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The Kennesaw Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH.
Devoted to the Material Interests and Attractions
for Tourists in the Mountainous Region of
Northern and Northwest Georgia,
REACHED BY
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.
-A.tla.nta., Ga,., August) 1886,
SUBSCRIPTION: S 1 a year ; six months, 50 cts.
A limited number of acceptable adver
tisements will be inserted in The Kennesaw
Gazette, which publishes a very large edi
tion every month, and it is safe to say
that it is read by more people than anv
other paper in the South. Great numbers
are distributed in Atlanta, to citizens and
travelers, by the publishers and officials of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad; and at
other points where The Great Kennesaw Route
is represented. For space and terms ad
dress
®ljr Bennesnm ©turtle.
Box 57 Atlanta, Ga.,
and you will receive a prompt response.
Our New Dress.
The Great Kennesaw Route Ga
zette has been so much more success
ful and has attracted so much more
attention in all sections of the country
than we had dared to anticipate, that
we have decided to widen its scope,
and, instead of limiting it merely to
being the exponent of the Western &
Atlantic Railroad, to make it, rather
a publication which will be devoted
to the material interests and to the at
tractions for tourists which can be
found in the mountainous region of
northern and northwest Georgia.
Accordingly, with this number, we
relegate to past pleasant memories the
title, “The Great Kennesaw Route
Gazette,” and appear under that of
“The Kennesaw Gazette.” By this
name you will in future know us, and
we trust that not only the railroad
agents and the American tourists, but
also capitalists and immigrants will
find The Kennesaw Gazette a source
of information and of profit to them.
One of the prettiest locations in
Georgia for a continuous chain of beau
tiful residences is that which extends
directly along the line of the Western
A Atlantic railroad from Smyrna to
Marietta. Here are numerous pretty
groves, and the surface is just rolling
enough to drain itself. The Marietta
Accommodation train stops at any
point when flagged, and parties thus
have practically street car advantages.
We predict that within ten years this
will be a very popular region with
those desirous of having suburban
homes near Atlanta. The scenery in
the valleys just east and west of this
plateau is said to be very attractive.
From Dalton, it is an easy trip to
several mineral springs; the most not
ed being Gordon Springs, Cherokee
Springs, Catoosa Springs, Cohutta
Springs and the Mineral Springs at
the foot of Rocky Face Mountain.
THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE.
August.
This is the summer vacation month.
How every school boy and school girl
looks forward to the month of August,
when the books will be thrown aside
and the school master’s voice, or ring
ing of school bells will be dispensed
with tor a month.
Then out into the woods, fishing,
riding horses, gathering berries, or rev
elling in scores of other occupations
which their youthful minds will nat
urally lead them to. All these come
back to us in our own experience and
are before our eyes with the rising gen
eration.
This is the month, too, when the
cares of business are laid aside by all
with whom this is possible. Off to the
country with one’s family, or off to the
springs to make the acquaintance of
beauxs or belles, as the case may be,
with the hope that it may extend to
more lasting relationships and the for
mation of life-long ties.
While the dust is thick, the sun beats
fiercely on the stone pavements or
brick walls, now is the time to seek the
pure atmosphere and water of the coun
try, and to enjoy the beautiful scenery
of the mountains.
The Western A Atlantic railroad
offers you enough of a] I these to make
you happy. Whether you go to Ma
rietta, Big Shanty, Acworth, Carters
ville, Dalton, or Cherokee Springs; or
whether you go via the Marietta A
North Georgia railroad up into the
midst of the mountains which line this
railroad almost its entire length, you
will find the choicest attractions which
nature can afford, as well as the society
of scores or hundreds of others who
have gone with or before you.
“ The Mountain Campaigns in
Georgia.”
The above publication, which was
issued by the passenger department of
the Western A Atlantic Railroad Com
pany, last January, and which has run
through a second edition, has met with
the most remarkable success of any
railway publication we have ever seen.
Beautiful as a work of art, concise
and impartial, in so far as the text is
concerned, it has received the endorse
ment of not only nearly all of the sur
viving Confederate and Federal Gen
erals who took part in the Atlanta cam
paign ; but it has also had a circula
tion which has been large and widely
distributed.
We were shown, for instance, a few
days ago, a letter written from Lor
ing, Alaska, asking for a couple of
copies of the work. Letters have also
been received from England and from
Switzerland making the same request.
Mr. Joseph M. Brown, the author
of the book, and his road, cannot be
too highly congratulated upon the re
markable success of this splendid pub
lication.
Magnificent scenery is viewed from
the summits of Kennesaw, Allatoona
and Rocky Face Mountains, directly
on the line of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, and all along the line of the
Marietta and North Georgia Railroad.
Answers to Correspondents.
