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Marietta, Ga.
Beautiful Little City, Crowded Winter
and Summer.
It is somewhat surprising that the
people of Atlanta, particularly, have
not recognized in a more positive man
ner the very great advantages of Ma
rietta as a health and pleasure resort
during the summer.
It is certainly one of the prettiest
little cities in the South. No place in
the South has a more abundant growth
of magnificent oak trees. They are
found all over Marietta. They shade
the lawns of the well-to-do people,they
adorn the smaller yards of the labor
ing class, they ornament the streets,
and whether on the high hills or in
the valleys, you find them to perfec
tion.
Marietta is also the center of a so
cial refinement not second to any city
in the State, and being only twenty
miles from Atlanta, the interchange
between the two places is a very easy
matter. One can go to or return from
Marietta almost any hour of the day,
the Western and Atlantic Railroad
running seven passenger trains a day
each way.
From a beautiful little book of forty
odd pages, published by that railroad
company, entitled
“MARIETTA, THE GEM CITY OF GEOR
GIA,”
the following is taken :
“Pre-eminently one of the prettiest
little cities in all the southland is Ma
rietta, Ga. Built in the midst of a
superb growth of oak trees, which
crown the hills only a couple of miles
south of the far-famed Kennesaw
mountain, and having within itself all
the elements of beauty and taste, it
well deserves the title of “The Little
Gem City of Georgia.”
“At the Western and Atlantic Rail
road depot its elevation above the sea
is 1,132 feet, and upon the summits of
several of the beautiful hills within its
limits there is an altitude attained of
possibly a couple of scores or more of
feet above this; hence it can readily
be noted that the atmosphere is very
fine and the scenery charming.
“To the inhabitants of the region of
the south, desirous of escaping the ex
treme heat aud the malarial influences
which are so deleterious to health dur
ing the summer months, there is no
better resort than Marietta; while
those who would seek refuge from the
chilling blasts and snows of the north
and west find this a delightful “half
way place’’ between the rigors of the
winter climate of their homes and the
enervating warmth of Florida, during
the early winter and early spring. In
fact, Marietta has for some years past
been the winter residence of a number
of northwestern people.”
Marietta is also the southern termi
nus of the Marietta and North Geor
gia Railroad, which is now completed
through the magnificent mountain
country of Georgia to Murphy, N. C.
MINERAL WATERS AND BRACING AIR.
Almost at the base of Kennesaw
mountain, and within fifty yards of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
there is a fine chalybeate spring,which
is much resorted to by the Marietta
people and by visitors. Within a half
mile of this spring there are two others
which have for their properties iron,
and the carbonates and chlorides of
soda, lime and magnesia. Flowing
immediately out of the side of Kenne
saw mountain op the southeast is also
a bold spring which is strongly im
pregnated with alum. These springs
are within a mile of each other, and
wjtjijn $ P)pe ftpd aWf of Mariettta.
From the railroad pamphlet above
alluded to, the following is of interest:
“In this connection it is worthy of
note, that on the sides of the famous
Kennesaw mountain there is a consid
erable growth of cactus, or prickly
pear. This shows that the same at
mospheric conditions exist at and near
Marietta as in New Mexico, which is
considered the sanitarium of America
for all afflicted with pulmonary and
bronchial diseases, inasmuch as this
growth abounds in the territory
named. The dry, bracing atmosphere
is very exhilarating to invalids, and
has been much resorted to on this ac
count, and is greatly to be preferred,
during the fall and spring months, to
the damp, warm air of Florida and the
adjoining region.
“Concerning the other advantages,
it may be stated that the roads are
fine, and there are splendid and
picturesque drives in almost every di
rection from Marietta, which has good
livery stables.
“The road toward Smyrna is par
ticularly fine. Another favorite drive
is about a half dozen miles long, all
around Kennesaw mountain and in
the vicinity of the beautiful and his
toric Noonday creek. Others might
be mentioned which have choice at
tractions.”
The accommodations of the city for
visitors are very good; but during
some seasons of the year it can scarce
ly supply the demand. The hotels and
boarding houses are well kept and
would do credit to a larger city. Dur
ing late fall and spring they are taxed
to their utmost to accommodate the
visitors, and during mid-winter and
mid-summer they have a large number
of people from the north and from the
coast region of Georgia and Florida.
THE NUMBER OF NORTHERN PEOPLE
who come to Marietta during the
months from September to March in
clusive is astonishingly large. As a
gentleman remarked: “It sometimes
seems almost like a Yankee town. You
meet them in the hotels and in the
boarding houses ; you see them walk
ing on the streets or riding, and some
times the trains between Atlanta and
Marietta have crowds of them.”
This influx of northern tourists is
the work of the past year or two. Ma
rietta has been the best advertised
town in the entire south, and its at
tracti ns have been put before the
northern people in almost every con
ceivable shape in the publications sent
out by the Western and Atlantic Rail
road Company. Within the past four
years the Western and Atlantic Rail
road Company has distributed through
the north and west and in Florida,
South Georgia and other sections over
sixty thousand copies of their pam
phlet entitled, “Marietta, the Gem
City of Georgia.”
The great advantage of Marietta
over almost any other point in the
south is in the fact, as indicated be
fore, that it is an all-the-year-round re
sort. People from Boston, from Chi
cago, from Milwaukee and from the
north and west generally come to Ma
rietta to spend either a part or all the
winter, and people from Savannah,
New Orleans, Florida points and other
points south of Atlanta GQme to Mari
etta to spend the summer.
Atlanta derives considerable benefit
from Marietta’s entertainment of these
visitors, because they do a great deal
of their shopping in Atlanta. They
come to the theater in Atlanta, and in
a hundred different ways spend their
money here. The town is connected
with Atlanta by telephone, and it is a
very common thing during the day
for the central office in either place to
be called upon to connect with parties
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
residing in Atlanta or Marietta, re
spectively.
