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 Memphis Year Book Industrial League Edition 
 
 Facts -J2^ Memphis 
 
 By I. F. PETERS, Industrial Commissioner 
 
 Write him for any furtlier information desired 
 
 Clearing-House 
 Receipts 
 
 1!)01,$1.')4,4SL>,!)35.75 
 
 1902, 17!), 19! 1, 939. 22 
 
 1903, 214,009,558.12 
 
 1904, 260,664,326.04 
 
 1905, 273,422,557.40 
 
 1906, 247,535,055.00 
 
 1907, 248,878,040.43 
 
 Postoffice Receipts 
 
 1901, 
 1902, 
 1903, 
 1!)04, 
 1905, 
 li)06, 
 1!)()7, 
 
 $247,292.94 
 2!)4,052.57 
 342,120.71 
 393,617.24 
 437.384.50 
 482,677.18 
 539,252.53 
 
 Real Estate 
 Transfers 
 
 1!)02, $ 4,25!),2!)().00 
 
 1903, 6,174,040.00 
 
 1904, 7,125,650.00 
 
 1905, 10,908,790.00 
 
 1906, 11,261,360.00 
 
 1907, 9,129,510.00 
 
 Building 
 Improvements 
 
 (CITY AND SUBURBS) 
 
 1902, $2,253,000.00 
 3,265,235.00 
 4,594,157.69 
 r).057.604.30 
 0,520,149.00 
 7,432,071.00 
 
 1903, 
 1904, 
 1905. 
 190(i, 
 1907, 
 
 Population 
 
 1SSO, ;5;j,so2 
 
 Memphis has au up-to-date electric streetcar ser- 
 vice — over 100 miles. 
 
 Memphis has the fastest trotting track iu the world 
 
 The Memphis railroad bridge is the fourth largest 
 in the world ; bridge and approaches two miles. 
 
 Memphis is the largest hardwood j)roducnng lum- 
 ber nuirket in the world ; handles annually over 
 five hundred million feet. 
 
 Is the largest inland cotton market in the world ; 
 annual receipts about (me million bales. 
 
 Produces more cottonseed products than any city 
 in the world ; has ten mills, three refineries. 
 
 Ha.s the largest artesian water system in the 
 world. 
 
 Has one hundred anil forty chui-ches. 
 
 Hous«s built in Memphis and Suburbs Jan> lA ^^O 
 (St., 1900, to Jan. ist., 1907 i»*,«+«»V 
 
 Has a death rate of 9.26 per thousand white popu- 
 lation. Compare this with any other city of 
 same population. 
 
 Sixty-five schools, colleges and seminaries. iSix 
 Imsiness colleges, two medical colleges, nine 
 hospitals, three public libraries. 
 
 Five theaters and two jjark theaters. 
 
 Is the home port of eighty-four steamboats. 
 
 Has two hundred and fifty miles of turnpike. 
 
 One thousand acres iu public parks. 
 
 Two hundred and thirty-five miles of sewers. 
 
 Has twenty-seven banks and trust companies. 
 Ca])itii!, (Mght niillion dollars; deposits thirty 
 niilliiiii dollars, 
 
 Houses built in "emphl"* and Suburbs Jan. O Rnf) 
 Ist. , '907 to Jan. 1st., 1908 ^,»#UV/ 
 
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 MEMPHIS As A Manufacturing CENTER 
 
 By F. K. SPICER 
 
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 Centuries ago when Hernando DeSoto first saw the pali- 
 sades and heaving water of the mighty Mississippi from 
 tlie bluflfs on wliicli Memphis now stands, little did the 
 great Spanish adventurer and explorer think that in the 
 years to come a large city would rear itself upon the spot 
 where he then stood exulting in the glory of his magnifi- 
 cent discovery. 
 
 Later in the history of the great valley came three men 
 who did see the possibilities of Memphis, and these men's 
 names are dear to us because of the fact that they saw 
 through the future the boundless possibilities of this city. 
 These men were wise enough to plan for the future, and 
 their ideas have crystalized into the facts they saw in the 
 dim future: their dreams have been realized. 
 
 Since those days Memphis has grown. It is now a city 
 favored with natural resources and the even greater facili- 
 ties of man's shrewd inventions. Possibly there is not a 
 city in the United States so favored. 
 
 But what does the future promise for Memphis? Even 
 more than the pioneers could have ever dreamed. No doubt 
 it never entered their minds that Theodore Roosevelt would 
 call for "Uncle Samuel" and its people to dredge out a 
 fourteen-foot channel from the Oreat Lakes to the Gulf 
 and build the Panama canal, which great undertakings, 
 when completed, will give Memphis an outlet to the 
 world and advantages not possessed by many larger cities. 
 Memphis will then be a seaport town and an inland town. 
 Memphis is in the hardwood section of the United States, 
 and is the largest hardwood market in the world. The 
 forests still stand and the supply of timber is inexhaustible 
 Wherever the forests are cleared the land is fertile and 
 
 cotton is grown. , • • i' 
 
 Eastern capitalists and manufacturers are beginning to 
 see the signs of the time: they are realizins the possibili- 
 ties of Memphis as a manufacturing and distributing cen- 
 ter and thev are coining. The Industrial League receives 
 thousands of letters of inquiry every year from manufac- 
 turers in the East, and the result is there has been for the 
 past five years many factories established m Memphis. 
 
 Memphis is now destined to become a great center for 
 textile plants. The textile men have surveyed the HeW «"'} 
 have investigated, and the information has gone forth that 
 labor conditions here are no longer prohibitive; that with 
 this objection out of the way Memphis is now the logical 
 textile citv of the South. _ „ , ^ ^, 
 
 The chief advantage which Memphis affords to the manu- 
 facturer is its location. First of all, it is the logical dis- 
 tributing point for the great Southern, Southeastern and 
 Southwestern territory, and with rail and river shipping 
 facilities, railroad and river rates to points of shipment 
 and from points where the crude material is obtained that 
 are not prohibitive, there is no longer any reason why 
 Memphis should not get the factories from other cities far 
 removed from the center of distribution. 
 
 The completion of the Panama canal will no doubt tiir- 
 ther extend the trade territory, and if the dream of Calhoun 
 and Clay, "Fourteen Feet Through the Valley,' is realized, 
 our boats will find harbors in all great Eastern cities. In 
 other words, the revival of river traffic will mean more for 
 Memphis, Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans than any 
 other cities in the land. . . . „ j 
 
 Located in the center of the Mississippi valley and sur- 
 rounded by great forests of hardwood, and also surrounded 
 by two great deltas containing the richest farming lands m 
 the world, producing the greater part of the high-grade 
 lon<T-staple cotton raised in the United States, why should 
 not" Memphis hold out inducements to the manufacturers 
 of all kinds of wooden articles of commerce and all kinds 
 of cotton goods? And as Memphis is in direct touch with 
 some of the wealthiest coal fields and mining districts of 
 the country, being supplied with iron and steel from fehet- 
 field and Birmingham, and Pittsburg by water, why should 
 
 not this city become a great center for the manufacture 
 of all kinds of machinery and iron factory products? 
 
 Kentucky lies directly north of Memphis, and the greater 
 part of the coal furnished the South by this state moves 
 through Memphis. A large amount of coal is also supplied 
 the city from Alabama and Tennessee. 
 
 In addition to the Mississippi River and many lines ot 
 railroads running in every direction, Memphis has two belt 
 lines connecting ideal factory locations with the river and 
 all the railroads. These belt lines are thirty-five miles long, 
 and a factory located on either of them would insure quick 
 transportation to every shipping point in the world. 
 
 The only bridge south of Cairo on the Mississippi River 
 is located at Memphis. It connects Tennessee and Ar- 
 kansas, and is sixty feet above high water, thus enabling 
 steam boats to operate during all stages of the river. 
 
 At present the steamboats of Memphis ply the waters 
 to Cairo St Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati during the 
 hi<rh stage of the river, on the north, and during the en- 
 tire yea? to Greenville, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge, 
 New "Orleans and all way landings on the South. .At New 
 Orleans the boats have connections with steamship to all 
 parts of the world. In fact, Memphis is the head of all- 
 year river navigation on the Mississippi. 
 
 Labor conditions in Memphis should be another induce- 
 ment. The employers and employes know httle of strikes 
 here. There is plenty of negro labor at hand plenty of 
 white semi-skilkd labor and a large amount of skilled labor. 
 The workmen can obtain cheap cottages and the necessi- 
 ties of life in the factory district and the cost of hving 
 to them is no higher than in other cities. 
 
 The development ot the mineral resources of Tennessee, 
 Kentucky, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the great central West 
 will be "a surprise to the world, especially the st^te of 
 Arkansas, whose wealth in natural resources up to this 
 time has not been considered and is yet to be recognized 
 by the world. It is said of Arkansas that the state pro- 
 duces everything from meteors to diamonds and granite 
 to ijeiirls. ■ And" all this vast mineral territory is m easy 
 reach of Memphis. . 
 
 When tlie rich mineral fields of our sister states aie 
 dcveloiicd it will be realized that there must be some place 
 to nuu.ufacture and distribute, and that place will be Mem - 
 „hi^ The sen-regation of scrap iron at Memphis by the 
 railroads will assist greatly in the manufacture of com 
 
 "'buT the manufacturers want other things. They want to 
 live in a city that has other advantages, such as good 
 schools; they' want to live in a healthy city, they want^to 
 live in a beautiful city. Then let them come to Memphis 
 The citv is located on bluffs forty-five feet above high 
 water The climate is mild and agreeable and the death 
 rate, as shown by the board ot health, wil pi-ove to the 
 world that there is not a healthier city in the United 
 States than Memphis. The city is never affected by e-x- 
 trerae heat or extreme cold; in fact the climate is so mild 
 that the contractors build houses throughout the entire 
 
 ^^Memphis has a natural surface drainage and two hundred 
 and thirty-five miles ot automatic flush tank sewers. 
 
 The citv is equipped with one of the finest systems of 
 public schools in the South, together with business and 
 
 "Thf citfir-wells with depth of from 250 to 400 feet, 
 which furnish an unlimited supply of absolutely pure 
 artesian water. , j i „ 
 
 The citv is also well supplied with amusement and play 
 .rrounds, having 1,000 acres in public parks, with boulevards 
 connecting the'park system; five theaters and two summer 
 
 ^^Mr" Northern manufacturer, come South, see what we 
 have talk to our business men and see it all that is saw 
 and claimed for Memphis in this year book is not true. 
 "Welcome to our city." 
 
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^e Cotton Market 
 
 gy Jno. B. Turner 
 
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 Mempliis handles 900,000 to 1,000,000 bales of eotton an- 
 nually. From this amount every class of American grown 
 eotton, excei)ting sea-island, may be selected, wliile at the 
 same time the average grade of the cotton is higher than 
 that of an}' market in the South. The value of last year's 
 total receipts was $4(5,000,000. 
 
 Memphis sells cotton to the spinning mills of the Caro- 
 linas, when those mills want cotton of a liner, longer, and 
 silkier staple than grown on the hills of the Eastern states. 
 
 She .sells to the mills of New England, where the finest 
 fabrics of America are spun and woven; she sells to Liver- 
 pool, to ilancliester, to Havre, to Bremen, to Spain and 
 even to Russia and Japan. In no market of the world 
 where cotton goods are made is Jlemjihis unrepresented. 
 
 When Rameses ruled Egypt an older Memphis sat at 
 the apex of the Nile delta and was the conunercial metropo- 
 lis of the country. Her modern namesake sits at tlie head 
 of the Yazoo-Mississippi delta, larger in extent than that 
 of the Nile and capable of a more diversified i)roductivity. 
 Called a delta, this land is really an irregular and elon- 
 gated ellipse, bounded on the one side by the Mississippi 
 River and on the other by the Yazoo and its tributaries, 
 which wash the foothills of Mississi])pi. Within this area 
 terminating at Vicksburg, 350 miles to the southward, 
 celebrated staple cottons are grown which conuuand i)rices 
 often double those of the ordinary uplands and ranged this 
 seas(ni from 16 to 34 cents per potnid. The highly culti- 
 vated lands produce one bale to the acre. Outlying the 
 delta in the creek and smaller river bottoms and through 
 all of Eastern Arkansas is produced a cotton called ben- 
 ders, which has a staple and body not possessed by other 
 cotton. It commands a premium, and because this staple 
 is in so much of the cotton sent to Memphis, the Mem- 
 phis grade "'middling" outranks the similar grade of other 
 markets and is one Tuark higher in Liverjiool than Liver- 
 pool middling. A Memphis bill of lading on cotton is a 
 guarantee of qiuility, so much so that action had to be 
 taken by the Cotton Exchange to prevent shippers in re- 
 mote sections from securing bogus bills purporting to be 
 "Memphis" and infringing upon this marKefs well-earned 
 reputation abroad. The abundant moisture, long growing 
 season and extreme fertility of soil combine to make these 
 lowland cottons the pride of the South. 
 
