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©rent Brmicsnw lloutc (Siuette,
PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH.
IN THE INTERESTS OF
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE:
Western and Atlantic Railroad:
Under the auspices of the Passenger Department,
BY
THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
A. L HARRIS, EDITOR
Atlanta, G-a., June, 1886,
SUBSCRIPTION: S 1 a year; six months, 50 cts.
A limited number of acceptable adver
tisements will be inserted in The Great Ken
nesaw 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
sare distributed in Atlanta, to citizens and
travelers, by the publishers and officials of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad; and at
other points where The Great Kennesaw Route
is represented. For space and terms ad
dress
GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE,
Box 57 Atlanta, Ga.,
an l you will receive a prompt response.
Do You Want to Know WHY?
In the May edition of “By-the- Way,”
a little publication which is issued un
der the auspices of the passenger de
partment of the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia & Georgia Railroad Co., and
which is somewhat on the general style
of The Great Kennesaw Route
Gazette, we notice copy of a circular
headed. “This is Why.”
There is some interesting reading in
it; but inasmuch as- it is incomplete,
standing by itself, we will, in our next
month’s issue, give the whole series of
“ WHY,”—“THIS IS WHY,”—and
“EH, YES, THIS IS WHY.”
There is racy reading to be found
in this series.
The last issue of The Great Ken
nesaw Route Gazette, containing
the account of the battle of Allatoona
and of other features of interest around
that historic point, was a grand suc
cess in every respect. There has been
an immense call for it, and it had a
circulation reaching from Tampa, Fla.,
to the lakes in the northwest, and from
New England, on the east, to points
west of Kansas City.
Allatoona will always boa point
around which national interest will cen
tre, and the Western and Atlantic
'Railroad is indeed very fortunate in
being the only route by which this fa
mous place can be reached.
The Wanderer, issued monthly, by
the passenger department of the Wis
consin Central Line, is one of the very
best railroad publications that reaches
our exchange table. It has something
to say, of course, of the attractions of
its very attractive Line; but, besides,
it is filled with bright, cool sketches
from pen and graver. The letter press
is charming and the illustrations de
lightful. The Wanderer hails from
Chicago and Milwaukee.
Near Allatoona are extensive de
posits of iron ore of a very superior
quality.
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE.
June.
June, the first month of summer, is
traditionally, also, its most beautiful
month. During the progress of the
“Atlanta campaign,” in June, 1864,
the eyes of the entire continent, and
to some extent of the civilized world,
were directed to the country through
which the Western and Atlantic Rail
i road runs.
Here were being enacted tremend
ous scenes in the dread tragedy of war
which was at that time convulsing the
American people. It was in more
senses than one, the month of tempests;
particularly, the first fifteen or twenty
days of it.
Drenching rains, accompanied by all
the terrors of “Heaven’s artillery,” fell
almost incessantly. But not more mer
ciless was the peltingrain thanwasthe
fall of iron missiles, and not more
dreary were the storm clouds from
whose midst flashed Heaven’s light- ;
nings and reverberated Heaven’s thun
ders, than were the battle clouds which
drifted across the smiling valleys, dash
ed like monstrous billows against the
wood-covered hills, or clustered around
the craggy mountain tops, out of whose
midst also pealed the tumultuous thun
ders and blazed the terrific fires of de
struction.
From Lookout Mountain had burst
war’s thunder cloud. From Rocky
Face its deafening roar and rattling
echoes had been heard. From Re
saca’s craggy hills the horror had been
repeated, and now, in this month,
around the towering crests of Kennesaw
Mountain, the murky clouds, grand in
the majesty of terror, had drifted, and
with volcanic fury the lightnings had
shot forth their lurid glow, and from
them had rolled their- titanic defiance.
The monstrous coils of fate were
tightening around the ill-starred South
ern Confederacy. The stamp of wrath
was upon the soil of its every State, i
The windows of the hope of foreign in- j
terference in its behalf had been shut
and barred against it. But no where j
throughout the entire South was the
dagger being driven with more remorse
less vigor into its very vitals than
along the course of the great iron high- i
way between Chattanooga and Atlanta.
Here was a contest which has never
been excelled in its combination of
mental and material resources on one
hand, and the resources which are the
result of the careful husbandry of true
genius on the other.
On the one side was Sherman, who,
with his hundred and ten thousand
men, was audacious, adroit, and yet,
prudent. Invited to fight, taunted for
not fighting, yet declining to fight
when the result would be senseless
slaughter; but always opposing force
with equal force, maintaining an in
cessant fire of artillery and musketry
against his enemy’s every weak point,
and flanking him from each chosen sit
uation by reason of his confessed superi
ority of numbers.
On the other side was Johnston with
nearly sixty thousand men, selecting
his every position for battle with mas
terly forethought; guarding his rear,
and opposing strong lines of defence at
every point where confronted by Sher
man. Aware of the hopelessness of as
sault upon an enemy who had largely
more than his own number of as brave
men as there were in America, he, yet,
when compelled to abandon any posi
tion assumed, made so clean a move of
it that, as one of the Federal Generals
said, “We were nearly one hundred
days pressing him back one hundred
miles, and during that period never
found so much as a horseshoe left be
hind him in a position he had aban
doned.”
