Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-02-23

handle the immense volume of ship
ping for which that coast is the nat
ural outlet, and the new administra-
ton could not better dispose of Fifteen
or twenty millions of the surplus
than in making at least three good
harbors on the gulf coast Of Texas,
say at Galveston, Arkansas Pass, and
one other point. ...
The coast towns Of Texas are
rapidly gaining favor as winter re-
sorts, and owing TO their freedom
from yellow fever and other epidem-
les, are attracting large per cent of
the traVei which has hitherto poured
into Florida during the winter
months. Corpus Christi, with its
beautiful bay, picturesque location,
and pleasant climate, is certainly Il
most delightful place to spend a
winter, and at Rockport, twelve or
fifteen miles above, an elegant new
hotel has just been completed on the
beach.
Enroute from Rockport to Calves
ton we reached Yoakum, new
town on the San Antonio and Aran-
sas Pass Railroad, about daylight
one morning, and were delayed there
for three hours waiting for the track
to be cleared of a wreck some miles
ahead. Yoakum claims the distinc-
ton of being the first town in the
world to secure n cotton compress
during the first six months of its eX-
istence. 1t was quite novelty to
many of the Northern editors, being
the first sight they had ever had of a
cotton compress at work.
We reached Galveston about 3
o'clock in the afternoon Of Dec. 9Th,
and remained there until 6 p. M,
the next day, as guests of the city,
and never was a crowd more hOspita-
bly, received and entertained. The
entire party was quartered at the Ire
mont Hotel, where grand ball and
recep ton in honor of the National
Editorial Association was given at
night. Galveston is pretty city,
with broad, well paved, and clean
streets. II has many blocks of i'm
posing buildings, and on every hand
were to be seen striking evidences Of
thrift, enterprise and flourishing
business. The city of Galveston is
situated on an island between the
bay and gulf just mile wide and
several of them long. The streets
run at right angles across and
lengthwise Of the island. We were
told that during storms the waves
frequently sweep across the city from
gulf to bay. 1t was quite calm the
day we spent there, however, and
the tide very gently washed the
sands along the beautiful beach on
the gulf shore,
The last city to be visited by the
Association in body was Dallas,
Texas, bat in order to reach home in
time to meet some business engage.
ments, this scribe had to desert the
party at Galveston. Leaving Calves
ton at 6 p. M, Thursday evening, we
crossed the Mississippi at New Or
leans Friday afternoon, and reached
Nashville for breakfast Saturday
morning.
Taken altogether the trip was :
most delightful and interesting one
! We were away from home jus
) twenty-five days, and travelled some
thing near six thousand miles, or al
) average of nearly three hundred
miles day. Four whole days wer'
spent in San Antonio, and three il
the City of Mexico. Just eleven o.
the twenty two nights out, we spen
aboard railroad trains, five in MeXi
co, and six through portions of Ten
: nessee, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana
Mississippi and Alabama. 1t cal
readily be seen from this that it wa
a very hurried trip, and the impress
sions and information gathered wer
necessarily meagre in detail. TIL,
articles we have published give blu
mere skimming Of the trip. The.
all had to be prepared from memory
We were too much occupied in sigh
seeing and time was too brief to de
vote any of tito manufacturing not
. book. We carried along a nice littl
note book for the purpose, and conf
IDENTIFY expected to fill ii full, but tn,
backs Of a couple of envelopes wOulc
hAl1 oil Nhn ,nafln