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PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH.
IX Till. I XTI-.KI'.ST- III'
I II i< GREAT KENNESAW BOLTE:
Western and Atlantic Railroad:
Under tin .luspiees of the Passenger 1 lepartment,
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i’HE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
A. I. HARRIS, EDITOR.
Atlanta Oa. March, 1886
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A limited number of acceptable adver
tisements will be inserted in The Great Keii-
Route Gazette, which has an immense
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 d istribuled in Atlanta, to citizens and
travelers, by the publishers and officials of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad; and at
other points where The Great Ken Henau: Route
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'.BEAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE,
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Advertising rates very low.
Battles Along the W A A.
Each number of The Great
Kennesaw Route Gazette for the
next few months, will have upon the
first page a description of some of the
famous battles which occurred along
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 was “ The Battle
of Chickamauga Number.”
That of March is “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 will
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.
Ihe 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 Western and Atlantic Railroad
Company has a special “ theater-goer’s
rate," from Marietta to Atlanta, of 50
■cents for the round trip. Numbersof
people ci me down from Marietta to At
lanta on the evening train, attend the
theatre, leave Atlanta at 11 and reach
Marietta before 12 o'clock midnight.
Whenever necessary, the Western and
Atlantic railroad holds the 11 o’clock
train until I 1:15 p. m.. for the accom
dation of theatre-goers.
The highest mountain in America
—Popocateptel. The historic mountain
■of America Kennesaw .
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE.
Our Information Bureau.
Parties desiring information about any
part of the South with view of locating or
investing here, or with the view of travel
ing here for health or pleasure may address
their inquiries to this paper and they will
be promptly and reliable answered without
charge.
1 f parties having property they wisli to
sell will -end ns a description and price
we wdl at once, without charge, place it in
the hands of an efficient agent, best calcu
lated to handle the particular kind of
property described.
If you wish to buy properly in the South,
send us your address and we will, without
charge, have mailed to you such informa
tion, or put vou in correspondence with such
parties as will enable you to choose a lo
cation and line! as nearly as possible what
you want.
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.
General O. O. Howard, in his arti
cle on Sherman’s Campaign, of 18li4,
thus writes:
“From Tunnel Hill we had Rocky Face
in plain view. It was a continuous
craggy ridge at least five hundred feet
high—very narrow on top—but hav
ing in places a spur of rocky abut
ments jutting out to the east and west.
On the crest for the most part it was
so narrow that six men could not march
abreast. The western front presented
in places a perpendicular face almost
as abrupt as the Palisades on the Hud
son. While favorable to Johnston’s
defense, the eastern spurs were more
gradual. Through Buzzard’s Roost
there were both the railway and a
wagon road, also a small stream of wa
ter. This the Confederates had so
dammed up as to present a formidable
obstacle. They had so arranged their
batteries and their infantry entrench
ments as to completely sweep every
possible pathway in that defile. * *
4- * * () r th e 9th of May another
experiment was tried. Under orders
I sent Stanley’s division for reconnois
anee, into that horrid gap ot Buzzard's
Roost until it had drawn from the en
emy astrong artillery tire, and caused
to be opened an incessant rattie of long
lines of musketry.”
This is a graphic reference to the
wild and picturesque scenery of Mill
Creek Gap and Buzzard Roost Gap,
which divide or parallel the famous
Rocky Eace mountain ridge northwest
of Halt :on. The Wes tern and Atlantic
Railroad rims through both of these
gap>. ami tourists passing over the W.
A A. have a splendid view of this
scenery which is as grand as it is his
toric.
it was an inspiration that caused
Robert Pause to establish the llextau
I'unfi Francaine, opposite the Kimball
House, on Decatur street. It is a mod
el restaurant, and exactly fills a long
felt want. New York or New Orleans
can serve no more satisfyingly solid re
past, or exquisitely tempting entren.
1 ravelers will find exactly what they
want at Pause’s.
