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THE STORY OF ROME’S
MATERIAL PROGRESS
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Complete Review of All Building Improvements
Since January Ist.
CAALLENGES COMPARISON WITH ANY CITY
The List is a Long One, and is Com
plete With a Few Minor Details.
Will Silence the Pessimists.
Rome’s onward and upward march as herein laid down since January Ist should
forever silence the pessimists.
It is a showing that challenges the admiration of every one who has the city’s
welfare at heart and will compare with the material progress of any place of simi»
lar size in the South.
hor weeks the hum of saw, the sharp report of hammer and the ring of trowel
on brick has been dominant on Broad street. One by one the old landmarks are go
Ing, to be replaced by new modern structures and all setting high and dry above
every fear of a flood.
The xJ’bune today presents a complete list of the building improvements in
tvery portion of the ®‘ nce J“>u»ry Ist of this year, as far as can be obtained.
Borne minor improvements may be inadvertently omitted, but those printed below
are all based on conservative estimates of cost. In many instances the figures will
Exceed those laid down. In none will it fall short.
It may be stated that no foreign capital has any part in thia building epidemic.
Rome men and Rome money alone have accomplished this grand showing. It shows
the fairth property holders have in the future of the city.
Those croakers who can see no good signs in anything should take to the
marshes, and there add thiir voices to the discordant noises of the frogs. Thev are
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in the way and should get out.
Rome is all right. Her future is bright with promise. Below appears a com
plete list of all business houses and residences new or remodeled:
BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS.
The Story of Rome’s Wonderful Progress In
Past Seven Months.
The list of buildings raised improved
or new out and out were furnished
The Tribune by Mr. George Tram
mell, figures may be con
sidered authentic. Mr. Trammell said
that estimates of costs were all based
on conservative figures, and that the
actual outlay would increase the to
tals several thousand dollars.
Broad street is given first to show
how the business centre has been ef
fected by the healthy building boom.
Turnbull Buildings,
Two stores raised to the grade level
and improved. These stores are in the
Armstrong block and since the im
provements are very neat and attrac
tive store rooms. Cost $750.
Dougherty Buildings
Two store rooms at the corner of
Broad street and Second avenue.
Now under construction. To be
raised to grade level, and new and
handsome plate glass front placed.
Two stores with basement. Cost
$2,000.
Briant Building
Store comer of Broad street and Sec
ond avenue. Raised to grade level and
completely remodeled from basement
to roof. Practicallv a new building. Two
stories and a basement. Handsome
front. Cost $2,500.
Danny Buildings
Two stores raised and remodeled.
Completed and occupied. Among the
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A popular remedy is sure
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Allcock’s
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receives the endorsement
of medical men and private
persons everywhere as the
best remedy for colds,
coughs, sore throat, pains in
the back, chest or limbs.
Be Not Becelved. not equal
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Allcock’s Corn Shields,
Allcock’s Bunion Shields,
Ha*, no equal as a relief a>4 cure lor corns
and bunions.
Brandreth’s Pills
purify and tons up a debilitated sys
tem. They are absolutely ssfs.
neatest and most convenient store
rooms in the city. Cost SBOO
Cbamlee Building
Nevy building out and out, now un
der constuction. Runs from Broad
street to East first street; will be 254 feet
deep with 31 feet frontage. Brick,
modern, and will add materially to the
appearance of the block. Cost of con
struction $6,000.
Glover Buildings
Two stores new from basement to
roof, two stories, next King building,
w’ll have handsome brick front, now
under construction. Extend from Broad
to West First street, 100 feet deep. Of
fices in front, second story. Already
rented. Cost $6,000.
Clark Buildings
Three stores next new Glover build
ings. raised and remodeled. Also ex
tended back to West First street will
be 100 feet deep, with 22 feet frontage
each. Modern new fronts to be put in.
Now under construction. Cost $3,500.
Stoffregan Buildings.
Four stoiei in opera house block.