 But the city does not depend alone upon this cotton, 
 although justly celebrated because of it. From Tennessee, 
 Alabama, and the higher lands of Mississippi and Arkansas 
 cotton comes which meets the needs of another class of 
 consumers. The assortment is luiequaled and facilities 
 for handling unsurpassed. Within the past two years the 
 system of warehousing cotton has been revohitionized. 
 Now no city in the world has a better system than Mem- 
 l)his. Her storage capacity, when j)rojected improvements 
 are completed will be 250,000 bales. At present the Mem- 
 phis warehouse com))an.y has eighty connected warehouses 
 which store 100.000 bales. They will double this, the bonds 
 for the extensions having already been placed. This is the 
 most complete plant of its kind in America, the cotton 
 being unloaded from the trains, into the warehouse, sam- 
 pled, graded, sold, and sent to the compress without being 
 exposed to the weather and altogether, so far as the labor 
 of handling goes, by nnichinery. Gravity and overhead 
 trolley systems displace the negro, the nuile and the dray 
 so long a picturesque feature of Southern cotton towns. 
 The trains bearing the cotton in or out are moved into the 
 eotton yard and up to the doors of the warehouses. Re- 
 cent visitors to the city have remarked upon the absence 
 of long lines of cotton in the streets, the drays blocking 
 
 crossings and warehousemen and cotton classers in their 
 long duck coats. This is the reason of it: Modern meth- 
 ods have displaced the pieturesipie and the antiquated. 
 The saving in protection to cotton is thousands of dollars 
 annually. 
 
 In addition to this large system the Merchants' Cotton 
 Press & Storage Co. has completed a warehouse and com- 
 press with a cajiacity of 35,000 bales in the southern part 
 of the city and near the river, where cotton may be un- 
 loaded from both river and rail and stored under proper 
 conditions. This means the abandonuu-nt of uptown ware- 
 houses with their long, ludiniken Ijrii-k «alls and glaring 
 ixisters. Eventually these structures will be replaced with 
 modern oH'ice and liusiness buildings. 
 
 Storage facilities and increased banking capital are lend- 
 ing to increase receipts here and cotton withheld from 
 market by the F'armers' Union and other gro«:ers is shipped 
 to Memphis, stored and finally sold hy her factors directly 
 to consumers in any country where' the particular class 
 of cotton is wanted. Because of the facilities thus afforded 
 the matter of marketing the cotton crop is not compressed 
 within a few months, giving the city an appearance of 
 great activity for one part of the year, while another part 
 was lifeless. English and continental buyers now remain 
 on the market practically the whole year, leaving only 
 during midsununer for a trip to their native countries. The 
 old truism that a cotton town was a six-months' town is 
 no hniger tenable in Memphis. 
 
 Developments of the past realized in the present, assure 
 the future. A market which, like Kipling's ship, has 
 found herself, will not be slow in making the most of 
 means at hand. Already the Cotton Exchange, compose<l 
 of leo of the most progressive members of the eotton 
 trade, has appointed a committee which is considering the 
 fornudation of rules for f. o. b. business. This means 
 that buyers here will daily make bids to the smaller towns 
 of the country under the rules of the exchange for cotton 
 to arrive at Memphis perhaps days later. The owner of 
 cotton at any shipping point may then sell his cotton or 
 offer it in Memphis any day at the ruling market values 
 of that day. 
 
 The extension of the levee system is opening for culti- 
 vation vast areas of highly productive land not alone on 
 the Mississippi River, but on its tributaries in Arkansas 
 and elsew-here. The St. Francis River to the west inun- 
 dates thousands of acres, which will be exceptionally fine 
 cotton producing territory when drained. In Mississippi 
 local drainage districts are being organized and local taxes 
 collected for drainage projects which will clear and free of 
 surplus water whole counties which heretofore have been 
 cultivated in patches only. This cotton, remember, will 
 be of high class and staple. In the hills there has been a 
 turn to fruit and truck growing and diversified farming, 
 which has advanced the productivity of the land, and 
 des]iite the fact that millions of dollars are received annu- 
 ally by growers from this source the production of cotton 
 is showing a progressive increase. It seems not unrea- 
 sonable that the eotton receipts of Memphis under a s,ystem 
 of high cultivation and with the extension of the arable 
 area will reacli in the not distant future 1,500,000 to 
 li.Ooo.ooo bales, and may at any time go in excess of 
 1,000,000 bales. 
 
 The proximiity, abundance, and variety of raw material 
 has already attracted a large bag manufacturing company, 
 while makers of other classes of eotton goods are investi- 
 gating conditions. May not the greater Memphis of the 
 future be famous for her eotton maiuifactures, as well as 
 her cotton supplies ? 
 
Madison Avenue 
 
The 
 
 Hardwood Lumber Market 
 
 'By J. W. McClure, Secretary, Lumberman's Club 
 
 The history of the lumber business of Memphis covers 
 a period of less than half a century. Before that time the 
 primeval forests surrounding the site of our present city 
 had scarcdy been touched,. and no mind had conceived the 
 thought of the vast storehouse of treasure which nature 
 had provided. Timber was so plentiful, and there was so 
 little realization of its true value that it was often con- 
 sidered a cumbrance to the ground, and great quanities 
 were destroyed in opening up farms and plantations. In 
 1860 a small saw-mill was built on the site of the present 
 lumber district on Wolf River. The growth of the in- 
 dustry, slow at first, increased with the years, until Mem- 
 phis has reached the foremost position in the world of 
 the hardwood lumber industry, now standing far in the 
 lead as a producing and distributing market. 
 
 So much lias been said and written in regard to the 
 greatness of Memphis as a lumber market that further 
 remarks on the subject may seem superfluous, but it may 
 be of interest to many to know that there are now twenty- 
 six sawmills in active operation in Memphis, most of which 
 are large modern plants; thirty-one wholesale concentrat- 
 ing and distributing yards; thirty-one Memphis firms who 
 operate mills in the country surrounding Memphis; nine 
 Memphis firms who do a wholesale hardwood lumber busi- 
 ness, but do not operate mills or yards, and twenty-one 
 branch ofl'ices of Northern and Eastern firms. In addition 
 there are five veneer plants and five cooperage mills operat- 
 ing in this city. The list is a long one and contains the 
 names of many firms who are known wherever American 
 hardwoods are used throughout the world. To operate 
 this enormous business requires a capital approximating 
 $12,000,000, and an idea of the volume of lumber manufac- 
 tured and handled by these firms may be had from the 
 following statistics compiled by the Lumbermen's Club of 
 Memphis for the year 1906: 
 
 Feet. 
 Amount of lumber manufactured in Memphis. . 103,463,000 
 Amount of lumber manufactured by Memphis 
 
 firms outside of Memphis 229,397,000 
 
 Amount of lumber varded in Memphis, manu- 
 factured outside of Memphis 80,270,000 
 
 Amount of lumber handled direct from mills 
 and yards outside of Jlemphis by Memphis 
 firms, not manufactured by them 135,646,000 
 
 Total handled by Memphis firms 548,776,000 
 
 Amount of lumber exported by Memphis firms 30,462,000 
 
 Amount of logs received by cars at Men) phis, 
 
 manufactured into lumber 78,933,000 
 
 Amount of logs received by river at Memphis, 
 
 manufactured into lumber 33,257,000 
 
 Amount of logs and bolts received by car and 
 river at Memphis, manufactured into cooper- 
 age stock • 20,200,000 
 
 Amount of logs received by car and river, manu- 
 factiued into vehicle stock, turned work and 
 pump rods 12,600,000 
 
 Amount of lumber consumed by retail yards 
 
 in Memphis 100,000,000 
 
 Amount of lumber consumed by factory trade 
 
 in Memphis 60,624,000 
 
 The figures for 1907 have not been compiled at this 
 writing, but are expected to show a substantial increase 
 over 1906 in spite of the disastrous financial conditions 
 which prevailed during the latter part of this year. In 
 this connection it might be well to point to the conservat- 
 ism of Memphis huiibermen, as shown in the fact, that 
 not a single Memphis firm failed as a result of the re- 
 cent panic. 
 
 Memphis is excellently situated as an exporting market, 
 having favorable freight rates to the seaboard, and num- 
 bers among her lumbermen some of the largest exporters 
 of hardwoods in this country. Onlj' within the last ten 
 years has Memphis grown into prominence as an exporting 
 center, but during that time the enterprising exporters of 
 this city have firmly established their brands in all the 
 markets of Europe. 
 
 It has been only within the last five or six years that 
 Memphis has grown to any proportions as a consuming mar- 
 ket for hardwood lumber, but the advantages of Memphis 
 as a location for woodworking plants are so patent that 
 the eyes of numbers of Northern and Eastern manufac- 
 turers are turning this way and new names are rapidly 
 being added to the list of consumers in this city, until the 
 growth has reached a marvelous impetus. Economic influ- 
 ences are at work that will cause Memphis in the next few 
 years to become as great a consuming market as it is at 
 present a producing market. With unsurpassed shipping 
 facilities both bv rail and water, and with the advantage 
 of being located' at about the center of the hardwood pro- 
 duction of the United States, situated on the borders of the 
 vast forests of the Mississippi and Arkansas delta coun- 
 tries, and holding the first position in the world as a 
 producing market of hardwood lumber, Memphis offers 
 attractions for the consumer which are unequaled by any 
 other city in the country. 
 
 Among the consumers operating in Memphis are now 
 numbered two car works, five box factories, sixteen planing 
 mills, three flooring plants, two cofl'in factories, two car- 
 riage factories, two wagon works, three agricultural imple- 
 ment factories, two screen door works, two handle fac- 
 tories, four dimension stock mills, two furniture factories, 
 also plants manufacturing matches, pumps, sash, doors and 
 blinds, staves, spokes, skewers, poles and shafts, trunks, 
 refrigerators, interior finish and other mill work. 
 
 The growth of Memphis as a lumber market is reflected 
 in the growth of the Lumbermen's Club, which was organ- 
 ' ized in 1898 as a social club with a small membership, and 
 which has grown to a membership of 132, having become 
 one of the strongest commercial organizations in the city, 
 and tlie largest local lumber organization in the world. 
 
 A good portion of the accessible hardwood timber in 
 the Memphis territory is already in the hands of large 
 operators, but the railroads are continually opening up 
 new territory to the lumberman, and there are yet vast 
 areas which have not been made accessible. The position 
 of Memphis in the lumber industry is therefore assured 
 for many years to come, especially as the educational 
 campaign initiated by the Forestry Department of the 
 national government will have an increasing effect in 
 carefully conserving and economically using the forests 
 which are remaining throughout the country. 
 
Colton Exchange 
 
 CossJtt Library 
 
The Cotton Seed frolturts Utarto 
 
 IF. P. BATTLE 
 
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 Jlemphis is the greatest cotton seed product market in 
 the world. There are nine oil mills here, crushing annu- 
 ally one hundred thousand tons of cotton seed and turning 
 out manufactured product to the value of over two and a 
 quarter million dollars — this in itself giving Memphis the 
 prestige of being the largest producing point in the world. 
 However, there are other reasons why it should be con- 
 sidered as the foremost market in the cotton product world, 
 for by reason of its geographical position, situated as it 
 is, midway between the buyers and sellers, it offers facili- 
 ties unequaled by any other city. The Memphis brokers 
 and dealers handle, aside from the products of the Mem- 
 phis mills, the greater part of the products manufactured 
 by mills in Mississippi and Arkansas and a large part of 
 the Oklahoma, Louisiana and Alabama production, thus 
 clearly establishing the reputation for Memphis of being 
 the foremost cotton seed product market of the world. 
 
 The majority of people do not appreciate the important 
 part that the cotton seed takes in the commerce and trade 
 of the country. 
 
 From the time it starts on its journey from the farm its 
 course is interesting. The oil mill takes it, and after it 
 goes through the process of separation, there its several 
 parts go their several Avays. The lint, which is the shont 
 fiber left on the seed by the gin, finds its way into mat- 
 tresses, mops, gun-cotton, horse collars and other uses. 
 The hulls are fed to cattle, as the feed value of hulls are 
 equal to the best grade of hay. The meats are cooked and 
 pressed and after the oil is extracted, this cake is either 
 ground into cotton seed meal or shipped in slabs. It is the 
 highest grade feed known and is sold in enormous quan- 
 tities to all the markets of the world. The foreigner appre- 
 ciates it most highly and a very large per cent is exported 
 to the markets of Europe. The crude oil is refined and 
 finds its way into many channels of trade. It is largely 
 used in the making of compound lard, butterine and soap. 
 It is used largely as a salad oil for table use, taking the 
 place of olive oil, it being more palatable than the average 
 olive oil sold in this country. It is used in large quantities 
 in the French markets, where it is mixed with olive oil and 
 then shipped back to American markets and sold at an 
 advanced price as olive oil. 
 
 Cotton seed oil, as it comes from the seed, is known as 
 crude oil; before it is used for edible purposes, such as 
 cooking oil, salad oils and compound lard, it is put through 
 a refining process. At the present time there are two refin- 
 
 eries in Memphis, these being in connection with two of 
 the crude mills, but they refine only a small percentage of 
 the oil made in Memphis territory. 
 
 Considering the ideal location of Memphis, with its many 
 railroads, the Mississippi River, two belt lines, its close 
 proximity to the raw material, its favorable freight rates 
 to all consuming points, it is a wonder that we have no 
 big cotton oil refineries here, refineries big enoiigh to 
 handle the oil produced here and at mills in contiguous 
 territory. The same applies to lard, compound plants and 
 soap factories. At present there is one compound plant 
 and one soap factory located in Memphis. 
 
