Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-18
THE TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIA-
TION AFLOA7.
A IVeeE's Trip on the Upper C,,mbcr-
land AboGrG the Steamer
Armstrong.

held on board the Steamer l.. T.
Armstrong May 4th to 10th, the boat
making its usual trip from Nashville
to huntsville, KY, during the time.
About sixty members, including
ladies, assembled in Nashville on
Saturday morning, May 4th. AT $3.50
o'clock in the morning they were
taken in carriages at the Maxwell
House, and short visits were made
to various manufacturing establish
ments of the Rock City.
The first place on the line
of the carriage drive was the
large manufacturing concern of Prev
lit, Spur & Co., East Nashville.
Here the members were shown every
process of wood manufacture carried
on at this mammoth establishment,
from the drawing of huge logs from
the river to the finishing and packing
of the various kinds of wooden ware
which they put up, such as buckets,
churns, etc.
The next point of interest was the
factory of the Edgefeld & Nashville
Manufacturing Co. This plant covers
twelve or fifteen acres, and turns out
furniture which cannot be eXcelled
for beauty and elegance anywhere on
the continent. Their show rooms
contained large variety of beauti-
fully designed and finished furniture,
speciality being their elegant line
Of NANTES. They make mantles
ranging in price all the way from tif-
teen dollars to fifteen hundred. Sew
eral members left their orders, but
modesty being a leading virtue of
newspaper men, they would not like
for us to state the figures.
From this point we were driven to
the mammoth cotton mills of the
Tennessee Manufacturing Co., in
North Nashville, where great va
riety of cotton sheeting and checks
in manufactured. The mill has 101S
looms, with other machinery in pro-
portion. 1t probably works larger
number of hands than any other in
dustrial establishment in Nashville,
but we were not furnished with any
figures as to this, or the output of the
mills. There was evidence on
on every hand Of able and
skillful management. 1t is the sec.
ond largest cotton manufacturing es.
Enlistment in the Southland is own
ed and operated by Nashville capital
and business men.
The next point visited was the
large foundry and machine works Of
the Phillips & Butto1ff Manufacture
ing Co. This establishment manu-
facturers fifty thousand stoves an
nually, and hollowware and othel
goods in proportion. 1t has an an
nual pay roll of nearly quarter of
million dollars, and sustains abou
two thousand people by employ
ment. Its goods are shipped to near
ly every state and territory in tn
Union.
There were several other places OF
the program, but our time wa
so limited we could not tax,
them all in. We merely touch
ed at few of the more important es
Establishments in varied industries 0
greater or less magnitude.
Leaving the last named establish
ment, we were driven by the ground
of Vanderbilt University, Fisk Uni
. versity, and other prominent educa
= tional institutions. Two or tire
, days could have been pleasant
spent in a program to which W
1 could only give three hours. w
Y saw enough, however, to impres
every one in the party with Mash
ville's steady and rapid growth
New buildings, of the handsomes
/ aud most substantial structure, az
n being erected in all parts of the cit
and its suburbs. Nashville now ha
e a population of over hundred thou'
t and people, which is an increase
more than one hundred per cent i
a the last ten years. Another decad
e will in all probability show create
rate of increase than the last, ft
= more enterprise and public spirit
coming to the front now than eve
o before. The young men of the cit
are emphatically "on the hustle,
t and whenever such spirit TAKE
hold of town or city, something hi
n to move.
n The editors alighted from the ca
!. riages at twelve o'clock, noon,
FRONT Of thn Noel block and Wpl