The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-13

| vorId 'V"seSl traue union towns OF the
Ihc brlcklayer tells one OF the crowd a
young Fellow without trade thar he 1on
heI a JOB at the oil fields at $3.50 a day
| II ne wants to take that TO earn a stake
! Az ghat moment a boy comes In ana stici,s
/ UP mana bllls calling for laborers nj he
price lust mentioned to come to a lumber
! CohlpanyS plant and go to work There
| Is no strike on at the place mcntioped
Ol. there's plenty of work hero II npv
| Oh you Fellows want that" saws the mason
meets men as strange as himself. All nre
| mere Tor an object although they 90 ohout
! us attainment differently All arc after
n 1,omtg; some have come loaded with this
much more. Generally they do man
! from Alabama who came IN 1896 and ran
Tor While boarding house is doing moth
| ing nut selling oil lands and taking IiPo
| easily. Next door to him Is the desk or
| another man who tells the writer tbof 10
came 10 town after the Calves on food
| something more than a year back with
| nothing and has made a roodIy bmnch of
thousands In that period. He would have
| sIcceeded on more moderate scale any
Such men are going in for city buildings
! ana yet hang on or secure oil lands ont
| sde They don't call the boom over In
smrG nobody hints that, Every one who is
| supposed 70 know aught OF oil saws there
| IS oil for tho world TO burn I'm he ground
Tor scores Of miles about Beaumont.
IN Iqet. they Tear. now ana then $50 far
1 ~ Lis
! remarkable place TO be afraid that these
then '~" "'' AMI
Then say the iincoes Good bye"
But the remark doesn't excite many.
~
After the man from New York had be
come used to sleeping in a hotel with four
beds and cot per room, and ~ eating at
boarding house where seventeen boarders
represent as many States west Of the
Mississippi, he looks for novelty in general
amusements and finds
THAT there is no amusement in Beau
mont" That's what they an tell him.
Having dropped duelling with booze there
is no entertainment for him at saloons,
where listless men dressed up in SLOUGH hat
and SO revolver are hahitucs
He is becoming listless himself-hc who
caused a sort of connection the initial day
with his rapid, jerky walk once In
while there comes TO the really good op'ry
house ten-twentthirt show holding out
hands for dollar seat and filing to the
5, r. o. signs. The following weak may
be some topliner like Otis skinner with
romantic drama. hits town, but perhaps
gets no more coin of the land than dld
Uncle Josh Spruceby, who has sped on TO
New Iberia, La.
After sizing up the situation the man
from the crowded section thinks deeply Of
You get yourself a girl and you'l be
all right"
Indeed it seemed as though the young
man In Beaumont without young lady
friend to take driving over the rough roads
to the oil feds on Sunday and to call on
at least two nights per week and sym
pathRe with, has only the alternative Of
dissipation
AS to the young ladies'
Don't for a moment suppose that there
are not many of them In town. Pretty
girls, girls here with parents from the
many States Of North, from every city in
Texas alesadles they are or maybe heir
esses Yes either one or the other
Heiresses there are in town who made
mud pies in Arkansas and Oregon, whose
papas struck town half dozen years ago,
perhaps, as ordinary mechanics and struck
lie. Mention the figure you think papa
should have and some mutual friend viii
Introduce you in Beaumont.
So they say, anyhow.
Main qualifications in search for husband
for hciress is that he must be "loyely
style"--that Is he must talk Ike they do
in books and wear clothes like the st.
Luce" drummer does.
II this part Of tho writer's monogram
is interesting TO certain young men, let