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PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH,
Under the auspices of the Passenger Department,
IN THE INTERESTS OF
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE:
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
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SUBSCRIPTION: 50 cents a year ; six mo’s, 25 c.
A limited number of acceptable adver
tisements will be inserted in The Great Ken
nesaw Route. Gazette, which has an immense I
edition every month, and it is safe to say
that it is read by more people than any
other paper in the South. Great numbers
are distributed in Atlanta, to citizens and
travelers, by the publishers and officials of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad: and at
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other points where The Great Kennesaw Route
is represented. For space and terms ad
dress the
GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE,
Box 57 Atlanta, Ga.
Battles Along the AV. & A.
Each number of The Great
Kennesaw Route Gazette for the i
next few months, will have upon the
first page a description of some of the
famous battles which occurred alontt
the line of the Western and Atlantic
railroad. These articles will be illus
trated.
The January number was entitled,
■“ The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Number.”
The February issue is “The Battle
of Chickamauga Number.”
That of March will be “ The Battle
of Ringgold Number.”
And then will follow “ The Battle
•of Resaca Number,” “ The Battle of
Allatoona Number,” etc., in regular
succession.
All who desire to secure illustrated
descriptions of the renowned struggles
between Chattanooga and Atlanta \Till
•do well to note this fact, and doubt
less all will find it very much to their >
interest to preserve the successive
numbers as they come out.
The Western and Atlantic railroad
is richer in historic memories than any
-other railroad in America, and all
subscribers to, or readers of The
Great Kennesaw Route Gazette
will have an opportunity to secure a
rich .treasury of knowledge on this
subject.
The wonderful Georgia marble quar
ries, which are well worth a trip of
three hundred miles to see, can only
be reached via the Western and Atlan
tic railroad and Marietta.
The Western and Atlantic railroad
runs 11 passenger trains per day be
tween Atlanta and Marietta. Tourists
who stop at Marietta not only get the
advantages of pure air and beautiful
scenery, but are also within one hour’s
ride of Atlanta.
The Kenesaw Route is the only first
class and reliable route to Chattanooga
from this place. Only line running
through cars to Memphis, Little Rock ;
connecting closely with trains for Ar
kansas and Texas points. Only Line
running sleeping cars from Atlanta to
Nashville, St. Louis and Chicago.
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE.
A Very High Compliment.
It is said that “ imitation is the sin
cerest flattery, and counterfeiting is
the highest evidence that you want
something that some other fellow has
got.”
Never was this saying carried out
more closely to the letter than has
been the case with the competitors of
the Western and Atlantic railroad,
or “ The Great Kennesaw Route.”
The Western and Atlantic* has inau
gurated several reforms in railroading
of the present day ; or rather has made
several new departures which are de
veloping the country and bringing
about good results in more ways than
one.
Several of its competitors have tak
en up some of its ideas and adopted
them; but it remained for its chief com
petitor to give the crowning stroke of
appreciation of the merits of “ The
Great Kennesaw Route.”
After trying persistently, but vainly,
to equal its unattainable advantages in
point of quick time, reliable schedules,
solid road-bed and general safety and
comfort, they at last have given up
the fight in this regard, and adopted
what must be considered a bold idea of ,
counterfeiting, or rather endeavoring
to capture the route name itself of
“ The Great Kennesaw Route.”
This move was certainly one which
can claim some credit for its boldness;
but it was necessary after taking one
false step to take another; and conse
quently in the railroad maps which are
now being published by the line in
question we find that the famous and
historic Kennesaw Mountain, which
nearly two hundred thousand Ameri
can soldiers fought around for a
month, and around the base of which
several times more than the same num
ber of tourists and other passengers
have traveled in times past, has been
yanked up bodily from the side of the
Western and Atlantic railroad’s track,
above Marietta, and has been set down
in a jiortion of East Tennessee —that
is, on paper.
The absurdity and sublime ridicu
lousness of this measure is something
which is too truly ludicrous to call
forth any ill feeling on the part of the
managers of “ The Great Kennesaw
Route.” They have taken no pains to
go out of their way to convince peo
ple that there is not a little hill up in
Tennessee, which has been purposely
named “ Kennesaw Mountain,” in or
der to give semblance to the grab
which had been undertaken. In fact,
when the measure was first brought w
attention, they considered that it was
only a passing joke, and hence, like
Brer Fox, “ lay low and said nothing,”
just to see whether this attempt to
make fools of the American traveling
public, and the old war-time soldiers,
would be persisted in.
It seems to have been treated seri
ously by the land-grabber, and now
the Western and Atlantic people are
laughing in their sleeves at the way
the matter has recoiled upon the line
which has attempted in so absurd a
a manner to crib their route name.
They consider that this is the high
est compliment which their competitor
could possibly have paid to their wide
ly known and popular line, and in this
opinion, of course, they are seconded
by not only the soldiers of the Union
and the Confederacy, but also by the
traveling public generally.
Chattanooga is a busy hive of indus
try; but even those who are most busy
frequently desire to get the benefit of a
resort for rest. Chattanooga is pecul
iarly blessed in this respect in having
the beautiful Chickamauga valley im
mediately south of her doors, with sev
eral trains per day over the Western
and Atlantic railroad, enabling people
to go and come at will.
