Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-02-04
FORMER AUDRAIN MAN.
He's a Preacher; Enthusiastic
for the clone Star" State.

from the Nandalia Leader. II will
interest many of our readers in
and around Mexico, where Bro.
Chinn is so well and favorably
known:
San Antonio, Texas JAM 90 'O9.
Editor Leader: Many of my
friends asked me to write my i'm
impression Of this place and coun-
try around. If you will allow me
space | can make one letter take
the place of many. Our trip here
was uneventful Cars greatly
rrowed from Parsons, Kansas TO
this place. San Antonio is grow.
ing, growing, growing. | have
seen nothing in my life that ap-
| prOaches it in this particular. /
left here 2nd day OF last April aud
the change since then in new build.
ing is marvellous. Many great
steel aud cement business aud
Office buildings have gone up
from five to six stories high. They
have just finished hotel costing
without furniture 500, 10000.
/ Another one two blocks removed
from the first is under coustruc-
tiou Contract price one million.
. Both these buildings are absolute.
ly lire proof auG finished in the
very latest style and convenience
in hotel building. Thousands of
new residences have and are going
up, raging from the 500 huugalo
to the $50, 900 residence. II is e>-
/ timated that 5000 carpenters and
builders are ut work daily now.
Besides they are tearing up and
/ grading the streets in many places.
, Working in the business streets
day aud night. Last Sunday on
the way to church we saw at least
"A hundred men in one square work
ing on the streets where the bust
ness is heaviest during the week
Great troops of workmen from
the north are coming in for the
winter. The best carpenters get
only So. 80 per day, but do not
see any idle ones. They work
more men on a job here than
eyer saw elsewhere. Two fifteen
room flats, one brick and the
other frame, were started one
block from our rooms since we
came here Jau. l, aud today they
are putting on the rafters aud
Sheeting. Each of these buildings
have cellars under them for kitch-
en- purposes, with thick brick walls,
aud yet all this work begun aud
far on to completion in three
weeks. They work just as many
men as they can possibly put on
the work. | am told it has been
just this way since last spring
when the panic scare passed.
We spend hours in the evening
on Houston aud Commerce streets
watching the great crowds and the
brilliant electric lighting. Moth
ing seen in the Worlds Fair
electrical work can equal the mix
ed and most novel US es of orna.
mental electric lighting seen nigh.
[ ly here. Last evening the Van.
dalia crowd visited the great Car
magic library. 1t is great. Open
from $3.50 a. m. till IL p. IN. All
the leading papers and periodicals
OF the United States are there IN
the great reading room, free to
the public from opening TO closing
hours. Comfortable chairs and
board desks at your services. And
now with all this, a climate at this
season, unsurpassed in the world
, We have had three cold DAYS since
coming here. Mercury fell t.
twenty. The coldest since thu
great freeze that killed all tn,
orange trees in Florida in the
early nineties. Apart from thes,
, days we have had no fire. Last
| evening we sat in one OF the parks
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