The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-11
Impressions of AN Fastener.

over all is the sunshine. AOOuG
on every side is the activity OF
Pittsburg, say, but no smoke, no
cold. Into mans skin and
bone the sun of March of this de-
licious, semi-southwest soaks.
All this is Jennings.
More. There is the rush of
building that brings to mind the
splugs" put in by the railroad
conductor that
"Jennings, that's the coming
town of the Southern Pacitic!'
To man raised in the east,
where things are scout and dried,
so aged and methodical, all this
is great.
For instance, you hear of Oil,
and learn that you have stopped
off at the Louisiana beaumont. -
Hereabouts, too, is the rice coun-
try.
There's the man in the saddle
on the street, the man who rides
like he was born in the saddle.
The horse isiworth while. Then,
there are the men from all over
the Breezy southwest, men who
are of mankind. There are the
men who follow the gush of oil,
men who come with capital, the
real-estate men who follow on,
the restaurant keepers; then
those who stock up stores for
the populace that pours in.
What is more balm for tired
vision than to see the interior Oh
one of these palaces Of local com
merce May be the building Is
not three months old, it is prob
ably built ON most modern IDEAS.
Yet, next door is an unpainteo
| barn where, perhaps, lunches,
cigars. real estate or medicine is
dished out,
Every one is good natured
That's what I'm trying to say
No matter where one comes
from. be it Chicago or Cheyenne
| Ohio or New Orleans, Boston OF
Frisco, act the man. Tnat's ALL:
required.
That is the way 1t seems to me
Some one answers me that tn
population is about 5000. But
Say, a man from 5000 or a 10
900 inhabited town of Masss
ehusetts can gain no idea of tn
business swing. Hundreds {
men just starting or getting
,, start here today, in five year
will be men of prominence in TIN
, growing region. One man wit
d paying business remarks, cas-
ually, that he was given me
, and a clean shirt by the propri
tor of a restaurant not man
p miles from the station, when /
0 struck town not many month
: ago.
Here is one of the mostcuriol
and entertaining phases of Ii.
/ along the west of the gulf state
= these days. A man is not a p
riah if he be broke and need
meal of victuals. Thousands
!. prominent men of the gre;
e southwest have been that way
l. times, and many will tell syou
with perfect franknesS.
GAll of this is so novel. Z
% think of a man of property, wei
n he to lose his all tomorrow
e would not hesitate about tacklin
e life again in the same old wa,
r without loss of pride.
:. Of course much that is cruc
in Jennings will, in time, pas
Il away. But the writer, just sto
: ping off anG looking on, likes ht
= better as she is, with her hot
h along the railroad track, h'
> scores of implanted restauran'
) whereabouts; further back I'll
l. business section proper - tt
:; banks, stores and shops of mo
y ern fronts, interspersed vii
t more buildings without ar
u upstairs" to them.
l.: Then, there is the populac
o every man a man, minding h
own business, and that well.
Il Over all, the aroma Of rit
. section and the news of near
bouts oil gush.
Then, that sunshine of ear