With less brute butchery than was
shown in Virginia, yet, here, there was
more of war’s tactical and adroit sci
ence. Greater than the retreat of
Xenophon’s ten thousand was John
ston’s retreat; because, instead of be
ing followed by undisciplined barbarian
h irdes, he had pressing behind him
one of the finest equipped and most
skilfully led armies, whose deeds his
tory has ever chronicled. Greater than
Alexander’s invasion of Persia, was
Sherman’s advance, because he found
at every step a wily, prudent master of
war, in command of a devoted army of
as brave men as the world ever ex
hibited, who had the additional incen
tive of fighting for their homes and
firesides.
How different is this anniversary
month from the June of 1864. We
admire the heroic past; but we live
happier in the beautiful present.
Where to Buy Your Clothes.
Atlanta now has a strictly first-class
merchant tailoring establishment, in
that of Kenny & Jones, No. 3 W. Al
abama street, where will be found a large ;
stock of the finest and most fashionable i
cloths and suitings, and the inimitable
John Jones to take your measure, do
the cutting and superintend the mak-1
■ ing up of most genteel and perfect fit
tingclothing. at reasonable rates. Ev- :
erybodv in and about Atlanta knows
square, companionable Pat Kenny,
with whom it is a positive pleasure to
deal. And prompt, big hearted, skill
ful Jones, the best tailor in the South,
for eighteen years right here in Atlan
ta. Give Kenny and Jones an order.
You’ll never go any where else for your
clothing.
I |
It is via the Grand Rapids and In
diana Railroad that the cool retreats
of Northern Michigan are reached.
When the delightful resorts —Traverse
City, Petoskey, Mackinac, Marquette,
and other famous places of that region
are once visited, a return is certain.
In addition to the cool, health-giving
atmosphere, there is the best fishing
on the continent —so noted that the
Grand Rapids and Indiana is named
“ The Fishing Line.” Read the card
with that heading on page 3.
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.
Answers to Correspondents.
R. H. W. —No, sir, the ticket would
not be good. There are decisions of
the courts bearing directly on the point
in question.
M. R. D. —We do not know whence
the name Allatoona came; but our im
pression is that it is a Cherokee Indian
name. We are investigating this sub
ject, and think we can possibly answer
the question soon.
J. L. T. —Marietta is the station
which you are referring to, and as to
its healthy and beautiful surroundings
no one who has ever seen it will enter
tain a doubt.
R. C. —No, sir, the E. T., V. & G.
R. R. trains which run over the West
ern & Atlantic R. R. between Chat
tanooga and East Tennessee Junction
do not stop at Boyce Station.
There was some talk of this; but the
W. & A. management would not en
tertain the proposition. Their contract
with the E. T., V. & G. R. R. Co.,
which allows the trains of the latter
railroad company to run over the West
ern & Atlantic R. R. for eight miles
south of Chattanooga, merely provides
for their running between Chattanooga
and East Tennessee Junction, and it
was not reasonable to suppose that the
W. & A. would agree to open to the
E. T., V. A G. R. R. advantages of
their interchange with the Cincinnati
Southern at that point.
Os course, as long as the Western
& Atlantic interchanges through sleep
ing cars and passengers with the Cin
cinnati Southern R. R., at Boyce, it
naturally has an advantage over the
E. V. & G. R. R., which inter
changes with them at Chattanooga, be
cause this gives to the Western & At
lantic Railroad over half an hour of
advantage in point of time —it being
five or six miles from Boyce to Chat
tanooga, and as the Western & At-’
lantic trains, coming northward, for
intance, stop at Boyce and deliver their
sleeping cars to the Cincinnati South
ern, they save hauling the sleeping
cars into Chattanooga and their being
pulled out again from Chattanooga to
Boyce by the Cincinnati Southern.
In all cases where the schedule time
is very close, therefore, of course, the
Western & Atlantic has the advan
tage. So, likewise, if the Cincinnati,
Southern trains coming south should
get behind time, the Western &
Atlantic Railroad, by receiving the
sleepers at Boyce, have the advantage
of time which is killed in running some
ten or twelve miles, which is the dis
tance from Boyce to Chattanooga and
back again to Boyce, which jwissengers
who are ccming south via the Cincin
nati Southern and E. T., V. & G. Rail
roads are compelled to take.
It would have been very foolish,
therefore, for the W. & A. R. R. Co.
to have divided with the E. T., V. &
G. R. R. Co the advantage which they
possess of interchange at Boyce and
the consequent saving often miles run
ning.
It is also much easier to transfer
sleeping cars from one line to the other
at Boyce than Chattanooga, because
at Boyce the road whose train brings
the cars for delivery to the other cuts
them off immediately at the switch
and all the other has to do is to back
up and take them; whereas, in Chat
tanooga they go into the Union Depot
and then have to back out and deliv< r
the cars several hundred yards from
the Union Depot after all the tranfers
of baggage, etc. have been made in
the Union Depot in Chattanooga.
Seventy-one varieties of wood found
on the line of the Western and Atlan
tic railroad.