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 SAVANNAH! The musical syllables of the word 
 itself bring irresistible visions of the vanished race 
 of the Red Man, with their eloquent speech, one 
 word of which conveys so much, and this vision were 
 incomplete without its accompanying background of the 
 "forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks," 
 swift-flowing rivers, low, level lands — the savannas — sloping 
 toward the sea, luxuriant semi-tropical undergrowth, the 
 spiked palmetto and the stately Spanish " dagger," with its 
 bell-like blossom, the grey, moss-covered live oaks, which 
 " stand, like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their 
 bosoms," all of which form a part of the natural panorama 
 which unrolled itself before the eager eyes of Gen. James 
 Oglethorpe when, in the beautiful springtime of 1733, he 
 and his few compatriots (121 in number) slowly drifted 
 up the Savannah River, seeking for a suitable point to 
 land, and to found the Colony of Georgia, for which a 
 charter had been granted by His Majesty, George II., on 
 June 9, 1732. 
 
 No thought of personal gain, nor comfort, nor expediency, 
 influenced the settlement of Georgia, the only motives being 
 the promptings of the purest philanthropy — it being desired 
 to find a home to relieve the over-full debtor prisons of 
 England, and to bring a haven of peace within reach of the 
 persecuted debtors themselves. 
 
 The phenomenal success of the undertaking, the com- 
 paratively few vicissitudes which met the colonists, seemed 
 an earnest of the future prosperity of the State ; and only 
 those who have visited the charming city of Savannah can 
 realize how strangely Gen. James Oglethorpe seems to have 
 been endowed with the gift of prophecy, when, from the rude 
 settlement of 1733, his imagination (according to his 
 biographer, Wright) " depicted a populous city, with large 
 squares for markets and other public purposes in every 
 quarter, wide, regular streets crossing each other at right 
 angles, and shaded by rows of noble trees. The forty 
 rough, wooden houses, the best of which then served as 
 a place of worship and as a school for the children, would 
 
give way to durable and stately abodes, and above the foli- 
 age would arise the towers and domes of many churches." 
 
 It is to be remarked that the same general plan con- 
 ceived in the imagination of the founder of Savannah has 
 been, to a great extent, carried out by his descendants, 
 and the Savannah of to-day stands as though by some 
 magic touch the dream of Gen. Oglethorpe had taken 
 tangible shape, and from the mist of fancy had arisen the 
 material fabric of fact. 
 
 In the numerous miniature parks which form so notice- 
 able a feature of Savannah we find the consummation of 
 the original plan ; and also in the numerous churches, the 
 "towers and domes" of which actually do rise above the 
 foliage of the parks; — the denseness of this foliage, the 
 age and size of the giant oaks, giving to the town its 
 sobriquet of the " Forest City." 
 
 The religious liberty which characterized the settlement 
 of Georgia may account for the numerous and diversified 
 places of worship which form so attractive a feature of 
 the city to-day. John Wesley was among the earliest 
 settlers in the province, and he records that on Sunday, 
 April 9, 1736. he preached his first sermon on the Ameri- 
 can Continent in the Court House of Savannah, and tradi- 
 tion points to the site of this building as being where a 
 large paint shop now stands in Whitaker and York streets. 
 
 It is difficult to disassociate the Savannah of the past 
 from the city of the present, so closely does the one seem 
 allied with the other ; and the historic events which have 
 characterized the early settlement have been commemo- 
 rated by the erection of numerous monuments, which tes- 
 tify to the gratitude and affection of the people for their 
 historical heroes and benefactors. 
 
 A walk along the principal street of the city (Bull 
 Street, named after Col. Wm. Bull, a Charleston Engineer 
 sent over by the Governor of South Carolina to aid Gen. 
 Oglethorpe in the plan of the town) is full of interest to 
 the visitor, for with every few steps comes some reminder 
 of the past side by side with some striking evidence of 
 the progress of the present. 
 
