Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-11

Editorial Correspondence Of Evory Evening.
SAVANNAH, GA, May 2.-Ihe street
railway system of Savannah IS as good
as that of Wilmington, which is about
as high praise us | can accord it. Flee.
ric cars run practically everywhere
Of course they have their well rcGu
lated system of transfers and native
5avannahian-that's an awkward look
ing word but it is right-knows Just
what car to board and what change to
make to reach any desired point most
directly. But the accommodating fea.
ture to a stranger is that he can board
any car that comes along with reasona-
BILE faith that if he sticks 10 1t long
enough it will take him pretty near
where he wants TO 60
This morning we boarded a car sew
eral squares from the Screven House in
one direction, not knowing nor caring
much where it was going, and after
ride Of five or six miles it dropped us,
or we dropped it, within half square
of the hotel in another direction. This
Is very much as though you should
board car at Third and Market streets
In Wilmington and, after taking in
Hedgoyille, Silyerbrook and the High
lands, should step out at Sixth and
Pine. The longest city line is seven
miles and you can take it ali in for 3
cents.
This afternoon we took suburban
electric line to Thunderholt, riverside
resort about five miles southeast Of
Savannah, where there arc bit Of sandy
beach, any quantity OF oyster shells, y
few buildings and piers with seats and
some rural scenery, among which wild
palmetto shrubs attracted my northern
eyes. But what | most want to say is
that We saw a peach tree in garden
there--the only peach tree we have seen
land it was well laden with fruit about
The size of hiCkory.nuts We also
found and picked some ripe dcwbcrrics.
We passed field Of oats well headed
put, potato vines in blossom, corn from
Iix inches to Il foot high, string beans
and some other garden products
Savannah is Il very pretty city in tho
main, but it seems to degenerate in every
direction, as you approach the outskirts,
INTO negro cabins Of decidedly unpre.
tcnttous architecture. The ColOrcd
brother is very numerous here and he
sandwiches in between the whites on
The street cars even more freely than he
does in Wilmington. ! have met with
no evidences, during my short stay in
this city, that he is downtrodden race
Not by any manner of means You see
him everywhere and he looks careless
mud contcntcd, The Juvenile negroes of
both sexes are met iii ilOcks, bare-footed
and bare legged and happy as q clam at
nigh tide. This leads nc to remark that
lie temperature, since our arrival, has
ranged from 79o to $50, and that men
larry umbrellas and women parasols
~. r.. II.
There are splendid asphalt streets and
sidewalks, some of the latter being Of
concrete, and, as u result, driving and
hcvcling are popular. At all hours Of
the day wheelmen are speeding their
safcties up and down the beautifully
smooth and clean asphalt, and fine
barouches drawn by spirited horses are
constantly on the 60; the shoes Of the
stceds ringing metallic tattoo on the
like roadway. There are miles of
these splendid roadways, but there are
also striking contrasts where the asphalt
surface stops abruptly, on side streets,
and sand, nothing but sand, succeeds,
not the wave-packcd sand of the beach
but the soft yielding sand of the salt
marshes into which the wheels OF yehi.
cles sink half Il foot or more. Savannah
is built on this sand and the raising OF
lawn grass is a work of difficulty. There
is no really fine grass in tie public
squares; it all has a starved and scanty
look and barely covers the sandy soil
anywhere.
The live oak is the most conspicuous
and refreshing of shade trees. with its
wealth Of dark green foliage made IN
Of small narrow leaves much like those
Of the peach oak Of southern Delaware
The umbrella tree. SO called from il,
shape. is another tree one secs evcrv
where Most tropical in appearance arr
the palmetto trees, some Of which sen(
up their queer leaf.stnlks TO a height d
20 feet or more. while their stranrel,
rouehened trunks, bristling with Inc AM
putatcd leaf-stalks Of former seasons
are sometimes as much MS IS tnche,
thick, There are plenty of orange tree
In the city, but they are generally small