The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-01
Il Trip 10 East Tennessee.

Il Trip TO East Tennessee.
Editor CITIZEN
Having maize a visit TO the east
ern portion of the state recently
have concluded to give you my
impressions of that favore region.
We left Nashville at $3.50 p. IN
travelling on very com Portable
car with char seats. great i'm
provement for comfort, over the
fixed seated car and which eoables
the traveller to view the country to
advantage through which he pass
es.
The corn and smaller grain crops
were excellent all along the line,
with perhaps considerable dam
age to wheat and oats from the eX-
cessive rains.
Near Murfreesboro we passed the
National cemetery SO beautifully
kept, with thousands Of white slabs
standing above the green sward
which was closely moved and
beautiful. These slabs mark the
resting place of the Federal dead
laid low in death by Rebel bullets.
| bethought me, tbs right for the
Government to pay this tribute to
the memory of its fallen braves, but
yet, there are other heroes on the
other side, whose bones lie bleach
ing with corroding time, on the
battle fields where they fell with
noLght to mark their resting place,
and no hand to keep greer their
graves. Yet their deeds were no
less valiant and their heroisin no
less great, and the memory Of
their chivalry no less forgotten
But the issue that caused all these
graves is settled and we let the
ashes of the dead sleep on in peace,
while we mould IN indissoIublc
links the chain Of the union.
We stopped q few minutes at
Tul.ahoma, a small town On the
road with it's hotels and beautiful
parks, and Mineral springs. In
front of the large hotels were a
large number Of guests, mostly la
dies aad children, grouped about
under the beautiful shade trees and
on the verdant grass; all enjoying
the purity and salubrity of the at
mosphere, coming as they did
from the hot crowded cities and
the extreme southern states.
There are other points of inter
est along the road from Nashville
to Chattanooga. At Bell Buckle is
located Webb's school. These fine
educators have moved to this point
from Culleoka, and the town in
consequence of their coming and
other causes is building up.
Estill Springs is On the railroad
and it has some very fine mineral
waters that are much sought after.
1t has good hotel; and so We
speed rapidly on by these cool and
charming places, until near Chat,
tanooga, $50 p. N, Up above
Mother East in the sky apparently,
We could discover family the flick
ering light of the hotel on the top
of Lookout Mountain. AS we APP
preached nearer, the light grew
brighter and the huge and ponder
Gus proportions o: the mountain
began to assume shape, and dis
close though the darkness the
magnitude of It's height. We were
soon afterwards landed at the mag
nificent Union depot at Chattanoo-
ga, where we fouad friend in
waiting. Though 10 o'clock at
night. The hustle, stir and push
IN and around the dep t and the
Read House which is situated very
near the depot told US That we were
in prosperous and rapidly grow
ing city.
We spent three days in Chatta,
noOga visiting the many points of
interest in and around this wonder
fully growing city. Chattanooga
has eight railroads, three large
trunk lines, and five others very
important to the upholding OF the
city. 1t has population of about
$4,000. It has electric lights, cleo
trio street car lines and dummy
lines running in every direction.
The main business portion of the
city is situated on its loves
grounds, while undulatIng in va
rlous directions are, as if terraced
purposely by nature for the build
ing of a city, elevated plateaus
ridges, foot hills and mountains.
On ali OF these are situated beau
ii .ul residences where the inhabi-
tants are enabled to obtain the
purest air and the most salubrious
breezes. l found the sleeping here
delightful, sleeping as | did al my
friends house on one of those ele-
waited plateaus. The two main
thoroughfares of the city are not
excellcd if equaled by any city i
the south. The streets of these
two thoroughfares are broad and as
smooth as a floor being made Of
Asphalt. | have never seen so
beautiful streets except in Wash
lngton city where Boss Tweed ex-
pended so much of the govern
ments lucre in identifying and
building these asphaet streets.
These asphaet streets cost $275I
per square yard, showing the
great amount OF money that Chat
tanooga is enabled to spend, and
this is but one evidence OF her
wealth. On these streets are found
large and imposing structures five
and six stories high, with stone
fronts, said to be the finest build
ings of the kind in the state. |
There are many fine churches whose
spires lift themselves heavenward
high above the city. | was impress
ed with thus, for Chattanooga's
reputation for morality after the
war was not very whether |
it was just or hot, certainly now
the many large editices erected to
God belle that reputation. Nor
arc the people of Chattanooga be
hind in their schools, There are
several large buildings erected for
school purposes, and they have a |
fine system of city pubic schools
The largest of these buildings be-
ing devoted To the education OF the |
negro. | understood that the city |
was soon TO erect a
$4,000 structure for The whites. |
One feature oil the success OF Chat
tsnooga was he diversified indus