Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-28
THE PUBLIC BUILDING.
It's settled-Let the Ladies Have Their
Say.



but waste of space and time. OF
course every man who writes about
it has regard to his own selfish inter
est, and that is why we hear Of the
double pond, Taylor's hill, New
Town, Fifth and Franklin, Madison
and Academy avenue, Greenwood |
and Madison and many other places
in the country, as the probable CEN
trail location of the growing city in
the next generation, or fifty years.
Now why not let the ladies have a
say in it? They are the proper ones
to be consulted in this impOrtantImat-
ter, for the men rarely have any bus
mess at the postoffice, and when they
do hey can splash through the mud,
the rain, the blazing sun or anything
else. A boy who can't do this when
a letter from his best girl is
not worth killing. No, sir, it is the
ladies who have daily business at the
postoffice, and the postmaster would
be absolutely overwhelmed without
their assistance in reading postal
cards, and gallant men will not deny
them the right to speak and settle
this matter as it ought to be settled
and put an end to hair pulling. 1t is
conceded that the building ought to
be centrally located, convenient to
business and easy of access from all
quarters. Now the central point is
where every one visits or congregates,
andEespecially the ladies. No matter
from what part of the city or county
they come, whether from St. Beth
lehem, New Providence, Port Royal,
Southsde, the Bending Works, Tay-
lor's hill, Greenwood, Baseball Hill
or Vinegar Bottom, they all make
for Franklin street, and no matter
which end of the street they enter
they go through from Third street to
the Square, or from the Square to
Third street. Then the street cars
have something to do with fixing
the central point, and il is important
in bad weather that the street
railway should pass by the
postoffice door, so the ladies
can get there, rain or shine, cold or
hot. This narrOWs it down to one OF
three locations-the Magnolia house
lot, the Stewart corner, Third and
Franklin, or the old banking block
corner of franklin and the Square,
and as it will take nearly all of the
appropriation to buy the first two
named, it is settled that the big post
Office must 60 up on the Square,
whore the street cars all center and
the ladies can all get to it and see the
show windows from the street cars a
they ride up. Then, after getting
their postage stamps, they can take
in all of the stores up to the turn Ia
bic or Third street, and then take the
ears for home.
There is another consideration
there are a great many people living
and doing business under the hill,
and they are not to be ignored he
cause they are ancient. But for thes
ancients, or uuder-hill people
ClarksViIle would never have been
and they must be respected. They
have no street car line advantages
and never can have. The street cal
may be extended to st. Bethlehem
and the people of that village, three
miles away, would be nearer the post
office on the Square than the fat OLD
lady fifty yards under the hill
Now are you going to make Gun
mothers walk "A mile, and the women
out Greenwood and other streets pay
two fares because they would be
obliged to stop at the postotlice first
Just to accommodate few selfish men,
Not if the girls can have a say you
won't, and they are going to have it
Moreover every stranger visiting the
city takes this same route Travelled
by the ladies', and would get fine
view of the postoffice, with tho
placid Cumberland and the majestic
hills and flowery dales beyond for {
background aud sniff the sweet per
fumes in the gentle breezes from over
the ripping waves that delight tt
kiss the bleached cheek on sultry
day, and nowhere in this town WOulr
the big postofiice look half so hand
some and inviting. So tits, the Pub
lie Square is destined to be the cen
ter of the city for the next hundred
years, or as long as the street car
turn round there, and they can't turn
anywhere else, and that is as long as
this generation will care anything
about Il postotlice. This settles tht
question. ANGELINE.
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