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ij THE NEW WESTERN
BAILWAT BTOI,
An Illustrated Monthly, devoted to the inter
est of the Traveling l Public, containing valuable
and reliable information for the Emigrant, Tour
ist and Home Seeker. Railway Schedules cor
rected monthly. THE GUIDE can be had at all
prominent Hotels, Ticket Offices and Stations on
the line of Railroads and principal News Stands
in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Memphis, Nashville,
New Orleans, Birmingham, Louisville, Cincin
nati, Chicago, Washington and New York City,
and Principal Towns in Arkansas and Texas.
Sample Copies mailed FREE.
As an Advertising Medium the NEW WEST
ERN RAILWAY GUIDE is the cheapest and best
monthly paper of its kind published in the South.
5,000 REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS.
MVmiSIXfl RATES and TERIS Siren on APPLICATION.
THE GUIDE goes to press on 15th of each
month. All matter intended for publication
should be on hand not later than that date.
• PRINTED BY
THE A. H.PUGH PRINTING CO.,
CINCINNATI.
R. A. WILLIAMS, - Proprietor and Manager.
M. E. LA VETTE,Editor.
Office, 76 E. Hunter St. A 13 Kimball House, Atlants. Gs.
•NE DOLLAR, ■ « - Per Tear.
TEN CENTS, - Per Copy.
All Remittances, Subscriptions and Accounts
, should be mailed to P. O. Box 236, Atlanta, Ga
Money Orders, Drafts and Local Checks should toe
made payable to R. A. WILLIAMS, Manager.
Atlanta, Ga., November 1887.
PURIFY THE PRESS.
The papers are crowded with items of crime and
disaster, sandwiched with seneational accounts of
some absconding cashier or clerk, and an occasionl
article that is beneficial to humanity. The result is
a lowering of the moral standard. The daily paper
has become the educator. We are passing through
an era of lightning activity of brain and mucle; ex
pertness is the demand of the hour. To be expert
means to be familiar with the news of the day —a
thorough knowledge of the present and sound" judg
ment of the future. Time is limited; the newspaper
is the natural resource. Then how important their
purification. If our own papers were clean and
wholesome, if the necessary items of crime were cut
down to mere facts, barren of word pictures, and the
transactions of the Court rooms served in the same
manner, the spice of curiosity would not be whetted,
the press keeps the public mind in a state of in
tense curiosity. This is the proper thing for an
educator; but for what? Is it the good, the true,
and the beautiful, what is dictated upon. Do the
reporters hunt for these kind of items? Is it knowl
edge they wish to dispense or sensationalism? Bill
Nwe has written a satire on the purity of politics,
let him now give the press the same attention in his
peculiar style. Let our wit and humor be clear and
sparkling as a mountain stream. A hearty laugh
is one of our choicest blessings. Wit and humor
tarnished by slang and vulgarity is poison to the
soul. Let us ring in the change, purify the press,
let the skill of the surgeon in the use of the scalpel
be wielded by the editors of the day; let them slash
right and left at the vile encumbrance that mars the
truth and purity of their daily lessons; with
efforts lie the honor of our homes, the purity of our
politics and the prosperity of our country.
■REDUCED RATES TO THE WEST.
To get advantage of them write to
P. A. Williams, T. P. A.
Atlanta Ga.
The passenger boys who have had their office at
28 Wall st., Atlanta, have moved to No. 13 Kim
ball House, where they are fitting up in fine style.
New carpets, pretty pictures, and everything spick
and span. They are getting ready for the winter
season which all predict will be a remarkably brisk
one on account of the low rates by the popular great
through car Route via M. & L. R. R. and Cotton
Belt Route.
Jay Gould is reported as saying that when the
price of real estate advances there is danger of a
| financial collapse. Down this way, for some vears
past, we have witnessed the advance in real estate •
but the collapse has not come yet and it is at a very
encouraging distance from us.
THE NEW WESTERN RAILWAY GUIDE.
NASHVILLE, CHATTANOOGA & ST. LOUIS R’Y.
THE OLD RELIABLE McKENZIE ROUTE.
The Only Line running FIRST-CLASS PALACE COACHES dally between
Atlanta, Chattanooga and Little Rock,
'’drifJta.oxxt CHango.
Only one change to all Points in Arkansas, Texas, and the Great Southwest. Elegant Line Parlor
Chair Cars daily between Atlanta and Nashville, each way. Also, Elegant Pullman Sleepers on Night
Trains, between ATLANTA, GA , and NASHVILLE, TENN.
Only one change between Atlanta, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago,
and all Points in the GREAT NORTHWEST.