 To give some idea of the important part that cotton oil 
 takes in the world's commerce, the record of the United 
 States government is given below, showing the exports of 
 cotton seed oil in January, 1908: 
 
 Gals. 
 
 United Kingdom 639,443 $ 253,375 
 
 Austria Hungary 104,400 42,107 
 
 Belgium 63,520 26,740 
 
 France 2,384,965 983,900 
 
 Germany 517,734 210,004 
 
 Italy 325,610 139,260 
 
 Netherlands 1,163,244 450,466 
 
 Other Europe 409,250 172,540 
 
 British North America 143,012 41,650 
 
 Central American States and British 
 
 Honduras 13,661 6,139 
 
 Mexico 443,220 157,381 
 
 Cuba 33,186 14,647 
 
 Other West Indies and Bermuda 106,268 47,214 
 
 Argentina 40,755 17,830 
 
 Brazil 65,317 27,937 
 
 Chile 3,504 1,838 
 
 Other South America 26,053 12,256 
 
 British Australasia 14,928 7,431 
 
 Other Asia and Oceania 2,195 994 
 
 British Africa 2,938 1,364 
 
 All other Africa 310,798 137,036 
 
 Total 6,803,001 $2,752,089 
 
 This oil is used in many ways in the above-named foreign 
 countries, where its merits are known and appreciated even 
 more than it is here in the South, the home of the cotton 
 seed, thus emphasizing the truth of "a prophet is not 
 without honor save in his own country." 
 
First Baptist Church 
 
 Second Street 
 
The Gram Market 
 
 By L. J. Donelson 
 
 In the past ten or fifteen years, Memphis as a grain 
 market has made strides that will compare favorably, if not 
 surpass, any other branch of business. We need to go 
 liack only a few years to find a few struggling grain deal- 
 ers at Memphis, doing mostly a retail business. This was 
 before the Illinois Central, Frisco, Rock Island, Iron Moun- 
 tain and Cotton Belt railroads built their lines into 
 Memphis. 
 
 The gi'ain received at that time came by boat and 
 a large part of the business was consignments shipped to 
 this market to be sold for the account of the shipper. These 
 consignments were mostly shipped by boat, and the grain 
 was necessarily shipped in sacks, for it could not be handled 
 by boat in bulk as it is being handled in car lots today. 
 
 THe Illinois Central Railroad penetrating the great grain 
 state of Illinois, reaching out into Iowa and Nebraska, 
 together with the Frisco, Rock Island, Iron Mountain and 
 Cotton Belt railroads, make Memphis, as a grain market, 
 a formidable competitor of cities of a much larger popu- 
 lation than 300,000, and she is destined with fair and equal 
 freight rates to outstrip them all. This is a broad state- 
 ment and it may be asked why such a claim is made. (We 
 answer bj' pointing you to the records shown further along 
 in this article.) Those interested in the grain trade know 
 the danger.? and trouble thereof. They know that grain, 
 especially corn, is a perishable article, particularly during 
 the germinating season, and it is at that time (during 
 the germinating season), which lasts from March 1st to 
 June 1st, that grain is in greatest demand and it will often 
 get out of condition and not infrequently it Ijecomes hot 
 and sour and must be handled quickly. 
 
 Buyers to the south of us and east of us and southwest 
 of us are aware of this and naturally look for a market 
 close at hand, where they can buy a car of grain and get 
 it quickly. Memphis as a grain market fills the bill. 
 
 A look at the map shows this to be true. Memphis has 
 the location, and every year her grain men realize more 
 fully their splendid opportunity to make Memphis next to 
 none as a gi-ain market. Today we have in Memphis 
 twenty-six grain dealers, who enjoy the confidence of ship- 
 pers, as well as the buyers; a confidence gained by correct 
 business methods and fair treatment to all. 
 
 Unless the interest of the shipper is carefully guarded, 
 as well as the interest of the buyer, a market will soon 
 earn a bad reputation. The interest of shipper and buyer 
 
 are looked after by the Memphis Weighing and Inspection 
 Department, under the auspices of the Memphis Merchants' 
 Exchange, and any attempt at imposition would soon be 
 discovered and the impostor promptly dealt with as his 
 misdeed deserved. 
 
 To meet such an emergency and to regulate trade abuses 
 generally, Memphis has as an adjunct to the Memphis 
 Merchants' Exchange, the Memphis Hay and Grain Associ- 
 ation, whose business it is to investigate irregularities of 
 all kinds and regulate them. This association is an impor- 
 tant factor in building up Memphis as a grain market, and 
 the larger the trade grows, the better it serves to fulfill its 
 mission. 
 
 Just a few years ago, the grain inspector experienced 
 considerable trouble in locating ears of gi-ain received on 
 the different railroads. It was not an unusual occurrence 
 for several days' time to be consumed in locating a car 
 after its arrival. Today it is quite different; each and 
 every railroad has a separate inspection track and the 
 inspector now has no difficulty in locating and inspecting 
 a car the day it arrives; in fact, nearly every ear is in- 
 spected by 11 a.m. of the day it is received at Memphis. 
 
 The records show that in the year 1895 there were re- 
 ceived at Memphis, nine hundred and two thousand, nine 
 hundred and seventy-four (902,974) bushels of corn; one 
 million, nine hundred and fifty thousand, five hundred and 
 forty (1,950.540) bushels of oats, and six hundred and 
 eleven thousand, five hundred and sixty-four (611,564) bales 
 of hay, and for the 3'ear 1907 there were received five mil- 
 lion and twenty-eight thousand (5,028,000) bushels of corn; 
 nine million, seven hundred and forty-one thousand, eight 
 hundred (9,741,800) bushels of oats and one million, one 
 hundred and twenty thousand, three hundred and fifty 
 (1,120,350) bales of hay. This record shows the rapid 
 growth of Memphis as a grain market, keeping pace with 
 the wonderful inci'ease in population of the city of Memphis. 
 
 The elevator capacity, warehouse and storage room and 
 all other equipments for the handling of this largely 
 increased business for the present is ample; but should 
 trade conditions develop heavier receipts it may be neces- 
 sary in the near future to have more elevator capacity. 
 The grain men, as a rule, are on the alert, quick to see 
 the needs required to do a profitable business, and as 
 competition is keen and profits small, nothing is left 
 undone by the dealers here to make Memphis as a grain 
 market, just a shade better than any other markp*-. 
 
Idlewild Presbylerian 
 
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MEMPHIS 
 
 As a POINT of CONCENTRA- 
 TION and DISTRIBUTION 
 
 By ] . S. DAVANT, Commissioner, Memphis Freight Bureau 
 
 For very many years Memphis has been recognized as 
 the largest concentration point for cotton, and one of the 
 largest grocery markets in the country, which is accounted 
 for, in the fact, that Memphis is in the center of a ter- 
 ritory which produces more cotton, manufactures less, and 
 buys more of every other commodity, in proportion, than 
 any country in the world. 
 
 But other considerations go to make Memphis a most 
 favorable point of concentration and distribution, which of 
 course consists in the facilities for bringing commodities 
 to Memphis; for handling them at, and getting them out 
 of Memphis. 
 
 In all these respects Memphis is most fortunate. In 
 the first place, the rates to Memphis are favorable, because 
 of the infiuence of river and rail competition by which it 
 is possible to deliver at the lowest cost articles grown 
 and manufactured in other parts of the country. 
 
 Then the facilities for handling these commodities at 
 Memphis are favorable; having been greatly improved dur- 
 ing the past few years. Formerly, all of the cotton and 
 most of the merchandise handled were subject to two 
 drayage charges, and the warehouse facilities were inade- 
 quate to care for the cotton sent here for storage, which 
 resulted in the blocking of our streets with cotton; but 
 these conditions no longer exist. 
 
 At an outlay of about one and a half million dollars 
 such additions have been made by the Merchants' Cotton 
 Press & Storage Company, and the Memphis Warehouse 
 Company for the storage of cotton, as that there is no 
 more cotton stacked in streets and on open lots, but the 
 Memphis dealers are, for the first time in the history of 
 the city, prepared to store under cover all cotton consigned 
 to them. 
 
 As have improved the conditions for handling cotton, so 
 also have improved those for handling other commodities. 
 Merchandise of all kinds is now handled in warehouses 
 located on railroad tracks, eliminating the cost of dray- 
 age, and as delivering lines absorb in their rates the cost 
 for switching on all competitive traffic (which constitutes 
 about nine-tenths of the business), it is handled at the 
 mininnun cost. 
 
 Operating, therefore, under favorable conditions for get- 
 ting the commodities to Memphis, and having facilities for 
 economic handling at Memphis, the next consideration is 
 of the facilities for getting them to the consumers. 
 
 The conditions for handling cotton, cotton seed products, 
 lumber and grain are particularly favorable. Under exist- 
 ing arrangements for concentrating and reconsigning, cot- 
 ton may be brought from almost the entire Memphis ter- 
 ritory, stored, sold and reshipped to final destination at 
 the rates in effect at the points of origin; so that with 
 these privileges, and the low rates on cotton which comes 
 to Memphis by river and wagons, etc., to domestic and 
 foreign points of manufacture, Memphis is most favorably 
 located for the distribution of this commodity to all parts 
 of the world, and the time is not remote when cotton will 
 be stored at this point throughout the years for distribu- 
 tion to spinners, just as they need it, of this and other 
 countries. 
 
 These storage facilities above referred to, where the cost 
 of insurance and storage may be reduced to the minimum, 
 make this system of distribution not only economical, but 
 attractive and desirable. 
 
 Cotton seed products are distributed hence to consumers, 
 domestic and foreign, at favorable rates, made under the 
 influence of river and rail competition. This is demon- 
 
 strated in the fact that more cotton seed is crushed at 
 Memphis than at any other point. 
 
 Because of the contiguity of Memphis to the hardwood 
 forest, and the favorable conditions which have existed for 
 handling, this has been a most advantageous point for the 
 concentration and distribution of hardwood lumber. From 
 small beginnings, the business has grown, within very few 
 years, to ver.y large proportions, and with equitable rates, 
 it should, and doubtless will, continue to grow. Already 
 Memphis is said to be the largest hardwood lumber market 
 in the world, which comes from the recognition of the 
 advantages of this as the best point of distribution to all 
 parts of the world. 
 
 With the present rates, reconsigning and milling-in- 
 transit privileges, the conditions for distributing grain and 
 grain products could scarcely be improved upon, and with 
 the storage facilities amplified, Memphis should rank among 
 the largest points of distribution of these commodities. 
 
 Memphis is likewise the best possible point of distribu- 
 tion for all other commodities. The rates are lower and 
 the time of delivery shorter, than from any of the larger 
 primary markets of the north, St. Louis, Louisville, Cin- 
 cinnati, Chicago, etc., to all points in Arkansas, Texas, 
 Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and a 
 large part of South Carolina and Oklahoma, which gives 
 her manufacturers and jobbers all possible opportunity for 
 the sale of their wares. 
 
 This advantage of situation, and other conditions are 
 recognized and demonstrated in the location here of dis- 
 tributing depots by the largest manufacturers of iron and 
 steel articles, agricultural implements, packing house prod- 
 ucts, vehicles, etc., and by the recent establishment of 
 factories for the manufacture of commodities of all sorts. 
 
 The controlling elements making up this system of con- 
 centration and distribution consists of the following facili- 
 ties for transportation: The tlu'ee Belt Lines — Union Rail- 
 way, operated by the Missouri Pacific System; Louisville 
 & Nashville railroad belt; Illinois Central railroad belt. 
 
 These, with the terminal tracks of other railroads, con- 
 nect practically all railroads with tlie industries, located on 
 tracks, at a maximum cost of switching of ,$2 per ear, on 
 local shipments. (Switching on through shipments being 
 absorbed by carriers, as above indicated.) 
 
 The Mississippi River and tributaries, with frequent sail- 
 ings and low rates to much of the Memphis territory, bring 
 the consumers on these rivers in close toiich with the Mem- 
 phis manufactm-er and jobber, and make the mines and 
 factories of the North accessible to Memphis at the lowest 
 cost for transportation. 
 
 In the development of plans by the government for the 
 improvement of these waterways, inestimable benefits are 
 promised for Memphis. The congress now in session, in 
 response to the demand which has gone up from all parts 
 of the nation, will doubtless appoint a commission, whose 
 duty it will be to put in motion the machinery that will 
 eventuate in the creation of an inland sea on which may 
 safely ply the ocean craft, and on which Memphis at her 
 own docks may load her cargoes of cotton, lumber, grain 
 and the products of her mills for all parts of the world. 
 
 But we are not to wait for the fulfillment of these bright 
 promises for the means of transportation for Memphis is 
 rich in facilities by rail, as will be seen by statement of 
 territory reached by the 40,000 miles of rails of her own 
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 The Southern Railway system, traverse the states of 
 Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Flor- 
 ida, North and South Carolina. Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, 
 with 7,500 miles. 
 
