Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-30

flowers gathered at Bethlehem, Penn.
But this kind of merchandising serves as
diversion TO throngs, helps defray ex-
penses and harms nobody.
The City of Atlanta.
Atlanta is the beautiful capital of Geor,
gia. Its site is the Chattahoochee ridge,
over n thousand feet above the sea level,
its altitude giving it a cool and cquablo
climate even in summer. Its present pop
ulation is 10000. 1t impresses the visit
or as decidedly metropolitan i'll every way.
Its wholesale and retail houses do busi-
ness aggregating $175, 600 Il year, and
there are now 600 establishments where
manufacturing is done. 1t is large cot
ton mart, one firm there handling S20,-
100000 worth OF cotton year. 1t is II
great railroad center. -Four direct lines
of road run north and east, three so west
and northwest. and three to the South
Atlantic and Gulf ports. The city has an
excellent system of public schools and an
industrious and enterprising population.
Its water supply is one of the best in the
world, all the water being perfectly fiji
tered before it is admitted into the water
mains. 1t is everywhere lighted by elec
tricity and has 100 miles of street rail
road the largest mileage in proportion to
its population of any city in the country.
1t has sixty miles of granite block pave
ment 2@d $50 miles of brick sidewalks.
In 1850 the city had but 5000 people. The
visitor rides along miles of streets bor-
dcred on either side by costly and beau
tiful residences Peach Tree street can
hardly be matched for beauty by any
street in any city of America. With its
beautiful homes, its shade trees, shrub
berry and flowers, it seems II vcritable par
0dise as an abode for man. Northern men
who visit Atlanta and expect to find ii
composed of tumble down shanties for n
thriftless population and fifty years be
hind the times" will be not little amaH-
cd to find that it is probably quarter of
century i'll advance of many prctentious
Northern towns. and that there is much
in Atlanta which most Northern places
could protitably initiate, and nothing in
which the Gate City is behind them. 1t
is pleasant to speak of the delightful and
hospitable manner in which an accred-
tied visitor is received in Atlanta, and of
the many ways in which his stay there is
made a continuous delight. Al who visit
the fair will be amply provided for,
though all the available room in the city
will be required to accommodate the Wis
itors.
The undertone of this fair will be an
other impressive lesson in human brother
hood, in the mutual helpfulness of indus
trial effort and in exchange of services
Earth has no equal area comparable with
the South in natural resources and in all
the elements for diversified industry. En-
tcrinS as we now are upon another era of
business prosperity and confidence, capi-
tai will soon be seeking new opportunities
for investment, and the Atlanta fair will
start inquiries which will present num-
bcrless opportunities for good invest
ments. Within the coming ten years Il
thousand millions of dollars will go into
Southern enterprises from the North and
from Europe which can be traced to les
sons suggestions and impressions given
and taught by the great fair. The result
ing material advances and successes will
not onIy unite men in peaceful pursuits,
bur will tend to do away with the militant
and destructive ideas which have dom
mated the world in the past and substi-
tute for them II combination of men in
peaceful industries which will conduce to
greater comfort and happiness, and which
will hasten the advent of that auspicious
day
"When the war drum throbs no longer
And the battle flags are furlcd,
In the parliament of man
The federation of the world"