The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-10
THE SOUTHERN IN THE GEoGs
RAPHY.
EHE SO
L Corsr The Whole So, "a.


THE great rivers don't carry passen-
gers any more" said Chauncey Depew,
The great railroads have taken their
places.
Mr.. Depew is right Grass grows on
the wharves al Omaha and Kansas City,
and only q few freight boats are now
occasionally seen at Cincinnati and Louis
vile.
The Harpers have gotten a new geogra-
ply, from which the children descrios
the great railroads, and what a knowl-
edge of the whole country it gives TO
the youngsters.
The school children used to describe
the rivers, but now they describe tho
great railroads.
To illustrate how they describe them.
the teacher in the Washington publa
school said
Now. Mary. can YOU desrriEe the
: Southern Railway? You know 1T is 5000
miles long.
Yes. sir. that is very easy" said Mary
The Southern really commences in New
York. 1t runs it's cars OVER the Penn
sylvanfa Railroad through Philadelphia
and Baltimore TO Washington. Then IL
leaves the Capital and runs right by
Washington Monument and the Whits
House, Manassas and Bull Run battle
fields to Lynchburg near AppomattoN.
where General Lee surrendered 10 Gem
eraI Grant, then TO New Orleans ara
Florida"
Where else does it go to, Mary?''
why, it runs all over creation. It
spreads out like great fan all oveS tEa
South to New Orleans, Florida. o.
Louis and Atlanta"
Give ne some of the cities tra Sour
ern goes through Mary.
why. from Virginia it goes through
North Carolina with it's 1856 cotton td',-
tories. and through the cotton and to
bacco fields to Greensboro, Cnas.c'tc,
SummervilIe and Charleston. waeta ths
great Exhibition is, and then 10 Sa-
vannah. with its grand old Buen1 Ys7-
tura From Savannah it runs 70 Br'ns-
wick. Ga. within sight of JeiSei Island,
| and then st. Augustine, with It's 2,t.r-fatto
| and palm trees and then down in.-s tn
orange groves of Florida, where. asscr
| shooting a few allisators, you can fer
| across to Havana and see MORO Casts
and the sunken Maine. Here you can
| pick bananas while you watch the pretty
Spanish girls as they pIay.thetr guitars
| and flirt with Iove-stcl cavaliers
| through the iron gate
where else does it run. Mary!
! WHY to Memphis and the West Then
| 1t goes to Birmingham and Chattanooga
| with it's Lookout Mountain. where Hook
! err fought among the clouds. From Chat
/ tauooga.'' continued Mary. pointing on u
the map, you see the Southern runs
southeast to Atlanta and north to TN
cinnati. st. Louis. Chicago, Cleveland,
Detroit ana Pittsburg.
But the Southern don't have its own
track north of Cincinnati. does 1t. Mary =
( NO. but they send out their wonder
| full Florida Special from Chicago. oEer
| the Sig A. c. H. & d. and Monor.
and they run through cars to Florida,
from Cleveland and Pistsburg to jack
sonville.''
But that 'southern's Pain Limited
that flies from New York TO st. Angus
| tine. Augusta, Bon Air and Aiken, saul
Mary enthusiastically. and the South
ems fIier that flies to the land OF the
| sky like cannon-bail from New York
to Ashev1le. Nashville. Atlanta. Mobile
and New Orleans, where you can see tho
Iavishing Creole girls with their soo-goo
But your geography don't say that.
Mary
.sNo. but my brother George said that
when he got back from the Mardi Ciras-
/ George said. he got his ticket at tho
Southern Ry OiIice. 11S5 Broadway. and
/ left New York in q snow bank at twenty
five minutes past four O'Clock In the az
Ia. econ. and was in warm Atlanta II
ii hours, ana IN we" chiS'1iS "a -
hours
Vow. Mary. put on your thinking cap.
Have you not forgotten ar least two inn
portan. and historic points in Old VIZ
ginia? How about it. Mary?
why. yes" said Mary. smiling at her
mistake Fredericksburg. where one OF
the greatest battles OF modern times was
fought and Richmond beautiful Rich
rlond with aiI its monuments ard his
toric associations. Yes. indeed. | must
not leave these out. The fast Southern
FLYER. the Washington Richmond an
Florida Limited. leaving Washington.
goes directly south in q bee line through
Fredericksburg and Richmond and tnence
makes q straight shoot from its hand
some white depot TO Danville. where u
strikes the main line for the South Anu'
by the way, UncIe John who travels
regularly over the Southern. s,sys ina.
train has 4 beautiful dinins-car attache'i.
Mary might have added that Sathu .,'
Spencer. tie president OF the s@ S.Loa
en- has taken in the queen and cFes.
cent, which runs from Cincinnati ana
louisville to New orleans and shreye-
mort "a. and he is president OF both
roads-abor.t 9nNo miles long.-Eli Fer
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