The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-26


taese is view looking over the
lower part OF the city In the fore
ground is seen most prominently tie
brick aouse yet standing on the Coz
aer OF Commercial avenue and Sixth
street now occupied by NJ. A. Wal
Ier's grocery store lis now j.
Jennings building. b. s. Hac
ell owned ii then. and The front and
sides bear his name in large testers
Farther out the street can be sees
ae little one-story cottage tha:
till stands in the rear OF the liar
u building, and back OF 1t, two
Dry frame THAI was used as !.
oardnc house one corner of j.
.ali;ski present house can be seen
tlis picture, Tie old CONNER
Al h3tl t..at now forms a Fart or
ie Waverly house tGow the Marionl
5 seen overlooking a little one story
ram thai sool on the craer where
tsiAoni's bis brick horse now
ANS Dow Commercial next to
aryeli's Is little one-story house
ilh a battlement front tia bears the
itd tattlement front that bears the
lords, Feed Store" Next 10 it is
$50 little one story frame No Other
onses are seen in that hlcck except
once notorious place on Fifth
rect called in these days the Flat
op." On The corner Of Fourth and
rashington can be aeen the old Man
ion house-a hotel kept by the grand
ither Of Capt j. S Hacker. This
as torn away number OF years ago
nd large briik ore house now as
up'ed by George Koehler (now James
deehaGsl erected in its place. Above
lat is the present residence of VIM.
'chutter but between the latter and
'i2tA streeI nothing but vacant lets
re seen. The present residence Of
y H. Cajee, then occupied BY A. B.
S1fford, is seen al the lower end of
Washington avenue. leaving but few
races OF its present APPEARANCE or
urroundings The Mississippi river is
seen skirting around the back grouul
Of the picture, much nearer the city
nan it is now. The next picture com.
nences where the last one left off
md the rear Of what is row Schu!rs
warehouse on Sixth streer is seen
earring the name Central House" on
; sign running along the top of the
oof Cnow Taylors boarding house,.
Between it aud Commercial. and along
he latter street, to Seventh nothing
bur one-story frame houses are to be
seen. What is now known as Kluge's
corner tnow Ike Aitman'st is not
shown. but next ABOVE I, IS small
1onse with no name ABOVE it is the
Egyptian Meat Market" the n. F.
Whitaker 4 Sons City Drug Store. /"
Another building with no name is
4iogside the drug store, but from il
70 the corner is pretty lawn. on the
corner tands a long low frame build.
ing ton the site OF haas store) tina.
was then used by the Caro- prop
erty Company as an office. This
block is now built up with some of
he finest buildings in the city. and
one could recognize it by he old pia.
.ure no. one of the old buildings re-
main In the foreground where the
Opera House, the Globe Clothing
store fnow Henderson's). and the
Alexander Lodge buildings now stand,
IS 10 be seen the neatly fenced garden
cultivated by Mr. Stafford, the cashier
OF the Cairo bank In the center Of
commercial avenue and the Property
Company's lawn is the stump OF a
large tree. Looking back over the
TOPS 1 the little houses spoken of we
can see he side of the large frame
mouse now occupied by Mrs. Thos
"ll'on, the rear end Of rhe present
retldence OF Charles Thrupp and
what was the home of Col. TAYLOR
NOW the Episcopal parsonage), as
Y stood on the corner of Sixth and
washington Avenue where the beau.
'iful Church of the Redeemer now
stands. These constituted all the
dwelling houses in the block bounded
by Sixth and Seventh and CONNER.
cial and Washington Avenues.
Inc ppresent residence of G. D.
williamson tthe site OF the Weng.r)
IS seen standing all alone in what Is
NOW a densely populated block. Back
OF II is cornfeld and the rail fence
surrounding 1t comes close I'D in the
rear Of the Captains house. There
are only three or four houses to be
seen on the right side of Seventh
tFeet back of what Is now known AS
Eldnr's Rlnck rhn nrnLi