 The Louisville & Nashville and Nash\ ille, Chattanooga 
 & St. Louis Railway system cover the sfates of Illinois, 
 Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, .Vorth Carolina, 
 Georgia, Florida, Alagama, Mississippi and Louisiana, with 
 from 5,000 to 6,000 miles. 
 
 The Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail- 
 road system extends through the states of Tennessee, Ken- 
 tucky, Indiana, Iowa, Jlinnesota, Wisconsin, Mississippi, 
 Alabama and Louisiana, with 6,000 miles. 
 
 The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and Frisco system 
 extends throiigh the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Ten- 
 nessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, 
 Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colo- 
 rado and New Mexico. 
 
 Missouri Pacific and Cotton Belt, Arkansas, Louisiana, 
 Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, Colo- 
 rado, Utah and New Mexico, in all about 20,000 miles. 
 
 Of course, thi- paper would be incomplete without the 
 statement that Memphis is and has been for the past thir- 
 teen years, eq.iii ped with a freight bureau, whose duty it 
 is to look after and endeavoring in every way to protect 
 the interest of the rer;^i\ers and shippers of freight in all 
 matters pertaining to transportation. 
 
 AS A JOBBING POINT 
 
 In order that the reader may form a proper estimate of 
 the magnitude of Memphis as a jobbing center, we present 
 a list of the number of jobbers and manufacturers in the 
 diflerent lines of trade: 
 
 JOBBERS. 
 
 24 Grocers. 
 
 9 Provisions and meats. 
 
 12 Produce and fruits. 
 
 26 Grain. 
 
 2 Seed. 
 
 8 Dry goods and notions. 
 
 2 Millinery. 
 
 2 Clothing. 
 
 3 Hats and caps. 
 
 2 Boots and shoes. 
 
 5 Hardware. 
 
 Sporting goods. 
 Iron and mill supplies. 
 Agricul'ral implements. 
 Plumbers' supplies. 
 Electric supplies. 
 Paints and oils. 
 Lubricating and illu- 
 minating oils. 
 Glass. 
 
 Queensware. 
 Mantels and grates. 
 
 6 Drugs. 
 
 6 Saddlery, harness, etc. 
 
 5 Wagons. 
 
 3 Paper. 
 
 1 Rubber goods. 
 
 4 Wall paper. 
 
 5 Office supplies. 
 
 3 Furniture and carpets. 
 
 6 Cigars and tobacco. 
 5 Music houses. 
 
 10 Beer depots. 
 
 20 Coal. 
 
 2 Brewers. 
 
 5 Lime and cement. 
 
 2 Bar supplies. 
 
 3 Barber supplies. 
 
 2 Photo supplies. 
 
 3 Dental supplies. 
 
 1 Druggist supplies. 
 
 1 Butchers' supplies. 
 
 MANUFACTLTRES. 
 
 3 Agricul'ral implements. 
 
 1 Artificial limbs. 
 
 2 Art glass. 
 
 15 Builders' supplies. 
 
 5 Box and crate. 
 
 1 Bridge structural steel. 
 
 1 Buttons (pearl). 
 
 3 Boats and launches. 
 
 1 Bale ties. 
 
 4 Brooms and mops. 
 
 2 Bags (cotton and bur- 
 
 laps). 
 
 1 Bleachery (cotton gds.). 
 
 2 Boilers. 
 
 2 Brass foundries. 
 
 3 Brick and tile. 
 
 1 Brick machinery. 
 
 3 Bank and bar fixtures. 
 
 2 Breweries. 
 
 2 Coffin and caskets. 
 
 2 Cars (box and flat). 
 
 9 Cooperage. 
 
 2 Cotton gin machinery. 
 1 Columns. 
 
 1 Celluloid novelties. 
 
 3 Chemists (Mfg.). 
 
 9 Cotton seed oil mill. 
 
 12 Bottlers of soft drinks. 
 
 3 Cotton seed oil refiners. 
 
 4 Candy. 
 
 1 Cotton choppers. 
 
 1 Distillery. 
 
 1 Frogs and switches. 
 
 1 Fireworks. 
 
 1 Fertilizer. 
 
 7 Foundries. 
 
 4 Furniture. 
 
 1 Golf sticks. 
 
 2 Grocers' sundries. 
 2 Hardwood flooring. 
 
 3 
 
 Handles. 
 
 4 
 
 Roofing. 
 
 1 
 
 Horse collar and pads. 
 
 3 
 2 
 
 Refineries (molasses). 
 Sash and door. 
 
 6 
 
 Harness. 
 
 
 Stove and ranges. 
 
 
 
 Ice. 
 
 
 Shuttle blocks. 
 
 4 
 
 Ice cream. 
 
 
 Shirts. 
 
 3 
 
 Jewelery. 
 
 
 Skirts. 
 
 (2 
 
 Lumber. 
 
 
 Scale. 
 
 7 
 
 Machinery. 
 
 
 Saw mill machinery. 
 
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 Mattresses. 
 
 
 Spring beds. 
 
 2 
 
 ilaearoni and spaghetti. 
 
 
 Sad irons. 
 
 1 
 
 Matches. 
 
 
 Soap. 
 
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 Overalls. 
 
 
 Suspenders. 
 
 2 
 
 Optical goods. 
 
 3 
 
 Tents and awnings. 
 
 2 
 
 Pails and buckets. 
 
 2 
 
 Trunks and valises. 
 
 1 
 
 Pumps. 
 
 3 
 
 Veneer mills. 
 
 3 
 
 Paint and varnish. 
 
 4 
 
 Vinegar, etc. 
 
 2 
 
 Paper pulp. 
 
 5 
 
 Vehicle material and 
 
 2 
 
 Pants "Jeans." 
 
 
 dimension stock. 
 
 5 
 
 Patent medicine. 
 
 4 
 
 Wagons. 
 
 1 
 
 Refrigerator. 
 
 1 
 
 Wheelbarrow. 
 
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 By Do C. McMCIILIL 
 
 Memphis has a modern system of iniblie schools, com- 
 fortably housed in well-constructed, sanitary buildings of 
 recent design, heated and ventilated by approved end effi- 
 cient devices. There are nineteen large schools for white 
 children and nine for colored pupils, in which are enrolled 
 nearly fourteen thousand pupils and students. 
 
 The public school system of Memphis is under the direct 
 control of a board of education, composed of five honored 
 citizens, who are elected by all the people of the city at 
 a general election. The civic pride of the community is 
 such that men of the highest standing are selected, not 
 because of party affiliation but because of fitness for such 
 an important trust. Hon. C. C. Ogilvie is president; Dr. 
 G. B. Malone, vice-president; Dr. E. A. Neely, chairman 
 of teachers' and text books committee: Judge .T. M. Steen, 
 chairman of buildings and grounds committee, and Hon. C. 
 J. O'Neil, chairman of finance committee. 
 
 The work of administration is carried on I y a secretary, 
 a superintendent of instruction, an assistant superintend- 
 ent, and a supervisor of repairs. These executive officers, 
 under the general direction of the Board of Education, are 
 in charge of the routine work of the schools and are se- 
 lected because of their known fitness to discharge the duties 
 they are appointed to perform. The secretary is Hon. A. 
 B. Hill, who has continuously filled the position for twenty- 
 six years. The superintendent is I. C. McNeill, succeeding 
 Cen. George W. Gordon, who retired from the superintend- 
 ency a little more than a year ago, to accept a seat in con- 
 grss to which he had been elected. The assistant super- 
 intendent, Wharton S. .Jones, is a well-known educator of 
 :Memphis, a member of the State Board of Education, who 
 has held his present position for five years. The super- 
 visor of repairs is Mr. T. L. Epperson, a practical, efficient 
 and exemplary man who gives all his time to the improve- 
 ment and protection of the property of the school district. 
 
 The elementary schools are under the direct supervision 
 of principals, who with carefully selected teachers, carrv 
 on the work of instruction as indicated by a standard 
 course of study. This course of study covers a period of 
 eight years and prepares all who complete it to begin the 
 work of any flrst-claas high school. In the selection of 
 new teachers for the schools, preference is given to gradu- 
 ates of normal schools or universities, who have had 
 advanced training in the subjects to be taught, as well as 
 in the theory and art of teaching. Because of the care 
 taken in the selection of teachers and the efforts all make 
 to keep in touch with modern school requirements, the 
 teachers of Memphis take high rank among the educators 
 of the country and enjoy to a marked degree the confi- 
 dence and respect of the patrons of the schools. 
 
 The Memphis High School for white children only is an 
 institution with the American standard high school courses, 
 covering four yearg' time. It is open to graduates from the 
 
 Memphis grammar schools, to graduates from other good 
 elementary schools with a course of study equivalent to 
 that administered locally, to students from other high 
 schools, and to pupils from other sections who are able to 
 pass the entrance requirements in the fundamental branches 
 usually taught in good elementary schools. There is a 
 college preparatory course, designed to prepare students to 
 enter American colleges and universities everywhere with- 
 out further training and upon credentials which are ac- 
 cepted by institutions of rank that receive graduates from 
 accredited high schools. The general course, with consid- 
 erable required work in manual arts or domestic science, 
 meets the conditions of preparation for many of life's 
 duties. It is designed for students who are unable to take 
 advantage of advanced training in colleges and universities. 
 One-fourth of the required work in the general course is 
 elective, thus providing liberally for training in the special 
 lines of interest in the student's after life. The commercial 
 course is designed to prepare pupils to hold positions in the 
 business world. In addition to safe requirements in Eng- 
 lish, mathematics, science, manual arts or domestic science, 
 history, and civics, training under expert guidance in 
 stenography, typewriting, and bookkeeping forms an in- 
 tegral part of the work. 
 
 In the work of the public schools, the services of a super- 
 visor of drawing and mechanical arts, of a supervisor of 
 physical training, of a supervisor of music, and of a super- 
 visor of writing are required. These officers spend their 
 time in the schools to advance the studies that naturally 
 fall under their supervision as directed by the Board of 
 Education and superintendent. 
 
 There is under the management of the public school 
 authorities a normal training school with a pedagogical 
 course of study. Its purpose is to instruct untrained, aid 
 or supply teachers in the funderaental conceptions of teach- 
 ing so that they may render more effcient service in the 
 schools when called into regular service. This work follows 
 high school graduation and several teachers are admitted 
 to positions each year from the classes of the normal train- 
 ing school. 
 
 Memphis is well supplied with private and parochial 
 schools. There are several business colleges. Parochial 
 schools are located in various sections of the city. St. 
 Mary's School, Miss Thomas' School, St. Agnes' Academy, 
 Sacred Heart Institute, and the Higbee School are good 
 preparatory schools for young women. The Itlemphis Uni- 
 versity School is a first-class preparatory school for young 
 men. There are two well equipped medical colleges with 
 standard courses in medicine. The Christian Brothers' 
 College is a first-class Roman Catholic institution, from 
 which many of the strong men in this section of the coun- 
 try are graduated. 
 
 Memphis offers splendid attractions to parents with chil- 
 dren to educate. 
 
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The Religious Bxht of ii^mpl|ia 
 
 THOMAS B. KING 
 
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 The present attainments and fnture outlook of Memphis, 
 or any great city, sliould not be measured solely by the 
 magnificence of its commercial and industrial enterprises, 
 nor by the height and spaciousness of her buildings, nor 
 by the broad stretch of territory on which these have been 
 erected. These are but manifestations of the brawn and 
 brain of man, and of that still better force, which we are 
 pleased to call, moral consciousness. Commerce must 
 reckon witli this quality, that is found only in man, else 
 the most gigantic schemes that may be projected will 
 come to naught. It is as true as the law of gravity that 
 the steps that lead to ultimate success are honesty, truth- 
 fulness, sobriety and the practice of altruism. These 
 essential qualities do not adhere naturally in matter, nor 
 are they found in any of the characteristics of the animal, 
 but appear only in man, who is endowed with the ability 
 to recognize the supernatural and to appropriate the 
 forces that come from this source. We call this religion, 
 and in that broad sense we purpose to use it here. Na- 
 tions have been found without books, without commercial 
 and industrial enterprises, without schools and without 
 written languages, but not without a religion. 
 
 Religions, however, have differed in type and it is of 
 the highest that is used in this article. Upon this may 
 be predicated the highest moral sensibilities that are essen- 
 tial in the maintenance of good government, and in carry- 
 ing on of profitable commercial relationship. All trading 
 is based largely upon confidence, and confidence is an out- 
 growth of morality, and morality is bottomed upon a con- 
 ception of some great religious truth. The fact is that 
 confidence is an asset more extensively employed in trade 
 relations than ready cash in hand. 
 
 In her material growth, and commercial progress has 
 Memphis been lax, or is she behind in her enterprises that 
 foster these basic principles? 
 