 Let us take " The Bay " as a starting point, and turn our 
 faces toward beautiful Forsyth Park, at the further edge 
 of the city. "The Bay" was the term used to designate 
 Bay Street in the early days, and was no doubt adopted 
 because of the fact that the street directly faces the 
 Savannah River, running parallel with it, and, although 
 there is no bay near, the river was, and is, the harbor for 
 the shipping, and the appropriateness of calling it the 
 " Bay" has doubtless caused the name to cling to that 
 locality to this day. 
 
Throughout the entire walk 
 from "The Bay" to the park, a 
 distance of about a mile and a 
 half, we will find many objects of 
 interest. Bay Street itself repre- 
 sents the largest commercial cen- J^ 
 ter of the city, and a glance vJa 
 around at the busy shipping in the 
 river, the large and splendidly 
 equipped freight and passenger 
 steamers, with their precious car- 
 goes, the towering wholesale estab- 
 lishments, and the many signs of 
 financial prosperity, combine to 
 convince us of the fact that Savan- 
 nah enjoys the distinction of 
 being the largest naval stores 
 station in the world, the 
 
 V STREET AND SAVAN- 
 BIVER PROM CITY 
 EXCHANGE. 
 
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 third cotton port in America, and 
 the headquarters of the greatest 
 railroad and steamship transportation 
 systems in the South. 
 
 Yet the waves of advancement 
 and of nineteenth-century progress 
 have not swept away old landmarks 
 or old recollections, for it is difficult 
 to imagine an American city of to- 
 day which presents so many abso- 
 lutely unique features as does Sa- 
 vannah. Many of the old colonial 
 houses still remain intact, and are 
 occupied by the direct descendants 
 of the original owners. 
 
The first object of note that attracts the stranger after 
 leaving " The Bay" is Johnson Square, in which is located 
 the Greene Monument, which was erected in 1829. It is a 
 tall, plain shaft resting on a granite base, and was erected in 
 memory of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, who was second in 
 command under Washington, and who was identified with 
 Georgia and Savannah, by a donation from Georgia of a 
 valuable tract of land, in recognition of his dis- 
 tinguished service and heroic patriotism 
 
 The plain and unornamented style of 
 this monument is used to carry out the ^ 
 design of a Roman sword which it 
 was built to represent. 
 
 Gen. Greene lived for many 
 years in Savannah, and his 
 home is a most imposing one 
 It was in after years chosen by 
 Gen. Sherman for his head- 
 quarters when he reached 
 
 Savannah, the objective point of his famous " March from 
 Atlanta to the sea." 
 
 Gen. Greene died and was buried in Savannah. 
 
 The important part that Savannah played in the War of 
 
 the Revolution is well known. The siege of the city by the 
 
 American forces against the Royalists during nine months 
 
 that the latter held it, and 
 
 ultimate rescue 
 
 of its loyal 
 
 Americans con- 
 fined within the 
 walls, by the French 
 fleet under D'Estaing, 
 after what was, next to 
 Bunker Hill, the bloodiest 
 battle of the entire cam- 
 paign, is a stirring inci- 
 dent of that period. 
 
 The most conspicuous 
 figure on that eventful 
 day was that of Pulaski, 
 a noble Pole, who, on his 
 black charger, again and 
 
again pressed to the front, to re-animate tiie flagging 
 French troops. He fell during this fierce fight, and to-day 
 there stands a monument to his memory, erected in Mon- 
 terey Square, in the shadow of the homes he defended. 
 and among the descendants for whom he gave his life. 
 
 In Madison Square we come to the monument of 
 another Revolutionary hero, that of Sergeant William Jas- 
 per, which was unveiled in 1888, with most impressive 
 ceremonies. President Cleveland and his party attending, as 
 well as the local officials and dignitaries. The man who 
 has been thus honored by the city which he loved and 
 i served, and whose memory is cherished after a century has 
 passed, was of no high military rank, although he refused 
 advancement which was twice offered him, pleading igno- 
 rance of the duties of a higher office, yet he evidenced his 
 
 possession of those attributes which mark their own patent 
 of nobility. 
 
