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HOW THE VIRGIN. MARY KEPT HOUSE.
Lived for Years After the Crucifixion of
Christ in a Fine Country Dwelling
Near Ephesus.
tier Room of Prnjrr In Mill Pre*cneil—lative. Have Kept It Seerot for
Fear of I lie Katal.liwli.neut of a Costly Shrine—lt \\ as
Ituilt for Her by St. John tlie Apostle.
' Copyright. 1897.
Washington, Jan. 15.—The house In wntch
the Virgin Mary lived after the death of
Christ has been found. Its discovery was
not unexpected, for at intervals since its
disappearance six centuries ago, it has
been thought that trace had been made to
It. The house is in ruins, but there is
enough of it left to show the rooms occu
pied by the Virgin, and to indicate what
must have been the daily home routine.
The Roman Catholic University here at
Washington has received news of it from
the Fathers of the Order of Lazarus, lo
whom belongs the credit of finding it.
It is known that the Virgin Mary, after
the death of Christ, went with St. John,
“the deeiple w hom Jesus loved," to Ephe
eus, and there dwelt for the remainder of
her life. A house was built for her, and
she was supported, it is believed, by fol
lowers of her religion, who reverenced htr
as the then living head of their beliefs.
For 500 years after her death there were
well-kept records of her doings In Ephesus.
Such literature as there was abounded
with references to her and her ways. She
was called “the Good Lady” and "the Di
vine.” And that she devoted herself to
good deeds there was abundant proof un
til her death.
In this literature there was, unfortunate
ly, no record of her house. All mention
® iffi
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RUINS OF THE OLD HOME OF THE VIRGIN, NEAR EPHESUS, FROM PHOTOGRAPH RECENTLY TAKEN BY A LAZARINE MONK.
of Us location was destroyed by a curious
fatality of accident. One w'riter, Paglio
mene, who acted as the posthumous
biographer of the Virgin, went to the
trouble of describing the house accurately.
He told each door and window and made
a wood-picture of the oratory where she
prayed every hour In the day.
At one place the manuscript of Daglio
mene was torn off. and only loose scraps
of it remained for what must have been
several hundred pages. When the story
is again taken up it is engaged in a de
scription of the garden of the Virgin, In
which grew ligs and olives, surrounded by
a tall border or hedge of laurels. The
torn off places would have located the
house, but, alas! they were gone!
Last September, while reading his relig
ious books with renewed fervor, looking
toward another anniversary of the birth
of Christ, one of the Lazarist fathers dis
covered an old book which gave the loca
tion of the home of the Virgin more close
ly than any other. The good father re
solved to investigate, and, taking with
him five scientific men, he started out
from the ruined city of Ephesus to hunt
down the location of the house.
After search it Was 'found. It is situ
ated upon a thickly wooded plateau, the
hill of-the nightingales, about eight miles
from any village, and so well isolated
through these years that the people who
live In the town beyond knew not of It.
The hill covers n territory of ten square
mlbs, and the woods people, although they
knew from generation to generation that
the house was reverenced, have kept It a
secret. It is said they feared the estab
lishment of a shrine and the taking away
of their woodlands.
To the surprise of the Lazarus fathers
It was found that the people on the hill
have the firmest belief In the house of the
Virgin, snd have guarded the secret to the
extent of cultivating the tall trees around
It lest the place became known and of his
toric Interest.
One of the roads leading to the hill is
called the Gate of the Virgin be
cause it was along this road
that Mary travelled to Ephesus weekly on
errands of mercy; and there Is a spread
ing grove of oak trees called the Woods of
the Virgin, because here she dally admin
istered to the sick.
The house is a fine one, even in Its rulna
It was known that St. John built a home
for the Virgin and modelled It after the
gymnasium at Athens, one of the finest
public buildings of the duy, but it was not
supposed that such a handsome structure
could have been erected so far from a
town.
The house is built upon the Roman
scheme of three sub-divisions. A room
is In the middle and one at each side of It.
A vestibule leads Into the middle room.
The middle section is again divided,
making it three rooms deep. The first is
an ante-chamber, where guests assembled.
Here it U thought the apostles met as in
ten as possible for consultation and prayer.