Raised and improved. Present very
handsome appearance. Cost $6,000. *
Opera House.
Work will begin about August first
The entire house is to be raised to the
'grade level and completely remodeled,
In fact when the contractors have done
with it, it will be almost a new build
ing. The front will be new and of the
beautifut buff colored brick. First
story to be fixed as a saloon. Fine
plate glass front and marble tiled floor.
Interior of opera house to be entirely
changed. Cost to be between SIO,OOO
and $12,000.
Wright Building.
New frame structure in Bosworth
block. Used as carriage factory and de
pository, Two stores. Cost $2,000.
OTHER BUILD.NGS.
Mainly Residences-But not OlsMiflsd Accord
ing to Location,
The list following is principally resi
dences, and are given with no attemp
at classification according to location.
New brick store of Rome Cotton sac
tory on sight of one recently burned.
Under construction. Cost SI,OOO,
Brick residence. Property of Mr.
Paul Cooper. Corner Third avenue
and East First street. Raised and im
proved. Cost $l,lOO.
Mrs. Dr. Battey. Residence Callier
Springs. Improved at cost of SBOO.
Nephew King. New 8 room resi
dence near exposition park. Cost
$2,000.
New brick residence of George Tram
mell in North Rome. Cost S9OO.
Residence of Judge Turnbull on Mt,
Saracenesca. Six large rooms. Col
onial style. Additions contemplated.
Cost $2,400
New frame residence four rooms,
THE HOME TRIBUNE SUNDAY, JULY 25. I»H7.
owned by Will Tippen. Main street
Fifth Ward, near eLytle’e Spring.
Cost S6OO.
▲ Dougherty to ereot new residence
next Tippens in Fifth Ward. To cost
probably S6OO.
Clark Hill, corner Pennington ave
nue and Butler street, Fifth Ward.
Frame residence. Cost SBOO.
W. W. Woodruff, Main street Fifth
Ward, improvements to residence.
Cost S2OO.
Arthur Word. Improvements' to
residence Main street, Fifth Ward.
$1,500.
J. M. Crane. Main street, Fifth
Wurd :New store and residence com
bined. Cost SI,OOO.
V. T. Sanford. Three residences
and big barn finished in Fifth Ward.
Cost $3,000
W. J. Gordon new residence on
Avenue A., Fourth Ward. SI,OOO.
Completed.
New store of Cornelius Terhune in
East Rome. Cost unknown.
New city hall in East Rome. Cost
SSOO.
H. E. Kelley improvesgents to resi
dence. Cost $l5O.
New office addition to be made to
public school building.
John G. Ramey to build handsome
new residence . on Second avenue.
Cost unknown.
The old Land company bridge over
the Oostanaula is undergoing a com
plete remodeling. Will cost $2,500
It heals, everything except a broken
heart, may be said of De Witt’s Witch
Hazel Salve. Piles and rectal dis
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JOB. A. J. B4TTLI.
Be is Highly Complimented For Sermons In
Dalton Last Sunday,
The Dalton Argus has the following
very complimentary notices of Dr. A.
J. Battle, who preached in that city
last Sunday:
Sunday night, Rev. Dr. A. J. Bat
tle, President of Shorter College, of
Rome, conducted the Union Services-,
at the First Presbyterian church, by
courtesy ot Rev. L. G. Johnson,
whose time it was to conduct the ser
vices. Dr. Battle preached from Ist
Peter ii:7: “For you, therefore, which
believe is the precionsness. n Dr. Bat
tle’s discourse was a finished, polished
sermon, and the fact that he read it
did not detract from its impressiveness
and force. A Presbyterian elder who-'
attended, said: “It was the best thing
I ever heard in a Dalton pulpit. * ’ i
What could be said that would lend
higher praise than that?