Kennesaw Mountain, the only moun
tain by that mime in the United
States, is 22 miles north of Atlanta,
and on the M estern and Atlantic rail
roa< I.
Good Eating Houses.
Probably nothing adds more to the
reputation ot 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
that he has earned a reputation in this
line which it would be somewhat par
donable fi»r 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 comes in contact, and it
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.
Hiram Butler's Soft Tooth.
Several years ago there was some
fun among the boys on the W. A A.
R. R., b\ reason of a very clever sell
about a soft tooth. Conductor San
ford Bell sold one or two of them on
this, and then Hiram Butler, the Su
pervisor of the road, got on to it, and
lay in wait for a victim.
A few days afterwards he was up at
Allatoona, where he met the acting
agent. Mr. Wilkes, who is now the
genial and efficient soliciting freight,
agent of the Ga. R. R.
Hiram soon turned the course,of the
conversation in such a direction as to
enable him to state that he was having
a very mysterious experience.
“ I low so?” said Wilkes.
\\ hy,” said Butler, “one of my
teeth has gotten right soft. You can
press your linger against it and it will
appear like a piece of India rubber,
ami whenever the pressure is removed
it returns to its original shape.”
Well, that's wonderfully strange,”
said W dkes, “ I never heard of such
a thing before in my life. Which toot 1 '
is it?”
“ W hy, said Butler opening his
mouth and pointing to one of his jaw
teeth in the back of it, “this is the
tooth back here—just feel it, and vou
will see how soft it is,”
W ilkes unsuspiciously put his finger
in to make the experiment, when But
ler closed down upon it and began to
grind it nearly in two. For about a
minute Wilkes went through all the
evolutions of an Indian war dance, un
til finally Butler was forced to let go
in order to keep his teeth from being
shaken out.
Just say “soft tooth" now 7 to Wilkes
or Hiram Butler, and a smile will at
once illumine, the countenance.
Seventy-one varieties of wood found
on the line of the 'Western and Atlan
tic railroad.
The Battle of Ringgold.
Concluded from page 3.
not arrive until our retreat. In this
affair he rendered efficient service to
Gen. Cleburne, and selected and re
formed the new line of battle after we
withdrew from our first position.
A more brilliant, victory, in which
so few troops opposed five times their
number, has not been achieved during
this war, and the loss of the enemy
was in proportion. It proved a Ther
mopylae to the foe, while the brilliancy
of the defence of the troops under ‘Old
Pat’ was not exceeded by Leonidas who
commanded the Greeks.”
Grand Excursion to London and
Paris, June 22, 188<>.
The “World Travel Co,”
In conjuction with the undersigned,
take pleasure in announcing that
they will organize a select part) of
fifty ladies and gentlemen for a special
trip of thirty-five days from New
York to London and Paris.
The partv wil’ goon the magnificent
steamship “Alaska,” of the Guion
Line, to Liverpool, and will return on
the new and elegant steamship, “ Lu
Champagne,” of the French Line,
leaving Havre on the 17th of July.
The party throughout will be con
ducted, personally, by an American
gentleman of extensive traveling ex
perience, who has made a special study
of London and Paris.
The tri]> will consume thirty-five
days from New York City and back
to New York.
The price of the tickets from New-
York and back will be $275, which
includes all traveling expenses, hotel
bills, carriages and entrance fees to all
places of interest visited.
The party will be limited strictly to
fifty.
The tickets for the trip must be pur
chased and paid for by 22d May.
Address all communications to R.
I). Mann A Co., General S. S. Agent,
Atlanta, Ga.
No tourist should pass through
Chattanooga without stopping and tak
ing a trip over the Western and At
lantic, down through the beautiful and
historic Chickamauga Valley.
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 inis place. (July 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.
< apitalists and Investors.
A number of unusually good and really
profitable openings for investment are of
fered on page 3 of this issue. Notice them
and then correspond with us.
FRIERSON & SCOTT,
Atlanta, Ga.
