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The Kennesaw Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH.
Devoted to the Material Interests and Attractions
for Tourists in the Mountainous Region of
Northern and Northwest Georgia,
REACHED BY
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE:
Western and Atlantic Railroad:
Under the auspices of the Passenger Department,
BY
THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
A. L. HARRIS, MANAGING EDITOR.
SUBSCRIPTION: $1 a year ; six months, 50 cts.
A limited number of acceptable adver
tisements will be inserted in The Kennesaw
Gazette, which publishes a very large edi
tion every month, and it is safe to fay
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 Railroad ; and at
other points where 77te Great Kennesaw Route
is represented. For space and terms ad
dress
Ortje Beniiesani Kajette,
Box 57 Atlanta, Ga.,
and you will receive a prompt response.
-A.tlan.ta, Ga., Deo., 1888.
Atlanta’s Fine Buildings.
Interspersed through Dr. Gatchell’s
fine statistical article, headed “Sum
mer and Winter in Georgia,” are illus
trations of a few of Atlanta’s imposing
structures. There are a score of other
buildings in Atlanta of equal size and
elegance of architecture; but the illus
trations typify the building style of
Atlanta.
Most of the material —the granite,
the pressed brick, the lime, was pro
cured in North Georgia. The first
story of the magnificent Gate City
Bank Building was built of Chicka
mauga limestone, or grey marble,
from the celebrated quarries near
Chickamauga, on the line of the Wes
tern & Atlantic Railroad.
“When are you going to quit im
proving?” said a gentleman to one of
the Western & Atlantic officials, after
looking at the beautiful Marietta fold
er which his company had just issued.
“When we quit running,” was the
answer.
If the Western & Atlantic main
tains its present advance in the adver
tising line, it will soon be considered
the standard in this respect. We have
been told by several gentlemen from
the North and West that the Western
& Atlantic folders and other publica
tions are considered as being ahead of
those issued by any other railroad in
the country.
This is a high compliment, and judg
ing from the character of the work
which is being done, we think it is de
served. The Western & Atlantic Rail
road Co. is entitled to the thanks of
the public for the information about
Northwest Georgia which it furnishes
in so attractive a form.
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The scenery on the Western & At
lantic, at historic Mill Creek Gap, and
along Rocky Face Ridge, is unexcelled
n beauty.
The “Atlanta Number.”
Our readers have noticed from the title of
this number that it is devoted especially to
.Atlanta. We will not make it a sort of
trade issue, giving a list of all the industries,
mercantile establishments, etc., of the city,
inasmuch as these have been written up un
til Atlanta is now about the best advertised
city in America in those respects.
Our sole aim is to show Atlanta’s advan
tages as a health and pleasure resort. The
article from Dr. Gatchell’s pen upon this
subject, and the tables and statistics therein
shown, are something which we will venture
the assertion is absolutely amazing. They
show r that Atlanta is, in nearly every re
spectin which one considers it, in the health
iest location of any city in the United States.
Epidemics, such as yellow fever and chol
era, have been proven to be practically im
possible in Atlanta.
The city is located upon the southwestern
end of the Alleghanies, and sheds the rain
fall freely. There are no lakes, no large
ponds, no swamps, and in fact none of the
natural causes of malaria. The city is
1,060 feet above the sea, and the weather is
less changeable than at most points in the
south. The temperature is more equable,
and the atmosphere, in addition to being
bracing to the system, is of a less humid na
ture than that of almost any other city
which we may name. In fact, the statisti
cal table and medical reports show that At
lanta and the region in Northern, Northwest
and Northeast Georgia is unexcelled in
its health-protecting powers.
We may properly mention the fact that
for some years past the United States
government has almost every summer
brought some of the garrisons from the
forts southeast and southwest of Atlanta to
this point for the purpose of maintaining
the health of the soldiers du ring the summer.
The hotel and boardinghouse accommo
dations in Atlanta are unexcelled. The
Kimball House is universally conceded to
be, so far as architectural design and exe
cution are concerned, one of the most su
perb hotels in America. The Markham
House and other hotels and hostelries afford
all the accommodations of a first-class qual
ity which the most exacting could de
mand.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad Com
pany is particularly desirous of attracting
travel and immigration to Atlanta. It is
the only line running through cars from Ohio
river points to Atlanta whose trains enter
the Union Passenger Depot. Its terminal
facilities, as shown elsewhere in this num
ber, are unrivalled. In addition to these
facts we might mention that via the West
ern & Atlantic and Marietta & North Geor
gia Railroads, passengers are within a few
hours’ ride of the healthiest region in Amer
ica.
We mean Northern Georgia. Fannin
county, as has been stated before, is shown
by the United States census to be the health
iest conn yin America. Invalids and oth
ers threatened with enervating diseases will
find Atlanta and Northern Georgia better
resorts than Florida or any points in the
latitude south of this point. The great ad
vantage which Atlanta possesses is the fact
that it is a place where one can live all the
year round.
Tourists and invalids who are on their
way from northern and northwestern points
to south Florida points and gulf coast
points should come via the Western & At
lantic Railroad itnd Atlanta, or they will
find that they have made a mistake in not
doing so.
