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ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER 1, 1889.
Our patrons will find some very
interesting reading on the first page
of this issue.
6:00 P. M.—10:32 P. M.
By the new schedule of the W. &
A. R. R., which takes effect to-day,
the time of train No. 12, between Chat
tanooga and Atlanta, is reduced to
/our hours and thirty-two minutes. This
is the quickest time which has ever
been made between the two points.
In our next issue we will be able to
furnish our readers with the through
schedules and the through sleeping car
service over the W. &A. R. K. and
its connections between the Ohio River
and Florida, and it is sufficient now
to say that they will be better than
those furnished by any competing line.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
has at Chattanooga, Atlanta and in
termediate points 66 connections
with its passenger trains. These in
clude connections which arriving trains
make with its departing trains, and
which its arriving trains make with
trains departing over other mads at
various points of junction. We ven
ture the remark that there is not an
other road, even three times as long as
the Western A Atlantic, whose pas
senger trains have as many connec
tions as those of the Western & At
lantic.
Kennesaw’s Bombardment.
In our issue of January 1, 1890, we
will begin the publication of “Ken
nesaw’s Bombardment, or How the
Sharpshooters Woke up the Bat
teries,” a work by Mr. Jos. M. Brown.
This is a story of June, 1864, and
portrays in a graphic manner the thril
ling scenes of one of the most tremen
dous events in the civil war.
Mr. Brown has put himself to great
pains during the past year or two to
secure from th* mouths and pens of
those now living, as well as from
official records dated at the time, a
correct picture of the events as nar
rated. The daring deeds of privates,
who are named, as well as the highest
officers, are shown in the work, and
we are requested by Mr. Brown to ask
that if any who were there as eye
witnesses or participants find anything
to add to the story or to correct it
they will please write to him.
“lam willing to endorse what you
record —that the Atlanta campaign of
1864 would have been impossible with
out this road; that all our battles were
fought for its possession, and that
the Western & Atlantic Kail road of
Georgia should be ‘the pride of every
flrue American, because, by reason of
its existence, the Union was saved.”’—
Extract from letter written by Gen. W.
'l. Sherman, Jan. 18th, 1886, to the
General Passenger Agent of the Western
& Atlantic .Railroad.
Marble Ballasted Roads Unsafe.
We notice some advertisAents
about railroads being ballasted with
marble. This sounds very sumptuous
in the advertisement, but as a matter
of fact marble ballasted roads had
better be avoided by the traveling
public.
The W. &A. R. R. runs right by
one of the largest marble mills in the
world (at Elizabeth, Ga.), and could
get an unlimited amount of its waste
for ballast; but it has been ascertained
that marble ballast is too liable in wet
weather to slip, and that, consequently,
it is very unreliable as ballast. The
W. & A. therefore has concluded to
have less poetry and gorgeous fiction
and more safety about its road-bed,
and is discarding for ballast
and substituting therefor the old
fashioned rough fragments of granite
and coal cinders.
We will only add that it has been
proven by experience, since “marble
ballast” began to be used, that it seems
to be impossible to run trains on time
over such a road bed.
Consequently the W. & A. has dis
carded it.
Anent the above, we noticed the
following telegram in the public press,
relative to a disastrous run-off of an
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
passenger train on the main line,
which is advertised as being ballasted
with marble:
“The cause of the spreading of the
rails was plainly due to the great
speed of the train when rounding a
reverse curve, and an insufficiency of
spikes to hold the rails to the ties.
The ties were not as sound as they
should have been, notwithstanding
the road has been officially inspected
within the present month.”
We doubt not that the slipping of
the marble ballast probably had some
thing to do with the failure of the
track to hold, besides the insufficiency
of spikes and unsound cross-ties.
We also notice the following in the
Chattanooga Tiwes of Nov. Ist:
“Through passengers to Memphis
are kicking at the exasperating delay
on the East Tennessee main line, and
not without cause either. The morn
ing train yesterday was ten hours late
and the evening train was about three
hours behind the advertised time.”
We also saw the following telegram
from Rome in a morning paper of
Nov. 29th:
“It was hoped that the new sched
ule would prevent the troublesome
delays; but so far the trains have gen
erally been off time on the Georgia
division.”
The Georgia division and the main
stem of the E. T., V. &G. are both
advertised as being “ballasted with
marble.” It is to be hoped that our
E. T., V. & G. friends will follow the
example of the W. & A. in this, as
they have in several other good things,
and greatly improve their road thereby.
The Western & Atlantic is the only
line in the South running four through
passenger trains per day each way, from
one terminal to the other. It, there
fore, offers advantages over all other
lines for tourists going from Atlanta
to the north and northeast.
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
Fire on Kennesaw Mountain.
