People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1895 — The Sunny South. [ARTICLE]

The Sunny South.

Thomasville. Ca.. Mar. 14. 1 shall try to give a description of Thomasville, the winter re- ;• >rt of Georgia. This section has advantages over Florida as i’ie atmosphere is dryer and the temperature more uniform, as it ; ; sufficient distance from the ■■'a to av oid the north-east storms which sweep down the eastern coast. The town is situated in ihe extreme south-west of Georgia on the Savannah, Florida and Western R. R. It has several good hotels and many notale northern people visit it in io winter, Gov. McKinley and rife being here at this time, 'here are also many elegant private residences in and about lie town. The drives are delightful and i siting and shooting are abundnt. Mr. Stewart, landlord of he Stewart hotel, is rather a peculiar man. One of his peculi•l’ities is posting notices about i iie house. He has a permanent blackboard over the fireplace on • liichis inscribed, “My time is hve minutes faster than the railroad. This is the only second class hotel in America. Guest-s ■ ; li please report bite, sight or noli of bed bugs.'’ Bui with oil his peculiarities he knows ~ow to rim a hotel. They have ■>. tine resort in the pines here le natives have named Yankee Paradise, Au inquisitive ya-n----i-.ee, the other day, asked a resilent what they lived on here, hisanswer was, “Ou sick yankces : rincipally.” Another feature of life strikes lie stranger as peculiar. It is ■he chain gang to which criminals for petty offences are sent- , meed, and with braceletson their ■..ikies, attached to a chain, they i ..o about like hobbled animals, pud work the roads. White men j nd women are subject to the , a,me punishment for the same ! -ffences as negroes. A white man | is a better chance of being ; nailed out than his colored broth- | er. The entire gang has an pverI eer and a guard. The women 1 have no chain attached to their I limbs, and generally do the odd ,obs such.as carrying water for .he rest of the gang. The water of Thomasville is good, being supplied by artesian .’ells. Add to this the salubrious uniform climate, and the immense pine forests, and I know of no more desirable place for a winter resort especially to an invalid. particularly one who has pulmonary trouble. There is little sickness except as northern people bring it. I think there is no part of our county i hat has been so little affected by the late panic as the south. I K.