The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-01

| VI Inc Du1IQlngs are OF come IL f1Ssssssss
and substantial construction
general effect which the business c.
produces upon the observer is az
cidedly pleasing and favorable. A
least that's the way it impressed us
and while we may not be exactly the
best judges of metropolitan attractions
that ever came down the st. Louis
'sPike, !" please bear in mind that we re
from Alex andria and Donaldsonville
and have seen a good many other big
towns besides.
| The belated Frisco train arrived al
TAO and few moments later we were
/ speeding eastward on the Southern Is
No. 38, which makes the run from Bir-
mingham to Atlanta in Eve hours and
a quarter through an exceedingly in
teresting and attractive section q
country, affording a great variety OF
scenery-mountains and valleys, "hills
and hollers and considerable
range of natural products, mineral,
agricultural and horticultural.
The largest and best-known town on
this road between Birmingham and
| Atlanta is Admission, Alabama, quite
a manufacturing centre, having the
appearance of a busy, smoky place,
where 'git-up- and-gitn is the general
watchWord OF the Inhabitants. Talla-
poosa, Lythia Springs and Austell
are among the other stopping places
4 on this branch of the extensive
Southern system, and they are all fair
to look upon. Lythia Springs, forty
/ five minutes ride from Atlanta, is a
lovely spot and its waters have more
than local reputation for the relief
and cure of several of the thousand
ills the human flesh is heir to.
We pulled into the beautiful million
dollar terminal station at Atlanta at
O'Clock and were soon comfortably
housed in the magnificent ten-story
Piedmont Hotel, which had been Sc
lected as Knights of Honor headquar-
2 r. Z
tiers and meeting place for both the
executive committee and the supreme
lodge. A single comprehensive glance
at Atlanta is sufficient to show that
the most prominent and distinctive
feature of the city is its tall buildings
-ssskyscrapers. ''as they are generally
termed. Half a dozen Of these lofty
structures have ten or more stories
each, and the tallest of the bunch.
the Canler Office building now in course
ofconstruction-to nineteen stories
above the street level and looks down
upon its ten, twelve and fourteen story
neighbors as if they were nobodies.
This imposing edifee is being erected
with the profits derived from the man
ufacture and sale Of coca cola,
widely advertised connection vouched
for by its purveyors as a healthful,
refreshing temperance drink, but re-
garded by a good many other people
as an insidious species Of ssdope."
Whatever it may be made of, it tastes
like sweetened pond-Water favored
with scorched boot-heels-and it looks
that way, too. The stuff yields an
enormous profit and the net daily in
come of the Atlanta coca cola man is
reputed to exceed a thousand dollars.
Involuntarily my minds eye now com
pares every glass of coca cola see
with the nineteen-story Canler build
ing, and I recall the famous rem ark Of |
Barnum, the great Snowman, that "The |
American people love to be hum
plugged"
AS skyscrapers were the most con-
spicuous of outdoor observ alton in
the Gate City, the most conspicuous
indoor object in sight when we reached
the hotel dining-room was Georgia
product which may al
most be classed as one of the leading
institutions" of the state that is
proud to own Atlanta as its capital
and metropolis. The menu cards were
ornamented with a picture entitled
w atermelon Time in Georgia." and
it is perhaps superfuous to explain,
even to those who have never seen the
that it depicts several
;olored individuals making a yigor-
ous facial assault upon as many enor-
nous slices of the luscious fruit that
5ies with the goober in making Georgia
amous. The affinity between the arkey
Ind the watermelon is not less than
hat between him and the coon or the
hicken, and anybody could guess I'll at
picture of aW atermelon Time in :
Georgia" must in the very nature of
hings have darkies in it along with
he watermelons. The average Georgia ;
7atermelon Is "a good locker" with !.
ut doubt, and speak by the card in !;
aging that it's as good as it looks,
GAGE distinctions are obliterat here
i so far as appreciation of the water
le1on is concerned, but the lines are
retty sharply drawn in other re-
poets.
I'll tell you something more about :
tlanta in another instaIlment of these :,
1ronicles, If you think the readers Of =
he Chief twill stand for it, n
L. E. b. CT
LIST OF LETTERS !"
smaining in the Postoffice at DonaIdsonviIle IL
La. Saturday, July /, 1905. fs
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