The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-12
HE SEED WONDERS.
An Up = Countrymen's Impressions
During Visit to Savannah.

During Visit to Savannah.
An up-countryman living near Atlanta
who visited Savannah during Merchants
week has written up his visit. This is what
he says:
81 seed wonders in Savannah last week
never believed before that the story
erbout there being more water than there
| was land was true, but believe it now, and
the things to be seen upon tue sea coast are
wonderful-too wonderful for me to tell
for folks would say that l was er liar.
and Pm trying hard now to get up a
reputation for truth. / never did
exactly believe that the world was
round, but believe it now, for l stood and
seed the ships coming from away off and
this is convincing, for you first see the tops
of the great masts and rigging as the ship
crawls on up the bill, as it ware; you see
more aud more till it all comes in view.
Them great ships are wonderful, the ocean
is wonderful, the people of all nations who
throng the wharfs and live ermong the ship
ping are wonderful. and You will have to
go there to believe. *
II stood at what they call the Central
Railroad Company's wharf and seed more
in ten minutes than | had seed in all my life
put together.
"You have seed ants and watched 'em at
their work. This shipping reminded me
IN, round and erbout, stream OF 'em is
going out to get er load and er stream of
'em are coming in already loaded-just like
ants. A little boat, that they call tug,
will come Juggling in with a great ship
hitched fast to it that is ten times the
bggest-just ike little bit Of an ant tug
ging at er big crumb of bread. lister
think that an ant was the strongest thing
in the world, according to size, but they
haint, these tugs are.
81 wish you could see these great ships
being loaded and unloaded. One of 'em
will hold more produce-corn, wheat cot
ton fruit, furniture-wares of all kinds
than the counties of Pike, Spanlding, Clay
ton and Meriwether all make in er whole
year.
II watched one of these great ships
to ed in by one of these tugs, and it was
er sight to see the training that was present
everywhere and the discipline that kept
order-there is more confusion in the I'M
loading OF er one-horse wagon in this up
country than you would see in or whole
day ermong these great ships.
Just go out tomorrow and scatter some
bread crumbs Ground or big ant hole and
then watch the ants store it away in their
cells. Imagine the ants to be great, strap
ping men with iron trucks in their hands
aod you have the impression that these
leaders and unloadars of vessels made upon
my mind.
"As the big ship drew near the shore 800
strong men with trucks filed down the Cen
trail wharf, halted erlong the edge and faced
to the sea-every man standing with trucks
in hand, like er regiment on dress parade.
The little tug wabbles up with its big
load and swings the ships side erlong the
wharfway. The work begins-ao delay,
no confusion-in er twinkle the trap doors
of the ship are thrown open and the truck
| men come to attention, left face and march
in single-file, at it were, in at one end of the
ship, get Their load and out at the other
end. Round and round the line moves,
never stopping night and day, the work
goes on and the ships cargo is piled like
little mountains upon the wharf
There Is no use for me to tell you the
ermount that one of these big SHIPS Will
hold-you wouldn't believe it, nor would
if | hadn't have seed it. A pile as big as
the new state capitol building was Just a
beginning-when they got out that much it
just made little hole to give room to work
its wonderful, wonderful!
These ocean ships are wonders, and the
| folks upon them are wonderful. The sailors
would dart Ground ermong the rigging the
| same as er squirrel up er tree. When we
| ulster raise the big liberty poles, before the
war, there could scarcely ever be found er
man to climb one of 'em, but these sailors
ders and swing and sway to and fro, and
| care no more for it than would for taking
| er chew of tobacco.
"And the fish, We went to Tybes island
and there they had what they called or fish
fry. Every fish from or whale to err min
now was upon the tables. They didn't have
no whales, pli take that back, but saw fish
from seven to ten feet long and as big as
| any feed-trough you ever put your eyes on.
Aud the way them fish was caught and
| cookedl Think of er seine 200 yards long;
so they were, and it was or sight to see the
great wagon loads that they would catch at
one haul But the cooking. Those up
country women don't know nothing erbout
| fixing up dishes outen fish. One OF the
cooks told the young fellow
that was WITH me that the fishes
at the fry were served in ninety diff
| ferent ways-that is. cooked in ninety-three
| different styles, but didn't eat no fish, |
was erfeared it would make me thirsty, and
l swore to the old oman before left home
that not er drop of any liquid should go
| down my throat till l got back, and stuck
to it, and that is why l drank so much
water the night did get home.
Pm glad / went to Savannah, for | seed
the world. If you want to have er good
time and meet clever people, go to Savap-
nah on their next Merchants week, but
don't you drink or drap of nothingn
OVER IN CHARLESTON.