The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-04-12
NO. 211.
A LIVE RAILWAY CENTER.
Texarkana Tangled Wed of
Many Steel Railroads.
EXTENDING IN EVERY DIRECTION.
A City Where the Bailroad Man
Rules Supreme A Former Little
Rock Man General Manager Of the
Port Arthur Route News and Cos
sip, Personal and Otherwise, Per-
tanning to the Tri-state City.

Port Arthur R0ute-NeWS ana Cos
sip, Personal and Otherwise, Per-
tanning to the Tri-State City.
The Arkansan who hasn't visited
Texarkana doesn't know hls own
state. It's every bit as well worth
a visit as is Hot Springs, and the
experience is not at all Of similar
character At the Springs there is
an air Of elegant leisure combined
with intense suffering and personal
misery; a rush and push like a
young Chicago, ladies In silks and
beggars in rags, At TeXarkana the
grimy faced railroad man in jacket
and Jumpers Is cock Of the Walk,
and the dressy conductor clad in
uniform olblue, andgaily decorated
with buttons Of brass, Is very much
in evidence, And no wonder that
this is so-Its railroads everywhere
like a tangled wed Of shImmering
steel changing bells to the right,
kissing steam to the left aud
screaming whistles generally, One
man inquiries when the Kaysee ar
rivcs, another wants to know when
the Cotton Belt leaves, when the
Mountain comes In, when the Tee
pee starts, something about the
langean, or the Transcontlnental
70 a visitor II would seem rs If they
were AL making a successful at
tempt to arrive and depart stimuli
taneousIy and that they were
keeping It up indefinitely If Tex
arkana wants any more railroads
and no doubt she does, we Imagine
she will have trouble In wedglng
them ln
The Gazette man Ilundley Seyier,
formerly Of Little Rock, and at one
time connected with The Gazette,
on The street, lie was "lust going
over into Texas TO hustle up a man.
and q drummer Ot the hotel was
"goIng to run down into Louisiana
this afternoon, get back tonight,
aud 20 over into the territory TO.
morrow" That's the way they
talk Texas II only across the
street from Arkansas, and Bonisia-
na and the Territory are close at
hand, The town being In two states
has two municipal governments,
two sets Of officers, but oaly one
postollce, While there are several
depots they are all punched and
TO all intents and purposes the same
asa Union depot,
The electric light service Ia good,
tht theetrcet cars are awlully bad
when compared with the glt-up-
and.gt of the people, the eharae'
ter OF the buildings aud the rall-
road business, There are number
Of handsome public buildings, but
the business houses are not ag good
comparatively a. the homes OF the
people, An uHusal thing Is the
fact that II has newspaper man
who owns property u newspaper
man whom his fellow citizens refer
TO as rich, splendid fellow, and Of
whom everybody speaks u good
word, W, Gardner,
A former resident Of Little Rock
a gentleman who was at one time
the local freight agent OF the Iron
Mountain, IN now general manager
Of the Port Arthur foute=Mr w.
A, Williams, He Ia one of the finest
executive officers Of the country,
aud during the transition period Of
his big plllt0ad system hh splendid
business ability has received mafk-
cd attention on all sides, Little
Rock wishes him well, aud has
800, 900 hung up for his railroad
whenever II will build lls line to The
gates OF the city,
The feSarhana society news de-
partment Of ''fhe Gazette" has
been placed In charge Of Miss Ma
fioa Calvin, who Ia we'll known In
Little Rock aa a charming And ae'
oomplIshed Young lady aud a most
graceful and pleasing writer She
IL connected with the dry goods
millinery house Of joe Winter
and numbers her feKafkaha friends
by the score, The city circulation
of the "rhe Gazette" was placed IN
charge Of Mr. o. w. pennock, Jr,
who supplies all the news stands,
delivers ''lhe Gazette 20 subserib-
efs IA all parts OF the city, aud who
Ia also the teegfaphie corresponds
ent of "the UaEetle' Orders left
with Mr pehn0tk Tor 1.-THE daa
selte' will receive prompt atlen'
tl0hi
Judge j y, Cook, Hon, Minor
Wallace, Judge b, A. Byfne, Col,
Dorian, MIR, Geo, West, Mf, I'D
Hayes, representing the Dickinson
Hardware Company the liaglanda,
| doe Winter aud Sharpe n brewer
Vrpr auouuu the uuod ueouls iuIhs