Rev. Dr. A. J. Battle, of Rome,
preached, at the First Baptist church
last Sunday morning, and gave his
hearers a strong, helpful sermon from
the text found in Matthew xxv, 21:
“His Lord said unto him, well done,
good and faithful servant; thou
has been faithful over a few
things; enter thou into the joy of
thy Lord.” Dr. Battle put a new
light into a commonplace text and
from a subject that all have heard
handled so often, he drew a strong and
impressive lesson, and presented it
with many new thoughts, and in a
very attractive manner. The singing
at this service was especially fine—the
choir getting better and better with
each service.
In his sermon at the First Baptist
Church, last Sunday morning, Presi
dent Battle, of Shorter College, Rome,
in discussing the ‘Parable of the Tal
ents, ” said:
“We are all held accountable for the
talents bestowed upon us. Os the one
richly endowed much will be required;
of the one poorly endowed, little will be
required.”
Now, that explains much that has
been cloudy to me heretofore. It shows
me why so many professed Christians
are sorry lights in the world and in the
church. According to Dr. Battle’s In
terpretation. God has given them so
little sense, so little grace, so little
honesty and so little love for their fel
lowman, that they can’t keep from ly
ing, quarrelling, cheating, backbiting,
and sometimes wander into the fields
of lasciviousness, stealing and all the
outward forms of wickedness and
worldiness.
I trust Dr. Battle is right, and that
these “erring brothers” are not ex
pected to be better than they are, and
will not be held accountable for their
misdeeds, being judged moral and
mental incomps.
I thank Dr. Battle for his sermon. I
shall always hereafter feel a deep oom
passion for these one talent “sorry
sticks.”
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MYTH otr THE EL’DORAD®.
How Stories of Spanish Conquest Daj>» Fut It
In Adventurers’ Mouths.
El Dorado is the term now beard on
every side in connection with the
placer mines of Alaska and the North
west Territory of Canada. Its deriva
tion is of interest. In the fifteenth
century it was rumored that there ex
isted in the northern part of South
America a city of great wealth called
Manoa, whose king, by name El Dora
do, was periodically smeared witn oil
or balsam and then powdered with
gold dust, until his whole body had a
gilded appearance. It was said that
on these occasions he threw gold, em
eralds and other p’-ecious metals and
gems into a sacred lake, in which he
afterward bathed.
Beginning in 1532 the Spaniards sent
many large expeditions to search for this
phantom city, and most of them ended
disastrously, hundreds of liyes being lost.
One explorer, Orellano, averred that he
found El Dorado in his voyage down the
Amazon in 1540. This was disproved,
but the search was continued down to
the eighteen century. Some of the
results were the conquest and settlement
of New Granada, then making known to
the world of the mountain region of
Venezuela, the discovery of the noble
rivers, the Orinoco and the Amazon, and
the exploration of the vast forests west of
the Andes. About the end of the six
teenth century an English expedition
either sent out by or under the personal
leadership of Raleigh penetrated into
Guiana, thereby obtaining a claim on
that country which has resulted in the
acquirement of the modern British colony
.of that name.
It has been supposed that the or
igination of this fable arose from the
yearly celebration of a tribe of In
dians near Bogota, whose chief was
on these occasions gilded with gold
dust, but this ceremony was never
witnessed by the Spaniards, and the
story may simply be another version
of the El Dorado myth.
The name El Dorado was common
ly used to describe the city or county
which was the object of the search,
but a later usage of the term has been
its figurative application with regard
to any region of more than common
richness. El Dorado County, in Cali
fornia. was the scene of the famous
gold finds of ’49, and since then the
expression has been used to describe
many gold camps.
ThAse facts are taken from the Cen
tury Dictionary and Cyclopedia, and
may be accordingly accepted as au
thentic.
Vim, vigor and victory: those are the
characteristics of DeWitt’s Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for consti
pation, biliousness and all stomach and
liver troubles. Curry-Arrington Co.
minority Raises a kick
Bondholders ot the Colorado Midland.
Will Teat the Naw Flan.
