{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3676", "width": "2507", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "()lass\\nCOPYRIGHT DFPOSIT", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "TO STRANGERS VISITING\\nlliiN^t:si, M4^f 1, tK ti^i4illi.\\nTis pleasant, through the loop-holes of retreat,\\nTo peep at such a %vor Id. \u00e2\u0080\u0094CowvKR.\\nJ. H. ESTILL,\\nMORNING NKW3 bTEAM PRINTING HOUSE,\\nI 3 Whitaker St., Savanuah, Ga.\\nPRICE, FIFTY CENTS.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "J^ GUIDE\\nTO STRANGERS VISITING\\nSAVANNAH\\nFOR\\nBUSINESS, HEALTH, OR PLEASURE.\\nV\\nTis pleasant through the loop- hoi ei of retreat\\nTo peep at such a world. Cowper.\\nSAVANXAH, GA.:\\nJ. H. ESTILL,\\nMORNING NEWS STE^JH^PRINTING H0U8K,\\n3 WHIIAKER STBBBX.\\niSsi.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year i83i, by\\nJ. H. ESTILL, r/\\nin the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThis little book makes no pretension whatever to be a History of\\nthe City of Savannah, or of the Colonization of Georgia, but, only\\nwhat its title-page expresses A Gzdde to Sh a)2gers Visitinq;\\nSavannah for Health, Pleasure or Business Nor is it A\\nCity Directory, but supplemental to it. ilence, we have om;tted\\nhistorical and biographical narrations of no moment to visitors, how-\\never interesting they may be to citizens of Savannah and local de\\ntails, that introduced would swell unnecessarily the size of the vol\\nume. For history and biographies, we refer the curious in such mat-\\nters to the Histories of McCall and Stevens, White s Historical Col\\nlections of Georgia, to White s Statistics of Georgia, and to the His-\\ntorical Record of the City of Savannah, in which they will be found\\nat length. For local details, the City Directory furnishes ample in-\\nformation.\\nVisitors in a city strange to them wish to see all that is worth see-\\ning in it, with such minute directions as will assist their attention to\\nthe objects of interest in, or connected with them. This information\\nwe propose to give in this manual.\\nIn the arrangement of the Guide, we have followed the j oiite gen-\\nerally taken by strangers, as we have observed it, in their unaided\\nwanderings about and around avannah to find something to look at,\\nand we propose to leave them no longer unenlightened, and to make\\ntheir stay pleasant by relieving the ennui of having no special sight-\\nseeing to follow up. Savannah has objects worth inspection, and\\ntime spent in their examination will not be uselessly or disagreeably\\nemployed.\\nVisitors should see the cotton presses and warehouses, rice mills,\\nand nurseries of plants and flowers; and if they be philanthropists,\\nor interested in politics, should attend a service of a church for the\\ncolored people, as a study of them, in religious congregation, offeis", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "iv Preface.\\nan excellent opportunity for judging of the degree of civilization, in-\\ntelligence, and Christian influence the race has attained under the\\ntraining of its former proprietors, and since its emancipation from\\nslavery.\\nIt would add much to the interest of Savannah, and to the pleas-\\nure of visitors, if the interior of our churches, and other notable\\nbuildings, could be seen at stated times, or always; and we respecL-\\nfully suggest that arrangements he made to that end. Idleness is the\\nparent of discontent and restlessness, and if we would make our city\\na popular winter resort, we must occupy as much, and as agreeably as\\nwe can, the time and attention of strangers coming to see us. We\\nsuggest a visit to a cotton press and rice mill as interesting to me-\\nchanical intelligence, which will find some things to admire in the\\nprocesses of both; and even a Lord Dundreary, looking at either,\\nwill see someihing in it.\\nSeptember, i88/.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE.\\nPrepack 3\\nIndkx to Guide Book 7\\nIntroduction ^3\\nEarly Settlement of Savannah i4\\nSavannah in iSSo Dull Street 22\\nSavannah in iS3o East of Bull Street 36\\nSavannah in iSTo West of Bull Street 42\\nSavannah in 1S80 Sulnirban Attractions 49\\nMiscellaneous Business, Charities, Churches, Statistics of Com-\\nmerce 63\\nConclusion 75", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "INDEX TO GUIDE BOOK.\\nPAGE.\\nAbercorn Street 39\\nAcademy, Chatham 25\\nAfrican First Bapt.st Church (Colored) 46\\nArmory Hall, Armories, Volunteer, generally, and Chatham\\nArtillery 22\\nAsylum, Female Orphan 29\\nAsylums generally 65\\nBabies, The 3^\\nBanks generally 63\\nBank of State of Georgia 20\\nBank, Central Railroad 63\\nBank, Merchants National 3^\\nBank, Southern, of the State of Georgia 3^\\nBank, Savannah and Trust Company 63\\nBaptist Church, vSavannah 26\\nBarracks, Oglethorpe, U. S 27\\nBarracks, Police, City 39\\nBa tery Park 49\\nBay Street 3^\\nBeaulieu 5\u00c2\u00b0\\nBethel, Seaman s 4^\\nB- thesda and Union Society 5^\\nBoard of Health 68\\nBoard of Underwriters 63\\nBoard, Sanitary 68\\nBroughton Street 22\\nBryan Baptist Church (Colored) A7\\nBull Street 22\\nBonaventure 53\\nCanal, Ogeechee 74", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "viii Index to Guide Book.\\nCathedral of Our I.ady of Perpetual Help 40\\nCemetery, Cathedral 63\\nCemetery, Evergreen 53\\nCemetery, Hebrew 63\\nCemetery, Laurel Grove 56\\nCemetery, Old 39\\nCentral Railroad Depot 47\\nCharitable Asylums 65\\nChatham Academy 25\\nChippewa Square 26\\nChrist Church 21\\nChristian Association, Y. M. C. A 63\\nChurches, generally 63\\nChurch, Baptist, Bryan Street, (Colored) 47\\nChurch, First African Baptist 46\\nChurch, First Presbyterian 32\\nChurch, New Street Methodist, (Colored) 48\\nChurch, Lutheran, (Evangelical) 23\\nChurch, St. John s Episcopal 29\\nChurch, St. Joseph s (Colored) 42\\nChurch, St. Stephen s 41\\nChurch, Trinity, Methodist 45\\nChu .ch, Wesley Monumental 41\\nCity of Savannah 19\\nCity Dispensary 43\\nClubs, generally 69\\nClub, German Harmonic 30\\nCommerce, Statistics of 72\\nConfederate Monument 34\\nCongress Street 22\\nConclusion 75\\nConsulates 67\\nCotton Exchange 66\\nCotton Press Association 66\\nConvent of St. Vincent de Paul 39\\nCourt House 24\\nCries, The, of Savannah 49\\nCustom House 37", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Index to Guide Book. ix\\nDepots, Railroad 70\\nDrainage Commission 68\\nEarly Settlement of Savannah 14\\nEducational 68\\nEpiscopal, Irinity, Methodist, Church 45\\nExchange 37\\nExpress Company, Southern 7^\\nFemale Orphan Asylum 29\\nFirst African Baptist Church (Colored) 46\\nFirst Presljyterian Church 3^\\nFire Department 72\\nForsyth Park 33\\nFort Jackson 60\\nFort Pulaski 60\\nGaston Street 35\\nGeorgia Historical Society 35\\nGerman Harmonic Cub 3\u00c2\u00b0\\nGreene Monument 2.)\\nHospital, Marine Service 4^\\nHospital, Savannah 35\\nHospital, St. Joseph s 41\\nHospital, Negro 65\\nHotels 19\\nIncorporated Companies -69\\nIiulependeut Presbyterian Church 24\\nInfirmary, St. Joseph s 41\\nInfirmary, Colored 65\\nInternal Revenue Office 37\\nIntroduction ^3\\nIsle of Hope 55\\nJasper Monument 27\\nJasper Spring 55\\nJones Street 3^\\nLauiel Grove Cemetery 5^\\nLiberty Street 27\\nLibraries, generally 69\\nLodges, Masonic 42\\nLodges, Odd Fellows 66", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "X Index to Guide Book.\\nLutheran Church 23\\nMadison Square 27\\nMarine Hospital Service 41\\nMariner s Church 46\\nMasonic Temple and Lodges 42\\nMarket House 45\\nMedical Society 66\\nMerchant s National Bank 38\\nMetropolitan Hall 43\\nMikva Israel 32\\nMiscellaneous 63\\nMonastery Benedictine, (Colored) 65\\nMission, Benedictine 66\\nMonument, Confederate 34\\nMonument, Jasper 27\\nMonument, Pulaski 30\\nMorning News Printing House 43\\nMontgomery 57\\nNewspapers 67\\nNew Street Methodist Church (Colored) 48\\nOgeechee Canal 74\\nOglethorpe Barracks 27\\nOrphan Asylum, Female 29\\nOld Cemetery 39\\nPerpetual Help, Cathedral of Our Lady of 40\\nPolice Barracks 39\\nPolice 67\\nPort Society 46\\nPost Office 38\\nPenfield Mariner s Church 46\\nPresbyterian Church, First 32\\nPresbyterian Church, Lidependent 24\\nPresl:)yterian Church Sunday School 26\\nPulaski Monument 30\\nRace Tracks 70\\nRailroads and Depots 70\\nRates of Po- terage 70\\nRevenue, Internal, Office 37", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Index to Guide Book. xi\\nReynolds Square 39\\nRegatta Association 57\\nRice Mills 7\u00c2\u00ab\\nRice Mills, Planters Association 69\\nRifle Club 69\\nSavannah Hospital 35\\nSanitary Commission 6S\\nSavannah 19\\nSavannah, Florida and Western Railway 75\\nSchuetzen Park 57\\nSchools 68\\nSignal Office, U. S 3S\\nSociety, Georgia Historical 35\\nSociety, Union 5^\\nSouthern Bank of Georgia 3^\\nSouth Broad Street 24\\nSteamship Lines 7^\\nSt. John s Church (Episcopal) 29\\nSt. Joseph s Church (Roman Catholic) 42\\nSt. Joseph s Infirmary 41\\nSt. Stephen s Church, Episcopal, (Colored) 41\\nSt. Vincent s Convent 39\\nStatistics of Commerce 7^\\nSynagogue Mikva Israel 32\\nSynagogues, generally 65\\nTelegraph 72\\nTelephone 72\\nTemple, Masonic 42\\nTheatre 26\\nThe Babies 36\\nThe Cries 49\\nThunderbolt 58\\nTrinity Methodist Episcopal Church 45\\nTybee Island 59\\nUnion Society and Bethesda 5^\\nUnited States Signal Office 38\\nWaterworks 47\\nWesley Monumental Church 41\\nWright Square 22", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nSavannah.\\nThis beautiful city, the Commercial Metropolis of the State of\\nGeorgia, appropriately styled The Forest City because of the\\nnumber and stateliness of the magnificent shade-trees lining its streets\\nand artistically ornamenting its charming squares or parks is situated\\non the south bank of the Savannah river, twelve miles from the ocean\\nby an air-line, and eighteen by its ship-channel, vi^hich winds grace-\\nfully, in broad curves, between emerald banks of luxuriant sea-grass,\\nbacked by the deep shades of primeval forests in the distance, and by\\nfertde rice-fields extending from the water s edge to the high lands\\nbeyond.\\nBuilt upon an elevated bluff of forty feet, it overlooks the sur-\\nrounding landscape on its east, north and west faces, extending south-\\nward upon a noble plain of pines, which have given way, here and\\nthere, to fertile fields or highly cultivated vegetable and fruit gardens.\\nIts northern boundary, or river front, is lined for two miles from the\\nSavannah, Florida an i Western Railwrfy wharves, below the city, to\\nthose of the Central Railroad above it with saw- mills, ship-yards,\\ncotton-presses, warehouses, cotton-sheds (for the protection against\\nthe weather of freights discharging or loading), merchants offices,\\nwith their singularly balconied windows, and tiers of vessels of eveiy\\ndescription and civilized nation that find their commerce in her vari-\\nous enterprises.\\nGrasping with iron arms the vast territory between the Ohio and\\nMississippi rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and around the capes of\\nFlorida to her own harbor again, the city of Savannah enjoys, by her\\nfar-reaching and direct railway connections with the great cities of the\\nWest, a large share of the contributions of agriculture and industry\\nof that productive region that seek shipment for Europe or a market,\\nand in consequence she has become the second cotton port of the", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 Guide to Savannah.\\nUnited States, and the most important seaport between the capes of\\nthe Chesapeake and New Orleans.\\nEarly Settlement of Savannah.\\nThe colonization of Georgia differed in its inception, and in the\\ncharacter of the first settlers, from that of the other original States.\\nIn the year 1720, the Carolina charter was surrendered to the Crown,\\nand the colony became a Royal Province. The territory south and\\nsouthwest, between the Savannah river and Florida, was a wilderness\\noccupied by savage tribes, and claimed alike by England and by\\nSpain. To secure it for England, General James Oglethorpe, a dis-\\ntinguished soldier, a member of Parliament, and a philanthropist, ob-\\ntained, in Connection with others, from King George II., A. D, 1732,\\nA grant for twenty-one years, in trust for the poor, of the country\\nbetween the Savannah and the Altamaha rivers, and westward to the\\nPacific Ocean. The idea of Oglethorpe and his associates was to oc-\\ncupy the disputed territory by providing in it an asylum for the poor\\nof England, and the Protestants of all nations, where former poverty\\nwou d be no reproach, and where all might worship God without fear\\nof persecution. None, however, but those who would take the oath\\nagamst the doctrine of transubstanliation could become colonists.\\nCatholics, consequently, were excluded, and were not adm tted into\\nGeorgia until it became a Royal Province, A. D. 1752. His grant\\nsecured, Oglethorpe, ^v.th\u00e2\u0096\u00a0the characteristic energy of his profession,\\nmade arrangements to take possession ot his lands promptly, and\\nsailed from Gravesend, on the 17th of November, 1732, with about\\none hundred and twenty colonists, in t .e ship Anne, of two hun-\\ndred tons burden, John Thomas, Master, for Charleston, in Carolina.\\nArriving off its bar on the 13th of January, 1733, the Anne was\\nordered to Port Royal, in Carolina, for the purpose of transferring\\nthe colonists and their goods into .smaller vessels. The military gar-\\nrison, and the citizens of the town of Beaufort, sixteen miles above\\nPort Royal harbor, received and entertained the new comers with\\ngenerous hospitality. Meanwhile, Oglethorpe proceeded to the Sa-\\nvannah river to select a suitable situation for a town. Deciiling upon\\nthe site of the present city, and having made a treaty with Tomo-\\nchichi, the Mico or chief of the Indian nation occupying the country,\\nhe returned to Beaufort on the 24th of January, and on the 30th of", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 15\\nthe same month, he embarked his people for their new home, which\\nwas reached on the 1st of Febiuary, 1733. Before night, tents were\\npitched, bedding and necessary stores landed, and the party camped\\non shore. This was the first occupation of Georgia, and the birth of\\nthe lovely Forest City.\\nOn the 9th of February, Oglethorpe, assisted by Colonel William\\nBull, an engineer officer, who had been sent over from Charleston, by\\nthe Governor of Carolina, for the purpose, marked out the squares, the\\nstreets, and forty lots for houses; and on that day also, the first dwell-\\ning was begun, and the settlement named Savannah, for the river\\non which it was founded. At peace Avith the Indians, and encour-\\naged by Carolina, the settlement prospered, and Oglethorpe was en-\\nabled to report to the King s Ministers at home a satisfactory account\\nof his success. The ship James, Yoakley, Mister, came in soon\\nafter, from London, with an assorted cargo, and is recorded as the\\nfirst ship which arrived at Savannah.\\nIn July of the same year, the colony was increased by the arrival\\nof one hundred and fifty additional settlers, who cime out at their\\nown expense. The four wards Heathcote, Percival, Derby ar.d\\nDecker were laid off, and each subdivided into four tythings, and\\nthe five streets intersecting them (at right angles) were named, in\\nhonor of five Carolinians, who had particularly aided the colony,\\nBull, Whitaker, Drayton, St. Julian and Bryan. In the same year,\\n1733, the first Court of Record was instituted, its officers being three\\nbailiffs, or magistrates, a recorder, acting also as clerk, and twelve\\nfreeholders as grand jurors, and the civil administration of the colo*ny\\nbegan its existence. Soon after the establishment of these provisions\\nfor the good order and protection of the town, its population was\\nfurther increased by the arrival of a number of Israelites from Lon-\\ndon, who came also a their own expense, and who, notwithstanding\\nthe opposition of some of the trustees to their settling in Georgia,\\nwere well received by Oglethorpe and the colonists, and cared for\\ncomfortably. They, however, did not remain long, because of the\\ncivil disabilities imposed by the charter of the colony, and removed\\nto the province of Carolina, with the exception of the three families\\nof Minis, DeLyon and Sheftall, who determined to remain and cast\\ntheir lots with Savannah, and whose descendants, in their successive\\ngenerations, have been useful and prominent in their allegiance to her.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i6 Guide to Savannah.\\nOn the 1 2th of March, 1734, tlie ship Purysburgh arrived with\\nseventy-eight Saltzburgers, expelled from their own country on ac-\\ncount of tlieir religion, and Avho sought new homes and freedom in\\ntheir worship of God. This compulsory emigration of German Pro-\\ntestants is one of the most stirring incidents of the civil and religious\\nhistory of Germany, and was defended at the time as the only means\\nof preventing a destructive civil war. Europe was exci ed by the\\npersecution /^Sj,ooo were raised in London for the relief of the\\nSaltzburgers, and Oglethorpe and his people welcomed generously\\nthis small band of Protestants, who sought their protection and their\\nfreedom of conscience. A settlement twenty miles west of Savan-\\nnah was assigned to them, which they named Ebenezer.\\nHaving established his colony upon a good foundation, and in\\nfriendship with iheir Indian neighbors, Oglethorpe returned to Eng-\\nland in 1734, accompanied by his friend and ally, Tomochichi, whom\\nfor diplomatic I easons he desired to present to His Majesty and his\\nministers. The Indian Chief and his suite had no cause to be dissat-\\nisfied with their reception and treatment in England. Objects of cu-\\nriosity, as well as of philanthropy, they were caressed by royalty, the\\nnobility and the people, and fitting allowances were made for their\\nsupport and entertainment.\\nHis business in England accomplished, Oglethorpe reembarked at\\nGravesend for Georgia, November, 1735, with three hundred addi-\\ntional settlers, in two ships, including in their number two remarkable\\nmen, brothers, whose subsequent careers have influenced the theolo-\\ngies of England and of America in a wonderful manner. These men\\nwei e John and Charles Wesley, who, with Hervey, Whitefield and\\nothers, instituted at Oxford University, the Society of Methodists, or\\nthe Godly Club, as they were satirically styled by their deriders,\\nand which Club subsequently developed into the populous and\\npowerful religious bodies known in England as Wesleyans and in\\nAmerica as Methodists\\nDuring Oglethorpe s absence in England, trouble broke out in Sa-\\nvannah, and discord set the magistrates by the ears, seriously injuring\\nthe prosperity of the colony. One of the bailiffs, named Causton, had\\nusurped supreme authority, and in the exercise of a tyrannical will\\nhad carried niatters with a high hand. Charges were prefen^ed against\\nhim to the trustees in England, who removed him and sent over", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 17\\nWilliam Gordon to assume the power and duties of Chief Magis-\\ntrate. Caustou refused to recognize the authority of Gordon, and\\nbeing a man of stronger character, and moreover in possession of the\\npublic purse and stores, he starved out Gordon, who returned to Eng-\\nlanfl Miih his family six weeks after coming out, leaving one Darn as\\nthe successor of his empty honors. But Darn died a few days after\\nhis appointment, and Causton remained victor and master of the situ-\\nation, and continued to rule the colony in his arbitrary manner.\\nThe return of Oglethorpe (February, 1736) partially restored\\npeace, but the seeds of discontent had been sown. Every man was\\nhis own lawyer, and lawyers were not allowed to take fees for plead-\\ning. In cases of orphans and others unable to defend themselves,\\npersons of the best substance in the town were appointed by the\\ntrustees to take care of and defend such cases without fee or reward.