Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-28
THE 5 O'CLOCK P. M. TRAIN TO
MONTGOMERY.
Its AIIurements and Comforts.


To THE PUBLIC: Outlines when the
pressure of business, the confinement Of
housekeeping and the close atmosphere
OF the city have made us weary and worn,
and we feel as if we only needed balmy
breeze to invigOrate us again, we tell our
selves how nice it would be to go to the
mountains or take trip by sea. OF
course it would be nice, and yet how
many of us cannot partake of these dis
tant joys for the reason that our daily
business requires our daily care, and the
support of our families or of ourselves
depends upon our daily work. We can
afford TO spend a little for health and
pleasure, but we cannot afford much,
and we cannot go away for longer
period than the evenings.
1t was to meet need like this that the
City and Suburban Railway has recently
established the 5 p. N. train, which takes
you to Montgomery in half hour, gives
you three hours breathing of the soft
evening breeZes waited from the ocean,
and bringing on their wings the only
true tonic for general climatic depres-
sion-pure, sweet health-giving air-and
again lands you In the city a little after
O'clock all for the trifing sum OF IS cents.
1t is surprising to me that thousands of
people do not avail themselves Of this
wonderfully convenient means of daily
recuperation from the wear Of work. l
was myself weary and tired and losing
flesh at the rate of five pounds a month
from February to May. Instead of hav-
ing to leave my work neglected / would
finish it by 4 p. M, take the 5 o'clock train
TO Montgomery, get my daily hours ride on
the train and three hours of the glorious
breezes along the Vernon, and be at my
home in the city again TO a not very
late tea, and 10! the changed Instead OF
wearing out further all this has stopped
and l am again recovering health and
vigor, and my pen again feels like sword
in my hands My children were melted with
heat and debiltated with confinement in
the house, and | took them TO Mont
gomery under the shade of the grand old
oaks, where they could drink the breath
of life from the bracing breezes of the sea,
and not a grOan or sigh now tells of the
worn little bodies that "a few weeks since
needed just such change.
Our wives stay at home looking after
their domestic duties all these not days,
and how 50 we'll can we preserve tho
freshness Of their younger years and bring
roses again TO their careWorn cheeks as
by giving them daily the three most de-
lightful hours of the evening at Mont
gomery7 In the giddy whirl Of life we
think too little Of these things. Although
the wrecks OF overworked frames are
scattered all along the shores OF life, we
fail to see the meaning Of these signs by
th0wayside, and we 20 heedlessly along
until the broken frame sinks and the
weary heart gives out, and ofen the
shroud covers the victim OF thoughtless
cupiditY.
All this should be changed, and the
City and Suburban Railway has hit upon
the method and the best hours for the
change-just when we are most weary,
and just when the atmosphere is tie
sweetest-and If we 20 daily wo spend
hut few dollars a month and add COM
fort 20 our lives and years 10 their dura-
ton. l.. A. FALLIGANT.
n. B.-Passengers on the earlier trains
all have the privilege Of returning 90 the
$3.50 train.