The second room unswered as a sitting
room. for there are the ruins of settees
around the wall. In the middle Is a large
round basin, which must have been a
fountain, and here the weary travellers
w.te ottered the refreshments of the
tin.es. They rested, bathed their feet and
I partook of olives, figs and wine.
The third room Is the most Interesting
jof all. It was the place of prayer of the
Virgin. It now stands the best preserved
lof any of the house. The people passing
it pause to reverence It. and It has become
! a shrine that is perpetually worshipped.
1 Nothing remains in the ruins except a
| standing cross and a broken bench. The
i house was lighted from the top. It was
only one story high.
The sleeping-room of the Virgin was
severe simplicity itself. There was a
long, low bed. This still stands in place.
It was a stone shelf on one side of the
room. Opposite it there was a stone, set
tie, and at one end a rude table might have
been a place of worship.
The room on the left of the house was
what we would call the kitchen. Here
the Virgin lived unattended save by those
whom she befriended; and here she cook
ed her simple meals and administered to
such of her daily wants as were absolute
necessities. The tales of her. drawn re
luctantly from the country folk, as told
to them generation after generation, say
that she often had large gatherings of per
sons. most of whom were needy. All fol
lowers of the faith gathered there on her
birthday. This is still observed by the
country folk, who make the Virgin's blrth-
day their principal midsummer holiday.
Tlie cooking utensils of the Virgin were
found in the ruins of the kitchen. They
consisted of two large flat stones, a jug.
large mugs of a peculiar reddish composi
tion and flat that resembleour composition
of tin. They were stroner, however,
and were neither brittle nor flexible. A
hollowed out stone,stained with dark sub
stance, must have been the lamp used in
those days.
The discovery of the home of the Virgin
may lead to the establishment of another
Mecca, or a shrine of healing like Lourdes.
It Is found that the persons dwelling thero
have health to a marvelous degree.
Albert Cameron.
Corporol Punishment In Schools,
From the Atlanta Journal.
Savannah is the first city in Georgia
to abolish the rod in public schools.
Corporal punishment Is now forbidden by
the Savannah bourd of education and the
teachers testify that discipline in the
schools has not suffered.
The tendency is undoubtedly In this
direction. Some of us who will not ad
mit that we are old remember when the
rod was considered as essential in a,
school as blackboards or desks; when It
was fatal to the popularity of a teacher
to acquire a reputation for being too
sparing with the switch.
That time has passed and will never
return. There were abuses of the old
system which should have caused Its
abolition long before It was cast off.
Many good persons regard the disappear
ance of the rod as an evidence of decay
In our civilization. They believe that
school children need occasional punish
ment of a physical character, and they
have never lost faith In the wisdom of the
proverb, "Spare the rod and spoil the
child."
Whether these advocates of the old
school policy arc right or wrong, they
are in a constantly decreasing minority.
They ore not In tune with the times, and
there are few communities in this country
where schools are conducted according to
their notions of discipline and propriety.
The rise of the public school involved
the gradual downfall of the rod as the
scepter of pedagogic authority, but we
have no doubt that many occasions arise
in our schools where a thrashing is richly
deserved. The question Is whether cor
poral punishment is the most judicious
and effective remedy In such cuses, and
that question Is being rapidly settled on
the negative side.
—Mrs. lsuiicl Bogncr Is the name of a
Wi "hlta (Kan.) woman who was granted
u divorce the other day. with the privilege
of resuming her widoW name, which was
Mrs. Fltahugh. Not only did she assume
this widow name, but she also put on tlie
widow's weeds which she was wearing
when she married liogner.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1897.
PRINCES IN NEW YORK.
SAD ROMANCES OF EXILE AMI POV
EHTV.
Men With Title* Who Are Trying
Unobtrusively to Earn an Honest
Living In This Country—Tilled
Restaurant Waiters.
From the New York Tribune.