 In answering this question, it is admitted in the outset 
 that a full outlay of all her best energies and talents has 
 not been put forth in that direction. If such had been 
 the case, we would not be very long in settling the con- 
 troversy as to the location of the Garden of Eden. \\'e 
 cannot say that everything has been done possible for 
 the religious betterment of the people of Memphis, but 
 speaking in a comparative sense, it is a fact that the 
 churches and all ethical bodies afford splendid facilities 
 for the quickening of a deeply spiritual life and for the 
 cultivation of a practical godliness that will meet the 
 needs of every human being, and, collaterally, give brace 
 and tone to all of her commercial undertakings. There. 
 are one hundred and sixty churches within the city, repre- 
 senting many religions, denominations and sects. Among 
 these there exists a broad and fraternal spirit to a com- 
 mendable degree. The ecclesiastical guns are not turned 
 against each other, but are daily firing upon the public 
 and private evils that undermine the best institutions. 
 Denominationism is apparent and self-assertive, but the 
 lines of demarkation are often siibordinated to the one 
 supreme purpose of planting the seed and nourishing the 
 growth of the gospel of peace and good-will. The right 
 
 to worship under one's "own vine and fig tree" is recog- 
 nized to be cardinal, or a Divine right, therefore each 
 res]ionsible being is enjoying that blessing in this great 
 city. While this is true there is also a commonly accepted 
 ground upon which all may and do stand in their efforts 
 to impress upon men the moral obligations resting upon 
 them as citizens and as a part of the great industrial 
 whole. The communicants in these churches and the con- 
 stituency that belong to each denomination or sect are 
 equal to one-half the population of the city, thus making 
 a large body whose hearts are touched at stated intervals 
 by the men devoted to the high calling of priesthood and 
 teachers in religious thought. These men and leaders 
 whom we call preachers, or gentlemen of the cloth, are 
 of the highest type of manhood and worthily magnify 
 their position. Their blameless lives, as a rule, bespeak 
 encouragement to and inspire hope in their followers. 
 
 The Sunday-schools and societies for young people are 
 doing aggressive, wholesome and splendid work. Doubtless 
 no influences now operating in this city for good, both as 
 it affects the present and future, exceed the earnest labors 
 of the sclf-saeriflcing teachers and officers in these depart- 
 ments in religious activities. 
 
 The homes for the homeless and the asj'lums for the 
 unfortunate, all foster institutions of the churches, are 
 large in nmnber and very well equipped for immediate 
 needs. The cry of the orphans, the groans of the aged, the la- 
 mentations of the "down and out," are heard and hushed by 
 the Y. M. C. A., public day-nurseries, kindergartens, old 
 folks' homes, mission rooms, charitable dispensaries, and 
 homes for the incurables. Statistics, however acciu-ate 
 and comprehensive, cannot tell the whcdc story of the 
 effect of religion upon the life of a couununity, nor the 
 power of the churches for good upon the conduct of men. 
 The influences of institutions that hold out highest ideals 
 for the government of men has never yet been reduced to 
 a mathematical certainty. Many, many lives, though they 
 may not attend iqxin any religious service, are touched 
 and made better by observing the conduct of the truly 
 righteous. 
 
 This fact is made evident by (he liberal responses by 
 men throughout the city, having no church affiliations 
 whatever, to appeals made for contributions to institu- 
 tions that bear the stamp and indorsement of churches 
 individually or collectively. They almost instinctively 
 bow their heads in respect, when they see religion embodied 
 in human efforts, for the amelioration of the suffering 
 and the moral uplift of their fellows. 
 
 Memphis opens her doors wide to all people of every 
 religious name and order; preferably, of course, to those 
 who deeply and persistently hold on to the highest ideals 
 of riglit living — that kind' of religion that touches the 
 inner consci(Uisness and works initwardly until the con- 
 duct of man is controlled thereby. It is this type that 
 is being insisted iqion by the leaders in religious centers 
 which seeks ultinuitely to make them law-abiding citizens, 
 honest traders and faithful and true to the home life. 
 
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MEMPHIS "BUILDING 
 
 BY DAN C NEWTON, "BUILDING COMMISSIONER 
 
 The year 1907 marked up a new era in the building liis- 
 tory of the city of Memphis. It was one calculated to 
 cause a glow of pride in the heart of every loyal Mem- 
 phian. Especially is this true when the figures for 1907 are 
 compared with those of 1906 and 1905. 
 
 The sliowing made by the year only recently brought to 
 a close is all the more remarkable, when one remembers 
 that the last three months were marked with a financial 
 depression and threatened panic in the world of business, 
 which retarded business operations to a great extent, but 
 all the more emphasized the record made by Memphis. 
 
 The total amount e.xpended in building in Memphis dur- 
 ing 1907 was $4,957,999, as against $4,346,767 in 1906, and 
 $3,554,883 in 1905. 
 
 But this amount for 1907 so close to the flvemillion- 
 dollar mark does not necessary mean that this was all 
 expended on new buildings in Memphis during the year. 
 The cost of plumbing, wiring and the like is not included 
 in the figures I have given, and these items will add fully 
 35 per cent more to the total expended, bringing the figure 
 some place above $6,000,000. 
 
 Another interesting feature follows with the amount 
 expended on building operations. During the year just 
 closed, a total of 8,910 separate and distinct rooms were 
 created in Memphis, as against 7,S:!7 in 1906 and 7,104 in 
 1905. 
 
 Of the buildings constructed and included in the amount 
 I have given, they are divided as follows: 
 
 Fireproof 28 
 
 Brick and stone 101 
 
 Veneered lirick and stone 104 
 
 Hollow block and concrete 9 
 
 Frame 1014 
 
 Aditions, brick and frame 483 
 
 While all this building has been in progress in Memphis, 
 the older buildings have been able to maintain themselves, 
 and in my rounds of the city I have been able to find but 
 few vacant stores and houses. Some, of course, are in 
 existence, but it is a condition constantlj' developing and 
 nothing out of the ordinary. It is improbable they will 
 continue in tliis condition for long, and at the same 
 time it is an indication that our merchants and business 
 men are constantly on the lookout for better and more 
 satisfactory sites for their enterjirises and industries. 
 
 Of the buildings which have been started in Memphis 
 dining 1907, much might be said. The new court house 
 is, of course, the most important structure, and its prog- 
 ress towards completion is being watched with a deal of 
 interest by all classes of citizens. 
 
 The permit obtained in my office calls for the expen- 
 diture of $750,0(10, b\it when it is complete it will have 
 cost something iiKirc tlian a. million dollars. In my judg- 
 ment it is one of tlie most beautiful pieces of architecture 
 in the United States, and it is undoubtedly a thoroughly 
 up-to-date public building, with its excellent sanitary sys- 
 tem, its floors of reinforced concrete and the assurance that 
 it is absolutely fireproof throughout. 
 
 The new addition to the Peabody Hotel, recently opened, 
 the handsome new fireproof home of the North Memphis 
 Saxings Bank and the other buildings completed or nearly 
 so, are an evidence of the prosperity Memphis has felt and 
 the confidence of her citizens in her ability to maintain the 
 topmost point in the galaxy of cities. 
 
 The outlook for 1908 is already as assuring as 1907 was 
 satisfactory, and from all sides come notes of encourage- 
 ment and prophesy for another record-breaker, one which 
 will beat the excellent record made by 1907. 
 
MEMPHIS WARE] 
 
 ^ Warehouses equipped with modern automatic fire 
 sprinklers. 
 
 ^ Cover 526,000 square feet. 
 
 ^ Receiving courts and sheds cover 430,000 square feet. 
 
 ^ Delivering courts and sheds cover 450,000 square feet. 
 
 ^ Out- bound cotton sheds cover 180,000 square feet, 
 
 ^ Three press room sheds cover 75,000 square feet. 
 
 ^ Receiving capacity in twenty-four hours from 6,000 to 
 8,000 bales. 
 
 LARGEST COTTON WAREHOUSES 
 
OUSE COA^PAINV 
 
 ^ Delivering capacity in twenty-four hours from 6,000 to 
 
 7,000 bales. 
 ^ Compressing capacity in twenty-four hours from 6,000 
 
 to 7.000 bales. 
 ^ Six miles of Railroad tracks on premises, 
 
 ^ Three miles of overhead monoraH trolley system, op- 
 erated by gravity. 
 
 ^ One sixty-ton locomotive. 
 
 ^ Surface area covered by Warehouses, Compresses, out- 
 bound sheds, railroad tracks, and trolley system and 
 tracks, 125,000 acres. 
 
 ND COMPRESSES IN THE WORLD 
 
A Park Scene 
 
Climatology of Memphh 
 
 By S. C. EMERY 
 
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 Memphis is located in the extreme south\vei3t corner of 
 Tennessee, about twelve miles north of the Mississippi 
 state line. That portion of the city fronting the Mississippi 
 River is built upon what is commonly known as the fourth 
 Chickasaw Bluff, which ranges along the river bank at a 
 height of from twenty to sixty feet. The station of the 
 United States Weather Bureau in Memphis was established 
 in February, 1871, and the records on file show an uninter- 
 rupted seiies of observations from the date of opening 
 dow n to the present time. These observations cover all the 
 important climatic features, such as the pressure of the 
 air, temperature, rain and snowfall, wind direction and 
 velocity, sunshine and cloudiness, humidity and occiu'rence 
 of frost. Covering as they do a period of about thirty- 
 seven years, the normals and means here given fairly rep- 
 resent tlie true climatic conditions for this section: 
 
 Precipitation — The average annual precipitation is about 
 50^/^; inches, and has varied from 73.50 inches in 1877 to 
 34.58 inches in 1901. The greatest precipitation usually 
 occurs in January and March, with an average of about 5% 
 inches for each of those months. May and .J>uie average 
 about 4% inches, after which there is a gradual decrease 
 in the monthly amounts to a minimum of a little over 2% 
 inches in October. September and October are, as a rule, 
 the dryest months, but in November and December the 
 amount of I'ainfall about equals that for May and June. 
 
 The average number of rainy days that occur annually 
 is 115, distributed by seasons as follows: Winter, 33 days; 
 sjjring, 32; sununer, 28; fall, 22. March has the greatest 
 luiMilier of rainy days, the average being 12, and October 
 has tlie least with an average of 5. The following heavy 
 monthly rainfalls have been recorded: 13.!)0 inches in April, 
 1877; is. 16 inches in .June, 1877; 12.87 inches in January, 
 1882; 13.34 inches in May, 1893, and 14.53 inches in No- 
 vember, 1906. The greatest amount of rainfall recorded 
 in any twenty-four hours was 9.67 inches on June 8-9, 
 1877. ' 
 
 The average annual snowfall at Memphis is about seven 
 inches, January and February having on an average a lit- 
 tle more than two inches each while the March average is 
 about one inch, though as a matter of fact, the records 
 show very few days with snow in that month. However, 
 the greatest snowfall on record occurred on March 17-18, 
 1S92, when IS inches fell in twent3'-four hours. No snow 
 lias ever occurred in Ajjril, and there is no record of snow 
 in November, and very few have occurred during the past 
 twenty years in December. The heaviest monthly snow- 
 falls for December was 6 inches in 1897, and S^-o inches in 
 1901. 
 
 Temperature — The mean temperature of the year, as 
 well as for the difl'erent months, is slightly above the nor- 
 mal fin- the whole state, and varies between 59.6 and 63.1. 
 The highest temperature on record is 104, which occurred 
 .July 23, 1901, which was the month with more extremely 
 higii temperatiu'es than any other in the past thirty-six 
 y<'ars, there being only three days in the whole month 
 when the temperature did not rise to 90 or above, and on 
 three days it was above 100. During the past thirty-six 
 years the temperature has reached 100 degrees two times 
 in June, three in July and eight in August. The lowest 
 
 temperatm'e recorded was 9 degrees below zero, February 
 12, 1899, and the next lowest was 8 degrees below zero, 
 January 9, 1896. Below zero temperatures have occurred 
 as follows: January 6, 18S4, 2 below; January 8, 1886, 2 
 lielow; 9th, S below; 10th, 2 below, and 11th, 2 below; 
 February S, 1895, 3 below; February 12, 1899, 9 below, and 
 13th, 6 below, a total in thirtj'-six years of nine days. 
 
 Temperatures of 90 degrees or more occur on an average 
 of 42 days in the year and on 38 days it falls to 32 degrees 
 or lower. Temperatures of 95 degrees occur on an average 
 of 10 days annually, while temperatures of 10 degrees or 
 lower occur on an average of only about twice annual!}', 
 and in the last thirty-six years there have been 14 during 
 which the temperature did not fall as low as 10 degrees. 
 The lowest temperature usually occurs in January, though 
 it has occurred in February six times in thirty-six years. 
 
 The annual mean temperature for Memphis is 61.6 de- 
 grees. Mean by seasons: Winter, 42.5 degrees; spring, 
 61.7 degrees; summer, 79.4 degrees; fall, 62.2 degrees. The 
 average maximum for March is 61 degrees, and the average 
 minimum for that month is 44 degrees. The absolute max- 
 imum is 87. Temjieratures as low as 32 degrees are ex- 
 ceedingly rare after March 15th, and in April such a tem- 
 perature has occurred but once in thirty-six years. In 
 October it has not been as low as 32 degrees in the last 
 thirty years and has been as high as 92. The lowest tem- 
 jiorature on record for November is 16 degrees and the 
 liighest 82, the average for the month being 59.3 degi'ees. 
 The average for December is the same as for February, 
 43.5 degrees, the highest on record being 76 and the low- 
 est 2. 
 
