The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-13

its appearance and Il pre-eminently n
beautiful, city and owes much of its
lovliness of today to the plan, designat-
ed by its founder. Oglethorpe, which
has been adhered to, for it's regularity,
beauty and comfort. The city, proper
covers 1000 acres. 1t is nearly square.
The streets are broad intersecting each
other at right angles and interspersed
with numerous small parks which serve
to ventilate the city thoroughly. All the
streets are named and the lanes take
the name of the street north of them.
1t has log miles of streets, IS acres of
public parks, 10 miles of street railway
and five miles of wharves IL is located
at the head of ship navigation eighteen
miles from the ocean, on the Savannah
river which Is 450 miles long, having
its source in the Allegheny mountains
forming the boundary line between
South Carolina and Georgia till IL
enters the Atlantic. 1t is located on n
plateau fifty feet above sea level with
a capacious and well protected harbor
by forts Jackson and Pulaski. with
from seventeen to twenty-one feet of
water at low tide and over the bar.
The improvements now being made by
our government i'm deepening the chan
mel from the mouth to the city will
allow the passage of any vessed anoat
The public squares which were
originally intended as place of refuge
for the colonists In time of attack. are
now the breathing spots of the city.
They are adorned with statues and
fountains and mounds filed with gigan-
tic live oaks, bedeCked with graceful
hanging moss of the tropics, with here
and there beautiful magnolias, catalpas
the laurel, the palmetto. the Grape
myrtle, the pomegranate, cactus, jasa-
mine, orange and oleander and banana
| trees. Among these are growing roses
and japonicas. that bloom luxuriantly
in mid-winter in the open air. Specially
| characteristic of Savannah, as OF
Charleston and other coast cities of
the South is the live oak, the true
home of which is the country around
the Gulf of Mexico. But the natural
beauty is not all that Savannah boasts
of. The architecture is varied and
striking, much of it in the quaint fash
ion of by gone days, but with those
| characteristics that the art of the
present day is eager to counterfeit.
ITS COMMERCE..
Savannah is no mean city. AS a
| commercial center it is the chief sea
| port of Georgia and the great CONNER
cial emporium of the state and the
third largest cotton port in the United
| States. with "A fair prospect of bccom.
ing second, and is also an enormous
| shipper of lumber and phosphate rock
| 1Hxs. how at.iI ~.
wealth, thrift progress and improve
| ment. Savannah is the first nava
stores port and market in the world
! 1t has "a valuation of S50,OO000O anc
commerce sl25, ,OO0. 600 Since the wal
she has doubled her population having
now nearly 10000 inhabitants.
| The commercial interests of Savannah
are guarded and promoted and locke,
after by well organized bodies o
merchants, and yearly new industriC!
are springing up through their efforts
The cotton exchange has in charg,
the great article of cotton, while tn,
board of trade has in charge all Othe
| articles of commerce other than cotton
| The people boast of their great fru
region and industry. the tobacco anC
Sea Island cotton crops. and their i'm
mense phosphate and lumber ship
, mcnts. Here has come a great inilu,
| of Northern men with capital unitin!
it's fortunes with those of the youn;
SOutherner's and causing a wonderful
,recupcration which made Savannah tn
wide-awake and business-like city it il
today.
Savannah is rich in it's historic mem
ories and having passed through fou
wars, ii is necessarily a city Of muCl
historic interest. AS we look upoi
Savannah today, she is representative,
both of the old and of the new South
1t has many of the characteristics o
the Antebelum period, with the thrift
enterprise, business activity and III
wealth that have made it great com
mercial city. Bay street is the Grca
commercial thoroughfare, and is linet
with fine mercantile houses, banks
and business offices. The custom house
the city exchange, postofiice and cottOl
exchange are on THE Bay" Congress
and Broughton are the principal busi
ness streets. Bull street is named il
honor of Colonel William Bull, wh
assisted Oglethorpe in laying out tn
city. This street passes through fly
squares in which are the Greene, Cor
don, Jasper and Pulaski monuments