The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-04
THE YOUTH OF HOUSTON.
A Tribute to the Yonng Men of u
Busy City.

Tribute to the Nonng Men of u
Busy City.
Southern Industrial and Lumber Review.
The Review has been forcibly struck
since its advent into Houston life with
the promptness and vigor with which gem
eral business communication is conducted
in that city and the absolute attention
which is given to the duties of the day
within business hours. The streets in the
city TEEN, early and late, with moving
population metropolitan in every aspect.
The railroad magnate. the manufacturer.
the doctor. the politician, the fakir, the
gambler. the horny handed toiler in every
department. the spruce clerk and his
cousin, the ever charming shop girl,
doubly so because she earns an attire
which is always UP 10 date; the farmer,
the promoter, the investor, the Mexican
the negro, and. lastly, the great army
oil buyers who come daily into the city
on its three score of trains, mix and inter-
mix, hustle in and out, crowding the
thoroughtares with Kaleidoscope effect
all attentive to some point in mind and
moving with some well defined business
object
In this rush of Industrial and CONNER
eial life the loafer is lost; If he exists he
Is not noticed; II he obstructs the path
he Is brushed aside. True, there are va
grants every large city has them. Some
loller about the saloons. Tramps mass
through and out OF the town but even
they apparently imbibe the spirit of the
passing throng and are instinct with life.
one CT the most striking features of
conditions in Industrial centers as evil
qenced by Houston, is the habits, occupa
lions and &c
Town. There are too many municipalities
we regret TO state. where the business
conditions are net SO regulated as to pro.
Nlde proper employment for the growing
YOUTH The result is too often found in
an army OF street corner boys whose only
ann In life is TO drink SMOKE and ogle the
Slrls' They belong as a rule to well to
40 parents are educated with view to
nothlhg In particular and are left strand
e,g' large per cent of them. before their
lue mas really begun. IL this condition
exists at all in Houston. the percentaoe
Is SO small that it is unnoticed for in
austriai and commercial opportunities ex
iet LOT every boy and the trend of ambi-
non Is IN business lines. The fathers of
tnese boys represent every line of bust
ness ana bring up their offspring to follow
closely in their wake. From school the
boys pass to the lumber mill, the foundry.
~ 4"AItoau, the brewery, the counting
room some so to the forge, others to the
carpenters bench. many into the iobbine
trace II Is a remarkable fact thai fswer
20 INTO the retail stores or into the nro-
lesslons, already oyercrowded than in
9tner cities where industrial opportunities
do not exist 'ies
therefore the youth of Houston the
sreat southwestern Industrial and com
h nerelal center. have opportunities placed
oeiore them 70 reach the highest pipnacla
9! OF commercial life and to their credit No
II Sald they are equal 10 the emerpencv
ono can pass among these boys whore
sney may be fouad grouped. ON bolidays
snnosys' or after business hours, ana "a
WIN ma them addressing each other conrI
seousy, discussing business ana social
questions po, making appointments and what
no. , put according to our obgervation IA
v WIZ never md them obstructlng ths nsth
staring at passers-by or MAKING tbau,
serves obnoxious to the ladies OF thsir rita
~ ieast this is our opinion OF the vonth
VI houston and We sincerely trust ~
We W. are not in error In this estimate ma az
sa',un.. we aseribe the fact as due m The
tasorapie industrial conditions of The oit,'
s sUn1ltions which other cities NAV wsyi
emulate Tor the sake of their bows N