The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-10
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LIFE In GEORGIA.
Costly Winter Hotels That Do Not Psy-Ths
Picturesque Mountaineer.

Another exile has returned; this time ID
il Charles II. Rouser. who last May. after
giving up the situation of superintendent
of the night service at the Indianapolis
postoffice. went to Dalton, Ga. 20 take
charge of hotel, and finally gave il ND
because the owners could not insure him
against loss. "Indianspolis.n said Mr..
Rouser. els good enough for me. have
come here to spend the remainder Of my
days. Perhaps 1 did not 60 far enough
South. A Northern man does not fit the
part of Georgia where i was. Dalton 10 .
pretty place of about five thousand inhsb-
itants and some manufactures It 10 in
the mountain region. but the cotton coun-
try lie all around It. The natives
are provincial and do not warm
to people from abroad, especially
if they come to stay. They try to be genial
to Northern people. but It is hard work. 1
do not believe We would be much. If any,
better under like circumstances They
still call everybody from the North
Yankee and they don't put very pleas
ant infection on the word. A Northern
man gains nothing by telling them he is
Democrat. Very likely. IL he 10 . gentle
man, they don't believe him. for they think
all the best people of the North are Repub-
licans. just as they hold that all the best
people of the South must be Democratic
around Dalton yet. It was in the crush
of the great contest and torn TO pieces be-
tween the armies. One looks out and sees
Rocky Face and Fort Hill and Other
grim reminders of the days OF battle
Johnston's army of rs. 900 men camped about
there for two winters.
THE hotel in which was interested was
built by syndicate of wealthy men for the
tween sUee a $4,000 and $4,000 but It cost over
100000 The trouble with hotels in the
South Is that they cost toe much money
they are too tine for the patronage
they receive. .s and Il they pay ,,v. too
ment. In fact. they are often conducted
at loss. In the far South the hotels make
money in the winter. but what they make
must be gathered In within three months.
| At st. Augustine. Fla, for instance. the
| Ponce de Leon Hotel 10 now crowded and
| $40 day is the lowest rate. The sick peo-
| pie. especially from. the East. flock to
Florida during the winter and to other
! dreds of magnificent hotels. but few Of
| them make any money because the season
| is short. In Tennessee and northern
| Georgia the idea has been to run AL the
year round; that people from the North
| would come there in the winter and
people from the far South In the
| hot months. The climate in central
| and northern Georgia 10 delightful; while
| in the summer it is warm through the day.
| the evenings and nights are cool. But
| these hotels do not get the paying people.
| The Northern folks who have money 60
| through to Florida in the winter season.
| At Dalton we have the pleasure Of seeing
great train loads of people going further
South. but that is all. The white people Of
the South do not travel as we do IN the
| North. They may visit LITTLE among
friends and relatives, but excursions
| and outings, as we take them. they do not
| have. The colored people do some brief
excursioning. They have their own cars
in the States of Tennessee and Georgia. The
| negroes there are very different from those
we have here. We zee no such negroes IN
| the North as there are in the cotton belt Of
| Georgia. For that matter. we don't see
any such poor white folks here as
| they have In the South. i wonder
why some artist does not GO
to northern Georgia and picture the
| mountaineer. There are many strange
| specimens oddities they are 20 Northern
| eyes but common enough types In the
| South. One day saw an OK team dragging
| O ricketty old wagon that had come down
| from the mountains distance of twelve
| miles The driver was Indescribably
picturesque. took q look at the load he
had brought. to Dalton. 1t was q peck and
| half of chestnuts: nothing moro. DE
| took them 70 q grocery house. traded them
off for pound Of tobacco, and went home
| peFfectly satisfied