Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-20

-HE first insight we get into
the social life of the new city
that was to be is given in Mr.
William Stephens journal. He
came in 1877 and his three vol
umes tells of his life in the village till
1742. There were even then two very
decided classes in the little village.
The people. who were the most num-
erous, and the gentry, who were few.
The people were largely dependent on
the government stores and the gentry
were office holders and shopkeepers
and few planters. There were enough
Scotchmen TO have a st. Andrews So
ciety and enough young people to have
an occasional dance at the ordinary.
There was a board tabernacle for a
church and a few Methodists. as the
Episcopalians who agreed with Mr..
Whiteheld were called, and the old
church people worshiped together. Mr..
Stephens, the governor, was stanch
churchman, who had little sympathy
with Mr.. Whiteheld's vagaries, as he
called them. Mr.. Whitefield had be-
gun his orphanage and given employ
ment to a large part of the Savannah
population. The houses were mainly
small cottages of one room and shed,
built of broad plank sawed by a whip
saw and of logs, with board chimneys.
There were a few more pretentious
houses. The lots laid off and surveyed
were of three kinds-city lots, 90x1S0;
garden lots of five acres and farm
lots of % acres. The five-acre lots be-
gan on what Is now Gwinnett street.
There was little Improvement for the
next Is years. Mr.. Stephens gives
some amusing stories of events up to
xxylo &c
now the heart of the city" "a boat
was in danger of wreck which had two
sows, some turkeys and provisions,
and il would have been a great disas-
ter II it had been lost"
Mr.. Norris, the rector, would play
the violin and play cards with the la
dies, much to Mr.. Whiteflelds dis
pleasure. Mr.. F1tzwalter was annoy
ed by Mr.. Blanks ram goat. and he
incontinently slew him and Mr.. Blank
went out cunning for Mr.. Fitzwalter's
geese.
Mrs. Camuse, the wife of the Ital-
ian silk maker, drank too much wine
and Mr.. Canston was much enraged
at her free speech and threatened to
her spouse.
''Mr Norris was scandalized by a
white servant maid and she was order
ed to be whipped for her gossiping-
CMr. Norris. however, interceded and,
she escaped.)
Mr.. Stephens servants (white)
were sick most of the time and too
lazy to work when they were well.
Two of them ran away and were
caught by the COW keeper at Ebene-
ger.
Having a bit of fresh beef for din
ner he had engaged Mr.. Pat Houston
and Mr.. william Sterling to share 1t
with him.
DIR. Pat Graham. surgeon, who had
made considerable improvement in
building on his lot in the town, as well
as being a constant planter, for these
two or three years past, having, Mrs.
Cuthbert for his patient. dangerously
I'll of fever, as a lodger. the doctor
took the opportunity of prescribing
matrimony as a specific, and she con-
senting, they were married. He and
Mr.. Jones went to the wedding feast.
"NIr. Christie objected to wearing the
judges robe because his other clothes
were too ragged and patched"
These few side lights give us a view
OF the city in its early childhood and
then we get no other view for nearly
ten years. when Sir John Reynolds
comes.
A SECOND VIEW.
When the trustees gave up their
thankless. their vain effort, to estab-
lish a religious and moral colony for
needy people, and Georgia was a regu-
lar crown colony Sir John Reynolds
came to the young city. He found
It fearfully dilapidated. There were
very few people In It, and they were
very poor in the main, but there were
enough of the thrifty and we'll to do
in Savannah and about to make a
council. There was no church except
the old Tabernacle, and only occa-
sional services in it; He decided. as
the Jail was insecure and assembly
room about to fall down, and there
was so little trade and so little hope,
it would be better to remove the capt.