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6 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. ■ - 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.