 Three acts of Sergeant Jasper's life entitle him to the 
 everlasting homage of Americans. One was when the 
 British were attacking Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, in 
 Charleston Harbor, the flag staff of the Americans was shot 
 down, and, on seeing his country's colors lying outside the 
 works, this gallant hero sprang from the parapet, shouting to 
 Col. Moultrie, " Don't let us fight without a flag. Colonel," 
 and in the face of the enemy's steady fire, he succeeded in 
 rescuing the flag and bearing it back to its proud position on 
 the rampart. During the same campaign Sergeant Jasper 
 executed a feat of daring, which seems like some romance, 
 when he and a single companion, Sergeant Newton, at the 
 
 JASPER MONUMENT 
 
 '. JOHN'S CHURCH — MADISON SQUARE. 
 
solicitation of a woman, whose husband was taken prisoner 
 by the British, captured the guard of British soldiers, while 
 they were drinking at a spring near the city limits of 
 Savannah, and rescued the prisoner. This spring was still 
 flowing a few years ago, and even though its waters no 
 longer refresh the weary traveler, yet the recollection of 
 that deed of valor makes the scene of its enactment of 
 much interest, and pilgrimages to " Jasper Spring " are 
 not infrequent. Only once more was Sergeant Jasper 
 permitted to prostrate himself upon the altar of his 
 country's liberty, when, in the famous siege of Savannah, 
 
 in 1779, he, like Pulaski, gave up his life, how willingly 
 and eagerly we can well judge from the record of his 
 past efforts. 
 
 These monuments are situated in Bull Street, as is also 
 the Gordon Monument, erected to the memory of W. W. 
 Gordon, the inscription on which tells its own story, and the 
 tribute to this man's memory shows that the Savannahians 
 can do honor to their heroes of peace as well as to those of 
 war ; and which further testifies to the grateful homage 
 given to the memory of this famous pioneer of the rail- 
 road interests in Georgia — for to Mr. Gordon belongs the 
 glory of conceiving the original plan of that most important 
 developer of the resources of the State ; The Central of 
 Georgia Railway. 
 
Again, Capt. Tatnall makes himself conspicuous by the 
 dash and valor with which he aided our EngHsh cousins in 
 the capture of Hongkong, and when subsequently called to 
 account by his home Government for his violation of the 
 principle of neutrality, his answer was embodied in that 
 homely and epigramatic phrase, " Blood is thicker than 
 water ! " This laconic reply has made him famous on both 
 
 its solemn shades into the uses of a cemetery, and 
 for this purpose it is used to-day, and the sacred asso- 
 ciations connected with it must ever render it an object 
 of deep interest to which its natural beauty so materi- 
 ally adds. 
 
 In commenting on the points of interest which still 
 remain in and around Savannah as tangible evidences of 
 the Civil War we must not overlook 
 Fort Pulaski which is situated on 
 Cockspur Island fourteen miles from 
 the city and which is named after 
 Brig Gen Count Pulaski The 
 site of this fort was selected by 
 Maj Babcock U S Corps of 
 Engineers and the work begun 
 in 1831 The building 
 
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 bides of the continent 
 
 wherever Anglo Saxon prog 
 
 ress and prowess are cherished "^ 
 
 as a common heritage This maxim 
 
 may well have been Capt Tatnall s 
 
 motto for when his own beloved State 
 
 of Georgia seceded in the late unfor 
 
 tunate conflict between the States he 
 
 resigned his commission in the navy, 
 
 and cast his lot with his own kith and kin 
 
 period of the Civil War it was he who commanded the 
 
 '■ Merrimac " and destroyed her to avoid her capture. 
 
