The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-01-22
The Southern in Geography---lt 1t
Covers the Whole South.

covers Tne WnOle SGutH.
"The great rivers don't carry pas
sengers any more,'' said Chauncey
Depew, " the great railroads have taken
their places.
Mr.. Depew is right. Grass grows
on the wharves at Omaha and Kansas
City, and only freight boats are now
occasionally seen at Cincinnati and
Louisville.
The Harpers have gotten out a new
geography from which the children
describe the great railroads, and what
a knowledge Of the whole country 1t
gives the youngsters.
The school children used to describe
the rivers, but now they describe the
great railroads.
To illustrate how they describe
them, the teacher in the Washington
public school said:
"Now, Mary, can you describe tie
Southern Railway? You know is
5000 miles long"
Eyes, sir, that is very easy" Sd
Mary. ssThe Southern really com
mences in New York. It runs its cars
over the Pennsylvania railroad through
Philadelphia and Baltimore to Wash
inatogn. Then it leaves the Capitol
and runs right by Washington Monu-
ment and tie White House, Manassas
and Bull Run battlefelds to Lynch
burg near Appomattox, where General
Lee surrendered to General Grant,
then New Orleans and Florida.
"Where else does it go to, Mary?"
"Why, it runs ali over creation. 1t
spreads out like great fan all over
the South to New Orleans, Florida,
St. Louis and Atlanta.
"Giye me some of the cities the
Southern goes through, Mary
"Why. from Virginia it goes through
North Carolina with its 1876 cotton fac
tories, and through the cotton and to
bacco fields to Greensboro. Charlotte,
Summerville and Charleston, where
the great Exhibition is, and then to
Savannah, with its grand old Buena
Ventura. From Savannah it runs to
Brunswick, Ga, within sight of Jekel
Island, and then to st. Augustine,
with its palmetto and palm trees,
and then down into the orange groves
of Florida, where, after shooting
few alligators, you can ferry across to
Havana and see Moro Castle and the
sunken Maine. Here you can pick
bananas while you watch the pretty
Spanish girls as they play their gui-
tars aad firt with loye-sick cavaliers
through the iron gates.
"Where else does it run, Mary?"
"Why, to Memphis and the West.
Then it goes to Birmingham and
Chattanooga, with its Lookout Noun
tain, where Hooker fought among the
clouds. From Chattanooga, contin-
ued Mary, pointing on to the map
ssyou see the Southern runs South,
east to Atlanta and North to Cincin-
natti. st. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland,
Detroit and Pittsburg.
But the Southern don't have its
own track North of Cincinnati, does
it Mary?''
.No, but they send out their won
derful 9 Florida Special from Chicago.
over the Big T. G. H. & d. and
Monon, and they run through cars to
Florida, from Cleveland and Pittsburg
to Jacksonville. y
"But that 'Southern's Palm Limit
ed that flies from New York to St;
Augustine, Augusta, Bon Air and
Aiken" said Mary enthusiastically,
"and the Southern's hier that flies
to the land of the sky like a cannon
ball from New York to Asheville,
Nashville, Atlanta, Mobile and New
Orleans, where you can see the Ian
gushing Creole girls with their goo
goo eyes and
"But your geography don't say
that, Mary!''
s'No, but my brother George said
that when he got back from the
Mardi Gras. George said, be got his
ticket at the Southern Ry. Office,
1lS5 Broadway. and left New York in
snow bank at twenty-five minutes
past four o'colck in the afternoon,
and was in warm Atlanta in q hours,
and in New Orlenas in 80 hours.
Mary might have added that Samuel
Spencer, the President of the South
ern' has taken in the Queen and
Crescent, " which runs from Cincin-
natl and Louisville to New Orleans
and Shreveport, La, and he is Presl-
dent of both roads about 5000 miles
lono-Eli Perkins Railroad Letter.