Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-21
Becoming Popular Resort.

eureka Springs ~ EdpluiG DICobilHS q
popular resort. The number of tourists and
invalius has been growing annually, and
5000 visitors arrived by train in 1905
mostly sick people and pleasure seekers
from Missouri Texas, Oklahoma and In
dian Territory. 1t is favorIta place for
southwestern ranchmen to bring their fam
lilies for the summer, and many northern
people come down to spend the winter and
spring months. There are plenty Of hotels
Of all sizes, and boarding houses iEnumer-
able, with prices that Will ut the purge OF
every conner Attractive cottages can be
rented at low rates. for the permanent res
-identS usually spend part Of the year at
their former homes.
The town is set on end. There isn't level
ground enough within the city limits for a
base ball game. A series of narrow valleys
gorges are walled up with buildings on
either side. The streets follow ths original
watercourses, winding around the breasts
of the hills and up the narrow 6ulleys.
Trolley car lines zigZag about the place.
There are few cross streets, and you usually
have TO walk a mile so around the twist
ing trails II you want to call on the neigh
Dor that lives in the house back of yours
Some of the houses and business blocks are
one-story high In front and six stories in
the rear where they overhang the gulleys,
as you see them In the villages of the Alps
and the Tyrol. One of the hotels down
town boasts that it Is seven stories high
with every room on the ground floor This
remarkable phenomenon Is accomplished by
building bridges from the galleries across to
a terraced hill that rises behind the build
ing. The proprietor uses a large natural
cave for cellar and keeps his meats and
milk and butter there
Only Republican City in Arkansas.
Eureka Springs is the only republican
city in Arkansas, although two Of the coun
ties in the Ozarks, Searcy and Newton, in
variabiy give republican majorities. The
natives are chiefly descended from Ken
lucky wings and were Unionlsts during tho
war. The democrats have never been able
10 pring them over, and they are now being
strengthened in their political convictions
by the influence Of many northern immi-
grants who began to coma in when the
railway was finished about two years ago
mere Is hot political campaign going
on In Arkansas just now a contest be
tween United States Senator Berry who
desires reelection. and Governor Jeff Davis
VINO wants to succeed that one-legged Old
confederate veteran Both candtdafee are
making thorough canvass of the stafe
averaging three or four speeches every day
and the rivalry between them is becoyninp
very litter This is the first campaign
under the neSs law which permits the neonIe
to express their preference for United
states senator at the primaries The vote
IS not lnal. but is regarded In the light OF
instructions to the legislature
Governor Davis seems to be another TIN
man, without the ability or the afniabiIity
OF the eccentric South Caroliniaif He Is
said to be- arbitrary and .domineering. sell
Ilsh, pigoted and uncompronlising. He hates
President Roosevelt and denounces him as
severely as Governor Vardaman of Mis-
sissippi. He refused to attend a banquet
given by the citizens of Little Rock on some
public occasion because General Clayton
had been invited Senator Berry Is a very
dinerent man, a quiet. unassuming. indus
trious. useful senator. who has the respect
and confidence of every one OF his coli