The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1891-05-14
HARD TO BEAT.
MADE BY CHARLOTTEIN TIE
LAST TWO YEARS,

The writer has long since told the |
readers of the CHRONICLE that Charlotte
was growing, hus.ling city Of IA, 1000 |
souls, but he has not given them an idea
as to the place in general, whether its
residences are old and broken down or
whether it ever heard the rattle of ma
chiuery and the hum of the spindles
One thing is certain, Charlotte is
model city. She has no low element
sapping the life blood out of her social
system nor has she one-half of her limits
given away to the negro population.
This is Charlotte's boast: To have
more white people within her borders
than any other city in the Old North
State. No, the negro part of town, COM
mon to almost every large place, is not
here, but on the contrary one can find
elegant residences in every portion of
the city. The moneyed man does not
suffer since he does not have to build in
the country to rid himself of the ele-
ment referred to.
This place is generally mapped out
and referred to from the crossing of
Tryon and Trade streets. These are
broad and have an avenue complexion,
being lined on both sides by beautiful
native shade trees and elegant homes,
and are both paved and macadamized.
Tryon, named from the Colonial Gov
ernor of the State, is the main street of
the city and is by far the most attract
i've of anything Of its kind | have ever
seen in a North Carolina town. Through
it's entire two miles and half in length
it is adorned on both sides by collec-
tion of residences, churches and public
buildings not to be excelled in a city of
its population in the South. Starting
from beyond the Seaboard Air Line de-
pot this street is thing of
beauty. AS onward the traveller
comes to business Charlotte, he
must be wondering at those costly and
stately residences seemingly sitting
upon two ridges on either side with a
lawn rolling down to meet the level CT
the sidewalks. Many have nc fercing
at IL, but the pure green lawn seems to
give it keep if the grass look.
Trade Street is likewise great, both in
business houses aud residences, and afte
over Of nature and beau ifu, homes
walks its great length ae call but exclalm
With the wrier that Charlotte is the
most attractive town of its size anywhere
to be found.
Three Hundred New Buildings.
By carefully counting the number o.
buildings that have been erected in Char
lotte since January 1st, 1891, your cor
respondent finds that it will reach tht
grand total OF three hundred. With tha
kind Of progress is there cause for thi'
people to be ashamed?
Points for Two Years.
Home seeker! Investor! Resorter
Look at Charlotte's record for prosperit,
in the past two years history. Thes'
are the steps she has taken forward:
The year 1899 witnessed the following
among other Developments:
Opening of the Victor Cotton Mill
capital, $3.50, 900; addition of new ma
chinery to Ada and Alpha Cotton Mills
erection and opening of the Knittin,
Mill; erection of the refrigerator hous
and Office of Armour packing company
cost $4,000; organization of Star Mill
Company (1our) now in full operation
enlargement of the Elliott Furnitur
Company's plant; opening of the bankin
house of Hearth Bros, capital $50, 900
erection of the Charlotte Cotton See
Oil & Fertilizer %. 8 plant, most com
plete of it's kind in the world, capital
$780, 900; building of an addition to tn
: Buford Hotel, including elevator, dinin
room on fourth floor, &C., at cost {
$27, 900; beginning of the building of tn
: new Postofice and Federal Court House
to cost 100000; beginning of the sple1
did system of macadamizing the street
of the city and roads leading into it.
The year 1890 witnessed the followin
:, improvements among others: startin
,, of a broom factory; establishment {
Il granite works by Messrs. Gee, of Penn
sylvania; establishment of shoe factor
capital, $4,000; organization of tt
Charlotte Consolidated Constructic
Company Capital authorized $200,0(
o with privilege of increasing to $500, ,0OO
which has bought over 800 acres of lar
south east of the city (paying in one i
stance as high as $3.50 per ocre,) is ha
le ing it laid off into streets and avenu
u (part of it is to be converted into par
- and has obtained control of the ci
Il street car lines which has been chang
re from horse to electric power; organic
m ton of the Charlotte Building and Lo
nt Association, authorized capital $1,000
a. the organization of the Charlotte Inve
ts ment and Improvement Company, CO
It. ital authorized $50, 900 with privilege
500, 900; the purchase by the Richmo
& Danville R. R. Co., of about 100 &C
of land north east of the city, for sho
shifting ground &c. the erection by t
Railroad Co. of a compress, cost alb
P. $40 900; the organization of an at
co torium company, capital $l5, 900;
,f- voting of $75, 900 by the city for stl
- improvements; The projecting OF |
,,,' city hall by the Board of Aldermen
~ cost about $42 900; the beginning of [
church edi6ces for the Episcopal
Associate Reformed churches, both
be very imposing; the change OF locat
> aud enlargement of the Llddell u
20 20 pany's plant machinery makers)f,
on >an increase of taxable property ever 1oo'
~, M $5OS, 412.
o ; Where to Live in Charlotte.
of This is a question in which [ pl
ers myself in answering. Live in Diiwo1
di- the splendid residence city On @
J. lotte's suburbs. There's whesa t
me home-l;fe can be erjoyed to full
the there's where the 3, auties of natule
wn clustered This young and lovely P
les; has been divided up in lots. bouiev'
lite parks and lakes, and these lots will