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8 <£>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 It is preserved by readers and laid aside for historical reference.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.