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ELIZABETH.
THE MARBLE CITY OF GEOR
GIA, AT THE BASE OF HIS
TORIC KENNESAW
MOUNTAIN.
With the Most Superb Atmos
phere in America.
From .4 Pointer we copy the follow
ing :
Names sometimes carry with them
an attractivenes.' from association
which commends their bearers at once
to your favor. Whether of a person,
a mountain, a river or a State, the
rule holds good.
The Western and Atlantic railroad
authorities therefore made no mistake
in this respect when they named the
new station recently opened on their
line, immediately at the foot of the
famous Kennesaw .Mountain, “ Eliza
beth.”
Not only is this name one which has
been held in honor and esteem, and
treasured as sacred in the hearts of
men since the Scriptural era, but in
our own day it is borne by one who,
though quiet and retiring in disposi
tion, is known throughout Georgia as
being the type of true, gentle, noble
Christian womanhood.
To her companionship it is not bad
taste or exaggeration to say her hus
band, Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia,
is due a large measure of his remarka
ble success in life.
Marrying him when he had been,as
a young attorney in the mountains of
Georgia, practicing law for six months,
and had collected only eighty dollars
as she result of his work, she discerned
in him the powers of one who could
make himself great.
The history of Georgia, ami to some
extent that of the nation, show that
slii* was not mistaken. The high mor
al as well as intellectual standing,
prove the mother’s home training as
well as the father’s indomitable will
and brain powers.
It was therefore, as we have above
indicated, a graceful and proper trib
ute paid by the Western and Atlantic
Railroad management, when they hon
ored the new station which is being
opened on the highest and most charm
ing point on their line, by calling it
by her name.
Two miles north of Marietta and
twenty-two northwest ot Atlanta, im
mediately at the foot of the far-famed
Kennesaw Mountain, the American
Marble Cutting Company, during the
summer of 1885, began erecting the
largest marble mill in the South, if
not in Ameriea. 1 his is now about
•completed. Four hundred feet long
and forty-five feet wide are the dimen
sions of the main building. The oth
er buildings are of commensurate size,
'fhe huge chimney is one hundred and
twenty feet high.
This company has bought the sole
patent right to the most wonderful
marble cutting machine in existence
Under its operations a rough marble
slab becomes a marble mantle or table
top within twenty minutes, all except
polishing. A marble block, also, in
thirty minutes is made into a water
bowl, needing merely the sand-paper
polishing. So, other shapes desired,
it soon produces them.
The company, with a wise fore
thought as to the future, bought one
hundred and sixty acres of land lying
immediately along the Western and
Atlantic, and not far west of the Ma
rietta and North Georgia Railroad,
only about a mile above their junction
near Marietta. The huge factory is
alongside the Western and Atlantic
Railroad’s track on the east, and a
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE.
SCHEDULES
—BET WEEN
J" ack soruville <&d JLtlenita
Via QUEEN and CRESCENT ROUTE,
AND
Cincinnati and Louisville.
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READ DOWN. zm b.i sx ■ 1* *w- ■ READ UP.
-- FROM CINCINNATI. -v .i f—
bouth-bound. Nortn-boußu.
8 05 am 8 47 pm Lv. CINCINNATI, Q. & (J Ar 6-50 am 6 00 pm
10 25 am 11 43 pm “ Lexington, “ Lv. 4 05 am 3 31 pm
11 25 am 12 48 am “ Danville, “ “ 256 am 237 pm
11 50 am 110 am “ Junction City, “ “ 245 am 228 pm
5 25 pm 9 10 am Ar. Boyce (Cin. Sou. Jc.), Q. & C “ 6 50 pm 8 10 am
5 50 pm 9 30 am Ar. CHATTANOOGA “ Lv. 6 35 pm 8 00 am
1 00 am 8 55 am Lv. CHATTANOOGA, W & A..........Ar. 7 00 pm 4 30 am
1 50 am 957 am “ Ringgold “ “ 603 pm 334 am
206 amilO 15 am “ Tunnel Hill, “ “ 546 pm 317 am
222am10 32 am “ Dalton. “ “ 530 pm 301 am
253am11 07 am “ Resaca “ “ 446 pm 225 am
423am12 49 pm “ Allatoona “ “ 307pm12 40 am
505 am 136 pm “ Marietta “ “ 222pm11 55 pm
5 51 am 2 25 pm Ar. ATLANTA “ Lv. 1 30 pm 11 00 pm
6 00 am 2 45 pm Lv. ATLANTA, C. R. R Ar. 12 40 pm 9 35 pm
6 47 am 3 32 pm Lv. Jonesboro “ Lv. 11 51 am 8 42 pm
i 00 am Ar. JACKSONVILLE, SF & W Lv. 700 pm
9 40 am Lv. MACON, C R R Lv 5 40 pm
4 07 pm Ar. Savannah, “ “ 8 40 am
4 32 pm Lv. Savannah, S F & W Ar 5 35 am
7 57 pm ....’.. “ Waycross, “ Lv 12 30 am
9 50 pmj Ar Callahan, “ “ 8 02 pm
10 30 pm Ar .Jacksonville “ Lv 7 00 pm
Pullman Palace Buffet and Mann Boudoir Buflet Sleeping-Cars daily between Cin
cinnati and Jacksonville without change. Upon the above schedule, first class Day
Coach daily between Chattanooga and Jacksonville without change and without extra
charge. Polite porter in attendance.
South-bound i FROM LOUISVILLE.
_ \ _ I North-bound.
