The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-10
The Southern in the Geography
II CoverS the whole south.

1t Covers the whole south.
1.-THE great rivers don't carry pas
sengers any more" said Chauncey De-
pew. "the great railroads have taken
their places"
Mr. Depew is right. Grass grows ON
the wharves at Omaha and Kansas
City. and only a few freight boats are
now occasionally seen at Cincinnati
and Louisville.
The Harpers have gotten a new
geography from which the children de-
scribe the great railroads, and what
A. knowledge of the whole country 1t
gives to 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:
Nov, Mary. can you describe 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
Pennsylvania Railroad through Phila-
delphia and Baltimore to Washington.
Then it leaves the Capitol and runs
right by Washington Monument ana
the White House. Manassas and Bull
Run battlenelds to Lynchburg, near
Appomattox, where Gen. Lee surren-
dered to Gen. Grant, then to New Or
leans and Florida
"Where else does it go to, Mary?
why, it runs all over creation. 1t
spreads out like a great fan all over
the South TO New Orleans, Florida, St
Louis and Atlanta.
Give me some of the cities the
Southern goes through, Mary"
"Why, from Virginia. 1t goes through
North Carolina with its 1856 cotton fac
tories, and through the cotton and to-
bacco fields to Greensboro, Charlotte,
Sunimerville. 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 Jekyl
Island, and then to st. Augustine,
with it's palmetto and palm trees. and
then down into the orange groves of
Florida, where. after shooting a few
alligators, you tan ferry across to Ha-
vana and see MORO Castle and the
sunken Maine. Here you can pick ba-
nanas while you watch the pretty
Spanish girls as they play their guitars
and fiirt with love-sick cavaliers
through the iron gates.
Where else does it run, Nary"
why, to Memphis and the West.
Then it goes to Birmingham and Chat
tanooga, with it's Lookout Mountain,
where Hooker fought among the clouds.
From Chattanooga, continued Mary,
pointing on to the map. you see the
Southern runs southeast to Atlanta
and North to Cincinnati, St. Louis,
Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Pitts
burg"
But the Southern don't have its
own track north of Cincinnati, does it
Mary?"
NO but they send out their Won
derful Florida Special from Chicago
over the Big A. c., H. & D. and
Monon. and they run through cars to
Florida, from Cleveland and Pittsburg
to Jacksonville
But that 'Southerns Palm Limited
that flies from New York to St. Au-
gustine, Augusta, Bon Air and Aiken, >
said Mary enthusiastically. land the
Southern's flier that flies to the land
of the sky like a. cannon ball from
New York to Asheville, Nashville, At
lanta, Mobile and New Orleans, where
you can see the lavishing Creole girls
with their goo-goo eyes and"
But your geography don't say that
Mary!'
mo but my brother George said that
when he got back from the Mardi
Gras. George said, he got his ticket
at the Southern Railway Office, 11S5
Broadway, and left New York in Il
snow bank at twenty-five minutes
past 4 o'clock in the afternoon. and
was in warm Atlanta in "a hours, and
in New Orleans 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 Cincinna Ii
and Louisville to New Orleans and
Shreveport. La, and he is president
of both roads-about 5000 miles long
Eli Perkins Railroad Letter-ad.