\\nWhat a defiance of the dark-robed professors of the protection of\\nhuman reason\\nOn the 7th of March, 1736, John Wesley preached his first sermon\\nin America upon the text of the XTIIth chapter of Saint Paul s first\\nepistle to the Corinthians Christian Charity.\\nThe mission of the Wesleys proved, however, unfortunate and\\nbrief. Their religious zeal outran discretion, and they were soon\\nembroiled in conflicts with the authorities and the people, whom they\\ndid not understand. There were faults on both sides. In the sum-\\nmer of 1736, Charles was sent back to England with dispatches by\\nOglethorpe, who followed him soon after, and by eight o clock of the\\nevening of the 2d of December, 1737, John Wesley Shook off, as\\nhe said, the dust of my feet, and left Georgia, after having preached\\nthe gospel there (not as I might, but as I was able) one year and\\nnearly nine months. Embarking from Charleston about the 15th of\\nDecember for England, John Wesley arrived, in the Downs, in Feb-\\nruar}% 1738, passing his friend and brother Methodist of Oxford,\\nWhitefield, outward bound for Georgia, neither knowing the other s\\nproximity.\\nWhitefield arrived in Savannah, May 7, 1738, and having more\\ntact and worldly wisdom than the Wesleys, and, from his parentage\\nand early associations, better fitted to cope with the rude class of\\nminds of which the colony was chiefly composed, he succeeded where\\nthey had failed, and laid in Savannah the foundat on of his subse-", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "i8 Guide to Savannah.\\nquent American reputation as an earnest pastor, teacher and eloquent\\npii.lpU orator.\\nThe plan of Savannah, laid as it is in rectangles, with streets and\\nrutennediate lanes, cutting each other at right angles, and witli small\\nparks at the alternate intersections of the streets, is much admired,\\nand sti-ungei-s ask whence Oglethorpe obtained these ideas The de-\\nsign is of war-like intentions, and found its origin in the military\\ntraining of Oglethorpe the square within his wards and ty things\\nbeing the general rendezvous of the colonists living around it in case\\nof hostile attack by Indians or Spaniards. Once begun, the system\\nwas adhered to for its regularity, beauty, comfort, health and plea-\\nsni-e.\\nIn October, 173S, Tomochichi, the firm friend of the colony, died,\\nand at his own request was buried among his friends, the white men,\\nwith the pomp and circumstance due to his high rank and staunch\\nfriendship, and within the compass of the colonists. General Ogle-\\nthorpe and Colonel Stephens assisted as pall-bearers the body was\\nlowered into its grave in what is now known as Wright Square, and\\nminute guns from the battery accompanied the mournful ceremonies.\\nIn 1743-4, General Oglethorpe left Georgia for the third time, and\\nfinally, for England. The town of Savannah had then increased to\\nthree luindred and fifty houses, exclusive of public buildings. The\\ngovernment of Oglethorpe had been military, but after his departure,\\nit devolved upon the trustees in England and the local authorities in\\nAmerica, The colony, never very strong, languished under the chim-\\nerical views and injudicious management of the trustees, and the\\ngeneral characteristics of the settlers. Agriculture did not flourish,\\ncommerce was not thought of, the silk culture had failed, colonists\\nwere deserting to Carolina and the other American possessions, or re-\\nturning home, and at last, on the 8th of June, 1752, the trustees, in\\ndespair, resolved, on account of their utter inability to support the\\ncolony, to make absolute surrender of the charter. The resolution\\nwas carried into effect, and Georgia became a Royal Province.\\nUnder the more liberal and wise protection and patronage of the\\nCrown, Savannah revived, and, taking a new start in life, became in\\ntime the prospering foster-mother of the State of Georgia,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Passing over the intervening period of one hundred and twenty-\\neight years, with its paralyses of two foreign wars, and devastations", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. ig\\nby fire and civil war, incidents of which will be noticed in their\\nproper connections, we come to the Savannah of the present time.\\nTHE CITY OF SAVANNAH.\\nTo the voyager approaching Savannah from the sea, the city pre-\\nsents a peculiar view. The buildnigs rise from River street, buttress-\\ning, as it were, the city crowning the bluff; the long litie of cottoa-\\nsheds, broken at intervals in its connection by intersecting streets the\\ntiers one and two, sometimes three, deep of vessels taking in or dis-\\ncharging cargo, their flags, of all commercial nations, streaming out\\ngaudily in brilliant colors; the number of drays groaning under loads\\nof cotton and merchandise; the motley crowd of races and complex-\\nions from snowy white to sooty; the din of business activity, and\\nthe importunate invitations, in stentorian tones, of the inevitable hotel\\nrunners and baggage-masters, to their respective establishments, as\\nthe vessel nears the wharf, form a scene of busy life that is interest-\\ning, amusing and b^^wildering. Add to it the genial, semi-tropical\\nclimate, with its verdure smiling a pleasant welcome, and the stranger\\nexperiences a quiet consciousness of enjoyment that dispels languish-\\ning thoughts of home and of the dear ones left behind. Captured by\\na conquering Jehu, who guides him through a labyrinth of cotton\\nbales, boxes, crates and freight generally, our voyager is safely de-\\nposited, with his bags, shawls, stick and umbrella, in a clean omnibus\\nor hack. Jehu mounts the box, and, slowly winding through the\\nmaze of carriages, cartS arid drays, the ascent to the upper regions of\\nthe town is begun. It is by a paved roadway, and not difficult, and\\nin a few moments, the broad and beautiful Bay street is reached, wit j\\nits long vista of commercial houses and offices, its double rows ot\\nshade trees, its crowd of vehicles of every description, and bustling\\nsidewalks, indicative of commercial enterprise, energy and activity.\\nShould the traveler approach by rail, the same signs of active trade\\nand busmoss greet his arrival and as he rolls into the depot through\\nacres of cotton bales sent down for shipment, he is apt to ask hin^^-lt\\nthe question, Wiiere can so much cotton come from, and where is i:\\ngoing\\nThe Hotels.\\nSavannah reached, the first call is for an hotel, of which there are\\na number the Pulaski, the Screven, the Marshall, the Pavilion, the", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 Guide to Savannah,\\nHarnett, being the principal ones. They are quiet, clean, comfort-\\nable inn-, where tlie traveler will be welcomed civilly and well\\ntreated. To quiet homebodies, they are preferable to the average\\nnoisy modern hotel. In addition to the hotels, there are many com-\\nfortable, well-kept boarding houses for all classes.\\nRested and refreshed, the traveler, unless he comes on urgent busi-\\nness, turns out to see the town. The stranger, if he stops at the\\nPulaski or the Screven, looks upon the lovely green sward of John-\\nson Square, and its clean flagged walks. A well-proportioned obelisk\\nin the center of the square attracts his attention, and curiosity prompts\\ninvestigation, but to little purpose, as there is neither inscription no i\\nsymbol to indicate its design an omission as disappointing as dis-\\ncreditable. This is\\nThe Greene Monument.\\nIn March, 1825, General Lafayette visited Savannah, and on the\\n2 1 St of that month, laid the corner-stones of this monument, and of\\none to Pulaski, in Chippewa Square, tributes of gratitude to the dis-\\ntinguished (General Nathaniel Greene, and to Count Casimir Pulaski,\\ncompanion-in-arms of Lafayette in the memorable Revolutionary\\nWar, that relieved the colonies from the tyranny of George III. and\\nmade them free, sovereign and independenl States. The monument\\nto Greene, in Johnson Square, was finished in 1829, and there not\\nbeing in hand funds sufficient to erect the monument to Pulaski, this\\nmysterious stone was known for many years as the Greene and Pu-\\nlaski Monument, in commemoration of Lafayette s visit and act, as\\nwell as in memory of the heroic dead, whose military careers and\\nreputations are intimately associated with the history of Savannah,\\nAt some future time, no doubt, the hidden meaning of this solitary\\nmemorial will be tastefully declared upon its disk. The obelisk, as it\\nis, affords the ground for artistic ornamentation that will do honor to\\nits projectors and their posterity.\\nThe Bank of the State of Georgia.\\nLooking towards the east of Johnson Square, the stranger sees two\\nprominent buildings. The one to the north, between Bryan and St.\\nJulian streets, of pressed bricks, with white sills and caps, and having\\na garden behind it, looks somewhat like a handsome private residenc.-.\\nand might be mistaken for one but for a certain business air that hangs", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 21\\nabout its wide, self-closing door, and for the frequent visitors who\\nenter and leave without the formality of a knocker or bell. This was\\nthe Bank of the State of Georgia that, with its capital of $1,500,-\\n000, occupied for many years the lead in the financial circles of Sa-\\nvannah. It collapsed, however, with the Confederacy, in 1865, the\\nstockliolders losing every cent they held in it. The Ivilding and\\ngrounds were sold, and are now tne property of a private banking\\nhouse.\\nChrist Church.\\nThe other building, south of the bank, between St. Julian and Con-\\ngress streets, is Christ Church, the mother parish of the Episcopal\\nCommunion in the Diocese of Cxeorgia. It presents a singular archi-\\ntectural appearance, partly Ionic, rather financial than ecclesia-tic,\\nand ol solid and not altogether unir.iposing structure. The first\\nChrist Church edifice was begun on the nth of June, 1743, and in\\nsix years was roofed and shingled. It was not completed until 1750,\\nand on the 7th of July of that year was dedicated to the worship of\\nGod. In 1796, it was destroyed by fire, and was rebuilt on an en-\\nlarged plan in 1803 injured by a hurricane in 1804; rebuilt in 1810,\\na-nd co.;:secrated by Bishop Dehon, of South Carolma, in 181 5 taken\\ndown to give place to a new structure, in 1838, corner-stone laid Feb-\\nruary 2L.th of that year. The drawings for this new building were\\nfurni hed by Mr, James Plamilton Cowper, of St. Simon s Island,\\nwhich were altered by the wardens and vestry to include a Sunday-\\nschool room in the basement, for which a bequest had been left by the\\nwill of a pious lady of the parish. This addition destroyed the har-\\nmony of Mr. Cowper s plan, and gave to the church its present in-\\ncongruous composition. However open to criticism the exterior may\\nbe, its interior is not less faulty, being, nevertheless, a comfortably-\\ngalleried and upholstered hall, to which strangers are always wel-\\ncomed, as is the general Christian hospitality common to all churches\\nin Savannah. The chancel railing, ledums, table and stalls are\\nneatly carved. Over the table is a painted window to the memory of\\nBishop Elliott, given by the Sunday-school children representing\\nChrist blessing the children. On this site of Christ Church stood the\\nchapel in which John Wesley, The Father of Methodism, minis-\\ntered as chaplain to the first colonists, succeeding the Revs. Heroert", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 Guide to Savannah.\\nand Quincy, but no parish was organized until 1740-43, as already\\nstated.\\nBull Street.\\nAttracted by the passing throng on Congress street, the stranger\\nstrolls in that direction, and, following the main stream, finds himself\\nin l)ull street, the fashionable promenade df Savannah, The name\\nis not euphonious, but it commemorates the services of Colonel Wil-\\nliam Bull, who assisted General Oglethorpe in laying off the town in\\n^733- ^^y York has its Broadway and Fifth Avenue, Philadelphia\\nit Chestnut street, and Washington City its Pennsylvania Avenue,\\neach possessing attractions peculiarly its own, and likewise has Bull\\nstreet its particular charms. Great shade trees magnolias, oaks, ca-\\ntalpas line the curbs of the broad, well-paved sidewalks, and their\\ncontinuations through the lovely squares it crosses, while handsome\\ndwellings and imposing public buddings on both sides invite atten-\\ntion. On pleasant afternoons. Bull street presents an animated scene\\nof beauty, grace and fashion. Sauntering with the crowd, the stranger\\nglances at the alluring shops of Broughton street, with their maze of\\nbusy traffickers, and in a few moments reaches\\nWright Square,\\nin which repose the remains of Tomochichi, the friend of Oglethorpe\\nand the protector of the early settlers. The precise 1 cation of To-\\nmochichi s grave is not known, but the beautiful mound of luxuriant\\nivy in the center of the square, capped by a Grecian vase, bearing a\\nflourishing aloe Agave Amo icana serves, for the present, as his\\nmonument, until it shall be replaced by one more enduring, of bronze\\nor marble.\\nArmory Hall and Chatham Artillery.\\nTo the right (westward) of Wright Square, between State and\\nPresident streets, is the battlemented Armory Hall, the headquar-\\nters of the oldest volunteer military organization in Savannah the\\nChatham Artillery. It is a structure of rough bricks, occupying the\\nfront between the two streets. In the basement is the gun-room the\\ndrill-room, on the first floor, furnishes a fine hall for concerts, lectures,\\nballs and soirees and its second story supplies rooms for the com-\\npany s library and chess clubs. The Chntham Artillery was organ-\\nized on the 1st of May, 1786, and bears to Savannah the relation that", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 23\\nThe Ancient and Honoral:)le Company of Artillery of Massachu-\\nsetts holds to Boston. On the 20th of June, next after its organiza-\\ntion, it discharged its first mournful duty at the funeral of General\\nNathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fnme, whose remains were tem-\\nporarily deposited in a vault of the Old Cemetery, on South Broad\\nstreet, and which could not be identified, in 1820, when sought for\\nremoval to a final resting-place. What became of them is still a mys-\\ntery. The Chatham Artillery has in its battery two light brass field-\\npieces, presented to it by General Washington, in 1792, when Presi-\\ndent of the United States. These guns were used until the civil war,\\nbut, being unserviceable for active duty in the field, were buried, wiih\\nthe assistance of trustworthy colored men, in the basement of Christ\\nChurch, whence they were exhumed on the i-eturn of peace (the se-\\ncret having been faithfully kept) and restored to the parade uses of\\nthe company. The Chatham Artillery did good service in the war of\\n1812-15, in the Florida war, and took a conspicuous part in the battle\\nof Olustee, in the late civil war, and elsewhere.\\nLutheran Church.\\nTo the east of Wright Square, opposite to Armory Hall and be-\\ntween the same streets State and President stands the new Evan-\\ngelical Lutheran Church, unfinished, having been recently rebuilt,\\nand with promise of an imposing structure. The architecture is Nor-\\nman Gothic, or Romanesque, and when completed will be very effect-\\nive and singular, but pleasing, possessing many points of excellence.\\nIts present slate debars criticism, which mu^t await its completion\\nbefore judgment can be fairly given. The old building, over which\\nthe present one was erected, while the congregation worshipped within\\nthe walls of both, was eighty-eight feet long, including portico, by\\nfifty-six feet wide, accommodating eight hundred people, and was\\nbuilt, in 1843, ^t a cost of fifteen thousand dollars. The in erior of\\nthe }n-esent one is tasteful and comfortable, and pleases by its excel-\\nlent proportions. A memorial window ^n the rear of the pulpit re-\\ncalls to mind the venerable Thomas Purse, a member of this congi-e-\\ngation for more than half a centui y, and one of Savannah s respected\\ncitizens. It is worthy of remark, too, that the entire carpentry of the\\ninterior wns done by the young men of the congregation after the\\nclose of their usual daily duties an enduring labor of love. The", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 Guide to Savannah.\\nearly records of the society were lost, but it is supposed, according to\\nWhite, to have been established, before 1759, under the Rev. Messi s.\\nRubenhorst and Wottman, but the service being in German a lan-\\nguage little understood then in Savannah the church was closed and\\nnot reopened for divine worship until 1824.\\nCoURT-HOUSE.\\nEast of Wright Square, and south of the Lutheran Church, stands\\nthe court-house of Chatham county, between President and York\\nstreets. It is a solid structure of the Doric order, of bricks and\\nstucco, symbolizing its purpose to firmly dispense even-handed\\njustice. Unfortunately, it was not raised sufficiently above the\\nground-level, which mars its effect by destroying the impressiveness\\nof that heavy style of architecture. It contains two good-sized and\\nwell-ventilated court-rooms, with clerk s and other county offices, fire-\\nproof vaults for the preservation of the county records, and the neces-\\nsary jury-rooms for the administration of the law.\\nSouth Broad Street.\\nContinuing down Bull street (southward), the next object of in-\\nterest is the noble avenue, South Broad street, with its four rows of\\nluxuriant shade trees, two of which down the middle separate a\\nlovely sward from the roadways on both sides, providing the avenue\\nwith two carriage streets and a shady, grass-covered walk between\\nthem. The effect is charming, and we question if there be another\\nsuch tempting avenue in the United States. Here, in the olden time,\\nwhen West, South and East Broad streets were, with the river, the\\nboundaries of Savannah, youth, treading the soft, grassy turf, poured\\nforth its moonlit tales of love, and old age inhaled the balmy air on\\ncomfortable benches conveniently arranged here and there in line\\nwith the trees. But the extension of the city, and the addition of\\nForsyth Park, have transferred romance to newer scenes, and South\\nEroad street is left to its endowments of trees, handsome dwellings\\nand fine public structures.\\nIndependent Presbyterian Church.\\nCrossing South Broad street, we have, at its southwest intersec-\\ntion with Bull street, the Independent Presbyterian Church, endeared\\nto the citizens of Savannah by its symmetrical architecture and cher-", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 25\\nished associations. It, with its commodious parsonage on the corner\\nof South Broad and Whitaker streets, and the grounds around both,\\ncover the entire block between Bull and Whitaker streets, and South\\nBroad street and lane. The court in front of the church is planted\\nwith arbor vitse, and the entrance is by four steps to a spacious portico\\nof the Ionic order, with entablature, cornice and pediment, and\\nthrough a roomy vestibule into the body of the church. The walls\\nand tower are of Quincy granite, and, with their harmony of window,\\ndoor and tapering spire, reaching two hundred feet heavenward, offer\\nto the spectator as pleasing a specimen of ecclesiastical, Romanesque\\narchitecture as may be found in the country. The spire is a model of\\nadm rable proportions, and, with the whole building, offers a study to\\nthe architect. The interior is spacious; the ceiling is an ornamented,\\nflatteifed ellipse, supported by fluted Ionic columns the broad centra]\\naisle, tessellated with white marble and blue slate tiles, leads to a\\ngrand, elevated pulpit of solid mahogany, ample for the comfortable\\naccommodation of a dozen clergymen, with an antes below for the ad-\\nministration of the Lord s Supper to the communicants seated at a\\ntable in the aisle. Spacious galleries extend the length of the north\\nand south walls, uniting with the capacious organ-loft facing the\\npulpit. Altogether, thei-e are few churches in North America that\\nsurpass this beautiful edifice in the excellence of architectural merits.