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That Reduction in Rates.
A Notable Departure by a Railroad Noted
* For its Far-Seeing Judgment
in all Matters.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
company have given notice that, on
March Ist, their local passenger rates
will undergo a general cut.'
This movement is due entirely to the
management and enterprise of Mr.
Joseph M. Brown, Gen. Pass. Agent
of the road, and a man who in long
headedness, sagacity and firmness is the
peer of his famous sire, Senator Joseph
E. Brown, and who deserves the grat
itude of the people of the south for
untiring efforts to make traveling a
pleasant recreation, and to add every
comfort to the necessary adjuncts of
passenger travel.
The rate to all points on the West
ern & Atlantic will be, after March 1,
for fifty miles and under, two and one
half cents per mile; for over fifty miles
and under one hundred, two and one
quarter cents; for all points over
one hundred miles, two and one-eighth
cents per mile.
This cut will make the fare from
Atlanta to Chattanooga, now $4.20,
only $3.00; from Atlanta to Rome,
now $2.15, will be only $1.90; and all
other points between Atlanta and
Chattanooga in proportionate reduc
tion.
Since the report of the proposed re
duction has been talked of generally
by the public, it has been said by many
that Mr. Brown could not, on account
of the agreement with the Passenger
Agents’ Association make such a move,
and that he would not dare such a cut,
but the nerve and firmness of that gen
tleman and his determination to carry
through any enterprise that his fore
sight and business experience show to
be of benefit to his popular road and
the public at large, are evidenced by
his prompt and incisive reply to the
question whether the cut in rates were
certain to go into effect.
“There is only one thing on earth,”
was Mr. Brown’s answer, “that will stop
the lower rates from going into effect
on March Ist.”
“What is that, Mr. Brown?” asked
his interlocutDr.
“The failure of March Ist to come
around,” was the decisive and unan
swerable reply.
And it is probable that this move of
the W. & A. will be the opening of an
era of low rates upon all southern rail
roads, and result in innumerable bene
fits to the south and the development
of her inexhaustible natural resources
by bringing about a general lowering
of passenger rates by all railroads run
ning into the southern states and
cheapening travel both local and inter
state. — Tribune of Home.
Joseph M. Brown, General Passen
ger Agent of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, has kindly sent us a schedule
of the reduction in passenger fares
that his road has recently made. The
fares for fifty miles or less are 2£ cents
per mile; from 50 to 100 miles the
fares are 2| cents per mile; for distan
ces over 100 miles the fares are 2|
cents per mile. Our readers will re
member Mr. Brown’s letters to the Ga
zette last summer concerning the battles
fought along the line of his road du
ring the rebellion. The difference of
opinion concerning southern matters
seems unsettled between us; other
wise we have had a pleasant correspon
dence with Mr. Brown. And when
our readers go south we ask them to
patronize his road—the pioneer in the
reduction of fares. Go by the W. 4
A. between Chattanooga and Atlanta.
—Scioto (O/ip) GWtte,
The Press on the W. & A. Val
entine .
that’s the side that licked there.
We are indebted to Mr. Joseph M.
Brown, of Atlanta, Ga., for the only
valentine received by us this season.
It is a fine specimen of printer’s art, a
booklet finely illustrated, giving a
graphic description of the battle of
Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864,
from the Confederate side. — Walton
(Ind.) Press.
The Courant-American received a
pretty valentine from Mr. Joseph M.
Brown, General Passenger Agent of
the Western A Atlantic Railroad. It
is a story of the late war enacted on
Kennesaw Mountain, and is very well
written. Mr. Brown is, without doubt,
one of the best ad vertisers in the United
States.
The Kennesaw Gazette,published
by the Western & Atlantic Railroad,
at Atlanta, Ga., is one of the spiciest
papers that comes to our table, and
the W. & A. R. R., under the man
agement of Mr. Joseph M. Brown is
making a record as one of the most
enterprising roads in the south. The
passenger rates have been reduced to
about 2 cents a mile and takes the lead
in passenger traffic. — Mount Ayr
(Iowa) Journal.
