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4 The Kennesaw Gazette, PUBLISHED ON THE Ist AND 15th OF EACH MONTH. / 3>ovoted 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 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 ami Atlantic Railroad; and at other points where The Great Kennesaw Houle is represented. For space and terms ad dress ©lje Beiiucsniu Box 57 Atlanta, Ga., and you will receive a prompt response. Atlanta,Ga., ZMstr’lr. 1,1887, The Western A Atlantic’s Ma rietta Folder. The Western A Atlantic Railroad company has just issued a new edition of the “Marietta Folder.” This is a forty-page pamphlet des criptive of the climatic, scenic and other advantages of Marietta as a sum mer resort. There tire numerous illus trations, several of which make their first appearance in this copy of the folder. The increased number of people who are resorting to Marietta is an evidence of the wisdom of the Western A At lantic Railroad Company in issuing this folder. It renders us somewhat liable to have “chestnuts” called on us to say that Marietta is the prettiest town in the southeast, and is destined to be its favorite spring-time and summer re sort. The present tremendous rush of freight over the Western A Atlantic has taxed that popular line to its utmost. As the Train Dispatcher remarked to another Western A At lantic man a few days ago —“You can form some idea of how heavy it is when I tell you that we had to send the old ‘General’ out to bring down a freight train.” “Well,” was the reply, “that’s what you call bringing out the ‘preserves,’ it?” All parties in South Carolina and the eastern part of Georgia,, who desire information relative to rates schedules, etc., on freight business, and informa tion about the best way to travel, etc., between Georgia and the Northwest, will please call on, or write to George M. Brown, Southeastern AgenT West ern & Atlantic Railroad, whose address is at Atlanta, Ga. He will take pleas ure in answering all questions prompt ly and in giving all the assistance pos sible in his line. The Kennesaw Route is the quickest. “No Likee, No Takee.” We suppose that this refers to the average emigrant; if he does not like the opposition route to the Western & Atlantic and McKenzie then he won’t take it; but, on the contrary, will seek the Western & Atlantic and Mc- Kenzie line, inasmuch as that route has proven itself to be the shortest and most reliable in time between Atlanta j and Memphis. We are led into this train of thought by the notice of an interview under the above title, which appeared in the Arkansas Gazette, between a reporter of that paper and the western passen ' ger agent of the opposition line to the Western A Atlantic and McKenzie route. He was endeavoring to ex plain why it was that his route got. laid out so completely on the holiday excursion from Arkansas and Texas to Atlanta and the Southeast, and lavs stress on the fact that they had * V i arranged for five coaches to carry their excursionists, but at nearly the last moment they found that the swarm of excursionists was so great that they had either to stick them in cars like cattle or provide other cars. He says that they “argued that it was barbarous to carry people almost half across the continent without providing seats.” That’s right. There was not only policy in that, but a strict construc tion of the law would have forced them to do it. He states that when they finally got their excursion under way, instead of having one engine and five cars, they had two engines and fifteen cars, —that is, there were about seven cars to an engine. Now, the, McKenzie route folks had nine cars to tlfbir train, which we think was a heavier one, therefore, than the engine with seven or eight cars. He says that the McKenzie line, notwithstanding its advantages, did not arrive in Atlanta far enough ahead of him to justify any loud crow ing. This is very pretty talk ; but the truth of the matter is that the Mc- Kenzie line’s train with nine cars left Memphis an hour and forty minutes after the opposition trains, with seven or eight cars to the engine, did, and left Chattanooga about an hour and three-quarters later, and yet arrived at Atlanta two hours earlier than the opposing train —the further fact being that the excursionists who came by the McKenzie and Western A Atlantic arrived in Atlanta in time to make all connections with the Georgia road, the Central road, and the Richmond A Danville road, while those who came via the opposition line reached Atlanta half an. hour after the last ‘morning train on either of the three roadshad gone —thus missing all of those con nections. The zealous passenger agent says in his interview: “If we had had no larger crowd than our opposition we would have reached Atlanta ‘on the dot’ as sure as fate. They reached Atlanta sev eral hours later than their advertised time,” THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. Answering the last of the above first, we will say that it is a misrepre sentation, for the Western A Atlantic train reached Atlanta exactly on