The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01
a TRIP TO ATLANTA.
Things to be seen on the way from New
0rleans-A Pleasant Morning at
Birmingham-Geor sky
scrapers and Water
melons.
Atlanta, Ca. June 10, 1905.


Atlanta, Ga. June 10, 1905.
DEAR CHIEF:
Very few of your readers will neet
to be reminded that your head edito
is an enthusiastic member of TIT
Knights of Honor, for the fact ha
been impressed upon them through
the medium of many columns o
chronicle and comment concerning
the work of that great fraternal order
which have appeared in your 1900 ol
more weekly issues since the institu
ton of Donaldsonville Lodge No
2639 about twenty four years ago
Neither will your numerous fclien
tele" regard it as news to be informed
that he, the head editor aforesaid, has
attained an exalted position very near
the top of the official ladder in tbs
Knights of Honor organization, since
you have recorded his promotion ir
such complimentary editorial terms
that less e-hardened egotist thar
he might blush even to recall the
encomium. AS loyal officer of the
supreme lodge and ex- officio a mem.
Der of the executive committee it be.
came his duty to respond to Supreme
Dictator Sheppard's call for a meet.
ing of the committee to be held in this
lovely city on Saturday, June 10,
preliminary to the biennial session
of the supreme lodge itself, which was
scheduled to begin on the following
Tuesday; and as an equally loyal
member of the Ancient Order Of
United Benedicts it was likewise the
duty and pleasure of the respondent
to take his nearest and dearest "feI-
low-member' OF the A. 0. q. B. with
him.
Therefore it was that we two-for I
am he and she is she-left the De-
lightful City Friday evening, June 8,
aboard a luxurious Pullman sleeper
forming part Of the Queen and Cres-
cents swift-traveling limited train that
pulls out of the Northwestern depot
every day at 7:30 b. M, and lands its
through passengers in Cincinnati, $50
miles away, at 7:40 the following eve
ming. That's so close to thirty five
miles an hour there's no use talking
Of the fraction, and when you consider
that there are thirty-six stops on the
trip you will appreciate that this
train ''sure do novel, while she's UNI
der way.
If you didn't look out the window
and see the landscape shooting past
SO quickly, however, you would have
no idea Of the rapid pace at which
the train annihilates distance, as the
level road-bed and well-constructe
coaches reduce oscillation to min
imum and render the swift going very
like a stanza from the poetry of mo-
ton, SO to speak. A few miles out
from New Orleans we struck the shore
of Lake Pontchartra ain and skirted
along close to the water for twenty
minutes, then dashed right out over
the lake on the famous trestle which
extends from South Point to North
Shore, distance of six miles. This is
said to be the longest railway trestle
IN the world, and is only one Of the
numerous interesting features of a ride
rom New Orleans to Cincinnati by
way Of the popular Queen and Crescent
soute.
Passing through the little brick and
'awmill town Of slidell, where the big
Mill OF the Salmen Company runs
light and day all the year round, we
reversed the wonderfully healthful
sozone belt" of st. Tammany parish,
Ind by half-past O'Clock crossed
ovely Pearl river into the sovereign |
tate Of Mississippi. We were in the
'iny woods few moments after get
ing across Lake Pontchartrain, and |
We kept in them for number of hours
clear through Mississippi and over
nto Alabama-and the fragrance of /
be pine-scented air was certainly good |
0 sniff. Judging by the glimpses we
ould get Of the adjacent scenery in
ae dim and uncertain ssnight-light, -
le principal products of the country
e were speeding through consisted of
inc trees, sand hills and sawmills. |
I'D Of these the region seemed re-
prolific.
While we slept the sleep Of the in
ocent and Just, our train paid pass
lg visits DO Lumberton, Purvis, Hat
esburg, Laurel, Meridian and several
her wel-known Mississippi towns,
erely according toot Of the whistle
Vossbnrg, the village near which
g celebrated Stafford Springs are
eated-the haven where many suf-
rer has found renewed health and f
rength in the life-giving waters that
w from natures pharmacy.
Leaving Meridian between and 2 a.
!, we soon crossed another state line 6
thout perceptible bump or jar and I
,uld have found ourselves in Ala
ma if we hadn't been too sound
Ieep to know or care where we were. / B
scaloosa was the only town OF any !,
te at which our train stopped after A
wing Meridian, until after 5 o'clock s
the morning, when a monetary 3
Use was made at Ressemer- q doaan II u