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The electricity to be received in this city is estimated for nearly all the year at about forty-two thousand horse power, reduced for a very small part of the time, at very high or very low water, possibly to about thirty-six thousand horse power, certainly not less. This is said to be greater than that of any electrical plant in operation in the country, except at Niagara. The plant is expected to begin supplying electricity about the latter part of 1907.
The effect of this immense voline of cheap power, applied to the various use of electricity, including manufacturing, lighting and the operation of interurban railway lines, is expected to be very great, and the dawning of a new day for our city and a great access to our present activity and prosperity are hoped for as a result of this colossal enterprise.
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CHATTANOOGA WHARF-TENNESSEE RIVER.
STEAMBOATS ON THE TENNESSEE.
Chattanooga, like many other river cities, has seen the com- mureial importance of it- watery road provided by Nature eclipsed In the man-made railway, but our city connects with the vast system of arteris of conunetee spread over so large a portion of the continent, of which the Missouri and Mississippi are the great components.
The great extent of the Tennessee is not realized even by all those living upon its bank. Navigable for a considerable dist- anew above Chattanooga, it draw - headwaters from Virginia and North Carolina. and, winding through Tennessee till it cross the southern boundary. passes over nearly the whole northern width of Mabama, washes a corner of Mississippi, flow - north wand over the whole breadth of Tennessee, crosses western Ken- tueky. and. after making its magnificent curve with its regal distances between east and west and twice between north and south. blend- its waters with those of the this, then to pas- down the great "Father of Waters." which the Spaniards edled the river of the Holy Spirit, on its way to the fault and the Atlantic.
The scene of the picture is the what of the Temesser River Navigation Company a short distance down stream from where the mothera end of Market street reaches the river. The tore most steamboat is the N. B. Forrest, the figure of the horseman luet ween the chimneys evidently representing that great cavalry leader who fought so bravely at Chickamauga, and whose name is borne by the camp of Confederate Veterans at Chattanooga. The other boat, with the star between the chimneys, is the Avalon.
A steamboat ride through the beautiful mountain scenery blow Chattanooga is a game treat. When in ISSO our people, enter taining the execution party, mostly Cincinnatians, which can Over the Cincinnati Southern Railway shortly after it - opening. found transportation inadequate to take them all on Lookont Mountain at one time, the diffienlty was solved by sending some of them under suitable went down the Tennessee, tofuning In rail over the Nashville road. Each party felt sorry for the other it having missed what they had seen
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SLOPE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE -DE LONG'S POINT.
DE LONG'S POINT-MISSIONARY RIDGE.
The traveler approaching Missionary Ridge from Chattanooga spes right and left two observation towers, rach on ground constituting part of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. They and three on the Chickamauga battlefield are muitono, of steel and iron, seventy fort to upper platform, and one hundred and thirty five feet to the top of flag staff. (The Wilder Brigade monument of stone at Chickamauga and the two stone towers at the entrance to Point Park on the top of Lookout Mountain are also intended for observation towers. !
The northeimmost of the two towers on Missionary Ridge (the oule at the traveler's lefty is seen on this striking and picturesque knoll projecting westward toward- Chattanooga and taking its name from a citizen who made it his home some years after the war. The view is trom the Govern 10010 Boulevard on Missionary Ridge. looking northerly. To the left from the tower, just before the slope begins, is a Minnesota monument.
This point bears important relation to the memorable rush of the Union troops up Missionary Ridge on the afternoon of 25 November, 1863. Then has been some dispute as to which reached the crest at this particular place, but then. H. V. Boynton states that the tower marks the point where Van Derveer's Brigade, the center of Baird's Division (the left division of the line of assaults sealed the rider. Phelps' Brigade assaulting through the ravive to the left and Turdan's Brigade along the open slope to the right (shown in the foreground of this pietme).
The Government has here five and a quarter acres,
The monument faces cast, the front bearing in bronze the seal of Min Nesota, and below it the inscription :
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The inscriptions on the other faces recount services and losses of the 24! Minnesota, and names of regiments, Minnesota, Ohio and Indiana, ot Van Derveer's Brigade Divers tablet- give military information.
M right of picture is the Government Boulevard, at the left may be gren part of Chattanooga, and beyond. Walden's Ridge in the background.
