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4 fircrtt liennesiuu lloutc (Giuette, 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, in i’HE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY A. I. HARRIS, EDITOR. Atlanta Oa. March, 1886 SUBSCRIPTION : to cents a year ; six mo’s, 25 c. 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 is represented. Eor space and terms ad dress the '.BEAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE, Box 57 Atlanta, Ga. And you will receive a prompt response. 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.