C. H. S. —Yes, sir, that was a very
shai p move on the part of the E. T.,
V. & G. R. R. to ballast their road
with rock for the first six miles south
of Dalton. The E. T., V. &G. and
| the Western & Atlantic railroads run
within about twenty yards of each oth
er for the first six miles after leaving
Dalton, coming south. The Western
& Atlantic management have not had
these six miles of their road ballasted
any better or in fact as well as at other
points where there are reverse curves
and steep grades; but passengers on
the Western and Atlantic, looking at
the E. T.,V. A G. R. R. beside them,
see it splendidly ballasted with rock as
far as they run by-the side of it; but it
is a somewhat funny fact that as soon
as the E. T., V. AG. diverges from
the Western and Atlantic, about six
miles south of Dalton, and disappears
in the woods to the southwest,the rock
ballast peters out most effectually, and
the cross-ties find their resting place in
the old crawfish clay again.
However, a great many railroad
companies resort to such measures as
are calculated to put their nest foot
forward in the eyes of the traveling
public, when compared with their com
petitors, and the Western and Atlant
ic people merely laugh at the rock bal
last for the first six miles south of Dal
ton, because they know that their trains
which start from Dalton at the same
time their competitors do always <jet to
Atlanta first.
All persons in Florida desiring to go
to Monteagle, the “Southern Chautau
qua,” or Sewanee, Tenn., will bear in
mind that the best route is via Savan
nah, Atlanta and the Western A At
lantic Railroad.
They should take the train leaving
Jacksonville at 2.00 p. m. This puts
them in Savannah at 7.58 p. m., in
Atlanta at 7.32 a. m. , Chattanooga
1.00 p. m., leave Chattanooga at 1.10,
arrive at Cowan 3.38, making connec
tion with the train leaving on the Ten
nessee Coal A Iron Company’s Railroad
at 3.50 p. m. for Sewanee and Mont
eagle, reaching each point before sun
set.
Passengers taking this route pass
over the historic and grand scenery on
the Western A Atlantic, and Nashviile,
Chattanooga A St. Louis Railroads, in
daytime.
Passengers leaving Jacksonville via
any other route will arrive at Cowan
about mid-night.
These facts are very important to
bear in remembrance.
The watermelon business of the West
ern A Atlantic railroad has been very
large this season. This line transports
more melons to the west than any oth
er railroad in America. In addition
to the several other titles which its ad
mirers have given it, it has been called
“The Great Fruit Line,” and well does
it deserve the title. Its promptness
and efficiency in handling the business
have not only been a source of great
benefit to shippers, but have also ex
cited the admiration of railroad men
| as well as the general public.
Only via the Western and Atlantic
railroad and Marietta you can go with
in one day’s ride of Georgia’s highest
mountain —Mount Enota—4,Bo2 feet
high.
Written for the Kennesaw Gazette.
Barnyard Mishaps.
BY UNCLE ’POLLO.
Ole rattle snake he sot on a log
A smokin’ ob his cob pipe,
When close up behin’ him slipp’d Mass
Jink’s hog, —
Well de rattle snake crap, hit was ripe.
Oh! jes’ see me run,
Oh, jes’ see me jump,
See me turn a summerset
Ober de stump!
Big turkey gobbler he strut roun’ de yard
Darin’ peafowl fur ter fight,
Up come de fox an’ cotch him off his
guard,—
Like de fisherman he got a bite.
Oh ! jes’ see me run, etc.
Nigger gal sot on a bar’l in de sun
A wavin’ her calico tippet,
Billy goat seed her, he come at a run, —
De rest ob de tale,—well, I’ll skip it.
Oh! jes’see me run, etc.
De W. A A. Railroad,—Kennesaw Route,
De “Great System” ’eluded ’twould
down ’em,
When dey got through de racket, W. & A.
was about,—
But de udder chaps,—no one could found
’em.
Oh ! jes’ see me run, etc.
The Marietta folder of the Western
A Atlantic Railroad, is one of the hand
somest and most interesting pieces of
railroad literature in circulation. It
is beautifully illustrated, and, like all
publications gotten out by General
Passenger Agent, Jos. M. Brown, fill
ed with valuable information, present
ed in most attractive style. Mr. Brown
is building up a large traffic for the W.
A A. road, and building up Marietta
by his liberal presentations of its ad
vantages as a resort in summer and
winter. He is now getting the winter
folder ready, possibly warned by the
recent snow storm in the White Moun
tains, and it will be a beauty, with new
illustrations, maps and descriptions.
When a man gets hold of a Marietta
folder, he does not merely glance at
it and throw it down, but he files it
away in his pocket for future reference
on many interesting subjects.
It is the cherished dream of all rail
road managers to secure such a state
of affairs in business as will load the
cars both ways over their rails. The
Western A Atlantic has probably come
nearer to this happy Utopia of railroad
men than any other line in Georgia.
In addition to the orange, watermelon
and lumber business, besides articles
of general merchadise which are for
waided northward over this ever pop
ular line, it is now transporting Geor
gia granite to pave the streets of Cin
cinnati and Columbus, O. The cars
which come south loaded with Indiana
oolitic limestone for building the Geor
gia State capitol, go back loaded with
Stone Mountain granite for the streets
of Cincinnati, and with Georgia mar
ble, which is used for building pur
poses in the northwest. The manage
ment of the Western A Atlantic road
have great reason to feel thankful for
the success which has attended their
efforts to build up an export business
fiom the State of Georgia.
