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a thorough education, are placed at the
disposal of the rising generation of
Rome in a manner that will rank with
any other community of similar magni
tude.
Churches-
There is no institution worthier of
the appreciation and love of a commu
nity than the churches existing in its
midst; identified with its earliest
growth, throbbing with its life, partici
p ding in it# reverses and sharing its
prosperity. They seem to be invested
with a personality to be loved and cher
ished like those of one’s household.
Rome has plenty of churches. In few
if any cities, of equal size, can be found
the same number of elegant modern
church buildings.
All the principal denominations are
represented, and bave large congrega
tions, and are presided over by compe
tent and eloquent divines.
The different denominations find rep
resent a tion here; Methodists with seven
churches and chapels; Baptist, four
churches; Presbyterian, two churches;
Episcopal, one church, Catholic, one
* and Congregational Methodist, one.
Each church has the usual accessory
aid and home mission societies from
which no end of good is derived. Pri
vate charity is ever active to make the
path of the unfortunate and helpless
easier, and those who are really worthy
seldom have a deaf ear turned toward
them.
Fire Department
To have an efficient fire department,
is an advantage to any oity, for it is
not only a protection against the most
dangerous of the element, but a great
saving in the cost of insurance.
The fire department of Rome is
thoroughly efficient and composed of
able bodied and experienced men, The
department consists of four companies
and is maintained at the cost of about
$6,700, per annum. The department is
not only a credit to the oity, but those
whose duty it is to watch over this
department of the city’s government.
Police Department.
One of the essentials of a city’s sue.
cess is proper .prblic protection, and
especially if a city the size of Rome,
for disorders will be of daily occur
rence unless the public force is ever
vigilant and reliable.
The city has a most excellent force
consisting of twelve men. It expended
last year $9,200 for its support and
pays good honest wages to its men.
The police department is all that can
be desired and is ably managed.
Street Railways.
Electric street railways through the
principal streets of Rome from its
centre to the suburbs connecting
North Rome, West Rome. East Rome
and New Rome afford excellent facili
ties for rapid and cheap travel. No
antiquated methods are employed,
electricity alone furnishing the mo
tive power. By the means of these
lines, the people are afforded excellent
opportunities for going from place to
place, visiting the park, suburbs and
other attractive points of interest
around the city, and those who desire
cheap homes in the suburbs are ena
bled to go to and from the city with
out trouble or expense.
The plant is owned by the Rome
Street Railway Company, a progressive
concern that has been the means of ma
terially advancing the interests of the
city. A few years ago it purchased a
large tract of land near Ne .v Rome and
upon it established Mobley Park, thus
giving the city the second of a sys
tem of parks that will be, as the city
advances in wealth and population, en
compassed in the oity.
Hotel Accommodations.
Time and again has the oity been
crowded with hundreds of visitors who
come in on excursions, etc., and during
the life of the oity there has yet to be
heard the first complaint regarding its
ability to handle any crowd that may
come into the city.
The hotels are three in number, the
THE ROME TRIBUNE, SOUVENIR AND TRADE EDITION.
principal of which is the Armstrong, ■
one of the finest hosteleries in the South
This handsome structure was erected
some ten years ago by home capital at a '
cost of $125,000. The other hotels,
while not of such magnitude or costly,
are neat brick structures and ably man
aged.
Good Society.
Good society prevails throughout the
city. Indeed it is the boast of ihe pt o
ple that no city of equal size can show
a better or more moral city than Rome.
Less crimes, drunkenness and disorder
are witnessed here than any city in
Georgia, which statement can be sub.
stantiated by an examination of the po
lice records. This is one of the secrets
of the city’s success, and a firm founda
tion on which its future rests. The
term “good society” is weak, and com
parisons are permissable only in the su
perlative degree. Rome’s society con
sists of the choicest of true manhood
and womanhood, cemented together
for the purpose of culture and
advancement. No golden entrance
fee is charged to enter society.
The requirements here are vir
tue, uprightness of purpose, integrity,
honesty and a desire to make the best
use of the gifts endowed by the Al
mighty.
Superb citizenship is another feature
tbatattracts attention of all comers to
Rome, and it is the result of gathering
together of. the choicest of the earth. In
no place will you meet a more hospita
ble aud warmer hearted people than in
this city. Here man is judged accord
ing to his intrinsic value, and not
weighed in the golden balance, but rises
or falls on his own merits. When once
settled in Rome a person is loth
to depart, and though occasion
ally carried away by the seeming
glamor of other localities, he, like the
Musselman, sooner or later returns to
his Mecca.
Country Surrounding.
Another reason why Rome is a safe
place for investment, in addition to the
resources already enumerated, is the
fact that it is surrounded by vast acres
of rich, productive soil, nourished by
beautiful streams, aud yielding bounti
fully of fruits, grains, grasses, vegeta
bles, etc. The rich farming region of
fers good homes to those who theorize
'on husbandry, and in course of time
j will make this one of the most densely
populated portions of the state.
The City's Growth.
If the past is any criterion by which
the future may be judged, Rome is
destined to become one of the great
est manufacturing and wholesale
centres in the South. Its progress in
these lines has been continuous and
its growth steady and permanent.
The people who have located here
have had confidence in the city’s fu
ture, and that confidence has been
fully sustained by condit ons and re
sults. Conservative capitalists and
business men have invited thousands
in Rome’s real estate and thousands
more in improving it, and the large
sums so invested are an assurance of
the bright and prosperous future that
the city is destined to enjoy.