Sunday afternoon, Nov. 24th, some
parties kindled a fire among the dry
leaves on the side of Kennesaw Moun
tain. This spread with considerable
rapidity, and dense clouds of smoke
arose above the mountain during the
afternoon. At night the mountain
side showed a circle of fire which
seemed to hang in the air. This was
intensely bright in some places, and
at others was obscured by the rising
smoke. The effect was peculiarly
beautiful and magnificent. The sparks
from the fire on the mountain side
dropped among the leaves near the
summit, and as night progressed, the
crest of the mountain seemed to wear
a glittering crown of fire. The next
morning the fire was still burning as
the leaves further on down the moun
tain were reached by the flames, and
although Little Kennesaw was plainly
visible in the clear sky, yet Great
Kennesaw, on which the forest fire was
raging, was almost enveloped in some
places by _the smoke, and at others,
while it could be seen, yet it appeared
as through a mist or battle smoke.
Some of the citizens of Marietta stated
that the appearance of the mountain
was almost a counterpart of the way
it looked during the time the war
storm was raging around it in June,
1864.
The W. & A. Engineers.
If there is one railroad company in
America which can brag on its engin
eers, it is the W. A A. Fearless,
energetic, reliable, always on the alert,
ready every time to answer the call of
duty, devoted in whole-hearted loyalty
to the company and always outspoken
in its favor, they have not their equal
in America.
They have proved by every-day
actions that they know how to “run
the schedule” and that they can be
depended upon to do it. They will
prove this winter that the company
does not depend upon them in vain.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad is
the only one between Chattanooga
and Atlanta which has a solid road
bed, with no trestles, and whose trains
run into the Union Passenger Depot
at Atlanta, thus saving its passengers
a long and hot omnibus transfer, eith
er in going to the hotels or changing
to the trains of connecting lines.
The Central R. R., its connection
for Macon, Savannah, Florida points,
etc., is the only one which has no
bridges or trestles between Atlanta
and Macon, and has consequently one
of the most remarkably sate road-beds
in America.
Through sleeping cars between Cin
cinnati and Jacksonville over the W.
&A. and Central. The ouly sleeping
car line and the only parlor car line
between Nashville and Atlanta pass
over the W. & A.
The regularity of the schedules over
the W. & A. has caused it to be a de
served favorite with the public, and
to be feared by its competitors.
“I’ve got a bright idea,”
Said a maiden young and fair
To her lover who was helping her
To rock a rocking chair.
Then smilingly, he answered,
“I’m very sure if you
Would be my little wife I’d have
A bright-eyed-dear, too.”
—Boston Courier.
Fate of the “General.”
The historic locomotive, “General,”
has been sold to the Empire & Dublin
road for use on a construction train.
The old “General” in 1863 was the
property of the State road, the West
ern & Atlantic, of Georgia. It was in
that year that the “General” took part
in Andrews’ famous raid. One day
a train stopped at Big Shanty, about
thirty miles from Atlanta. This engine
was attached to it. While the con
ductor and all the trainmen were
inside eating, Capt. Andrews, aFederal
officer, with several men boarded the
engine, detached it from the train, and
ran off with it toward Chattanooga.
Capt. Andrews’ intention was to tear
up the track and burn all the bridges
on the Western & Atlantic road be
tween Atlanta and Chattanooga, so as
to deprive the Tennessee Confederates
of communication with Atlanta. After
a run of about seventy-five miles the
fuel gave out. After ten miles further
the steam gave out, and as the con
ductor, Capt. Fuller, was close upon
the party with another engine, Capt.
Andrews and his men took to the
woods. All but three were captured!
and taken to Atlanta and hanged as ;
spies. Andrews was among the num
ber. That was twenty-six years ago
and the engine has been in use at
times ever since, although it has been
several times repaired. — Chattanooga
Times.
This is all a mistake. The W. &A.
still owns the “General” and has no
idea of selling her.
Western & Atlantic’s Short Line
to Florida.
A well-known railroad man, who
resides in Macon, Ga., is authority for
the statement that the Western & At
lantic will soon have a new short line
to South Florida. He said: “The
Georgia Southern & Florida road from
Macon is now finished to Lake City,
connecting with the Florida Central A
Peninsular road. It will be completed
to Palatka, Fla., by Dec. 1, thus
forming a short line to all points in
South Florida. I understand they
were about to consummate a traffic
arrangement with the Central of Geor
gia and the Westean & Atlantic, so as
to have a through-car service from/
Chattanooga to Jacksonville. This
arrangement, however, was upset by
the Central of Georgia taking the
Savannah, Florida & Western. But
they are now determined to build
within ninety days a short line con
necting with the Atlanta & Florida,
which, in connection with the Western
& Atlantic, will give a through short
line to Florida.” — Chattanooga Times.
The West Point Press, in bidding
farewell to President Cecil Gabbett,
pays him this deserved tribute: He
started out at the bottom round of the
ladder, but from the start he exhibited
the pluck, energy and tact that always
wins, and to-day he stands the peer
of the foremost railroad man in the
Union. President Gabbett goes to a
broader field of labor and will no doubt
maintain the high reputation which
he has honestly established. We con
gratulate him upon his promotion and
wish him success in keeping with his
great fidelity to duty. The Georgia
Central will soon show the effects of
his magic touch, and he knows what
that great railway system needs to
make it what it should be.
Cartersville is the center of the
mining region of North Georgia. No
other town has one-third the work of
getting out ores going on around it
within a radius of, five miles as has
Cartersville. — Express.