. Book of the Royal blue . - is the mostAmerican part of America. The mas-terful spirit of the Anglo-Saxon ismanifest here in the magnificent recon-struction of a city that was burned tothe ground forty-six years ago. Inthe surrounding country the rising tideof industry has overflowed and oblit-erated the scars of war. General Sher-mans army destroyed a hundred mil-lions of property on its march throughGeorgia, and it took many years tomake good the loss, but now the Stateproduces, in one year, enough cotton have made it the railway and commer-cial center of the Southeast. Atlanta stands at a
. Book of the Royal blue . - is the mostAmerican part of America. The mas-terful spirit of the Anglo-Saxon ismanifest here in the magnificent recon-struction of a city that was burned tothe ground forty-six years ago. Inthe surrounding country the rising tideof industry has overflowed and oblit-erated the scars of war. General Sher-mans army destroyed a hundred mil-lions of property on its march throughGeorgia, and it took many years tomake good the loss, but now the Stateproduces, in one year, enough cotton have made it the railway and commer-cial center of the Southeast. Atlanta stands at a point where theEastern traffic, flowing down the Apa-lachian chain, meets in confluence thegreat stream of commerce from theWest to the Southern seaboard. Thevast traffic of East and West whiciiflows into Atlanta radiates through theSoutheast. Thus, from a railway pointof view, Atlanta holds a commandingposition and has become the head-quarters for a large part of the railroadbusiness done in the ■niK I!;S CKNTICU OK ATLANTA and cotton goods to pay the enormousindemnity of that campaign. General Sherman was impressedwith Atlantas strategic importance,and pointed out that anv port of theGulf or South Atlantic could bereached from here in twelve hours. Thecitv became headquarters for the De-partment of the (udf during the Span-ish-American war, and an effort wasafterwards made to remove these head-quarters to another point, but the gov-ernment, profiting by that experience,has finallv fixed their seat here. The topographic conditions whichgave Atlanta its importance in war As the metropolis of the Piedmontregion, Atlanta will profit bv the greatstimulus to trade and industry whichwill come from the opening of thePanama canal. There are already largeexports of cotton goods to China fromGeorgia and the Carolinas. and thistrade will grow rapidly when the shortroute to the Pacific is opened. The svstem of local transit, covering170 miles of electric ra
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