If you desire to go to any point in the Great North or Southwest, you will save both time and
money by calling on or writing to either of us. No trouble to answer questions. All corn in •uni cation a
promptly answered. Maps, Time Tables and Rates furnished free upon application.
J. H. LATIMER, - - S. E. Pass’r Agt., P. O. Box 305, Offlse 28 Wall Bt., o>p. Union Depot, . - ATLANTA, GA.
W.T. ROGERS, Trav. Pass’r Agt., CHATTANOOGA, TENN. W. R. JONES, Trav. Pass’r Agt., KNOXVILLE,TENN.
W. L. DANLEY, Gen’l Pass’r Agt., NASHVILLE, TENN. J. W. THOMAS, Gen’l Mgr., NASHVILLE, TENN.
ROUND TRIP TICKETS
TO
T ZE JXI-A. S I
We are now selling Excursion Tickets to Austin, San
Antonio, Galveston, Houston and El Paso, Texas, good to re
turn until June 1,1888, at greatly reduced rates.
Note our Special Round Trip Reduced Rates :
From ATLANTA to AUSTIN, TEXS43 15
“ “ “ EL PASO, “ 68 30
“ “ “ GALVESTON, TEX 38 55
“ “ “ HOUSTON, “ 36 55
“ “ “ SAN ANTONIO “ 45 20
ROUND TRIP TICKETS to CALIFORNIA
From date until March Ist, 1888,
We will, sell round trip tickets to California, taking effect
at Memphis, at 372. Tickets good to stop off at will, and good
lor six months to return.
Excursion Tickets read via Memphis and Little Rock R.R.
For further information write to R. A.Williams, Atlanta,Ga.
This Great necessity for the Southern and
Southwestern states at the present time is sufficient
population to utilize and make profitable the mil
lions of acres of waste land, and capital to develop
their dormant and incomputable wealth in mines and
manufactures; and the better development of their
latent resources will surely bring increased pros
perity to aJI. The advaniages of the Southern
States in climate and soil for all branches of agri
culture, as well as mining and manufacturing facili
ties, are comparatively unknown either at home or
abroad. The South does not receive that amount of
either the domestic or foreign immigration to which
she is entitled and so richly merits. We recognize
the paramount importance of properly presenting
the claims of the South and Southwest to the great
moving masses as the best and fairest portion of the
American continent now open to settlement, not
only in respect to health, climate, soil, and rainfall,
but also for the investment of capital; and the im
portance of an earnest co-operation of all Southern
and Southwestern States for the purpose of inducing
immigration and building up of Southern industries.
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad.
General Passenger Dep’t,
Little Rock, Sept. 1, 1887.
CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS.
To Agents and Connections:
Our California excursions will leave Memphis via
Little Rock and El Paso at 11.00 pm., Dec. Ist,
and November 3d, 18th, 17th and 24th, at round
trip rate of seventy-two dollars.
CHANGE IN RETURN ROUTE.
For tickets reading via Little Rock and El Paso,
and returning via northern lines, Kansas City, St.
Louis and Nettleton to Memphis, five dollars addi
tional.
For tickets reading via Little Rock and El Paso,
and returning via El Paso, New Orleans and Illi
nois Central or L. N. O. & T. R’ys to Memphis,
six dollars and seventy cents additional.
An additional charge of fifteen dollars will be
made for tickets returning via Portland, Oregon,
Kansas City and St. Louis.
Tickets sold or exchanged on the above dates
will be good thirty days for going passage east of
Colton, and stop-over will be allowed within the
limit if desired. Stop-over west of Colton will be
allowed at pleasure.
The tickets will be limited good for six months
from date of sale, but are not good for return until
thirty days after date as sale.
Connecting lines are requested to issue orders for
tickets on following agents of this company at
Memphis, Tennessee.
R. H. Talley,
S. L. Finley,
B. Hughes,
Ticket Agents, Memphis, Tenn.
S. W. Tucker,
A. G. P. & T. A.
TZEaZZEJ
CUMBERLAND ROUTE,
Via BRUNSWICK.
"THE CITY BYTHE SEA,"
To
PULLMAN and MANN BOUDOIR
BUFFET CARS.
JOHN B. WRENN, Gen’l Freight and Pass’r Agt.
3 mos
DURAND’S
Parlor Dining Rooms
In North end of Union Depot,
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
Meals to Order or served from Bill
of Fare.
Lunches prepared on short notice. Passengers
notified in ample time before the departure of their
trains. In connection with the Dining Room, the
finest fruits and confectionaries can be obtained.
Western Union Telegraph Office and Telephone in
Dining Boom.
HENRY DURAND, Proprietor.
