Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-08
TRIP ACROSS TEXAS
Presidents Party Saw Many Curious
People and Things.
San AN1ONIO'S ANCIENT HISTORY
Site Where Davy Crockett Fell at
the Alamo.
OLD OH I RICH AT JURAZ
Special From a Staff CORRESPONDENT

| special From a Staff Correspondent
| Ell PASO. Tex. May G.-From New Or
! leans TO FL Paso the presidential train COW
| cred more than ,2p0 miles and the Nom
| pers OF the party saw MANY strange THINGS
| ana learned much about the immense terri
| tory over which they sped New Orleans
was lett at o clock Thursday afternoon
ana FL Paso the western gateway to Mex
| lco was reached Sunday morning at .
CLOCK Between these two cities the
changes in topography and humanity are
nearly as great as that distance can lend
TO these things anywhere in the world
Inc presidential party stopped just long
enough at all the principal cities to get a
falr idea of the country and the people.
1t was with regret that the party left
the quaint old city of New Orleans the
great yellow Mississippi, with its never
clear waters, the piazza-befrilled French
homes and the French market The hos
pballty of the people had been without
limit, ana every moment of the party had
peeh spent with pleasure. Without it's
FRENCH quarter and it's shops, it's oysters.
nsh and gumbo New Oorlcans Would moi
be the place of deep interest that II is
AS the ferryboat pulled across the river to
Anglers the last noisy greeting of steamboat
ana otner whistles was given and the pres
>N'.141 - St'i SpSebilIS across SOut H.
western Louisiana. BayOus cvnress
sWamps, cane fields and magnificent planta-
ions We're passed during the early evening
and in the night. In the cypress forests
the 1ollage is luxury, with twining vines
ana long. silvery Spanish moss The peo-
PIE haven't changed much in the last one
huhdred years in their habits and senti-
ments except where money has been in
vested by outside capital and new peonle
sent III to develop the industry
Train Made Few Stons
On across the great rice fields and sugar
plantations the train went without stons
except to take on water or coal Early on
Friday morning Texas was reached and the
flrst important point at which stop was
MADE was Beaumont. The hour was too
early TO see the struggling mass of men
VINO would be on the streets of the town
a rev hours later-men occupied in the one
thousht OF making fortune in oil. Around
beaumont are located the new oil fields
ana all Texas is boring into mother earth
hunting the fluid Six hundred to a thou
SAND miles from Beaumont, the Texas peO-
pie have the oil fever as bad as around
beaumont, and the first thing they tell
you about is that immense quantities of oil
have been discovered.
Between Beaumont and Houston are the
famous lumber districts. The railroad RING
through the timber belt for a distance or
several hundred miles, and freuuent
gimpses were caught of the big mills
Whlch transform rough logs into millions
or feet of lumber The logs are RATED down
the rivers from where they are cut lie in
booms and are pulled into the mills bv
chains.
The rich, black soil and the prosperous
looking farm houses show to the eve of
the passing tourist that nature has done
everything for this territory. Where farm
ing IS not the order, cattle and sheep rails
ing is, and all the way to Houston tho
party was impressed with the wealth that
ought to exist in the region. Houston is
the biggest manufacturing city in the state
and is developing fast. 1t is a great shin
ping point for cotton, and the people are
Wldeawake and progressive. Houston's cot
ton receipts are more than 400 $50 bales a