The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-09-07
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'nton, Val promised last week to
about my trip from Texas to vir-
1lch was a pleasure to me from tho
40 I left Houston on the Inter
and Great Northern northbomd
"A can tell you it was very de-
fo be carried along by Texas oil,
foad now has its engines fitted out
plers that use oil. There is no
|All Of grlmy dust, and there are no
p get into your eyes, and YOU have
comfortable feeling that the oil is
q Texas oil, so altogether it IS ex-
4 satisfactory.
Hrhed St. Louis the next night, and
4 there fotI days with a very Kind
Sho showed me some of the most
lng parts of the city. The first
4 visited was the immense space on
~ buildings for the Worlds Fair
y be held there In 1904 are being
"a Just the skeleton of the buildings
~ now, but enough to show that
81 TO be on a magnificent scale
~ visited Forest park and Shaw's
Id both OF them beautiful. They
IN TO st. Louis by very wealthy
Fped Shaw, an Englishman, WHO
n money there, and gave It back 10
En this beautiful way. Both park
ffens are q great pleasure TO the
nc that they would not have, per-
IN mad not been for Mr. Shaw. l
FOULS better than New York, for 1t
~ people had homes there. There
rs and streets OF beautiful houses,
Is and flowers around them, and
~ out on their porches as If they
/. lNlng-they are not walled up In
VI the people In New York.
q 81, Louis Thursday at noon, aud
FIX TO Warrenton the trip was full
~. l could not help noticing how
~ tbf farms were In Indiana and
Nv .reStly the houses were painted
~ Tee from grass and weeds the
rs were. And we saw miles ard
81 corn fields, waving In the breeze
.ecting the sunlight from their long,
2 ieayes. Il was beautiful to see.
Norting, too, for surely our people
PlarYe while so much corn is being
"a on Friday morning, though. that
nv began to charm me. ! nwogc
IN was soon out In little sort Of
|on room that was in front of the
~ mas long glass windows on each
you can see on both sides I found
tNere In West Virginia. IN the beau
.Nlntains, and I locked and looked
"A eyes grew tired. On we went.
~ oians on one side. on the other
IL clear water, ripping over their
~ ana forming an endless series
waterfalls. Then Suddeniy ell
Tow black as night as We passed
gnhel cug through the heart OF q
Two Of these tunnels were 30
au the windows and vcntil8tOrs Of
mad 10 he closed. because the ar
e#fs already was better to breathe
n OF the tunnels.
Mefed as we rushed through that
W country how people made iiv-
Tor peQple lived In the y city
passed through and in the houips
th IN the trees on the mauntail
"a N the valleys. I learned thar
.g cattle and sheen Tor mark 4
smpg' and We saw long train
" hne Fat hfeVes and sieep heinz
Nsy 70 feed the people Of the ble
And very frightened and unc1m
. ,hsy looked too. AS they stood
Up 70 each other IN their clos
u Another source ~ wealth Is IN
81 mines where, by.the-bye. there 1,
solag on now. because OF man.
70 man."
= O'clock We got into Old vir
STATE that has Given 40 man,
ana 40 many great soldiers r.
80 The country gradualiy grew
+. nm lne but more comfortable laak
49, nills took the place 81 thc
ann larger towns We're PASSED
saw many beautiful flower.