The National tribune., 1901-11-14
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Days of Restfulness and Supreme Enjoymen
; in the Beautiful Old Forest City" of tn
= South
The rich cities of Italy could not hay
@ seemed fairer To the Goths from tn
p frozen north, who clambered over the rug
5 Sea ana SnOw-ciad Alps, than did Sayan
nan TO the war-wOrn veterans of SheT
man $ army, after their months of cam
palgning. ending in weeks of wrestling il
the swamps and mud for the final prize
= savannah is one of the most beautiful
cities in the world. 1t is situated on :
high, sandy plain, rising some 40 to u
feet above the river.
In itself this makes it n delightful oasis
III the wilderness of mud and water. OF
gloomy rice-fields, dismal morasses, ALI.
gator-hauntcd swamrs, fetid. Shiny quag-
mires, and klygrowing jungles, sur
rounding it on every side.
Other cities have usually grown up
from struggling settlements Their
streets are the narrow and tortuous paths
along which each poor immigrant has
taken his little plot Of ground, and hud-
died close to his neighbor for protection
and society.
But Gen. OglethOrpe, who located
Savannah. 1873. on the site of the old
Indian town of Yamacraw, was Il man Of
| very advanced IDEAS for his day. or any
day. in fact. He came to America to es-
tablish model colony, and he hogan with
a model town, where people should lead
model lives. The first consideration was
that each family should have its feet
| firmly placed on the soil, with ample room
to breathe and work out its own saliva
/ tiOn. Therefore. he laid out for his little
| band city of u square miles with lots
| large enough for each one to make sup
i mon Il II.
/ right angles with one another. SpDarated
these. aLG still more breathing room was
provided by having public squares every
little ways.
,tIl la thcr. four large lots were left
vacant in every ward as trust
squares the object being to provide
places where. in the event of war, the
camp. with their livestock These trust
lots are now occupied by fine churches
and public buildings
One very wide street. running north
and south, separates the eastern and
western portions Of the city and along
the bluff, facing the river. runs Bay
street, the principal commercial aYenue,
which is 200 feet wide.
Though the people of Savannah wan
dcled sadly away from Gen. OgIethorpe's
ideas in regard to slavery, they have fol
lowed them with regard to the bcautifi-
cation Of their city The streets are
shaded with magnificent, oycr-arching
trees. the squares are embcllishci with
shrubbcry. flowers. monuments and foun-l
tainS, and the substantial residences are
situated in spacious, handsomely kept
grounds.
1t is so near the tropics that many
flowers bloom the whole year round, and
those which are delicate shrubs in the
North attain almost the proportion of
trees.
There are magnificent, hundred armed /
liye-oaks, stately. paimettocs, expresses /
with their gigantic cones of Symmetric /
branches, noble bay trees. orange trees
loaded with fruit in all stages of ripen- /
ing. all luXuriantly green and grandly i'm /
posing.
One comes up ont Of the swamps on
to broad, dry streets of black sand, that /
deadcn the sound of wheel. huof or foot,
and moves silently amid dreamland of
non roses. fr1Egant JesSamin, and that /
empress of all flowers, the camela
japonica, with gorgeous opuIence of great
white red and yellow flowers, bcdizening
immense cones of shining, dlrk-green
leaves.
Great Scott, Shorty" said 81. as they
wandered around the city, and came TO
n halt before the splendid Masonic lem
pie, where the Ordinance Of Secession
H..s cd "Evhat in time did fclcrs
who lived in such Il place as this want
to 20 10 war for? | can understand what
them fellers living in the cabins up in
the mountains would sooner go into the
army than stay at home. They'd get
more to eat and wear, and have about as
comfortable places to stay. But why fcl-
lcrs shpuldn't've hccn cOntcntCi in these
horses. in such bower of roses as this
Where one can go in his shirt-sceyes
on Christmas, interjcctcd Shorty.
And don't have to work all Summer to
get feed enough to keen the cattle through
the Winter added 81.
Nor wade through three foot of snow
to fodder the cattle" reminiSccd Monty
ScrUggs, who had come from the northern
part of Indiana.
Nor nut in all the time before and af-
ter school cutting wood to keep the house
warm remembered Sandy Baker, with
some bitterness.
Nor spend all you save for overcoats
and underclotheS,' said Harry .Ioslyn
Nor break the ice in the morning to
wash" shiycred Pete, with rccollcctOns.
Where fresh shell oysters grow as
plenty as potatoes in lnjianny, and you
don't have to plant 'em, hoe 'cn, nor +
dig EN-" murmured the aways-hungry
Gid Mackall, who now saw-whnt he had
hardly thought existed outside of Heaven
all the oysters he wanted to eat, to be {
had with no more trouble than wadinG
out and gathering them.
"Ought to be Il mighty good location I
FOR Il Doctor reflected Alf Russell. "All ;
hese swaInps around here, and no frost,
must breed malaria like n fog /
Great Jehosephat," thought Shorty, :
gazing at a queenly camela iaponica, l. /
n - feet high, covered with glorious {
blooms as large as a saucer which seem
ID 10 burst from the mass of dark green. t
shining leaves, like Gushcs of flame. I
'thut's Just the kind of a bouGuet I'd Z
ike to send Maria every day. Gracious. c
iOn't ] wish | could think o some words l.
ust as red and pretty and sweet to write t
lcr" Y
The 20Oth Ind. was given beautiful a
'amping place just outside of the city TO Il
he eastward, on the fine shcllroad lead q
ng TO the famous BOnaventure Cemetery {
t was high. dry, and sweet-smelIing with &
he breath Of the pines, Expresses and Il
cdars. There was plenty of wood and i
water. and the active men in day or t
wo had an ideal place of abiding and C.
est, from a military standpoint. yhe v
mailer trees were cut down to make d
title cabins, which were covered with o
helter tents or thatches of long-leaved d
lines; streets We're opened. a parade Il
round cleared off, comfortable cabins 81
uilt for the ofiicers,and Aunt Minerva "
Ann was given a much finer house than W
he hal ever lived in before When the c.
Adjutant brought her from the city, n
ew calico dress, some stockings, which Il
he had never had before in her life, and l.
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