 The average date of the last killing frost in spring is 
 March 24th, and the average date of the first in autumn 
 is October 2Sth, giving 217 days between the first and last 
 killing frost. The earliest killing frost on record is Octo- 
 ber 2d, and the latest it is known to occur is Novendier 30tli. 
 
 Winter may be said to end by the 23d of February. March 
 is characterized by frequent rains, brisk winds and mild 
 temperature, and by the last of that month warm weather 
 sets in. April is decidedly a pleasant month and by the 
 last of May summer temperature usually ])revails. While 
 the temperature during June, July and August often reaches 
 90 degrees in the warmest ])ortion of the day, the nights 
 during those months arc, as a rule, comfortably cool, the 
 temperature being on an average about 20 degrees lower 
 than the day maximum, and as there is always a light 
 breeze both day and night the heat of summer causes very 
 little discomfort and it is a well known fact that prostra- 
 tions from heat are practicall}' unknown. 
 
 The prevailing winds dining the fall and winter are 
 from the northwest, but dining the spring and summer 
 they are from the southeast and southwest. These come 
 charged with warmth and moisture from the Gulf of Mex- 
 ico and give this section a genial and fruitful climate. This 
 section is unusually favored in regard to its winds, both 
 as to direction and velocity. It has been established that 
 the velocity of wind in Tennessee is less than in many 
 portions of the United States, and, being out of the path of 
 frequent storms, it gives a delightful climate, highly favor- 
 able for the development of vegetable and animal life. 
 
Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition ^" 
 
 The Memphis Street Railway 
 
 L 
 
 The prodigious development of the City of Memphis has been for 
 the past ten years a matter of proverb. Outlying fields have blossomed 
 overnight with commodious dwellings — new streets have pushed their 
 way between. Bigger business buildings and yet bigger buildings have 
 been the demand to handle the expanded traffic— higher and higher the 
 census of the city has crawled and among all that it takes to make a 
 city growing with the growth of Memphis, feeding and fostering the 
 city's development, the Memphis Street Railway has for the past years 
 played a most important part in the great work of Civic expansion. 
 
 The history of the Memphis Street Railway is the history of 
 Memphis as a town and as a city, but few even of the people who live 
 here and who catch their daily car from home to office and from office to 
 home have any adequate conception of the system— of the vast amount 
 of money tied up in its rail, rights of way and rolling stock; its barns 
 and construction yards; its poles and wires and dynamos, or dream of 
 the financial responsibility involved in its conduct. 
 
 In a nut shell the Memphis Street Railway comprises 109 miles of 
 trackage over which it operates daily from one hundred and twenty to 
 one hundred and sixty cars. To accomplish this and thereby perform 
 the prodigious feat of transporting from seventy thousand to one hun- 
 dred and twenty thousand passengers per day, it requires a service of 
 approximately eight hundred employees, consisting of office clerks, 
 superintendents, firemen, conductors, motormen, ear cleaners, and 
 repairers, and other miscellaneous employees. 
 
 The Company has, during the past three years, vastly improved 
 and extended its system— its tracks and service now reach every portion 
 of the city as well as the residential and industrial suburbs. The adequate 
 and short headway service which has been extended into the suburbs puts 
 the suburban resident into close touch with the city center and enables 
 him to enjoy all the advantages of both city and country. 
 
 The industrial plants, located beyond the city limits, are enabled 
 to operate their plants with laborers, clerks and superintendents who 
 reside in the city. 
 
 The Company's car equipment in point of excellence is equal to 
 that of any street railway in the country and it is being continually added 
 to to meet the demands of the growing traffic. 
 
 The policy of the Memphis Street Railway is fully in accord with 
 the business interests of Memphis in its effort to develop and expand the 
 city and promote its commercial and industrial importance. 
 
 =J 
 
* 
 
 Parks and Boulevards 
 
 A 
 
 By Hugh H. Huhn 
 
 It wiis in 1000 tliat Mempliis rpalizcd that if public 
 parks wore pleasure f,T()un(ls for tlie rich, that they were 
 also lireathing spots for the poor. Since that time the 
 city lias ac<|uireil [)ark property, which, with the property 
 owned before, fxives to the people in Memphis a total of 
 l.OSfi acres. Under judicious manaijement and a careful 
 distribution of the park appropriation this property has 
 been improved, beautified and developed to such an extent 
 that it lias quadrupled in value and has fulfilled the mis- 
 sion originally contemplated. The better classes have their 
 driveways through the larger parks. The poor have their 
 playgrounds and their breathing spots also. 
 
 The Board of Park Commissioners representing the city 
 was organized under authority of the Legislative Council 
 in September, 1900, by the election of L. B. McFarland, 
 John R. Godwin and Robert Galloway, commissioners. 
 Judge JfcFarland resigned in July, 1906, after over six 
 years of valuable service to the city and tp the general 
 public. Mr. J. T. Willingham was elected to succeed him, 
 and has served since that time. 
 
 The first important work of the Board was to finance 
 the park .scheme, and for this purpose it was necessary to 
 .secure legislative enactment authoriziuL' the issuance of 
 ))ark bonds for the purchase of park projierty and for the 
 further authority to levy a park tax for the purpose of 
 maintaining and improving the property thus acipiired. 
 This was accom])lished after much trouble by Moating a 
 twenty-year 4-per-cent. bond for $250,000. Overton Park 
 was first bought, and 33.'5 acres of beautiful woodland 
 property, covered with virgin oaks and forest trees, became 
 the property of the city. Riverside Park was next aecpiired, 
 and .'ffiT acres were added. The county, becomintr inter- 
 ested, donated an adjoining CO acres to the Riverside Park 
 projierty. giving to the city a beautiful strip of park prop- 
 ertv. which undulates and winds along the high bliill's of 
 the Jl 
 creek. 
 
 Being thus equipped with the park property, the com- 
 missioners have since been developing it as rapidly as its 
 means would permit. The city squares or smaller parks 
 were the first to be improved. They lie for a greater part 
 in congested districts, where the population looks for air. 
 'I'liey have been given a means of finding it. 
 
 The big park improvement has been made in Overton 
 Park, for here, with the assistance of numerous car lines, 
 it was accessable, and the theory was to improve the park 
 first which could be easiest reached. It is now one of the 
 most beautiful park properties in the South, and is build- 
 ing a zoo which already boasts of more animals and acjuatie 
 exhiliits than any similar institution south of the Ohio 
 river. 
 
 On siiiiinier afternoons, when the city swelters and the 
 crowded tenements belch forth their suffocating inmates, 
 fragile babies are found enjoying the soft green of the 
 plaza about the central pavilion. It becomes at once the 
 place of recreation for larger children, the picnic gi-ouiid for 
 their elders, the pleasure ground for those who wish exer- 
 cise and a relief from city streets, and a driving park for 
 others who can afford the pleasure. 
 
 At a recent meeting of the Park Commissioners it was 
 decided to appropriate .$3,000 for establishing a gymnasium 
 and jiublic playground for children, wlierc, under a careful 
 eye, they can be trained in proper exercise and develop 
 muscles which would otherwise lay dormant and decay. 
 
 Other parks have been developed, and as soon as street 
 
 car arrangements can be made for facilities to Riverside 
 Park, the system will be well under construction. River- 
 side boasts of beauties that cannot be found in Overton. 
 The driveway along the river bank admits of many pictur- 
 esipie views of the Mississipjii river far below. It is like 
 the Palisades along the Hudson river. The bluff at this 
 point is far above the high water mark, and the view at 
 any ]joint along the drive will reach far across the river 
 and into the woods of distant Arkansas. This park will in 
 time be beautified. The Mem|)liis Street Railway is con- 
 teni])lating an extension which will open the way to a fur- 
 ther development of this property. 
 
 Forrest Park comes next in importance, being the largest 
 of the smaller parks and by far the most beautiful, for it is 
 in this park that the famous Forrest statue is located. 
 The big bronze figure of the Wizard of the Saddle sits 
 astride the horse which carried him bravely through a 
 strenuous campaign. This park was susceptible to exten- 
 .sive developments, and they have been made with exceed- 
 ing discretion and with the view of making it one of the 
 most attractive of the smaller park properties. It is con- 
 tinually thronged on afternoons and summer nights, and 
 even during the colder days of winter hundreds of children 
 on roller skates enjoy the smooth walks for their skating. 
 
 Confederate, being a smaller park and occupying the 
 bluff, was not an expensive luxury. There was a great 
 deal to do, but it was well and (|uickly done, and there is 
 never a day in the year that it is not thronged with visit- 
 ors, for, like Court S(|uare, it is in the heart of the city, 
 and admitting of an unob.structed view of the Mississipjii 
 river, it is the rendezvous of strangers with cameras, who 
 desire snap shots of interesting jjoints in the (Jueen City 
 of the V'alley. Gaston Park was .a generous donation and 
 lies in the Southern part of the city. Brinkley Square, 
 Astor Scjuare, Auction S(juare and Bickford Park make up 
 the <illier smaller jiarks, but each is an adjunct to the health 
 of the city, and each offers relief to congested centers, 
 where children of the jioor jdayed in the street and where 
 they now find healthful lecreation in healthful surround- 
 ings. 
 
 The most valuable adjunct to the city park system, 
 however, is the "Zoo," for here on Sunday afternoon the 
 crowd becomes so great that it is almost imjiossible to 
 view the animals. The Zoo has been enlarged, and still 
 further additions are to be made in order that this demand 
 may be satisfied. All of the jiarks are free to citizens and 
 visitors, and all are welcomed. There are no concessions — 
 play grounds and ball diamonds, picnic grounds and Zoo 
 are free to all alike. 
 
 During the summer band concerts arc given, the band 
 alternating from one jiark to another, and these entertain- 
 ments are also without cost, exccjjt to the Commission. 
 
 Conn<'cting the two larger jiarks is a ilrivcway eleven 
 miles in length. By donation and rurcha.se a speedway 
 north of Overton Park was accjuired. This is r>0 feet wide 
 and .■!,G00 feet in length, but the parkway jirojier, which 
 extends from Overton Park to Riverside Park, varies in 
 width from 100 feet to S.'iO feet, and contains more than 
 100 acres. 
 
 This makes one of tlie most cmiijilete systems of jiarks 
 to be found anywhere in the country, and in view of the 
 missioners may be congratulated upon its work, and in 
 fact that the system is only seven years of age the Com- 
 seven years more the local park system will command 
 attention of the country. 
 
Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 31 
 
 B. J. SEMMES & CO. 
 
 ESTABLTvSHED 1819 
 
 B.J. SEMMES & CO. ^ 
 
 MHE pure juice of ihe grain completely fermented by 
 natural process. Stored in hearts of oak in U. S. 
 Bonded Warehouse, aged and stamped under government 
 supervision. Pure, rich, mellow as red apples, soft as "One of 
 Cleopatra's Nights." fruity and blushing like October grapes 
 and matured in a temperature of perennial Summer, Yannissee 
 pleases the eye, flatters the palate with pleasurable flavors, and 
 fires the fancy with exhilarating and golden dreams. 
 
 1 Doz. Full 
 Q uai-ts 
 
 Yjiiinissee Special $1^.00 
 
 Yaiiiiissee Kxtra 14. <K) 
 
 Yaiiiiissee Iteserve ■■■• 18,00 
 
 J. M. GOODBAR WM. M. GOODBAR H. C. YERKES 
 
 Presdent Vice-President Sec'y and Treas. 
 
 GOODBAR &CX3. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1860 
 
 jNranufacturers and Jobbers of 
 
 Boots and Slioes 
 
 MEMPHIS, TENN. 
 
 IryniE have two large factories of our own with 
 l»"l 70,600 square feet of flooring and a capacity 
 of 3,000 pairs per day. Our shoes are well and 
 honestly made and our stock is the largest south of the 
 Ohio river. We guarantee satisfaction. Order di- 
 rect from us, or write for a salesman. 
 
 WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK 
 OF RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOES 
 
 The Southern 
 Cotton Oil Co. 
 
 Memphis, 
 
 Tennessee 
 
 Cotton Seed Products 
 
 TennesseeCotton 
 Oil Company 
 
 Manufacturers and Refiners 
 
 Cotton Seed Products 
 
 Oil, Cake, Meal, Linters, Ashes 
 and Halls 
 
 COOKING OIL 
 
 MILLS AT 
 
 MEMPHIS, JACKSON AND TRENTON, TENN. 
 
 Main Office at Mill, Foot of Jefferson Avenue 
 
 MEMPHIS, TENN. 
 
32 Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 ' THE IDEAL INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY ' 
 
 The 
 Union Land and Improvement 
 
 Company's 
 
 FACTORY $ITE SUBDIVISION 
 
 ON THE BELT LINE 
 
 nHIS PROPERTY comprises 653 acres of the most beau- 
 tiful industrial property which can be had in the vicmity of 
 
 ' Memphis. The Union Belt Line passes lengthwise through 
 
 the center of the property, the L. & N. Railroad crosses it and the 
 new I. C. Belt Lme is only a few hundred feet distant. The prop- 
 erty is so near level that no expense whatever is needed to develop 
 any site in it. Establishments that are looking for a location with 
 the maximum of advantages will find this property absolutely ideal. 
 It is reached directly by the new eastward extension of the Main 
 Street car line and is the nearest to the center of the city of any 
 large property now open to mdustrial development. 
 
