The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-23
From the anderson Intellgencer.
A Business Trip CAPPED off With Little
Pleasure,

! A Business Trip CAPPED of With Little
Pleasure.
! EDITORS INTELLIGENCER The rich and
! poor meet together is the way they
| do at Grants Park in Atlanta on Sunday.
I went out to this pleasant ground last
| Sunday and it is well worth the dime you
have to pay to ride there and back on the
Dummy" The Park Is beautifully laid
off in drives and walks, and in addition
to that they have fine collection Of AMI.
mails, such as bear. deer, lions, camels
and one elephant, besides many other
smaller animals and fowls.
five never went away from home We
would soon be so ignorant people would
had little of everything in the world
here, but if you will 60 out and look
around a little you will find that we
haven't got anything much except the
best country to live in in the world.
Atlanta is q growing city-in fact, it is
growing too much, for see hundreds Of
people there that ought to be in the coup-
try on the farm, where they could make q
living for themselves and help to support
the balance of the world but they won't
do it, they had rather stay in town and
live on half rations (Which I have no
doubt great many OF them do) than to be
out in the country where they would be
free.
Our next stop was five hours In Rome.
This is q beautiful city. situated In the
fork of two rivers, one OF which is naVl'
gable several miles above Rome. They
have some yery handsome and magnifi-
cent buildings in Rome, but they have
hotel where you can get the least to eat for
the most money of any place I ever stop
ped at. You get ten cents worth OF some +.
thing to eat and sixty.five cents worth of
finery to look at, all for seventy.fve cents
Next we go to Trion Factory, on the
Chattooga River, directly on the .. K. q
fC. r. r. This is only factory town. but
1t Is one Of business and hustle. They
run some $4,000 spindles and about 600
| looms, think, and make sheetings, shirt.
ines, drills and cotton rope. These mills
are located in beautiful valley, west Of
Taylor's ridge, and have for their Presi.
dent Mr.. A. 8. Hamilton, Of Rome, who
is as clever q business man as you might
wish to meet, and are run by our clever
and genial friend, Mr.. u. T. Mckinney,
late assistant Superintendent of Piedmont.
Under his superintendency the Trion
Mills are making most superior quality
of goods, as we'll as handsome prQht TOR
his employers.
|
We took q pleasure trip from this place to
| Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain.
In company with him we left Trion at 5
o'clock. and arrived in Chattanooga about
dark Tuesday, 9th inst. We talk about
our little corn patches making corn, but
our corn fields here are no more than
roasting ear patches along side of the corn
| fields of North Georgia and around Chat
tanoopa. Tenn. We spend the night in
the city and had the pleasure Of seeing the
cyclorama-a painting of the battle OF At
lanta-which is one of the greatest works
of art that it has ever been our good for.
tune to look at. Just think of an oil paint.
| ing which took FIVE tons of paint (ten
thousand pounds) to paint it, and several
thousand square feet Of canvass to paint 1t
on, and you will have some idea what
this painting is. Any old soldier Will
readily recognize the different scenes here
depicted on this canvas, which looks as
natural as life and death ITSELF
Next morning we get on the electric cor
for Lookout Mountain, for l am anxious
to see the place where had once been
during the struggle for Southern fndepen.
| dence. At the foot of the mountain We
mount the car on the incline railway,
which takes US to the Lookout Hotel on
the mountain. I tell you this Is riding up
hill, for we 90 nearly straight from the
foot of the mountain to the top, and II the
rope that draws the car up was to break it
is uncertain when and where you would
stop. In going up we 60 by the house we
once went by going on picket. All-of the
Jenkins brigade boys know this house
where they had the rock basin in the yard
for a spring, the water coming through
pipes from near the top of the mountain
to it. When we get through looking
down on Chattanooga and the Tennessee
river winding through the valley below,
we continue our journey around the
mountain on the narrow -guage railroad 10
Sunset Rock and Natural Bridge. Then
we embark on the broad.guage road TOR
the valley. This road runs twice around
arriving in the valley I now want to see
our old campground. I tell my friend
Zack I know that must be the place, for
there is the big white oak trees we got
acorns from when rations were short. !
know Dick Scott, John Whit and all OF
the old Company d, Hampton Legion
bows, remember these white oak trees. l
then 20 to the spring and get drink OF
water, and tell Zack 1t has been twenty
eight years since I drank at this spring
| You have no idea how my memory run
back to the old war days. here l DID
farewell to my old comrades to 60 home
on furlough, and it was forever to some OF
them. There was Drayton Bennett, John
Mauldin, Colbert Matti.on, Tom Loving,
Thos. J. Dickson, John Warren, Berry
| williams, Duff Rogers and several more
of the brave boys that never saw again
Some of them were killed at Willis VAL
lev, some at Campbell's Station, some at
Knoxville and some at Dandridge-all
before got back to the Regiment at Mr.
ristown. These were certainly sad recnl.
lections to me. There is the same old
house where Col. afterwards Gen. Gary
had his headquarters, but no tent In the
yard. So to get away from these scenes
of our war history we turn our backs on
them and mount the electric car for ths
city. Ifany of my old comrades want TO
see some acorns from the big tree akthe
spring just come up and I will show them
to you.
Chattanooga Is live, pushing, business
CITY of about GO, 900 Inhabitants, which has
spread out until it reaches all over the
Lookout Mountain fronting the river. We
now bid adieu 10 our friend Zack and