Cheapest Furniiure House
IN GEORGIA.
THE HANDSOMEST STOCK
IN THE SOUTH.
P. H. SNOOK,
7 & 9 Marietta Street,
A’bla.&’ba, ... Gteozrgia,.
Parlor and Chamber Suits a Specialty.
Qr««t Bargains In all Qrad®s ®f Furnttur®.
Instructions to Railway Travelers.
TICKETS.
Children over five (5) and under twelve (12) years
of age travel at half rate.
Ticket agents are expected to furnish tickets
called for, and are not allowed to advise passengers
as to choice of routes beyond their own lines.
If you start with a second-class ticket, and later
on you decide to change to first-class, you may do
so by paying the conductor the difference in rates.
Having once started on a certain train your ticket
is good only for that train. If you stop off at a
way station you forfeit your right of ride further
without paying additional fare. Some companies
allow conductors to issue stop-over checks to hold
ers of first-class unlimited tickets but this is an act
of accommodation on the part of the company.
A limited ticket is not good for passage after the
date of limitation has expired. This does not affect
passengers on the train, provided they had started
before the date of expiration. Where a passenger is
traveling on a coupon ticket, and his ticket expires,
he is entitled to ride as far as the coupon of the road
he happens to be on at the time of expiration.
If you lose your ticket, you are out that amount.
The railway company is under no obligation to give
you another nor allow you to ride free. Give notice
of your loss to the conductor. Pay your fare to him,
and take his receipt for the amount. When you
reach your destination notify the ticket agent of
your loss, and give him your address. If your ticket
is found the company will refund your money on
surrender of your receipt.
I case of an error in your ticket, do not attempt
to make the conductor rectify the mistake of the
ticket agent. Explain the situation to him, and he
will telegraph for instructions ; unless he hears to
the contrary, pay your fare and take his receipt for
the amount. When you reach your destination
show your unused ticket and receipt to the ticket
agent. He will either get instructions from the
management or redeem the unused ticket at once,
or will forward the ticket to the proper authority,
and you will receive notice of the issue. The time
which may elapse will depend upon how complica
ted the affair is, and whether the fault was on the
part of the company or yourself.
CHECKING BAGGAGE.
Railway regulations allow 150 pounds of baggage
to each full ticket.
Baggagemen are not allowed to check baggage
until they have examined your ticket.
On reaching your destination you are expected to
claim your baggage within twenty-four hours, if
not, you will be charged storage.
Baggagemen cannot knowingly check anything
but personal wearing apparel. All other articles
have to be weighed and charged for as excess bag
gage. >
Dogs or guns cannot be checked, but must be put
in charge of the train baggageman, who is allowed
to collect payment from the owner at the rate of $1
for each dog and fifty cents for each gun.
SLEEPING CARS.
Sleeping car accommodations are always extra
fare, and rates are fixed upon double berth, section
and drawing room occupied by one or more passen
gers. , •
Porters are paid a starvation salary, and expect to
make their living by sharking the travelers. An
occasional tip will make them extra attentive.
A double berth is sufficiently large to accommo
date two persons.
A section is a double lower and upper berth.
The drawing room is a separate apartment, and
has seat room and sleeping accommodations for six
persons.
At all points where a change of cars is necessary,
the sleeping car conductor will telegraph ahead and
secure the required accommodation without ex
pense to the passenger. Families, and ladies and
children traveling without escort, will receive par
ticular attention.
Travelers’ Information Bureau.
Determined on making the "New Western Rail
way Guide not only valuable to the traveling public
in general, but also to the present in the latest form,
useful and indispensible information to all classes of
travel, it has established a “ Travelers' Information
Bureau," through which persons will be able to
gather the most reliable facts, as regards routes, at
tractiveness, expenses, etc. We will at all times
have furnished, free of charge, accurate informa
tion, which the traveler would like to thoroughly
understand before beginning a journey. How far is
it ? What does it cost to get there ? etc.
If you are a non-resident, and contemplate mak
ing a trip to any point, and intend coming to Atlanta
to purchase tickets, kindly inform us of the fact a
day or so in advance, either by postal, telegram or
letter, stating on what train you will arrive, and we
will have you met upon your arrival here, by gentle
manly agents, who will attend personally to purchas
ing your tickets by the desired route, checking your
baggage, and starting you on the right train. Special
care and attention will be shown ladies with chil
dren, or traveling without escort. Handsome illus
trated guide books, descriptive of routes, pamphlets,
schedules, maps, etc., will be mailed free. For any
information relative to routes, ticket rates, etc.,
address: R. A. WILLIAMS,
P. O. Box 236, Atlanta, Ga.