The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-04-22
MARIETTA.
Catches them Either A'eOmin' or A'gwIne.

catches them Either A'eOmin' or A'gwine.
The Atlanta Constitution SAYS The OBJ
servant man has doubtless aseertained be-
fore this writing that one Of Atlanta circle
OF suburban towns is in great danger of be-
coming resort Of large proportions. We
refer TO Marietta Mr. Whitloeks great
house is enlarged annually, and house after
house has been opened To the tide of winter
visitors, and still there is not enough room.
Very many health-seekers or pleasure-seek-
ers do not 60 further south than Marietta
They say the climate is mild enough to help
THEN eases, and there is AT the same time
life and vigor in the air Others however
90 on to Townsville on Florida, and return
10 Marietta TO complete their stay IN the
south Marietta catches them in other
words acoInin or a-gwine, aud when they
find shelter IN the groves Of the beautiful
little iown, they are apt 10 stay until bnsi-
ness or the seashore calls them away.
The size of the annual winter tide has
really become matter Of the extent Of ae-
commodations. Mr. Whitlock proposes to
add abont fifty rooms 10 his place during the
coming summer Dr. Van Siyek Is building
a sanitarium on a grassy slope almost with
IN the shadow al kennesaw and there Is
talk Of rebuilding the hotel on the courthouse
square Bnt the reputation Of Marietta IS
ontrunning all these preparations A re-
ward would not produce an iudiyi dual that
has become dissatisfied with the place after
spending a season or even a part Of one in
il IL meets expectations and satisfies all
longings as a winter home The need of
winter resorts is safe basis to build upon
for visitors will come as long as northern
money holds out aud northern weather re-
tains It's rugged characteristics.
The pleasant hills, which are neither red
nor abrupt. the pretty homes under great
trees and the wclikept farms that lie on
every hand interest the northern tourist
and these things added 10 the reasonably
mid air and Sunny sky, causes him to re
joiee in the cunning that enabled him to find
the favored place but Marietta has some
lions as well as other places There is the
national cemetery, for example. where the
northern traveller can sit on a pleasant hill
amid sea OF graves, aud wonder what It
was all about. He can imagine how quick
back in the tlties. n man who predicted
that within ten years the quiet little town
would hold the bones of ten thousand strang.
ers killed in battle wonld have been hurried
10 lunatic asylum. And there is historic
and mighty kennesaw The tourist should
go to its weary summit--ii for no other pur-
pose than to see how difficult aud toilsome
a road can be- But from the top he can see
not only all Of Cobb county, but Atlanta
and the mighty Alleghanies, or as we call
them the Blue Ridge Stone Mountain is
so near comparatively, that one feels like
saluting its granite sides lesser mountains
are scattered all about, but Mt, Yonah. and
the gaint chain of which it is Il part dwarf
the unattached wonders. Aud il the tourist
cannot see enough OF mountain scenery from
h'hh'HaNt Nv tuu thhf tue HdFIbW Ruakt,
aud before dinner he can feast his eyes ON
the grandest scenery of the Atlantic slope
for the road has been extended beyond
White Path to the heart Of the great divide
The practical Traveller should, however.
stop as he returns from Kennesaw at the
cutting works of the American marble com
pany They 0tv IL full operation, aud pink
aud gray marbles of endless variety are here
adapted 10 furniture or inside decoration or
graveyard purposes. The raw material is
sawed TO suit purchasers put into lathes or
placed under whirling knives 81 ingenious
design, ground to smooth faces, polished and
chiseled. until the mother quarry would not
recognize it, A wash-bowl is scooped ont
III al few minutes, and the lathes cut the les
ser blocks into ronndness with CELEBRITY aud
dispatch. ANY order short Of the sculptor $
art is attended to. Card baskets are among
the more recent achievements OF the artisans
in this busy factory
Rutland, w. is the center of twenty
thousand workers in marble. l. 1t not pos
siblr that the present factory may prove the
foundation house Of u Georgia Rutland ?
Those who have studied the two desposits of
marble, and who knows which way the taste
of the American people inclines, say that il
Is by no means impossible scarcely improb-
able