The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-08-26
MARIETTA.
Both a Winter and Sumner ae.or,
From ThomasoiHe Times.l

From ThomGsciHe Times.
Beautiful, historic Mariettal An oasis
where the seeker for health, recreation and
pleasure finds every wish and taste geatfed
Famed by the sweeping breezes from the
Blae Ridge, the cheeks bloom again with
the roseate tint Of health, the eye brightens
and the step grows elastic The people are
refined, cultivated and hospitsble. No
where, perhaps, is seen and experienced
more of that charming hospitality which
charaeterizes refined southern society, than
in Marietta. With an atmosphere, pure,
cool and bracing with chrystal waters
bursting forth from deep rocky recesses,
coming to the surface with temperature
so cold that ice would be superhuous; with
mountain crests and smiling valleys; with
the hum OF industry and progressive thrift,
Marietta presents attractions equalled by
but few places in the south and surpassed
By none Marietta is the child of the West
EN- and Atlantic Railway-Georgia' great
highway, her artery leading from the Gate
City toward the bounGless West This road
pOurs into the Golfers of the State, three
hundred thousand dollars annually Under
the admirable management of the lessees it
has been made one OF the best and safest
roads in the South. Its long passenger and
freight trains sweep along its rock ballasted
road bed over smooth steel rails, at light
ming speed during every hour of the twenty
four. So perfect is the management, SO
systematic its rules, and so rigidly carried
out by subordinates, that accidents and de.
lays are almost unknown
A week spent at the "Whitlock House"
has convinced us that Georgians need not
leave Georgia to find summer resort and
first class accommodations. The house is
located only square away from where pas
sengers quit the trains. 1t is fairly embow-
cred in a large open square dotted with
splendid shade trees, beautiful shrubbery,
and carpeted with grass Mr.. Whitlock,
the proprietor, his excellent lady and
charming family, leave nothing undone to
make every guest feel "at home" There is
charm and fascination about the house and
place and the life one leads here which
causes many to linger longer than they an
ticipated. All leave with regret. At pres
ent there is a delightful crowd of guests in
the house. A number Of States are repre-
sented. Hours, the bright happy hours
away from care and labor, go fitting by on
noiseless wings. One may literally dream
thC happy hOuio AWAY III tulS lovely place
The house has all the modern improvements
Water and gas throughout the building,
large and airy rooms handsomely furnished,
a table supplied with the very best, polite
and attentive servants, and rates moderate
have made this one of the best known and
most popular houses IN North Georgia In
order to meet the increasing demand for
additional accommodations Mr. Whitlock
is now erecting wing to the main building
which will contain twenty rooms. This
place IS growing in popularity with North
ern and Western people. Some stop here
during the winter, but the great majority
stop sometime in the early winter on their
way to Townsville or Florida, and then re-
turn here for another sojourn in the Spring.
Marietta is the hallway house, coming and
going for many 1t is most admirably loca-
ted and suited for this; and il the wide
awake citizens of the place will push it,
hundreds will make this their stopping
place. What Townsville is to South Geor.
gia, Marietta may be to North Georgia.
There is g reciprocity Of interests between
the two places which we hope to see cultiya-
ted and increased
There is much here to interest Kenne-
saw mountain is bpt two miles away where
the men of the South met MoFthern tQemep
in bloody battle, and whose crest was Grim
soned with the purest blood in the South
whose base was strewn with the dead who
wore the blue, and whose sides were bathed
with the blood of the men of the North and
the men Of the South as they fought on that
9th day of June, UP and down against
those rugged slopes, falling face TO foe,
yielding up thousands of lives on the altar
OF their country. Now many of them sleep
in this mountain city. Over eleven thous-
and tederals are buried here, their graves be-
| ing cared Tor by the government, while two
thousand five hundred Southern boys sleep
in neglected spot. They both. have an.
| swered their last roll call, and will only ap
pear again when the final revelle shall
sound.
The great kennesaw mills, with IA capaci-
| ty for turning out four hundred and fifty
barrels of flour per day, are here; the lars.
| est chair mandatory in the South; large
| paper mills, and the most extensive marble
works, North or South, are among the many
manufacturing interests of the place There
are good livery stables and beautiful drives,
| while hotels and boarding houses are abgn-
dant The J0nrnak by Messrs k6al Il
Massey is doing much toward booming this
fast growing place. Atlanta Is within forty
| FIVE minutes run on half dozen trains IA
| day. The place is ore thousand and sixty
feet above the sea level, free from malaria
and that next greatest pest, mosquitoes
| The Marietta and North Georgia railroad,
running to Murphy, n. c., has its junction
with the w. Il A. r. X. at this place. 1t
penetrates one of the finest and richest min
eral and marble sections of the South Cobb
county is one of the richest and most pro
| gressiye counties in the State. Farming is
carried on Systematically scientifically and
proftably. The no FENCE Law prevails in
several DISTRICTS The farming lands are
rolling and yield ready TO cultivation, They
are not being impoverished, but improved.