The sun., 1908-03-25
A Greater Houston Trade Exour,lOn.

Houston. beautiful and flaming red
headed, Is famous even among Lone
Star cities for speech geniality and
intelligent concentration of limelight.
Great and bound TO be much greater,
she sends her missionaries TO boom her
and invite the merchants Of the sur
rounding country to come and buy. Let
us accompany band Of her trade hunt
ers, who know how TO combine pleasure
with her business. We find them at
Brownwood swapping speeches with the
natives after due inspection Of the drug
stores and hotels. At Mullen at s3S
the next morning schoolgirls are -pret-
tily grouped and from a railway truck
little Miss OLLIE BROOK, !? years Of
age. delivered beautifully an address Of
welcome Children and visitors sang
America The Houstonians then gave
the Houston yell, which is distinctly
audible in Kansas City on a clear day.
Equal to any task, GARRETT DoBBIN de-
livered a strong talk on young woman
hood and their part in the control Of the
destinies Of men, cities and counties
Al Goldthwaite there was a procession
headed by the brass band, visits TO busi-
ness men, speeches by the rod, much
pinning on Of Greater Houston badges.
At Lometa there was handshaking and
j. NJ ROCKWELL ribbed up foot race on
the boys for fifty yards The real sport
was TO come:
The neIt feature was a night between q real
eaAmount Of full size and a white bulldog A.
the start they were held BY long strings After short
sparring they clinehed, the fur hew. They rolled
and ,umNled In vicious embrace. scratching and
biting Surgng lhS cat broke bis string and made
a dash for liberty, he broke through the crowd
that opened quickly. The way was safe under
cotton platform and the crowd followed. but lsav.
Ing time came and at that minute the dog bad not
reached the cat This for excitement was the iea.
ture OF trip
BILL BALLEN won the foot race and got
a purse. This aroused the sporty blood
in every man, and J. NJ ROCKWELL chal-
lenged for heavyweights F. A. HEITMASN
and D. E. GARRETTs for a foot race Of 100
yards" Unfortunately, Mr., HRITMANN
pleaded business engagement and the
race had to be postponed. At Copperas
Cove everybody left the train. Music
had charms. The storekeepers left their
stores:
The Rev. G. GRlvEs, a minister who was COL
lec,ng to rebuild the damaged Baptist Church,
got an eight dollar collection from the tourists.
lie said GOD bless YOU HoustoBep. Come 70 see
US again.
The Houstonians would have Clipped
in even more literally, but they had
Just paid for their dinners, So the train
went on through Killeen and Nolanville
TO beautiful Belton, where Tom STONE,
who had been making speeches for years.
was still able TO speak most effectively,
though his voice was "somewhat weak
ened.T GARRETT DoBBIN, "a fine ora
tor, as we can well believe, was now as
powerful on the commercial greatness
of Houston as he had been on young
womanhood. Very little OF the lstter
seems 70 have escaped the enthusiasm
Of the travellers. At Temple "the most
striking view was the Baylor College,
where a phalanK Of beautifully dressed
girls in blue lined up and waved handker-
chiefs, and the tourists yelled and threw
up their hats; il was q great sight
So, no doubt, we're the tourists, At