\\nThe Society of Independent Presbyterians was organized in Savan-\\nnah, about 1755, nder the Rev. John Zubly, D. D. The present\\nchurcli edifice was begun in 1815, and consecrated to divine worship\\nby its pastor, Rev. Henry Kollock, D. D., May 9th, 1819 the Presi-\\ndent of the United States, James Monroe, on a visit to vSavannah at\\nthe time, assisting, with his suite, at the ceremonies. Its cost is stated\\nat $160,000 in 1 819.\\nChatham Academy.\\nOpposite to the Independent Presbyterian Church, at the southeast\\ncorner of Bull and South Broad streets, s-tands the venerable building\\nknown as the Chatham Academy, built by the county in connection\\nwith the Union Society, at which almost all the youth of Savannah\\nhas been trained, in their successive generations, since its inco:-pora-\\ntion in 1788, The portion of the building on Bull street, the property\\nof the Union Society, is at present used for the Pavilion Hotel.\\nThe rest of the building is applied to educational purposes. The", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 Guide to Savannah.\\nstructure is imposing, extending from Bull lo Drayton streets, includ-\\ning its courts, presenting an harmonious front. The play-grounds are\\nspacious and well shaded, occupying, with the building, the area be-\\ntween Bull and Drayton, and South Broad and Hull streets.\\nIndependent Presbyterian Sunday-School.\\nContinuing his walk, the stranger crosses South Broad Street lane\\nand pisses the comfortable Sunday-school building of the Independ-\\nent Presbyterian Church, extending from the lane to Hull street, and,\\ncrossing Hull street, enters\\nChippewa Square,\\nto the right of which (west) is the\\nBaptist Church,\\na large, substantial construction, roomy and comfoi table within. It\\nwas built in 1833, and was enlai-ged in 1839, at an aggregate cost ol\\n^43,000. The Sunday-school and lecture-rooms underneath, in the\\nbasement, were constructed in 1861. In 1862, a pastor s home was\\npurchased lor its ministers. The first Baptist house of worship in\\nSavannah was evected in 1795, but was rented, unfinished, to the\\nPresbyterians, whose house had been destroyed by fire. In 1799, the\\nBaptists organized by calling as their pastor the Rev. Henry PIol-\\ncombe, ot Beau ort, South Carolina.\\nThe Theatre.\\nTurning from the Baptist Ciiurch to the east is seen, lacing the\\nchurch and between the same streets, Hull and McDonough, an un-\\ncommon looking building, bearing a strong resemblance to a white-\\nwashed ship-house in a government navy-yard. This is the Savan-\\nnah Theatre, built in 1818, perhaps the oldest house of histrionic art\\nin the United States. For more than sixty years it has been the chief\\nplace of amusement for the Savannah people, old and young. Could\\nthose walls speak, what tales could they unfold of the rise, pro-\\ngress and decadence of the drama in America how they have re-\\nsounded with the sonorous tones of the elder and the younger Booth,\\nof McCready, Vandenhoff, the Kembles, father and daughter; the\\nCoopers, father and daughter Forrest and hosts of other tragedians\\nand melo-dramatists; and echoed the comicalities of Finn, Hilson,\\nthe two Placides, Hackett; and absorbed the melting tones and", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 27\\nartistic rozilades and trills of Kelly, Hughes, Russell, and the stars of\\noperatic music. The voices of past generations and of the present\\nare blended in the silence of those venerable walls. The history of\\nthe Savannah Theatre this ungainly old building is a record of\\nthe stage in the United States; and critical were the audiences, in ihe\\nold days of the legitimate drama, who criticised the performances\\nupon her boards. Old as it is, no theatre in the United States sur-\\npasses it in its proportions of stage room and auditorium, and in its\\nacoustic properties. Actors, singers and orators agree in pro iouncing\\nit one of the most delightful theatres to recite or sing in of the pres-\\nent day. The walls are solid and strong, and with a fine architect-\\nural front, and ornamented windows, it could be made, externally,\\none of the handsomest theatres in the country, as it is, internally, one\\nof the best.\\nIn this Chippewa Square Lafayette laid the corner-stone of a nnn-\\nument to Pulaski, as we have seen, but it was removed, in 1853, to\\nMonterey Square, and a pretty jet d eau now occupies its center.\\nCon inuing his walk down Bull street, and crossing\\nLiberty Street,\\nanother broad and beautiful avenue with three rows of shade trees,\\nthe visitor comes to\\nOglethorpe Barracks.\\nAt its southeast corner with Bull are the United States Army Bar-\\nracks, named in honor of General Oglethorpe. These barracks cover\\ntwo blocks and the lane between, extending from Liberty to Harris\\nstreets, and from Bull to Drayton, fronting on Bull. They are in\\nfavor with the army, as they are rated among the most convenient,\\ncomfortable and well-built barracks in the Southern States for their\\ncapacity, two companies. They were constructed about 1833-5- At\\npresent they are not occupied by troops, and it is recommended by\\nthe General of the Army to Congress to abandon them altogether apd\\nsell them at public auction.\\nMadison Square.\\nPassing the Oglethorpe Barracks, and crossing Harris street, Mul-\\nison Square is entered. In the center of the square is the corner-\\nstone and foundation of the Jasper Monument, laid on the 9th of", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 Guide to Savannah.\\nOctober, 1S79, nteiinial anniversary of Sergeant Jasper s deatri,\\nin the siege of Savannah, by the Jasper Monumental Association.\\nSergeant Jasper was, it is believed, an Irishman by birth, and that he\\nemigrated to America, before the Revolutionary war, and settled in\\nSouth Carolina. At the beginning of the war for independence, he\\nenlisted in the Second South Carolina Regiment of Infantry, Colonel\\nMoultrie, and gave the first proof of his gallantry in the British\\nattack upon Fort Moultrie, June 28th, 1776. The flag-staff of the\\nAmericans had been shot away. Jasper took up the flag, fastened it\\ntoa sponge-stafFand defiantly planted it on the rampart under a heavy\\nfire from the enemy s vessels. For this he was presented with a sword\\nand offered a commission. He accepted the sword, but modestly de-\\nclined the commission. His daring led him frequently into the Brit-\\nish lines, from which he always returned with valuable information.\\nHis exploit in rescuing a number of American prisoners from a Brit-\\nish guard, at a spring two miles from Savannah, where the party had\\nhalted for refreshment, was a daring act of cool courage. The story,\\nas told by White in his Statistics of Georgia, is as follows\\nLearning that a number of American prisoners were to be brought\\nfrom Ebenezer to Savannah then occupied by the British for trial,\\nJasper determined to release them at all hazards. With Newton as\\nhis companion, at a spring two miles from Savannah and about thirty\\nyards from the main road, he awaited tke arrival of the prisoners.\\nWhen the escort consisting of a sergeant, corporal and eight men,\\nand the prisoners in irons stopped t refresh themselves at tliis\\nspring, two of the guard only remained with the captives. The others\\nleaned their guns against the trees, when Jasper and Newton sprang\\nfrom their hiding place, seized the guns and shot down the two sen-\\nti^nels. The remaining six soldiers were deterred from making any\\neffort to recover their guns by threats of immediate death, and were\\nforced to surrender. The prisoners were released, and Jasper and\\nNewton, with thsir redeemed friends and captive foes, crossed the\\nSavannah river and joined the American army at Purysburgh.\\nThe spring has been known ever since as Jasper s Spring, and is\\na resort of interest to the citizens of Savannah.\\nIn the disastrous siege of Savannah by the allied American and\\nFrench forces under G-;neral Lincoln and Count d Estaing, the gal-\\nlant Jasper lost his life in an attempt to replace his regimental colors", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 29\\nwithin the British lines, where they had been carried by an assault\\nand their bearer shot down.\\nIn memory of this brave non-commissioned officer, thus identified\\nwith the city, the people of Savannah determined to erect a monu-\\nment to him, and to write his epitaph upon it. The first step has been\\ntaken, and it is hoped that the project will soon be artistically con-\\nsummated.\\nSaint John s Church.\\nAt the southwest of Madison Square, and facing it, stands Saint\\nJohn s Episcopal Church, between Macon and Charlton streets. It is\\na fine construction of the Anglo-Gothic of the fourteenth century, the\\nearly English pointed, though not of great size. The entrance is\\nthrough the bell-tower into the church, which preserves, with minute\\nexactness, the order it represents. The open roof or vaulting, of\\ncarved yellow pitch pine, with its corbels, rafters and beams, is in ex-\\ncellent taste and keeping, as also are the chancel and table. At the\\nwest end is a painted window, bearing cross, mitre and Bible. On\\ntablets below it are the Lord s prayer, creed and ten commandments;\\nand fronting the chancel the harmonious organ loft. There is but one\\ndefect the pulpit, proper to that style of architecture, is wanting.\\nOne was put in when the church was built, but removed by a rector\\nwho preferred the lecturn which now stands for it. The number of\\ncommunicants increasing in proportion with the population, Christ\\nChurch could not furnish accommodation for all of them. Hence, in\\n1840, this (Saint John s) parish was organized, and the present build-\\ning completed in 1853, and dedicated by Bishop Elliott.\\nFemale Orphan Asylum.\\nSouth of the square, at the southeast corner of Charlton and Bull, is\\na substantial building that looks as if it were a commmodious private\\nresidence. This is the Female Orphan Asylum. It had a common\\norigin with the Union Society in 1750 for the care and education\\nof orphan and destitute children in general, who enjoyed its charities,\\nwithout distinction of sex, until the 17th of December, 1801, whtn\\nthe sexes were separated, for the benefit of both. The Female\\nOrphan Asylum l)egan then a distinct existence, the boys remaining\\nwith the Union Society. (See Union Society.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 Guide to Savannah.\\nJones Street,\\nAnother of Savannah s beautiful avenues, at the northest corner of\\nAvhich is the\\nGerman Harmonie Club House,\\nformerly the spacious residence of the late Alexander A. Smets,\\nwhose large private library of rare and well -chosen books of ancient,\\nniediiT^val, and modern literature, science and art, engravings and\\ndrawings, was known to the scholars of Europe aud America.\\nPulaski Monument.\\nCrossing Jones street, and still walking southward, we come to\\nMonterey Square, in the center of which is the celebrated Pulaski\\nMonument, one of the best productions of the skilled chisel of his\\nfellow-countryman, Launitz. It is of white marble, and justly com-\\nmands admiration. We have seen that in 1853 the corner-stone laid\\nin 1825 by Lafayette to the memory of Pulaski in Chippewa Square,\\nwas removed to this, Monterey Squai e, where it was relaid on the\\nnth of October with an additional corner-stone, and with all the\\nhonors civic, military, and masonic of the city, in the presence of a\\nlarge concourse of citizens. The best description of the monument is\\ngiven by the artist (Launitz) himself, in his letter to the building\\ncommittee, as follows:\\nGentlemen I herewith have the honor to submit, according to\\nyour proposals, a design for a monument to the memory of Count\\nPulaski, consisting of an elevation and perspective view. In design-\\ning the monument, I have had particular regard to purity of style,,\\nrichness of effect, and strength and durability in material and\\nexecution, while I have not lost sight of the main object, which is to\\ndesign a viomunejit for Pulaski.\\nIt is perceived at the first glance that the monument is intended\\nfor a soldier who is losing his life fighting. Wounded, he falls from\\nhis horse, while still grasping his sword. The date of the event is\\nrecorded above the subject. The coats-of-arms of Poland and Georgia,\\nsurrounded by branches of laurel, ornament the cornice on two sides,\\nor fronts; they stand united together, while the eagle emblem of\\nliberty, independence, and courage rests on both, bidding proud\\ndefiance. The eagle being the symbolic bird of both Poland and\\nAmerica, the allegory will need no further explanation. The cannon", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah 31\\nreversed (on the corners of the die) are emblematical of military loss\\nand mourning, while they give the monument a strong military\\ncharacter.\\nTo facilitate the execution of the shaft, which it would be\\nimpossible to execute in one piece, I have divided the same into\\nseveral pa ts, separated by bands so as to remove the unsightliness of\\nhorizontal joints on a plain surface. The bands are alternately,\\nornamented with stars, emblems of the States and Territories now\\nand in embryo which enjov and will enjoy the fruits of the valor\\nof the heroes of the Revolution. The garlands on the alternate bands\\nabove the stars denote that they (the States) are young and flourishing.\\nThe shaft is surmounted by a highly elaborate cap, which adds\\nrichness, loftiness, and grandeur to the structure. The monument is\\nsurmounted by a statue of Liberty holding the banner of the stars and\\nstripes. The love of liberty brought Pulaski to America; for love of\\nliberty he fought; and for liberty he lost his life; and thus I thought\\nthat Liberty should ci own his monument, and share with him the\\ncrown of victory. The garlands surrounding the colum i show that\\nLiberty now is a young and blooming maiden, surrounded with\\nfragrant flowers.\\nThe monument is designed to be fifty-five feet high, which, for a\\nsquare in a city, is of ample height. The two steps and lower plinth\\nto be of granite, and all the rest to be of the finest and best Italian\\nmarble, in solid blocks, weighing from one to six tons, and to be\\nexecuted hi the most artistical and workmanlike manner; to rest on a\\nsolid foundation six feet deep, or more, if the soil requires it. The\\nfirst step to be in twelve pieces; the second step in eight pieces, as\\nalso the plinth, of best hammered granite. The base block in four\\npieces; the base moulding in two pieces. The die, with the cannon,\\nin four pieces, jointed at the sides; each front will weigh five tons.\\nThe cornice in two pieces. The base block of shaft, as well as every\\nsection of the shaft, each in one solid piece the cap of shaft in two\\npieces; the statue and columns, each part in one piece. All the parts\\nthat are composed of more than one piece, to be cramped with dove-\\ntail keys of metal. The monument to be delivered and erected in\\nSavannah in two years,- say on or before the 1st of July, 1854. The\\ncost of the whole, as above specified, to be $17,000.\\n(Signed) Robt. E, Launitz.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 Guide to Savainnaii.\\nThese proposals were accepted, the contract fulfilled, and Polish\\ngenius thus commemorates Polish valor.\\nBrigadier General Casimir Count Pulaski, of the Continental army,\\nwas a nobleman of ancient lineage, w..o had unsuccessfully contencied.\\nfor the principles of liberty in his native land of Poland against the\\ninvasions of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, and was exiled. The\\nstruggle in America for freedom won his sympathy, and he\\ndet rniined to cast his lot in with the colonies against tyranny and\\noppression. Dr. Franklin, then Minister to France, gave him a letter\\nto Washington. In the battle of the Brandywine he confirmed, by\\nhis courage and skill, the reputation he had gained in Europe of being\\nan able and accomplished soldier. After this battle, Congress\\nappointed Pulaski a Brigadier General of cavalry in the Continental\\narmy. In 1778, he raised, with the approbation of Washington, a\\ncorps called Pulaski s Legion, and was ordered with it to join\\nGeneral Lincoln at Savannah in 1779. In the assault upon Savannah,\\nthen held by the British, October 9th, 1779, he sealed his devotion to\\nliberty with his blood. He was mortally wounded by a cannon shot.\\nSome of his men bore him from the field to the fleet below the city.\\nTwo days afterward he died at sea, and was buried in the deep. Art\\nand Poetiy have erected their monuments to his memory, and His-\\ntory has crowned them both with immortality.\\nFirst Presbyterian Church.\\nTo the east of Monterey Square are the First Presbyterian Church\\nand the synagogue, Mickva Israel. The Presbyterian Church is of\\nthe early English pointed Gothic, and is a handsome, commodious\\nedifice, between Taylor and Wayne streets. It is an excellent\\nspecimen of its order, and was begun in 1856, but not completed\\nuntil after the civil war. With its tasteful Sunday-school room in the\\nrear, it presents a pleasant ai-chitectural effect, in harmony with the\\nbeautiful square it faces upon. This society was organized in 1827.\\nThe Synagogue Mickva Israel.\\nThis gem of mediaeval architecture, of the transition to geometric\\npointed Gothic, is south of the Presbyterian Church, between Wayne\\nand Gordon streets. The corn er-stone of it was laid March i, 1876,\\nand the building completed and dedicated on the i ith of April, 1878.\\nWithin, the architecture corresponds to the exterior, and the whole", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 33\\noffers a pleasing, harmonious study. There is not a finer structure\\nin Savannah, and in better taste, than this place for worship\\nof God s ancient people The music of its ritual is well sustained.\\nThe early history of IMickva Israel is uncertain. We have seen\\nthat there was an immigration of Israelites in 1733, who, however\\nremained but a short time, and it is supposed that this coiigregation\\nwas then organized. But we have no records of its history prior to\\nits charter of November 30, 1790.\\nGaston Street.\\nPassing on, and crossing Gordon street, a few steps bring us to\\nthe beautiful avenue, Gaston street, on which fronts\\nForsyth Park.\\nOf this beautiful park and its extension, the citizens of Savannah\\nare especially proud, and rightly so, for there is none other like it in\\nthe United States. The magnificent parks of New York, Philadel-\\nphia, Baltimore, and other large cities of the North and West are\\ngrand in their extent, in the munificence which has created them, and\\nin their many attractions of terrace, sward, and lakes; all beautiful and\\ncostly, the pleasure grounds of wealth. But Forsyth Park charms by\\nits modesty, simplicity, and its unique conservation of the native\\nfor St pine [pinus rigida) for the gratification of old and young. Its\\narrangement is similar to that of the Grand Park of the City of\\nMexico, combining an alafneda, or public walk, with a paseo, or\\npublic drive. Our alaineda, or public walk, contains about twenty\\nacres, enclosed by a neat iron fence, which (acres) are laid off in\\nserpentine walks and grass plats, interspersed with clumps of roses,\\ncoleas, cacti, dahlias, and fanciful mounds and structures of ivy and\\nother luxuriant runners and climbei S, The main gates, fronting on\\nBull street, are capped with unexploded shells, memorials of the civil\\nwar, and open upon the broad walk guarded at the entrance by\\nsphinxes which leads to the artistic fountain that gi^aces the center\\nof the park. This fountain is said by some to have been modelled\\nafter the design that took the prize at the first international exhibition\\nat London, in 1844; but others claim it to be a copy of the fountain\\nin the Place de la Concorde, Paris. From our own recollections, we\\naccept the pattern after the London design as the true one. The\\nbasin of the fountain bears the broad, verdant leaves of water lilies", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 Guide to Savannah.