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4 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, BEACHED BT 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, 5 A 10 MARIETTA ST.. ATLANTA, GA. SUBSCRIPTION: 81 a year; six months, 50 cts. ATLANTA, GA., AUGUST 1, 1888. We are so accustomed to writing ed itorials which are a source of entertain ment and instruction to a vast num ber of readers that we don’t always keep our scissors sharp, but on this and other pages we give several articles clipped from the Atlanta Constitution which are too good to be lost. The Constitution and the Kennesaw Gazette and the W estern & Atlantic Railroad are doing great things for Georgia. A year ago a lost car tracer would hardly think of looking on the top of Lookout Mountain, 1,700 feet above the Tennessee river at Chattanooga, for a missing car; but now he might find it up there. A few days ago the editor of the Gazette, ascended Lookout in one of the fine standard gauge cars of the Lookout Mountain Railroad, and there on top stood a Western & Atlantic freight car in which freight had been shipped up the mountain. The W. & A. cars .go everywhere there is a standard guage track in North America. If you want to go for the summer to Tate Springs, Monteagle, Burnside, Rugby, Lea Springs, Lookout Moun tain, Linnietta Springs, Hurricane Springs, Beersheba, Catoosa Springs, Bon Aqua Springs, Alleghany Springs, Greenbriar, White Sulphur Springs, Waukesha, or, in fact to any of the summer resorts in northwest Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky or the northwest, —see that your tickets read over the W. & A. R. R. Tell the ticket agent that you want it over the W. & A., and look and see that he makes no mistake “in the rush and hurry of business.” An Atlanta business man, who travels some, remarked to an official of the Western & Atlantic Railroad: “You must be prepared for an extra big local business in both freight and passenger the coming fall and winter.” When asked why he thought the bus. iness would be extra large, he replied that such crops as now lined the W. 6 A road had never been seen before, and it was the same back in the coun try on both sides of the road. “Im mense crops of corn, cotton, fruit. These will make great local freights, and the money they will bring will allow the farmers, their wives and children to travel. I say look for a big local business.” The Necessity of Georgia to the Union. Georgia watermelons are rated at the top of the market in New York. — Dalton Argus. Yes, that’s the way with everything Georgia has or does. Her neighbors pattern after her, and the northern states wish they were like Georgia. Georgia, in fact, is necessary for the prosperity and happiness of this great and glorious union. It can’t do without her. About twenty-five years ago she got tired of being imposed upon and con cluded that she would go out and set up a little republic of her own. Some of the other southern states thought that it was essential to their well being to be on Georgia’s side, and left the union too, —just to be with Georgia. Well, we all know the result. Such another racket never was known or heard of. The north, east and west, seeing that they were ruined if Georgia went out of partnership with them, and that a union without Georgia in it was worth no more than a worn-out and “busted gallis,” joined together and doubled all of their teams to pull her back in. Georgia and her sister Confederate states stood them a tussle for four years, and then, having tired them down till they could hardly holler, finally consented to come back into the old partnership. There was great rejoicing among the northern, eastern and western states that Georgia did thus. They saw that they were thus saved from gaunt starvation and from a deprivation of many of the choicest dainties which they desired. As long as they didn’t have to pay duties on Georgia pig iron, Georgia lumber, Georgia cotton, Georgia sweet potatoes, Georgia watermelons, etc., they could be happy. Thus the union was saved by Geor gia’s return to it and thus the Western & Atlantic Railroad became famous as the national highway of trade and travel. Go via the Western & Atlantic Railroad to Lookout Mountain for the summer. Splendid hotels on the summit of the mountain, and two railroads run from Chattanooga to the summit within a few yards of the hotels. You will be 2,400 feet above the sea up there, and the W. &A. takes you right to connection for the mountain. See therefore that your tickets read over the W. & A. We notice that water pipe is being laid down in the city of Dalton, Ga., and that an air of general improve ment blows through the town. Some important manufactories have been established, and it looks as if Dalton — holding such great possibilities—is at last awakening and will realize them. The way to develop is not to wait for outside capital; but go to work and develop and get the advantage of the same. As you go over the W. & A. ask the conductor to show you the great “horse-shoe bend.” THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. An Incident on the W. & A. The Western & Atlantic is a mighty safe railroad and rarely has an acci dent. The train service is as near perfection as the ability and watchful ness of Superintendent Anderson, as sisted by his capable staff can make it. Travelers remark that they are re minded of the Pennsylvania Railroad when riding over the smooth track in the elegant coaches of the W. & A. The other day we were taking a trip to