The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-07
With THE PASSING THRONG

i wish the artist OF The Post would
come up and sketch me stopping along
In the mud in the neighborhood OF tho
Calhoun street ditch" fervently declared
one of Houston's best known citizens Il
reporter Something Is radically
wrong with the drainage In that part OF
the city. >But it's absurd to say that the
land can not be drained. II that were
50 the sooner we got out OF this place
the better 1t would be for all OF us. And
there ought to be no trouble. sir. in
keeping that ditch clear. 1t has ter
rife fall. Why, it even reaches a depth
of fourteen or fifteen feet But at pres
ent the weeds in the ditch are flush
with the street; and the water simply
stands in the ditch.
upon change. For such a state of af-
fairs is menace to health"
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1--WE are having the same trouble that
you are--too much rain" remarked Mr.. L.
r. Bryan Of Angleton last week at the
Capitol. Cotton has been very much in
jured, and many farmers have lost their
stock, because Charlton has appeared.
In some cases its ravages have been 80
serious as to cause severe loss to the
owners
Mr. Bryan is on his way to the con
vention at Waco.
The steamship travel to the Paris ex-
position suggested the idea OF ascertain
ing as near as possible the quota contrib
uted from Houston Going into the
steamship office of Mr. Nose Raphael
yesterday a Post reporter found that gen.
tleman engrossed with making out tickets
/ from the remotest corner of the earth.
notably from Tripol, Syria, and Marseil-
les, France. To our question. whether
such tickets were unusual, Mr.. Raph-
ael, laying down his pen for an inter-
view, replied:
| NO sir l frequently have them from
Palermo, Sicily. and Genoa, italy; also
from Jerusalem and all parts of Europe,
In fact this prepaid business from abroad
constitutes my principal bookings"
To the original inquiry, as 20 the expo
sition travel from Houston, Mr.. Raphael
stated that his reports displayed book
ings for about thirty eight passengers In
the first and second cabins, besides nu-
merous steerage passengers. He be-
! lieved this list would compaEe 'avoTahly
] II not more so, with any other city in
/ the State.
The steamship companies enjoying most
! of this patronage was the North German
Lloyd French Transatlantic and the Cum
ard lines. The Mallory line to New York
came In for Its share OF patronage, The
travel is now over,
1.-THE amount OF money spent by the
different insurance companies on losses
is something almost incomprehensible, .
remarked f. ]. Ducatel, agent of we'll
known life assurance company. to Post
reporter yesterday.
| "Our company alone Is paying out $50
every minute in the twenty-four hours.
Think OF III dollar n second Just
count one two, three four, FIVE, and con-
tinue on and imagine that every time you
count you pay out dollar, That gives
you an idea OF the speed with which the
money goes out"
But how fast does 1t dow ,u?" asked
the reporter.
THAT Cont know, but It comes in
faster than II goes out, or we wouidn I
be in business. But Just think OF what
dollar second means!'
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| r. c. Trefry. a prominent fruit grower
and Belgian hare faneier of Aldine, was
In the city yesterday. Mr. Trefry says
the peach crop in his lccality has been
virtually destroyed by the wet weather,
the fruit rott.pg on the trees. He sa
that IL had rained AZ Aldine every day
since July 10. While the peach crop has
been a failure, Mr., Trefry thinks the out
look for fgs is fine.
Mr.. Trefry is an enthusiastic Belgi n
hare fancler and his brother. l.. Treiry,
has some fine pedigreed and registered
bucks and does. Their rabbitry contains
about $50 well bred harss.