In addition to those foreign aristocrats
who visit this country with the avowed
Intention of bartering an ancient name
and title for the dollars of some Ameri
can heiress, there are others, more man
ly and more honorable, who take up their
residence in the United States for the
purpose of repairing by means of hard
work fortunes that have been shattered
either through reputations or extrava
gance, and sometimes reputations that
have been temporarily, but not irreme
diably, sullied by indiscretions. Men who
have been overtaken by financial diffi
culties, who had the misfortune to kill
their adversaries in duels, who have in
curred the wrath of great personages
whose powers of persecution extend be
yond the borders of their own country;
men who, destined to inherit vast wealth,
find It impossible to go the pace of so
ciety in Europe while waiting for "dead
men's shoes”—nearly all turn their eyes
in the direction of the New World. And
they migrate hither, convinced that inas
much as in America all men are equal
and are supposed to be judged and ap
preciated, not by their names or ante
cedents but by what they can accom
plish, they will stand a better chance
here than anywhere else of either recov
ering their fortunes or of tiding over their
evil days.
They arrive in shoals, some of them
traveling under their own names, while
in the case of others the Identity Is con
cealed beneath some common-place patro
nymic, and they nearly always begin by
pitching their tents here in New York.
Many are provided with letters of in-
troduction to prominent people of this
city. For no matter how dark the cloud
under which the blue-blooded emigrant
leaves Europe, there are few of his rela
tives, friends or even acquaintance who
would have the heart to refuse him a
note of recommendation; which, alter all.
is held to give the wanderer a chance, to
entail no financial or inoral responsibility
to the writer, and which Is the cheapest
method by which an obligation can be
conferred. But these letters seldom lead
to anything except a dinner or two, for
which reason they are described as ‘‘soup
tickets,” while at the best they serve In
the hands of unscrupulous bearers to ex
tract more or less willing loans and ad
vances of money from the persons to
whom they are addressed.
Some of the foreigners thus arriving In
this country begin by endeavoring to put
their title and their aristocratic connec
tions to profitable account by means of
holding them out as a bait at which they
expect American heiresses to nibble. These
are the least deserving of the foreigners,
but unfortunately the men who. owing to
their impudence and utter almence of deli
cacy, are able to command by far the
largest share of attention. But the ma
jority lay aside on landing their preten
sions to rank, drop temporarily whatever
titles they may possess as unsuited to the
condition of a country where such things
are supposed to be at a discount, do not
even make any attempt to use the letters
of Introduction which they may have
brought with them, and determine to rely
entirely upon their own hard work to
make their way in a place where they
Imagine that all men start with the same
chance of auceess in life.
These, by far the most praiseworthy,
chivalrous and In every way high-minded
of the nobles who visit IheUnlted States
are precisely those Who receive least at
tention from nociety, who are neglected,
and who are left to work their way un
aided and unheeded. And thus It is that
one finds a Muscovite noble, with a crimi
nal record In three countries, whose pas
sage to New York has been in more
senses tliun one a "tlcket-of-leave," be
ing entertained here with the utmost hos
pitality. put up at the leading dluba and
asked to the most exclusive halls, while
Austrian and German princes of much
higher rank, of honorable antecedents,
whose sole cause of expatriation Is a flnan
rial "cropper,” or death Inflicted In the
defence of the honor of a sister or of a
wife, ure left to vegetate unheeded and
unaided as clerks, medical students, con
ductors on railroads, or as car drivers and
hotel waiters.
No more striking illustration of this con
dition of affairs can be cited than the case
of I’rlnee Michael Hilkoff. Fifteen or
twenty years ago, having squandered hla
own fortune and that of his wife while
an officer of the Chevaliers Gardes In 3t.
Petersburg, he came to this country with
the princess, with the object of repairing
Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad Cos.
63 Miles Shortest Line to Tssspa, 34 Mile# Shortest Line to Jacksonville.
TIME TABLE IX EFFECT XOA’. 16, 1806.
NORTH | Tram ; Tram SOUTH Train | Train
36 | 38 j 35 | 37
Khh meridian time Dally.j Dally.! 90th meridian time Dally.| Dally.