9 05 pm 8 00 am Lv LOUISVILLE, L&N Ar 6 30 am 6 45 pm
1 05 am 11 25 am “ Junction City,Q&C “ 240 am 223 pm
855 ani| 100 am “ Chattanooga, W& A.. <• 635 pm 800 am
245 pm 600 am “ Atlanta, CRR “ 1 30 pm 11 00 pm
645 pm “ Macon “ “ S4O am
10 50 pm “ Albany, BA W “ 400 am
3 45 am “ Waycross, S, F A W “ 10 15 pm
7 00 am Ar JACKSONVILLE, S. FA W Lv 7 00 pm
i 9 40 am Lv MACON Lv . I 5 40 pm
i 4 32 pm “ Savannah “ i 8 40 am
Connecting at Junction City with the Pullman Buffet and Mann Boudou r Buffet Cars,
lor Jacksonville, Fla., without change.
First-Class Eating Houses —meals at seasonable hours—in Union Passenger Depots.
Pullman Buflet or Mann Boudoir Cars leave Cincinnati at 8.47 pm daily, as per fol
lowing calendar. Large figures represent Pullman Buflet Cars; small figures, Mann
Boudoir Buflet Cars.
FEBRUARY, 1886 MARCH, 1886. APRIL, 1886. I
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Atlanta, and Jacksonville, Florida.
VIA DANVILLE ROUTE,
—TO—
CHIC AG O.
READ DOWN. RA.AD UP
- STATIONS. 1 ’
Uth ' b, ! Un, £ North-bound.
340 pm Lv CHICAGO C&E IRR ' ? ’““Al-10 50 am
> 41 pm “ Danville “ “ (j 43 am
935 P m “ Terre Haute E & T-H R R “ 750 pm
ar » “Evansville L&NRR Lv 1 00 am ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘’
- 9;) am “ Henderson ’ “ “1230 am
7 30 am “Nashville NC & St. L 6 55 pm’ ’’' ‘ ’ ’’
1 ullman I alace Buffet Sleeping-Cars, Chicago to Nashville, without change.
Spend half of your life in making
friends; the other half in robbing them,
gain a reputation so that you may
live as though you did not possess one.
These are maxims that every neophyte
upon the stock exchange should master.
The first twenty-five years of life we
are taught morality. The second
twenty-five we try to forget what we
have learned. The third twenty-five
we preach it toothers. After seventy
five years we begin to practice it.
branch track has been run from the
( other road to it. •
The rough marble is brought down
the Marietta and North Georgia Rail
road from the famous Georgia marble
quarries, which are near 'fate, about
fifty miles north of Marietta. The
supply is inexhaustible, the mountains
being full of it and the valleys being
under-laid by a stratum of solid mar
ble which diamond drill boriug for
eighty feet down has found no end to.
Talk of dreams of dwelling in mar
ble halls, why the reality is here in
practical reach. Marble, marble;
cheaper than granite, and with ma
chinery which fashions it for you at a
cost —no, at a cheapness —which “ as
tonishes the natives” and bewilders
the foreigners.
The tourists who sweeps down the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, the
historic battle-fields line, from his pal
ace car window views with interest the
; hills at Ringgold, Rocky Face, Resaca
1 ami Allatoona, whicii have been
made sacred by the blood of heroes
and famous by the grand achieve
ments of American soldiery. H * also
gazes with mingled feelings of delight
and admiration at the majestic Kenne
saw Mountain as it towers toward the
clouds, far above the Western and At
lantic track which skirts its northern
and western base.
Here around its sloping sides nearly
sixty thousand Confederates, and one
hundred and ten thousand Union sol
i diers engaged in almost a daily dearh
grapple during the entire month of
June, I<S64. Not a day but marked
some movement of importance; notan
hour but the roar of cannon or the in
cessant, bickering skirmish fire enliv
ened the air and stained the ground
with blood ; not a week but a battle
was chronicled which carried woe into
hundreds of households.
From their lofty perch on Kennesaw
Mountain the Confederates could enjoy
(?) an unobstructed vision over the
vast and imposing panorama which
nature and war jointly spread out be
neath them.
The movements of regiments, brig
ades and corps through the woods for
full line, or detached attacks upon
i their works, were completely under
their eyes. Skirmish firing, platoon
firing, and even artillery firing could
sometimes not be heard at their lofty
eyrie, but they could all be seen.
But let us turn away from war and
its scenes of terror. The great Ken
nesaw Route <»nce had more of these
“ attractions” than it wanted.
The tourist views them only in
memory : but here, near the base of
Kennesaw Mountain, be sees the em
bryo of not only one of the greatest in
dustries in America, but also of one
of the most beautiful cities which Geor
gia will call her own.
Is it scenery that is desired ? Ken-
I nesaw Mountain and its surrounding
hills gratify the wish. Is it health ?
The altitude of 1,150 feet above the
sea, atmosphere as superb as New
Mexico s, perfect drainage and pure
water, all ask you, “ why should you
die till your century is out?” Is it
proximity to all the material essentials
for prosperity and happiness? Well,
coal is laid down here at $2.50 per
ton, hard woods are abundant, the
county produces 12,000 bales of cot
ton per annum. Marble is so cheap
that they are macadamizing the streets
with it, and you are only one hour's
1 ide fiom Atlanta, with which you
'are connected by ten schedules per
day each way over the Western and
Atlantic, and commutation tickets are
very cheap.
The wild mountain scenery of north
ern Georgia is now being brought into
easy reach of the tourist, the capital-