From Atlanta one can make short excur
sions at reasonable rates of fare up the
Western & Atlantic Railroad to Marietta,
the “Gem City of Georgia;” to all points in
the great health region reached via the Ma
rietta & North Georgia Railroad; to the fa
mous Kennesaw Mountain, to Allatoona
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
whose fame is embalmed in gospel song; to
Dalton, which is the centre of what we may
term the “mineral springs region” of Geor
gia, and in fact, to scenes which are not only
incomparable in historic fame, but which
arein the midst of a region where health is
not a visitor but a resident.
Mr. E. P. Wilson.
Press of matter has up to this time
interfered with the Kennesaw Ga
zette’s congratulating the railroads of
America as well as the public on the
appointment of Mr. E. P. Wilson as
General Passenger Agent of the Chica
go & Northwestern Railroad.
Mr. Wilson, as General Passenger
Agent of the Cincinnati Southern
Railway, became very well acquainted
with, and highly esteemed by the rail
road men of Georgia, and it was a
source of very general regret when he
retired from his position on that road.
He was shortly afterward appointed
Arbitrator of the Chicago and Missou
ri River Pool, where his decisions were
so unusually able that they attracted
marked attention, the result of which
was that the Chicago ct’ Northwestern
Railroad, one of the most immense and
best managed systems in the north
west, tendered him the position of
General Passenger Agent, and this of
fice he took charge of October Ist.
We predict that he will give unqual
ified satisfaction to the great North
western, and again express our con
gratulations to the public as well as to
Mr. Wilson himself.
The Kennesaw Gazette extends
its very hearty congratulations to Mr.
E. O. McCormick, who has been re
cently promoted from the position of
ticket agent in Chicago for the Louis
ville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad
Co., to be General Passenger Agent of
that line. His previous training as
ticket agent has given him an insight
into all the details of the office and his
well known energy and his unusual
business shrewdness make him quite
an acquisition to theL. N. A. & C.,
and in every respect a worthy succes
sor to the genial and talented Mr.
Wm. S. Baldwin, their late General
Passenger Agent, who resigned to ac
cept the position of General Agent of
the Operating Department of the Pull
man Palace Car Co. We congratulate
both the L. N. A. & C. and Mr. Mc-
Cormick, and we feel assured that the
railroad fraternity will find that it has
quite an acquisition in Mr. McCor
mick.
Atlanta is just at present apparently
on the eve of the most healthy boom
with which she has been blest within
a period covering several years.
Her business men seem to feel that
there is more confidence in commercial
circles and that matters are on a more
solid basis than they have been for
quite a long time.
Collections are reported to be unusu
ally prompt, and these are the practi
cal business pulse of a community.
The many reports which have been
spread about the city by her rivals and
other parties are being shown by daily
proof of an unmistakable character to
be altogether without foundation.
Her prosperity stands to-day on a
basis as firm as the two thousand feet
of solid granite which the artesian well
showed her to be located upon.
The Old Reliable W. & A.
“Those Western & Atlantic fellows
are hustlers,” said one merchant the
other day to another with whom he
was talking relative to the prompt
manner of handling business.
“Yes,” was the reply, “the other
chaps all around have to hump them
selves to keep up with them. They
show more activity in hunting up the
business, and handle it better after
they secure it than any other railroad
in the southeast. I have tried two or
three railroads several times and have
experimented fully with them; but
have never been satisfied with my ex
periments and always keep coming
back to the W. & A., and now I am
going to stay with them.”
We will only remark in reference to
the above that he was altogether cor
rect, and when it is borne in mind
that the Western & Atlantic has four
through freight schedules per day from
Chattanooga to Atlanta, besides its lo
cal freight schedules, the business men
of Georgia, Carolina and Florida have
the practical assurance that their busi
ness will be handled in the promptest
possible manner.
No other line leading into Georgia
approaches the W. & A. in the num
ber of its through freight schedules
per day or its manner of handling
freight. Its agents are courteous and
vigilant, and make it a point to be
personally clever as well as clever in
business matters toward all their pat
rons.
“ Theatre-goers’ Rate.”
Winter tourists who stop at Marietta
can come to the theatre in Atlanta and
hear the best histrionic talent and re
turn to Marietta the same night.
Reaching Atlanta before the enter
tainment begins, they have ample time
after it is over, to take the W. & A.
train and arrive in Marietta at late
bed-time.
The round trip “theatre-goer’s tick
et” Marietta to Atlanta and return
costs 50 cents. During last season
hundreds of people in Marietta availed
themselves of this cheap rate and the
convenient hours on which this sched
ule ran, and it is probable that the
number will be much greater this sea
son.
The bright little grandson of the
managing editor of the Kennesaw
Gazette thought he had described it
exactly when he looked at the “ Side
track” cut, which appears elsewhere in
this publication, and exclaimed, “A
baseball with a chicken on it.”
It there are any two things on which
the mind of young America runs they
are baseball and rooster fighting.
I he Western & Atlantic Railroad is
the ordy line running through passen
ger coaches from (lhattancoga via
Union Passenger Depot, Atlanta, to
Jacksonville, Fla.