I>y Jacksonville 6 45pm! 8 20am jLv New York 12 loamj 4 3upm
Lv Fernandina 6 40pm'| 7 40am Lv Philadelphia 3 50am| 6 55pm
Lv Brunswick 7 45pm; 9 45am; Lv Baltimore 6 22am 9pm
. -P arlen 4 35pm ; 9 30am, Lv Washington 1115amj 10 43pm
AT Savannah fll 10pm 12 18pm ;Lv Asheville 3 05 pm:
Lv Savannah 1120pm, 12 26pm' Ar Bvanpah 4 50amj 4 25pm
Ar Columbia, S. C 355 am 4 13pm |Lv Savannah 5 OOamj 4 33pm
•* r Asheville , N. C 2 40pm jAr Darien 12 2Spm| 716 pm
Ar Knoxville. Tena...... 7 25pm j Ar Brunswick 8 00am| 7 30pm
Ar Cincinnati. O 715 am j Ar Fernandina 9 35am; 9 00pm
Ar Richmond Vs ' k Jacksonville 9 00am 9 12pm
Ar Washington 9 40pm' 6 42am |*r St. Augustine 10 30am -
Baltimore u 35pm 8 06am ;Ar Tailahasseo „7..... 330 pm a
As Philadelphia 2 56am,10 15am Ar Pensacola 1100 pm ••
Ar New York 6 23am, 12 43pm Ar Moble 305 am
" , Ar New Orleans 7 3oam
Ar Ocala | 2 40pm| 2 27ara
_Ar Tampa |7 00pm|7 55am
~ [Train 39,] [Train 40
Lv Denmark *3 OOam lLv Savannah I* 4 45pm
Ar Savannah *8 30am |Ar Denmark j*lolopffl
Trains 39 an 6 40. daily except SundayTTtop for local business.
Pullman buffet sleepers Jacksonville and New York on trains 35 and 36 and Jack
sonville and Cincinnati via Asheville without change.
Pullman buffet vestlbuled sleepers between Tampa and New York on trains tl
hnd 38, connecting at Charlotte with southwestern vestlbuled limited train.
Pullman bufTet sleeper Jacksonville to New Orleans, connecting with train 35
from Savannah.
For full information apply to A. O. MACDONELL, G P A. Jacksonville, Fla.
N. 8. PENNINGTON, Trafllc Manager. Jacksonville, Fla.
I. M. FLEMING. Division Passenger Agent. Savannah, Ga.
Trains leave from Central depot, corner West Broad and Liberty street!.
his fortunes, and likewise in order to
await the death of relatives who had a
life interest in property to wtiieh he was
entitled on their demle-. Notwithstand
ing the antiquity of the name of the prince
and princess, the loftiness of their rank
and the brilliancy of their career at St.
Petersburg, no one here lent them a help
ing hand. They were invited to no Patt i
arch balls or Delmonico dinners, and were
left severely alone by society. The prince
thereupon secured a berth, first as brake
man and then as fireman on the New York
Central railroad, while the princess, in
spite of her dainty rearing and former ele
gance, took in washing to keep the wolf
from the door. The prince’s subsequent
career, and how he returned to Europe to
use the practical knowledge of railroad
ing which he had obtained in this coun
try as brakeman, fireman and engineer,
have been recently .related lit these col
umns on the occasion of nis visit to the
United States In his present capacity of
minister of roads and communications in
the czar’s cabinet.
At the present moment there is in ine
of the medical schools of Greater New
, York—it would be unkind and ungener
ous to specify more closely the Institu
tion—a young prince of grander name, of
more illustrious lineage and of higher
rank than any who have visited this coun
try, save those of the blood royal. He
has dropped the handle to his name with
the object of avoiding attention, has as
sumed in Its stead the democratic pre
fix of “Mr,” and Is working day and night
to qualify himself as a physician. He
lives in the most unobstruslve fashion,
Is genial and unaffected with every one,
and Is a universal favorite among his fel
low-students, who are ignorant of ifis
identify and of the fact that there arfe
but two lives between himself and the pos
session of immense family estates and he
reditary dignities at court, as well as no
less than four dukedoms. His presence
in this country is due entirely to the fact
that he sustained such heavy losses on the
turf that It became necessary to place him
under what Is known as “curatel;" that
is to say, to confide the remnants of his
property to olficlal trustees for the bene
fit of h'.s creditors, he himself receiving
a mere pittance from the estate; and this
opportunity may be taken to deny the re
ports current among some of the foreign
born population of th'.s city, who know of
his presence, to the effect that he has been
compelled to expatriate himself for hav
ing, In defense of his sister's honor, con
tributed to the death of his sovereign's
heir. No stronger proof of the falsity of
this story need he cited than the fact
that the prince In question continued to
serve In a crack cavalry regiment for a
considerable time after the tragedy In
question, and that the sister whom he Is
asserted to have avenged remains to this
day such a favorite of the imperial father
and bother of the dead heir npparent—
she was brought up at court as the foster
child of their majesties— that her young
husband has lately received for her sake
one of the principal and most Important
offices In the imperial household. These
facts speak for themselves, and consti
tute the most convincing contradiction of
the stories which might lead to the infer
ence that the young man is something
very much akin to a regicide.
