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KENNESAW GAZETTE,
PUBLISHED ON THE Ist AND 15th OF
EACH MONTH.
BY
THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
A. L. HARRIS, MANAGING EDITOR,
8 4 10 MARIETTA ST., ATLANTA, GA.
Devoted to the Material Interests and Attractions
for Tourists in the Mountainous Region of
Northern and Northwest Georgia,
SUBSCRIPTION: $1 a year; six months, 50cts.
ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 15, 1890.
Our patrons will find some very
interesting reading on the sixth page
of this issue.
The Western and Atlantic’s
Splendid Showing-.
The monthly reports of the Western
and Atlantic railroad company for the
month of May, just past, show that
both its passenger and freight receipts
were greater than those of any month
of May since the road was leased in
1870.
These facts and the additional ones
that the road now has strong and fierce
competition where it formerly had
none, and that it has practically no ac
cidents of a serious character, are a
high compliment to its management.
—Atlanta Constitution.
Kennesaw’s Bombardment.
Mr. Joseph M. Brown’s novel, under
the above title, will be issued within a
very few days. It can be obtained at
any of the leading book stores in At
lanta, also on the trains of the W. &
A. R. R. and connections, or it will be
sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of
50 cents.
Those of our readers who have pe
rused the chapters as they appeared in
the Kennesaw Gazette will, doubt
less, be glad to obtain it in book form,
and the more so when we state that
the book contains a great many notes
not published in the Gazette, and oth
er facts or incidents which have been
obtained since some of the chapters
were published in this paper.
“The Guns on Kennesaw.”
In our next issue we will give an
article, published several years ago,
by Major Geo. S. Storrs, about the
artillery operations of the Confederates
on Kennesaw Mountain between June
20th and July 3d, 1864.
Major Storrs, as the most of our
readers know, superintended the plant
ing of the batteries on the summit of
Kennesaw Mountain. He was chief of
artillery for French’s division, which
was the one that held Little Kennesaw.
This paper, like everything else from
his hand, will be found full of informa
tion and very interesting. We save
it for our July 1 number, because that
will be an anniversary of one the days
that the guns were on Kennesaw.
“I am 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 Railroad of
Georgia should be ‘the pride of every
true American, because, by reason of
its existence, the Union was saved.’”—
Extract from letter written by Gen. W.
7. Sherman, Jan. 18th, 1886, to the
General Passenger Agent of the Western
& Atlantic .Railroad.
The Georgia Watermelon.
Our title for this number of the
Kennesaw 7 Gazette is eminently
appropriate. The Georgia watermel
on “at this writing” is moving right
straight along and its present and fut
ure record is “conquering and to con
quer.” The Georgia watermelon is
the king of fruits, by which we mean
to say that it is the boss fruit, —the
cock of the walk among the fruits, as
it were.
Whether it be delighting the Geor
gia son of chivalry, when its luscious
red meat is on his table for himself,
his wife and his baby, or whether it be
keeping the Georgia nigger from steal
ing something else v hen all of his atten
tion is wrapt in schemes for stealing
it, or whether it be reducing the Repub
lican majority in the north and west
by doubling up the blue noses and lay
ing them under the daisies, the Geor
gia watermelon has a mission to per
form, and just now it is performing it
to eminent satisfaction.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
has for years been recognized as the
watermelon’s national highway. It,
every a ’season, carries many hundred
car loads of them. It stands first in
the affections of the Georgia watermel
on raisers, as they know that the expe
rience of years has proven it to be the
quickest and safest route for them to
send their watermelons over.
The Kennesaw Gazette congrat
ulates the watermelon growers on what
seems to be the best promise for years
for realizing good profits on their crop.
Its earnest wish is that of the managers
and employes of the Western <fc Atlan
tic Railroad, that prosperity and hap
piness may ever keep their dwelling
places in the homes of the growers of
the Georgia watermelon.
Summer Excursions.
We call attention to the Western &
Atlantic Railroad’s summer excursion
rates, which appear in other columns
of this paper. We will remark that
no better points can be found for
spending the summer than on Lookout
Mountain, or at Marietta, Acworth,
Cartersville, Dalton, Catoosa Springs
or other points reached immediately
by the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
The great advantage which the sum
mer tourists from Florida, Georgia,
and Alabama in particular enjoy by
going to these resorts is that they are
within a few hours distance of their
homes in case they should be sum
moned by business or other urgent
calls.
The towns in the beautiful and fa
mous Chickamauga valley, are going
to be the favorite resorts of the people
of Chattanooga. The Western & At
lantic Railroad runs ten passenger
trains per day between Chattanooga
and Dalton, thus accommodating the
tastes of all as tn hours for traveling.
