Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1890-09-10
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For the Smyrna Times.
The New South.

Alter leaving Wilmington, n. c.,
we slept on until Ashley Junction was
reached when passengers were required
to change cars for Savannah, Ga, the
train we came ON continuing to
Charleston, S. c., that city being the
terminus of the division. In addition
to changing cars we found it necessary
to change the indicators of our watches
one hour back, the time now being de-
termined by the Meridian of New
Orleans, 900, while our watches licked
away peacefully in recording the time
determined by the Meridian of Phila-
delphia, 750, of longitude. If ones
stay at the South is brief the proper
time allowance can be made at any
portion of the day and the time known
but it is best in long stay to "dO as
Rome does" set back.
Nearly all the locomotives in the
sea board tier of States are wood burn
ers. capable from the nature of the
fuel used, resinOus pine. of generating
steam very fast. The facility with
which this is done enables them to run
very fast, and it becomes plainly evil
dent when the time is taken between
two points to find that the train has
maintained an average speed of 40
miles an hour. Negro porters and
brakeman composed, with white con-
ductor, the train hands, who help the
negro fireman to wood up when neces.
sary at stations while the engineer
and conductor, the latter in immacu.
late cuffs and boiled shirt front, look
on gentlemanly.
1t being night when we crossed the
Ashley, Peedee and Santee rivers. we
had no opportunity to see either the
extensive deposits of phosphate of
lime or rice fields on either of these
rivers of South Carolina. Later on. as
we neared Savannah, we saw rice
fields for the first time. The plants
are set out in regular rows
covering acres of water, as the crop is
grown entirely on land submerged in
water. These water acres run hack
deep into the recesses of wooded nm.
lands and form coves or bayous. On
every side tall trees whose tons are
unseen save by the stars, nod and
sway to the living gale, while clustering
and clinging to the swinging trunks is
seen the weird, fanciful Southern moss
arraying the Outstretched limbs of each
tree in habiliments bordering upop
those of woe.
At night, and just as the moon rises
and the dark lines of woodlands are
barely seen against the heavens. the
soft yielding lights of these Southern
chimes start quickly to the zenith
forming by their iridesoence a scene
OF magnilioence that Is as quickly dis.
PEELED as created. A silence born of
these prlmate forests settles down and
one, but with bated breath, expecting
some denouement to happen for all
the seemingly studied repose in
nature. "
Savannah is a typical Southern
city In the distance, far away over
the myriads of minarets and lofty
buildings are the tracories of the shin
ping against the sky. The streets
swarm with people who seem intent
IN getting all there Is of life outdoor
Notwithstanding the sun pours down
his rays with tOrrid fervenoy. Negroes
heaps fthem, line and crowd ahont
the station and appear to hughly en-
Joy the moving panorama as i'm the
nurrying' stamping feet, passengers
start for various points of the citv
Inc train enters the city uDon its
western edge but 1 should by the ex.
tent the built up portion ON the Fast
and North say that for the heavier
products, such as cotton, tobacco. etc.
ana Oy being tianked on the North nv
the noble Savannah river, it is one Of
the most important gate waysn
wherein the South reaches the rest of
the world.
Our coupons here became exhausted
anu we were required to secure fresh
tickets to WaycrOss, just above the
FIorida frontier, in Southeastern Geor.
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