A splendid view is had from the tower platform, the eye. as in an amphi theater, reaching a mountain horizon at nearly every part of the sky lite. while in the teares landscape que seen portions of the Tennessee riser.
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ILLANOIS MONUMENT ON MISSIONARY RIDGE.
In that memorable charge up Missionary Ridge on the after- noon of 25 November, 1863, the center of Sheridan's Division reached the summit at a point now marked by an observation tower and by the Illinois monument shown in this picture, which moment is also seen partially and on a small scale in the view entitled BRAHE'S HEADQUARTERS-MISSIONARY RIDGE, in connection with which view- is given an interesting story of Sheridan and Bragg.
The monument faces cast. or nearly so, and this view is taken from a point southeasteily, looking northwesterly.
At the right is the bronze infantry soldier at northeast corner, it whose elbow is seen the sponge of the artilleryman of the north- West corner. On the other side of the seal of Illinois stands at the southeast corner a tromper in act of drawing saber, and at the southwest corner an officer, field glass in hand.
The north face of the monument bears the words:
THE COMMANDS INSCRIBED ON THIS MONUMENT WERE ENGAGED IN THE ASSAULT ON MISSIONARY RIDGE. NOVEMBER 2510. 1863.
On that face and on the west and south are details concerning Willich's, Wagner's, Grovt's, Sherman's, Harker's, Carlin's, Wand's and Moore's Brigades.
The observation tower stands some forty five paces southerly from the monument,
the Government has here two and three fourths acres of land. enclosed in an ornamental wire fence and intersected by the Mi- sionais Ridge Boulevard.
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ON THE BANKS OF THE TENNESSEE.
GLIMPSE OF THE TENNESSEE
In the mingled sunlight and shadow of the foreground of this picture are seen two cabins of the poorer class of Tennessee house -. and in the shade of the one to the left a little family group There is unich sturdy independence and cheering contentment atuong Tennesseeans who are lacking in worldly goods, and from before the State's birth to recent days, men, poor and rich, in peace and war, from King's Mountain and Chahuette, through Mexico, the Civil War and later scenes have done much to make the name of the Volunteer State a bright heritage for the Country.
A view is given of the Tennessee, that great and beautiful river, which with headwaters in Virginia and North Carolina, flow- across East Tennessee, narrowly misses the northwest corner of Georgia, enter- Alabama nem its northeast comer and emerges at it- northwest, forming for a short distance the northeast boundary of Mississippi, goes entirely across Tennessee again. and after crossing the western portion of Kentucky unites it- waters with those of the Ohio at Padneah.
The picture is taken from the side of Walden's Ridge under Signal Point. The dark foliage towards the lett is on Williams Island, across the water from which is seen at the right a portion of Raccoon Mountain, and to the left of this, in the distance, the outline of the northern end of historic Lookout.
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THIE COUNTY BRIDGE FROM BOYNTON PARK.
BOTH SIDES OF THE TENNESSEE. FROM BOYNTON PARK.
Cameron Hill, the highest elevation inside the corporate limits of Chattanooga, gives a line view of the city and its surround- mas. On its sumunit is the Park named in his lifetime for the Louented Gen. H. V. Boynton. from which three of the views of this album are taken.
Confederate common were taken onto Cameron Hill to answer Wilder's bombardment from Stringer's Ridge in 1863.
This view is from the eastern side. looking somewhat north of va-1, and shows a portion of the northein part of the city; the Tennessee river, the county bridge under which the river flows- esteels towards the left of the picture, though soon to change its course, and Hill City, one of Chattanooga's suburbs, at the meth end of the bridge.
Visitors who have not the to make the trip to Lookont Vonmain. Missionary Ridge or Chickamauga should by ivan- fail to ascend this hill, and even if they have seen those historie localities they will do well not to omit Boynton Park. from which they can not only see so well the city and suburbs. but est a long range view of se much of the battlefield region.
THE WH.DER BRIGADE MONUMENT-CHICKAMAUGA.
On an elevation in open ground close to the timber, on the west side of the Glenn Field, stands this massive structure, serving as a monument for John T. Wilder's famous brigade of mounted infantry and as a Government observation tower. It faces west- orly, is eighty feet and six inches to top landing, and is ascended inside by a spiral flight of one moindred and thirty seven stone stops.