 The home of this distinguished family passed by pur- 
 chase into the hands of Capt. Peter Waltberger. It had 
 long been this gentleman's cherished plan to convert 
 
 was erected to command both channels of the river at the 
 head of Tybee roads. Sixteen years passed before its 
 massive walls rose to completion. In 1861, it became 
 known that Governor Brown had ordered the seizure and 
 occupation of Fort Pulaski by the military under Col. A. R. 
 Lawton. The fall of this fort in 1862, during the second 
 
memorable siege to which the city has 
 been subjected, is a matter of historic 
 record. 
 
 But its grey old walls still stand, and, 
 though it is a useless structure for any 
 purpose of defense to-day, yet perhaps 
 it still subserves some purpose if only to 
 accentuate the progress made in more 
 modern fortifications, for a short dis- 
 tance from the old fort stand the walls 
 of a new one which the United States 
 Government has recently completed to 
 guard the approach to Savannah, a point 
 the importance of which is clearly proven 
 by the fact that, in the brief history of 
 our country, it has been twice assailed 
 by besieging armies. 
 
 In reviewing the military defenses of 
 the city one is naturally led to consider 
 the militia organizations, of which the city is justly proud. 
 
 gun fired in the Confederacy to the Spanish -American 
 War of the immediate present. They occupy 
 one of the handsomest armories in the South. 
 
 The Savannah Volunteer Guards is the old 
 est infantry corps in Georgia, and was organi- 
 zed in 1 802. This company is still most promi- 
 nent in military as well as in social circles, and 
 its members have responded nobly to every 
 call of the city for volunteers, from the first 
 
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 Since the War, Savannah, like 
 every Southern city, has seen vast 
 changes, and it may truthfully be 
 said that each one is for the 
 better and higher development of 
 the town. 
 
 Yet there still remain in and 
 
 around the city many relics of 
 
 ante-bellum days, which have 
 
 
 Another monument of interest to 
 the visitor is the one in Forsyth 
 Park, erected to the memory of the 
 Confederate soldiers who fell in the 
 Civil War ; and this is no mere 
 tribute to bravery that is past, to 
 heroism which shines through the 
 mist of years, or to mental force or 
 foresight, but is a distinct personal 
 tribute to the fathers, the husbands, 
 the sons, who fell in defense of a prin- 
 ciple, and who, despite defeat, have 
 still won for themselves the homage of the civilized world. 
 
 The spirit of the old South is closely interwoven with 
 the spirit of the new, and. Phcenix-like, from the ashes of 
 the former has sprung the perfect structure of the latter, 
 untainted by one spark of the old bitterness, yet inspired 
 to renewed effort by the old high motives, the old culture, 
 the old patriotism, which remains forever new, and which 
 must still serve as the torch-bearer for the progress of the 
 coming generation. 
 
 become invested with the halo of a history-making epoch, 
 and which must always be objects of interest to those who 
 review the past. 
 
 Perhaps the most picturesque reminder of the most 
 unique phase of Southern history which Savannah can 
 show is the ruins of a typical old Southern home, " The 
 Hermitage," situated on the outskirts of the city, but easily 
 reached by one of the fine roads for which the city is 
 justly noted. At ■• The Hermitage " one feels as though 
 
the drama of the old South were being again enacted 
 before his very eyes. 
 
 This place was the home of the McAlpin family, and 
 because it has been so long used as a farm is perhaps the rea- 
 
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 son why it has not been 
 obliterated, and why it ■Q4IJ 
 stands at this time in 
 many respects just as 
 
 it did years ago. It _ 
 
 is no longer occupied by the surviving 
 members of the family of its original 
 owners, but they have left it in its present 
 condition for the hand of time to destroy, 
 slowly but surely, just as it will inevitably 
 efface every trace of a system of which 
 this old homestead is a fading illustration. 
 Another old family seat in Savannah 
 is " Bonaventure," originally owned by the 
 Tatnall family, into whose possession it 
 came in 1761, by the marriage of Josiah 
 Tatnall of Charleston and Miss Mulryn. Tradition claims 
 that the avenues of magnificent oaks which so distinguish 
 this estate were planted in the form of the letters " M " 
 