\\nupon its bosom, the whole encircled by a ])arterre of exquisite flower-\\nbearers wkhin an abundant, welbkept hedge of enoiiy/niis, sustained\\nby a solid iron railing;.\\nThe paseo, or Extension, as it is called, added recently to the\\nalaiiieda, contains about thirty acres, which are yet unadorned, except\\nby a few trees and the Confederate monument, erected to the memory\\nof the Confederate dead who fell, or died of wounds received, in the\\nlate civil war. The monument stands upon a raised terrace, coped\\nwith granite, and is reached by granite steps to its base, whence\\nspring the plinth, die, cornice, and shaft, capped by a bronze statue\\nof a Confederate soldier at parade rest, the generous ^^ift of the Inte\\nG. W. J. DeRenne, Esq. On the die of the monument is this simple\\nand touching dedication:\\nCome from the four winds,\\nO breath,\\nAnd breathe upon these slaia\\nThat they may live.\\nTO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD,\\n1861-1865.\\nThe cornerstone was laid June i6th, 1875, monument was\\nunveiled in May, 1876. There is art and taste in the chiselling of\\nthis monument, but the shaft lacks proportionate height. The bronze\\nstatue is an admirable casting in that style of art. Ease, grace, and\\nmanliness distinguish the figure, and the accessories of musket, worn\\nhat, and tattered clothing, are true to the life, reproducing with\\nwonderful exactness the rents, patches, darns, and rude sewing that\\nbetray the deprivations and hardships the Southern Confederate\\nsoldiers had to endure in their gallant but painful struggle of four\\nyears of unsuccessful warfare. So perfect and well cast is this bronze\\nthat its elevation is to be regretted, as it is impossible for ordinary\\nsight to detect and follow out its minute details.\\nThe Extension is, at present, the general drill and parade\\nground for the volunteer soldiery of Savannah; but when it shall be\\ncompleted as a ri.ing park, according to plans in conception and", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannak. 35\\nperfecting, Savannah will enjoy a bcauliful pleasure ground of about\\nfifty acres, divided most appropriately for walking and driving ill\\nconjunction. The boundaries of these parks are Gaston street on the\\nnorth, Drayton street on the east, New Houston street on the south,\\nand Whitakcr street on the west.\\nGeorgia Historical Society.\\nIn his walk around the park, the visitor notes a handsome building,\\nwithin a neat iron railing, evidently not a private residence, at the\\nsouthwest corner of Whitakerand Gaston streets. This is Hodgson\\nHall, the library of the Georgia Historical Society. This Mne hall\\nwas erected by Mrs. Margaret Telfair Hodgson [itee Telfair) to the\\nmemory of her husband, Mr. William B. Hodgson, who was an active\\nmember of the society during his life in Savannah. The building\\n(94 feet by 41 feet) was begun in 1873, but Mrs. Hodgson dying\\nwithout having made fo7-}}ial provision for its construction, her elder\\nsister. Miss Mary Telfair, took up the work, and, being Mrs.\\nHodgson s residuary legatee, made a deed in trust (for the use of the\\nso iety) of the lot and building thereon, the residuary estate being\\ncharged with the expense of completing the construction. Miss\\nTelfair died in 1874, but the work was carried on agreeably to the\\nlegal terms of the deed, and in September, 1875, the library of the\\nsociety occupied Hodgson Hall. The formal dedication took\\nplace on the thirty-seventh anniversary of the society, February 14,\\n1876. About twelve thousand volumes constitute the libraiy, with\\nthe current leading magazines and reviews, and is a delightful reading\\nroom, open daily (Sundays excepted) from 1 1 a. m. to 9 p. m. for the\\nmembers, their families, and strangers visiting the city, introduced by\\nmembers. A good, full-length portrait of the late Mr. Hodgson, by\\nBrandt, with a few historical paintings, adorn the hall.\\nThe Savannah Hospital.\\nOn the other side of the park, opposite to the Georgia Historical\\nSociety s library, the visitor has also noted (at the southeast corner of\\nGaston and Drayton streets) a large building, with high brick walls,\\nenclosing the area comprised within Gaston, Abercorn, Huntingdon,\\nand Drayton streets. This is the Savannah Hospital. It is not a\\nmunicipal charity, as its name would lead one to suppose, but the\\nfoundation of a private corporation. It receives from the city, how-", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 Guide to Savannah.\\never, a grant of 31500 per annum for the privileges of a poor house\\nand medical and surgical treatment of white paupers. The hospital\\nfronts on Huntingdon street, and consists of a central main building\\nwith two extensive Avings, the whole supplying four large wards, for\\nmales and females, and private rooms for the accommodation of pay\\npatients, who prefer treatment there to the, perhaps, indifferent care\\nof an hotel. A resident physician is always present on the premises,\\nand, in all of its appointments, it comj^ares favorably with similar\\ninstitutions in our coun:ry. Medical visitors from the North commend\\nthe thorough ventilation of the wards, and the completeness of its\\narrangements. Medical lectures and clinics are here given to students.\\nIts first incorporation was m 1S35. Here, too, at the corner of Gaston\\nand Drayton streets, are the examining and prescription rooms for\\noutside pauper patients, v/ho procure the medicines at the City\\nDispensary, southeast corner of State and Whitaker streets.\\nThe Babies.\\nAs strangers lounge down Bull street, from the Greene Monument\\nto Forsyth Park, they have crossed the two principal shopping streets,\\nCongress and Broughton; four grand avenues, South Broad, Liberty,\\nJones, and Gaston; and have passed through five beautiful squares,\\nor parks, Johnson, Wright, Chippewa, Madison, and Monterey. In\\ntheir walk they have had occasion frequently to exercise their skill in\\navoiding the numerous perambulators that crowd the side-walk with\\nfreights of little innocents, and they have observed also that the\\nsquares are filled with baby-carriages, and children playing games or\\nromping at will, secure from the dangers of hoi ses and vehicles. The\\nSavannah baby lives in the open air from its birth the squares of\\nthe city, of which there are twenty-four, and Forsyth Park, supplying\\nconvenient and comfortable gossipping exchanges for the nurses, to\\nsay nothing of occasional flirtations, and secure play grounds for the\\nchildren, where no harm can come to them hence it is ihat the\\nhealthiness and loveliness of Savannah s children, the foundation of\\nthe longevity of its inhabitants, are noticed by strangers.\\nBAY STREET.\\nReturning from Forsyth Park to the Greene obelisk in Johnson\\nSquare, and proceeding up Bull street (north), we come in a few mo-", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 37\\nments to Bay street, the great commercial street of Savannah, which\\nwe cro sed between tlie steamer and the hotel. This is a noble\\navenue, lined on both sides with the mercantile houses, banks and\\nbusiness offices that control the commerce and trade that rolls over its\\npavements every year to the amount of $60,000,000.\\nThe Exchange.\\nAt. the head of Bull street, fronting south, stands hi the center of\\nBay street The Exchange, flanked on both sides by a broad walk\\nbetween two lows of shade trees. It is a primitive structure, having\\nbeen built in 1 799, and is typical of the simplicity of American arch-\\nitecture at that early period. It was intended for a Merchants Ex-\\nchange by the joint stock company that originated it, the city taking\\ntwenty-five shares of the stock. The ground was leased for ninety-\\nnine years, and the building cost twenty thousand .dollars. By suc-\\ncessive purchases of stock, the city became, in 1612, the possessor of\\nthe property, and converted it into a City Hall, which it still is,\\nth ugh the original name of Exchange is retain-^d. The lower\\nstory, on a level with the street, and the rooms below, facing the river,\\nexcept two, are rented to private parties for offices. The second story\\ncontains the rooms of the Mayor and City Council and the offices ot\\nClerk of Council and City Treasurer, In the third story are the City\\nSurveyor s, the Marslial s, the Water Commissioners the Fire Alarm\\nTelegraph, and other minor offices. In the steeple hangs the vener-\\nable City Hall clock and bell that marks the hours for the city and\\nclangs the warning note of fires. From this steeple (of easy access)\\nthere is a comprehensive view of the city and the surrounding coun-\\ntry and from it one realizes the appropriateness of the title, Forest\\nCity, in its application to Savannah, as the city can scarcely be seen\\nfor the trees only the spires, steeples and roofs of the houses rising,\\nas it were, from a bed of living verdure. It is a sight worth seeing.\\nAn excellent portrait of (jeneral Robert E. Lee, life-size, adorns the\\nCouncil Chamber.\\nThe Custom House.\\nAt the southeast comer of Bay and Bull streets is the Custom\\nHouse, a substantial building of Quincy granite, one hundred and ten\\nfeet long by fifty-two feet deep, and from pavement to ridge fifty-two\\nfeet in height. The basement street level contains the Internal", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 Guide to Savannah.\\nRevenue ofllce and store-rooms. In the first story, reached by a broad\\nflight of stone steps outside, are the offices of the Collector of Cus-\\ntoms, and of his deputies and assistants, and the Customs hall proper.\\nThe third story is appropriated to the United vSt tes Courts and their\\nJudges rooms, Clerk s and Marshal s offices. The budding was com-\\npleted in 1850.\\nPost-Office.\\nTnis bureau of letters and important function in all the ramifica-\\ntions of business has in Savannah no home of its own, l)ut is moved\\nfrom one place to another as its leases expire and convenience may\\nsuggest. At present, it is to be found in the basement and first story\\nof the Commercial Building, at he southeast corner of B .y and\\nDrayton streets, occupying the side on Drayton street. Before, during\\nand for a time after the late civil war, the Post-office was in the dingy\\nbasement of the Custom House, in the rooms now occupied by the\\nInternal Revenue Department, and was removed thence, in 1S75, to\\nits present position, where there is no security against fire beyond the\\nordinary care and watchfulness of private offices. The commercial\\nand business relations of Savannah with the world at large, domestic\\nand foreign, demand greater care by the Government of its corre-\\nspondence and postal matter in a separate fire-proof building, and\\nthey should have it at the earliest day practicable.\\nUnited States Signal Office.\\nIn the same building with the Post-office is the United States Signal\\noffice, well worth a call by those hav ng any curiosity in meteorolog-\\nical science, and from which the citizens of Savannah are daily posted\\nas to their probable need for umbrellas and great coats during the\\nday, and the state of the weather the world over.\\nThe Southern Bank of the ^tate of Georgia.\\nPassing down Drayton street is the substantial edifice, at the south-\\nwest corner of Drayton and B yan streets, of the Southern I-ank of\\nthe State of Georgia and further down\\nThe Merchants National Bank,\\nat the northeast corner of Drayton and St. Julian streets, a solid con-\\nstruction of bricks and stucco, originally built for the old United", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 39\\nStntes Bank, afterwards used by the Marine Bank, and now by the\\nINIerchanls National l ank.\\nTurning down St. Julian street to the east, we come to Reynolds\\nSquare and Abercorn street. Following down Abercorn to South\\nBroad is seen at tiieir southeast intersection\\nThe Old Cemetery.\\nHere were interred the remains of the early settlers of Savannah,\\nand of their posterity, until sanitary reasons required, in 1852, that it\\nshould be closed and another site for sepulture provided, further re-\\nmoved from the dwellings of the living. This was formally done by\\nproclamation, on the 15th of Mav, 1853, when the new City of the\\nDead, Laurel Grove, was opened for interments. The eld vaults\\nand tombs are left, howevei, though their contents, the hallowed rem-\\nnants of mortality, have been transferred to the other cemeteries of\\nlater date. Many, however, still repose undisturbed, and the Old\\nCemetery is preserved in reverence. It is in charge of a committee\\nof ladies, who keep it in order, always open to the inspection ot the\\ncurious.\\nThe Police Barracks.\\nAdjoining the Old Cemetery on the east, at the southwest corner of\\nSouth Broad an I Habersham streets, is the handsome barrack of the\\nCity Police. The building is one of the architectural ornaments of\\nthe city, and, in its arrangements, one of the most complete for the\\npurpose in the United States. It contains a court-room, quarters for\\nthe officers and barrack-rooms for the men, bath-rooms with modern\\nconveniences for their use, and wide piazzas on the south side. At-\\ntached are a drill and parade-ground, houses for cells and stables for\\nthe horses of the mounted police. The buildings and grounds are\\nworth inspection.\\nThe Convent of Saint Vincent.\\nRetracing our steps (westward) to Abercorn street, and following it\\ndown along the venerable walls of the Old Cemetery, we come, at\\nthe southeast corner of Abercorn and Liberty streets, to the Convent\\nof Saint Vincent de Paul, the property of the Sisters of Mercy. The\\nbuildings consist of the convent, enclosed galleries and chapel, with\\nschool-rooms covering the whole block between Abercorn and Lin-\\ncoln streets on the east, and Liberty street and lane (closed up). It", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 Guide to Savannah.\\nwas founded, in 1842, by the Rev. J. F. O Neill, the pioneer priest of\\nGeorgia, who obtained from the city a lot for educationa purposes,\\non condition that his proposed building should be c mpleted within\\nthree years. His undertaking was accomplished; and in 1845,\\nplaced it in charge of Sisters from Charleston, South Carolina, de-\\nvoted to teaching and to the care of the ori)han, the sick and the\\nneedy.\\nIn the chapel of the convent is a beautiful representation, in wood\\ncarviiTg, of the Dead Christ, supported by His ever blessed mother,\\nOur Lady of Dolors, presented to the convent by a generous\\nfrien 1. This admirable work of art, by William H. z\\\\lhard, of Cin-\\ncinnati, Ohio, is thus described to us by himself:\\nThe group you speak of is a copy of the most celebrated original\\nby W. E. Achterman, a citizen of Rome for the last thirty years. The\\noriginal was ordered by the Bishop of Minster, Westphalia, in Ger-\\nmany, The group (Pieta) being over life-size, executed in the fi est\\ngrain of marble, cost near ^20,000. Achterman is a native of West-\\nphalia.\\nThe agony of the mother and the nervelessness of the Dead Christ\\nare wonderfully represented.\\nCathedral of Our I,ady of Perpetual Help.\\nSouth of and adjoining the Convent of Saint Vincent, at the northeast\\ncorner of Abercorn and Harris streets, is the Cathedral of Our Lady\\nof Perpetual Help; perhaps the largest and finest church south of\\nPhiladelphia. It occupies a frontage on Abercorn street of one\\nhundred feet, and extends back two hundred and twelve feet on\\nHarris street. Its order of architecture is French Gothic, in the style\\nof Notre Dame, of Paris, with nave and transcepts, and is built of\\nbrick, rough cast. The interior is lofty and impressing the triple\\nrows central and side of groined arches, meeting at their apices\\nsixty- five feet above the flooring, supported by columns of bronze,\\nexquisitely capped with original and fanciful composition The\\nsanctuary is fifty feet deep, and its railing (fr6m end to end of the\\ntranscepts) ninety-nine feet in length. On both sides of the sanctuary\\nare private galleries for the sisters and other religious. Within the\\nsanctuary is a fine altar of white mai-ble; and at the epistle side\\n(south) is the altar of the Blessed Virgin, and marble statue and altar", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 41\\nof St. Joseph. Above the altar ol the Virgin is a good copy of Murillo s\\nImmaculate Conception. On the north and south walls are the\\nfourteen Stations, or Way of the Cross, excellent copies (in tne\\nhighest style of Paris art) of a celebrated set in Rome. The corner-\\nstone of this noble edifice was laid in 1874, and the building (fit for\\nwoi ship) was dedicated to the service of God, April 30th, 1 8761\\nSaint Stephen s Church (Colored).\\nFollowing down Harris street eastward to Troup Square, we\\ncome (at the west side of the square, between Harris and Macon\\nStreets,) to the pretty little Episcopal church of Samt Steplien, for\\nthe colored people. It is a neat structure, and the parish is under\\nthe pastoral care of a white rector. The ritual of the Episcopal\\nChurch is here well sustained by a choir of colored musical amateurs.\\nWhite visitors are welcomed, as at all the colored churches in\\nSavannah, with courtesy and hospitality.\\nSaint Joseph s Infirmary.\\nContinuing down Habersham to Taylor street, we have (at their\\nnorthwest intersection, north of Whitefield Square,) the hospital of\\nthe Sisters of Mercy^ known as the Saint Joseph s Infirmary. It was\\nformerly the Savannah Medical College, and has been altered for its\\npresent use. The wards are large and well ventilated; broad piazzas\\nsurround the house, and the pay patients rooms are neat and comfort-\\nable. It receives from the city $500 per annum for the privileges of\\npoor house and pauper medical treatment, and divides with the\\nSavannah Hospital the marine hospital service of the port. It is\\nopen to patients, physicians, and clergy of every denomination,\\nwithout distinctions of creed or restrictions.\\nWesley Monumental Church.\\nReturning (by Taylor street) to Abercorn, we come to Calhoun\\nSquare, on the west of which, between Wayne and Gordon streets, is\\nthe unfinished W^esley Monumental Church, of early pointed Gothic,\\nwhich promises, by what has been already constructed, to be one of\\nthe most beautiful and nnposing church edifices in Savannah. 1 he\\ncorner-stone was laid in 1875, and the completion is delayed for want\\nof funds. The dimensions are seventy feet front on Calhoun Squa e,\\nby one hundred and twenty-four feet in length, upon a basement", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 Guide to Savannah.\\nstory thirteen feet liigli. The auditorium is comfortably used at\\npresent ^or church seivices, and under it, in the imsement, tlie Sunday\\nschool is held. The length of the church is unfortunately curtailed\\nto give room for a parsonage in the rear, which affects its harmonious\\nproportion in ratio with the width and height. The facade will,\\nwhen finished, be one of the most perfect and pleasing architectural\\nfaces in the city.\\nSaint Joseph s Church (Coloked).\\nCrossing to ]Jrayton street, westward, and going up it to Perry\\nstreet, we find at their northeast corner Saint Joseph s Church Roman\\nCatholic), for colored people. It is an unpretending building, but\\nn at, within and without, and fairly orna:uented with altar and\\nfigures. From its central position, many white Catholics attend mass\\nhere with their colored brethren.\\nWe have now exhausted the city proper on and east of Bull street,\\nand crossing it, begin our examination of the western part. Let us\\nreturn, then, to Liberty street, next south ot Perry, and proceeding up\\nit westward), we come to the\\nMasonic Temple and Lodges,\\nat the northwest corner of Liljerty and Whitaker streets. This is\\na sub tantial and handsome building, erected by the Masonic fraternity\\nof the city for secure celebration of their mysterious rites. The first\\nstory is rented out for stores. The second story is a fine, capacious\\nhall for concerts, balls, dramatic representations, etc. The third story\\ncontains the chambers of the fraternity.