The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-08-01

gia and the Weekly Press, united
and took as the objective point of
their annual outing the Pam
American Exposition at Buffalo
New York. The former body met
! in Atlanta and the latter in Ath-
ems; and after the transaction of
the regular business each assocIa-
/ tion adjourned for the trip to the
north, the Weekly Press Joining
| the Georgia Press in Atlanta where
two Pullman sleeping cars stood
ready to receive the party-ahout
1876 strong; and at 5:15 p. M, we
! were all aboard the Southern train
speeding OH our way to Chatta-
lnooga We arrived at that city
about ten O'Clock, and after a
lunch we resumed our journey,
Cincinnati being our next impor-
tant stop. We arrived in the
Queen City about eight o'clock
the next morning, the total time
from Atlanta to Cincinnati, a dis
lance of 437 miles, being about
fourteen hours. The Southern
railway which constitutes this line,
is to be congratulated on its very
superior facilities for transporting
its passengers, comforta bly, quick
ly and safely. It's rolling stock is
equal to any in the country, it's
schedules are as fast as those of
the better class of northern loads,
and It's management, supplement-
ed by fine road-beds, guards as
far as human ingenuity can,
against accidents.
At Cincinnati we took the Big
-Four line and were soon bowling
on towards Cleveland. From the
time we reached Lexington, KY,
to the time when we arrived at
Buffalo our eyes were RECALLED oy
country which for natural beauty
and evidences of thrift and pros
perity is not surpassed as farm
ing country in America. The
scenery along the Cincinnati
Southern is very wild but at the
same time grand and awe-inspir-
ing. Ever and anon we would
shoot across trestle SO high that
the telegraph poles below us look
ed like the pickets of a fence; and
then we would dart into long
dark tunnel (there are more of
them on this road than any other
upon which | have travelled in
America) only to be buried again
in gloom after a brief period of
sun light, But along the Big
Four and Michigan Southern lines
the country is level and of high
degree of fertility. AS far as the
eye could reach we saw waving
fields of corn, wheat and other
grains and also great fields of veg
etables. Copses of woods all
carefully cleared of underbrush
and sown in grass for the grazing
of cattle, and gently meandering
streams, with neat and coy farm
houses with their universal ad-
juncts of great barns and other
outhouses all consplred to form
perfect landscape. 1t must be
confessed that one accustomed to
country of this kind would form
bad impression of the South.
from a material standpoint, in
travelling through this section for
the first time. Our population is
not yet sufficiently large nor is a
large part of it endowed with the
requisite intelligence and thrift to
demand the best use possible of
all our land available for agri-
cultural purposes. Still it would
very much enhance the value of a
place if our farmers would keep
their woods clear of undergrowths
and brush and make liberal use
of blue and other grasses where
weeds now reign supreme.
We passed many large and flour
ishing towns between Cincinnati
and Cleveland which, Judging
from the volumes of black smoke
which assembled from numerous
smoke-stacks, we inferred to be
manufacturing centers. Ohio is,
believe, the third or fourth state
i'll population, in the union, fact
attributable to its prosperous con-
dition, result of happy con-
junction of agricultural, manu-.
featuring and commercial inter-
ests.
At Cleveland our sleepers were
transferred to the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern express, and
in a short while we were flying to-
wards Buffalo with speed that
was terrific. This is one of the
best railroads in the United States,
In every respect, and this high
rate of speed it can maintain with
as much safety as an indifferent