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All Business and Always Cour
teous.
“Do you know,” said one citizen of
Atlanta to another, “that those W. &
A. people remind me of‘old Rip,’that
is, of what Gretchen said about him?”
“How’s that?” said the other, “you
surely don’t mean the twenty-years
sleep part of it, for they are about as
wide-awake a crowd, on all occasions,
as ever I saw.”
“Oh, I suppose you know,” said the
first, “there is nothing about them that
is asleep; but, you know, Gretchen, in
one of her talks about ‘Old Rip,' Io a
neighbor, said that she could have
some patience with him if he would
just get mad and rail back at her ; but
that he was so irrepressibly good-hu
mored that she could not talk to him
always like she wanted to. She would
be met by his smiles and jokes, and it
would break up her scold every time.
“Now that’s the way with the West
ern & Atlantic officers and employes,
not only in their dealings with the gen
eral public, but also in their dealings
with rival railroads. They work like
Trojans, and get a vast majority of
what comes into this section, and, if
they get blows they give back some a
little harder every time; but they will
in a business matter literally use a ftl
low up, and at the same time be in a
perfect good-humor with him, person
ally. They don’t take their business
scuffles into social intercourse; and I
have sometimes seen people look on
with a good deal of wonder at the joc
ular manner and clever spirit with
which they act towart. their competi
tors socially. Some of their most en
ergetic opponents get a regular knock
down from them in business matters,
and at the same time the Western &
Atlantic management and boys will go
to any length to oblige those very same
men personally.”
“Oh, they are a rare set, those West
ern & Atlantic fellows are, and their
competitors do not always know just
how to take them. 1 was talking to
one of the men in the freight office one
day, and asked him why it was that he
had just extended a courtesy to one of
the employes of the other line with
such apparent genuine pleasure.
“‘Oh, why that’s part of our code,’
said he. ‘He is a glorious good fel
low, and I know he would take pleas
ure in obliging me with anything out
side of business, and I will do every
thing I can to do him a favor.’
It is pleasant to sec such a spirit as
this shown in the transaction of business
matters; and the Western & Atlantic
is commended on all sides for being the
leader in the matter of bringing about
a genuine good-feeling between rail
road men representing all interests, as
between the railroads and the general
public.
The liberality of the company is al
most proverbial in Georgia, and that
is, after all, the main-spring, of a great
part of its well deserved prosperity.
The magnificent palace buffet sleep
ing cars which pass over the Western
& Atlantic Railroad are the only ones
which reach Thomasville in the day-time.
Dalton, Georgia.
Dalton, like Jerusalem, as mention
ed in the Psalms, is “beautiful for sit
uation.” We scarcely know a city in
the southeast which has more charming
surroundings than Dalton. It has a
happier combination than almost any
other point. It is within a few hours’
ride of Atlanta, Rome and Chattanoo
ga. It has, in Rocky Face mountains,
some of the most beautiful, as well as
some of the grandest scenery in Geor
gia. The song of historic fame is sung
by almost every rippling rill and hill
side around it. It is in the centre of
the mineral springs region of Georgia.
Its people are hospitable and refined.
It has nice hotels. It has splendid
school facilities. It has just inaugur
ated a system of water-works. It gets
coal at less rates than Atlanta does. It
is surrounded by a splendid farming
country, and one which is full of min
erals, and, by the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, it is connected with the north
west and southeast by splendid sleep
ing car lines.
It rests with the people of Dalton as
to whether their city shall be one
which will be very much sought by
health and pleasure-seekers and capi
talists. We trust that they will be
equal to the emergency. We know
that there are some in their number
who have as much city pride and as
much energy to the square inch as those
of any other city in Georgia.
Famous North Georgia.
As proof of the value of the materi
al resources of the country immediate
ly by the line of the Western & At
lantic Railroad, we will state that the
iron which was used to a considerable
extent in constructing the iron-clads
for the Confederate government,during
the war, was made at the famous Eto
wah Iron Works, near Cartersville,
Ga.
This fine property has just recently
been bought by a company of strong
capitalists who will develop it shortly.
Captain Bowman, the civil engineer
who constructed Fort Sumter, also
gave the Howard cement, which is the
out-put of the cement works at Cement,
Ga., on the Western & Atlantic Rail
road, the highest praise of any cement
which he used.
Passengers leaving Cincinnati at
8:15 p. m., and coming via the West
ern & Atlantic R. R., make connec
tion in the Union Depot, Atlanta, at
dinner-time next day, with the Geor
gia Railroad’s “fast mail” train, which
reaches Augusta and Aiken at bed
time that night, and Charleston at
breakfast next morning.
Leaving Cincinnati on the same
train, and coming via the opposition
to the Western & Atlantic, they reach
Atlanta fifty minutes after the Georgia
Road’s “fast mail” train has departed,
and have to lie over and take the lo
cal train over the Georgia Railroad
that night.
Only via the Western and Atlantic
railroad can you get to Fannin county,
the healthiest county in Georgia if not
in America.
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
Marietta (Ga.) Journal.
THE AMERICAN MARBLE
COMPANY.
A Half Million Dollar Enterprise
in Cobb.
Elizabeth City, with its 140 acres in
corporated, on the Western & Atlantic
and the Marietta c(r North Georgia
Railroads, one mile and a half above
Marietta, is one of the busiest hives of
industry on the continent. The estab
lishment of the great marble factory
there, by Northern capitalists, R. M.
