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4 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.”