The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-24
Our CIinnte.

A few days of sloppy and cool weather
have but tended to emphasize the fact
that South Georgia, the vicinity of Sa-
vannah particularly, is blessed with a eli
mate as agreeable. healthful and equable
as there is to be found in the world. There
has not been a day this winter on which
it was too cold to work with comfort out
of doors. except for the rain. And the
days of rainy and disagreeable weather
have been very few. While the days are
fine the tendency is to pay little or no at
tention to the condition of the weather
and when an unpropitious spell comes, to
growl about it, The fine days prepon>
derate to such a great extent that when
bad weather comes 1t is all the more no.
ticeable. On Christmas night. for in
stance, ladies' in all sections of the city
went on the parks and piazzas to view
the fireworks, without wraps. and with
only zephyr shawls. If anything at all,
upon their heads. This statement will
doubtless surprise some of our northern
contemporaries. But it is correct, never
theless. And the people took it as a mat
ter of course. Comments were extremely
limited. At the same time our friends
in the far northwest, Iowa for instance,
were expending the greater part Of their
energy in efforts to keep warm, with the
thermometer lowering about the zero
mark.
Iowa is mentioned particularly because
a paper of that state recently attempted
to put a damper upon the immigration
movement into Georgia from the north
west with the statement that the climate
here was execrable, and that the colon
lists who came here found the weather
quite as bad as in the northwest, besides
which the country was racked with fevers
each succeeding summer. The Fitzgerald
Enterprise, answering for the colonists
who have settled at Fitzgerald, correctly
says the Iowa paper does not know what
it is talking about, and hence makes it,
self ridiculous to those who are informed
as to the conditions. The Enterprise es-
Inmates that there are not more than two
months in the south in which out-of-
doors work cannot be done, while in the
northwest the closed season lasts for quite
FIVE months. In this calculation. however,
the Enterprise is probably mistaken. There
is not a month in the year in which out-of-
doors work may not be done in South
Georgia, and all of the CLOSED" days put
together would probably not amount to
a month of time.
In so far as the summer season is con-
cerned, fevers are comparatively I'M
known where proper hygienic precautions
are observed. Savannah is one of the
healthiest cities in the country. Some OF
the oldest people in the world are TO be
found in South Georgia. The typical
South Georgian is hearty as buck"
and hardly knows fatigue from his or
binary days work. In short, the climate
is superb. There is nothing whatever
the matter with it. 1t is the climate for
working people, for people of leisure and
for everybody else who desires to reside
ia a section that makes life worth living.
The Salvation Army is about to estab-
lsh in Bergen county, New Jersey, a
farm colony" the object of which is to
provide a home for the worn out men,
bers of the army as well as a place Of
employment and reformation for men and