The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-08-10
LETTER FROM
MRS. C. c. HUNTER

te'iiio. w ltlt TltZSeIdlQ TUESDAY
morning, the 18th. We went to At
lanta and from there we took a pull
man car to New Orleans, arriving
there Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock
and left New Orleans at HISS the
same morning for San Antonio arriv-
ing there next morning at 4 o'clock.
We intended stopping a week in
San Antonio, but it was so hot, dusty
and noisy we were advised by some
OF the good people to get out in the
country, or in some of the small
towns. Therefore we spent only one
day in that city. While there we went
to ride on the street car. and also Wis
tied one of their nice stone churches.
We left San Antonio at 6 O'Clock in
the morning and stopped overnight
in -Boerne, a small town of about 900
inhabitants. The town was inhabited
mostly by Germans and Mexicans,
the Mexican taking the place OF the
negro as laborer. We did not like
it there, so we went from there to
a beautiful little town called Comfort.
1t has 900 inhabitants. They were all
Germans, but about a dozen Ameri-
cans, and all seemed to be very
wealthy OF cours. they had the
Mexican there to do the work, and
but very few negroes. They say the
Mexican is more industrious than the
negro and not SO slow. The Germans
out here are very sociable, but they
don't like for sick people to locate
here. They are always telling you
of something better farther on. Com
fort is situated among the West
Texas hills on the S. A. & A. P. Rv.
About 50 miles northwest of San An
tonic. Its elevation is 500 feet. We
stopped over one day and night at the
Comfort Hotel. Every boarder they
had were health seekers, mostly tu-
berculosis. We meet people here from
most every state seeking health.
Some of them have been here for
years and they say this climate is the
best they have found Some of
them have been to Colorado, Utah and
New Mexico, and they seem to think
it is too high for bad case of tuber-
culosis
We left Comfort and came to Cen
ter Point, small town of about 500
inhabitants. They are mostly Ameri-
cans. We have decided to stop here
for awhile and see what effect the
climate will have on us. We are stop
ping with doctor and his wife They
are from the North He came here
about years ago with consumption,
and says he is we'll now. There are so
many people here for their health.
The people here are very sociable
and clever, but they sure don't for
get to charge board Forty dollars
month and upward in town and thirty
out i'll the country il The very cheapest
you can get and then they don't seem
to care whether they take you or not.
One cause is they can't hardly get
anything to eat out here, and they
have to pay SO dear for what they
get until they don't care to have
boarderS. And another thing is the
scarcity of water. The only drinking
water they have is cistern water. For
fear some of you don't know what cis
tern water is l will tell you They
have stone reservoirs in the ground
like our wells, only they are fixed
for catching the rain water as it runs
off of the house through pipes, with
the strainers that run in to the res
ervolrs there it is kept for drinking
water
The water they use for other pur-
poses is brought up from the river
or from deep wells, pumped UP by
wind mills, Sometimes their drink
ing water gives out and then they
have to use river water can't hard
ly drink this water, for it tastes bitter
and has ycllowish color.
The scenery out here is just beauti-
full. They have no pines nor wire
grass but they have the Spanish oak
and other kinds of oak that I have not
learned the name of yet.
They have but very few birds.
have only seen two doves and | heard
one crow since have been here.
see plenty Of buzzards. They say
they have but very few birds of any
kind. More doves than anything else.
They have had no rain here in