The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-08-16
GEORGIA'S "GEM CITY.
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CITY CROWD
ED WINTER AND SUMMER.
ITS NATURAL ADVANTAGES.
Marietta's Wonderful Stride as a Health
Resort.

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It is somewhat surprising that the
people of Atlanta, particularly, have
not recognized in a more positive
manner the very great advantages
Of Marietta as q health and pleasure
resort during the summer.
1t is certainly one of the prettiest
little cities in the south. No place
in the south has a more abundant
growth of magnificent oak trees.
They are found all over Marietta.
They shade the lawns of the we'll
TODD people, they adorn the smaller
yards of the laboring class, they
ornament the streets, and whether
on the high hills or in the valleys,
you find them to perfection.
Marietta is also the center of
social refinement not second to any
city in the state, and being only
twenty miles from Atlanta the in
terchange between the two places is
a very easy matter. One can go to
return from Marietta almost any
hour of the day, the Western and
Atlantic railroad running seven
passenger trains day each way.
From a beautiful little book of
forty odd pages, published by the
railroad company, entitled
MARIETTA, THE GEM CITY OF GEoR-
GIA,
the following is taken:
Prominently one of the prettiest
little cities in all the southland is
Marietta, Ga. Built in the midst
of a supurb growth of oak trees,
which crown the hills only couple
of miles south of the far-famed Ken
nesaw mountain, and having within
itself all the elements of beauty and
taste, it well deserves the title of
'sThe Little Gem City Of Georgia"
At the Western and Atlantic
railroad depot its elevation above
the sea is 1,132 feet, and upon the
SUBMITS of several of the beautiful
Mills within it's limits there is an
altitude attained Of possibly cou-
pie ofscores or more of feet above
this hence it can readily be noted
that the atmosphere is very fine and
the scenery charming.
To the inhabitants of the region
of the south, desirous OF escaping
the extreme heat and the malarial
Influences which are SO deleterious
to health during the summer months,
there is no better resort than Mari
eta while those who would seek
refuge from the chilling blasts and
SHOWS of the north and west find this
a delightful halfway place" be-
tween the rigors Of the winter eli
mate of Their homes and the enervat-
ing warmth OF Florida, during the
early winter and early spring. In
fact, Marietta has for some years
past been the winter residence of
number Of northwestern people.
Marietta is also the southern.
terminus of the Marietta and North
Georgia railroad, which is now COM
pleted through the magnificent
mountain country Of Georgia to
Murphy, N. G.
MINERAL WATERS AND BRACING AIR.
/ Almost at the base of Kennesaw
Eriountain, and within fifty yards Of
the Western and Atlantic railroad,
There is fine chalybeate spring
(which is much resorted to by the
Marietta people and by VISITORS
Within a half mile OF this spring
there are two others which have for
their properties iron, and the car
Donates and chlorides of soda, lime
and magnesia. Flowing immediate
iy out of the side of Kennesaw
mountain on the southeast is also a
bold spring which is strongly i'm
pregnated with alum. These springs
are within mile of each other, and
within mile and half of Marietta.
From the railroad pamphlet above
allueed to, the following is of inter-
est:
In this connection it is worthy of