Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-09

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WAYcRoss, February 6.-Edit0r Morn
ing Neus: Arriving at Waycross on a
train from your city the other night,
your correspondent was incontinently
taken from his snug berth, presented to
several jolly good citizens, conducted
hastily into the brilliant light of a gor-
geously decorated saloon, powerfully
tempted with the animating spirits ever
present in these halls of merriment, and
turned loose to ramble, gaze and admire
during the twenty minutes halt Of the
train. The Alladin-like little palace
was the new passenger depot,
lust fini shed and occupied
by the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway Company, and now thronged
every night by the passengers over its
two lines of railroad forming a junction
at that point. The building is unique
and elegant, provided with spacious sa-
looms for ladies and gentlemen as well as
offices for the company, and the whole
arranged and furnished for the greatest
convenience and comfort. A steam
pump raises an ample supply Of water
for the building, and a large area OF
broad smooth platform on all sides &C
commodities the busting crowd and
affords admirable moonlight promenades
for those who gather there to witness the
arrivals and departures of the trains
And there are signIs worth seeing, espe.
clally during the dark nights. Beside
the western division and the Waycross
and Jacksonville Short Line, forming a
junction here, the Bruins wick and AL
bany crosses them at right angles, while
a fourth branches off in a straight line
for future direct communication be-
tween Macon and Jacksonville. Now
the country in the vicinity is dead
level pine woods, through which one
may see at least mile. Imagine your
self, then, standing near this depot on
schedule time during dark night, while
several long trains, brilliantly lighted
from end to end, come verging upon
your standpoint. Putting and screeching,
they thunder in upon you, apparently
out of the dark forest beyond one
gracefully rounding curve, bent as if
bristling for mighty conflict with an
equally bold and formidable adversary
approaching or converging from another
point. The wonderful energy they dis
play, the laundering noise of their
wheels filling the air and shaking the
very earth under your feet; the demonia-
cal screecbing, screaming, bowling, and
the life scene on board, revealed by sue
cessions of brilliant lights, creates an
impression Of surprising grandeur that
can never fail to be interesting.
These railroads, presenting such scenes
at night, with equally interesting though
less grand ones during the day, have
created the village of Waycross, which
they are also fostering and rapidly nurs-
ing into a respectable town with its
churches, schools and industries IN en-
brio for future greatness. A large hotel
is already projected and the work COM
menced, while Judge Tillman, the en-
ergetic editor of the Reporter, to whom
your correspondent is indebted for much
courtesy and local information, repre-
sents the citizens along the route, as
well as numerous other interested par
ties, as very sanguine of an early cOnsum-
nation of the project, above alluded to,
of direct railroad communication be
tween Macon and Jacksonville. With
such advantages there would be nothing
to prevent Waycross from springing at
once into large railroad town, and as
it is located in the great pine belt of
Southern Georgia, in the very midst of
the turpentine farms and lumber mills,
it must become place of resort for in
valids seeking health in such localities,
as well as a convenient central depot of
supplies, for the thousands of laborers,
who, in very few years, will be en-
gagged in decimating the great pine
forests of that region. OBSERVER.