Secretary Of the Board of Trade,
stands thus: The proprietors, R. Nome
Bros, submitted the question whether if
they removed their plant from New York
to Tampa, the citizens of the latter would
donate a site and construct the factory.
An affirmative answer was returned, and
the Board of Trade and citizens subscribed
$1,000 for the buildings, while a site 350x
200 feet in size, and valued at 5000 was
proffered by Messrs. Martinez, Ybor & Co.
and Sanchez a. Haza. These terms were
mutually satisfactory to all the parties.
Mr.. Nome asked leave, however, to visit
New York to see if all the arrangements
could not be Immediately consummated.
There seems to be no doubt whatever as to
the result, and the buildings will be finished,
II possible, by the last of June.
A MAMMOTH HOTEL.
Another grand scheme has Just taken
shape in the form of mammoth hotel, to
cost $500, coo, which will occupy beautiful
site on the west side of the Hillsboro river
1t appears that the Plant Investment
Company made an offer to the Tampa
authorities to erect the proposed hotel, and
commence work upon it in thirty days, if
the Town Council would guarantee that the
license and taxes of the same should never
exceed $500 per annum. This the Council
on April % unanimously agreed to, and
ordered the contract TO be closed, and the
necessary writings drawn up and signed
at once. An ordinance was also adopted
before adjourning to construct a bridge
and foot way across the Hillsboro river,
Which will afford easy access to the new
hotel. am indebted to Mr.. I. E. Jackson,
a member of Council, for the above facts.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
Provision has been made for twenty
electric lights, fourteen of which are now
throwing their effulgent rays throughout
every portion of the city. / noticed, also,
on Sabbath, that the churches were dis
pensing with the use of kerosene and sub
shutting incandescent electric lights. These
afford a much softer and pleasanter light
than the oil lamps.
WATER WORKS
Admonished by repeated disastrous conha-
grations, this enterprising little city will
supply of water, thus greatly reducing the
process of construction, of the capacity of
artesian water. The well has already
reached depth of GOO feet, yielding an
abundance Of water, but it has been de-
c1ded to continue boring until a flowing
stream has been obtained at the surface,
even if the augur must go down for a
thousand feet. With considerable fore
sight, the contractors are obligated, when
the sewers Of the city have been completed,
to keep them flushed, thus removing all i'm
purities and garbage.
THE MILITARY RESERVE"
This wide awake people have sent a petit
ton and committee to Washington, asking
That the beautiful property fronting on the