The Republican journal., 1916-01-27

excellent beef Tor q lew days. learned
later that it was brought from Baltimore
by the America-and then it was sue
ceeded by the native article, tough and
tasteless.
My first call was at the office of the
Savannah Morning News, of which was
the Washington correspondent, where l
met Col. j. H. Estell, the enterprising
publisher, and Mr.. Harris the associate
editor, before mentioned, of whom may
have an interesting story to tell later.
He was already attracting the attention
of his brother editors by his snappy
paragraphs under the caption of "Af-
fairs in Georgia." Col. William T..
Thompson, the editor, was attending the
Georgia Press association meeting in
Americas, but his acquaintance was
made later. He was an editor, and a
gentleman, of the old school and most
genial companion. He was the author
of number of humorous books depict
ing Georgia life and scenes, and have
two volumes by him published by L. b.
Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, 1872
-"Major Jones Travels" and "Major
Jones Courtship At the office of the
Savannah Republican | met Mr.. Edwin
De Leon, the editor, a brother of L. U.
De Leon, distinguished Southern jour-
nalist [ had known in New Orleans. Mr..
De Leon had been the United States Con-
sui General for Egypt and have an au-
tograph copy of a book written by him,
"Askaris Kassis, The Copt, Romance
of Modern Egypt" published by j. B.
Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, in 1870.
The Republican, which had been published
for 72 years, was soon after merged in
the Daily Advertiser, which shared the
field with the Morning News. There
were other newspaper changes in Georgia
at that time The Augusta Constitu-
tionalist, one of the oldest and most in
fiuential journals in Georgia, discontinued
publication, and Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens, the vice president of the
Southern Confederacy and then a Con-
gresham elect, who had been publishing
a daily paper in Atlanta, The Sun, find
ing the financial burden of daily paper
too much for him had turned the paper
over to an association of printers The
Sun set soon after, never to rise again.
Henry W Grady, who later won a ma
tional reputation as an orator, and who
has a statue erected to him in Atlanta,
had been successful in editing daily
paper in Rome and had come to Atlanta
and with others was getting out new
daily the name of which do not recall.
From Savannah trips were made to
Macon and Atlanta. Macon may be
briefly described as "a city of magnif-
cent distances, term applied to Wash
ngton, DC, in its early days. l re-
turned there from Atlanta and remained
most comfortable hotel had set foot in
since leaving Baltimore Browns Hotel.
i wrote cf it at the time: They don't
give YOU American denominations with
French names, but if you call for hog
and homlny or bacon and greens, you
get what you call for, and the best of
the kind. With fresh eggs, good butter,
corn bread and sweet milk, one certainly
need not starve."
At Atlanta l attended a governors
convention, held in the State House, an
ldjourned meeting of the Georgia Press
association and made acquaintance with
the newspaper men of that bustling city.
1t was more like northern city than
any Southern city had ever visited, and
has, believe kept on getting bigger
and buster, stopped at the H. |. Kim
ball House-named for former Maine
man-then the largest and most preten-
tious hotel in the South, but the table,
as | wrote at the time, would disgrace
the meanest hostelry in the land," and
that, and other discomforts which need
not be mentioned here, led me to cut
short my visit and return to Macon, and
going from there to Savannah | was
soon afoat again for the return voyage
to Baltimore.
The following clipping from recent
issue of the Boston Herald, descriptive
of Savannah as it is today, may be of
interest
There is so much to say about Savan-
nah that it is difficult to decide where to
begin. The streets of Savannah con-
tain an imposing array of historic man
sions, museums, art galleries, churches,
schools, liErarles and public buildings,
which are unequalled in any city of SINH
lar size in America and are a perpetual
wonder and pleasure to the visitor. Sa-
vannah, too, fairly bristles with historic
interest.
There are traces of Revolutionary con-
fiict at Spring Hill-where Count Pulaski
and Sergeant Jasper fell - at Kent
House, and at Tondee's Tavern. There
is house where George Washington
once stayed, and another once occupied
by President Monroe. The spot is still
shown where John Wesley, founder of
Methodism, preached his first sermon.
The monuments of the city are famous.
G. A p