The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-03-04

ST: SUNDAY MORN
also cast my vote for the locomotive as tho
most useful invention, ! am, 16 years old
I think that THIS is the best club OF boys
and girls ever read. think Philip Web
! ster and Charley Fuller. nom Taylor,
and George Ford write very interesting
letters. l think the next contest ought
10 be who was the greatest hero OF the
civil war on the Southern sideg We have
had the pleasure OF seeing MIR. George
Ford. He doesn't seem to like town boys,
but before long we will try to get better
acquainted. We all like to see the new
! inventions when they appear in Dallas
We can hardly sleep sometimes when It
is damp and makes the old locomotive
sound awful loud. as we live near where
they switch. The street car is useful
Invention for cities and teams. We think
there will be a day when they will be
used in good many smaller towns. When
you all have reunion we are going all
in bunch to see some of the great Haps.
We have q reunion among ourselves. II
won't take us long to go down 10 Hous-
ton on our bikes When We get there we
hope to shake hands with all the dream
ling Haps--Messrs. Willie Carpenter, Philip
Webster. George Ford. G. K. Raney and
Charles r. Fuller. Hoping you will admit
us we will close. Your true Haps,
| BENJAMIN Taylor,
! Guy Watson,
Walter Howard.
Milton Cooke.
| Maxwell. Texas.--Desr Haphammer: In
this weeks Post noticed that the editor
requested us to tell why the Texans cele-
brate the I'd day OF March. 40 ! will try
to tell.
| On March 2, 1886, the last tie that bound
Texas to Mexico was broken aud she be-
came an independent republic after a
hard struggle. A number Of citizens met
at Washington on the Brazos. and framed
their declaration OF independence. Fifty
| eight men signed It, including Sam Hous-
| ton. Thomas J. Rusk and Lorenzo De Ia
yaia
On March I. 1887, resolution was
brought before the United States senate
to declare Texas free and independent
country. After brilliant debate the bill
passed by a small majority. The next
day it was reconsidered. but il passed
again. This makes the Cd day of March a
day to be doubly celebrated by the
Texans. Before bringing my letter to 4
close wish to cast my vote for the loco
motive. Its great progress since It's in
vention shows its usefulness and import
ance Wishing the Haphammer lot OF
happiness and The Post success. anu
f. Minnie Van Every.
jacksonville, Texas--Dear Haphammer:
l come again after long silence 90 have
short chat with you l always read
the Haps' letters first when get The
( Post. | cast my vote for the ocomo-
I tive. E. A. L., before Robert Fulton in
vented the steamboat the people used the
sailing vessel. or course, sailboais are
not near SO good but they could do better
with them than they could do without
! the locomotive. That was a better way
i OF getting around over the world than by
the slow way of using horses on land,
/ for that was about the only means OF
travel before the steam cars we're in
vented. Things could be carried to and
from one country to another on sailing
vessels, but before the invention OF loco
motives there was not much exchange for
products going on in our own country.
Now We can send our Southern products
to the North In such haste that they got
everything as nice and fresh as IL raised
at their own doors. I could go on and
eaumerate great many more things
I but for fear my letter will be too long |
VIII close. Enclosed find > cents for the
helping fund. I hope the sum will soon
grow large enough to make some other
little Hap,s heart glad. Yours for the
Locomotives, Hood M shannon
I p. Sri will snswer ureditor's ques-
ton about March 2. II swax the day that
Texas became an Independent republic q
F , INNS. :
Waco Texas.--Dear Haphammer had
had just finished reading the Happyham-
mers page in the dear old Post and
thought / would have a. chat with the
Haps for the first time L have been a
silent reader tor several years. Come on
Hsps, let's make Texas a flower gar len,
as well as corn, cotton, cane and vegetable
field. ! have just received from the Great
Northern Seed company. Rockford. Ill.
fourteen different kinds Of beautiful flower
seeds, which ] have never planted before.
] am going to do all in my power TO make
Texas a beautiful flower garden. We have
a good many bird OF paradise rose bushes,
Alta bushes, flags lilies and cedar trees
In OUT yard. Well. will quit on the flow
er subject for this time. II Is not very
easy to decide which is the most useful
invention, for there are so many The
steamboat, telegraph, locomotive tele-
phone, steam shovel. airship, hay press
and reaper self binder sewing machine,
photograph audiphone. chrome-llth-
graphic printing, cylinder printing press,
elevator. cototn gin, steam thresher. NOW
er. spinnirg-ie improved process for
making steel, steam laundry. cotton gins,
oil mills, -four mills. wooden mills and
canning factories and a good many more
] could name but as my letter is getting
to3 lengthy ! will cast my vote for the
locomotive. for think 1t is the most USE
full invention. The teleg eph is very ben
official TO man, but the uses derived from
IL are moi as important as that OF the
steam engine. which is used in the ship
ping Of live stock, merchandise and agrl-
cultural products aud many other products
that are adapted to the needs OF man.
Transportation b. wagons would be almost
impossible. therefore cast my vote for
the locomotive Enclosed please fnl Il
cents for the helping fund. Well l will
bid you all good night Waco Hap.
Annie Smith.
Bremond Teyas,-Dear Haphammer:
am sorry to see SO many OF Our best writ
ers voting for the steamboat. Miss Edith
A. Leffeand said the steamboat had more
TO do in making Texas than the locomo
tive. 4 am sure the majority OF the Hsps
win agree with me when I say that Is i'm
possible because railroads have ma II
Houston, Dallas Waco, Fort Worth and
San Antonio what they are. Our prlnci-