it is said 'to relate that the majority of
the nobles of the stamp and character of
this manly young prince who came to this
country meet with failure, being unaccus
tomed to the conditions of life here and
ignorant of every trade, save that of arms
or diplomacy, neither of which constitutes
a very useful equipment In the struggle
for a livelihood. The consequence is that
many fall by the wayside, and it is thus
that one hears of a great-grandson of the
famous German Field Marshal Blucher
succumbing to the effects of privation an l
want in the paupers' ward of a New York
hospital, of a nephew of Prince Bismarck
seeking refuge among the forces of the
Salvation Army, and of the brother of the
Right Hon. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff,
G. C. 8., British ambassador to the court
of Spain, dying while serving as a porter
in a wholesale grocery store at Jackson
ville. Mr. Wolff was graduated with hon
ors at Oxford, but subsequently came to
grief financially-, and thereupon emigrated
to this country, where he was in turn dry
goods clerk, bill collector and bartender
before becoming a grocery porter. It was
as a night porter, too, in the mailing de
partment of a New York newspaper office,
that Lord Drummond died in extreme pov
erty after having quarreled with his
grandfather, the old Earl of Perth, who
is now nearly one hundred years old and
without male Issue.
Since I have been in this country- I have
helped back to England a bona fide baro
net of ancient lineage, who, now that he
is married to a Scotch lady possessed of
some property-, is no longer obliged to toil
so hard for his living as when he was em
ployed in that saw-mi!l at Acton, Fia.,
and subsequently here in New York as a
longshoreman. I have been waited upon
in a German restaurant on the east side
by no less a personage than Prince Benja
min Rohan, the younger brother of the
present chief of the great Austrian and
French family of that name. Such were
his debts and follies at Vienna that he was
disowned by- his uncle, the head of the
house, who bore the title of Duke of Bouil
lon and of Montbazon. Prince Benjamin,
who, although nearer 50 than 40. and very
bald and stout, still maintains his old nick
name of "Baby'' Rohan, can hardly be
said to have shone in the profession which
he adopted as a last resource in this coun
try- after leaving Vienna, and, falling ill,
was compelled to subsist for a time on the
earnings of a fellow knight of the napkin,
who had been born a peasant on the old
Rohan estate of Sinchrow in Bohemia,
and, therefore, considered it a great priv
ilege to be permitted to act as a henchman
to a member of the family-. Prince Benja
min has now returned to Europe, and,
thanks to his brother, who has meanwhile
succeeded to trie estates, and also to the
liberality of Don Carlos, who has married
his sister Bertha, is once more on his
financial legs, although he finds it pre
ferable, in view of his Austrian creditors,
to live in France.
Prince Rohan is by no means the only
bearer of a grand title who ha3 figured as
a restaurant waiter in this country. For
there is Count von Schuienburg, brother
of the lady-in-waiting of the Empress of
Germany who officiated in that capacity
in this city for a time. While at Chicago
1 was served at table at the Grand Pacific
hotel by a young waiter in whom I recog
nized a Count von Groeben, at one time
an officer of the regiment of hussars
which the emperor commanded in person
before his accession to the throne. The
count had come over to this country for
the purpose of running a cattle ranch,
and, having lost all his money in the bus
iness, had been forced to seek other
means of livelihood. I have since heard,
however, that soon after my departure
from Chicago a wealthy merchant who
happened to be staying at the hotel took a
fancy to him and offered him a place as
clerk in his counting house.
Very bitter, too, were the experiences
of Count William Bernslorff. His father
was the statesman who immediately pro
coded Prince Bismarck as Prussian min
ister of foreign affairs and spent so many
years in London as German ambassador
to the court of St. James. Count "Willie”
was forced by some trouble In connection
with a duel to resign his equerryship to
Prince Henry of Prussia, as well as his
commission in the Ziethen Hussars, and
emigrated with his wife to this country.