Chattanooga, seated, in the car next to the rear car, and when near Acworth there was a noise like the furious hissing of a thousand snakes at once. A glance back showed the rear car rapidly getting left. The Miller coupling had opened and the air hose parted, which caused us to part com pany with the car, with the snake salute of escaping compressed air. As soon as could be safely done, the train stopped, backed to the car and re-coupled. Flagman Warren Pey ton, however, who was on the rear car, did not wait for the return of the train or orders, but shot down the track to stop any train that might show up in the rear. The engineer signalled his return and pulled into Acworth. When ready to start, con ductor Sanford Bell said “We’ll have to leave Warren,” and the train almost imperceptibly started as it does when engineer Jim Sullivan is at the throt tle. We felt sorry for rhe flagman who was about to “get left,” when he appeared running around the curve in regular go-as-you-please style. Conduct or Bell stopped the train, remarking : “My goodness, that boy will run him self to death.” He just flew in, his face shining with the perspiration running off it. He had run two miles in ten minutes, and as he sprang on the rear platform panted out that he had no idea of losing his train and waiting in Acworth until the next train came along. The train ran into Cartersville, 14 miles further up the road, on time. Swarms of people avail themselves of the very low Sunday rates of the Western & Atlantic Railroad to Bol ton, Vinings, Smyrna and Marietta, and spend the day out of the heat and dust of the metropolis at those cool, wooded resorts or charming towns. It is a great luxury to the mechanics and other laboring men who cannot get away on week days, to take their wives and little ones and spend the “day of rest” truly resting, away from the sight of brick walls and of rock pavements, breathing in the delicious pure air and feasting their eyes upon the beautiful scenery. The Western and Atlantic railroad has maintained its system of cheap passenger rates for four months. It is no longer an experiment, but is a pay ing success. These rates were made against the bitter protest of every other road in the state. While the expenses of the road have not been increased and the rates cut not more than one fifth, its passenger traffic has in many instances more than quadrupled. This shows the benefits both to the railroads and the people of cheap trav eling fare. — Franklin (Ga.) News. The Kennesaw Route always ahead. Dalton Water Works Inauguration Entertainment, At Lewis House, Dalton, Ga., Thursday Evening, August 2dj 8:30 o’clock, 1888. MR. J. M. BROWN, You are invited to be present Present this ticket at the door. COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS. — The above copy of a neat invitation card explains itself. It makes the be ginning of a new era in Dalton, and it is a happy thought for her people to celebrate it by a grand opening ball. We hope that the inauguration enter tainment will be as pleasant as the future of the city will be prosperous. Said a gentleman, who travels con siderably, to us : “When traveling, especially through a region new to me, —although I may have a seat in a Pullman, I ride most of the daytime in the car used for local travel, that I may the more closely observe the ap pearance, manners and customs of the “natives” —so to speak. During a re cent trip from Chattanooga to Atlanta I was impressed with the beauty, style, vivacity and intelligence of the ladies who got on and off at the various sta tions along the Western & Atlantic Railroad. Also I must say that the male sex showed up favorably for good looks, behavior and general informa tion. You have a good people along the line of the Western & Atlantic.” Cartersville’s Furnaces. As will be seen by reading an inter view with Mr. Patillo, of Cartersville, in another column, the people of that thriving place have in prospect two well equipped furnaces, and in another year they will be turning the rich ores in Bartow county into money instead of sending it away to give employment and money to other people. These in dustries will draw others as sure as fate, and time will prove that the citi zens of Cartersville have acted wisely. Let them continue. There is no bet ter place to work up the pig iron from a furnace into stoves. A stove found ry would pay well there, and a man will be found to start one very soon — then let the other manufactures be started. The farmers of Bartow coun ty can feed twenty-five thousand mechanics on the best food in the land, and could get rich at it. They want a market for their surplus.— Atlanta Constitution. General Passenger Agent Joseph M. Brown, of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, informs us that the 20 per cent reduction in passenger rates, which has been in effect for four months, has resulted in an increase of over 40 per cent in passenger travel. The greater per cent of increase is from the smaller stations, —the low rates bringing the inhabitants of the surrounding country to the W. & A. trains. Mr. Brown and the other managing officials of the W. & A. are more than pleased and satisfied with the result of putting fares down to from 2| to 2| cents per mile. — Nail road Becord. “Are you going?” “Well, I should smile.” “By what route ?” “By the W. & A., of course; if not I couldn’t smile.” The Western & Atlantic Railroad runs more trains per day over the same rails than any other railroad south of the Ohio River.
