The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-02-07
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Special pondence TO the Daily
Light
Carlsbad, y. MI Is truly re
nerGable how little the average
uoTt hern and eastern man knows Of
the imperial west The section sup
posed 10 be the scat OF intelligence
and vast learning lis wofully ignor-
ant OF the common place facts con
carning the great west Your Bos-
ION business man knows NO more
81 commerce than your intelligent
Texas banker or wholesale merchant.
and Is as innocently ignorant of west
ern conditions as a high school girl
Of the intracacies Of a mince pie.
These observations are brought out
by some experiences with Boston and
Chicago people with whom was
thrown recently while travelling.
Some weeks ago returning frotn
Waxahachie to this point | was com
peeled to wait for westbound train
on the Texas and Pacific at Fort
Worth. Upon enquiry at the Pull
man office for a birth the informa-
tion was forthcoming that the two
sections reserved to that office had
been sold Looking about the lob
ty of the station chanced upon two
Young men appearantly about thirty.
whose movements, dress and general
iemeanor marked them as strangers
to Texas. soon convinced myself
that these gentlemen were waiting
for the same train as | and held those
Two birth tickets. When the train
finally pulled in and ! entered the
sleeping car my two strangers follow
ed The sleeper filled rapidly and
every one, save myself and CONNER
cial traveller bound for Cisco. gave un-
mistakable evidence of the down
easter, or fresh from the lakes My
experience has been that II | fall in
with Texans. commercial travellers
or railroad men we are all soon ac-
quainted but II my travelling COM
nanions are from the East there are
icicles in that car no matter how
warm the weather Or how high the
temperature of the car So when my
commercial friend left the train
was in the atmosphere of Boston.
Finally one fellow cracked his she'll
of reserve sufficiently to ask a few
questions about Texas. and the OPP
portunity came to put my cork
screw" to work With an accent as
i-bread as Holland Dutchmen h
vouchsafed the chilling information
that he was from "Sowth OF Bawston
and y as en route ten rcct1 te pecos
where | must also change cars. Fa-
| miliar with this magnificent coun-
try along the Texas and Pacific | was
o q Mod n C-ivp 10 rc+
quaintance many interesting facts
about the western section of Texas
II was his first trip. He was repre-
senting an eastern syndicate which
owned 4 large body of land and an
irrigation project near Pecos Cotton
was a revelation to him and he desir-
ed to know if We sowed It broad
cast or in drills Kaffir corn, sor-
ghum and milo maize were likewise
/ new to him. The coal mines at Thur
| Der excited him. Did not know there
/ was a coal mine in the whole state.
Others of the iciele crowd Joined my
I Boston friend, and learned that
/ the two young men were from Gales
I burg, H., en- route to California,
/ their first trip outside the sucker
state Another of the party was q
middle-ages business man OF Chicago.
/ lie was en route TO El Paso and IL
/ was his first trip west. He had made
/ some money and with his wife and
child were escaping from Chicago S
/ winter He and the Galesburg
( youths became quite chummy As
/ We uearcd Abilene ho remarked 10
/ them Mere is the hottest town in
/ jhc United States Watch thu weather
report each summer and you will find
I Abilene always tAe hottest Now
b what would an Abilene citizen think