The age-herald., 1897-09-16
FROM NED BRACE.
The Great American Kicker Who Is Not Subsl-
 dised With Railroad Pass.

lI9lh baiihAileudIH to New 1Ofh Dy Stds especially when one is So loyal to Bir- mingham as to travel only on the "City of Birmingham"
 Left Birmingham on a Wednesday af- ternoonl Travelled to Montgomery via the Louisville and Nashville because Col. Fallkner don't require newspaper men to help throw on coal in return for passes, and because he runs his trains fast. The Georgia Central is too slow for fast newspaper men. You are liable to get seooped in going over that road.
 From Montgomery to Savannah Col. B. w. Wrenn carries you over the Plant system on speedy trains and gives you Pullman car as far as Waycross. It's something the Georgia and Alabama don't do, SO they lose passenger traffic. But Wrenn is not up todate. He throws you out of the Pullman car at Way cross and loads you on slow freight to Savannah. He even refuses to give you time for breakfast at Waycross, but stops at other stations, where there is nothing to eat, long enough Tor several meals. He is working in the Interest of the Sarannah eating house, where they charge you sitting down prices but force you to eat standing-and to eat dough- nuts and pie for breakfast.
 Henry Grady once said of Col. Wrenn that God never made better fruit than the strawberry nor better general pas senger agent than Col. Wrenn. The la mented Grady might have been right there, but if I owned a railroad I would not make my friends who accept passes ride on freight trains, nor would I make them go hungry. Yet Wrenn is good fellow and he may do better when cold weather comes.
 Savannah is the right sort of town. It is made up of good people-clever, dlgnified, substantial, and bright people. They treat you right.
 As commercial town it is one of the greatest in the south, The people do much business and they know how to live. They are not out for show, but for solid comfort-dignified and elegant comfort.
 Savannah and Augusta are the only two cities on this continent where one can find good old wines In a dozen private cellars in the two citbes can bs found madeiras of vintages back in the 3's. Dam Purse. Judge Falligant, Peter Meddrim and others have old wines worth far beyond their weight in gold.
 Savannah is a rich city. Everybody has plenty of money. They make no lavish display of it, but enjoy it mod estly and comfortably.
 Savannah has one of the handsomest hotels in the south. The DeSoto is grand, but the men who have it-Wai- son & PowerS-ought to keep a. depot eating house instead of a grand hotel. They are the kind who let a hotel run itseH-good fellows, perhaps, but it takes more than a good fellow to properly conduct great hotel.
 We fared pretty we'll, however. Hap pened to get at the table with my old friend General Sorrell. Ills had lots of delicacles sent down from his country home, which were fit for the gods. The general surely knows what good things are, and he is rapidly teaching one fat and jolly Col. John M. Egan, who is be- coming a good Savannahian.
 Savannah has lots of good things, among them are two splendid newspa- pers. Col. J. H. Este11 has made a for tune out of the Savannah News; and my old friend, though yet young, Pleas Stovall, is making the brightest and spiciest little afternoon paper in tha south out of the Press. Stovall is a genius. Since Henry Grady, I think him the cleverest and purest writer of English in Georgia. His writings are prose poems.
 Came from Savannah here by sea-on the City of Birmingham. Of course I was sea sick and damned everything the first day. The second day I was well again. They declared I hadn't been sea sick-just suffering from a bilious attacks.
 Were you ever sea sick? Then don't try it. It is neither dignified nor ele- gant. Nor is it comfortable. First, you fear death. Then you fear you will not die. Then some sympathetic old prying fool comes by and says he's sorry you are suffering. You abuse him under your breath, and the exertion carries you to the side of the rail again. Your head dawdles about and you become ex- tremely undignified. But thera are al ways others.
 You get over this sea sickness Then you enjoy life. Everybody aboard has a tale to tell. Some are new--many old. Judgs Fallyant, of Savannah, was aboard. He had lots of new stories. He's got just enough Irish in him to keep him bubbling over with wit and wisdom all the. time.
 Captain Burg, of the City of Birming- ham, proved to be a good fellow. He knows lots about the sea, and knows how to tell it. Has had hundreds of ad- ventures. He it was who saved the lives of all the people aboard when the City of Savannah was wrecked several wears ago. He has a record of hay- ing saved 240 lives from wrecks on the coast in recent years. Yet he has no gold medals.
 I landed today after an unusually long trip. Found the dock laden with Birm- ingham pig iron, and coming up town found all of Fifth avenue torn up to lay nsw water mains. Of course they are using Birmingham pipe.
 NED BRACE.
 Charged With Rape