Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-24
COLLEGES srRERr.
A Plan to Make 1T One of the Leading
ThoroughsA1es Of the City.

A plan is on foot to widen College
street from Third to Kellogg. 1t is
designed to make it ten feet wider
than at present, which will make it
a good width, wider than any other
street in the city for the same length,
while some necessary grading will
be done, including the cutting away
of the Hill in front of the University,
a move that will very much improve
the looks of its grounds and enhance
their value.
College will be one of the main
streets for the sewerage system. The
opening of a new road through the
Gracey- Woodward Iron Co.'s lands
to bridge that will almost surely
be built across Red river at the
Stewart bluff, will also largely en-
nance its importance by making it
the principal thoroughfare therefrom
to the city. This of itself makes it
highly important that the street be
widened, for as matters now stand
with toll bridges at the Hopkins
vile and RussellvilIe pixies the new
bridge, being between them, will
control the bulk of the travel and
will pour it through College street.
Several years ago an effort was
made to widen this street. AT that
time J. G. Johnson, the Memphis
philantropist, gave the University
1000, to improve and beautify its
grounds. He also apprised the city
council of the fact and asked them to
widen the street and grade it, taking
off the bump in front of the Univer-
sity, the University giving the ten
feet necessary to widen the street,
provided the other property owners
on that side of the street would also
give the necessary ten feet to make
the street uniform width. The mat
ter, the LEAF-CHRoNICLE under
stands, was favorably received by the
board and Mr.. johnson was informed
that it would take definite action on
it as soon as the means necessary for
the work were available.
The question has again been
brought up by other parties, and the
LEAF-CHRoNICLE understands the
concent of all the property owners on
the north side of the street from
Third to Kellogg except the Uniyer-
sity has been obtained to set their
fences in the necessary ten feet, and
it is the wish to carry on this work
with the sewer construction, as it can
be done cheaper and more satisfacto-
rily then. The matter has not been
brought before the board officially,
but has been discussed and the senti-
ment obtained, and from what this
paper learns there will be no trouble
in carrying the measure to success
full issue if the consent of all parties
to donate the necessary amount of
ground is obtained. 1t is understood
that the matter was brought to the
attention of the trustees of the I'm
versity and no action was had on
it, or the board declined to donate
the ten feet in question, claiming
that it had no right to do so, but that
it could sell to the city that much of
its territory.
The LEAF-CHRONICLE trusts that
this is a mistake. Clarksville has
been very liberal towards the Uni
versity, and this measure would
benefit no one more, if as much, as it
would the University, and that insti-
tuition should not ask the city to buy
its ground for this purpose. The
as we understand it, at
first came from that source it was
not acted on then from the fact that
it was work the city was not at
that time ready for. The action of
the University board was not in
keeping with its wise and progress
5ive policy, and the LEAF CHRoNI-
Gle believes that when the matter is
put before them in its proper light
It will not hesitate to take favorable
action on it.