Pulsifer, president; George R. Eager,
general manager and George F. New
ell, cashier, marked a new era of pros
perity in this section, that has greatly
benefitted Cobb county and her peo
ple. It gives employment to over 100
hands and scatters dollars among the
merchants, boarding-houses, etc., and
made the outlook of Marietta brighter
in every respect. The shops are very
extensive, and packed full of the finest
and best machinery for cutting, saw
ing, carving and polishing marble.
None but skilled mechanics are em
ployed, and, day and night, the ponder
ous machinery is in motion. Electric
lights make the shopsand surroundings
bright as day for night work. Mr. J.
W. Malloy, of Boston, is one of the
principal stockholders and is the in
ventor of some marble machinery
that will save the work of thirty hands.
Besides monuments and costly mantles,
the machinery turns out beautiful and
artistic vases, urns, etc., while marble
slabs, for bureaus, dressing cases, ta
bles, etc., are piled up in great profu
sion.
The marble worked by this factory
is brought from the company’s quar
ries at Tate’s, in Pickens county, on the
line of the Marietta & North Georgia
Railroad. Pure while and variegated
marble is excavated in these inexhaust
ible quarries, loaded on the ears and
brought to the factory in huge blocks
weighing twenty and thirty thousand
pounds. At the factory is a huge der
rick that lifts these immense blocks of
marble from the cars as if they were
toys and deposits them on the ground
ready for the gang saws which cut
them into slabs ready for the manipu
lation by the machinery in the main
building, transforming them into such
shapes and designs as render them
marketable.
The Georgia marble being of such
excellent quality is taking precedence
in the market over other marbles. At
Chicago, the former superintendent,
Charles E. Nason, has established an
office for the sale of this marble,
which gives facilities for its speedy dis
posal.
We are glad to have such a magnifi
cent enterprise in Cobb county and
wish it continued and unprecedented
success.
“ The Golden Streets.”
“ Canton is built upon a gold mine,”
were the words of an old and ex
perienced and intelligent miner to us
last week, after he had been out pan
ning a few shovels full of dirt on some
of the back streets in town. He was
led to say this by having found several
particles of gold in so little dirt. This
has been done here in town before, for
not long ago several persons made con
siderable money by daily panning on
the branches and gulches in town, and
the same thing can be done now.
Small nuggets of gold are frequently
picked up in town, but nothing is
rarely ever said about it. Yes, Can
ton is built on a gold mine. The mine
can be bought too. — Cherokee Advance.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad is
known as the “old reliable.”
Psalm XXX.
I David praiseth God for his deliverance. 4 He
exhorteth others to praise him by example of
God’s dealing with him.
A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the
house of David.
I WILL extol thee, O Lord ; for thou hast
lifted me up, and hast not made ray foes
to rejoice over me.
2. O Lord my God, I cried unto thee,
and thou hast healed me.
3. O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul
from the grave; thou hast kept me alive,
that I should not go down to the pit.
4. Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his,
and give thanks at the remembrance of his
holiness.
5. For his anger endureth but a moment:
in his favour is life; weeping may endure
for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
6. And in my prosperity I said, I shall
never be moved.
7. Lord, by thy favour thou hast made
my mountain to stand strong; thou didst
hide thy face, and I was troubled.
8. I cried to thee, O Lord ; and unto the
Lord I made supplication.
9. What profit is there in my blood, when
Igo down to the pit? Shall the dust praise
thee ? shall it declare thy truth ?
10. Hear, 0 Lord, and have mercy upon
me, Lord, be thou my helper.
11. Thou hast turned for me my mourning
into dancing; thou hast put off my sack
cloth, and girded me with gladness.
12. To the end that my glory may sing
praise to thee, and not be silent. O L( rd
my God, I will give thanks unto thee for
ever.
Can This be True ?
A gentleman, whose opinions are
valuable, asserts that Dalton res s
above a vast deposit of the finest coal.
It stands to reason that there may be
some truth in this assertion, for, fre
quently in digging deep wells, eviden
ces of the existence of coal at a great
depth have been discovered. Who
knows? Maj be our little city stands
over black diamond fields rivaling the
famous ones of Pennsylvania! Don’t
be astonished if you jump out of bed
some bright morning and find yourself
a Croesus! — North Georgia Citizen.
Passengers to Cincinnati can leave
Atlanta via the Western & Atlantic
R. R. at 1:40 p. m. and arrive at Cin
cinnati at 6:40 the next a. m. They
leave from the Union Depot in Atlan
ta. If going via the opposition to the
Western <fc Atlantic, they leave At
lanta from the small station over a
half mile from the Union Depot at
12:15 p. m., in order to reach Cincin
nati at the same time that passengers
leaving via the Western & Atlantic at
1:40 p. m. do. In other words, the
time Atlanta to Cincinnati, via the
Western & Atlantic, is one hour and twen
ty-five minutes shorter than via the op
position, besides the advantage of start
ing from the Union Depot if you go over
the Western & Atlantic.
If you want to be sure of having a
good and safe ride in luxurious cars on
through schedules, the Western & At
lantic is the road you are hunting for.
It fills all the requirements, and the
way its passenger business has increas
ed, shows that the public have found
this out.
The Western <£• 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 dr Atlantic, from the west to
the southeast, if it misses one schedule
has.a chanQg.at three othersjhe same
day. This makes it emphatically a
FASTFREIGHT LINE, and shippers
have found it out, and are acting in
accordance with their interests.
The Kennesaw Route isthe quickest.