New-York tribune., 1910-07-24

continued the colonel I'm in the mar
kets for flying machine and there lsn :
an inventor of the downright crazy class
who hasn't gone into trance and told me
all about the diameter and the square 'foot
OF area of his dream ship. l don't think
there's one.
Now, the fact that somebody's airshlp
can be built with planes IA feet, by steen
inches doesn't draw any money from me-
l want to buy a machine that will fly, and
l want to see it fly before l buy it AL
ways when l go to see flying of any sort
the air men are anchored to the ground by
winds something. I'd like to buy fly
ing machine, and I'd be willing to hire a
man to run it just for the fun of sending
it down to Dallas and giving the boys
there something to talk about
Asked if he had left Dallas permanently,
Colonel Green Sa1d
I'm going to try to wean myself. No
place like Texas Wonderful town, ballast
I'm a director in twenty-seven different
companies in Dallas. You might almost
think I in the pickle business I've
been producing great varieties of flowers,
instead-orchids, American Beauties, lilies
cf-the-valley, carnations-aH kinds of fine
flowers, you know. for the wholesale trade.
Some days gather three hundred thou
sand blooms
1t was suggested that the sight on such
days must be beautiful and all that kind
of thing.
~ esl." replied the colonel, American
Beauties bring as much s. apiece down
the,e at Christmas Of course, they have
to have long stems to bring that-say, six
feet long The Is and "A inch stems don't
I a va
twenty-seven acres covered with green
houses, under four managers, eacn having
one hundred workmen. I've got half
million dollars III the business. | got into
it by accident six years ago, and found
there was money in flowers so, of course,
l stuck to il. Who wouldn't?'
.You will rapidly assume the RESPONSE
bilities so long borne by your mother?'' he
was asked.
Yes; she called on me almost as soon
as I arrived Isn't it a most natural thing
for a son to assume the burdens Of his
mother when he CAM" he replied, with a
very genial smile. Il will make my head
quarters here at the Seaboard National
Bank gooC deal of the time / shall
have to be in Chicago In about month
mother and | shall go up to Bellows rails,
Vt for a rest" he said, changing the SUD-
iect suddenly In front Of this electric
fan it's almost as cool as 1t is IN dear old
Texas. To man who has once lived down
there no other place suits him. he added
What is its chiefest charm?'
"Everybodys sociable, for one thlng, ana
the climate is beautiful he replied with
enthusiasm one hundred and twelve de-
grees down in Dallas is more comfortable
than S. degrees up here. Dry, you know
We're Just as refined in our teellnSS as
they are up here, although it isn't generally
understood But we don't have the john
son-Jeffries fight pictures any more than
other localities. 1 took g bet on that night
bet on Johnson l will always take odds
of 10 to on a fair chance such as that
Did you see the fight?
..No-too far to go You fellows down
East have no idea of distance. I'll get
telegram in the morning in Dallas from
some tenderfoot: Meet NE at FL Paso to-
night Good Lord, It's thrty-six hours
TO FL Paso. | meet men here in the hotel
who hear l come from Texas
..Do YOU know any one in San An
tonio?' they will ask. Man alive | say to
them. do you know friend OF mine In
Montreal?'
II picked Strawberries in Corpus Christi
one morning" Colonel Green added, "and
when 1 passed through the town OF Pan
candle the next day it was showing.
That's Texas-no end to it. And the
climate! l sat in my shirtsleeves In Dal-
las on Christmas Day
why" he went on. three of the pitch
ar, on your New York National baseball
team came from Dallas
Tell the young men who are willing to
work to go to Texas"