New York, July 24.—The bondhold
ers of the Colorado Midland opposed to
the plan adopted at Thursday’s meet,
iog by the majority state that they will
test the rights of the law. The oppos
ing bondholders have organized under
William F. Kins’ as chairman. One
meeting has auaiiv oeeu held ami oiu
ers will soon be cabed. The ground,
for opposition was stated as follows-
The pjan was drawn for the benefit of
Atchison; that the voting tru-t created
was formed without proper assignation
of the committee; that the committee
can act for themselves as well ns repre
sentatives ot the boudin>h:ers; that ths
plan permits tile omiuisiee not only to
sake tbo s-cr.nties ot the bondhoriers
and deal with them as they see fit, but
permits them to create liabilities for tne
bondholders beyond the value of the
property surrendered, and that the com
mittee is not obliged to report their
transactions to anybody.
Burning, itching skin diseases in
stantly relieved by De Witt’s Witch
Hazel Salve, unequalled for cuts,
bruises, burns. It heals without
leaving a scar. Curry-Arrington Co.
“Dead Stuck” for bugs. Used by U.
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Won’t stain.
The Gold Fever at Tacoma.
’ Tacoma, July 24.—The Cloudyke ex
citement has reached fever heat. Peo
ple of all classses are making hurried
preparations to go t<> the gold fields and
every day adds to t. list of those bound
northward. The latest move from the
city is reported as coming from a few
well known capitalists who have pur
chased a steamer to carry them and the
outfit they will carry. They are said to
have purchased the steamer Rasulie,
now plying on the souud, aud are pre
paring to equip the boat with provisions
sufficient for two years for several
email parties.
Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys
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A solid car load Granite Iron/
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Will there be a tariff put on
China and Jap mattings? We
cannot answer the question
positivelyi but we do know
that we can sell you a splendid
quality for very little money.
Rhudy, Harvey & Co.
337 Broad St.
SUMMERVILLE NEWS..
Misses Allie Armstrong and Al ice Parks,
who have been visiting Miss Mary Pfenn
for several weeks, returned to Rome
Wednesday.
Master Hugh Parks, of Rome,, spent
part of last week with friends near town.
Miss Ellen Penn returned Friday from
Atlanta and Rome,, where she has been
visitisg relatives for some time.
Dr; T. S. Brown and C. C. Cleghorn,
jr., spent Saturday and Sunday in Chat
tanooga.
Kate Mickle, the httle daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. MacLeod, is recovering
from her recent illness.
James A. Arrington spent Sunday in
Rome.
Miss Mattie Williams, of Atlanta, is
visiting friends in town,
Mrs. A. M. Street and two children
will leave nexrweek for an extended
visit to relatives at Mentone and Sulphur
Springs, Ala.
Mrs. Taylor, of Atlanta,, is visiting
Judge and Mrs. John Taylor.
Miss Battie Shropshire came up from
Rome last week and went up to “Cloud-■
lands,” near Menlo for several weeks.
Miss Foy Murphey, of Trion, is visit
ing Mrs. Collier m Rome.
Misses Kate Brauner »nd Mary Hollis
spent Tuesday and Wednesday with Miss
Mary Penn near Trion.
Mr. W. T. Austin, of Rome, spent
Sunday in town.
Mrs. R. D. Jones spent several days of
last week on the mountain.
Col. J. W. Cain will go to the moun
tain Monday for a much needed rest.
Several visitors are attending the
Preachers’ Institute, which is being held 1 ’
here this week.
Miss Hattie Hix in visiting relatives in
town.
Some for ten, some for twenty and
some for thirty years have suffered
from piles and then have been quickly
and permanently cured by using De-
Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve, the great
remedy for piles and all forms of skin
diseases. Sold by Cnrry-ArriingtonCo.
New Subscribers.
165,5 c Youmone B. B. store.
84 Kay Bros.
175 Whitehead, E. M. store.
143 Rome Pharmacy, S. M. Lowry.
102 Miller G. H. & Son nurseries.
137 Wood Charles D. store.
173 Rome Buggy Co.
142 Cantrell J. R. & Co.
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25 cents,
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