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SAVANNAH
NEVER LAST AND OFTEN FIRST
By PLEASANT ALEXANDER STOVALL
The city of Savannah is now a centre of
railroad and steamship lines. It has the
heaviest commerce of all the Atlantic ports
south of Baltimore. It is the largest naval
stores market in the world, and its cotton
and lumber receipts are very considerable.
But in spite of its commercial primacy
Savannah preserves a distinct flavor of the
olden time. On the shores of the Savannah
River, where the British ships were burned in
the Revolution, a railroad system is cutting
slips and building piers, spending a million
dollars in terminal facilities. The high bluff
where the early colonists planted their crane in
1732 to move goods from the ships to the
river bank is now walled in stone, and the
strand is gridironed with steel rails. The
