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4 ©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.