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The Kennesaw Gazette,
PUBLISHED ON THE Ist AND 15th OF
EACH 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 twice a 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 Railroad ; and at
other points where The Great Kennesaw Route
is represented. For space and terms ad
dress
®ljt liciuttsnw ©ajette,
Box 57 Atlanta, Ga.,
and you will receive a prompt response.
A-tlanta., G3-EL., Feb, 1, 1887.
The Next Boom.
The next boom, the one that is com
ing to stay, will be on the line of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, in Bar
tow county, Georgia, near Cartersville
and Rogers Station. “Dinna ye hear
the slogan ?”
What “Short Line” Means.
Since the race which was had between
the Western & Atlantic and McKen
zie line and their rivals, the emigrant
business has been drifting very heavi
ly over the Western & Atlantic Rail
road.
It proved by that race, when its
trains and those of the McKenzie line
ran about sixty miles longer than their
common competititors, and made the
run in more than three hours shorter
time than their competitors, that the
old term of “short line” is not one
which is always founded on the length
of rails. Distance, now-a-days is meas
ured by time, and the Western <fe At
lantic ami McKenzie line, on the fa
mous Arkansas and Atlanta excursion,
laid out their rivals so completely that
the situation has truly a ludicrous phase
to it.
Since the publication of the article
in our last number, calling attention
to the unrivalled advantages of Car
tersville and Rogers, Ga., on the line
of the Western & Atlantic Railroad,
for the location of a steel plant, influ
ential capitalists have purchased what
is known as the Etowah Iron Works
property, near Cartersville, paying a
very large sum therefor. We under
stand that they intend putting up ex
tensive furnaces, smelting works, etc.
Who says the Kennesaw Gazette is
not a valuable advertising medium ?
* The scenery on the W estern & At
lantic, at historic Mill Creek Gap, and
along Rocky Face Ridge, is unexcelled
in beauty.
“A Trust in Our Hands.”
One of the Western & Atlantic of
ficials speaking to another railroad man
about the conduct of business, remark
ed :
“We consider that we have a trust
in our hands to protect. That trust is
the property and money of the stock
holders of this company. They are
entitled to all the revenue which we
can legitimately make for them, and
we consider that in managing this prop
erty we are handling, as it were, trust
funds.”
This sentiment is in notable contrast
to that of managers of other companies
that we have had knowledge of in the
past. The Western & Atlantic’s ideas
that they must not run the road to
gratify personal spite is something dif
ferent from the ideas which have been
put in practice by others, who have,
however, made a failure in trying to
carry out the other programme.
It was almost amusing to see the re
sult of the willingness to slaughter their
own revenue in order to hurt the line
which would not bend to them. The
Western & Atlantic, by-ihe-way, nev
er pursued the policy of backing down,
or surrendering, when its management
considered that they were right. They
have never adopted the practice of
hurting the interests which are placed
in their hands merely for the purpose
of hurting somebody else.
Baptised with Holy Water.
We are informed by a gentleman
who lived in the upper portion of the
state, before the Western & Atlantic
Railroad was completed, of an incident
connected with its completion, that we
believe is not generally known.
The Rev. Mr. Laneau, a Presby.
terian minister, living at Marietta,,
made a tour of Europe, and visited
the Holy Land. While there, he con
ceived the idea of bringing home two
or three bottles of water taken from
the river Jordan, which he did.
The completion of the Western &
Atlantic was looked upon as a grand
achievement. It occurred in 1849.
When the tunnel was completed so
they were ready to run trains through
it, Col. William L. Mitchell, of Ath
ens, now deceased, who was then the
Superintendent of the road, appointed
by Governor George W. Towns, got
up a celebration, which was pretty
largely attended. The tunnel was one
of the earliest in the country, and, on
account of its length was considered a
wonderful achievement; and as that
was the principal attraction, the cele
bration was conducted mostly at that
point, and, among the other ceremonies,
Rev. Mr. Laneau, as the crowd ex
pressed it, “baptized the tunnel” by
pouring or sprinkling upon it a bottle
of his river Jordan water. It is no
doubt certain that the bottle of water
used upon the tunnel by the reverend
gentleman, was water which he him
self di ppe<£ from the river Jordan, and
brought home in his trunk.