 Union Land and Improvement Co. 
 
 I R. A. SPEED, Pres. 72 MADISON AVE. E. B. LeMASTER, Secy | 
 
Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 88 
 
 Members of the American 
 
 Association of Public 
 
 Accountants 
 
 t^^ t^* t^^ 
 
 Reference : 
 
 R. G. Dun & Co., Any 
 
 Bank or Wholesale 
 
 Merchant in 
 
 Memphis 
 
 E.S.ELLIOTT FELLOWS OF TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF PUBurc ACCOUNTANTS. W. A. SMITH 
 
 Residence Tele- 
 phone Cumb. 
 Main 3929 
 
 §)m Residence Tele- 
 K-' phone Cumb. 
 vD^ Main 29i5 
 
 ^ 
 
 (£ 
 
 PUBLIO/TCCOUNTANTS 
 
 ROOMS 310-31 1-312 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING. 
 
 ., MEMPHIS, TENN. „ 
 
 ^ 
 
 r<v. 
 
 FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS. 
 
 tOMftMtffi 
 
 The Mercantile Bank of Memphis 
 
 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 
 
 Capital 
 Surplus 
 
 $200,000 
 $100,000 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 C. H. I^AINE, President Jno. W. Schorr, Vice-President E. H. VOEGEII, 2nd Vice-President 
 
 CLAUDE cANDERSON, Cashier. 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 
 A. S. Caldwell 
 
 F. G. Jones 
 
 S. Lundee 
 
 Jno. W. SohoiT 
 
 F. G. Barton 
 
 C. H. Raine 
 
 E. H. Voegeli 
 
 T. B. Turley 
 
 E. E. Wright 
 
 K. A. Speed 
 
 E. W. Porter 
 
 W. M. Hannay 
 
 J. M. Fdwlkes 
 S. T. Games 
 H. H. Keese 
 W. G. Reed 
 E. B. LeMaster 
 
 We '^illSholi) Our Appreciation of Your Business by Courteous Treatment and 
 
 Superior Service 
 
34 
 
 Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 CHICAGO 
 
 MEMPHIS 
 
 C. L. WILLEY 
 
 FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC 
 
 Hardwood Lumber and Veneer 
 
 Specialties: Mahogany and Quarter Sawn Oak 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF 
 
 Foreign and Domestic Veneer 
 
 CHICAGO MAIN OFFICE 
 1225 SOUTH ROBEY STREET 
 
 MEMPHIS OFFICE 
 EVERGREEN AND BELT R. R. 
 
 THE LARGEST VENEER PLANT IN THE WORLD 
 
 WILLIAMSON BR05. 
 
 Investment Bankers 
 
 BUR business has many departments, including life insurance, fire insurance, liability 
 1 insurance, surety bonds, etc., but probably the best known branch of the business 
 
 is our Loan Department, which lends money on Improved Memphis City Real Estate 
 at lower than the usual rate of interest. Our contracts are very liberal in the terms of 
 repayment and are devoid of the usual fine print stipulations that make a man doubt 
 whether he is living up to his agreement or not. 
 
 WII^LIAMSON BR05. 
 
 Investtnent Bankers, MempHis Trust Bldg. 
 
Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 35 
 
 f 
 
 OUR OWN MANUFACTURE 
 
 4i 
 
 Red Ring'' Brand Portland Cem ent 
 
 In Car or Wagon Load Lots 
 AND 
 
 ''Red Diamond" Black Lime 
 
 ALSO 
 
 IN CAR 
 
 River Sand and Gravel 'lo'ts 
 
 Union Sand and Material Co. 
 
 Tennessee Trust Bldg. Phones 1049 Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 
 ?= 
 
 Why I Came to Memphis 
 
 I was looking for a growing city, where it was possi- 
 ble to get in on the "ground tioor" and come np with 
 the place. 
 
 In looking over the 1900 census report Memphis, 
 Tenn., showed it had increased nearly 70 per cent.; I 
 ininiediately sold out my pro.sperous little business in a 
 small town, packed my furniture and moved to Memphis 
 without fm-ther ado, and if you want proof that I made 
 no mistake, then write any one in this eity and see the 
 answer you'll get. 
 
 Now, to the object of this card: If you yom-self, or if 
 you kn<^w any one who can excel the majority at any 
 trade or occupation, then get on the train and come to 
 Memphis quick — befoi'e some one gets the start on you 
 — for I'll tell you honestly, candidly and fearlessly that 
 if you've got the right kind of stuff in you Memphis is 
 the place to develop it, and you almost owe it to poster- 
 ity to come to Memjihis where you can luiild up a name, 
 then your descendants can look back upon YOU and 
 MEMPHIS as the foundation of their greatness. 
 
 -^ 
 
 DUKEC. BOWERS 
 
 (^ 
 
 FROM ONE WHO KNOWS. 
 
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36 
 
 Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 Ufotel (ba^oso 
 
 5ncmpl)i5 
 
 ^ A modern fire proof hotel with 350 room«, 200 bath 
 rooms. European plan, rates $1.50 per day and upward. 
 Write us for information desired. 
 
 ^ This hotel thoroughly remodeled and refurnished, with 
 fire proof annex of 200 rooms, all of which are baths, opened 
 to the public March 1st. 1908. European plan; rates $1.50 
 per day and upward. Write us for any information desired. 
 
 BUY REAL ESTATE IN 
 MEMPHIS THROUGH 
 
 OVERTON & OVERTON 
 
 The confidence of the Memphis public in this firm, is so well established, that it 
 enjoys a very large business both in the sale and rental of property. Their list of pro- 
 perties for sale is varied, and comprises a large number of splendid investments, including 
 mercantile and manufacturing sites, homes, subdivisions, farms, suburban acreage and city 
 lots. They have many desirable homes, and can supply the wants of all classes whether 
 they be of modest means or wealthy. If interested in Memphis real estate, consultation 
 with this firm will yield you good results. Correspondence solicited. 
 
 OVERTON & OVERTON 
 
 128 Court Ave., MEMPHIS 
 
Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 37 
 
 fS" 
 
 J. A. OMBERG, President S. H. BROOKS, Vice-President 
 
 P. S. SMITHWICK, Vice-President C. Q. HARRIS, Cashier 
 
 C. H. CRAIG, Assistant Cashier 
 
 <^ 
 
 Capital $500,000 Surplus $500,000 
 
 [ NO. 336 I 
 
 fb The First National Bank J 
 
 p Of MEMPHIS, TENN. <^ 
 
 I United States Depositorv The Oldest Bank in tlie City H 
 
 I ESTABLISHED IN 1564 I 
 
 DIRECTORS 
 
 S. H. BROOKS C. F. FARNSWORTH ROBT. E. LEE JAS. NATHAN JOHN H. SULLIVAN 
 
 bW. I. COLE N. FONTAINE R. M. McLEAN T. K. RIDDICK J. GOLDSMITH y 
 
 J. N. FALLS W. A. GAGE J. MARKS J. A. OMBERG H. M. NEELY ^Jj 
 
 YOUR BUSINESS IS RESPECTFULLY SOLICITED ^^ 
 
 K,SL ^&.^ SLJ 
 
 ^ 
 
 A. N. BRADY. Prfsideni 
 
 ROBERT A. SPEED, Vice-Presidenl 
 
 J. T. HARAHAN. Vice-President 
 
 RICHARD REES. Secrelary 
 
 J. W. CLAPP. Tieasurer 
 
 W. M. FLOOK, Aisistant Secretary 
 
 FRANK JONES. Assistant Treasurer 
 
 ! Memphis J 
 
 I Consolidated Gas l^ Electric ^ 
 j Company I 
 
 12 and 16 Soutti Second Street 
 
 b 
 
 MEMPHIS, TENN. 
 
 ci 
 
 'kJL ^'^ SLJ 
 
38 Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 SOUTH MEMPHIS 
 
 WAS A COTTON FIELD IN 1902 
 HAS 31 INDUSTRIES IN 1908 
 
 The Properly of the South Memphis Land Co. Consists of Over 4,000 Acres 
 
 THIS LAND IS TRAVERSED BY 
 
 The Main Line of the Illinois Central Railroad 
 
 The Main Line of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad 
 
 The Illinois Central Railroad Belt Line 
 
 The Union Railroad Belt Line 
 
 The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Belt Line 
 
 Three Electric Street Car Lines Connect this land with the City of Memphis 
 Five -cent car fare with transfers all over Memphis 
 
 Has City Artesian Water Supply 
 
 Has Electric Light Plant 
 
 Streets Are Lighted By Arc Lights 
 
 Has Two Churches and a Day and Night Public School 
 
 Has Well Stocked Stores 
 
 Has a Well Appointed Hotel 
 
 The Land Company's property begins at the corporal limits of Memphis, extends 
 South to the Gravity Yards of the Illinois Central Railroad and West to the Mississippi 
 River. 
 
 f 
 
 Sites for Factories or Warehouses can be obtained on reasonable terms. 
 Several Thousand People Live in this Suberb of Memphis. 
 Beautiful Building Lots for Homes. 
 
 FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION APPLY TO THE 
 
 South Memphis Land Company 
 
 14th Floor Tennessee Trust Building MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 
 
Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 39 
 
 JOHN PEIRCE CO. 
 
 General Constkuction Work 
 
 MAIN OFFICE 
 90 WEST ST., NEW YORK CITY 
 
 WESTERN OFFICE 
 WESTERN UNION BLDG., CHICAGO, ILL. 
 
 GEO, F. BODWELL, General Western Agent 
 
 GENERAL CONTRACTORS FOR 
 
 THE NEW SHELBY COUNTY COURT HOUSE 
 
 HALE & ROGERS, ARCHITECTS 
 NEW YORK CHICAGO 
 
 JOHN GAISFORD 
 SUPERVISING ARCHITECT 
 
 COURT HOUSE COMMISSIONERS 
 N. C. PERKINS, W. G. ALLEN 
 JOHN COLBERT, LEVI dOY 
 
 JOHN T. WALSH 
 
 AMONG THE MOST NOTABLE WORK DONE BY MR. PEIRCE AND THIS COMPANY ARE : 
 
 Postoffices at — 
 
 Cliicago, 111. 
 Washington, D. ('. 
 Bnffalo, New York 
 Brooklyn, New York 
 Indianapolis, Indiana 
 Milwaukee, Wis., Granite Work 
 Cleveland, Ohio, Superstnieture 
 
 Custom House, New York City 
 
 Completion of State Capitol, Albany, New York 
 
 Granite Dry Dock at Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 New Hall of Records Building, New Y^ork City, costing 
 
 some five million dollars 
 Hudson County Court House, N. J., Granite Work 
 Interior Marble for Cook County Court House, Chicago, 
 
 111., costing nearly a half million 
 
 V^^jfc.^ ry ^ ^ofc.^ a,^-^;T^;> la^^ 
 
 'M 
 
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 WM. D. ROBERTS, Pres. HARRY P. JOHNSON, Vice-Pres. W. W. SIMMONS, Secy-Treas. and Mgr 
 
 Broadway Coal and Ice Company 
 
 H MINERS AND SHIPPERS OF ^ 
 
 i XjE^wis oi^^eeic aojLiLi I 
 
 ^ FOR STEAM AND DOMESTIC PURPOSES m 
 
 Manufacturers of Ice 
 
 Mines in Kentucky 
 '; Ice Factories in Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 General Offices : 
 63 Madison Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 '?^^r^! 
 
40 Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 ^ THE IDEAL INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY 
 
 The 
 Union Land and Improvement 
 
 Company's 
 
 FACTORY SITE SUBDIVISION 
 
 ON THE BELT LINE 
 
 D 
 
 HIS PROPERTY comprises 653 acres of the most beau- 
 tiful industrial property which can be had in the vicinity of 
 Memphis. The Union Belt Line passes lengthwise through 
 the center of the property, the L. & N. Railroad crosses it and the 
 new I. C. Belt Line is only a few hundred feet distant. The prop- 
 erty is so near level that no expense whatever is needed to develop 
 any site in it. Establishments that are looking for a location with 
 the maximum of advantages will find this property absolutely ideal. 
 It is reached directly by the new eastward extension of the Main 
 Street car line and is the nearest to the center of the city of any 
 large property now open to industrial development. 
 
 I 
 
 Union Land and Improvement Co. 
 
 R. A. SPEED, Pres. 72 MADISON AVE. E. B. LeMASTER, Secy 
 
Memphis Year Book-Iadustrial League Edition 41 
 
 I 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1857 ^^^^^^^^^^— -_^^.^_ 
 
 INCORPORATED 1908 
 
 B. Lowenstein & Bros. Dry Goods Go. 
 
 Wholesale Only 
 
 The Largest and Oldest Wholesale Dry Goods House 
 South of the Ohio River 
 
 Nearly Six Acres of Floor Space Devoted Exclusively to Wholesale Business 
 
 We have always on hand in goods suitable to the trade of 
 the bouth and Southwest the largest and best assorted stock 
 to be found m the United States. Our prices are guaranteed 
 to be as low as t-au be had anywhere. All open orders re- 
 (?eive prompt and careful attentioa and are billed at same 
 prices as if you were present to make the purchase In 
 competing with St. Louis, Chicago and New Yoik we offer 
 you larger and better assorted stocks at the same piices and 
 can save you largely in freights and in time. 
 
