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<£>rcat BemicsflttJ iloute (Giucttc,
PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH,
IN THE INTERESTS OF
THE GREAT KENNESAW BOLTE:
Western and Atlantic Railroad :
Under the auspices of the Passenger Department,
BY
THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
A. L. HARRIS, EDITOR.
Atlanta, Gel., July, 1886.
SUBSCRIPTION : $ 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
are distributed in Atlanta, to citizens and
travelers, by the publishers and officials of
the Western and Atlantic Kailroad; 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.,
and you will receive a prompt response.
The Great Kennesaw Route
Gazette,
Beginning with this number, will
be a twelve page, instead of an eight
page paper. We have, with one or
two issues, been compelled to increase
the number to twelve pages, and in
consequence of the assured success of
the publication, and of the very great
call for space for the fund of informa
tion necessary for the public, we have
decided to make the regular size of it
twelve pages. This will continue until,
possibly, we may have to add four
more pages.
The Great Kennesaw Route Ga
zette is no slung-together compilation
of stale jokes, to be glanced at and
thrown aside; but is an original, care
fully edited and finely illustrated pa
per. Its contrioutors are of high lit
erary attainments. It has published
absorbing war papers with original il
lustrations of the highest art , and will
continue to do so. It is preserved by
readers and laid aside for historical
reference. It is unlike, and not in
ferior to, any other railroad journal.
A new “uncle” —a poetical “uncle,’
affecting the negro dialect, lias burst
upon the literary firmament, and he
has chosen the Great Kennesaw
Route Gazette for his corruscations.
His name is “Uncle ’Polio,” and, like
“Bill Arp,” he Lad an original. We
are proud of our “Uncle’Polio,” and
will back him against all of the other
negro dialect “uncles" of the press.
Read Uncle ’Polio’s “Dem Kennesaw
Fast Trains.”
Magnificent scenery is viewed from
the summits of Kennesaw, Allatoona
and Rocky Face Mountains, directly
on the line of the Western A Atlantic
Railroad, and all along the line of the
Marietta and North Georgia Railroad.
There is no malaria at the summer
resorts along the line of the Western
& Atlantic railroad. Come up from
the coast region and try them.
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE.
July.
This is the mid-summer month. It
is the month when one likes to get
away from home, especially if one lives
in Florida, or along the coast region
of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi or
Louisiana; or if one is an inhabitant
of the cities of Montgomery, Augusta,
Albany, etc.
This is the month when we enjoy
being up about Dalton, Ga., and riding
in a buggy over to the Mineral Springs
at the foot of Rocky Face Ridge, drink
ing the water and sitting in the shade,
when the sun is on the other side of the
gigantic mountain ridge.
This is also the month when one likes
to sit on the banks of die famous Chick
amauga creek, or of the Oothcaloga
and Two Run creeks, which run along
side the Western and Atlantic R. R.,
and which are so full of fish.
This is also the month when one
likes to be at Marietta, Ga., the beau
tiful little “Gem Citv,” whose attract
iveness is a matter of national note, in
the shadow of its abundant growth of
majestic oak trees which surround its
dwellings, or to recline on the grass in
the beautiful City Park, listening to
the open air concerts of the brass band
during several afternoons of each week.
And this is the month when one
likes, in the afternoon, with his sweet
heart or wife to get behind one ofChuck
Anderson’s spanking teams and enjoy
a ride over some of the splendid roads
which surround Marietta; or, if one’s
aspirations are to get up higher, then,
what can be more inspiring, after en
joying the sumptuous fare and associa
tion with the cultured people who are
guests at the noted Whitlock House,
than to drive less than two miles to the
grand and historic Kennesaw Moun
tain and leisurely ascend to its summit,
and there, while one’s cheeks are fanned
by the delicious breezes blowing on ev
ery side, view scenes which not only
delight the present vision, but recall
to the mind some of the most glorious
memories of American valor.
Or, if this vista arouses a longing for
more mountain scenery, this is also the
month to go from Marietta up the Ma
rietta and North Georgia Railroad,
which penetrates the very heart of the
mountainous region of Georgia —a re
gion of towering peaks, of rivers of
pellucid water, of clear mountain
creeks in which dwell the speckled
trout, the gamest fish in American
waters, as well as the most delicious to
the taste.
This is emphatically the month for
hieing one’s self away to delightful
summer resorts, mineral springs, eD.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
will take you to quite a number of
these —Cherokee Springs, near Ring
gold, on its own line, have an estab
lished reputation, and the famous White
Path Springs, ar, the upper end of
the Marietta and North Georgia Rail
road, are fair representatives of these
fountains of health and vigor.
The fishing in the vicinity of Kings
ton is especially fine. Take your tackle
and try it.