\\ni^olomon s Lodge, No, i, A. F. M., was organized in 1733, the year\\nin which Savannah was settled, and chartered 1735. It is the second\\noldest chartered lodge in the United States.\\nGeorgia Council, No. 2, of Royal and Select Masters.\\nGeorgia Chapter, No. 3, R. A. M., was established in 18 18.\\nPalestine Commandery, No. 7, K. T., was instituted on the 1st of\\nApril, 1S67.\\nZcrubbabel Lodge, No. 15, A. F. M., was chartered on the 5th of\\nNovember, 1840.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "GuJDE TO Savannah. 43\\nClinton Lodge, No. 54, F. A. M., was cliaitcred on the 27th of\\nOctober, 1S47.\\nAncient Landmark Lodge, No. 231, was chartered on the 15th of\\nNovember, 1859.\\nAn architectural peculiarity of this structure is, that the corner and.\\nwindow mouldings are of artificial stone, made by chemical process\\nfrom sand. It is of fine grain, hard, and apparently durable.\\nGoing up Whitaker street (north) we pass in the rear of the Baptist\\nChurch (see page 26) by the parsonage of the Independent Presby-\\nterian Church, at the southeast corner of Whitaker and South Broad\\nstreets; by the State Armory, between York and I resident streets; by\\nMetropolitan Flail, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Benevolent\\nAssociation, at the northeast corner of President and Whitaker --treets\\nthe City Dispensary, at the southeast corner of Whitaker and State\\nstreets; by the fine Lyons block, northeast corner of Broughlon and\\nWhitaker, and come lo the\\nMorning News Printing House,\\nwhich is situated at the northwest corner of Whitaker street and Bay\\nstreet lane. We can give no better description than the following\\nsketch, taken from the Atlanta Sunday Gazette:\\nJlie Morning Nezos building, located at No. 3 Whitaker street,\\ncorner of Bay lane, was erected in 1875, especially for the purpose\\nand with a single view to its adaptation to the publishing and printing\\nbusiness, and at that time it was thought large enough to meet all\\nrequirements of the paper for the next quarter of a century. This\\nidea, however, proved to be a mistake, and it was found necessary,\\ntwo years since, to add the building adjoining it on the north.\\nFrom this building are issued the Daily Morning News, publish ng\\ntwo editions; the Savannah Weekly News, the Sunday Telegram,\\nthe Southern Farmer s Monthly, and the Adorning Nezvs Library.\\nThe arrangement of the main building is very complete, and is as\\nfollows:\\nThe basement contains two engines (with separate boilers, that in\\ncase of an accident to one there will be no delay in issuing the paper)\\na large three-revolution Floe press; a mammoth double-cylinder\\npress; one P orsaith and one Chambers folding machine; mailing\\ntables, etc. The double cylinder is one of the largest presses of the\\nkind ever built.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 Guide to Savannah.\\nThe street front is divided into two rooms, one for the publication\\noffice and the otlier for the stock and the superintende^it s room of the\\nprinting and binding departments. On this floor is also the proprietor s\\nprivate office.\\nOn the second floor are the editorial rooms.\\nThe third floor is entirely given up to the book and job printing\\ndepartments, in which everything that is needed to do goo I work can\\nbe found. Experienced printers who have been employed in it say it\\nis the best place of the kind they have ever worked in.\\nThe top, or fourth floor, is devoted to the newspaper composing\\nroom, a iinely lighted and well ventilated apartment.\\nThe new addition is connected on each lloor with the ma n\\nbuilding the entrances being protected by iron doors, so as to prevent\\nthe spreading of a fire should one occur.\\nIts basement forms a part of the press-room department already\\ndescribed, t le wetting room, where the newspaper is wet before it is\\nprinted, and is also used as a store room for paper, a large supply of\\nwhich is always kept on hand, so that no ordinary accident to a paper\\nmill can endanger an issue of the various publications of t.ie establish-\\nment.\\nOn the first or street floor of this building is the job press room,\\nwhere there are eiglit steam presses, which, during the business\\nseason, often run eighteen hours out of the twenty-four.\\nOn the second floor are the electrotyping and stereotyping rooms\\nfitted up with Hoe s latest improved machinery. The Iront rooms on\\nthis floor are occupied by the engraving and lithographing departments.\\nThe third floor is devoted exclusively to the book bindery and\\nblank-book manufactory. Here is every facility for binding l)ooks\\nand making blank books, the latest machines for ruling paper, and\\ncutting and paging machines, etc.\\nAn elevator driven by steam extends from the basement to the top\\nfloor of the main building, with openings on each floor, and all rooms\\nare connected with the business depaitments on the street floor by\\nspeaking tubes, where the telephone connects the establishment with\\nthe railroads, the steamers, the wharves, the pulilic offices and the\\nprincipal business houses, by means of the telephone exchange. A\\nwire also connects the office with the signal station at Tybee, eighteen\\nmiles distant. In addition to all these facilities, the budding is well", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 45\\nprotected against fire, having hydraiits on each floor, and hose and\\npipe attached at all times on three floors.\\nNearly one hundred names are on the jmy rolls of this establish-\\nment, which amount to from $i,ioo to $1,300 per week.\\nThe success of this paper is remarkable when it is remembered\\nthat there are a number of daily papers in Georgia (saying nothing of\\nthe good weeklies), with which the Savannah Aloj uing Neius has had\\nto contest every inch of ground, while newspapers publi.^hed in other\\nSouthern States have had but few other dailies to contend with in\\ntheir own State. This paper has not only held to itself its own\\nlegitimate territory, but almost monopolizes the lower half of Georgia,\\nthree-quarters of the State of Florida, and a part of South Carolina.\\nThe Market House.\\nTurning into Bay street, and going west, we take the next street,\\nBarnard, and turning down it, come upon the City Market, a solid;\\ncommodious structure of brick, with wide, open arches, occupying the\\nentire square between Bryan and Congress streets. It was built since\\nthe war, in 1872, and is excellently arranged for its purposes. The\\nroomy basement, half under ground, and the market, above it, well\\nlighted and ventilated, furnish large accommodations, though not\\nenough now for the requirements of the city. The ordinances\\nlegulating the market and market hours are rigid, and there is not a\\ncleaner, better policed and kept market in the country. It is as clean\\nas soap, water, sand, and hard scrubbing can make it, so that visitors\\nto Savannah may rest secure in the cleanliness of their diet so far.\\nIts supjdies of fish, meats, vegetables, fruits, and breads are various\\nand abundant, and the goiirviet must be unfortunately hypercritical\\nAvho cannot find in it the materials for a delicious gastroninuque\\nfeast.\\nTrinity Methodist Episcopal Church.\\nContinuing down Barnard street, south, we cross Broughton street\\nand come to State street and Saint James Square. On the west side\\nof this square, between President and York streets, facing east, stands\\nOld Trinity, as it is sometimes called, because of its associations\\nwith the early history of Methodism in Savannah. The structure\\nitself is comparatively modern; is severely plain on the exterior,\\nentirely unornamented, and unpretending in its architectural details.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "4^ Guide to Savannah.\\nThe interior is neat, and in good taste, corresponding wiih. the sim-\\nplicity of the exterior, and breathing, as it were, the inspiration o the\\ninscription over the altar, HoLiXESS TO THE Lord. It is one of\\nthe most commodious churches in Savannah, having a seating capacity\\nfor two thousand in the au iitorium and galleries. Attached to the\\nchurch is a comfortable and suitable lecture room (two stories high)\\nfor the prayer-meetings and other social gatherings of the congre-\\ngation.\\nThe Penfield Mariner s Church.\\nTaking President street (westward) to Montgomery street, and\\ngoing up it (north) until coming to Franklin Square, the Penfield\\nMariner s Church is found on the west of the square, between\\nCongress and St. Julian streets. It is a handsome structure, under\\nthe direction of the Savannah Port Society, organized in 1S43, f\u00c2\u00b0^ the\\npurpose of providing Evangelical ministration and religious instruc-\\ntion for sailors visiting the port. Its name Penfield is taken\\nfrom Mr. Joseph Penfield, who bequeathed a sum of money for the\\npurpose o erecting a Bethel for mariners. A church was originally\\nbuilt on Bay street, between Abercorn and Lincoln streets, which was\\nsubsequently sold, and the purchase money applied to the erection of\\nthe present neat edifice.\\nFirst African Baptist Church (Colored).\\nWest of the same square, and north of the Mariner s Church,\\nbetween St. Julian and Bryan streets, is the First African Baptist\\nChurch, for colored people, a plain, commodious, neat structure,\\ncomfortably furnished with:n, and well lighted. It was in this church\\nthat the Rev. Andrew Marshall, a celebrated colored preacher, minis-\\ntered for many years before the civil war, commanding the respect\\nand confidence of whites and blacks. Born a slave, and twice sold,\\nMr. Marshall purchased his freedom from his third master and\\nbecame a frtcdman by his own exertions. In the pastorate of this\\ncliurch he was earnest, devoted, and intelligent, educating himself,\\nand exercising a great moral influence. He possessed great natural\\neloquenCv^ and a cultivation of delivery acquired by association with\\nhis masters, who were gentlemen of education and refinement. The\\nwhites went frequentlv to hear him. His funeral (twenty-five years\\nago) was one of the largest and most impressive known to Savannah;", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "CkTiDE TO Savannah. 47\\nwhites and negroes joining to pay the last tribute of respect to the\\nmemory of a truly good and able man.\\nWaterworks.\\nWhile examining the Mariner s and Baptist churches, tiie visitor s\\nattention has been attracted by a singular looking tower in ihe center\\nof Pranklin Square, in height about eighty feet from the ground.\\nThis is the tower or distributing reservoir of the waterworks for\\nsupplying the city with water from the river. The construction of\\nthe nectssary works for the purpose was begun in the winter of\\n1852-3. The water is taken from the river above the city and carried\\ninto a reservoir (situated on the low lands west of the Ogeechee Canal),\\nwhich is divided into four compartments by walls of masonry, pierced\\nby connecting culverts, with strong gates, so that one of the compart-\\nments may be used while the other three are undisturbed for the process\\nof sedimentary precipitation; and each comj^artment is connected in\\nlike manner with the pump well, from which the water is forced\\nup into the distributing reservoir in the city (through iron pipes) by\\nmeans ot powerful steam lift and force pumps. The receiving\\nreservoir is about half a mile above the city, and the lift of the\\npumps is about one hundred and twenty feet forty feet to the level\\nof the city, and eighty feet from that level to the iron tank at the top\\nof the tower. At the time of their construction, the estimated suoply\\nto the city was sixty gallon?, e r capii a every twenty-four hours. When\\nclear and well iced, it is excellent drinking water.\\nBryan Baptist Church (Colored).\\nGoing up Bryan sti^eet (west), and crossing West Broad street into\\nVamacraw, we see (between Saint Gaul and Fahm streets) the Bryan\\nBaptist Church, for colored people. This is a fine, corner-turreted,\\nbrick building, not yet rough cast or finished. When it shall be\\ncompleted it will be an ornament to Yamacraw, and especially so if\\nthe small buildings now pressing upon it could be remo.ed, that the\\nedifice may be seen to greater advantage.\\nCentral Railroad Depot.\\nReturning to West Broad street, and going down it, tnere is, at the\\nhead of Broughton street, a large cotton warehouse, worth cursory\\nexamination; and continuing on through rows of cotton bales lining", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 Guide to Savannah.\\nthe roadway on both sides, we come to New street, at the southwest\\ncorner of which and West Broad are the freight offices and house of\\nthe spacious Central Raih-oad depot. These buiklings, with the\\nfreight yard, are well worth looking at, lor their size, capacity, and\\nconvenience of arrangements for receiving and forwarding cotton and\\ngoods. This magnificent railroad was organized in 1835, and begun\\noperations in 1836. By the extraordinary energy and business ability\\nof its first President, (W. W. Gordon, Esq., a native of Augusta, but\\nresident in Savannah, and a graduate of ihe United States Military\\nAcademy at West Point in the class of 1815,) the road was completed\\nto Macon one hundred and ninety miles on the 13th of May, 1843,\\nthrough a dense wilderness. The public spirit, enterprise, and energy\\nof our people who projected and carried through successfully, and in\\nso short a time, such a great undertaking may be estimated when it is\\nknown that at the time of its inception and during its completion.\\nSavannah had not quite ten thousand inhabitants, and Macon a little\\nover four thousand and that not only had the road to struggle with\\nthe difficulties of the wilderness, but to contend with the di courage-\\nments of a doubting public. There were giants (in Georgia) in\\nthose days.\\nNew Street Methodist Churches (Colored).\\nIn New street ar-e two Methodist churches (for colored people),\\nneat, commodious, and comfortable edifices; one of them making\\nsome pretensions to architectural and art effects, of which a French\\ntraveler in 1876 (M. Molinari, editor of the Paris JoiiDial des Debats,)\\ngives the following description\\nThe ceiling is ornamented with fresco paintings. These\\nare, first, the Apostle Wesley, the father of Methodism, and the\\ncelebrated preacher Richard Allen; then a Christ upon the Cross,\\nthe Last Supper, and finally an aristocratic looking lady clad in a\\ngreen robe, of which the immense train filled the entire center of the\\nceiling, eclipsing totally Wesley and Richard Allen. This lady is in\\nthe act of carrying to her lips a large bottle of gin, in spite of the\\nearnest remonstrances of a clergyman, placed above the bottle\\nwithout sufficient regard, however, to the rules of aerial perspective\\nFrom the green robe float two ribbons, on which are printed in capital\\nletters these two words, Degradation, Diunkness. The skin of the\\nladv is of dazzling whiteness.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savvnnah. 49\\nThe Cries.\\nIf the v?.sitor be at all of a nervous temperament, he may be some-\\nwhat startled in the first early morning after his arrival by extra-\\nordirary shrill cries in the street, which may lead him to the suspicion\\nthat his hotel is on fire, or that there is a conflagration in the neighbor-\\nhood, the voices apparently calling Fire! There is no cause, how-\\never, for alarm. These are ordy the street venders of fish, oysters,\\nshrunp, vegetables, and fruits, who are crying out their wares to early\\nhousedvcepers in nasal tones, with twists of words and ear-piercing\\nemphasis, and there being such a num er of them, the sounds become\\nstrangely confused. The cries are, Oyster buyers, Shrimp buyers,\\nVegetable buyers, etc., the stress being laid upon the last word,\\nbuyers, which, striking so suddenly and sha ply upon the ear of a\\nsleeping stranger, excite not without cause apprehensions of fire.\\nThese cries are easily understood; but what does this fellow mean by\\ncrying Pee-wee-chee To the uninitiated it conveys no meaning,\\nbut to the inhabitant it is an announcement that sweet potatoes are\\ngoing by.\\nTHE SUBURBAN ATTRACTIONS.\\nThe visitor has seen the prominent objects of interest within the\\ncity, and we will now point out to him the suburban allurements that\\nare worth his attention. For convenient arrangement, we take them\\nin alphabetic order. The country around Savannah is beautiful in its\\npeculiarities of landscape, composed of forest, swamp, highland and\\nlowland, all richly dressed in luxuriant green of many shades, lighted\\nhere and there with the varied brilliant colors of leaves and flowers.\\nIt is a flat country but even plains have their charms and ours boasts\\nof its majestic live oaks, magnolias, towering pines, and an under-\\nwood of unsurpassed variety and beauty of foliage. Even the green\\nsalt marshes, with their clumps of trees in the foreground and rich\\nbackground of primeval forest, furnish pictures of exquisite softness\\nand hue, and particularly lovely if seen in the clair obscur of the del-\\nicate haze that often tempers our atmosphere. We begin with\\nBattery Park.\\nNot the least attractive of the many resorts which private enterprise", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "53 Guide to Savannapi.\\nhas created for public amusement is Battery Park, at the preNcnt ter-\\nminus of the Barnard and Anderson Street Railway, within the\\nsuburb known as Brownsville. The park was a happy thought of the\\npublic spirited gentlemen directing that street railway company, who\\nsecured, by purchase from the city, this eligible site for their purpose.\\nThe grounds occupy a portion of an earthwork for a battery thrown\\nup duing the late civil war for the defense of Savannah. Upon the\\ncrest of the earthwork is a neat and substantial pavilion for dancing,\\nopen and airy, and from which is a pretty view of the surrounding\\nlandscape. Here picnics and other social parties meet in the warm\\nsummer weather to inhale the breezes and wile the happy hour j\\naway in pleasant intercourse and innocent amusements. From\\nthe observatory surmounting the pavilion, a fine view is had of the\\n.surrounding country. Attached to the grounds is a good rifle range\\nwith the conveniences for target shooting, the targets being in full\\nview of the pavilion. The plans for the park have not yet been com-\\npleted, as it was only opened in the summer of 1883, but it is the in-\\ntention of its proprietors to make it, in every respect, a charming refuge\\nfor the citizens of Savannah from the heat of the city in the hot\\nmonths, and a resort, at all seasons, for pleasure-seekers. Street cars\\nleave Market Square every eight minutes for the park.\\nBewlie, or Beaulieu.\\nA charming spot on the Vernon river, within a short distance of the\\nbranch track of the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard R lilroad to\\nMontgomery, and in view of Montgomery. Bewlie was originally a\\nplantation of five hundred acres, granted to Wdliam Stephens Presi-\\ndent of the Colonial Council, and confirmed by General Ogletho pe,\\nApril 19, 1738. Of this place, Mr. Stephens writes on the 21st of\\nMarch, 1739, that, being called upon to give it a name, he styled it\\nBewlie, after a manor of the Duke of Montague in the New Forest,\\nbecause of a fancied resemblance to it, and which (manor in England)\\nwas anciently called Beaulieu, though now vulgarly termed Bewlie\\nby dropping the a in the first syllable and the final u. Coll. Ga.\\nHist. Soc Vol. IV., p. 2^0\\nWith our Beauli.u, or Bewlie, are connected several historical inc\\ndents of our Revolutionary war. On the 12th of December, I77\\nColonel Thomas Pinckney, in command of twelve hundred men, sent", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 51\\nfrom the fleet of Count D Estaing in long lioats, dislodged here a\\nBritish force occupying it, which was followed l^y fre([uent skirmi hes\\nbetween the opposing troops. It is indeed beautifully situated upon\\na bluff, distant about seven miles from the ocean, and is well suited\\nfor yachting and fishing fine fish and oysters being within easy reach.