 and ■■ T," to typify the union of the two families, and it is pos- 
 sible to trace, even at this late date, the outline of these letters 
 in the shape of the sylvan aisles, between the stately trees. 
 The most distinguished member of this family was Capt. 
 Josiah Tatnall, the son of the first bearer of 
 the name, and it is this man whose name 
 stands so prominently forth in the history of 
 his country, that in visiting the place of his 
 birth and of his burial we involuntarily recall 
 his notable service in the naval history of the 
 country. The first of his services was in the 
 war of 1812, with Great Britain. We next 
 find him in the war of 1846 with Mexico, in 
 which he distinguished himself in 
 the capture of Vera 
 PjJNv/ r"' Cruz, where he ac- 
 '^•^^ complished a daring 
 feat, not unlike Nel- 
 son, in the capture of 
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 this he was presented by the Legislature of the State of 
 Georgia with a handsome sword, which is one of the cher- 
 ished relics of the Georgia Historical Society. 
 
are all institutions which would 
 do infinite credit to a more 
 populous city than Savannah. 
 There are absolutely free 
 wards in the Savannah Hos- 
 pital and St. Joseph's Infirm- 
 ary, but the Telfair Hospital 
 is a private institution for 
 women, and the Georgia In- 
 firmary is devoted exclusively 
 
 The oldest artillery company in Savannah is the Chat- 
 ham Artillery, organized in 1786. This company and the 
 Jasper Greens, the Georgia Hussars, with the younger 
 organizations, of which there are several, form a remark- 
 able record as to numbers and the amount of service seen 
 when the size of Savannah is considered. 
 
 The public schools of Savannah rank favorably with 
 those conducted under older systems, and, although the 
 present one was adopted in 1866, there are few finer in the 
 country. The Chatham Academy, or High School, occupies 
 a handsome building in Bull Street and Oglethorpe Avenue, 
 and its graduates take high rank in the Northern universities. 
 
 The hospitals of the city form objects of interest to all 
 who care to glance beyond the surface attractiveness of the 
 place. The Savannah Hospital, situated in Drayton and 
 Gaston streets, St. Joseph's Infirmary, in Abercorn and 
 Taylor streets, the Telfair Hospital, in New Houston Street, 
 and the Georgia Infirmary, in Abercorn and Tenth streets, 
 
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 EXCHANGE. 
 
 to the use of the colored citizens. The public buildings 
 of Savannah are all worthy of note. 
 
 The Savannah Cotton Exchange is also a handsome and 
 imposing building, and one which is especially worthy of note 
 
when one considers how large a part of the revenue of 
 Georgia is derived from the cotton production of the State. 
 
 The Custom House, erected in 1850, 
 is a large granite building, with Corinthian 
 columns which stands at the head of Bull 
 Street as though to guard the commercial 
 interests of the city 
 
 The new post-office, which is fast 
 nearing completion is an ornate building 
 of pure white stone and the exterior 
 decorations would make it a notable 
 building in any environment and it 
 
 Savannah is fortunate in possessing two daily papers, 
 the Morning News and the Savannah Press. The latter 
 is an excellent afternoon paper, 
 and the former is a morning 
 daily with a wide circulation, 
 and is of a high order of jour- 
 nalism. The Morning News 
 - Building is a very handsome 
 one, and is well worthy of the 
 attention of a stranger. 
 
 The banks of Savannah 
 also occupy commodious and 
 substantial buildings, and, what 
 is of more vital moment, they 
 stand upon a most substantial 
 financial basis. It is worthy 
 of comment that during the 
 panic of 1893 and 1894 the 
 Savannah banks passed 
 through the ordeal without a 
 single failure. 
 
 The Savannah Theatre 
 faces one of the numerous 
 
 is an appropriate adornment of the handsome St 
 James Square, on which it faces. 
 
