. The Southern States. $1,833,000. These lines are largely cle-\eloping the suburbs. Educationally, Atlanta is on a verysuperior plane, with her seventeen publicschools and numerous private academiesand colleges. Ample appropriations aremade, and the daily attendance is com-puted to be 7352 white and 5642 col-ored. There are two female colleges^the State Technological Institute, NealsGeorgia Military Institute, schools oflanguages, music and journalism, num-bers of fine private elementary schools,two business colleges, three shorthandand type writing colleges, five medicalcolleges, a law insti
. The Southern States. $1,833,000. These lines are largely cle-\eloping the suburbs. Educationally, Atlanta is on a verysuperior plane, with her seventeen publicschools and numerous private academiesand colleges. Ample appropriations aremade, and the daily attendance is com-puted to be 7352 white and 5642 col-ored. There are two female colleges^the State Technological Institute, NealsGeorgia Military Institute, schools oflanguages, music and journalism, num-bers of fine private elementary schools,two business colleges, three shorthandand type writing colleges, five medicalcolleges, a law institute, a dental college,a womans medical college, and sevenliterary and theological colored univer-sities, affording the highest instruction,in e\ery field of education, science, and art. There are seventy churches^,tweh-e of which are for colored investment of the white congrega-tions is $1,900,000, with a seating capa^city of 30,000. The colored investmentis $250,000, with a seating capacity for. ATLANTA: THE GATE CITY OF THE SOUTH. 343 20,000,—a total investment of $2,150,-000, and a membership estimated at15,000. With some suspicion of the old watersupply and the pressure of numerouswells, subject to surface contamination,Atlanta had, despite these drawbacks,an extraordinary health record, the ratebeing nineteen per thousand of bothraces consolidated, and only twehe perthousand of the whites. This was inpart due to her elevation of 1085 feetabove the sea, good drainage, dry airand other atmospheric conditions. Itwas also due to the fact that manypersons drank the pure water procuredfrom the vicinity. With the present sup-ply of water from the Chattahoochee, thedeath rate of Atlanta will very likely de-crease phenomenally and constitute thatcity the healthiest spot on the globe. Shehas never shut her gates against anyunfortunate fugitives from inlected cities,has never had a sunstroke or epidemic ;cholera and yellow fever brought herehave never spread
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