Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-08-02
TENNESSEE EDITORS.
The Annual Meeting at Bristol, and a
Jaunt to Norfork, Va.

The Tennessee Press Association
planted its twentieth milestone in the
flourishing town of Bristol, the me-
tropolis of the northeastern corner of
our State and the southwestern cor>
ner of Virginia, last week.
The meeting, with its various and
pleasant features of sightseeing,
proved one of the most interesting
and profitable to the members in at
tendance that the Association has
ever held.
Some thirty or forty members
reached Bristol over the Z. T., V. &
G., Railroad about midnight of Tues
day, the Odd inst, Others followed on
Wednesdays trains, and the opening
session of the meeting was held in
the handsome hall of the Young
Mems Christian Association Wednes-
day afternoon.
The annual address of President
G. H. Slack, of the Bristol Courier,
was the principal feature of this scs-
sion. In this address President
Slack, after extending a warm and
hearty welcome TO the visitors, dwelt
at some length on the wonderful
mineral resources of the section of
country contiguous to Bristol. We
will give some liberal extracts from
the address next week.
ABOUT BRISTOL.
Most of the members were quarter
ed at Hotel Fairmont, located on a
commanding eminence half a mile
out Of the city, and surrounded by q
beautiful grove of natural forest trees
The hotel is reached by the Bristol
Street Railroad, and cars run every q
minutes during the day and until q
late hour at night. The building is
a very handsome piece of architec-
ture, three stories in height, and
was built and furnished at cost o.
$4,000. The rooms are all large and
well ventilated, the house has every
modern convenience, a superb table
is spread at every meal, the best o.
attention is shown guests, and as 8
natural result the house generally has
all the guests it can accommodate.
The city of Bristol is about l7O(
feet above sea level, and enjoys de
lightfully pure and bracing atmos
phere all the year round. Several re
freshing showers fell during the so
journ of the editors there, and on ont
or two mornings the fires in the hote
parlors were quite comfortable. 4
heavy blanket was necessary for com
Portable sleeping every night. TIL,
Tennessee and Virginia State lin,
runs through the place, following
Main Street for a considerable dis
lance, though many houses are bull
over the line, and some of the resi-
dents sleep every night with thei
heads in one state and their feet il
the other. Local option prevails Of
the Virginia side, and that side ha
fourteen churches and no saloons
The Tennessee side has one churcl
and fourteen or fifteen saloons. TIL
place has something near ten thous
and inhabitants, about tWO-thirds c
them being in Tennessee. There
but one postoffice, and it is located o.
the Tennessee side, not far from tn
} line. Bristol is the terminus of tire
railroads, the East Tennessee, Virgin
/ ia & Georgia; the Norfork q Western
4 and the South Atlantic & Ohio. TIL
0 first two are among the largest an
most powerful systems of the South
= The S. A. & o., only extends fror
Bristol to Big Stone Gap, at presen
2 but its projected extensions wi
4 make it most important line whe
. completed. Engineers are now
the field surveying out one or tw
other lines which will be built in tn
near future.
: Work is now in progress on a dun
my line which will extend entirel
around the city. Two large iro
furnaces are also in course of erectio
which will have a capacity of or
hundred tons each, daily. A numbt
= of smaller industries are already
successful operation.
Bristol is the center of a fine t.
bacco producing section, and its t
baccos have taken first premium