 Chatham County Court House stands immediately 
 facing this building, across the square, and is also a 
 most noteworthy piece of modern and substantial 
 architecture. 
 
squares which ornament Bull Street, but unlike most of 
 them we find here no monumental shaft telling its story of 
 some military hero or of some •■ Napoleon of Commerce," 
 and yet this omission arises from no lack of historical 
 incident — for it is here that Tom-0-Chi-Chi, a chief of 
 the Indian tribe of the Yamacraws, first met Gen. Ogle- 
 thorpe, and it is here that the great chief lies buried. 
 
 Tom-0-Chi-Chi was a devoted friend and follower of 
 Gen. Oglethorpe, and most materially aided him during the 
 early days of the colony. Later, when Gen. Oglethorpe 
 paid a visit to England, Tom-0- 
 Chi-Chi with several of his 
 braves accompanied him, and 
 were presented at the court of 
 George 11., where the savage 
 splendor of their costuming and 
 the general strangeness of their 
 appearance made a strong im- 
 pression. The whole party re- 
 turned to Savannah after about 
 a year's absence, and Tom-0- 
 Chi-Chi continued to take an 
 active interest in the affairs of 
 the colonists until the time of 
 his death, which occurred when 
 he was ninety-nine years old. 
 
 According to an old record, 
 it was in deference to Tom- 
 
 0-Chi-Chi's own wish that he was buried here : an old 
 chronicler, who wrote in 1761, telling us that the chief 
 '■ desired before he died that he might be Buried on the 
 Spot where he first met and talked with the great and good 
 Man; the first ENGLISHMAN he ever saw." 
 
 The Theatre Building and the numerous church build- 
 ings are all striking examples of attractive architecture. 
 But, perhaps, the greatest testimonial to the desirability of 
 Savannah as a place of temporary or permanent residence 
 is the readiness with which a wealthy syndicate invested a 
 large amount of capital in the erection of the De Soto 
 
 Hotel, and the excellent return the investment has made. 
 This hotel is situated in Bull Street, and is in every respect 
 the equal of any hotel in a country which is so justly famous 
 for the elegance and luxuriance of its hostelries. 
 
 One of the most attractive features of the city is its 
 nearness to the ocean, and the facility with which the sea- 
 shore is reached. "Tybee,"the seaside resort is called; 
 this name being retained because of the tribe of Indians 
 whose wigwams once stood on the site of the delightful 
 little village of the present. 
 
 The beach at Tybee is the finest in the Southeast, and 
 one of the best in the country, being regarded by many as 
 quite equal to Long Branch ; and the members of the 
 "Can't Get Away Club" of Savannah find inexhaustible 
 amusement and alleviations for every ill that the summer 
 brings, in daily visits to the ocean. 
 
 The hotel accommodations at Tybee are excellent, and 
 the cottage life is a most distinctive social feature. 
 
 The people of Savannah and of the entire State of 
 Georgia make Tybee the Mecca of many charming summer 
 pilgrimages, and the interest in the resort has been greatly 
 
augmented by the garrison at the fort, and the encamp- 
 ment of United States troops at that point. The gleam of 
 brass buttons and attractive uniforms of the officers, mingled 
 with the dainty costumes of the Southern girl in summer, 
 have materially added to the pleasures of this season's 
 dances. Tybee is reached by one of the branches of the 
 Central of Georgia Railway, eighteen miles in length. 
 
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 But to the scarcely less omnipresent wheelman Savan- 
 nah is a paradise, indeed. Its smooth asphalted streets, 
 its miles and miles of unbroken level of paved roadways, 
 offer greater attractions to the cyclist than any other 
 city in the Union, if perhaps, we except Washington. 
 
 In Forsyth Park there is a broad bicycle path, which 
 extends around its entire length, and this is a 
 
 most attractive feature of this most popular 
 " breathing spot." 
 