its advertised time; and so far as the “larger crowd ” is concerned, it is a well known fact that the Memphis A Charleston train carried a majority of its excursionists to Corinth, Grand Junction and Decatur, from which three points they went down connec ting lines to their old homes in Mis sissippi and Alabama, and when they arrived at Chattanooga they had scarcely any more people than the McKenzie line brought to that point; and of those who came south ward to Atlanta the Western A Atlan tic train brought the larger crowd. The passenger agent, who was in terviewed, says: “Now I ask you to decide, which would havtf done us the most injury— to run our train through as advertised, with all the coaches packed like’ sar dies in a box, with the aisles and plat forms crowded, keeping people in this condition from twenty to thirty hours, or, by taking time, to make all com fortable, and thereby miss promised connections.” If the line intends to be enough like a grasshopper to not look out for the future, and should find itself with a larger crowd on hand than it could handle, and if all of those people were going through the full length of its rails instead of stopping at intermedi ate points, which latter was the case, however, then, we would in every re spect answer in the affirmative; but we would at the same time advise the traveling public to go in future by those lines which arrange beforehand to accommodate as large a crowd as may be thrown upon them at the last mo ment, make, them all comfortable, and then run if necessary sixty miles fur ther than their competitors and even then get to where they were going to from two to twelve hours first. The opposition line through its pas senger agent feels “highly compliment ed;” so does the McKenzie line and Western A Atlantic ; the difference be ing that the former line feels “compli mented,” although it did fail to carry out its promises, and the latter line feels “complimented” because it did every thing it promised the public. In the meantime, we would like to ask why it was that the opposition line to the Western A Atlantic got beat in point of time in the excursion the year before the one which we have been re ferring to, and with only about one hundred and fifty people in their ex cursion that time? It is very strange, it seems to us, if the opposition line to the Western A Atlantic and McKenzie route is the quickest line that it should have been beaten on both the grand, occasions when each line did its level best to show the public what it could do. As a final remark we will call atten * -•. tion to the concluding paragraph of the opposition passenger agent’s inter view. “To what special feature do you credit your road’s popularity ?” “To the fact that we pledge ourselves to never forget a friend, and we never violate a pledge. We have the finest and most extensive through-car service in the United States. We run one Pullman buffet sleeper from Kamas City to Jacksonville, Fla.” etc. Probably his company never does forget a friend; but its record has been that it has shown itself unable to carry out its pledges in several instances. We might bring forward the example in the last sentence which we have quot ed, about the Pullman buffet sleeper from Kansas City to Jacksonville, Fla. His company has been advertising— that is, pledging the public, for some two months past that they were run ning that sleeper from Kansas City to Jacksonville, when the truth of the mat ter is that they have not been running it to Jacksonville. The sleeper has been stopped at Jesup, or has gone to Bruns wick; has not been running regularly to Jacksonville, (in fact, has only made two trips to Jacksonville, both of which were in the month of December,) and does not run to Jacksonville — yet his com pany pledges the people that it does run that sleeper there, and in spite of its pro fession that it “never violates a pledge,” it is a notorious fact that it is not car rying out that one. Further comment as to the reliabili ty of his line in its “pledges,” etc., is unnecessary. Inter-state Commerce Law. The Inter-state Commerce bill has been signed by the President, and is now the law of the land. The West ern A Atlantic Railroad company in- to give this law a fair trial, ami to endeavor to so comply with its con ditions as to make it carry out the pur poses of those who framed it, if it be practicable to do so. It will throw no obstacles in the way, and will not endeavor by enforcing it in a straight-laced manner to make it odious. In other words, it proposes in a loyal manner, now that it is the law of the land, to demonstrate whether it is a law which is practicable for the requirements and purposes of com merce. We believe that nothing fairer than this could be demanded by those who framed the bill, or by the general pub lic. 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 alter it is over, to take the W. A 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 Western and Atlantic railroad runs more passenger trains over the same rails than any other railroad in the South.