A NOVEL VALENTINE.
Mr. Joseph M. Brown, General
Passenger Agent of the Western &
Atlantic Railroad, has sent out an ele
gant valentine, illustrating the battles
in the region through which runs his
road. Mr. Brown is one of the pro
gressive railroad men of the south. He
has just reduced rates of travel over
his line to 2| cents per mile. Other
southern roads will be forced to come
into the scheme of cheaper travel. —
Savannah Daily Times.
THE KENNESAW ROUTE. •
We have received from Joseph M.
Brown, General Passenger Agent of
the Western & Atlantic R. R., known
as the Kennesaw Route, a beautiful
souvenir valentine, beautifully illus
trated, and descriptive of the battle of
Kennesaw Mountain. This is one of
the great routes through the Empire
state of the south and the one usually
taken by tourists from this section in
going to Florida. It is undoubtedly
one of the best equipped and managed
as well as picturesque routes in the
south. — Joliet {III,) Weekly Record.
PRO BONO PUBLICO.
It is refreshing to see a great railroad
company moving voluntarily in the
direction of the people’s benefit. The
directors of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad company, at their recent an
nual meeting, resolved to reduce fares
to 24 and 2| cents a mile, the rate to
Chattanooga becoming only $3. It is
stated that this step is largely due to
the counsel of Mr. Joseph M. Brown,
who has made himself one of the most
successful General Passenger Agents
of the United States. However the
people may differ as to the disposition
of the State Road by sale or lease, they
certainly have great reason to wish the
present management to remain in con
trol. — The Presbyterian, Atlanta.
We are indebted to Joseph M. Brown,
of the Western & Atlantic R. R. Co.,
for a magnificent valentine. The W
& A. is one of the most enterprising
railroads in the country. Its equip
ment is first-class, road-bed in No. 1
order, time fast and every attention is
paid to passengers, whose comfort and
safety is always looked after. The
W. & A., tpo, is a historic road. For
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
its possession thousands of lives were
sacrificed, and every foot of ground
over which it runs is sacred. Along
the line of that road, which is now the
only through line to Florida from the
west, the armies of Sherman and John
ston struggled for 120 days— Chase
County (Kansas) Leader.
The Democrat acknowledges the re
ceipt from Mr. Joseph M. Brown, of
Atlanta, Ga., one the most elegant
and appropriate valentines we have
ever seen. The sentiment contained
therein speaking of the sympathy ex
isting between the boys of the blue and
the gray, the many kindnesses ex
changed, even during the hottest and
bloodiest days of grim-visaged war, is
touching in the extreme, and should
put to shame the ranting mouthings
of stay-at-home pot-house politicians
and six-ounce-to-the-pound stump
speakers, who were too cowardly to go
near enough that terrible civil struggle
to even smell powder; and the beauti
ful steel engraving scene of the battle
of Kennesaw Mountain is a magnifi
cent work of art. Mr. Brown has our
warmest thanks. — Marion (Ind.) Daily
Democrat.
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Our thanks are tendered Mr. Joseph
M. Brown, of the Western & Atlantic
R. R., for a handsome valentine re
ceived this week. If we may judge
by the excellent taste the managers of
this famous road display in the charac
ter and style of its advertising the
business of the road must be very
handsomely managed.— Splinters, St.
Clair, Pa.
From the literature of the great
Kennesaw the historic lore exudes at
every word, and from the windows of
a train on the W. & A. the scenes of
eighty battle-fields may be looked up
on. There are eight trains a day be
tween Atlanta and Chattanooga, and
lots of windows in each train, so do
tourist need go the other route to avoid
the crowd —the finest literature, all
more or less historic, and every page
interesting, is furnished by the passen
ger department at Atlanta —free. Add
to all this through sleepers between
Cincinnati and Jacksonville and the
fastest time on record between those
cities —twenty-eight hours. — A Pointer.
