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The connections of these make many more routes over which there are through trains, as for example, to Columbus and Albany.
The Southern Railway, Central of Georgia Railway, and Atlanta and West Point Railway have let the contract for a union passenger station at the corner of Mitchell and Madison streets, and will spend about a million dollars on the structure. Altogether they will spend two millions on the station and terminal facilities connected with it.
Atlanta’s hotel accommodations are superior to those of almost any other city in the South. The Piedmont is a fire-proof building of the best class, with steel frame. The Kimball, the Aragon, the Majestic, and the Marion have long enjoyed an enviable reputation with the traveling public. There are numerous smaller hotels and any number of boarding-houses. Atlanta is the stop-over point for the Florida winter travel, both going and coming, and is rapidly becoming a summer resort by reason of its elevation, bracing atmosphere, and cool climate.
The Radius of Distribution.
Atlanta’s advantages as a distributing point are shown by the central location with reference to Southeastern towns. There are seventy-nine towns of exceeding 4,000 population in Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi. The average distances of these towns by States from Atlanta, Savannah and Nashville are as follows:
| ATLANTA | SAVANNAH | NASHVILLE | ||||
| Alabama | 195 miles | 419 miles | 269 miles | |||
| North Carolina | 400 miles | 352 miles | 629 miles | |||
| South Carolina | 239 miles | 193 miles | 526 miles | |||
| Georgia | 147 miles | 233 miles | 386 miles | |||
| Mississippi | 423 miles | 606 miles | 440 miles | |||
| ———— | ———— | ———— | ||||
| 1,404 miles | 1,803 miles | 2,250 miles | ||||
| Average distance of towns in five States | 280.8 miles | 360.6 miles | 450 miles |