The Western & Atlantic Railroad
has achieved the reputation of being
the fast freight line from the west to
the south. See that your bills of
lading consign freight for southeastern
points to care of Western & Atlantic
Railroad at Chattanooga.
TltE REnKESAW GAZETTE.
Above the Apex.
In our last number we stated that
the passenger receipts of the Western
& Atlantic Railroad, during the first
three weeks of May, were greater than
for a similar period in any May in the
history of the lease except one. We
headed the article, “On the Apex.’
We now, however, “see this and go it
one better” on the monthly report.
The total passenger receipts for
May just passed were three thousand
dollars greater than for May, 1889,
and were greater than those of any
May since the time the road was
leased to the present company, which
was in the latter part of 1870.
When it is considered that up to
the year 1879 the company received
5 cents per mile on its passenger
traffic, and that for the next year or
so it received 4 cents per mile, thence
up to 1888 3 cents per mile as its
local rate, and almost that amount on
all through business, and that it now
receives a maximum of 2J cents per
mile on its local business, with less
than this amount generally on its local
and through business, and that it now
has more competition than ever before,
it can be readily seen that the business
of the road has been fostered by the
present management until it has
grown at an almost phenomenal rate.
A very large proportion of its sub
urban business is done on commuta
tion tickets where the rate is less than
one cent per mile. This business is
constantly and rapidly increasing,
while its through car lines and its
practically unrivalled train service
control for it what its competitors con
sider more than its rightful share of
the through business.
The passenger department of the
company is certainly in the hands of
those who know how to manage it,
and it is quite a compliment to Gen
eral Passenger Agent Harman when
we state that he took hold of the posi
tion as if he had been in a similar one
for years. The other managers of the
road have found in him a coadjutor
worthy of their highest experience
and efforts.
We will remark before closing that
the freight receipts of the road also
show nearly twenty thousand dollars
increase over those of the previous
May, and in fact, a large increase over
any other May since the road was
leased. These facts speak volumes for
the efficiency of the traffic department
of the Western & Atlantic and of the
ability with which its transportation
and executive departments are man
aged.
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 roads 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 & Atlantic, whose pas
senger trains have as many connec
tions as those of the Western & At
lantic.
The W. &A. the Quickest and
Best Line for Perishable
Freight.
The vast majority of the fresh meat
and bacon business of this section comes
down over the Western & Atlantic R.
R. and has done so for a long time.
This is because the W. & A. and the
connections which work with it have
proven their ability to make faster and
more reliable time than their competi
tors have ever yet been able to come
up to.
One standard feature which has for
years characterized the management
of the W estern & Atlantic is that it
does not try to fool the public by occa
sionally running a passenger train
schedule for a special shipment and
then advertising this in the papers as
a specimen of its time. This jerky
way of shooting one car through like
a cannon ball and letting the others
go like an ox cart is a very cheap way
of deceiving the public, and the W. &
A. management does not imitate the
example in this line which some others
set.
It establishes a high standard of
time and efficiency and then works up
to it all the time, consequently its pa
trons know what to expect, and by
such means it controls the great major
ity of the competitive business.
The Georgia Watermelon.
Magnificent time by the first Car.
The W. & A. and its allies “drew
the first blood” in the watermelon bus
iness this season.
The first car, S. & W. 7092, left
Quitman, Ga., via Albany, June 6.
The Central delivered it to the W. &
A. the morning of June 7th, and the
W. & A. handed it to the N. C. & St.
L. that evening. It arrived in Chica
go June 9th, thus making the run
from Quitman to Chicago in less than
four days.
This may well bee onsidered superb
time made by freight trains. The W.
& A. can do its part of this every day
this season.
Railroad on the Heights.
We were not aware until several
days ago that one could sit in the cars
on the W. & A. R. R., just north of
the sidetrack at Gilmore and plainly
see the city of Atlanta. The dome of
the Georgia state capitol can be dis
tinctly observed looming up above the
horizon, and the church steeples and
other houses are in plain view. A
land owner has cleared the forest
growth on the east side of the railroad
at this place within the pastyear, thus
giving the extended vista above de
scribed.
This serves to prove to what a height
the Western & Atlantic Railroad climbs
between Atlanta and Marietta, —the
grade, however, being less than 36 feet
to the mile. It is worth one’s while to
go over the W. & A. R. R. to enjoy
this grand view from the cars ten miles
from Atlanta.
As you go over the W. & A. ask
the conductor to show you the great
“horse-shoe bend.”