It is said on the completion of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad that
water was carried on a car from the
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
Mississippi river at Memphis, and
emptied into the Atlantic at Charles
ton. It was considered quite an event
to mingle the waters of the Mississippi
and the Atlantic ; but it was bringing
things from a much greater distance
together, when the water from the
river Jordan, in Palestine, was used
in the celebration of the opening of the
tunnel on the Western & Atlantic.
Printer’s Ink Does It.
While the passenger revenue of most
of the companies in the southeast has
been falling off during the past few
months, as compared with the same
months of the previous year, that of
the Western & Atlantic Railroad has
shown a steady increase, which is as
complimentary to the management as
it is gratifying to them.
The AVestern & Atlantic is said to
be the best advertised line in the south
east. We doubt whether even this
territorial limitation should be made.
We are impressed with this fact from
the great number of newspaper notices
which we find in the columns of our
exchanges, and in the vast and wide
spread correspondence which is done
with the general officers of the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad, asking for
the publications which are issued by
that company, showing its attractions
for tourists, and the mineral wealth of
the section through which it runs, as
well as the fact that it passes through
the healthiest portion of America, as is
shown by the United States census.
We have no doubt that the increase
in its business is just beginning, and
that the record for the next few months
will be one which a great many rail
roads might be pardoned for envying
them of.
Ignorance or Malice—Which is
It?
We notice in the list of Georgia ho
tels, which is published in the South
ern Travelers’ Official Railway Guide,
the Mitchell House, at Thomasville,
Ga., Uriah Welch, proprietor, and the
statement is made that it is “closed.”
This magnificent house, one of the
most supurbly constructed and best
kept in the Southern States, is not on
ly not closed; but has a very large
number of guests. There is no better
hotel keeper in the South than Mr.
Uriah Welch; and we are simply
amazed at the statement which the
self-styled Travelers Official Railway
Guide makes about it.
We will here venture the assertion
that the above so-called Official Rail
nay Guide is a very poor advertising
medium, judging from the above.
Passengers from the northwest, who
come to Atlanta, should bear in mind
that the Western & Atlantic Railroad
company is the only one over whose line
sleeping cars run from Cincinnati and
Louisville into the union depot at
Atlanta. All the street car lines in
Atlanta start immediately from or with
in one square of the union passenger de
pot, besides the fact that the two large
hotels are at opposite ends of the union
depot.
“That was nothing less than a spe
cial act of Providence,” said one of
the AV. & A. men to another, in speak
ing of a threatened accident which did
not happen, but which came so near
it that it almost frightened them.
“Yes,” answered the other, “we can
not consider it as anything else. IL
is taking care of us as usual.”
These were words which did great
credit to the men who spoke; but as
they are in line with the general feel
ing of the AA r estern & Atlantic man
agement and men on nearly all occa
sions, they are nothing remarkable to
them.
Italy is trying to borrow 3,500,000
lires. AVe are surprised. Italy is so
well supplied with chestnuts that we
never imagined that her stock of liars
was running short. — Boston Transcript.
AA r e do not know that the United
States can fill, altogether, Italy’s re
quirements; but the railroad part of
this country could contribute some
what toward it. AVe have in mind
the most accomplished one in the busi
ness; but he is not on the AArestern &
Atlantic Railroad. They don’t have
any of them on that road now.
Undoubtedly the best location in
America for the establishment of a
manufactory for steel is at Cartersville,
or Rogers Station, Ga., on the AVest
ern & Atlantic Railroad. All the
component parts which enter into its
composition are either right there or
within a comparatively short distance.
The rail communication direct to these
two points goes immediately through
the lands where the ores, coal, etc. are
to be found.
The Hotel Rosland, at Grovetown,
on the Georgia Railroad, not far from
Augusta, has achieved a reputation of
the highest character as a winter resort
for health and comfort-seekers from
the North. The Rosland is a favorite
hotel with the palace car king, Geo.
M. Pullman, and his family. You
can ticket right through from the North
and Northwest, via the AVestern &
Atlantic Railroad. See card on 7th
page, and schedules on 6th page.
AVinter 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 AV. & 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.
From the Marietta Journal: A large
number of our people are constant pat
rons of the theatre in Atlanta. A
crowd went to see Monte Cristo.
The AVestern and Atlantic railroad
runs more passenger trains over the
same rails than any other railroad in
the South.