The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-11
SEVERAL FORMER PLYMOUTH
RESIDENTS ARE MAKING
GOOD IN THE GREAT
NEW SOUTHWEST.
RENTS ARE AWFULLY HIGH
Although Building Is Going For
ward At Fever Heat, Third of
the Population Live in
Rooms.

Houston, Texas, March 30-Dear
Mr.. Boys: Now that we have been
in Texas sufficiently long to form an
intelligent idea of this part of the
south, | am sending you this
letter which 1 trust may be of in
est to your readers.
In the first place l would like to
tell you of some natives of Plym-
outh whom / have met since coming
to Houston, and who in a business
and professional sense are closely
identified with the progress and
development of the city. | presume
many of your readers remember
Ed. Neal who is always pleased to
speak of Plymouth as his home
town. While yet a comparatively
young man Ed has made good
here. 1t is not so many years since
he left Plymouth, but by his in
domnitable pluck and perseverance he
has climbed the rungs of the pro-
verbal ladder of success, from
Office boy to president of the Ran
dolph Paint and Paper company,
the largest corporation of its kind
in the whole of Texas, whose ex-
tensive ramifcations throughout the
south have made the name of the
company sine qua non for sue
cess.
Doctor Emery Reeves, another
native of Plymouth, has gained the
honored distinction of being one Of
Houston's cleverest physicians. He
has large practice, and numbers
among his patients many of the best
people Of Houston and Houston
Heights where he resides.
| suppose many of your people
will remember James A. Marks as
boy in Plymouth. His uncle is
your respected marshal, Mr.. Dan
Jacoby. Mr.. Marks has risen from
clerkship in the Rock Island
Railway to the position of general
passenger agent in the company's
splendid suite of Offices on the
main street of Houston; and last
but not least, Henry P. Gallagher,
also a native of Plymouth. who is
Houston's sanitary Inspector. From
the above it will be seen that Plym-
outh has reason to be proud of its
sons in Texas.
Houston has already recovered
from its seven million dollar con-
fagration which completely wiped
out a large section of its second
ward. New and better buildings
are taking the pc of fore des-
troyed, and hundreds of workmen
are being employed IL resror;ng or
der out of chaos. A relief fund of
about twenty thousand dollars was
raised in the city for the benefit Of
the sufferers by the fire, all offers of
outside assistance being refused.
This is, undoubtedly, live and
wide awake Southern city. It's
population is decidedly cosmopolitan
and very much bent on making
money. Every one seems to be
interested in the buying and sell
ing of property, and one hears
weird tales Of the fortunes made in
realty, perchance, over night. In
Guiding the. floating population,
which is very large, it is estimated
that there are about one hundred
and fifty thousand souls in the
city every day in the week, and of
these, l should say, fully fifty
thousand are living in rooms, and
eating in restaurants, of which
there are some hundreds in the
city.
While the weather has been some
what colder this winter than in
many years previous, it has been
summer to those who have come
out of the north. The coolest day
recorded was "a degrees above
zero. Quite frequently during the
first three months of the present
year the temperature registered from
81 to 80 degrees, while at present
1T is around the eighties. Flowers
bloom in profusion all the year
round, while the market stalls at
present are filed with new fruits
and vegetables of all descriptions
Strawberries are bringing Is cents
a box.
Outside of rent, living is about
as cheap as in the north, but oh
my, they do charge enough for iv-
ing accommodation. The fact is
there are mt sufficient houses in
Houston to accommodate its popu-