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The Western & Atlantic Rail road’s Terminals, Sidetracks, Etc. There is not, probably, in all Amer ica, a railroad which has such magnifi cent terminals and such an abundance of sidetracks, at all necessary points along its line, as the Western & At lantic. The main line of the Western & Atlantic, from Atlanta to Chattanooga, is 138 miles long ; but it has 42 miles of sidetracks in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Dalton and at other points along its line, making a total mileage, of main line and sidetracks, of 180 miles. By reason of this profusion of side tracks, between Chattanooga and At lanta, there is practically no difficulty in changing freight and passenger schedules and making different meet ing points for the various trains. One troubleaboutsome railroad lines is that they have such a scarcity of sidetracks between their terminals, that when they are handling a pretty fair amount of business their freight trains are unable to get into the scant supply of sidetracks at meeting points, and the result is that passenger trains have to take the sidetracks to allow freights to pass, or else the passenger and freight trains get mixed up and have to “see-saw,” thus killing some times many minutes, and, probably, an hour, before they can go forward on an unobstructed track. Herein is a great strength of the Western & Atlantic. Although there are, in the busy season, frequent instan ces of where it runs from six to eight trains on a schedule, yet passenger trains are never put to any inconve nience from this cause. When they arrive at meeting points the freight trains are in the long sidetracks, and the mail trans rush by as if there was not a freight train within a hundred miles of them. Passengers going over the Western & Atlantic, therefore, have reason able assurance that there will be none of those petty annoyances in the matter of delays which sometimes, and on some lines, frequently cause the miss ing of schedules with their connections. The perfect system with which the Western <fc Atlantic Railroad is worked ; the thorough understanding and almost brotherly feeling that ex ists between its officers and employes, make it the strongest road for its size in the country, or as it has been said, “The biggest thlngfor its size in Amer iky.” The terminals of the Western & Atlantic are especially and notably su perior. In Chattanooga, for instance, its passenger trains run into the union depot, and its freight depot and yards are immediately alongside Market street, the business thoroughfare of the city. In addition to this, the East Ten nessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co. rents from the Western & Atlantic the right to run its trains through the Western & Atlantic’s yard, thus connecting its Memphis & Charles ton division with the other divisions. ATLANTA, GA. MAP SHOWING THE BUSINESS PORTION OF THE CITY, ETC. JI—|3|IL!|ULJLJI IL_/Z 11 |l II /A\ I h li I □tzZWpjyQl—ll—llij—lJl II II iF WWPWM Ji —li o jj/ r r Hous T* m n nFI JiJI dl jnri mi fcanDDßDßmnoninnr 1. '-Union Passenger Depot. 2. —Kimball House. 3. —Artesian Well. 4. —Western Union Telegraph Office, Southern Express Office, Wholesale Dry-Goods, Drug and Hardware Houses. 5. —Markham House. 6. —Georgia Railroad Freight Depot. 7.8, 9. —Wholesale Grain, Hay, Meat, Flour, etc., Houses. 10. —Newspaper and Job Printing Offices. 11, 12, 13.—Six State and National Banks, wholesale Grocery Houses, and South ern Telegraph Office. 14. —Fulton County Court House. 15. —Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. 16. 17.—Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches. 18. —New Georgia State Capitol (being erected). 19. —DeGive’s Opera House, Telephone Ex- change. 20. —Post-office, Custom House, U. S. Circuit Court, and Hotel Wcinmeister. 21. —Present Georgia State Capitol. The following are the Railroads centering in the Union Passenger Depot, viz.: Western & Atlantic, Central of Georgia, Atlanta & West Point, Georgia, Richmond & Dan ville, and Georgia Pacific. There is no omnibus transfer between these roads, all changes being made in Union Depot. • All Street-car Lines in Atlanta either start from, or pass within, one square of Union Passenger Depot. The accompanying map shows the business portion of Atlanta. The Union Passenger Depot is in the exact center of the city, the city limits being one mile and a half distant. Scale of distance, one-fourth of a mile to one inch. Street-car Lines indicated thus -- - - The Cincinnati Southern Railway Co. also pays a like rental to the West ern & Atlantic Railroad Co., for privileges in Chattanooga. At Dalton, the Western & Atlan tic passenger trains stop at the union depot immediately by the hotels, and its freight depot is within thirty steps of the union passenger depot. The East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co. also rents from the Western & Atlantic Railroad Co. the use of nearly 1,400 feet of the Western & Atlantic track in Dalton, and runs its trains over this portion of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, with the proviso that if its trains are behind time they are not to proceed over this track against W. A A. R. R. trains which are due. Some of the leading business estab lishments in Dalton are also along the Western & Atlantic sidetracks. At Cartersville the Western & Atlantic Railroad Co. allows the East & West Railroad of Alabama to run upon its right of way down into the center of the little city. It also allows the same privileges to the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad, at Marietta. In Atlanta the Western & Atlan- THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. REFERENCES. 