Change of Gauge Echoes.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
was not entirely closed for business a
single day on account of the change of
gauge. Although the change occurred
on the afternoon of June Ist, and the
morning of June 2d, yet the W. & A.,
on June Ist, brought down 25 cars of
freight, and on June 2d, carried up
2 loaded cars. As the base ballistssay,
“they never got whitewashed, or shut
out a single day.”
The last engine which went up and
came down between Chattanooga and
Atlanta on the 5-feet gauge, was the
Alexander H. Stephens; Charley Bar
rett, engineer. This was peculiarly
appropriate, for Governor Stephens was
one of the greatest men in Georgia be
fore and during the war, and to his
wise counsels and the example contain
ed in the purity of his life, but recent
ly ended, the new Georgia, since the
mighty change following the war, is
very greatly indebted.
The last train over the W A A.
came into Atlanta at 6.35 p. m., June
Ist, and at 9.25 a. m., June 2d, Cap
tain Dave Wylie, the yard master, had
passenger train No. i put into the
Union Depot.
All persons in Florida desiring to go
to Monteagle, the “Southern Chautau
qua,” or Sewanee, Tenn., will bear in
mind that the best route is via Savan
nah, Atlanta and the Western A At
lantic Railroad.
They should take the train leaving
Jacksonville at 2.00 p. m. This puts
them in Savannah at 7.58 p. in., in
Atlanta at 7.32 a. m., Chattanooga
1.00 p. m., leave Chattanooga at 1.10,
arrive at Cowan 3 38, making connec
tion with the train leaving on the Ten
nessee Coal & Iron Company’s Railroad
at 3.50 p. m. for Sewanee and Mont
eagle, reaching each point before sun
set.
Passengers taking this route pass
over the historic and grand scenery on
the Western A Atlantic, and Nashville,
Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroads, in
daytime.
Passengers leaving Jacksonville via
any other route will arrive at Cowan
about mid-night.
These facts are very important to
bear in remembrance.
One of the most beautiful garden
spots in the South is the famous and
historic Chickamauga Valley. The
scenery is magnificent, the soil is very
fertile; it is almost phenomenally well
watered by the Chickamauga ami sev
eral smaller creeks and numerous
brooks; it is dotted with small villages
and multitudinous farm-houses, of well
to-do people; it is carpeted in many
places with cultivated grasses and clo
ver, on which browse herds of “mild
eyed Jerseys” and blooded horses, and
the Western & Atlantic Railroad runs
through its whole length.
As you go north and west, by all
means buy your tickets over the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad which runs
from Atlanta via Marietta, Ken
nesaw Mountain, Allatoona, Resaca,
Dalton, Rocky Face Ridge and through
this enchantingly beautiful valley to
Chattanooga, connecting with all points
in the north and west.
Automatic Car Couplers.
Gentle reader, have you ever heard
of the above ? If you have not, then
you are like the man that the printers
say “doesn’t advertise.” Just about
forty-seven years behind the age.
The automatic car coupler “fills a
long felt want.” It has been felt by
thousands of train-hands, conductors
and other railroad employes during
the past forty years. If a list of those
who have been injured by reason of
not having the automatic car coupler,
or of too carelessly handling the ones
they had, was actually published, then
we fear that the gory list would be
more appalling in numbers than the
casualties of the most bloody battle of
modern times.
It is a laudable ambition, therefore,
which every genius has, who endeav
ors to invent an automatic car coupler,
and it is a proof of the fertility of Amer
ican genius, and of the wide spread
number of those who possess it, that
automatic car couplers are being in
vented at the rate of from twenty-five
to fifty per month.
We noticed in the last monthly list
of Southern inventions, for instance,
six car couplers. We presume that
the rest of America furnished three
times as many.
Each inventor considers it wonder
fully strange that his design is not
adopted by railroad men forthwith.
His disappointment is only equalled by
his disgust; but has it never occurred
to you that there had been so many of
these self-considered brilliant inven
tions which are the veriest bosh, and
to such an extent has this been true
that to mention to a railroad superin
tendent the fact that you have invent
ed an automatic car coupler provokes
an instantaneous smile from him.
It will be a long time before there
will be an automatic car coupler in
vented which will be universally
adopted. The cost of changing the
equipment of a railroad is so great that
this will be a great bar to the success
of such an invention.
Suppose, for instance, the Pennsyl
nia Railroad Company were to do away
with all of the present car couplings at
each end of each car in their service
and put on others; it would cost them
at least a quarter of a million of do 1 -
lars.
It can be readily seen, therefore,
that inasmuch as no human invention
is considered perfect, railroad
ers will be very conservative in the
matter of adopting any new automatic
car coupler, unless it has been so thor
ougly tested as to prove conclusively
that it has extraordinary merit.
from Dalton, it is an easy trip to
several mineral springs; the most not
ed being Gordon Springs, Cherokee
Springs, Catoosa Springs, Cohutta
Springs and the Mineral Springs at
the foot of Rocky Face Mountain.
