The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-03
LITTLE GRETCHEN TRAVELSALL ALONE Child Comes From Germany
 to California HAS MANY "BEAUX" Lower Rio Grande Valley Is Pouring Car Loads of Cabbage Into the
 Northern Markets at Rate
 of $50 Per Ton

San Antonio, Tex, April 2.-(Special. J. Today Gretchen Wolff, years old. passed through this city on a. Southern Pacific train en route from Frankfurt, Germany, to Yuma Cal. having made the entire trip from the German city alone. From German seaport town she came on steamer to Galveston, Tex, leaving there last night for Houston. At Houston she transferred to a Southern Pacific train, which passes through the town of her destination. Securely sewed to the waist the child wore was a. small square of leather containing her name, the town from which she came, with the street number and the name of an uncle at Yuma, to whom she was going. In all, she had eight little waists. on which a similar leather card was sewed. In this city sine was met at the Sunset depot by relatives who had been apprised of her coming. These carried to her baskets of sweetmeats and fruits and a number of toys, among these being a doll almost as large as little Gretchen. Documents that the child carried from officers and seamen of the ship on which she came to Calves ton showed clearly that she had made herself favorite with the ships crew and that she had during the entire voy- age the best the ocean liner had to offer both in attention and the necessary com forts of life In little handbag she car ried a bundle of pictures that had been given to her by the passengers and the sailors on the ship. It was evident from her prattle and gestures that the captain had endeared himself to her very much. Pointing to the conductor of the South ern Pacific train, she said, speaking in German, however, as she was unable to speak English: That's my second big beau,'' the ship captain having been her first. The child was the last of her fam fly in the German city, her mother having died some months ago, leaving her en- trely alone. The uncle at Yuma, to whom she was going. is her nearest of kin and had provided for her to come to him. he and his wife being childless. The lower Rio Grande valley has begun to pour a stream of cabbage into north ern markets. In addition to the express shipments that have been going out for the past two weeks in response to urgent demands, 24 solid cars were shipped out of the valley today and 20 cars of the same vegetable will leave that section to- night Farmers will receive $50 per ton and an average crop is about six tons to the acre. Last year the valley beat all other sections of the country to market with cabbage and repeated the perform ance this year. The Collins gardens near this city, however, were very close sec ond, following the first shipment from the valley two days later. As soon as the crop is removed the land which has been devoted to cabbage will be planted to other vegetables, thus insurlng the valley farmer two crops year from the same land. With the announcement of cab
 bage shipments from the lower Rio Grande valley comes another of quite & different nature from F'latonia. Tex. At E,latoria the Texas hen is making her presence felt in such a manner as to start a stream of cash that way. Two solid cars of eggs were shipped out of Fletonia today for New York, making In all so far this spring 30 cars that have gone out of the Flatonia district. These egg ship ments emphasize an oft repeated state ment from the southwest: Secure a half dozen dominicker hens three acres Of Texas land and the foundation for for tune is laid"