The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-07
HEX" DESCRIBES
 CONDITION HERE
WELL KNOWN CHICAGO TRIBUNE WRITER HAS SOME INTER-
 ESTiNc THINGS. TO SAY.
Reviews Local conditions From an Observers Viewpoint for Thou
 sands of City Readers.

The following IS taken from the Chicago Tribune. and is by lick, " one of the best known sportwriters in the country. now at Mineral Wells
 with the Chicago ball club:
 Mineral Wells, Tex, March 4.-The restoration of Arkansas, which to the dwellers in large cities means little more than Hot Springs. to the sport ing map is imminent. Such intimation has gone forth and things already have begun to stir. The capital tied up in the Valley of Vapors has at last been able to lift it's voice above the harangue of the uplift, and those who do not love reform less but prosperity more are about to subscribe to the notion that it Is not by hot water alore that such places thrive.
 Hot Springs is rather overbuilt for a sanitaTium or a chateau, but that is the only appeal it has been making to the wayfarer in recent years. It was not with that idea that the colossal hotels were strung along the valleys, it was not the baths nor the revival meetings that used to fill those hotels from the period of Myra Clark Gaines up to but not including the period of Carrie Nation. The big hotels have been deserted in great measure ever since the we'll meaning but uncom mereial lid adjusters put it over.
 The "better class of visitors" whose influx was predicted to follow the dawn of an era of righteousness has not infuxed to any appreciable ex- tent. The persons who have property at stake have long since realized that their natural patronage has been fer .lass of customers waich is of no use to them if really it exists at all outside of homiletics. The waters are just as llot as they used to be and their curative regulations is 
 The scenery and the atmosphere are just as engaging, but the liberal spenders who whilom made the valley lively, not to say fashionable, have been passing it up ever since the new leaf was turned. The Wall street bunch" and the board of trade punch" have been taking their aches md pains, their families. and their )ank rolls to other resorts on this side and the other where a gentleman ,n holiday is not forced to go up against the restrictions which he does rot mind when he is at home attend ng to business.
 In the argument for looser rein at lot Springs some interesting statis- ics have been quoted, bringing in he names of a dozen New Workers md Chicagoans who used to lay t m thick at the springs, but don't any nore. Congressman Timothy D. Sulh- an for instance. We mention Timo- hy ID. because he won't mind. Con ressman Sullivan used to be worth n untold fortune every winter to Hot springs, not for what he himself catterd. albeit he is a most liberal catterer, but for the throng of live mes" he always dad about him. The Arlington used to get it's name in the eadines, but seldom now since 1t eased 10 be Tammanys winter cap tai The Moores and the Gateses lsed to go there, too, but they may ,e more particular about the use of heir names in this connection.
 A primary recently held at the .prings was taken to mean much by he proponents of the liberal" doe rine, so much, in fact, that hardly lad the ballots been counted when ights shone in windows that had ,een dark for three years and cham ,ers that had been gathering dust for he same length of time were taken Il aani by the cleansers.
 We hear, too, that the ways are creased for the launching of modi- ication of the Ames anti betting law which wih permit of race meetings at )aklawn and Essex, two beautiful curses under the supervision of 'tate racing commission and the pari, system of handling the money. All of which may be taken for what is worth wiaen ii. worth is proved