Among the trees and in the open, numerous monument- suggest the bloody record of Chickamauga, and some twenty-five paces north a tablet indicates the site of the Widow Glenn House. Rosecrans' headquarters from before noon of Saturday to some time in the morning of Sunday, 20 September, 1803, where corp- commanders gathered after the close of the first day's fight, for conference and for orders for the next day, and which house was innned by a shell during the next day's battle.
This celebrated brigade, armed with repeating rifles, a sparer weapon at that time, took important parts in the great draini of which Chickamauga was so bloody a scene.
The monument was begun by the brigade and finished ly tle Park Commission. Near the foot of the colum. in line from above the door, is the inscription :
WILDER'S LIGHTNING BRIGADE MOUNTED INFANTRY 4THE DIVISION- - - REYNOLDS. HTH CORPS- - THOMAS
and there are inscriptions on each of the faces of the ba-
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KELLY FIELD-PERHAPS BLOODIEST OF ALL CHICKAMAUGA.
AT EDGE OF KELLY FIELD CHICKAMAUGA.
Stirring and bloody memories of tatetil Chickamauga arise in the vet etan's mind at name of the Kelly Field, in which and the woods adjoining was the most bloody place of the whole battlefield, unless at Snodgrass Will, and where of the right tfour on each sider holding the rank of com mand of general officers who died in the two days battle, four. the Con federates Holm (Mrs. Abraham Lincoln's brother in law), Deshler and Colquitt, and on the Union side King. were killed on the second day of the battle. Sunday. September 20. 1563.
The P'nìon line in the Kelly Field, bring on the left wing, was heavily assaulted on the morning of that terrible Sunday, but held firm, un did it give way when the pieremg of the center a little before noon brought such rhin to much of the line. During the afternoon its defender- were again resisting fierer attack while their comrades were clinging to Snodgrass Hill, and it was only about half past five that the last of its torres with drew. umdler orders, holding ont longer than any hotly contested part of the battlefield except Snodgrass Hill.
A speaker at the Park Dedication said :
"The Kelly House itself and its surroundings were in ruins, the fields covered with broken gun carriages, wounded and dead horses, and dead men, and here and there were ambulances and litter bearer- hurrying in from the lines with the wounded. Everywhere was destruction, desolation, and horror. One of the mwen turned from this scene to me and said. Cap tain. if this army is destroyed, what is there between this and the Ohio River to stay the enemy ?' I answered. Nothing.'
"There was another pause and another look around. then, with a sweep. ing gesture with his arm. he said, "Well. rather than anything like this should come to our homes in Indiana I would leave my bones bleaching on this field.""
This view is taken in the woods in the northeast edge of the field. The monument with soldier kneeling on one knee and the similar one with soldier lying down abont to fire, and the taller one to the right of this and further back are respretively to the 16th. Both and Isth U. S. Infantry That at the left, with standard-bearer. is to the 10th Wisconsin Infantry. and to the right of it and further back is one to the 94th Ohio Infantry- The low monmment capped with a large acorn is to the 24 Ohio Infantry, and the one to the right. also bearing the acorn, the badge of the 14th Army Corps, is to the 33d Ohio Infantry.
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1 Wisconsin-Orchard Knob 2.New York-Orchard Koob 3.Maryland Orchard Knob A New York-Lookout Mt.
MONUMENTS OF STONE AND BRONZE.
MONUMENTS AT ORCHARD KNOB AND LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN.
flad the neighborhood of Chattanooga no other attraction to offer the visitor he could still spend much time in the contem- plation of the wealth of military momments with which the National Park abomul -.
The first three of this group are located at Orchard Knub. lying between i battanooga and Missionary Ridge, captmed by the 1 nim forres on the day before Hooker's fight on the slope of Lookout Mountain, and constituting Grant's headquarters at the time of the storming of Missionary Ridge. Orchard Knob is devoted in part to monuments to troops whose servier were not within any of the grounds of the Park.
The one at the lett, smimounted by a globe, was created by Wisconsin, being the same which appears on the sky line at night of picture entitled ORCHARD KAOB -NATIONAL PARK.