 The fountain in the center of this 
 
 park is an exact reproduction of the 
 
 DN one in the Place 
 
 The street-car system \ 
 of the city is most excel- 
 lent, and there are few 
 points in the city or 
 suburbs not penetrated 
 by them. Lines lead to 
 '■ Thunderbolt," a small 
 
 but picturesque town on ,j .. ...iv .n^n-^;x^^ 
 
 the Warsaw River, which "°'^='- ^''===' '^" 
 
 is famous for its fish and oysters; and a fish supper at Mrs. 
 Bannon's is one of the delights which the visitor to Savan- 
 nah must not fail to enjoy. The Savannah Yacht Club 
 occupies a handsome building at •• Thunderbolt," and its 
 membership list includes some of the oldest names in the 
 city and State. 
 
 The street cars also run to the •■ Isle of Hope," which 
 is a similar resort to •■ Thunderbolt," and, in fact, the 
 trolley car is omnipresent. 
 
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 de la Concorde, at Paris, and has 
 been universally admired. 
 
 The park is without enclosure 
 ■''"■ of any kind, and it serves as a sort 
 
 of universal garden for some of the most beautiful homes in 
 the city, by which it is surrounded. Such it really seems 
 during the long spring and summer, for it is filled at all 
 hours with the daintiest of white-clad babies and their 
 attendant " mammies," with turbaned heads and ample 
 laps — relics of a type which is fast fading away. 
 
 A conspicuous building facing Forsyth Park is Hodgson 
 Hall, which is occupied by the Georgia Historical Society 
 as a repository for its valuable collection of documents 
 
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 and relics of colonial, revolutionary and ante-bellum days. 
 In 1847 this association consolidated with the Savannah 
 Library Society, thus securing about 25,000 volumes, and 
 as these have been added to from time to time the associa- 
 tion is enabled to open its doors as a circulating 
 library and reading room of uncommon worth. There 
 is a small yearly fee charged to borrowers of books, 
 but the reading room is practically free to the public, 
 and after a pleasant stroll in the beautiful Forsyth 
 Park one can spend an equally delightful hour in the 
 spacious reading room among the sacred relics of a 
 past generation and the no less absorbing associations 
 of the most modern publications of the present one. 
 The building was erected by Mrs. Margaret Telfair 
 Hodgson as a memorial to her late husband, William 
 B- Hodgson, who was for many years a prominent 
 member of the association. The work was begun 
 under the supervision of Mrs. Hodgson, but, owing 
 to her sudden death, it was completed under the 
 direction of her sister. Miss Mary Telfair. A hand- 
 some picture of Mr. Hodgson hangs in the library, and 
 
 the edifice and its contents form 
 a fitting testimonial to one whose 
 tastes were of so scholarly a 
 nature, as well as of the public- 
 spirited impulses of the Telfair 
 family. 
 
 To no one individual, per- 
 haps, does Savannah owe more 
 gratitude than to Miss Mary Tel- 
 fair, the last descendant of a 
 long line of antecedents, whose 
 many acts of loyalty and devo- 
 tion to their city have won for 
 them a higher place in the hearts 
 and memories of the people than 
 even that to which they were 
 entitled by birth. Miss Telfair 
 died in 1875, but her philan- 
 thropy lives to-day. A striking evidence of this is found in 
 the opening of the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, 
 in 1886, just a century after the election of her ancestor. 
 Edward Telfair, to the governorship of Georgia. The 
 
building, whicti is devoted to the rare collection of pictures, 
 statuary and objects of virtu, is the old home of the Telfair 
 family, and nowhere in the South can there be found a 
 finer school of art, or an atmos- 
 phere more conducive to the 
 development of the artistic sense 
 of the community, especially of 
 the younger members of it, than 
 is here afforded, for there is a 
 most excellent College of Art 
 in connection with the Telfair 
 Academy. 
 
 A record of Savannah's 
 charms would be incomplete 
 without some reference to the 
 great attraction it offers to the 
 sportsman. 
 
