The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-16
TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL.
VISIT OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA EDl.
TORS TO THE ROCK CITY.

N SttS
What they Saw on the Road and In Nash
v,I.-A Glimpse OF and from Lookout
Mountain, Chickamaugs Park and It's
Monuments.
The close of the present century it appears
is to be marked with great expositions.
First there came the Worlds Fair, at Chica-
90, then the San Francisco Midwinter Expo
! sition, the Atlanta undertaking and now the
| celebration of the admission of Tennessee
into the Union. These shows have been of
untold benefit and their effects will extend
over years and years. Not only do they
bring together thousands and thousands OF
i people from various States, but they are ed
ucators-the most pleasant kind OF instruct
ors. They show what a great and what a
fertile country this is we live in. They ex-
emplify the progress and thrift of certain Sec
lions of the country, and give the object les
son to other States. If Carollnians who
| went to Nashville only accept one thing they
| saw in the Volunteer State it will be that
much of q gain. Other States may catch
other ideas, but the Palmetto State could not
do a wiser or q better thing than to model
her roads after the magnificent pixies that
| traverse the section of Tennessee visited in a
trip incident to the Exposition.
When President Aull, of the State Press
/ Association, announced that he had ar
ranged for a trip to Nashville for the mem
beers of the Association there was Joy in the
>tcamp. The proposed trip was on pleasant as
well as profitable lines, and very many more
than were able to 60 hoped to have that
pleasure. The newspaper man, however,
cannot always arrange to get off when he
Z elects. Mr.. Aull thought of the conveniences
!; Of making the trip in q Pullman car, and a
ehsppy suggestion it was, for 1t brought to-
7 gether a most congenial set OF newspaper
workers and was an economical plan. The
car "Dnieper' was in waiting for the party
at Cross Hill, after the editors had a most
enjoyable afternoon at the celebrated Harris
Lithia Springs. Here are the excursionists
| who went to see the sights of Nashville and
other villas:
President E. H. Aull, Herald and News,
Newberry.
Lieutenant Governor NJ. B. McSweeney,
Hampton Guardian.
Louis Applet, Manning Times.
: s. R. Bridges, Leesville Lancet.
GsR R. sPettigrew, Reform Advocate.
J.. 8. Mckenzie, Reform ADVOCATE, Flor
ence.
Rice B. Harnan, Lexington Dispatch.
T.. J. Drew, Huntsville Messenger.
Mrs. M. W. Coleman, Carolinian.
L. C. Ligon, Aiken Journal and Review.
M. W. Culp, Union Times.
M. Stackhouse, Marion Star.
N. G. Gonzales, the State, Columbia.
Mrs. Virginia D. Young, Varnville Enter
prise
J. E. Britt, Times, Mccormick.
N. G. Osteen, Daily Item, Sumter.
C. P. Osteen, Waterman and Southron,
Sumter.
G. C. Langston, Anderson Inteiligencer.
Miss Stackhouse, Marion Star.
John R. Mathis, New Era, Union.
R. R. Hemphill, Abbeville Medium.
Miss Mary Hemphill, Abbeville Medium.
Miss Mamie Babb, Cotton Plant.
C. W. Birchmore, Wateree Messenger,
Camden.
Mrs. J. J. Pluss, Cotton Plant.
E. Il. DeCamp, Gaffney Ledger.
Miss Eugenia Young, Varnville Enter
prise.
August Kohn, The News and Courier,
Charleston.
Thornwell Haynes, Leesville Lancet.
Mayor Henry H. Evans, Newberry.
Miss Genevieve Wharton, Laurens.
It was arranged that the ladies of the
party occupy the forward section of the
sleeper, and the gentlemen of the excursion
did their sleeping, joking, frolicking, etc.,
in the other portion of the car.
THE RAILROAD MEN.
There was q brief stop in Atlanta on Fri
day morning, just long enough for q comfort
able breakfast at Duraut's and a stroll about
the last Exposition City. The Seaboard Air
Line, which always does the right thing, had
the special to arrive in Atlanta on time.
MI. J. H. Latimer, of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and st. Louis road, anticipated the
arrival Of the party on his road and came on
to Atlanta with the tourists. The Western
and Atlanta and the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis are under one management,
and it is q great railroad system. 1t runs
fine and fast trains, and knows how to make
things pleasant for its patrons. General
Passenger Agent Harmon, of the Western
and Atlantic, hoped to 60 on with the Caro-
inians, but could not do so, and Mr.. J. H.
Latimer, Of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
st. Louis Road, made the trip, and q pleas
anter companion or better chaperon could
not have been secured. The Western and
Atlantic passes through battlefield after bat.
tlefeld, and no one knows more about them
or their traditions than does Mr.. Latimer.
WAR SCENES IN THE ROUTE.
A writer sasys: In none Of the campaigns
Of the gigantic "war between the States''
was there a more notable display of adroit,
wary, far-resching strategic genius and pru.
dent, patient, watchful care on the part of
the great commanders; of Jealous, skilful
and fearless leadership by their field officers,
or Of more heroic bravery, fortitude and
cheerful endurance by the soldiery, than in
those Of 1868 and 1864, during which the
world became familiar with the names of
Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, RingoId,
Rocky Face, Dalton, Resaca, Altoona, Kenne-
saw Mountain and Atlanta.
Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Rosecrans,
Thomas, Mcpherson, Scofeld, Hooker, Corse,
Blair, Harker, Fitzpatrick, SLOVENIAN and a
half score Of others scarcely less famous, who
followed the 'bright starry banner of the
Union; while Bragg, and afterwards John
ston, with Hardee, Hood, Polk, Longstreet,
Cleburne, Breckenridge, Buckner, Forrest,
French, Walthall and Wheeler, with brother
chieftains IS valiant and devoted, showed
that the South had sent her brainiest and
bravest to endeavor, with the fifty thousand
men, to stem the tide of invasion which was
rolling through Georgia, the keystone State
Of the Confederacy, against Atlanta, which
was then, as now, considered the "heart OF
the South"