\\nSeveral of the citizens of Savannah have cottages here for the sum-\\nmer, and some reside at Beaulieu altogether, going and reiurniig\\nearly to and from their business in Savannah by the trains of the Sa-\\nvannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad, which connects, at its\\ndepot on Anderson street, with the cars of Abercorn and Whitaker\\nstreets, running thence to Bay street every ten to fifteen minutes.\\nBETHESDA.\\nOrphan House and Union Society.\\nWhitefield s Bethesda Orphan House, founded by the Rev.\\nGeorge Whit^field in 1740, and in whose behalf he awakened the in-\\nterest of the people of two con inents, is ten miles from Savannah,\\nsituated on a branch of the west fork of Burnside river. Whitefield s\\nBig House his House of Mercy to many souls was destroyed\\nby lightning just previous to the War of Independence, 1776, and this\\nmisfortune, together with the bloody struggle between the colonies\\nand the mother country, was almost a death-blow to this great charity.\\nAfter various vicissitudes, Bethesda passed into the keeping of a be-\\nnevolent association, nearly contemporaneous in its foundation, the\\nUnion Society, instituted in 1750, and whose mission had been the\\nsame the care of the orphan and destitute. In the year 1855, the\\nUnion Society moved its wards to Bethesda, having previously erected\\nbuildings for- their accommodation. The civil war again necessitated\\nits temporary abandonment, and it was occupied first by Confederate\\ntroops, and subsequently by Federal soldiers. With the return of\\npeace, the place was again restored to the uses to which it had been\\noriginally dedicated in the inc piency of the colony. In 1S70, the\\npresent main budding was begun; but, for the want of funds, it has\\nnot yet been finished, though used in its incomplete state for the pur-\\nposes for which it was intended. 1 his iniilding stands near the site\\nof Whitefield s Big House of Mercy a monument to that great\\nphilanthropist. The tree under which, it is said, Whitefield preached\\nto the Indians is still pointed out.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 GuiDii TO Savannah,\\nThere are, at present, between sixty and seventy boys supported\\nand educated by the voluntary contributions of the members of the\\nUnion Society, of which any benevolent })erson, resident or non-\\nresident, can become a member and aid in this good work by paying\\nan annual subscription of five dollars. Bethesda is reached, like\\nBeaulicM, by the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad, on per-\\nmission to visit it, to be obtained from any one of the officers.\\nThe Union Society.\\nIn Charge of Bethesda.\\nIn t1ie year 1750, five large-hearted men, of five different religious\\ndenominations, formed themselves into a charitable club with the par-\\nticular purposes of caring for and maintaining orphan children and\\nrelieving distressed widows. They styled themselves the St. George s\\nClub, as there was already in existence an association of Scotch em-\\nigrants, confined exclusively to Scotchmen. At what time the St.\\nGeorge s Club was transformed into the Union Society does not\\nprecisely appear, as the records of the Society were destroyed by the\\nBritish troops when they evacuated Savannah in the summer of 1782,\\nbut it was not long after its origin. The assumption of its new name\\nM-as an expression and a proof of a liberality of sentiment and feel-\\ning most honorable to its founders and their early associates, who laid\\naside distinctions of faith when so noble an object for combined efibrt\\nwas presented, and which would at once test the sincerity of their be-\\nnevolence. It IS to be regretted that, owing to the destruction of the\\nrecords, we can give the names of only three of the original five\\nmembers Benjamin Sheftall, a Jew Peter Tondee, a Catholic and\\nRichard Milledge, an Episcopalian. Each member contributed two\\npence weekly to carry out the objects of the organization. Three\\nmembers formed a quorum for regular meetings, and for the anniver-\\nsary celebrations on the 23d of April, the calendar day of the canon-\\nization of England s patron saint St. George.\\nThis last rule saved the Society from extinction in the following\\nmanner: When Savannah was captured by the B;itish, in December,\\n1778, a large number of the citizens several members of the Union\\nSociety among them were arrested and sent on board the prison-\\nships. Some days afterwards, the prisoners holding office in the\\nAmerican army were sent on parole to Sunbury, a few miles south of", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah, 53\\nSavannah, on the sea-coast, and ainonf]; these were four members of\\nthe Union Society \u00e2\u0080\u0094Mordecai Sheftall, John Martin, John Stirk\\nand losiah Powell who were kept there three years, during whicli\\ntime they held the meetings and observed the anniversaries Josiali\\nPowell having been elected President, Mordecai Sheftall, Vice-Presi-\\ndent, and John Martin, Secretary. At the first anniversary, 231! of\\nApril, 1779, an entertainment was provided for the Society by a num-\\nber of British officers, who participated in it. The toasts and senti-\\nments expressed mark the high-toned, chivalric cour esy of that\\nperiod. The first was, of course, The Union Society, by the Pres-\\nident the second was, General George Washington, by a British\\nofficer; the third, The King of Great Britain, by an American\\nofficer.\\nThese gentlemen maintained the existence of the Union Society,\\nand, at the close of the Revolutionary war, it was incorporated by the\\nnew sovereign State of Georgia on the 14th of August, 1786.\\nBONAVENTURE. (EVERGREEN CEMETERY.)\\nThis place, famous for its magnificent avenues of stately live oaks^\\nis a favorite resort for strangers as well as citizens. The sketch\\npublished below was written by the late Commodore Josiah Tal .nall,\\na few years before his death, and first appeared in a pamphlet printed\\nby the Evergreen Cemetery Company. This gallant hero-sailor sleeps\\nbeneath the moss- covered branches of the oaks, near tht; spot where\\nhe was bom.\\nBONAVENTURE.\\nThe beautiful tract of land bearing this name, and now enclosing\\nthe Evergreen Cemetery, was first settled in or about the year 1760 by\\nColonel John Mulryne, who came to this country from England, and\\nremoved from Charleston, South Carolina, to Georgia.\\nThe high ground, an extended river view, etc made it one of the\\nchoicest sites near the city of Savannah, and the first house a large\\nbnck one was erected at (hat time, facing the center walk of the old\\ngarden. This garden extended in terraces from the plateau to the\\nriver, the terraces being supported I y blocks of tal)by (a concrete of\\nshell and lime), tliat yet remain in tolerable preservation. This house\\nwas destroyed by fire in the latter part of the la t century, during a\\ndinner entertainment. The roof taking fire first, all hope of saving", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54 Guide to Savannah.\\nthe building was soon dismissed, but, at the suggestion of its owner,\\nthe dinner was removed to the trees, and there finished.\\nIn 1 761, this property came by the marriage of Josiah Tattnall,\\nof Charleston, South Carolina, with Mary, the daughter of Colonel\\nJohn Mulryne into the possession of the Tattnall family, Governor\\nTattnall (of Georgia) being born there in 1765.\\nThis marriage is of peculiar interest in the history of Bonaventure,\\nsince from it date the avenues of magnificent trees which form the\\npride and chief feature of interest of the place. They were planted\\nabout tljat time, and tradition has it, in the forms of the letters M and\\nT, the initials of the families of Mulryne and Tattnall. The majority\\nof these trees were of the live oak species, others being mingled with\\nthem. These latter the hand of time and the gales of the Atlantic\\nhave long ago laid low, whilst tlie sturdy live oaks, with their hoary\\nheads of moss, still defy the wintry blasts, and their rustling leaves\\nwhisper a ceaseless lullaby over the quiet and peaceful sleepers a^\\ntheir feet.\\nA second (and frame) house built by Governor Tattnall was\\nalso destroyed by fire. This second house stood in the open space in\\nthe rear of the site occupied by the first brick house, and its location\\nis marked by a large cedar tree, nourished by the ashes of the burnt\\nhearth. The front of this house was formerly marked by two very\\nold and large palmetto trees.\\nIn the year 1847, this property passed (by purchase) into the\\nhands of Captain P. Wiltburger, who had long associated the quiet\\nand peace of the place, its patriarch trees, and their deep, solemn\\nshade, its calm and seclusion, as a fit receptacle for the departed of\\nthis earth, as a resting pbce for the weary pilgrims of life. With him\\noriginated the idea of devoting Bonaventure to its present and final\\nuse, and his remains sleep under the foliage of its trees.\\nCircum.stances prevented for a time the execution of this wish, but\\nit was taken up by his son, Major W. H. Wiltburger, and the forma-\\ntion of the present Evergreen Cemete y Company (in 1S69) was the\\nresult of his efforts. In this connection it may be interesting to notice\\nthat the first adult buried at Bonaventure was the wife of Governor\\nTattnall, who died there in 1803, being soon followed to the grave by\\nher honored husliand. Previous to that time, several children of the\\nfamily had been buried there.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 55\\nAmongst the historical incidents of tlie plcice, is the I escue of\\nGovernor Wriglit by Colonel Mulryne durin^j the K evolutionary war.\\nColonel Mulryne, a staunch Whig, disapproved of the Declar tion of\\nIndependence, and when tiie Patriots confined Governor Wright in\\nSavannah, Colonel Mulryne hastenecf to his rescue, and conveyed him\\nto I3onaventure until the Governor could be placed on board an\\nEnglish man-of-war, lying in the river. Colonel Mulryne left the\\ncountry with the Governor, and died at Nassau, New Providence.\\nIt is also historic that the French, after their unsuccessful attack\\non Savannah, fell back to Bonaventure, and tlience reeinbarked many\\nof their wounded, burying a number of their dead on the place.\\nIsi E OF Hope.\\nThis pleasant seacoast village and delightful resort is the terminus\\nof the main line of the Savannah, Skidaway and Seabf)ard Railroad,\\nand is on the Skidaway river, six and a half miles from Savannah.\\nIts early settlement dates back to about the year 1737. Henry Parker,\\nJohn Fullafield and Noble Jones were the first settlers and proprietors,\\nihe last of whom (Mr. Jones) had a fine residence at the south end,\\nknown as Wormsloe, of which the ruins can yet be seen. The\\nisland is in the f rm of a horseshoe, and from any prominent position\\non its blufif, over-looking the river, a good view of the surrouiiding\\ncountry may be had. Previous to the civil war, the only communication\\nbetween the Isle of Hope and Savannah was by a dirt road, through\\nthe intervening forests, but the construction of the Savannah, Skida-\\nway and Seabord Railroad has brought the two places into intimate\\ncommunication, to the advantage of both. The village has, conse-\\nquently, greatly improved, and many neat cottages and more preten-\\ntious residences have been built for the accommodation of those who\\nlike the variety of a brief sojourn on the salts (salt-water streams)\\nduring the summer months. The waters in the immediate vicinity\\nabound in fish, crabs and oysters. It is one of the most healthy\\nresorts on the coast, and easy of access. The railroad depot in\\nSavannah is the same as for Beaulieu and Bethesda, at the intersection\\nof Anderson and Whitaker streets, connecting with die Abercorn and\\nWhitaker street cars.\\nJas ER Spring.\\nOn the Augusta road, two miles from the city, is the spot where", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56 Guide to Savannah.\\nSei-geant Jasper and his companion (Newton) rescued the American\\nprisoners from a British guard. (See page 2S). It is visited for its\\nhistoric association with that daring act of gallantry. A sketch of\\nJasper will be found under the heading of the Jasper Monument.\\nLaurel Grove Cemetery.\\nThis beautiful resting place of the dead, while not so grandly\\nmagnificent as Bonaventure, is, nevertheless, especially attractive ;ind\\npeculiarly interesting to the citizens of Savannah and to strangers\\nvisiting the city. An ordinance adopted in June, 1852, by the City\\nCouncil set apart a tract of land in Springfield Plantation as a public\\ncemetery, and conferred upon it the title of Laurel Grove, because\\nof the number of laurel trees it contained. The cemetery was\\nenclosed by a neat rading connecting with granite pillars at the\\ncorners, and the interior was laid off in walks, avenues and burial lots,\\naccording to a plan furnished by James O. Morse, civil engineer.\\nThe establishment of this cemetery was rendered necessary by the\\ncrowded condition of the old one on South Broad street, wdiich had\\nbeen used as a place of sepulture for over a century. Laurel Grove is\\nbeautifully situated on the high ground bordering the Springfield\\nPlantation, with a gradual slope Avestvvard, affording natural advan-\\ntige of drainage, which keeps it at all times dry. The ground is\\ncovered witi native forest growth, interspersed with exotic trees,\\nshrubbery, and flowering plants, set out from time to time, and which\\ngive adornment and variety, with harmonious concords or pleasing\\ncontrasts, to a very charming picture, particularly in the seasons of\\ndeep foliage, of Spring and Summer. About the center of the\\ncemetery is a natural depression that, with a little expense, might be\\nmade into a lake, which, with rustic bridges of pretty design,\\nwould add much to the beauty of the grounds. The cemetery was\\nformally dedicated in November, 1852. The first interment was made\\nin October, 1 852. Besides the many beautiful and artistic monuments\\nand tombs which mark the family graves of loved ones, there is an\\nenclosure in the cemetery that attracts attention the lots in which\\nare deposited the remains of the Confederate dead. Here repose\\nnearly fifteen hundred heroes of the civil war, who have been gathered\\nfrom the distant battlefields on wliich they fell, and had a soldier s\\nburial. This noble work was accomplished by the Ladies Memorial", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 57\\nAssociation of Snvannah, which, with sacred care, has watched over\\ntlieir graves, and, on each recuriing Memorial Day, decorates\\nthem with the bright flowers of Spring and early Summer. A m.irble\\nstatue, representing Silence, which was originally one of the\\nstaiucs of the Confederate Monument in the Park Extension (see\\npage 34), keeps guard over this bivouac of the heroic dead in\\neloquent and expressive attitude. Each grave is marked by a neat\\nmarble headstone. The cemetery is easily reached by the Barnard and\\nAnderson street cars from its terminus at the market, corner of\\nBarnard and Congress streets, and thoSe of Whitaker and Abercorn\\nstreets.\\nMontgomery.\\nThis is another of Savannah s delightful resorts, distant from it ten\\nmiles, and is the terminus of a branch of the Savannah, vSkidavvay\\nand Seaboard Railroad, It was settled in the year 1801, and has\\ngrown to be a pleasant little village. Its healthfulness and beautiful\\nnatural surroundings have made it the favorite resort for our own\\ncitizens and for strangers sojourning among us. It is the headquar-\\nters of the Regatta Association of Georgia, and the spacious\\nwaters of Vernon river, on which it is situated, in full view of the\\nocean, have been the scene of many exciting contests between the\\nswift-sailing craft of the amateur yachtinen of the Atlantic Southern\\nStates. Charming groves of grand old oaks afford delicious shade, in\\nwhich the sea-breezes that sweep in purity over Ossabaw sound may\\nbe thoroughly enjoyed. A number of commodious residences have\\nbeen erected, and a convenient hotel offers comfortable quarters to\\nthe visitor for health or pleasure.\\nThe Regatta Association has here a snug club house on the river\\nbank, and along the bluff is an avenue of oaks affordnig a delightful\\npromenade. The woods in the background are filled with the odor-\\nous jasmine and other semi-tropical wild flowers common to the sea-\\ncoast of Georgia.\\nScHUETZEN Park.\\nOur German fellow-citizens, whose delight in out-door recreations\\nis one of their characteristics, have prepared this pleasant p ace for\\nanuisenient, which has become exceedingly popular with all classes of\\nour people. The park is situated on Warsaw or Thunderbolt river.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "SS Guide to SyVVANNAH.\\nabout three miles from the city, and immediately east of Bonaventure.\\nIt 13 reached i^y tlie trains of the Coastline Railroad, a branch of\\n\\\\vhich, deflecting at Bonaventure (or by the highway on which is a\\nline shelled road), takes the visitor in a few minutes to the park.\\nIt occupies a commanding bluff overlooking the broad river, which is\\nat this point a bold and wide estuary, the view from the bluff taking\\nin both Bonaventure and Thunderbolt below on the same river. The\\ngrounds arc attractively laid out, and contain all the necessary acces-\\nsories of a place for public resort and amusement such as a capa-\\ncious dancing pavilion, accommodating a thousand dancers, rifle\\nrraiges, swings, ten-pin alleys, saloon, and a convenient dwelling in\\nthe center of the grounds. It is the headquarters of the Schuetzen\\nand other German organizations, and the scene of their out-door\\nsports and recreations. The annual Schuetzen Fest, which is looked\\nior by ail classes with pleasurable anticipations, is held here, and at-\\ntracts interested visitors from all parts of the country. Should the\\nvisitor pi-efer a drive to this place, a smooth shell road, over which he\\ncan bowl at the rate of 2:40, will soon take him to the Schuetzen\\nPark.\\nThunderbolt.\\nAnother pleasant seaside attraction, deservedly popular with the\\ncitizens of Savannah and strangers, is situated on the branch of the\\nWarsaw river, about iour miles from the city. It is reached by the\\nCoastline Railroad, of which it is the terminus, or by the shell road.\\nft is a small village, and its nearness to Savannah, with its ready ac-\\ncess, has made it the pa7 excellence popular resort. There is nothing\\npeculiatly striking about this place other than its invigorating sea-\\nbreezes, fine oaks, delightful shade, good salt-bathing, excellent fish\\nand oysters. It is the main source of the supply of fish and oysters\\nfor the Savannah market, and the river is filled with crafts of various\\nrig, sizes and seaworthines-, from the frail dugout or board batteau to\\nthe good-sized smack, doing prosperous business in oysters, fish, crabs\\nand shrimp. According to local tradition, the place received its name\\nfrom the fall of a thunderbolt and the gushing forth of a spring from\\nthe spot where the bolt struck. Whetfier this tradition be founded on\\nfact or not, it is nevertheless believed to be true, and the spring is\\npointed out with faith and pride by the old inhabitants as the Thun-\\nderbolt Spring. Every afternoon, in spring and summer, the well-", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savaxnah. 59\\nkept shell road is thronged with line turnouts, fast trotters and old\\nfamily coaches going to or returning from Thunderbolt.\\nTybice Island.