Like many other foreigners, he Invested
his capital in the purchase of an appar
ently- nflrgnificent orange plantation in
Florida. Neither the count nor the coun
tess, the latter a sister of the present Ger
man envoy In Japan, possessed the slight
est knowledge of the necessities and ways
of life in the south, and It was not long be
fore the plantation enterprise resolved it
self into a most deplorable fiasco. Much
disgusted, the countess returned home to
her relatives, leaving her husband to fight
the battle of life as best he could. This
he attempted to do in many strange and
peculiar ways. For a year he acted as
agent and drummer for a well-known
champagne house. He likewise spent
some months as teacher in the employ of
one of the riding academies uptown,where
so many former cavalry officers of Eu
rope, incudlng Prince Schwarzenberg.
Count MensdoriT. of the princely house of
that name; Count Coronlnl-Cronberg, and
many others of equal rank have found a
means of livelihood on reaching this coun
try.
Count Bernstorff quarreled with his em
ployers, however, and for a time, drifted
about in New York without food and In
dire distress. Indeed, the poor fellow,
who had been reared to every luxury, and
held at the christening font by a venera
ble queen, was actually starving, when
he happened to meet a relative who was
able to secure him employment In connec
tion with two of the New York daily pa
pers until means could be provided for se
curing his return to Germany.
Few people have any idea of the amount
of Old World romance that is hidden away
in the east side of New York and also in
the poorer districts of Brooklyn. It would
require the pen of Dickens to do It Justice,
and even he would need the assistance of
some keen New York reporter, well ac
quainted with men and matters In Europe,
to serve as his sleuth in running stories
to the ground. For It Is precisely those
exiles whose career and antecedents are
of the most intensely dramatic and some
times tragical character, whose rank Is
of the loftiest, and whose antecedents
have been the most brl.llant, who are
most ut pains to conceal their identity
and the romance of their life from the
prying gaze of the curious.
Ex-Attache.
Plant System.
Trains Operated by POtli Meridian Time, One Hour Slower Than (i
Time. *
GOING SOUTH—Read Down, i TIME CARD. i| GO ING' NORTH—R?T,ft-' =:
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6 45pm 5 07pm 2 37ain 9 50am Ar Jesup.... Lv||U 12am 10 45pm 7 22am 8
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| 6 20pm 335 am 10 47am Ar ... Waycross.. Lvj,lo 17am; 9 40pm 6 10am 7‘ mlm
| 9 10pm [l2 50n’n; Ar ..Brunswick... Lvjj 8 OOarn! | ; 4 ™
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iio 30am: 8 25pm Ar .St Augustine.. Lv|| 7 00am 5 15pm 1 v
| 8 05pm I'; Ar ..Palm Beach.. Lv;j 7 30am
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| 7 17am 1 01pm jAr Live Oak... Lv[| 6 30am 6 16pm j
I 1 55pm 5 42pmj Ar Leesburg Lvj|l2 35n’t 11 55am
| G 20pm 9 OOpmjjAr Tampa... Lv! 7 50pm 7 00am
i 6 33pm' 9 ISpmjjAr .T. B. Hotel... Lvj 7 39pm 6 40am
I 7 Oopm 9 45pm 11 Ar Port Tampa.. Lv| 7 10pm 6 15am
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| 7 00pm 6 45am ;Ar ...Nashville.... Lvj 9 05am 11 20pm
I 2 30am| 12 27n'nj ! Ar ...Louisville.. Lvj 2 55am 5 45nm
j 7 15am BT7pm Ar Chicago.... Lv; 9 00pm 10 Dam
Trains marked * run daily; marked t daily except Sunday. No. 307 t leaves Sav
vannah 7;00 a. m. for Waycross and intermediate stations. No. 306 t arrives Savan
nah 5:35 p. m. from Waycross and Intermediate stations. Nos. 5, 6, 21, 22, 24
306 and 307 make all local stops.
THROUGH CAR SERVICE.
