There are 800 manufacturing industries of all kinds in Memphis and its suburbs. These include cotton-seed-oil mills, ice factories, grain elevators, wholesale grocery houses, wholesale dry goods houses, wholesale drug houses, fur niture factories, woodworking establishments of all kinds, foundries, machine shops, flour mills, pulp and paper mills, fibre plants, saddlery and harness factories, potteries, car works, pump works, wagon and carriage shops, pure food products, bread, cracker and candy fac tories, patent medicine works, sugar plantation machinery works, barrel and skewer factories, spoke factories, golf stick works, shuttle block works, trunk, screen door and window facto ries, basket and box factories, egg case works, horse collar factories, engine and boiler works, electric supplies, refrigerator and cold storage machinery works, cotton gins, stove and range factories, handle and coffin factories, shaft and pole works, cider presses, distilleries and breweries. Memphis has the largest automobile wheel factory in the world. Memphis also is one of the great horse and mule markets of the world.
There are 18 commercial and savings banks in Memphis; also two industrial loan banks and two private banks. The deposits in the 18 commercial banks at the time of the last report amounted to $75,000,000. The total amount of transactions for the year 1918 amounted to $3,441,112,365. The two largest banks carry deposits of $23,500,000 and $17,000,000 respec tively.
Civic The city is well laid out and well built. The wide, well-shaded and well paved streets, the fine public and private build ings, the parks with numerous large trees, all make the city most attractive. The streets are paved with asphalt, vitrified brick, macadam and gravel. There are 1,056 miles of paved roads in Shelby County. The steel cantilever bridge 1,895 feet in length across the Mississippi, costing $3,000,000, opened 12 May 1892, has been supplemented by another bridge costing $5,000,000, which combines an interurban trolley service, double railroad tracks, pedestrians' walks and a free wagon way. Memphis has .160 churches. Its superior educational advantages include three departments of the University of Tennessee, Tennessee State Normal School, Christian Brothers College, business colleges, high schools, 40 public schools, vocational schools, art galleries, libraries and museums, free endowed circulating library (Gossitt) with 15 branches; endowed (Goodwyn) Institute, with auditorium and reference library. Its free lyceum lecture course attracts the world's lead ing artists, thinkers, men and women of letters. Outside of the public schools, there are 19 paro chial and miscellaneous schools and a number of private schools for boys and girls; coeduca tional, such as the University School, The Misses Hutchinson School and others.
The largest hospitals are the Baptist Memo rial, the new Methodist hospital (built in 1919), Saint Joseph's, Presbyterian, Lucy Brinkley, the United States Marine Hospital and numerotis small hospitals, sanitaria and homes. The
Y.M.C.A. occupies its own building, which is the largest in the central South. This building is equipped with a splendid library, gymnasium, swimming pool, club-rooms, dining rooms and all other features going with the highest class of Y.M.C.A. work. The leading theatres are the Orpheum (capacity 2,250), Lyric (capacity 1,780), Lyceum (capac ity 1,400) There are numerous other show houses and film theatres in the heart of the city and in the suburbs of various capacities from 200 to 900. The leading clubs are the Tennessee, the Chickasaw, the Rex, tote old Business Men's Club, which is now the Mem phis Chamber of Commerce — The Memphis Chamber of Commerce continues the club fea tures. The country clubs are The Memphis Country Club, with a membership of 450, and the Colonial Country Club with a membership of 300. The B. P. O. Elks occupy a very fine home here, centrally located. The Khaki Club for the exclusive use of soldiers is located in spacious rooms on Second street in the heart of the city, and there are numerous smaller clubs. The leading hotels in Memphis are Gaysos, 300 rooms; Peabody, 310 rooms and Chisca, 400 rooms. There are about 50 hotels in all, mostly located in the down town district —a few in the vicinity of the depots.
Parks, Public Buildings, Memphis has 1,200 acres in improved parks, and has improved mproved fair grounds containing Ill acres. Belting the city on three sides is a nificent parkway systern— the most extensive in the South. The largest park is Riverside Park on the east bank of the Mississippi River, just south of the city, containing 427 acres highly improved and a splendid specimen of landscape gardener's skill. Next , to the largest is Overton Park, the finest park in the South, in.the northeastern portion of the city, ing 335 acres. Within its boundaries is located the Memphis Zoological Garden which is as complete as that of Chicago, and the largest free zoological garden in the United Both. Overton and Riverside parks have ire municipal golf links. There are several ode parks scattered throughout the city. Mem*. has mere space-in proportion to its total ars' in parks and parkways than any other c* the South. Adding to recreation afforded the packs may be mentioned the Alaskan ftec Garden with a capacity of 1,500 and pleasr excursion boats up and down the Mississips River. Notable among the city's fine building are the union station, the city ball and cow house, the police station, the exchange lag,; custom-house and post office, Goodmi institute, Masonic temple and Scottish m cathedral: 'Modern sanitary methods obtain in Mess phis, the sewer system being the Waring, du same 'as hi New York. The water supply the city is obtained from 64 artesian wells. depth of which reaches 600 feet. The preset •pumping capacity of the water supply is 3 000,000' gallons per day, and the daily tonsure 'don is 15,000,000 gallons. Among the cities the United States with a population of 10ttof or over, Memphis ranks second in gene-. 'healthfulness. The death rate is I3.W.