\\nWithin the past few years this ocean- waslied island (at the entrance\\nof tlie Savann h Harbor) has been made a fashionable watering place\\nfor the people of Georgia and vicin ty. It is one of the chain of\\nislands extending along the sea coast from Charleston, South Carolina,\\nto Femandina, Flodda,iud on its lovely beach, four miles long, the\\nwaves of the Atlantic roll up in gentle surf, inviting to safe and\\ndelightful bathing. The north end (on which is the light house)\\nforms the head-land of the entrance to the secure inner roadstead of\\nthe Savannah river. From its convenient geographical relation to the\\nother American Atlantic seaports, ami with its telegraphic connections,\\nTybee is peculiarly fitted for a calling station, an American\\nQueenstown, for vessels seeking for orders or freights, or to communi-\\ncate with owners and agents. The roadstead is known to the marine\\nof all nations, as affording secure anchorage and shelter in stormy\\nweather. Near the light house the government has also a signal\\nstation, communicating with Savannah by telegraph and telephone.\\nTo the visitor, the principal attraction is the fine beach, with its\\nadvantages for dipping into the sea. In the past four years many\\nimprovements have been made to meet the wants of the thousands\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0who visit the island in hummer, and there now are to be found the\\ncomforts and conveniences for he^-lth and pleasure of a fashionable\\nwatering place, such as comfortable hotels and boarding houses on\\nthe front beach, in immediate sight of the ocean. Handsome private\\nresidences and coltages in addition give tlie place the appearance of a\\nfirst-class seaside village. Frequent excursions from the interior, and\\ndaily parties from the city, impart to Tybee in vSummer a lively,\\nrespectable an 1 genteel tone. Fast and commodious steamers ply, at\\nconvenient hours, between it and Savannah, connecting with the\\ntramway to the front beach. A neat free chapel between the front\\nand back beaches is on the line of the tramway, the pulpit being\\noccupied by one or another of the Savannah clergy every Sunday.\\nTybee Island is noted in American history as the scene of the first\\ncapture of a British vessel by an American commissioned man-of-war\\nat the commencement of our Revolutionary struggle. In the Sprmg", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "6j Guide to Savannah.\\nof 1775, a ship sailed from London with powder for the use of the\\nRoyalists at Savannah. Forty armed men were sent in barges by\\nCarolina to intercept her. A British armed schooner arrived at Tybee\\nto protect the powder s dp on her arrival, and cover the delivery of the\\ncargo. ihe Provincial Congress of Georgia, hearing of these move-\\nments, armed a schooner, and, commissioning her, put her under\\ncommand of Captains Bowen and Joseph Habersham, with instruc-\\ntions to run off or capture the British armed vessel. On the approach\\nof the American schooner, the British schooner stood out to sea, and\\nthe American lay off Tybee. On the loth of July, 1775, the powder\\nship appeared in the offing, but suspicions being excited on board, her\\ncaptain (Ma.tland) tacked and put to sea again. The American\\nschooner pursued, and, with the aid of the South Carolina barges,\\ncaptured her and secured sixteen thousand pounds of po^vder, nine\\nthousand pounds of which fell to the share of Georgia; five thousand\\npounds of this powder were sent to the Patriots near Boston, Massa-\\nciuisetts.\\nFort Jackson.\\nIn going to Tybee, the visitor passes Fort Jackson, about three\\nmiles below the city, on the south side of the river, one of the fortifi-\\ncations planned by the United States government for the defense of\\navannah. It is a small work, projected in l8o\u00c2\u00a7, and used during\\nthe war of 181 2-15, since which time it has been rebuilt, and has\\nbecome an important element in the river defense of Savannah. It\\nwas named after Governor James Jackson, of Georgia.\\nFort Pulaski.\\nFurther down the river, on the way to Tybee, is Fort Pulaski, on\\nthe northeastern point of Cockspur Island, iourteen miles from\\nSavannah, and sweeping with its guns Tybee Island and the inner\\nroadstead. This is the most important defense of the city against\\nhostile approach oy sea, commanding, as it does, tlie mouth of the\\nSavannah river. The site for it was selected by Major Bibcock, of\\nthe United States Engineer Corps, about 1827-8, and work was begun\\nupon it by Captain Mansfield, United .States Engineers, in 1831.\\nOriginally, the plan cal ed for an armament of one hundred and forty\\nguns (mostly long 32 sj, but the works are now being remodeled and\\nstrengthened to contend with the improved ordnance of the day, as", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 6i\\ndeveloped by its trial during the civil war. It had never been occupied\\nby troops before January 2d, 1 861, when Governor Brown, of Georgia,\\ntook possession of it (in the name of the United States) to prevent its\\noccupation by a mob from the city of Savannah, excited by the strong\\npolitical passions of that period. On the secession of Georgia (soon\\nafter), Governor Brown retained Fort Pulaski, and seized For^\\nJackson and Oglethorpe Barracks (in the city) in the name of the\\nState of Georgia, At the time. Fort Pulaski contained only twenty\\nlong 32 s mounted. Twenty-eight more guns (including a few eight\\nand ten-inch Columbiads) were added by the Confederacy, and the\\nfort was put in as good condition as the limited means of the State of\\nGeorgia and of the Confederacy permitted. Early in 1862, the United\\nStates troops landed upon Tybee Island, and investing Fort Pulaski\\nupon its east and south faces, made its reduction a mere question of\\ntime, the river having been rendered impassable by United States\\nvessels and batteries above the fort, intercepting communication be-\\ntween it and tlie city of Savannah, by the loth of April, the United\\nStates forces on Tybee had erected (in circumvallation) eleven land bat-\\nteries, extending two thousand five hundred and fifty yards, with thirty-\\nsix heavy guns, ten heavy rifled cannon, and a number of mortars in\\nposition. On the loth of April, everything being ready for opening\\nfire, a demand for the surrender of Pulaski was made by the officer in\\ncommand on Tybee, General David Hunter, which was declined by\\nthe commander of the fort. Colonel C. H. Olmstead. Immediately\\nfire was opened from Tybee. The fort replied, but not having been\\nconstructed to resist the battering of the newly invented heavy\\nordnaHH^^^^lit to bear upon it, was soon breached and reduced,\\ncompelTin^^^ffenc!er on the next afternoon, the nth of A.pril, after a\\ngallant but ineffectual resistance. Fo:t Jackson and Oglethorpe\\nBarracks were retaken by General Sherman on the evacuation of\\nSavannah by the Confederate troops in December, 1864.\\nThe growing importance of Savannah as a commercial center\\nnecessitates now a stronger and more thorough system of seacoast\\ndefense, and it is in contemplation to erect heavy works on Tybee,\\nand water batteries at other points, which (in the eveiit of a foreign\\nwar) will, with the addition of a naval force and temporary earth-\\nworks, effectively prevent attack through the inlets of the chain of\\nislands covering the coast from Charleston to Fernandina.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "^2 Guide to Savannah.\\nThe Mnrtello tower of labby (shell, lime and sand) on Tybee was\\nbuih at the commencement of the war of 1S12-15 as a part of the\\nhasty and imperfect system of defense a^-ainst the British, and affords\\na oood standard by which t) measure the improvements in ordnance\\nlunny the jiast seventy years.\\nIn Colonial times a mud fort was erected on Cockspur Island, near\\nthe site of Fort Pulaski, named fort George, as appears by Colonial\\nrecords. In 1765, A. D., the famous Stamp Act was passed by\\nthe British I arliament, which tired the hearts of the Sons of Liberty\\nin the American colonies. In 1766, His iMajcsty s ship Speedwell\\narrived in the Savannah river with stamps for Georgia. The Liberty\\nBoys assembled threateningly, and Governor Wright had the stamps\\nremoved to Fort George, on Cockspur Island, where they were\\ninotected by a captain, two subalterns and fifty men. The obnoxious\\nact was repealed the same year; but other aggressions soon excited\\nthe colonies again, and Governor Wright reported to the home\\ngovernment on the 20th of September, 1773, the defenseless condition\\nof Georgia. In his report, he writes thus of Fort George: Fort\\nGeorge, on Cockspur Island, which was built in 1762 of mud, faced\\nwith palmetto logs, with a caponiere inside to serve for officer s\\nquarters, is ahiiost in ruins, and garrisoned by an officer and three\\nmen, just to make signals, etc. At the inception of the Revolutionary\\nwar, the coast defenses of Georgia were in a most pitiable and\\ndilapidated condition; all the forts were in ruins, or nearly so. In\\nhi official report to General Washington, in February, 1776, Colonel\\nMcintosh, who had been assigned to the command of the Georgia\\nColonial troops, makes no mention of Fort George or other fortifica-\\ntions at Savannah. And on the 5th of July, 1776, the Congress of the\\nConfederation resolved that Georgia should erect two forts one at\\nSavannah, and one at Sunbury. It is also evident from history that\\nno occupied fort existed on Cockspur Island during the Revolutionary\\nMar, as it records, frequently, the free passage up the river to\\nBrewton s Hill, two miles below Savannah. Again, the fort ordered\\nfor Sunbury was built, and named Fort Morris, after the officer\\nwho built it; but on its capture by Sir George Prevost, January 16,\\n1779, he changed the name to Fort George, which he would not\\nhave done had there been a fort of that name in existence so near as\\nCocksjiur Island.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Guide to vSavannaii. O3\\nMISCET-T.ANEOUS.\\nIJANKS.\\nCentral Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, 1 15 Day street,\\nadjoining the Custom House.\\nMercliants National Bank, St. Julian street, northeast corner of\\nDrayton.\\nSavannah Bank and Trust Company, 105 Bay street, Battersby s\\nbuilding, southwest corner of Drayton.\\nSouthern B.mk of the State of Georgia, Drayton street, northwest\\ncorner of Bryan.\\nBoard of Underwriters.\\nOffice of R. H. Footman, Bay street, northwest corner of Drayton.\\nCemeteries.\\nCathedral Cemetery, Thunderbolt road, two miles from city\\nreached by shell road or by Coastline Railroad, connecting at Bolton\\nstreet with Habersham and Broughton street cars.\\nEvergreen Cemetery, Bonaventure (see p. 53) office, 93 Bay street.\\nHebrew Cemetery, Anderson street, west end, adjoining Laurel\\n(jrove Cemetery; reached by Anderson, Barnard, Whitaker and A.\\nercorn street cars.\\nLaurel Grove Cemetery, Anderson street, west end. (S^e p. 56.)\\nOld Cemetery, South Broad street, corn.r of Abercorn. (See p. 39.)\\nChristian Association.\\nYoung Men s Christian Association, rooms 137 Perry street, be-\\ntween Bull and Whitaker.\\nChurches.\\nBaptist, west side Chippewa Square, between Hull and McDon-\\nough. (See p. 26.)\\nBethlehem Colored Baptist, north side of New Houston street,\\nwest of Cuyler.\\nBryan First Baptist (colored), south side of Bryan street. (See p.\\n47)\\nFirst Church, Baptist (colored), southwest corner of Bryan and\\nISIonigomery, west of Franklin Square. (See p. 46.)", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 Guide to Savannah.\\nMount Zion Clmrcli, Bapfist (colored), east side West Broad street,\\nsouth of Gaslon.\\nSecond Bryan Church, Baptist (colored), northeast corner of West\\nBroad and Waldburg.\\nSecond Church, Baptist (colored), 35 Houston street.\\nCongregational Chu ch (colore south side of Taylor street, be-\\ntween Habersham and Lincoln.\\nChrist Church, Episcopal, east side of Johnson Square, between St.\\nJulian and Congress streets. (See p 21.)\\nSaint John s Church, Episcopal, west side Madison Square, between\\nMacon and Charlton streets. (See p. 29.)\\nSaint Matthew s Church, Episcopal, northeast corner of Hunting-\\ndon and Tattnall streets.\\nSaint Stephen s, Episcopal (colored), west side of Troup Square,\\nbetween Harris and Macon streets. (See p. 41.)\\nLutheran Evangelical Church of the Ascension, east side Wriglit\\nSquare, between State and President streets. (See p. 23.)\\nMethodist, New Houston Street Church, southeast corner of New\\nHouston and Jefferson streets.\\nTrinity Methodist, west side of Saint James Square, between Pres-\\nident and York streets. (See p. 45.)\\nWesley Monumental Church, Methodist, Avest side of Calhoun\\nSquare, between Wayne and Gordon streets. (See p. 41.)\\nAsbury Church, Methodist (colored), south side of Gwinnett, be-\\ntween West Broad and Burroughs.\\nBethlehem Church, Methodist (colored), east side of East Broad\\nstreet, south of Gwinnett.\\nSaint Andrew s Church, Methodist (colored), north side of New\\nstreet, east of Fahm. (See p. 48.)\\nSaint James Church, Methodist (colored), corner of Randolph and\\nPerry streets.\\nSaint Philip s Church, Methodist (colored), north side of New\\nstreet, east of Fahm. (See p. 48.)\\nPresbyterian, Anderson Street Church, southeast corner of Ander-\\nson and Barnard streets.\\nFirst Presbyterian, east side Monterey Square, between Taylor and\\nWayne streets. (See p. 32.)", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 65\\nIndependent Presbyterian, southwest corner of Bull and South\\nBroad streets. (See p. 24.)\\nPresbyterian IMission (colored), West Broad street, opposite Gaston.\\nR. C. Cathedral of our. Lady of Perpetual Help, northeast corner\\nof Abercorn and Harris streets. (See p. 40.)\\nR. C. Saint Patrick s Church, southeast corner of Liberty and West\\nBroad streets. The old temporary structure has been pulled down to\\nmake way for a fine church now in process of construction.\\nR. C. Saint Joseph s Church (colored), northeast corner of Dray-\\nton and Perry streets. (See p. 42.)\\nSwedenborgian First New Church Society no settled position, but\\nin hired halls.\\nSynagogue B Nai Brith Jacob, northeast corner of State and Mont-\\ngomery streets.\\nSynagogue Mikva Israel, east side of Monterey Square, between\\nW ayne and Gordcjn streets. (See p. 52.)\\nCharitable Asylums and Societies.\\nAbram s Home for Destitute Widows, corner of East Broad and\\nBroughton streets.\\nBethesda, for boys. (See p. 51.)\\nCatholic Female Orphanage, in charge of the Sisters of Mercy,\\nWhite Bluff.\\nEpiscopal Female Orphans Home, southwest corner of Liberty and\\nJefferson stree s.\\nGeneral Female Orphan Asylum, southeast corner of Bull and\\nCharlton streets. (See p. 29.)\\nHebrew Benevolent Association meets at private houses.\\nIndustrial Relief Society and Home for the Friendless, southwest\\ncorner of Charlton and Drayton streets.\\nGeorgia Infirmary for Colored People, east of White Bluff road,\\nnear the toll-gate.\\nMinnie Mission House for Fallen Women, southwest corner of\\nJones and Lincoln streets.\\nSavannah Hospital, Huntingdon street, between Abercorn and\\nDrayton. (See p. 35.)\\nSaint Joseph s Infirmary, northwest corner of Habersham and Tay-\\nlor streets. (See p. 41.)", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 Guide to vSavannah.\\nLadies German Benevolent Society meets at private houses.\\nSaint Andrew s Society meets at Metropolitan Hall.\\nSaint George s Society meets at Metropolitan Hall,\\nHibernian Society.\\ni German Friendly Society.\\nIrish Union Society.\\nJoseph I odge, No. 76, I. O. B. B,\\nMasonic Lodges. (See p. 42.)\\nOglethorpe Lodge, T. O. O. F., instituted 1842, DeRenne s build-\\ning, northeast orner of Bull and Broughton streets.\\nLive Oak Lodge, No. 3, I. O. O. F,, instituted 1843, DeRenne s\\nbuilding.\\nMagnolia Encampment, I. O. O. F., instituted 1845, DeRenne s\\nbuilding.\\nDeKalb Lodge, L O. O. F., instituted 1845, DeRenne s building.\\nWiklney Degree Lodge, I. O. O. F., instituted 1867, DeRenne s\\nbuilding.\\nHaupt Lodge, No. 57, I. O. O. F., instituted 1869, DeRenne s\\nbuilding.\\nMedical Society, chartered December 12, 1854, meets at members\\nhouses.\\nMetropolitan Benevolent Society, northeast corner of President and\\nWhitaker streets\\nBenedictine Monastery of the Sacred Heart, a R. C. mission for\\ncolored people, northwest corner of Habersham and Saint Paul streets.\\nR. C. Benedictine Mission for Colored People, on Skidaway\\nIsland; reached by the Isle of Hope trains.\\nCotton Exchange.\\nOrganized 1872, No. 97 Bay street.\\nCotton Press Association and Presses.\\nOffice 96 Bay street; controls the following cotton presses: Tyler,\\nRiver street, foot of Randolph; Lamar, River str\u00c2\u00ab.el, near foot of\\nRandolph Lower Hydraulic, River street, foot of Randolph Upper\\nHydraulic, River stieet, foot of Montgomery; Gordon Cotton Press,\\nCentral Railroad wharves; Central Cotton Press, Canal street, west of\\nFahm.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 67\\nConsulates.\\nArgentine Republic, 62 Bay street.\\nBelgium, 98 Bay street.\\nBrazil, 126 Bay street.\\nBritish, 89 Bay street.\\nDanish, 130 Bay street.\\nFrench, south side New Houston, first west of Whitaker.\\nGerman, 122 Bay street.\\nItalian, 62 Bay street.\\nNetherlands, 84 Bay street.\\nPeru, 62 Bay street.\\nPortugal, 62 Bay street.\\nRussia, 126 Bay street.\\nSpain, 136 Bay street.\\nSweden and Norway, 130 Bay street.\\nVenezuela, 62 Bay street.\\nNewspapers.\\nSavannah Morning News (Democratic), 3 Whitaker street. (See\\nP- 43-)\\nSavannah Weekly News (Democratic), 3 Whitaker street.\\nAhend Zeitung (Conservative), 161 Bay street.\\nDaily Evening Recorder (Independent), 161 Bay street.\\nSouthern Farmer s Monthly, 3 Whitaker street devoted to farmers\\ninterests.\\nSouthern Musical Journal, between Congress and St. Julian streets,\\non Whitaker.\\nSunday Telegram, 3 Whitaker street.\\nPolice.\\nSavannah is justly proud of her police force. A finer, more intel-\\nligent, better disciplined and uniformed police is not to be found in\\nany city of the Old or the New World. Many of the men were sol-\\ndiers in the civil war. The organization is military, with Captain,\\nLieutenants, Sergeants, Corporals and privates, and is drilled to the\\nuse of musket and bayonet, as well as to the baton and revolver. En-\\nlistments are made with care as to character and trustworthiness, so\\nthat we can safely recommend strangers to appeal unhesitatingly to\\nour policemen for information or assistance when needed. (See p. 39.)", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 Guide to Savannah.\\nBoard of Health,\\nunder the control and management of the Chief of Police, and super-\\nvised by the Saiii ary Commission. The police force constitutes the\\nboard each member having a district to attend to, and being\\nresponsible for the condition of it.\\nSanitary Commission,\\ncomposed of the Mayor, the Healtli Otticer, and five Aldermen.\\nDrainage Commission,\\ncomposed of seven citizens (medical men and others), to superintend\\nthe drainage in and around the city.\\nEducational.\\nThe civil war broke up the private academies in Savannah, and\\nafter the war the uncertain condition and prospects of the people\\ncompelled a general reliance upon the common-school system. In\\nconsequence, parents desiring thorough education for their children\\nare constrained to send them to the schools of Tennessee, Virginia,\\nMaryland, or the North. Herp, then, is an excellent opening now\\nthat peace and prosperity have returned to us for the highest order\\nof academies. The Sisters of Mercy have (at the convent) an institution\\nfor girls, the Academy of Saint Vincent, patronized by the Catholics.\\nThe Board of Education, vinder the astute management of the late\\nDr. R. D. Arnold, M. D. (its President at the time), happily accom-\\nmodated the vexed question between Catholics and Protestants in the\\ncommon schools by assigning separate school buildings to the\\nCatholics, where under teachers, nominated by themselves and con-\\nfirmed by the board, on passing a required examination they can\\ntrain their children according to their ideas of education, which\\nincludes religious and moral cultivation, as well as mental and\\nphysical training. The adjustment works harmoniously, and is satis-\\nfactory to both parties, preserving in the hands of the board the man-\\nagement of the small school fund, and applying it judiciously rata,\\nand in the maintenance of one uniform system, as follows Boys\\nHigh School, Chatham Academy; Girls High School, Cha ham\\nAcademy; Academ.y District School; Barnard Street School;\\nCathedral Grammar School, Catholic; Massic District School; Saint\\nPatrick s School (Catholic) and, for the colored people, Fairlawn", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 69\\nSchool; West Broad Street School. To these, in addition, are the\\nBeach Institute, for negroes, under the care and control of the Amer-\\nican Missionary Society the Saint Joseph s Academy, under control\\nof the Sisters of Mercy; and the Benedictine Mission School for the\\ncolored race.