CONVENIENT RAILROAD FACILITIES.
Marietta’s transportation facilities
are better than those of any other su
burban resort or watering place in
Georgia, the only sleeping cars which
run from Atlanta to Cincinnati and
from Atlanta to Nashville, passing
through the town.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
runs fourteen passenger trains per day
between Atlanta and Marietta, thus
making it almost as convenient as a
street car line in the number of the
trips, and more so in rapidity of tran
sit. These trains leave Atlanta at 7:50
a. m., 11:45 a. m., 1:35 p. m.,3:45 p.
m., 4:40 p. m., 5:55 p. m., and 11:15
p. m., and arrive at Atlanta at 6:32 a.
m., 8:35 a. m., 11:05 a. m., 1:45 p.
in., 2:58 p. m., 6:37 p. m., and 10:30
p. m. There are also eight passenger
trans per day between Marietta and
Chattanooga.
Residents of Savannah can leave
home after supper one night and take
breakfast in Marietta the next morn
ing. The same can be said of people
in Charleston and Montgomery. Peo
ple in Florida are only about twenty
hours distant on an average from Ma
rietta. Cincinnati people can leave
home after breakfast and be in Mari
etta at 9:45 that night, and residents
of Nashville can leave that city after
breakfast and reach Marietta before
sunset. There is no other summer or
winter resort in the south which is so
easy of access and which has so many
trains per day to all points.
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
gives you your choice of trip tickets
or commutation tickets. They sell
single trip tickets, round trip tickets
aud book tickets, with twelve, twenty
four and silty-sour trips respectively.
These range from 50 cents for a single
trip ticket to SIO.OO for fifty-four trip
tickets, and are good on all trains on
the road.
THE MAN THAT MADE IT FAMOUS.
Speaking to Mr. Joseph M. Brown
about Marietta and Kennesaw moun
tain, he remarked:
“Kennesaw mountain, of course, is
the great object of attraction to tour
ists by reason of the fact that its two
peaks rise about seven hundred feet
above Marietta and are less than two
miles distant from the city. The moun
tain, as seen from the city, is one of
the most beautiful in America, and
from its summit you can see Atlanta
on the southeast and f Allatoona, Pine
and Lost mountains and all the his
toric country which was fought over
by Johnson’s and Sherman’s armies in
1864. You can also see Marietta
spread out below you, and on the sum
mit and on the north side of the moun
tain you can still plainly see the old
lines of breastworks which were occu
pied by the Confederate infantry in
June, 1864, and the embrasures tor
the canuon which were planted on the
slopes and summits of the mountain.
These present, in some cases, a very
picturesque appearance as they pass
among the huge boulders or around
the cliffs on the north side of the
mountain. The Confederates certain
ly saw the most imposing panorama
which the war exhibited, and it must
have been an inspiring sight to them
as, from day to day, they could per
ceive below them the movements of
the Federal armies as well as of their
own, and in the meantime weie fre
quently engaged in terrible artillery
duels with the Federal batteries,which
were located on the hills 700 feet be
low their position.
“But Kennesaw mountain is not
nearly so valuable to Marietta in its
scenic attractions to tourists as it is in
its protection to her in winter, and in
its giving direction to the climatic in
fluences which surround her during
the summer.
“As we well know, the blizzards
which we get from Yankee land come
sweeping down from the northwest,
Marietta lies southeast of the moun
tain, consequently every cold wind
which sweeps down from the lake re
gion strikes this barrier which nature
has erected right above the site on
which the town is built, and its force
is either broken entirely or considera
bly tempered before it can reach Ma
rietta.
“In summer, on the contrary, the
prevailing breezes are from the south,
and the mountain, which is nearly two
miles long, and which lies, as I have
above shown, northwest, or more prop
erly west of north of Marietta, receives
during the hot summer days the rays
of the sun. The entire surface of the
mountain absorbs this heat, and it
sometimes is intense. After nightfall,
however, it begins to give it off. The
result* is there is quite a vacuum cre
ated by this hot air rising from the
side and top of the mountain, and into
this the cooler atmosphere flows until
Marietta, during every night of the
summer, has a breeze, and not only is
it natural but it is inevitable. It is
impossible for stagnant air to stand
anywhere in Marietta, and therefore
it is impossible for Marietta to suffer
from malarial causes.
“This fact I think one of supreme
importance to the town, and it is an
advantage which it possesses over al
most any other point to which I can
refer. It is the only city where, with
an open country on the south, a high
mountain disconnected from other
p aks lies to the north, and which,
therefore, has among its possibilities
the direct result of drawing a breeze
exactly from the direction needed dur
ing the summer months.”
THEY ALL LIKE HIM.
Everybody in Marietta likes young
Joe Brown, and they ought to, for he
has done m< re than any other dozen
men to attract the attention of the
country to it. As general passenger
agent of the Western and Atlantic,
the advertisement of Marietta seems to
have been his special hobby, and the
success of his work shows for itself.
And the beauty about his work in its
behalf is that no one who ever went
there has been disappointed in what he
claimed for it. His interest in the
town’has made it what it is as a resort,
and its remarkable advantages now
being well known, will make it at no
distant day one of the most famous of
American health resorts. — Atlanta
Constitution.
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 getaway
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.
There are thirty odd white men in
Dalton between the ages of 70 and 90
years, and half as many of our color
ed population. Taking both sexes and
colors, it is probable that we have
over one hundred people in Dalton
over 70 years of age. What other
town of 4000 population can make an
equal showing ? — Dalton Argus.