22. —Western & Atlantic Railroad Gen- eral Offices, Freight Depot, Round house and Car Shops. The vacant space here shown is oc cupied by railroad tracks, etc., and no vehicles can go across. A ravine di vides the southwest side. 23. —Central Railroad of Ga., and At- lanta & West Point Railroad Freight Depot. 24. —East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad Passenger Depot. 25. —East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad Freight Depot. 26. —Georgia Pacific Railway Freight De- pot. 27. —Governor’s Mansion. 28. —Richmond & Danville Railroad Freight Depot. 29. 30, 31, 32.—Manufacturing Establish- ments and Grain Elevator. 33. —Capitol City Club. 34. —Southern R’y and Steamship Associa- tion Offices, Cannon House, National Hotel. tic Railroad passenger trains enter the union depot, being the only transpor tation line from the west which enjoys this privelige. Its freight depot and general offices are within a couple of hundred yards of the geographical center of the city, and its sidetracks run behind the great wholesale houses directly across the street from the Kimball and Markham houses and other hotels. A majority of the leading manufacturing estab lishments of Atlanta are also located on the line of the Western & A tian tic Railroad. In Atlanta, the Georgia Pacific Rail way Co. rents from the Western A Atlantic Railroad Co. the privilege of running its passenger trains over the Western <fc Atlantic Railroad into the union depot. The East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad Co. has also arranged with the Western & Atlantic Railroad Co. to transfer the freights of the East Tennessee, Vir ginia & Georgia Railway through the Western A Atlantic yard to connecting lines in Atlanta. Thus it will be seen, that the West ern and Atlantic is master of the sit uation in Georgia so far as concerns physical advantages in the matter of handling and delivering freight, and maintaining the comfort hnd conven enceof passengers. Psalm CHI. 1 An exhortation to bless God for His mercy, 15 an I for the constancy thereof. A Psalm of David. BLESS the Lord, () my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2. Bless the Lord, () my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases: 4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruc tion: who crowneth thee with loving kind ness and tender mercies: 5. Who satistieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s. (>. The Lt rd executed) righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. 7. He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. 8. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 9. He wdl not always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever. 10. lie hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our in iquities. 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy toward them that fear linn. 12. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. 14 Eor he knoweth our frame; he remem bered) that we are dust. 1"). As lor man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourished). 10. Eor the wind passed) over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. • 17. But the mercy of the Lord is from everla-ting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto child ren’s children: 18. To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them. 19. The Lord hath prepared nis throne in the heavens, and his Kingdom rulethover all. 20. Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that ex cel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. 21. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. 22. Bless ye the Lord, all his works in all places of his domini »n ; bless the Lord, O my soul. At just about the opening of the bat tle of Allatoona, October sth, 1864, General Corse had one of the men of the signal corps to stand upon the top of a big stump on the east side of Al latoona Pass within the entrenchments, and told him to communicate by sig nals with Kennesaw Mountain, if pos sible. While he was waving the signal flag and thus endeavoring to carry out this order, a piece of shell from Myrick’s battery, which had opened upon the redoubt, struck the flag staff and knocked it out of the signal sender’s hand. He instantly leaped to the ground and ran down the hill on the north side of the ridge, “and,” said the Gen eral, recently, with a jocular twinkle of his eye, “it is supposed that he is probably running yet, as he has never been seen since that day.” The Western A Atlantic Railroad is the only railroad in Georgia which has four daily freight schedules from one of its termini to the other. Conse quently, freight forwarded via the Western A Atlantic, from the west to the southeast, it it misses one schedule has a chance at three others the same day. This makes it emphatically a FAST FREIGHT LINE, and shippers have found it out, and are acting in accordance with their interests. Marietta is the sanitarium of North Georgia. 5