Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-04

Our party consisted of Dr. James Rodgers,
Drs t1adiock and Boyd and wives, Miss
Mary Temple, Col. Robert Armstrong and
your correspondent. We left Knoxville at 3
o'clock Monday ID. M, Nov. %, bound for
Savannah. attendants on the annual con-
vention of the American Public Health As
ISOLATION. We were all, of course, interest
ed in the Public Health of the Nation, and
va were also interested in Sights azd sounds
by the wsy. A rustic ventriloquist on the
train entertained lis with voluntary free
concert az far as Cleveland, lie either left
or fell asleep there, as he no longer made
night hideous with his mimicries of every
animal or bird under the sun. We were de-
tanned two hours near Dalton by the break
ing of an engines huge connecting bar At
every station crowds of people got aboard
for the Atlanta Exposition. Seven cars were
crammed almost to suffocation and between
the seats stood multitudes of men and women
glad of even standing room. The depot at
Atlanta was so packed with visitors that one
/ could hardly force passage through. From
| Atlanta to Savannah, along the railroad,
! the country is generally level and mo-
/ notonous-a few small villages aud ham,
lets, irregular cleaIings into pine and oak for
ests, farms good and bad, some overgrown
with under brush cotton fields, bristling
thickets, Marshes smamps, &c. From At
/ lanta to Savannah is certainly no Is oenery'
to attract traveller second time.
I Savannah is emphatically most interest
ing and charming city. 1t is " Southern !
I in every sense of the word. It is we'll
named, the Forest City Of the South. From
end to end, through every avenue and lane
| and square, and private yard, it is pierced
with tropie and semi tropic shade trees and
shrubbery, palmettos sycamOres, magnolias
| live oaks, csetuses, orange trees and numer-
Gus nameless decorative bushes and shrubs,
with climbers aud running vines and hang
! ing moss covering and pending from the
/ trees and walls of every church and private
home, and as the frost fingers have hardly
| touched single leaf or flower, this city
presents an enchanting picture of verdure
! and beauty.
Savannah is built in a dead level of pine
forest eountry-along the Southern banks
of the river of the same name-laid out by
General Oglethrspe $50 years ago, in the
form of rectangles, in truly military style /;
the streets and lanes unusually wide, and oil
at right angles with open squares, inter
spersed at every turn and como
| The city, laid out on SO generous
and regular a scale, is thus wonderfully
open to land and sea breezes-a fine pre-
caution for health aud GOODNESS in o malarial
climate like this. There are streets here
which for breadth and beauty are unsur-
passed in any city have ever visited; very
broad double drive-ways; elegant, wide
walks for pedestrians; exquisite stretches
of green sward lying soft between, and the
sides of these drives and walks lined with
rows of wids-spreading royal oaks and sye.
amores. A very picturesque sight all
4 through the city is the vast number of huge
old fashioned long handled wooden pumps.
The homes of Savannah are exceptionally
substantial aud handsome. They are mostly
of old. fashioned, time-hored architecture,
plain, square in form, Of wood, brick and
stucco, and few of them over two and three
stories in height The arcades, verandahs,
brick lattice work covered walks about and
under them and the balconied windows all
bespeak a Southern climate aud long sum
mers. Few houses are built in rows; each
stands by itself, with yards and recesse'
about it beautiful with plants, flowers anC
svergreens never saw city so bountlfu
in parks and public squares. They seen
to be at every alternate corner-and sc
bright and attractive are they-seats fol
weary pedestrians under overshadowipe
trees and soft grass plats for playing holl
day children.
The mercantile and public ediiices o
Davenport are heavily built and have lool
! OF age. Probably the denseness of thu
sea foge give them this appearance.
The market house We visited and found i
| very large brick structure, and still under
going enlargement. 1t was filed witt
almost everything of tropical fruit and veg
etable and fish and fowl that grows 0
swims or flies. The vegetables are gathere.
every morning from the wel-cultured gan
dens that everywhere surround the city
The citizens here have only themselves +