Atlanta’s Superior Healthfulness 37
Atlanta’s Comparative Elevation 37
Atlanta’s Growth in Population 37
How Atlanta Was Called the Gate City 38
Atlanta’s Marvelous Advance of Real Estate Values 38
Finances, Taxes and Debt 40
Atlanta’s Banks 40
Loan and Building Associations 41
Atlanta, the Distributing Point of the South 41
Melon, Fruit and Vegetable Trade 41
Live Stock Trade — Atlanta Second Mart in the Country 41
A Great Lumber Trade 42
The Magnificent March of Manufactures 42
Cotton Manufacture 42
Cotton Seed Oil 43
Carriage manufacture 43
Iron Manufacture 43
Furniture and Spring Beds 44
Atlanta’s Architectural Progress 44
Atlanta’s unsurpassed Street Railway System 44
Consolidated Street Car company 45
Atlanta’s Educational Advantages 45
Points of Atlanta 46
Atlanta’s Newspapers and Printing Offices 46
Benevolent Relief Associations 46
Atlanta’s Churches 46
Methodist Episcopal Church, South 48
First Methodist Episcopal church, South 52
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, South 53
Walker Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South 54
Paynes’ Chapel 54
St. Paul’s Church 54
Merritt’s Avenue Church 54
Park Street Church 55
Grace Church 55
Asbury Church 55
St. James Church 55
Edgewood Church 56
St. John’s Church 56
Epworth Church 56
Christian Science 56