Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-12
A THRIVING TENNESSEE TOWN.

 About Busy, Growing
 Hartman. .
 Extract from Letter to a West Haven Gentle Just imagine yourself taking little trip | now. If you are southward bound on the 1 Cincinnati road, Queen and Crescent route, upon the day express leaving Cincinnati 8 little before noon, you will pass through Emory Gap, in Tennessee, about 8 p. m., after picturesque hour beside the Emory river. No prettier stream flows anywhere; and at it's break through Walden's Ridge the gap mentioned-you part company with it with regret. But you must leave it, or it will leave you, if you are bound farther south; and crossing it, on the great iron bridge, you will swing around vast buttress of rock which here stands senti nel, and behold with surprise the electric lights of large town. It might be city of an hundred thousand inhabitants, you think, judging by its extent as indicated; and if you journeyed this way no longer than two years ago you arc puzzled, for then there was no town here at all.
 "What place is thats" you ask the con- ductor, and he says Hartman" Then it dawns upon you that they called out "Harri- man Junction" before you crossed the bridge. and that you saw another train standing there with cars labeled ''Harri- man Coal and Iron railroad"
 "But that looks like large town," you remark, "and there was nothing there but fields and timber two years ago. came along here by day then, and was particu- lar!y impressed with the beauty of the To- cation."
 Hartman has four thousand people," the conductor says. "Iss one of the new l southern towns, but it seems to have suc- ceeded better than some. Looks pretty by night, doesn't its"
 l You assent; the train plunges into tun- nel 27 and Hartman is behind you. Later you return to it and study it's character, ! it's environment, it's prospects. You find it situated in beautiful bend of the Elm ory, with Walden's Ridge partly encir- cling it on the other side. You admire it's rolling elevation and are amazed at what has been accomplished here in so brief a period. You note the many substantial brick blocks, the dozen or more factories l in active operation, the Belt Line railway that accommodates each of these. the churches and schools, the macadam streets and the many neat, home-like residences, some of them fine and costly specimens of architecture. You walk with growing wonder through the extensive rolling mills and learn of untold iron and coal resources close at hand. You observe the banks, the schools and the churches, and mark the unusual number of stores, that appear ! that somehow this is an old community in a new spot; and if you tarry long, and seek information, you will find that Har- riman is made up of sober, industrious ! we'll to do people from many states, led there to build homes and live. You vii find, also, that while stores and school houses, and churches and banks, an6 homes abound, there is nowhere saloon When General Clinton B. Fisk and oth | CTS founded Hartman, on the 26th day O. February, 1890, they shut the liquor traff' out. Some say that is why so many goot people have come in. Some attribut Harriman's exceptional growth and sue , ! cess to that fact. Others think it is due not less, at any rate, to the superior ad | vantages of location, to the pure wate supply, the surrounding mineral wealt J and the fine climate. That Hartman ha grown, in exceptional fashion, and that = appears under headway to greater things
 you do not doubt. There is fascinatio
 about it that you cannot resist. Th longer you stay the more it possesses yor Ridge and revel in view surpassing ths
 of Lookout Mountain. If you covet boa
 ing you visit the Emory. If you are mil
 eralogically inclined you visit the Byr
 mine, just across the river, or the va
 Brushy Mountain Coal fields, twenty mile \ distant, to be reached by the H. O. and
 railroad; or, lacking time for these, yo haunt the Exposition Hall, and stud there the specimens of iron ard coal, ar
 coke, there shown, with other specimen
 of timber and agricultural products.
 All in all, Hartman grows on you, eve
 as it grows on the spot where two yea
 ago no town stood It seems like a ma
 vel that such town could be in so sho
 a time. You cease to smile at it's clai c that in ten years it will equal the Birmin '1 ham of to-day. Having done so muc you simply wonder what it may not d l. Having SO much to do with and bui , upon, it's possibilities appear unbounde u We'll, might possibly carry you on tl
 wings of imagination still farther over t S wonderful and extensive properties
 prominent northern men in this vicini Il (men who compose the East Tenness
 Land Co.,, which was really the founder
 Harriman). but want of time prevents I
 from doing as would like to, hence
 must close this rather lengthy harangu
 Under other~cover I send you some inte
 esting reading concerning Hartman, t
 "Key City" of the south.
 New Haven Training school f
 Nurses.
 The training school for nurses at t
 New Haven hospitals is one of the olde .. in the country and also one of the mo
 prospering. The school has taken p,
 gressive step during the past year :
 uniting with the New York Infrma,
 where diseases of women and children - ceive special care. The course of stu - has consequently been increased to t, r. years. Each pupil receives instructions
 the various wards of the New Hay
 hospital, and passes four or six months
 the New York Infrmary, thus being pr pared for practical work in every depa ment of nursing.
 n Twenty one nurses have graduated du z ing the past year, and nearly two hundr
 and fifty since the school was opened. T ~ esteem in which the schools graduates g md held is shown by nineteen offers to tn. ag' Igg, of hospital positions during the year. Or 1 a five of these were accepted.
 re re Many young women fearing that the Hny will soon be so many trained nurses tt not all cannot find employment, hesitate 'o. follow their inclination to enter upon u 1aa no work.
 ,'' Experience proves that the supply is T = equal to the demand. Since physicia
 and private families have tested the advf ., tage of having in the sick room one co ''s petent to carry out directions and to wat
 with intelligence the symptoms of d
 ease, the calls for trained nurses ha greatly increased. Nurses have been SC during the year to several cases of extrel destitution, and twenty seven visits ha been made to those who were too poor
 pay for the help so sorely needed.
 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
 A Meeting ofthe Board Called for Ne
 Thursday N1ght-Several Chang
 Contemplated.
 The board of public works will m AT next Thursday evening and organize = the ensuing year. It was intended to hs v held meeting last evening, but owing y the fact that several of the commission ,', .oa were out of the city it was decided to pc eve pone it until next week. The rumor goi eel the rounds in the city hall is to the eff