The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-01-05

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Dropoine IN q ths Leon Hossl - o. way
down town last Tuesday mosslag. " nd u
pleasure Of msetiag Col. John O. Whitner, now
. prominent citizen q Atlanta, . native q Tai
lahasses and The youngest con Of Ne lats Gen.
Benj. +. Whitner. Of this city.
In the course Of pleasant ccavsssatioa We
found that Tallahassee still retains warm place
In his heart that he b yss-aitsr IN absencs Of
81 years-in love with the Tallahassee County
and liz people. The Colonel travels svssy year
from $1,000 to 5000 thousand milss through the
United 6tatss and be declares that thess grand
old hills are the prsttiess On the continent and
the Tallahassee Country b the garden spot Of
North America.
Col. Whituee, in his hoyhsod days took .
fancy 10 the art preservativs." and 10 the old
Journal ONCE learned to manipulate the types
and became quite an expert printer. Type Set
ting, like swimming. once learned, 10 never for
gotten, and the Colonel can 90 into an ONCE now
and put up as good job - he could 40 years
ago.. In that Office Washington Bartlett, late
Governor of California, was foreman, and G.
Julian Bartlett, afterwards prominent lawyer
in New Orleans, Columbus Bartlett, who became
Judge Of the Supreme Court Of California, and
Frank A. Bartlett, now editor and proprietor Of
The New Orleans NorniHg Chronicle, were all a.
sociates of Col Whitner and typos ON the Jour.
nal
The Colonel at once realized the great want
of Tallahassee 10 be railroad connection North,
and he thinks Atlanta capitalists could be In.
duced to build an air line road to Tallahassee If
the matter was properly laid before them. In fact
he expressed the opinion thirty five years ago
that Tallahassee needed railroad north ard.
Finding the Colonel 90 deeply interested in our
beautiful hill country and iis development We
felt inclined 10 protract the interview.
IF you will take" he said, - map you will
be surprised, probably, to see what detour one
has TO make starting from Cincinnati or Chicago
to reach this. the lovelisst part of Florida II
the route be through Atlanta, the traveller has 10
strike through East Florida, and of course Jack
sonville and lis entire tributary country south.
ward has the first chance 10 hold him. Or II he
60 by Montgomery, then Pensacola, Mobile and
New Orleans will offer Inducements to stop.
Looking at the map, you will ind that by con-
nection direct with Atlanta, or with Macon, en-.
tirely Independent Of the Georgia Central, the
East Tennessee and Georgia, and the Plant sys.
tenn of railroads, Tallahassee Il seen at once BY
the health and pleasure seeker of Cincinnati and
Chicago, and all that section OF country, as
the proper and most accessible, and In fact
the nearest point in this Italy OF America for
them n GhtNamo
roads via Henderson or Louisville, Ky, and from
| Cincinnati by the L. & n and its own grand
| Southern road, with their outstretching connec-
tons extending from st. Paul, west. even to New
York east you will see how easy It is to make this
dear old city the distributing point for oil the
travel and traffic which would naturally come to
Florida. This range Of hillS, starting mile b.
low your city, runs In a. clearly marked and dis
tinctivs q range a. do the Blue Ridge or Rocky
Mountains. on up through, say, Houstoun coun-
ty, Ga, Aiken. g c., Durham, N. O., Richmond,
| Va, &C., with like features Of good water. div
balmy air. and good health combined
All Northern people are not travellers for profit
| Most Of them come 70 rest ovcrworked brains or
worn out nerves. or to recuperate before con-
sumption mark them for the grave. Residences
they may and do build, aud often add orange
| growing and farming for recreation, and some
times for profit. But health and pleasure are
their main objects. Acquainted with all of Flor.
ida from childhood, l risk nothing In the decla.
ration that this dry, elevated country surround.
ing Tallahassee will suit them better than any.
where else on this continent Let them know Of
it Let your people give, il need be, year by
year, selfimposed tribute 10 effect the connec.
ton above indicated, and You will soon see this
old place what 1t was in years gone BY the leader
of the State In every respect, and surrounded BY
homesesurpassed by nothing this side Of Paradise
ITSELF l am earnest, for II is my nature to be 90
but although it may be hard to make your people
think 30. I am not extrAvagant In my views a.
to the possibilities of your county,"