The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-10-17
A REPLY TO "NEWCOMER.v

Works" cut of courtesy tc the au-
thor, who is really Newcomer"
having bought property in Mariet-
| ia.
We wrote reply and had part of
it in type, but lack of space caused
US to have to defer its publication
until this week.
We are always willing for every
body to have access to the columns
OF the JOURNAL and we didn't want
Newcomer" to think he couldn't
get use of the paper. But we can
rot let the article pass without a
reply, because it did our town an
Injustice.
While we would have been glad to
have prominent citizen Of Allan
ia" move to Marietta, yet we ale
satisfied he allowed his Imagination
to work or his fears when he said
Marietta had no pure water in her
wells and that he wouldn't move
here because we didn't have water
works. 1t the prominent citizen
of Atlanta" who is classed as q
"civil engineer" knows no more
about his profession than he knows
about the water in Marietta, he
should out of sheer justice to the
public abandon his profession.
He never allowed more foolish
and unfounded thought to influence
his mind than he did when he NOV
ed elsewhere in preference to Ma
rietta because he thought our we'll
water was not pure, and because we
didn't have water works. We defy
him to anaiyze the water in Mariet-
ia wells and put it to test and he
will find that it is not only as pure
as crystal, but as healthy AMI good
as any water where they have water
works, and tar more so.
| We have been living in Marietta
nearly thirty-nine years, and We
have been in over twenty states, one
territory and one foreign country,
and we have found by closest OBJ
servat:on that Marietta has the
purest and best water and is the
healthiest place Of any We have
ever been in. The town stands
without an equal in this respect.
This is said in ali sincerity and
truth.
Nature never distilled purer or
more wholesome water than is now
in the wells of Marietta.
The natural drainage of Marietta
from every side keeps our city clean
and in excellent sanitary condition
This is evidenced by the fact that
we have less sickness and fewer
deaths than any place in Georgia.
1t is true we have had FIVE cases
! of typhoid fever in Marietta this
season, but one was contracted in
Atlanta, where the party worked
and where they have water works
The party came home TO be nursec
by his family and died Another
case is Of a young girl who lives II
tie country and came to our towr
to attend school and was immediate
| ~ taken sick. One other vas con
tracted in N. Carolina. The other
two live out from the center G: the
city near the corporate limits, where
there could be but little poisonous
impregnation OF water in wells.
Atlanta has water works and
there are ten cases of typhoid feves
there to Msrietta's one.
In the country, FIVE and ten miles
from Marietta, where farm houses
and wells are far apart, where fields
and forests intervene between homes,
and nature is supposed TO be deal.
ing out pure air and wholesome
water, there has been reported more
cases OF typhoid fever for the past
year than Marietta has had in all
her existence as town.
Now, how does this learned (?)
civil engineer account for this fact,
that Marietta is healthier than the
country? The country is not thick
ly settled, neither has it water
works, yet in many homes We hear