The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-08-07

Christianity of the people, leaving an i'm.
press upon society at once refning-and
sottening all the harsher elements that 90
to make up communities OF many creeds
and various moral tendencies.
The Marietta Knitting Mills is another
Industry, operating under capital of
$4,000 and giving regular employment
to thirty hands, turning out 100 dozen hose
u day, which they sell in the best markets
throughout the country.
Then there is her incompatible railroad
position, being situated on the Western
and Atlantic, the great trunk line running
from Atlanta to Chattanooga, the present
terminus of the Marietta and North Geor-
gia, which is about completed to Knox
vile. all OF which gives her excellent
freight advantages, besides seven passen-
ger trains daily going in each direction,
But the list does not stop here The
elegant society OF Marietta is en- essential>
ly a part of her rapid growth as is her de-
/ cided health. Her beautiful and cultured
womanhood, and her exalted, hospitable
and intelligent manhood, emphasizing, as
they do, the many charming characteristics
that are so uniquely represented by hand
some houses, attractive churches, good
schools and beautiful flower gardens, pres
ent an inducement sufficient TO attract
anybody with judgment or aspirations. All
of these are real, sensible inducements
p, esented truthfully to the distant investi.
gator, and feel that they are far more
forcible than the boastful extravagances
too often INDUCED in by writer's who are
too visionary to grasp the practic al impor-
lance OF points seeking to advertise their
resources to practical men.
| Ever since spirit Of development at
tendant upon the realization that Marietta
was natural commercial center, seized
the people, the fact Of her being Appointment
| health resort has no longer been her single
| distinguishing characteristic. The atten.
| ton of wideawake business spirits has
made this beautiful city alive with COM
merce and now, with new industries en-
couraged on every hand, increased railroad
facilities, and an abundance of capital ac-
lively at work in all branches of trade,
Marietta will soon have a reputation in
commerce and manufacture that will equal
ifnot overshadow her attractive prominence
as health resort. Much of this is due
to the business sagacity displayed by her
people in calling practical men of affairs
to the management of the municipal gov
eminent. The city has been fortunate in
securing the services of progressive bust.
ness men to looE after her interests, and
| the wisdom OF such course is best shown
in the widespread. prosperity that is OBJ.
served on every hand. 1t is both crafty.
ing to her residents and refreshing to her
| visitors to notice the vigorous progress
made in mercantile. industrial and educar
tiohal affairs. Mayor T. w. Glover and
his excellent board of aldermen, composed
of such progressive spirits as B. r. Legg,
R. N. Holland, E. P. Dobts, J. M. Austin,
| a. B. Gilbert and w. R. Turner, are doing
everything they can for Marietta. 1t is
| well for any town to have a live council,
as investors are very properly Influenced,
IN selecting as a point for placing their
| capital, city distinctive alike for it's
municipal government, its moral tone, its
health advantages. its school facilities, its
religious worth, its railroad conVeniences
| and its natural location.
| SCHOOL ADVANTAGES.
The excellent school advantages OF Ma
rietta can not be too largely dwelt on.
In this and in all other matters, she is
striving for the ascendancy, and that she is
succeeding in building up schools of
prominence in all the essentials of splen-
did discipline and thorough education, is
clearly emphasized in the success of her
male and female schools.
Every stage of experience through
which her schools have passed clearly sets
forth determination to excel. and now,
that the embryo stages of advancement
have been satisfactorily passed, we may
confidently look for the most decided
prominence in the:future OF her two instita>
tiOns
The Harwood Seminary is one of the
best institutions for thorough female in>
structon in the country, and being located
as it is, in city of such phenomenal
health, it receives the best encouragement
from parents in all parts of the country,
since good health is so necessary to supe-
rior mental training.
Professor j. S. Stewart, who, perhaps, is
the youngest college president in the south,
is splendidly equipped educator being a
gentleman sof high attainments, decided
discipline and thorough experience, and
his success in his present field of labor is
an emphatic witness to his worth as
teacher in all the branches OF learning
He is ably assisted by competent array
OF teaches, Professor V. E. Manget being
in charge of mathematics, Latin and
French; Miss Sophie Drysdale, English
composition and academic department
Miss Annie Hair, primary department
calisthenics and penmnnship; Miss Selma
Hair piano organ, harmony and theory
OF music; Mr.. George Burnar, drawing
and painting, ard Mrs. Lizzie Smith,
Eatron.
The home department of this school is
superbly arranged and admirably manag-
ed, the rooms being well ventilated and
comfortably furnished.
The school is provided with all necessary
appliances tor thorough educational trains
ing, having a splendid chemical labratory,
a large cabinet Of minerals school appara>
tus, music charts, etc, and especial atten>
ton is given to instruction in music and
art. the heads Of these departments having
been prepared by the best schools in EuS
rope.
The enrolment Of this school last year
was l56.
The male school, devoted as it is to the
higher education of boys, is as thorough in
all the departments of study as any high
school in the state.
1t is in a very fourishing condition,