Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-10-12
DR.. Powell can tell the story better than I can

teresting," he said, and the basis for fiction and
romance in future ages. The founding of a city is
always romatic and the minging of people.of differ
emit views, ideals and civilizations is always mat
ter of thought.
1T was young man and had just completed
my medical education in Europe and was on my
way from my North Carolina home to Atlanta to
locate and begin my professional career.
IT had spent much time in Europe thinking
all the time that as soon completed the course
in my special line that / would! return to this
country and locate in Atlanta.
'Atlanta, of course is the center of the South
and as young man had no ambition to go North
but, ON my return from Europe to locate in the
South, SO was ON my way to Atlanta and met
some of my fellow North Carolinians on the train
going down to the founding of the Colony of Fitz-
gerald. was younger in those days than I am
now and was easier infunced. They begged me to
with them and told them that was going to At
LAMA to begin the practice of my profession. They
insisted that should come with them and you
know that let those young fellows side track me
and went.
''You see then that my going to Fitzgerald
was accidental rather than by degign.
''When we arrived, there was nothing except
the pine forest and few shacks here and there.
The Union soldiers were coming in on every train
from the North.
We laid out the town scientifically, but I could
see no hope of ever making it much of a City, be-
cause it was all pine woods, magnolias aud wild
turkeys round about. However, shortly we had
houses going up in every direction and a populous
town.
offor tho TInn had rri Jyo6
became located there, discovered that they did
not comprehend thoroughly acclimating themse
ves You see it was fraternal spirit and / was
the son of Confederate soldier, yet they made the
surgeon for the blue and grey and had the best
of knowledge therefore, of realizing that they were
not properly accmatng themselves and did not
diet themselves to suit the climate They seemed
to wish to eat the food that they had eaten in
the North, which, Of course, produced bad results.
Again they wished to erect their houses on the
same plans and according to the same architecture
as their homes which they had left in the North
were constructed upon and this, of course, was un
desirable.
A great many of them, for these reasons, had a
good. deal of sickness in the beginning and became
discouraged and greet many returned to their
Western homes.
EEHowever, we soon got them to understand
that their diet had to be change according to the
climate and the architecture of their homes should
be different in different cmes, and as soon as we
could get these two principal thoroughly under.
stood, the town began to grown and satisfaction
prevailed
F'The Union soldier who had come to the Colo
ney then considered it place of rest and quietude
,yhara no cOuId Snend the remainder of his life
pleasantly and cOngenially.
sit was beautiful to notice the cOngenially be-
tween the Northern soldier who came to the South
Georgia Colony town and the COnfederater soldier
one on foreign territory and the other on his ma
tive land, but they seemed to be drawn to each
other by strange ties. The sick bedside of one
ceived the courtesies of the other. When pass.
cd over the River, the sympathy of the other
beautiful.
.T never saw a more flaturnal spirit in any
community.
''When / went down to the founding of the
Colony, had no idea of remaining but the ming
ling of these men who wore the blue and the men
who wore the grey interested me. ! enjoyed liv-
ing among them and being one ofthcm rnd found
that time was flying and that l had spend several
Years among them before l realized it.
'I never regretted to leave any people, not
even the people of my native village, more than
did those men who wore the blue in their adopted
home mngling with the heroes who wore the grey
on their native soil.
''Today it is thriving City, prosperous and
growing. A country which was II pine forest has
proven to be most fertile agricultural country and
in the near future will be land of vineyards and
vegetable farming rs France is.
''The homes of this Colony City are construct.
ed according to the science of modern architecture