Nos. 35 anil 32 carrv Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars between New York and Port
Tampa, via West Coast; New York and Jacksonville and Jacksonville and Cincin
nati, via Waycross, T homasvilla and Montgomery. These trains run solid between
Washington and Jacksonville. No. 35 connects at Waycross with Pullman buffet
sleeping car for St. Louis, via Tifton, Macon, Atlanta and Naslhville. Nos. 23 ant
78 carry Pullman buffet sleeping cars between New York and Jacksonville, and
Duppr.t and Port Tampa, via West Coast. No. 21 connects as follows with Pullman
Buffet Sleeping Cars at Waycross; To St. Louis, via Thomasvllle and Montgomery
to Nashville, via Tifton, Macon and Atlanta; to Jacksonville and at Jacksonville to
Port Tampa via Sanford.
PLANT STEAMSHIP LINE
Leave Port Tampa for Key West and Havana 10:00 p. m., Mondays and Thurs
days; for Mobile 10:00 p. m., Saturdays.
Tickets sold to ad points and sleeping car berths secured at passenger station
and ticket office, De Soto hotel. Telephone No. 73.
E. A. ARMAND, City Ticket Agent.
J. W. CARR, District Passenger Agent.
B. W. WRENN. Pasenger Traffic Manager.
H. C. SITADDES, Assistant General Passenger Agent.
GEORGIA ANO ALABAMA RAILWAY.
SAVANNAH SHORT LINE.
Passenger Schedules. Effective Dec. 27, 1896.
72 Miles Shortest Operated Line Between Savannah and Montgomery. 26 Miles
Shortest Operated Line Bet ween Savannah and Columbus.
' F‘. c. & P- | A. C. Line. |j || A. C. Line. | F. C. & P.
12 )sam| 4 30pm | s’gupm; 9 30am|;Lv ...New York.... Ar|| 203pm| 6 53am| 6 23amdfpm
3 50amj 6 55pin!12 05 n‘t|l2 OSn’njjLv ..Pmladelphia. Ar||ll 25 am 3 45am| 2 56am 1015 am
6 22am! 9 20pm| 2 80am|’ 2 25pwj|Lv ... .Baltimore... Ar|; 9 05am)12 S3 n’tjll 35pmj * (Nam
11 loam! 1043pmi 1 30am 318 pm Lv .Washington.... Arj| 7 40am;ll 10pm| 9 40pm| 642 am
j 9 05&m! 7 30pmjjLv ....Richmond... Ar 4 20am! 6 40pmj 6 40pm
j |lo33pm| 612 am; Lv ..Charleston Arjj 510 pm; 5 10am| |
10 15pm| 325 am; | |;Lv ....Charlotte.... Ar,| | J 8 50am 8 20pm
1 37am 12 50pm; j ||Lv ....Columbia... Ar,| | | 356 am 4 ISpm
4 50am 1 25pm 12 50 n't 8 06am Ar ...Savannah... Lv 12 55n‘n 12 45 n’t|ll 20pm 1226 pm
i | No. 19 j NoTl7l H No. 201 No. 18 |
l — 7 23am Lv Savannah.... Ar'! 8 10ami 9 40pm
] | 7 32pm| 7 32am jAr C.&S. Junction. Arj| 8 04am, 9 33pm
j jll 30pmill 47am!|Ar Helena Lv 4 00am; 5 35pm 1
| |ll 35pmjU 48am ULv Helena || | i
j |l2 29 n’tjl2 41n’njjAr ...Abbeville Lvji 2 58am| 4 40pm |
I | 1 40am; 1 50pm Ar Cordele Lv I 145 am; 328 pm |
j | 1 45am 2 15pm [Lv Cordele |j | [
| |2ooam| 325 pm Ar ..Americus Lv||l2 35 n’t| 2 20pm
| 3 soam; 4 32pm Ar ....Richland.... Lvj ;11 38pm| 115 pm;
| 1 6(Warn 6 10pm ,Ar ....Columbus... Lv;! 9 00pm; 11 25am
1 10am
| | 8 00pm ( |Ar Albany Lvi; ! 9 45am
| 5 47am; 6 37pm|iAr ...Hurtsboro Lvj| 9 48pmj 10 48am
' ! 7 00pm, 6 50am JAr ...Nashville.... Lv ; 9 05am 11 20pm
j I 2 30am;12 24n'n|Ar ...Louisville.... Lv|| 2 55am! 5 45pm
| | 7 05amj 4 10pm ;Ar ..Cincinnati Lv ;U oOpm| 2 00pm
| j 1 Siam) 4 40pmi|Ar ...St. Loui3 Lvjl 9 25pm] 8
| 1 50pm| 305 am )Ar Mobile Lvj |l2 50n’n;i2 20 n’t
| 6 lOpnii 7 40am Ar .New Orleans.. Lv]| S 25am; 7 aOpmi
Trains 17 and 13 carry Pullman parlor buffet cars and - make all local stops.