 The hunting around Savan- 
 nah is excellent. There are some 
 fine shots and regular hunters 
 who follow the dog for quail or 
 
 trail up the creeks for duck dur- 
 ing the hunting season. The 
 level meadows below the city 
 afford fine shooting, and on the 
 islands of the river and along the 
 edges of the rice fields there are 
 doves and partridges, snipe and 
 woodcock. In one of the large 
 game preserves below Savannah 
 pheasants have been colonized. 
 Many Northern people bring 
 down their dogs and breech- 
 loaders to Savannah and hunt 
 birds over the green rice rows, 
 or shoot duck over the brown 
 marshes. 
 
 There are some very com- 
 plete hunting boats in the equip- 
 ment of Savannah's sportsmen. But the royal sport of 
 Savannah is deer hunting. The time for stalking deer in 
 Chatham County is during the winter. There are a dozen 
 
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 or more of Savannah's hunters who make a specialty of 
 deer shooting. They go out five or six times a year and 
 nov/ and then return with a big buck or a fat doe strapped 
 to their buggies. Almost any wintry day a deer can be 
 started on the edge of the Ogee- 
 chee swamps. The woods are full 
 of them, and this county, which is 
 163 years old, has never yet, since 
 the days of Tom-0-Chi-Chi, exter- 
 minated all the deer. For sixteen 
 generations men have been shoot- 
 ing them, but some of the luckless 
 descendants still live in the forest 
 and continue to give to the hunter 
 " lots and loads of fun." 
 
 The season for deer shooting 
 has barely opened. Suppose you 
 start about four o'clock in the 
 morning, before the first fleck of 
 gray. '■ The horn of the hunter is 
 heard on the hill " about this time. 
 
 You ride out over the Ogeechee road, where the 
 city has just laid down its three-thousand-dollar 
 shells. If a heavy dew has fallen during the night, 
 or a slight frost has formed on the low grounds, 
 so much the better. The ground is crisp under 
 foot, and the air is fresh with just a slight edge on 
 it. The trees are beginning to throw out their 
 banners of scarlet and gold, and the ground is 
 bare and brown, just the color to hide the dun 
 of the doe's hide. Along the road are banks 
 and tongues of Golden Rod ; with their slender, 
 graceful stems and their radiating heads nodding 
 in the wind and all aflame with the rich bright 
 yellow of autumn. It is also the season when the 
 buck and the roe and the young deer are seeking 
 the woods for the fresh, tender young acorns which 
 have just fallen from their cups and are grateful to 
 their velvet lips. The newly stacked rice tempts 
 them sometimes to a run in the open, and in the evening 
 you may surprise them in the field, where they are hunting 
 for sweet clover and the lush pea vines. Your expert 
 guide tells you all this. He has watched deer for fifty 
 
years, and knows where to find them at any season of the 
 year or at any time of the day. He informs you that his 
 dog seldom fails to tracl< them when they are around, 
 and his gun rarely refuses to bring them down when the 
 chase is on, and when, 
 
 " O'er banks and brae, 
 Like fire from flint, they glance away." 
 
 In reviewing the many benefits to be derived from a 
 sojourn in Savannah, the one of almost paramount import- 
 ance must not be overlooked — the climatic advantages of 
 the city, which apart from the attractiveness of the associa- 
 tions of the past, and the charm of the modern luxuries of 
 
 the present, would still constitute an ideal spot for health or 
 pleasure seekers. 
 
 The winter temperature averages about 60 degrees, but 
 this statement gives no adequate idea of the sparkling sun- 
 shine, the green trees and brilliant-hued flowers of the park, 
 the refreshing whiff of sea air, which is wafted straight from 
 the shore of the Atlantic, and which relieves Savannah of 
 any depressing or debilitating effect of a semi-tropic season. 
 These all combine to make us wonder if this south land of 
 ours, entrance to which lies close within the reach of all, 
 were not given us as a slight foretaste of the " Promised 
 land beyond the skies," which, we are told, is in very truth 
 the dwelling place of eternal sunshine and eternal flowers. 
 
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