The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-02-07
Our George Homeward Bound.


In my hurried trip. there was so much to see
and so short time to see it in, that got tired
taking i'll the different sights. and when got
ready to leave, | felt very much as man does
when he rises from a Thanksgiving dinner,
that he was filled full, every seat in him taken,
and card hung out ''no standing room" but
full as my mental grip sack was must pack
things still closer, so rs to get in a few more
sights on my way home.
My route from Jacksonville was to Savannah.
Via. the Way-cross II. r., and thence by steam
er to Boston. The steamer was to sail Thurs
day, Thanksgiving day, so Tuesday evening |
bid my friends good bye at jacksonville, and
took Pullman for Savannah. 1t was my in
tention to have taken this trip in the day time.
but delegation of friends came to me. and the
chairman presented me with memorial, pray
ing that would not undertake to ride through
that God forSaken country as they piously
expressed it. in the day time, and urging me TO
go by night The railroad runs through Il
dreary, monotonous district, and there is
nothing agreeable to see. it gives the tourist "a
wrong idea of the country. 1t is nine hours
ride, and after the train got fairly started |
went TO bed, and at about six the following
morning was in savannah. 1t was cold. crisp
day. and my thick overcoat was not AT all un-
comfortable. | was driven to the Pulaski
House. where got breakfast and then Started
out to take look at the city Savannah IN the
summer must be a beautiful place. 1t is called
the Forest City, on account of the many trees
Which line its streets. II is situated On the
Savannah river. Is miles above the mouth by
water, and about II in straight liue. 1t is
built on bluff some 10 feet high. 1t is 4 great
commercial center and the shipments of cotton
and naval stores ar immense. over 30 ships
we're living at the WharYes when ] was there.
The streets in the business part Of the CITY, are
mostly paved but the rest are unpaved, and the
sand is ankle deep on them. There are good
sidewalks on nearly All the streets and ayenue>.
Coming out of the Pulaski House YOU look on
Johnson square. in the center Of which j. q
monument. which you are told is the Green
Monument. erected to the memory Of Gen.
Nathan Greene. say YOU are told, because
there is nothing oil it to tell what it i, for. |
believe Just the man got ready to put The
lettering on, the funds gave out and he would
not cut till he was assured Of his paw and there
he has been sitting since 1929. waiting for
somebody to guarantee him Sl.5o a day till he
cuts those letters
The principal street and fashionable PRONE
made il Bull s.. II seems that Years ugo, i
certain Colonel. Il civil engineer. assisted Gen.
Oglithrope in laying out Savannah. and unfor-
tunutcly for savannah, he bore the bovine
name Of Bull. and they named this street for
him, the chief bully-vard lis il We're. Every
few blocks this street GRO 4 square OF park,
and the ladies and children and colorcd nurses
trundlin9 baby carriages, are thicker than tiea~
on a dog. One Of thc sights of the citv is the
Theatre. which they claim is the Oldest in the
country. |! is not pretcntious looking build
ing. and is described in their own language a~
''bcariug the resemblance of a white washed
ship house, III a government Yard This i
the greatest city for monuments | ever saw.
should say that some one had bought a bank
Iupt stock Of them, and planted them here In
one of the squares is one erected to Sergeant
Jasper He il the fellow. you remembers who
planted the nag on TT. Moultric after the Brit
i>h bad Shot it away. Then there il another
monument to Count Pulaski, which il very
handsome. II was designed and cut by one Of
his fellow countrlmcn, RoDt. 4. Launiz, and
cost about $1,000. Like most other Southern
cities, there i a soldiers monument in COM
memoration Of the Confederate dead. 1t was
the gift OF &. W. j. DE Hounc ESQ On the
face is this dedication:
Come from the four winds