The Van Buren press., 1895-08-24
Colonel DeMahier's Review Of Van
euren's Great Agricultural
and Business Inter-

suren's Great Agricultural
and Business Inter-
osts.
The most complete write up Of the
agricultural and business interests of
Van Buren, and vicinity is published in
the Little Rock Gazette of Tuesday.
from the pen of that accomplished
gentleman and writer, Col. DeMahler,
staff correspondent Of the Gasette.
better known to the press Of the State
as Potomac. The article is copy-
righted by the author and we are not
permitted to make general extracts from
1t as we would wish but are allowed by
the writer to clip the following:
MISS FANNIE SCOTT.
OF all authorities brought out in the
course Of these notices, the lady whose
name heads this chapter is the first cited
for the reason that in the character Of
Arkansas State Lady Manager at the
Worlds Fair more was done by her TO
the honor Of Arkansas, and more honor
done to the womanhOod Of our State
than 1t were in detail possible to recount
IN volume of 4 thousand pages.
What is meant suggests itself when Il
Is said that her part toward the success
OF Arkansas exhibit was not only that
OF an organizer and collector of every
creditable thing likely to aid in display
Of Arkansas civilization, but it was
also her part to extend a hospitable
welcome to all who visited the Arkansas
exhibit, particularly the thousands from
Alabama, Mississippi. Georgia, Ten
nessee and the two Carolinas, who, In
the absence Of state buildings of their
own, sought that Of Arkansas to find 1t
In fact as in name the house of friend.
And hence, in the sense that the lady
is without doubt the best informed
woman in the State upon the subject Of
Arkansas resources and advantages, II
must follow Of course that her knowl-
edge OF the situation found here Is only
limited by the fact that she is predis.
posed to love her State first of all
things, and therefore, II anything pre-
disposed to speak Of this part of Arkan.
sas, her town and county with a
moderation that Is colored by the dis
interested judgment of others rather
than by partialities Of her own. Or, in
other words, being true to her State as
a whole, she is therefore as an authority
all the truer to her town and county.
For the benefit of the many guests of
the Arkansas building who 80 often
speak Of Miss Scott, it should be added
that something Of the gracious
personality which at her hands marked
their reception is accounted foI in the
fact that In her antecedents she is a
gentlewoman, and In her education an
alumnus of the same institution from
which Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Potter
Palmer and Mrs. Cyrus Field
graduated, the famous Ogontz School,
known in her day (1872) as the Chestnut
Street Seminary, Philadelphia.
She is on the maternal side a grand
daughter of Col. John Drennen, founder
Of Van Buren,, and daughter Of Chas.
G.. Scott, Of Maryland, whose wife,
Caroline l.. Scott (nee Drennen), is
celebrated in the social annals Of her
day as the loveliest, gentlest and most
accomplished woman in the State.
The manor seat Of the family known
as "Drennen 8 Reserve, Is one of the
oldest and most romantic in the State
It occupies height which on the one
hand commands a view of the town,
and on the other commands one of the
lovliest landscapes in the world. And
Of truth taken together, the oldtime
mansion lifted above the dust and din
Of the town. view of flowing river,
valley, forest, fields and distant
mountain backgrounds, it is a scene
which to see is worth journey to
Western Arkansas. Though to the
manor born at this place, until 1885
Miss Scott had in greater part made her
home at Little Rock.