The next is a New York monument, at the sununit of which a bronze infantryman. gun hild forward ready to raise to shoulder. a man prepared to take instant part in the struggle, gazes ca-1 towards Missionary Ridge, This monument appears at the left of the other picture.
The Maryland monument, numbered 3, is erected to her sons of the Blue and Gray, as is done in the case of the Kentucky monument at Chickamauga, the only two sich instances in the Park, though Tennessee and Missouri have separate memoritdy. The three statues, the standard bearer at the top of the moon ment, the Union infantryman and the Confederate artilleryman. are all of stone
The momument at the right of the picture, capped by a stand- and-bearer in bronze, is one placed by the State of New York on the side of Lokout Mountain, where was fought what is an often called the "Battle above the Cbinds" It appears on small sales elsewhere in this series.
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GATEWAY TO THE CONFEDERATE CEMETERY.
CONFEDERATE CEMETERY-CHATTANOOGAA.
This view shows the memorial arch and gateway of the Confederate Cemetery at Chattanooga, with a portion of the interior and the Confe- crate moment. This cemetery, embracing about three acres, lies just most of the City Cemetery, and the gateway faces west of south across East Fifth street. The number of graves is estimated at about eleven hun- dred, including reinterments since the was, and graves of persons dying since prace came. Of course the soldiers there buried are but a small par- tion of the Confederates killed at Chickamauga and elsewhere mar t'hat-
The ground is kept in excellent order, trees, shrubbery, flowers and gra> helping to make it attractive.
The early care of the cemetery and the erection of the monument was the work of the Ladies' Memorial Association. The monument, Whose cornerstone was laid lo May, Ist7, is thirty feet high, bearing the in scription :
( O\FEDERATE DEAD.
A subsequent report by a committee of N. B. Forrest Camp says: "It is with pleasure that we here make record of the fact that in the efforts of the ladies to secure funds, generous donations were given by a number of persons from the North, resident in this city, and by many of Federal sol dier : and at the laying of the cornerstone of the moment troops from the U. S. Barracks Took part in the merrins."
The Ladies' Memorial Association has ceased to exist, and the cemetery 1. now cared for by the Memorial Committee of N. B. Poirest Camp. I. U. V .. and a committee of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The corner Stone of the arch and gateway was laid 22 Max. 1901.
Inside the shother gateway is a metal tablet with the inscription:
BY THE DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY ( HAPPER S] CHATTANOOGA. TEVAESSLE TO COMMEMORATE THE VALOR AAH HEROISM THAT OUR CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS DISPLAYED IN THEIR BATTLE FOR OUR BELOVED SOUTHLAND IN DIE WAAR FROM ISGI To IST5. IN FRATERNAL RECOGNITION OF V. B. FORREST CAMP C. C. A.
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EIGHTI STREET-LOOKING EAST FROM MARKET.
EIGUTH STREET LOOKING EAST.
This view of an important part of the business section of Chattanooga is taken from West Eighth street. looking cast across Market street up East Eighth street past Cherry to Georgia avenue, shortly beyond which East Eighth street di- appears in the picture, being deflected somewhat to the right and leaving the Times biulding on its left.
in the foreground are portions of the Loveman Block at the right on the southeast corner of Market and Eighth and of the Vandeman Block to the left on the northeast corner. In the background is seen a considerable part of the Chattanooga Time- building, which, like the Church of the Invalides at Paris. i- readily distinguishable by the visitor by its gilded dome.
I traveler who had last seen our city even many years after the war would utterly fail to recognize this transformed view of so familiar a locality in Chattanooga. With the march of prog- res, it may in the future appear strange to those who know it
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XINTH STREET -- A BUSY MART OF TRADE.
NINTH STREET LOOKING EAST.
Had Rip Van Winkle visited Chattanooga at any time for many years after it had a railway. he must almost inevitably have looked on the scene ot this picture, which shows Ninth street from where Chestnut and Carter come together, eastward across Broad and Market to the confluence of Cherry street and Georgia avenue where East South street turns to the right. a little towards the south, and speedily passes out of the line of view. But had he made his visit even for a time after the war and then dropped into shunber in some shady hollow of Lookout Mountain or Walden's Ridge till today. he would utterly fail to recognize the scene.