 Dry Goods Merchants -.-^en^ for a copy of our monthly house journal - Co- Operative 
 
 Salesmanship:'' You'll find it interesting. 
 A Cordial Invitation is Extended to Merchants While in the Market to Visit Our House 
 
 and Inspect Our Splendid Stocks 
 
 When You Want 
 
 China, Glassware and House 
 Turnishing Goods 
 
 1 
 
 Why Not Buy the Best? 
 
 We are exclusive handlers of the famous ALASKA REFRIG= 
 ERATORS and ICE BOXES and WHITE MOUNTAIN ICE 
 CREAM FREEZERS. We also have the best of American 
 French and German Chinas. 
 
 OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT 
 
 The Memphis Queensware Company 
 
 62 South Main Street 
 
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42 
 
 Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000.00 
 
 STATEMENT OF CONDITION, FEB. 14, 1908 
 
 ASSETS. 
 
 Time loans $4,398,745 09 
 
 Demand loans 299,813 47 
 
 Overcliecks 124,560 88 
 
 Bonds and stocks 495,172 74 
 
 Office building 596,171 47 
 
 Luehrmann Hotel building . 158,462 99 
 
 Cash and sight exchange 2,573,523 74 
 
 $8,646,450 38 
 LIABILITIES. 
 
 Capital stock $1,500,000 00 
 
 Surplus 500,000 00 
 
 Undivided Profits 29,225 61 
 
 Fund for taxes 44,371 50 
 
 Title Guaranty contingency fund 31,276 49 
 
 General contingency fund 65,810 07 
 
 Net earnings from January 1, 190S, less expenses paid 54,201 78 
 
 Deposits 6,421,564 93 
 
 , $8,646,450 38 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 J. T. FARGASON, President. E. L. RICE, Cashier. 
 
 .JNO. H. WATKINS, Vice-President. L. S. GWYN, Assistant Cashier. 
 
 FRED'K. FOWLER, Vice-President. S. J. SHEPHERD, Trust Officer. 
 
 JAS. H. FISHER, Secretary. G. A. BONE, Auditor. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 .J. T. Fargason. W. G. Thomas. 
 
 A. D. Gwynne. Frederick Fowler. 
 
 R. B. Snowden. T. B. Turley. 
 
 G. W. Macrae. R. A. Speed. 
 
 O. H. P. Piper. P. P. Van Vleet. 
 
 H. C. Nail. O. C. Armstrong. 
 
 J. T. Harahan. \V. B. Mallory. 
 
 W. E. Love. J. T. Fargason, Jr. 
 
 E. Lowenstein. Jno. H. Watkins. 
 
 R. Brinkley Snowden. T. H. Tutwiler. 
 
 To those who are already customers we extend our appreciative thanks and ask their 
 continued patronage and support, and at the same time invite all others to avail themselves 
 of the facilities, safety and protection afforded by our institution, placing our best services 
 at their disposal. We are thoroughly equipped for the transaction of all business pertaining 
 to a modern trust company, and solicit your business, whether large or small, and the same 
 care and attention is paid to all. The business of the comiiany is divided into eight 
 departments, viz: 
 
 Banking, or Financial Department. Title Guaranty Dei)artment. 
 
 Savings Department. Safe Deposit Departmonl. 
 
 Stock and Bond Department. Real Estate Department. 
 
 Trust Department. Insurance Department. 
 
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Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 43 
 
 Galloway Coal Co. 
 
 Miners and Distributers of 
 
 The Famous 
 
 is 
 
 Gallov^ay 
 Coal 
 
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 OHIS company offers a coal service that is unsurpassed. From its own numerous mines it 
 has a supply approaching a million tons per annum, thus assuring an adequate supply for 
 
 its Memphis yards at all times. In order to render assurance doubly sure it stocks its 
 numerous Memphis yards in summer with tens of thousands of tons for reserve supply. Its yards, 
 located on the tracks at every stragetic point in the city, enable it to make prompt deliveries by 
 giving all its teams a short haul and thus increasing the number of loads hauled per team per day. 
 Galloway Coal is so well known for quality that it establishes the coal quality in Memphis. 
 
 Yards in Every Part of the City Insuring 
 "I Prompt Delivery I 
 
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 Memphis Year Book Industrial League Edition 
 
 ANDERSON-TULLY GO 
 
 HARD- 
 WOOD 
 LUMBER 
 
 BOX SHOOKS, 
 
 ROTARY CUT VENEER, 
 
 Gum, Siding, Ceiling and Flooring 
 
 Johnson & Fleming 
 
 Engineers and Contractors 
 
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 DEEP WELLS A SPECIALTY. Tenn. Trust BIdg. 
 
 Oifice Phone 1564. Shop Cumb. Phone 2635. Shop Memphis Phone 438 
 
Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 45 
 
 MERICAN EAG HOMPANY 
 
 MANUFACTURE 
 
 COTTON AND BURLAP 
 BAGS 
 
 I 
 
 CAPACITY AND MODERN EQUIPMENT INSURE PROMPT SERVICE AND HIGHEST QUALITY 
 
 IMERICAN lAG lOMPANY 
 
 MEMPHIS, T£NN. 
 
 Drink a Bottle 
 
 OFz 
 
 Sold at All Bars, Stands and Cafes 
 
 BOTH PHONES 2604 
 
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 Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 
 
 Union and Planters Bank and 
 Trust Company ' ' 
 
 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $1,650,000.00 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 8. P. READ, 
 
 President. 
 
 .1. R. PEPPER, 
 
 Vice-President. 
 
 .T.\S. F. HUNTER, 
 
 Vice-President. 
 
 F. F. HILL, 
 
 Vit-e-Prosident. 
 
 .1. I). .McDowell, 
 
 Cashier. 
 
 (ilLMER WINSTOX, 
 
 Asst. Cashier. 
 
 SAJI IIOLLOWAY. 
 
 Alty. and Trust 
 UtVicor. 
 
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 DIRECTORS. 
 
 Jolin W. Baih-y 
 Harry Colin 
 .T. M. D.Kkery 
 \V. C. Early 
 Xoland Fontaine 
 n. T. Fitzhugh 
 \V. E. Gage 
 W. B. Gates 
 .1. M. Goodbar 
 Xapoleon Hill 
 Frank F. Hill 
 .1. F. Hoist 
 .Tas. F Hunter 
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 MEMPHIS, TENN. 
 
 I., .lones 
 li. L. ilallory 
 .1. .\I. McCorinaik 
 I". .\r. Xorflect 
 ■ 1. I!. Pepper 
 sl P. Read 
 Theodore Read 
 I'. 1'. \Villiarii> 
 11. T. W'inkelnian. 
 
 COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 All Kinds of Regular Banking Business Solicited. 
 Savings Department — Open every day during regular banking hours. Saturdays, 6 to S 
 p.m. Interest at 3 per cent, per annuin paid and compounded January and .Tuly. $1.00 starts 
 an account. 
 
 Safe Deposit Vaults Department — Splendidly constructed chrome steel vaults containing 
 many. size boxes for valuable documents of every kind. Rental $5.00 and upward per year. 
 INSURANCE AND BOND DEPARTMENT. 
 Fire Insurance — Policies issued on all safe risks at regular ilemphis Underwriters' rates, 
 same as used by every local company and agency doing business in Memphis. 
 
 Surety Bonds— Make all kinds" of bonds for contractors, public ofTicials and others. 
 
 REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Houses and Other Property Sold, Rented, Insured, Taxes Paid and Attended to in Every Way 
 
 for Very Reasonable Fees. 
 Trust and Title Guarantee Department — Acts as Administrator, Executor, Guardian and 
 Receiver. Funds of estates and other trust funds carefully invested, guajded and settlements 
 made legallv and regularly. 
 
 Titles to Real Estate- Fxamined with scrupulous care and guaranteed for reasonable fees. 
 Bond and Stock Department — Bonds, Stocks and other securities bought for and sold to 
 investors. 
 
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Memphis Year Book— Industrial League Edition 47 
 
 £J 
 
 Memphis Commercial Appeal for Ten 
 
 Years One of Newspaperdom's 
 
 "Winning Dailies" 
 
 By James McCdtcheon — Copyrighted, 1908 
 
 While newspaper and business conditions have made and unmade "Winning Dailies," the Memphis 
 Commercial Appeal has steadily held the place of "Winning Daily" of its section of Tennessee in News- 
 piperdom's annual "Winning Dalies" number for ten successive yeais. The editor of Newspaperdom, in 
 describing what a "Winning Daily" is, says : " ' Winning Dailies' means those newspapers which are 
 comprehensive in character and have made unusual successes ; which have been absolutely on the level 
 with the public and advertisers ; which believe advertisers are entitled to know all about the circulation they 
 buy ; which are particularly strong in family circles — the source from which results really come ; which 
 possess 'quality' circulation ; which are admitedly the best and strongest dailies of their respective cities or 
 states ; which print the most advertising ; which stand solidly for that which is unquestionably to the best 
 interest of the public, regardless of party policies ; which represent all that is clean and desirable in journal- 
 ism, and which neither believe in nor practice 'yd'owism.' 
 
 It is unnecessary to say to experienced advertisers that an exclusive, loyal clientage of people of stand. 
 
 /N ing and character forms the most profitable class to reach. That the Commercial Appeal does reach this /V, 
 J\ class is demonstrated in the hundreds of letters sent to Newspaperdom from time to time by local and other ICT 
 
 ^ advertisers, all expressing in unstinted praise the value always returned by the Commercial Appeal. And ^s, 
 when it is understood that the money-earning, money-spending people cannot be reached as a whole ex- 
 cept through the Commercial Appeal — cannot be reached even though all other Mennphis papers are 
 used — then the discriminating advertisers know what to do. Subscribers to a newspaper of character are 
 people of character, and they are the ones most desirable to reach. — From Newspaperdom of Feb., 1908. 
 
 Statement of Circulation for March, 1908 
 
 Average Daily, March, 1908 43,338 
 
 Average Sunday, March, 1 908 63,762 
 
 Average Daily, March. 1 907 42,443 
 
 Average Sunday, March, 1 907 62,8 1 
 
 Advertising shows a total gain in local, general and classified, of 4 1 4 inches. , 
 
 Advertising also shows an excess over the evening paper of 20,052 inches, or 280,728 agate lines. 
 95 per cent, of the newspaper readers in Memphis read the Commercial Appeal. 
 97 per cent, of its city circulation is delivered into the homes. 
 
 Every Day The Commercial Appeal delivers into Memphis homes 40 per cent, more papers 
 paid for than any other Memphis newspaper. 
 
 Every Sunday The Commercial Appeal circulates more than twice as many papers as any other 
 Memphis paper prints. 
 
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 Memphis Year Book Industrial League Edition 
 
 F. SCHAS. President 
 
 DR. A. G. SINCLAIR. Vice.Prcj. 
 
 M. WITTENBERG. 2nd VIce-Pres. 
 F. J. BAUM, r • - 
 
 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
 The 
 Continental Savings Bank 
 
 014 649 757 3 
 
 3 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Deposits 
 of individuals and firms subject to check. 
 Special Rates on Time Deposits. 
 
 Banking House 72 Madison Avenue 
 
 MEMPHIS 
 
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 NEW VETERINARY HOSPITAI^ AND KENNEL 
 
 For the Accommodation of the Pubhc Having 
 Animals to Be Cared for in a Professional 
 Manner. Here You Will Find Excellent Quarters 
 tor the Treatment and Boarding of Animals; 
 Comfortable Kennels, Roomy Stalls, Fine Ventila- 
 tion amd Light. 
 
 Harvard Veterinary Hospital and Kennel 
 
 HosDilal Charges: Board. Care, Treatment. 
 DIedicine at Cost. 
 
 For Horses and Mules, per day $1.00 
 
 For Cattle, p'r day 75 
 
 Dogs Jtnd Small Anima 8. per day .50 
 
 Examination and Prescriptioi at Office 
 
 $i.nii to 200 
 
 Examination and Certificate for Soundness 5.00 
 
 An adilltionai lee will be i:liarged tor surgical ooera- 
 tlon. depending itt amount upon ttte nature and extent 
 of the operations, «hich in every case will be made at 
 the risit of theowrer. 
 
 KENNEL CHARGES 
 Small and medium sized Dogs boarded by 
 
 the month $6.00 
 
 No charue to be less than \ .^0 
 
 Cats and Toy Dosis. per day 25 
 
 Special rates according to the circumstances. Owner 
 assumes all rislt in cases of Operation, Accident. Es- 
 cape or Death, but at all limes DUE caution will be 
 used in the handling of Patients 
 
 DOGS FOR SALE. ANY BREED FURNISHED ON 
 
 ORDER. HORSES AND DOGS CUPPED BY 
 
 ELECTRICITY. 
 
 Dr.Ghas. B.BANKS 
 
 HORSE OPERATING TABLE READY FOR USE VETERINARY PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 
 
 Cumb, Phone 3761 No, 287 Monroe Ave,, 3 Blocks East o! Main St, Memphis Phone 651 veterinarian to Southern Kennel Club 
 
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