\\nMcCarthy Business College is devoted to penmanship and business\\neducation; and Mallette s Vocal Academy to vocal music.\\nLibraries.\\nGeorgia Historical Society, (See page 35.)\\nCatholic Library Association,\\nYouth s Historical Society, Whitaker street, northeast corner of\\nLiberty.\\nClubs.\\nSavannah Tocky Chib,\\nJohn T. Ford Amateur Dramatic Association.\\nAmateur Musical Association.\\nRice Planters Association, 86 Bay street.\\nRifle Club.\\nBartow Social Club, southwest corner of Abercorn and South Broad\\nstreets.\\nE. M. P, I. Social Club, Mozart Hall, northwest corner of Whitaker\\nand St. Julian streets.\\nHarmonic Club, northeast corner of Bull and Jones streets. (See\\npage 30.)\\nOglethorpe Club, northeast corner of Bull and Broughton streets.\\nSavannah Turn Verein, 1S7 Broughton street.\\nYoung America Social Club, 129 Bay street.\\nIncorporated Companies.\\nAgricultural and ^Mechanical Association of Georgia fair grounds\\non Augusta road, two miles from Savannah; known also as the Ten\\nBroeck race course.\\nGordon Cotton Press.\\nGas Light Company, office in the Exchange, Bay sti^eet, opposite\\nBull.\\nImproved Gas Light, 93 Bay street.\\nOcean Steamship Company, in the Exchange, Bay street, opposite\\nBull.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "^o Guide to Savannah.\\nRailroads and Depots.\\nCentral Railroad of Georgia, to Macon and the West, depot West\\nBroad street, opposite Liberty.\\nSavannah and Charleston Railway, depot south side of Liberty, on\\nEast Broad street.\\nSavannah, Florida and Western Railway, depot southeast corner of\\nLiberty and East Broad streets.\\nCoast Line Railroad, connecting with the Habersham and Brough-\\nton streets cars, Bolton street, east of Habersham.\\nSavannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad, connecting with the\\nAbercorn and Whitaker streets cars; depot southeast corner of Ander-\\nson and Whitaker streets.\\nBarnard and Anderson Street Railroad, running to Laurel Grove\\nand Batteiy Park; city terminus at the Market, corner of Barnard and\\nCongress streets.\\nRates of Porterage.\\nOmnibus fare, fifty cents per head.\\nTrunks of travelers, two and a half feet long, twenty-five cents\\neach.\\nValises, ten cents each.\\nCarpet bags, ten cents each.\\nRace Tracks.\\nTe7i Broeck Race Course. This celebrated course is at the fair\\ngrounds of the Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Georgia,\\ntwo and a half miles from the city, on the Central Railroad and\\nAugusta dirt road. It is a mile track, and over it have run the most\\nfamous racers in the United States. The Savannah Jockey Club\\nholds its annual meetings on this course in the month of January in\\neach year.\\nThunderbolt Race Track. A half-mile trotting course is, as its\\nname indicates, at Thunderbolt, (see page 58), three miles from the\\ncity.\\nRice Mills.\\nThe Upper Rice Mills, Canal street, near Fahm.\\nThe Planters Rice Mill, Canal street, near Ann; elevators on the\\nriver front.\\nThe Savannah Rice Mill, River street, East Broad street bluff.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 71\\nSteamship Lines.\\nSavannah is particularly well provided with first-class steamers to all\\nof the Atlantic seaports; commodious, comfortable, safe vessels, and\\nrunning with regularity and punctuality, under experienced, careful\\nand gentlemanly captains and officers.\\nBaltimore, Merchants and Miners Transportation Company;\\nthiough bills of lading to all points West, to the manufacturing towns\\nof New England, and to Liverpool and Bremen; passenger tickets to\\nPittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, and all points West and Northwest;\\noffice, 114 Bay street,\\nBoston and Savannah Steamship Line; through bills of lading to\\nNew England manufacturing centers, to Liverpool and Bremen; con-\\nnect at their wharf with all railroads leading out of Boston; office, 78\\nBay street.\\nNew York and Savannah, Ocean Steamship Company; through b:lls\\nof lading to Eastern and Northwestern points, and to ports of the\\nUnited Kingdom and the Continent; office. City Exchange building,\\nBay street.\\nPhiladelphia, Ocean Steamship Company; through bills of lading to\\nall points East and West, and to Liverpool and Antwerp; office,\\nExchange building.\\nSavannah and Augusta and way landings, two lines; offices at no\\nBay street, and on Pardel ford s wharf. To the traveler who is in no\\nparticular hurry, and is fond of the study of scenery, a trip up or down\\nthe Savannah river is worth making the boats are comfortable.\\nSavannah and Florida Sea Island Route, to Jacksonville. This is\\na delightful sail through the inland water courses, connecting at\\nFernandina with rail for Jacksonville. Office, corner Drayton street\\nand Bay Lane.\\nSavannah, Charleston and Florida Steam Packet Line, connecting\\nwith Charleston, Fernandina, Jacksonville, Palatka and intermediate\\nlandings on the St. Johns river. Route, outside by sea from Charles-\\nton to Savannah, to Fernandina, to Jacksonville, and return in same\\nmanner. Office, DeRenne s wharves, foot of Abercorn street.\\nSavannah regular line to St. Catherine s, Doboy, Union Island,\\nDarien, St. Simon s, Brun.Twick, and landings on Satilla river; office^\\nPadel ford s wharf.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 Guide to Savannah.\\nTelegraph Companies.\\nTybee Telegraph Company; office, 3 Bull street.\\nWestern Union Telegraph Company; connects with all the world\\nwherever there is a telegraph line; 3 Bull street.\\nExpress Companies.\\nSouthern Express Company; 107 Bay street, between Bull and\\nDrayton streets.\\nFire Department.\\nSavannah has always had an efficient fire department, but none\\nequal in organization and material to the present, which consists of\\nfour steamers, one hook and ladder truck, and five reels, managed by\\na force of one Engineer, with assistants, superintendent of the fire\\nalarm telegraph, and one hundred and forty-three officers and men,\\nand twelve horses. The engineers, superintendent, drivers, and tiller-\\nman of the hook and ladder are paid by the city; the others are\\nvokinteers, and are relieved from jury duty. The city plan of streets\\nand lanes enables the firemen to attack a burning building In front\\nand rear, and to deluge it with the Savannah river in a few moments,\\nspeedily checking the spread of the flames, and diminishing fire risks.\\nThe e is not a mure efficient fire department in the United States.\\nStatistics of Commerce.\\nAn estimate of the commercial importance of Savannah can be\\nformed from the following statistics, obtained from official sources,\\nand which are becoming larger with every year. As we have c aimed\\nat the beginning of this little volume, Savannah is, and will be in\\nthe future, the most important seaport on the Atlantic coast South of\\nthe capes of the Chesapeake, and, without a rival, the most important\\nshipping point between them and the city of JN ew Orleans. When\\ncapital shall have built a railroad to Tybee, to the lower harbor, and\\nano .her through Southern Georgia to Lumber city, and to Smithville,\\nopening the large extent of country lying between the Central Railroad\\nand the Albany and Brunswick Railroad, connecting with Montgomery,\\nAlabama, and with the projected line of rails from it through Selma\\nMeridian, Jackson, to Vicksburg, on the Mississippi river, the net-\\nwork of Savannah s railway system will have been completed, and", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 73\\nthe United States from St. Louis southward, have an additional port\\nof direct trade and travel with Europe and the rest of the world\\nwithout necessity for intermediate bonding and reshipment In these\\nenterprises the whole country is interested, especially the people south\\nof the 36\u00c2\u00b0 30^ parallel of latitude.\\nCotton.\\nReceipts from September i, 1879, to September I, 1880\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bales.\\nUplands 73^P9^\\nSea Islands 11,684\\nTotal 749 775\\nExports for same period Bales.\\nForeign Uplands 423,396\\nSea Islands 79^\\nCoastwise Uplands 303,912\\nSea Islands 10,480\\nTotal 738 584\\nOn hand for year s account of export Bales.\\nUplands 10,783\\nSea Islands 408\\nTotal 11,191\\nRice.\\nCasks.\\nReceipts for same time 3^ 974\\nExports coastwise 26,417\\nSent into the interior 9j059\\nCity consumption, etc 3.278\\n38,754\\nOn hand to next year s account 220\\nNaval Stores,\\nBarrels.\\nRosin Receipts 231,420\\nExports Foreign 65.321\\nCoastwise 150,401\\n215,722\\nOn hand to next year s account 155^98", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74 Guide to Savannah.\\nBarrels.\\nSpirits turpentine Receipts 46,321\\nExports Foreign 9^1^o\\nCoastwise 35)676\\n45439\\nOn hand to next year s account 882\\nLumber.\\nFeet.\\nExports Foreign 12,000,421\\nCoa^^tvvise 44,373,171\\nTotal 56,373.592\\nTimber Squared.\\nFeet.\\nExports Foreign 2,719,402\\nCoastwise 3.152,937\\nTotal 5.^72,339\\nVegetables and Fruits.\\nExports, in boxes and barrels, coastwise 157,009 packages.\\nThese are the prominent exports, increasing with the receipts ev-^ry\\nyear, and to which will be soon added the corn, wheat, oats, and\\nother produce of the Great West, so soon as proper arrangements for\\nelevating, warehousing and shipping shall be completed.\\nThe Canal.\\nThe Savannah and Ogeechee Canal Company was organized as the\\nSavannah, Ogeechee and Altamaha about forty-five years ago,\\nand extends froin the Savannah river to the Ogeechee river; ^246,693\\nM ere expended, when the enterprise fell through for want of energy\\nand proper management. In January, 1846, the present company\\npurchased the concern, and put the canal in thorough repair. Lumbc\\ntimber and rice come through it for market and shipment at Savannah,\\nand the enterprise is daily increasing in importance and value.\\nVolunteer Force and Armories.\\nSavannah has always been noted for its martial spirit, and well-\\ndrilled and uniformed companies. In the early days of the Republic", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Guide to Savannah. 75\\nthese military elements were cultivated as a national duty, and as a\\nwise precaution in anticipation of revolts by the slaves; but as the\\nrelations between the races became modified by time and the pro-\\ngressive influences of civilization and Christianity, what had been a\\nnecessity gradually ceased, leaving only the national obligations to\\nencourage warlike taste and exercises. These were stimulated by\\ncompany rivalry to a high degree of excellence, and it can be said,\\nwithout boasting, that the volunteer troops of Savannah are in the\\nfront rank of a well-drilled and disciplined militia.\\nTo the white volunteers are now added a remarkably fine body of\\ncolored troops that do credit to themselves and to the city. Their\\nuniforms are handsome, and their exercises and movements are of\\nexcellent attainment.\\nWe question if there be a city in the Union that can show a finer,\\nbetter drilled, and more hospitable corps of volunteers, white and\\ncolored, than Savannah. Their armories, neat, commodious, and\\nappropriately furnished, extend a soldier s welcome at all times to\\nbrother chips and to strangers.\\nSavannah, Florida and Western Railway.\\nThis road is the great highway connecting Savannah with Fforida,\\nSouthern and Southwestern Georgi i,and Eastern Alabama. It extends\\nto Bainbridge, on the Flint river, a distance of two hundred and\\nthirty- seven miles. It connects at Albany by a branch road (fifty-\\neight miles in length) with the Central and Southwestern system of\\nrailroads, and at Live Oak with the Jacksonville, Pensacola and\\nMobile for Middle Florida. Its most important branch line is the\\nnew Way Cross Short Line, recently completed to Jacksonville,\\nFlorida, distant one hundred and seventy-two miles from Savannah.\\nAt Callahan, one hundred and fifty miles from Savannah, it connects\\nwith the Floiida Transit and Peninsular Railroads for Southern\\nFlorida and the Gulf of Mexico. At Jacksonville, connection is made\\nwith that great artery of Florida commerce, the St. John s river, for\\nall points reached by that magnificent stream.\\nThis road is successor to the Savannah, Albany and Gulf and\\nAj;lantic and Gulf Railroads. It is enabled by the purchase of the\\nfranchises and privileges of those companies, which were compelled", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "7 Guide to vSavannah.\\nto sucoiin;!* to tulverse fortunes to more than realize all the anticipa-\\ntions whicli .suggested the original enterprise, and to secure to\\nSavann-ih all the advantnges which prompted its citizens to first lend\\ntheir aid to tlie scheme of its construction.\\nThe depot gounds of this road are in the southeastern portion of\\nthe city, fronting on Liberty and East Broad streets, and contain over\\neighty acres of land, well situated for the purpose, and affording\\nJimple room for the future requirements of the company. It is\\nintended, at an early date, to erect a handsome and commodious\\npassenger depot on these grounds, which will prove an ornament to\\nthat part of the city and afford the accommodation the largely\\nincreasing business of the company requires.\\nTlie wharves of ihis company stretch along tlie lower river front to\\nthe distance of nearly a mile. Built upon the foundation of a former\\nrice plantation, there has grown into existence a magnificent property,\\ncapable of answering the increasing demands of commerce for many\\nyears to come. Here, for the year ending December 31, 1881,\\n3 1, coo, coo feet of lumber and 146,000 barrels of naval stores were\\nreceived, and 13,663 tons of commercial fertilizer were handled-\\nThe earth for filling in has been brought in amount aggregating\\n250,000 cubic yards from Bruton Hill, immediately in the rear,\\nwhile the four quarters of the liabitable globe have also contributed\\ntheir quota in the discha ge of ballasi by foreign shipping. In this\\nmatter, a wise forethought has kept the lead of the demands of\\nbusiness, and abundant facilities can yet be afforded as the exigencies\\nof a prosperous trade will demand.\\nThe equipment of the new company consisting of powerful\\nengines and hundreds of freight cars, together with its perfect road-\\nway and elegant passenger coaches is fully adequate to the necessi-\\nties of its business, while, by construction and by purchase, it is con-\\ntinually adding to its stock, always in appliances of the latest and\\nmost improved character.\\nCONCLUSION.\\nIn addition to these pulilic places noted, there are many private\\nattractions in and about Savannah, such as gardens, nurseries for\\nflowers, plants, and fruits, etc., all of which will be found in the City", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "GuiJ)!-: TO Savannah. 77\\nDirectory, and to which we call tlie attention of strangers. Al.o,\\nsome small industries, possessing no great interest in themselves, ar.\\nyet, from size or fine machinery, but indicative of the spirit of indus-\\ntry born of emancipation from slavery, and which will in a few ycai S\\nmake Savannah important in her manufactures and mechanical indus-\\ntrial productions.\\nAnd now, stranger, we bid you farewell, with the hope that we\\nhave contributed to the pleasure of your visit to Savannah, and\\ninduced you to protract it beyond your first intentions.\\nFINIS.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "The Mlornmq Mews Eihritrtt\\no\\nWe are now publishing the original serials, by Southern authors,\\nwhich have appeared in the Savannah Weekly News, in a hand-\\nsome quarto form (stereotyped), printed in excellent style and on\\ngood paper.\\nTills IS the first effort of the kind ever made by a Southern pub-\\nlisher to supply an increasing demand for home literature in a cheap\\nbut substantial form.\\nThe following is a list of Libraries already issued others will\\nappear from time to time\\nNo. 1.\\nSOMBRE MONDE. By Miss MARY EOSE FLOYD, of Florida.\\nPrice 20 ceijts.\\nNo. Z.\\nMUFFIT. By Mrs. OPHELIA NTSBET REID, of Georgia.\\nPrice 20 cents.\\nNo. 3.\\nTHROUGH THE YEARS. By Miss R. J. PHILBRICK, of Georgia.\\nPrice 20 cents.\\nNo. 4.\\nREVIRESCO. By Miss M. E. HEATH, of Virginia.\\nPrice 20 cents.\\nNo. 5.\\nTHE HEATHERCOTES. By i iss MAT CRIM, of Georgia.\\nPrice 20 cents.\\nNo. 6.\\nHEKZCHEN. By Mrs. NORA LTPMAN HUSSEY of Georgia.\\nPrice 2 J cents.\\nISo. 7.\\nVASCOE; Or, Until Death. By ^irs. B. M. ZIMMEKMANN, of Florida.\\nPi ice 20 cents.\\nNo. 8.\\nONL.Y NORA HEART LEY. By Mrs. OPHELIA NISBET REID, of Georgia.\\nnice 20 cents.\\nNo. 9.\\nTHE IMAGE OF HER MOTHER. By Mrs. MARY AUGUSTA WADE,\\nof Gejrgia\\nPrice 20 cents.\\nNo. 10, iio^v in Press.\\nELIJAH H ^THURST S EXPIATION Or, The End of a Dream Life.\\nBy Miss FAJSNIE MAY WiTT, of Georgia.\\nPrice 20 cents.\\nA NEW NOVEL IS ISSUED EVERY SIX WEEKS.\\nAny of the above sent by mail, postage free, on receipt of price.\\nSAVANNAH, GA.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "IN THIS PROGRESSIVE AGE,\\nE-very person should take a good Ne^ospaper.\\nIf he lives in Georgia, Florida or South CarolLja, or is iu any way Interested\\nin these States, he should take the\\nSAVANNAH MORNING NEWS\\nas a business investment. If he is a farmer, or mei chant, or a buyer or seller\\nin any degree, it will pay liim a Imndrecl fold tiie price of h s subscrip-\\ntion, because it will ktep him posted in the market qnotations from 11\\npats of the world. He will not be dependent on his neighbor for that\\nknowledge which is m ney in liis pocket. He will also know M liat is\\ngoing on in the busy W(-rld i^round him, and his family as well as himself wi.l\\nbe more intelligent by reading the paper. If he has a daily mail ho\\nshould by all means take the\\nDAILY IVaORMINC NEWS,\\nwhich will cost him $10 a year, postage free. If he cannot get the Daily\\nregulaily he should take the\\nMAMMOTH\\nSAVANNAH IVEEKLY NEi;ys\\nContaining 8 pages of reading matter, comprising all he news of the\\nweek, Telegraphic Dispatches, up to the himr of going to press, State\\nNews, Agricultural Items, Original Serials, etc. Only $2 a year, po-.t-\\nage free. If, in addition to the e newspapeis, you want a good magazine,\\nwe offer the\\nSOUTHERN FARMER S MONTHLY,\\nAn Illustrated Journal, containing Original and Selected Agricu tural \\\\Tatter\u00c2\u00bb\\nsuitab e for the Farm and Fireside, with an Illustrat d Fashion De-\\npartment f \u00c2\u00bbr the Ladies. Brice $2 a year, postage free. Single nuu^ber\\niO cents.\\nWeekly News and Southern Farnier s Monthly one year p 50.\\nSUNDAY MORNING TELEGRAM\\nis a lively paper containing the latest telegrams. Is issued every Sunday\\nmoiaing. trice $2 a year, postage free.\\nJ. H. ESTILL, Savannah, Ga.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "vi^w wr^wwirw^ w^mr\\n^tenni^nntmq ^ome.\\n3 Wliitaker street, ||||l:f gATAIMM.\\nThe most complete establishment of the kuid in the Southeast,\\ncombining\\nPRINTING,\\nBOOK BINDING,\\nLITHOGRAPHING,\\nSTEREOTYPING.\\nMej cantile, Railroad, S earner, Show, J\\\\^eiuspaper,\\nBook, and all descriptions of Printing.\\nACCOUNT BOOKS, CHECK BOOKS, and all\\nother kinds of Blank Books made to order.\\nlitliograpM\u00c2\u00a9 EmgraYiiiig amd FrlBtiiig\\nIN THE BEST STYLE OF THE ART.\\nAll orders from home or abroad will receive prompt and care-\\nful aUention.\\nJ. H. ESTILL, Proprietor.", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3307", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3629", "width": "2433", "jp2-path": "guidetostrangers00esti_0226.jp2"}}