The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-15
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The Magnolia or Pecan Drive-W ay.


 Editor The Advertiser:
 When we reached Savannah every thing was hurry, scurry to get aboard the Kansas City for New York. I did not of that city or one, most attractive. It was broad, with trees on each side and one or two rows in the middle. It was inviting. There are places and people in- viting Others say by looks, go away. I promised myself to see Savannah again It was not the beach, the houses or other things so much that caught my eye, but 1 do want to stroll up and down those opportunity now that she will never have again to turn into beauty and profit that which is comely and not of so much value. Beginning on the Carter Hill Road at a point that strikes midway the valley that crosses the Norman Bridge Road just north of the overhead street railroad bridge running slightly north west. down this valley, intersecting or forming a continuation of a thoroughfare running with Mill Street from the Mobile road veering north enough to cross the elevation where 1t is lowest will make the finest driveway anywhere in the city magnolias bordering and in the middle and We will have a driveway, a walk way that will be at once a most beautiful thoroughfare and equal to a magnificent city folk. May be 1t would be better to border this way with the best selection of paper shell oceans. Then. or, when fruit dropping time comes, what a time for boys and girls old and young. All pick up, no enc throw or climb. The farmers coming into the city by the Mo- bile road will not have hill to climb but can glide without difficulty into Hol- combe Street. Those coming by Carter Hill or Norman Bridge roads if heavy laden can find nice level way of enter Ing the city; This is not all, a short Oak Park on the east. On the west at point suitable from the Eayneville road already in fine order, run the driveway is always an attraction. Montgomery boasts of one but uses 1t, l suppose, as little as any people in the world that has one. O-n-e boat a week sometimes.
 I have come to believe that railroads are the fosterers of trusts, water ways and good public highways are their enemies, but l am off my subject. Did
 you ever invite visiting friend to go with you to see grand. historic old Ala bama River and sit down upon its banks and watch its placid waters flow noise-
 lessly by? These invite thought and
 help lovers come to fixed opinions and conclusions Mothers and fathers could | lead the little ones to these still waters | and teach geography and history. Though | silent they bore a-ong on their bosom the
 little boat of the immortal Dale with his
 two lighting companions and negro boat | man to meet the nine stalwarI Indians. Weatherford on his white horse plunged from her blum into her waters and was | safe from his white pursuer. Quietly in
 whisper she sang the war song while
 Jackson fought upon her banks the enemy | of our mothers and fathers who came to | find a home in the land of Here We Rest. He gave them rest. These are only | few of the many, many things of the past | worth talking over, and telling to those | that do not know them. You never did in- 1 vite any one to visit the river. Why? Rail- | road tracks to cross and re-cross, the noise of whistles, big. little and middle, the frying and spizz1ng of steam, smoke, stenches that nothing but the olfactores can grasp, soap works, old boilers, pipes l logs, fish nets, are some of the things that one who who would stroll along the river bank must encounter up the river from the wharf. Below the river it is fenced up so that there is not pleasant and convenient approach, even to haptize. l quit baptizing in the river because of the difficulty in the way. Would it not be nice to have some place where the people could go to the beautiful Alabama
 undisturbed, while away the hours, and study the ways of the waters of the classic river? Would not such drive way beginning at Oak Park and resting on the banks of this grand stream, be thing of beauty and utility and a joy forever. It will cost too much some may say. Oh, yes, it cannot be finished in day. but now is the time to begin it. It will be too late when the streets are laid out and the new territory takes on town shape. J. M. Barnes.