Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-01-21
JACKSONVILLE is
VERY COMPACT CITY
No Commissions in South
Fruit Prices Are Low
in Florida.
BY w. G. Kirchoffer

st. Petersburg, Florida, January 9.
To one who has always lived in the
north, the southland is weird and
strange place. 1t is not only different
by day, but the stars at night and the
voices of the wild animals and birds as
thew call to each other in the moonlight,
are strangely different from ours of the
northland. We left Madison on Dec
ember 20 in the midst of a heavy snow
storm to awake the next morning in
Kentucky where there was no snow
and some green grass and foliage.
Our first stop was at Chattanooga,
Tenn. AS the traveller leaves the depot
he is greeted with an army of agents
and owners of sightseeing cars and
autos. They will be pleased to take
you anywhere, but they prefer to take
YOU on one Of or both of two trips at 81
a head for each. One trip takes you to
the National Cemetery, Missionary
ridge, Fort Oglethorpe and Chicka-
maugh park (site of battle of Same
name) and the other, a ride to Lookout
Mountain. Besides these, the street
car company offers a ride to Signal
Mountain and to Lookout Mountain
either up the inclined cable road or a
regular surface line. We decided that
a private auto would serve our pur-
pose best and took the first trip nam
ed.
Many Soldiers Buried There
The National Cemetery was first Wis
tied; where 25, 900 soldiers are buried.
Missionary ridge is a long, narrow
range of hills, about as high as some
of our Wisconsin hills, very narrow
and about 20 miles long, but
the portion on which the battle of the
same name was fought, is much short
.er, not over mile or a mile and half
in length On top of the ridge is a
small park set aside with monuments
to commemorate the battle. There are
also monuments and many tablets to
mark the place where certain regiments
made their advance. These were To-
Gated by the officers and their friends.
In one case a certain general remem-
bered that as he got to the top OF the
ridge, he lost his false teeth, but for
long time they could not be found, so
no monument was erected. Finally
traveller, in wandering over the ridge,
found them and the general was notl-
fled and the spot is today marked by
a handsome monument.
From Missionary ridge we drove to
Chicamaugh park. National reserva-
ton to mark the site of the memorable
battle of the same name. The positions
Of the troops of each army are marked
by suitable stone monuments and old
cannons. The monuments of the con-
federate troops are all of the same
size and shape and all have a CAB le top
which makes them easy to distinguish
Some of the most handsome monu-
ments have been erected by Wisconsin
regiments. The driver of the auto SEEM
ed to be we'll versed in the history of the
monuments of the troops and explained
in detail as we went along.
Guides That Deceive
We had intended to return to the city
by auto, get lunch and then take the
incline railway to Lookout Mountain,
but on our way hack the chauffeur said
he could take US there at a Slight
additional expense of about Is cents
each, so we said to go ahead. After he
had gone along about mile, he stopped
and explained that it would be an ad-
ditional 81. 90 each. That's the way
they catch the tourists. AS we wanted
to see the mountain and as our time
was limited, we allowed him to gC
ahead. The road up the mountain wind!
in and out, always climbing a steer
grade until the top is reached. 1t re
minds me of the climb up the Bar
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