Looking to the left where stands the Road House, he would seek in vain the historic Crutchfield House which served as a hospital for so many of the Chickamauga wounded, and following with his eve the same side of the street he would ser nothing familiar. Looking to the right towards the old Union Depot where for so long all railway passengers entered or left Chat- tanooga he would see the freight building of the Nashville, Chat- tanooga & St. Louis Railway, part of the front of which is first sten at the right in the picture, and even if he stood opposite the old depot he would find it hidden by the front added to it (next building on right in the view ), though if he went within he would find the old shed with the stone inscribed :
Built in I85s. EIGENE LEHARDY. Civil Engineer. JOHN LOTHER Master Mason.
Following that side of the street he would find it unrecognis- able like the other.
It would not need the appliances of telephones and of electric light and traction to disguise the view.
And should he go back for another long vap, what would he find our city when he again returned? Certainly not the same it in the future it antshes ahead as in the past.
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PORTION OF ARMY POST -- FORT OGLETHORPE.
FORT OGLETHORPE-CHICKAMAUGA.
The United States has recently constructed, at a cast of be- tween one and two million dollars, at the northern end of the grounds of the National Military Park lying at Chickamauga, one of the largest and finest cavalry posts in the whole country, Fort Oglethorpe, where the 12th U. S. Cavalry is now stationed.
The view, which embraces but a portion of the parade-ground and buildings, is taken lookingly sontherly, from the porch of one of the officers houses. Three other officers houses appear at right of pieture, mit, going left. is the administration building. then three barracks, the flagstaff standing in front of the first though from the point of view of the pietie it appears against the second. Then comes a guardhouse, and, last at the left. another barrack. On either side of the guardhouse something max be seen of the tables in the real.
Uncle Sam cannot rightfully be areused of lack of care for his soldier boys, in service or out. In respect to pay, rations and general comfort, pensions for men and families and care when gathered into Colliers Homes, he seis a bright example to other nation -.
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VIEW FROM BOYNTON PARK.
CHATTANOOGA FROM BOYNTON PARK. CAMERON HILL ..
In the western portion of Chattanooga there runs northerly tod southerly a long elevation, the highest part of which, to the noith, bears the name of Cameron Hill, on the summit of which is Boynton Park.
In every direction the eye ran feast on the beauties of Nature, the series comprising the city: the Tennessee river alone Chat- tihonga and as it How - past its northern and western sides, and Men a little of the same river after doubling on its course. flowing northerly; the suburbs of Chattanooga, and the envire ling ridges and mountains which help make the great amphi- theatit. Three views From the Park are embraced in this series.
Font pieces of artillus printing westerly across the river line the west brow of the northern end of the Hill, and near by is a tablet padding
SHE OL SIGNAL. STATION. ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND.
This view is taken from the east side, looking somewhat south of east. and includes the heart of the city, so transformed by industry and progress from what it was even for years after the war.
On The Justizon is Missionary Ridge, serne of such stirring mention25 November. 03. now embellished with military moment. hned with residences. and forming an attractive suburb of Chattanooga.
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CHEERFULNESS WITHOUT CASH.
CABINS ON SIDE OF WALDEN'S RIDGE. -
There is a good deal of solid comfort at times, and not always as much misery as might be supposed. in the levels of the poor in the country.
The negro girl sitting on the threshold of the right hand cabin, the little girl standing beside her. the mother whose tur baned head is seen inside, the barefoot boy with the dog outside. may not always have as much as they like to cat, and their fare is of the coarsest, though the coop in front of the other cabin Suggests some toothsome luxury, but the root will keep out the storm, and though some of the thinking has fallen from between the logs, they can keep comfortable in the worst weather with a big five of fallen timber in the stone chimney, they have all excellent location for health, perhaps pay neither rent nor Have. and are not troubled by notes falling due in bank, by the thetna. tions of the stock market, or the questions of our relation with foreign powers. Besides, they have an abundant leisure to which most of the dwellers in cities are strangers. Their lot might well be harder.
Gray cliff- help torm a picturesque background. On the sky line over the chimney at Year of left hand cabin and on the brow of Walden's Ridge is the noted Signal Point, whose pine tree is Shown so conspicuously in the view entitled FROM SIGNAL. POINT- WALDEN'S RIDGE.
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