Ground For Buildings
One of the great advantages that
this city possesses is in the beautiful
stretches of hilly and level country
that surround it. There is plenty of
which to build dwellings
and business blocks, shops and fac
tories. No city in the state can of
fer such excellent building sites, or
so many other advantages as Rome.
A Progressive People,
Rome is inhabited by a progressive
people. No statement could be more
tersely construed, for the writer sees
here the true home of a progressive
people; those that love the welfare of
the city above all other considerations
and in its behalf are willing to sacri
flee personal comfort and ease to en
gage in projects for the advancement
of the city. While the people are pro
gressive, it is not for Rome alone, but
they are of a generous disposition,
and that aggressive spirit that enables
them to realize that any good done for
the state is as much a work of theirs
as it is of the city. They appreciate
the fact that they are one of the com
ponent factors that go to make the
state in its entirety.
There is no written motto or provi
sion that is brought to bear on the
people, but only the inherent desire
for advancement and actuated by the
old adage that “nothing succeeds like
success.” The people here are of and
for Rome, first, last and always. In
no city are found the same propor
tion of aggressive, progressive people
as here, and while there are some of
the old school Silurian and moss
backed citizens, they are relegated so
far to the rear that in the march of
affairs they seldom turn a trump. ,
The Growth of Rome
In the past ten years has been
steady, and its progress of a sub
stantial and permanent nature. Its
prepent growth has been the result of
the systematic and energetic use of
the advantages which nature has
bestowed so bountifully, coupled with
the energy of enthusiasm and deter
mination.
The industrial and manufacturing
enterprises have added largely to the
growth of Rome. No city in the South
can boast of a better class of laboring
men than can be found in this fair
city. They are thrifty, prudent,
economical and are not disturbed by
the ordinary conditions whish make
labor an uncertain element in a com
munity.
No error is committed when Rome
is ranked among the progressive cities
of the South, for its advantages are
inferior to none and its future possi
bilities are so beautifully foreshad
owed. Its citizens speak of the city as
the site of coming industrial enter
prises, the products of which will find
a ready market in all civilized coun
tries, its institutions of learning,
churches, lovely homes etc.
To cite a complete list of the many
attractive features of the city would in
volve many hours of labor, and these
few are given that a partial insight to
the Rome of today may be obtained by
those living abroad.
As a place of residence Rome offers all
the advantages of health, climate,laws,
schools, churches, morality, society,
public convenience and of business.
The citizens are law-abiding and peace
ful.andare willing and ready to encour
age, in a substantial way, any worthy
enterprise, which is backed by money
and men of character and experience.
As a place of trade, Rome commends
itself most forcibly to the inhabitants of
the surrounding country. It offers a
good market for cotton, corn, fruit and
other staples. The merchants sell their
goods at prices that defy competition.
It pays the farmer to dispose of his pro
ducts and buy goods in Rome because it
is the btst market. It pays to settle in
Rome because of its healtbfuloess, edu
cational facilities and other advantages.
Prospects for the Future
Rome has a record of continuous
growth, and it is a fa r presumption
that the future will present results of
even accelerated expansion. Its natural
advantages were at no time better sup
plemented by its acquired resources
than they are today, and the opportu
nities to inaugurate new enterprises and
obtain homes, occupation and happi
ness, are here open to all. Rome pre
sents many attractions to the student,
the patriot, the business man and the
wage earner, and greatest of all to that
most practical of philanthropists, the
enterprising capitalists, seeking safe
investments in real estate or in the es
tablishment of productive industries.
Thus sitting like a queen upon her
throne, commanding the commerce of
the garden spot of Georgia, Rome in
vites capital, merchants, and all who
theorize on husbandry to como, see and
compare its advantages with those of its
more pretentious sister cities of the
South.
THE CITIZENS' BANK
Launched Upon Its Useful Career*
A New Institution.
During the life of a city there are con
stantly being launched in the commer
cial channels new enterprises that give
promise of future usefulness,
A new enterprise, and one which will
be of vast impoitance to the oity from
a financial standpoint, will shortly be
put in operation. The institution re
ferred to is The Citizens’ Bank, a cor
poration organized under the strte
banking laws for the purpose of con
ducting a general banking business at
this point.
The incorporators of the new bank
are men far and widely known for their
good citizenship and ability as finan
ciers and business men. They are:
Josiah L. Bass, Emmett A. Heard,
Linton A. Dean, of Rome, and Richard
R. Beasley, of Rockmart.
Their names are synonymous of pro
bity and sagacity, . and their connec
tions with The Citizens’ Bank assures
that its affairs will be well and ably
conducted.
The capital stock of the bank will be
$50,000, a share of which has already
been subscribed. In the nature of its
operations, the new bank will be thor.
oughly metropolitan, and will transact
a general banking business in all its
branches.
J. C. Berry, one of the best known
citizens of Spencer, Mo., testifies that
he cured himself of the worst kind of
piles by using a few boxes of DeWitt’s
Witch Hazel Salve. He had been troubled
with piles for over thirty years, and bad
used many different kinds of so called
curss; but DeWitt’s was the one that did
the work and he will verify this state
ment if any one wishes to write him. Cur
ry-Arrington & Co.
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