The flood tide of northern and north
western visitors is upon us, and they
all speak in praise of Marietta, her cli
mate and her people. Many are
making investments here, with a view
of having a wintei<home in Marietta.
Others are prospecting and will no
doubt buy here in the near future.
Marietta is bound to go forward in a
steady and substantial growth.—Mari
etta (Ga.) Journal.
Our northern visitors to Marietta,
frequently ascend to the summit of
Kennesaw Mountain and take a view
of the surrounding country. On a
clear day the unaided eye can see
Stone Mountain and Atlanta, and the
the Blue Ridge which looms up 60
and 100 miles distant. The scenery
around Marietta is grand and pictur
esque and unexcelled by Italy.—Ma
rietta Journal.
The Georgia Midland Railroad has
again reduced its fare. A ticket from
Atlanta to Columbus, which formerly
called for $4.40 now costs only $2.90.
While the traveling public will be
grateful for this change it should not
be forgotten that the Western & At
lantic set the first example of reduced
fare.— Atlanta Evening Capitol.
Think of it! You can leave Cincinnati
after breakfast and get to Atlanta be
fore bed time that day if your ticket
reads over the W, 4 A, R R
Gen. Johnston on the Battle of
Kennesaw Mountain.
A gentleman was talking to us a
few days ago about a conversation he
had with General Joseph E. Johnston
some years since, relative to the battle
of Kennesaw Mountain.
He stated that the General was ab
solutely grand in his description of
the charge of the Federal troops upon
the Confederate works. He said that
the Confederate volleys, or artillery
discharges, would sometimes appear
to cut huge swaths, or yawning gaps,
in the advancing line, but like trained
veterans as they were they would
close up and press forward with daunt
less courage, only to meet renewed vol
leys with the same terrific result.
The Federals closed in until they
and their antagonists were on the
opposite sides of the Confederate para
pets ; but at length they were compelled
to break and flee, as no soldiery
could have stood before the desperate
resistance made by the Confederate
veterans under General Johnston’s
command.
He said that General Johnston re
marked that that was the last time
the Federals of Sherman’s army ever
attacked the Confederate Army of
Tennessee in its entrenchments.
We bad not thought of this before;
but it is a historical fact. There was
never any regular attack made upon
the entrenchments occupied by the
Confederate aimy after Sherman’s re
pulse at Kennesaw Mountain. The
Federal soldiers there learned that it
would not do to assault entrenched
infantry,—such infantry as Johnston
trained and commanded.
Ex-Confederate Gen. Johnston.
A man I see frequently is 75- years
old, but he carries himself as straight
as any man of 30, and he walks with a
spring like that of a boy. He sits
straight up in the car, and his white
hair and snow-white beard shine out
under a brown derby hat. His eyes
are of the bluest, and his thin, rosy
face shines with culture and he looks
like a nobleman. He is uniformly
polite to all, and he never sits while a
lady is standing, though the lady be a
girl in her teens. I have seen him
help lame men into the cats, and jump
to the assistance of the weakly befbre
any one else notices their distress.
Still, there is no greater aristocrat
in the country than he, and his name
is Joseph E. Johnston, the great Con
federate general.— Frank G. Carpen
ter in New York World.
The original meaning of “aristocra
cy” is the supremacy of the best. In
this &.nse, General Johnston, being by
lineage, training and inclination one
of the most perfect gentleinen of com
manding genius is an aristocrat Oh,
for more such aristocrats!
Did You Ever?
W. H. Revels, M. D., dt Balti mdre,
Md., says: “I have been in the
practice of medicine for over eighteen
years, but never have I seen the
equal of Hodges’ Sarsaparilla. It has
worked miracles here in curing Rheu
matism and Scrofula. Have almost
come to the conclusion that I cannot
practice without it.” Sdfa fey all
druggists.
The W, A. does