. The Southern States. South, that is, inproportion. The city has nearly 100 whole-sale houses, embracing- dry goods, groceries,hardware, shoes, hats, liquors, bags, paper,crackers, candy, tobacco, cigars, and all elsein wholesale traffic. The wholesale tradeamounts to nearly f50,ooo,ooo. One diygoods house does over f 2,000,000 of business,and has a great building of six floors, each 60by 150 feet. Macons superior railroad envi-ronment and connections explain the citys 14 PEN SKETCHES OF GEORGIA CITIES. remarkable wholesale advantages and jiower. Maidn has 500 retail houses, doing a suc-cessf
. The Southern States. South, that is, inproportion. The city has nearly 100 whole-sale houses, embracing- dry goods, groceries,hardware, shoes, hats, liquors, bags, paper,crackers, candy, tobacco, cigars, and all elsein wholesale traffic. The wholesale tradeamounts to nearly f50,ooo,ooo. One diygoods house does over f 2,000,000 of business,and has a great building of six floors, each 60by 150 feet. Macons superior railroad envi-ronment and connections explain the citys 14 PEN SKETCHES OF GEORGIA CITIES. remarkable wholesale advantages and jiower. Maidn has 500 retail houses, doing a suc-cessful trade of especial enterprise. Theselive merchants have built up a large businessin orders from the wealthy sections tributaryto the city. One house occupies a building offive lloors 50 by 200 feet. Three retail housesemploy 120 men and women. Macons tax, valuation in 1889 was |ii 1,300,-423; in i8gi, 1:14,623,999, and the bondeddebt only 1:568,800. The city tax was ,and her whole tax only 1 The postoffice. •^^J^STK^ MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON, GA. receipts in the year ending March 31, iSgo,were 145,390, and in 1892, 153,590; a conclu-sive index of the growth of trade and popula-tion. Macon has eight banks, strong institutions,with fi,660,000 of capital. TTie strongestfinancial institution is the Exchange Bank,located in its own magnificent buiUling. Macon is especially alTiuent in educationalfacilities of the highest order and greatestvariety. This city has the honor of foundingthe first female college in the United States,the Wesleyan Female College, chartered in1836, costing 5125,000, that has sent out 2,039 graduates and thousands of other building is 255 by 85 feet, five stories , the great Baptist university, Pio Nono,now St. Stanislaus Catholic College, Mt. Convent, the State Academy for theBlind, the Alexander Free School, and a mag-nificent system of forty-five public schools, with100 teachers and 5419 pupils, form an unsur
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