Good Eating Houses.
Probably nothing adds more to the
reputation of railroad lines, in some
respects, than to have good eating
houses. In this the Western and At
lantic is certainly up to the times.
Probably one of the best eating houses
in the South is at Big Shanty, twenty
eight miles above Atlanta. Here the
south-bound afternoon train takes sup
per. “ Mine host,” Judge Carrie, puts
up what is by many considered the
best railway eating house meal in the
Southern States. It is certainly a fact
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that he has earned a reputation in this
line which it would be somewhat par
donable for his rivals to envy him of,
but such a thing as envy never gets
into the heart of the good old Judge.
He is too full of kindness to have any
desire but to please his guests and all
with whom he conies in contact, audit
is yet to be disputed that he succeeds
fully in this respect.
Marietta, the little “Gem City,” is
the choicest health resort of Georgia,
and is on the Western and Atlantic
railroad, near the foot of the historic
Kennesaw Mountain.
We call attention of our readers to
the advertisement of Frierson & Scott,
real estate dealers, on the third page
of this paper. This firm is reliable,
and has properties- of every descrip
tion for sale at very low figures. Citv
lots, farms, mills, factories, business
houses, residences, to suit all tastes and
purses. The same attention given to
‘ farming, mining, manufacturing and
other business in the South, as is given
to same pursuits in the North, would
realize 50 per cent, more profit, conse
quently here is the place for invest
ment, where pi ope r ties can be bought
50 per cent, cheaper than in the
North.
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Capitalists and Investors.
A number of unusually good and really
profitable openings for investment are of
| i’ered on page 3 of this issue. Notice them
and then correspond with us.
FRIERSON & SCOTT,
Atlanta, Ga.
Boiler for Sale.
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A second-hand, good-as-new, 12-H.
P., upright, portable tubular boiler
with furnace, complete, ready to con
nect, cheap. Address
Boswell & Co,
Box 57, Atlanta, Ga.
Valuable Testimonials.
Fi < in the Augusta Chronicle, Feb. 2, 1886.
A short time since extended notice
was made in the Chronicle of a literary
achievement by Mr. Joseph M. Brown,
of Atlanta, General Freight and Pas
senger Agent of the Western and At
lantic railroad, in the publication en
titled “ The Mountain Campaigns in
Georgia,” or “ War Scenes on the
Western and Atlantic.”
Mr. Brown has presented copies of
his handsome publication to Generals
Joseph E. Johnston and W. T. Sher
man, and has received in reply letters
in high commendation of his work.
We have been permitted to reproduce
these letters, and we do so as high and
valuable testimonials to the accuracy,
fidelity and ability of our young
friend’s very excellent production.
FROM GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON.
Washington, Jan. 18, 1886.
Joseph M. Brown, Esq.:
My Dear Sir —Your letter of the
14th and the beautiful “ War Scenes”
that came by the same mail, were re
ceived this morning, and 1 thank you
for them most cordially, not only for
the pleasure they have t aiready given
me, but because you put before the
public an excellent historical sketch in
i so attractive a form as to secure, for
i operations most interesting to me, the
attention of our Southern people. I
have seen no publication relating to
the war so attractive in style and ap
pearance. With friendly regards to
your brother, I am yours, very truly,
J. E. Johnston.
FROM GEN. W. T. SHERMAN.
912 Garrison Avenue,
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 18, 1886.
Joseph M. Brown, Esq., W. AA. R.
R, Atlanta, Ga.:
My Dear Sir —I beg to acknowl
edge receipt of your letter of January
14th, with the embellished pamphlet
entitled “The Mountain Campaigns
in Georgia,” and take great pleasure in
complimenting you on having made so
condensed and valuable a souvenir of
the old State Railroad from Chatta
nooga to Atlanta.
The maps are admirable, the illus
trations are characteristic, and the
text as near the truth as can be com
pressed in so small a space. lam wil
ling to endorse what you record, that
the Atlanta campaign of 1864 would!
have been impossible without this road,
that all our battles were fought for its
possession, and that the Western and
Atlantic railroad of Georgia “ should'
be the pride of every true American,”'
because, “ by reason of its existence
the Union was saved.”
I infer you have prepared this costly
pamphlet to induce travel by this
route, and I will add that the scenery
will fully repay every lover of nature’s
beauty and sublimity—that every foot
of it should be sacred ground, because
it was once moistened by patriotic
blood, and that over a hundred miles
of it was fought a continuous battle of
one hundred and twenty days, during
which, day and night, were*heard the
continuous boom of cannon and the
sharp crack of the rifle.
I sincerely wish for you, and all like
you, all success, prosperity and happi-
I these days of peace, made possi
ble by the deadly struggles between
Chattanooga and Atlanta in the sum
mer of 1864. With great respect,
your friend, W. T. Sherman.
No tourist should pass through
Chattanooga without stopping and tak-
I ing a trip over the Western and At
lantic, down through the beautiful and
historic Chickamauga Valley.