The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-11-06
A TRIP THROUGH THE SOUTH

Sightseeing and travelling through ones
own country is a well-paying investment
calculated to broaden ones views and
bring forcibly to ones mind that our
country is a land of grandeur, wide in ex-
tent and possessing people endowed with
thrift, intelligence and hospitality.
To travel southwark is to learn that the
South possesses progressive cities and
people devoted TO their homeland, and
taking the greatest pride in its march to
the front. Nothing can more fully illus
trate this fact than the successful efforts OF
the people of Tennessee and that progress.
i've city of Nashville, than the Nashville
Exposition, virtually local enterprise
which at once astOnishes the visitor because
OF its beauty and completeness. The re-
cent visit of the Peninsula Press Associa-
ton, which included representative of
the CECIL WING to Nashville, was an
outing of unusual enjoyment, and a
courtesy extended the members of the
piSSS ny plt ooutuClh lshiilOaN anu tIb
Chattanooga, Nashville & st. Louis Rail
way, while at Nashville the exposition
management showed the same liberality-
Tn business men of Nashville and ths
Southern Railroad system, that great artery
of trade between the North and South, pat
forth industrious efforts towards the at
traction and conveyance Of visitors, their
aim being to give the public the best trav
cling facilities and entertain them properly
when there. For no railroad could offer
the travelling public greater advantages in
well-equipped trains, speed and courtesy
than the Southern, and the luxury of
travel over the line puts one in IA condition
of mind and body to allow the greatest
enjoyment of the picturesque and grand
scenery which stretches out along it's line.
From the time Washington is left,
country of historical interest is opened mp
first Manassas the second battle of Bull
Run is passed through; then comes Char
lottesville, where is located Monticello tie
home of that great American, Thomas
Jefferson; then Lynchhurg, wealthy as a
railroad centre and as the central point Of
the tobacco industries. At Salisbury Il e
special car occupied by the press party
hranched off for Asheville, and after Il
grand ascent of the Blue Ridge through
scenery of unsurpassed beauty i'll this
county, arrived at that celebrated North
Carolina resort "a modern little city Of
the mountains, the beauty Of which has
attracted that millionaire and traveller,
George Vanderbilt, who there has built
that magnificent estate, Biltmore
All one has read Of Asheville cannot ex.
agserate its advantages and beauty one
particle. After a short stay at Asheville the
Southern Railroad carried the party
through this properly named region, the
Gland of the sky" to Chattanooga, Il
city prominent in the history of the Civil
War, and about which are clustered in
their mountain heights those world famed
battle scenes, Mission Ridge, Look out
Mountain and Chickamauga.
The National Cemetery in Chattanooga
containing it's $4,000 dead soldiers, tells
an impressive story of patriotism; while
on the other hand the bustling city o.
Chattanooga is all activity and life From
this point to Nashville the run was made
over the line OF the Chattanooga, Nash
Vile and st Louis Railroad, also a we'll
equipped line, and which route led for 81
miles along the shore of the Swannano'
River.
When Nashville was reached all wer
abundantly pleased with their experience
in "Way Down Tennessee and afte
being heartily welcomed by the very ex
cellent hotels at which the party quarters
? a view of the city was taken and the ex
r position grounds visited.
The exposition is marvel and can b
, truthfully said to eclipse Atlanta fully 7
t per cent In fact, the best word to say TO