Trains 19 and 20, fast night lines, carry Pullman palace sleeping cars.
Connecting at Savannah by all trains, with steamship lines for Baltimore, Phil
adelphia, New York and Boston; with Plant system, and Florida Central and Jen
insular, Atlantic Coast Line for points north; with Savannah and Atlantic rail
way for Tybee.
At Collins by trains Nos. 17 and 18, with Collins and Reidsville railroad and
Stillmore Air Line.
At Helena by trains Nos. 17 and 19, with Southern railway for all points thereon.
At cordele by trains Nos. 17, 18, 19 and 20, with Georgia Southern and Florida
for Macon and beyond; also with Albany and Northern railway for Albany.
At Richland, by trains Nos. 17. 18 and 19 with Columbus division for Colum
bus; 17 and 18 witfr Albany division for Dawson and Albany.
Tickets sold to all points and sleeping car berths and parlor car seats secured at
ticket oifice, corner Bull and Bryan streets, or at West Broad street passenger
station. CECIL GABBETT, First Vice President and General Manager.
A. POPE, General Passenger Agent. J. L. BECK, Commercial Agent.
A. M. MAP.TIN, City Ticket Agent, corner Bull and Bryan streets.
Central of Georgia Railway Cos.
VEoasiA
Schedule* In effect Jan. 10, 1897-
going \VEtsi-t:i..u> Lou n,, II going East—REaß UPT
No. a No. 7 | No. a I No. Ij| Cent ral | No. 2 | No. 4 | N*o. 8| No w
except except| daily | daily || or I I I exceptl except
Sun. Sun. | | II 90th Meridian time, f daily j dally | Sun. | Sun.
2uupm| 6 oopm| 9 Uopm| 8 45amj |Lv.... Savannah ....Ar|f6’4opinf 6 00am| 7 48am| 4
SOapml 7 00pm110 03pm| 9Kam||Ar Guyton Lv,| 5 33pm| 4 51am| 6 4&ami 3 4p®
I 7 3ipm|lQß6pm|lo 26am,|Ar Oliver Lv|| Soßpm| 4 20am
jll 19pm|lX 07aml|Ar.... Rocky Ford ..Lvj| 4 2dpm ( 3 42am|
’ |U 48pm|ll 34am, |Ar Mlllen Lv., 3 63pm| 3 20am|... *
j 6 36am 15upm||Ar Augusta ....Lv|| 1 4spm| 8 40pm[
j 3 ooamj 3 45pm||Ar Macon Lv||U 56am|U 38pm *
” *lospm| )|Ar ...Carrollton ~..Lv|| |*2 10pm I
......... I 8 50am, 8 40pm||Ar ...Ft. Valley ....Lv]| 6 Kflaml 6 30pm j
I 2 07pm11001pm11Ar... Amer'cus ....Evil 5 ISamj 1 27pm |
* | 4 oOptnj '|.Vr Eufaiila ....I,vj 10 40am
\ | 7 36pm, ||At Troy Lv *
| | 7 50pm| l|Ar.. Montgomery ..Lv| 7 45am
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* | |6 00pm| 11 Ar. Birmingham ..Lv| 9 45am|
Trains marked • run dully except Sunday'
Tlmo shown Is 90th meridian, one hour slower than Savannah city time.
Solid trains between Savannah, Macon and Atlanta. ,
Sleeping cars on night trains between Savannah nnd Augusta. Savannah sns
Macon. Savannah and Atlanta. Parlor cars between Macon and Atlanta.
Passengers arriving Macon at 3:55 a m can remain In sleeper until 7am
For further Information and for schedules to all points beyond our line f‘PP'
to W. G. BREWER, City Ticket Agent, 19 Bull street, or J. C. BIIAW, Traveling
Passenger Agent. .1. C. HAILE, General Passenger Agont. Havannah, Ga.
w. F. BHELLMAN. Traffic Manager. THEO. D. KLINE. Gen. Superintendent^
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