The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-08

driven through the principal streets aud
parks 10 that place. The gar
den Is not open on Sundays,
put Mr.. Shaw made an exception
+. haime, welcomed us at the gate and in
vited US to enter. The garden Is one of the
wonders ef-the werld, aud contains every
tree, shrua, plant and flower that can be
grown IN the latitude Of St Louis. Mr.
Shaw invited the visitors into the
house, and a half hour was spent
very pleasantly in his comfortable
parlors. This venerable philaltthropist
and patron Of SC fence is 50 years OF age and
is worth many millions of dollars. Half of
his life has been devoted to building up the
city in which he made his fortune. He
Is bachelor and when he dies his property
will go to the city and TO the support of
certain special institutions which MIR. Shaw
mas endowed. In the botanical garden he
has built maus0leum in which his remains
are to rest. Near by is large box con-
tanning bust of Mr.. Shaw, which is to
DO placed over his resting place when he
has passed away.
A nights rest found the party ready and
anxious to get farther south. They
had not long to wait, for
the train departure was 7:40. The
distance from st. Louis to Nashville is 800
miles and our special train rolled into the
latter city at o'clock p. m. We lost about
two hours on the road, thus making the
actual running time a little over eight
hours. We received avery cordial welcome
from the members of the Press of Nashville
and of the Commercial Club to remain
over, but we had made arrangements
to be in Chattanooga the next
next day Tuesday, and the programme
could not well be changed. A number of
the visitors spent pleasant evening at the
club and hal the honor of meeting a mum
Der of the prominent citizens of Nashville
The city is apparently very prosperous and
its people fully alive to the advantages it
offers to those who are seeking homes in
the south. We parted with our
new made friends with the regret
that our acquaintance had been so brief.
nights run brought us to Chattanooga
and within sight of the boundary line of
dearly loved Georgia. The party made an
excursion to the top of Lookout mountain.
1t was the last trip that the press excur-
slonlsts made in a body. At 1870 D. m
about half of them took the train for Ma
con and other points, the remainder of the
party following by the night train.
The question has been asked the writer
since his return what he thought of the
country beyond the Mississippi 1t can be
answered in very few words. Take it all
in all, it is not near as good country as
this Of ours. A few men apparently make
more money in the west than is made
by anybody in the south, but it
is doubtful if the mass of the
people are as well off. In the south we
have a better climate, raise a greater vari-
ETY. of products. and live with much less
labor. The day will come, and come much
sooner than many people expect, when there
will be rush from the north and west to
the south. The cheap lands of the south, its
immense natural resources in lumber, min
erals and water power, and its well-defned
laboring class, will bring about this result
If the farmers Of the north
and west knew what they could
accomplish on southern farm properly
managed, and the comfort of living In q
climate whore ten months in the year the
weather is pleasant; where there is less of
that restlessness that ofttimes makes life
only endurable: if they realized all this
there would be a rush to the south before
which that into Oklahoma would sink into
insignidcance. am satisfied that the tide
of immigration will ere long turn south
ward.
It will be the return of the descendants of
those who went from the north, east and
south within the past half century in search
of cheap lands. The outpourings of the
immigrant SHIPS at eastern ports are crowd
ing them from their old homes, land they
will come south, where the sub-strata
Of population is such that for
the present generation, at least, an
influx of aliens is impossible. We have as
good country as ever the sun shone upon,
so full of great possibilities that our pos
terity, not appreciating our surroundings,
will wonder why we did not do more in our
day and generation in developing its great
resources.
The opening of the railroad by which Geor-
gia has been placed in close communication
with the northwest will doubtless hasten
the coming of the time when the great
white race, which has been following the
setting sun, will turn their faces and their
footsteps toward the land from whence the
forefathers of many of them came.
The Central railroad of Georgia, by
the establishment of it's bureau of immi-
grafton and placing Mr.. W. s. Glessner, a
gentleman well acquainted with the people
of the west and northwest in charge of it
Is moving in the right direction. 1t may
at first be slow in producing results, but
that it will eventually bring to Georgia
thousands of the best class of immigrants
is beyond the shadow of doubt.