The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-12
MARIETTA'S HOTELS
: PAST AND PRESENT.

NAS SSooN ouODiSo up W Iue Top Ol
the bowl so is the hotel idea coming
to the surface all oyer Marietta.
When Mr.. Saxon Anderson came in
yesterday to smoke cigars OF peace
and browse among the horticultural
exchanges in our sanctum, he was
asked to tell something about hotels in
Marietta in years gone by.
He said: We'll, Mr.. Henry Cole
had a hotel right here where this
Blair building is nova big one, too,
for Observation-Disclosures there
were two others near by. In those
days they were full of guests, for Mari
eta was health resort in both sum-
mer and winter. Those hotels were
all burned about the close of the war
and have never been rebuilt. Mr..
Whitlock had good hotel on Whitlock
Avenue, down there by Mr.. Bolen
EGlover's, where Jim Anderson's house
is now, and his boarders overfiowed
into all the houses in his neighborhood.
But that house was burned too, some
years ago, and there is yet a need for
hotels. | believe Marietta could be as
fine or even finer a resort now on &C
count of our deep well water. You
know the Georgia Military Institute
that used to be over on College hill
was good school, more Southern Of
f1cers were educated there than at
any other one school in the United
States. People would send their boys
there and then come up here to spend
the summer and be near them. They
built summer homes here and became
identified with the town. There was
DR.. Bayard Mcintosh, father of Mrs.
De Cole, Mr.. Bond, who built the
house where DR.. Malone lives, the
Nesbitts, the Screvens, the Sibleys, of
Augusta, the Roods and many others
who came up from about Savannah
and Early county.
Mr.. Whitlock had a fine big house
with tennis court, croquet, a bowling
alley and billiard tables. Tourists to
Florida tarried with him both going
and coming He could take care of a
hundred people easily at one time.
Old General Phil Cook, father of Mrs.
w. l.. Peel and of our present secre-
tary of State, Phil Cook, was one of
the faithful guests of that house. Col
onel and Mrs, Robert Lowry spent
six summers up here with Mr.. Whit
lock and Judge Currier, of Denver.
spent six winters. Those were palmy
days when that house fourished."
Being asked to mention a good site
for hotel, Mr.. Anderson said: 81
think the Gignilliat place would be as
good location for a hotel as could be
found in town"
lhen MI Anderson reverted to the
reading of piece about pecans in
some farmers monthly while the faces
OF Marietta's landladies passed in pro-
cess1on before us. If any one deserves
medal for bravery and life-saving it
rs the keeper OF boarding house.
10 be sure some people actually en-.
Joy catering-thinking and planning
about good things to eat. Marietta
mas number of ladies whose names
are synonymous with comfort and
good cheer.
The Whitlock House and the Kenne.
saw Hotel are managed by men bnt
our town has always been noted for
It's excellent private boarding houses
Miss Crockett, who is from Maine. has
d Hne house, noted for its delicious
COOKING and Yankee cleanliness. on
cherokee street. Mrs. Edgar Nichols.
on Whitlock Ave, has Locust Lodge
quiet, secluded in grove of white
locusts, suiting the nature of it's pro-
Iprletor, who is Southern lady of the
aristocratic Aston family. Then there
is Mrs S. L. Atkinson, on Roswell
street, with large comfortable house
that is always full. She has the best
or help and famous cook, but looks
AFTER her domestic affairs diligently
and meets a rich reward of gratitude
as well as otherwise. Mrs. E. J. Seize.
on Atlanta street, has a very popular
place where several young lady teach
erS board and which is very homelike.
The Misses Towers oh Lawrence street
have another very home-like house
where the boarders feel like privileged
guests. Mrs. J. r. Mckinney has a
large and delightfully."- cool house on
Cherokee street and so has Miss Mat
tie Sutton. Miss Sutton's house is
very near the business center and
convenient for table board. Mrs. w.
A. Bishop has a very pleasant house
on the heights of Lawrence street and
she always has as many guests as her
house will hold. Mrs. A. A. Bishop
has nice place close in on Washing
ton Avenue Mrs. G. c. Fleming has
returned to her home on Powder
Springs street, and will continue to
take boarders Mrs. D. F. Green and
Mrs. r. A. Bryan are both close in on
Church street, very convenient for
transient guests.
Still Mariettas climate, water and
nearness to Atlanta combine to make
a health resort and place where peo-
pie can enjoy the pleasures Of living
deliberately