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APRIL 29, I9Q3.
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
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Jlwakened Houston Plans to Become Metropolis
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By HILTON CASTLE. ,
Wntmn for Sfee Sunny South
HE v isitor to Houston, Tex., j
is early impressed with •'
her splendid advantages, i
Xo city in the trans-Mis- i
sippi region possesses a i
finer location; this, one i
■dance at the map, will
easily convince. Let us f
examine into the question: i
Houston (is the largest '
city in the Lone Star !
state, and has more rail,
roads centering within
_i,„ of , >er borders man any oth-
ct v of the state. Railroads only go
"I The he-.d W r th ’ Whil ° Houston stands
ot the head of navigation, 50 miles from
the seaeoast. on Buffalo bayou, a stream
for whose widening and deepening the
federal government lias recently appro
priated the sum of $4,000,000 in order
that ocean-going craft may ascend to
the wharfs of the town. Rack of Hons- I
ton is the great northwest, whose prod !
tuts seek a -short haul" to the sea. !
A\ ith her great ship channel completed, i
what better could lie offered? Texas I
grows more cotton than any other state.
AVSthin four hundred miles of Houston ;
something like 27 per cent of the eot-
ton crop of the country is produced, l’art 1
of this crop must be carried to foreign !
giorts.
MAMMOTH EXPORTS.
Houston's ship channel, when complet- i
e i. will furnish the nearest waterway, i
Cotton, cotton seed oil. lumber, oil, su-j
gar. rice, coal, brick hides, piling, etc., j
products exceeding in value $25,000,000 I
are annually shipped by way of the I
Bayou in barges. What will be the es
timate when sea-going craft crowd Hous
ton's wharves?
Recently the Gould interests, the South, j
«ni Pacific system, and other big con- |
cerns, have made large land investments
along the Houston ship channel way, [
and it is not too much to say that with- j
In a decade the banks of the famous i
P.ayou will show busy factories, and all I
those things else that pertain to the |
(making of commerce. What the com- j
•pletion of the Panama canal will mean i
to Houston, in the opening up of trade ;
■with the Orient, can easily be imagined.
Ex-Congressman Ball, who fathered the
s.up channel hill through, has this to i
say regarding Houston and her water- j
way:
"Houston occupies the most favorable
situation for the metropolis of Texas, j
When deep water was had at Galveston j
of Great Southwestern Empire ^ j
Ufye Sunny South’s Municipal Series—— •—
One of Houston’s Busiest Streets.
to se iuc the contemplated depth of 25
feet. When completed, the Houston ship
channel in conjunction with deep water
at Galveston, will afford the commerce
of Texas and the states tributary west
of the Mississippi river, facilities for
handling that will not he rivaled else- '
Where.
"The present commerce of tile ship
channel to Houston amounts to from
•twenty-five to thirty millions annua
This will in a comparatively short ti
bonus of sixteen sec-
mile after tlie first 25
ates. All of these dredges burn oil. | road men
rich is brought in bange tanks to the | tions to
edges, and stored for use. Many of ! miles are put in running order
railway lines that penetrat
is section use fuel oil. The discovery
the great oil fields of Texas has had
wonderful effect upon the growthof
e town and its section. The t'nited
ates census of 1900 gave Houston a
! “We can make an arrangement to give
the bonus* reserving every alternate sec
tion for free schools, and when the roads
| are built the reserved alternate section
! v\ill be worth five times as much as
I both sections were before the railroad
| was built. But short-sighted men and
j demagogues, headed, 1 am sorry to say,
I by the gallant city of Houston, are bit-
i icrly opposed to railroads. They propose
! to build an adobe road from Houston
j to the Brazos timbers at Hempstead. To
overcome this vast array of - opposition,
1 we must have the vigorous aid of every
i man that thinks, whether lie wears a
i black cravat, or ;io cravat at all
I "And the committee wants you to spike
fl'.ie big cannon at Houston and silence
its thunders against railroads and use all
your influence for railroads.”
Houston today is the railroad center
of Texas.
Note, too, what this grand old man
of Texas says concerning schools. Hous
ton is. as well equipped educationally as
she is along railroad lines. As is well
known among educators, Texas has the
largest school endowment fund of any
state in the union..her permanent school
fund amounting to $48,900,000. And
Houston, through the liberality of a no
ble philanthropist, will some day possess
an educational institution better endowed
than any other institution of learning in
the south—the William Marsh Rice insti
tute, for the advancement of literature,
science and art. Five millions of dol
lars is the estimated value of the en
dowment fund of this institution.
Houston was the first capital of the
republic of Texas, and was iiamf\ after
the founder of the republic. A large
hotel stands on the site where the tirst
capitol building—a log cabin—stood. In
1840 Austin, was made the capital. The
town had its beginning in 1836, and was
laid out by “the Allen brothers,” wiio
purchased a large tract of land, includ
ing the site of the present town, for
$5,00C. A few miles from Houston is
the battle field of San Jacinto, where,
on April 21, 1836, General Houston won
the independence of Texas. Houston has
an elevation of 54.1 feet above sea level.
She is a beautifully laid out town, having
fine broad streets, lined with trees, and
many handsome buildings on the sky
scraper order. She has beautiful churches
and handsome homes, and a $100,000
Carnegie library. Only one monument,
so far, rears its head in her midst, and
that Is to the memory of the brave con
federate hero, Hick Howling, which was
recently utuveiled. The subject of a mon
ument ’to the memory of Sam Houston is
being discussed.
Commercially again, Housiton is the
center of the lumber industry of tiie
state, handling yearly more than 700.000,-
000 feet of manufactured yellow pine,
valued at $10,500,000. The value of
Texas’ rice crop is something like $62.-
500.000. the bigger part of which is han
dled in the Houston market. Houston
numbers six national banks, and two
private banks. Her hank clearings in
1904 amounted to $663,672,543; her post-
office receipts to $200,199,300. In 1900
the United States census gave her 507
manufacturing industries, which number
has greatly increased since then. Her
manufacturing industries pay out annual,
ly $6,000,000 in wages, and her railroads
$7,000,000. Houston tops all other cities
in Texas in the number of her cotton
seed oil mills. She Is a great jobbing
center.
Houston Is one of the star cities of
the great new south, whose vast re
sources can scarcely be correctly meas
ured.
DO YOB GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK?
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m, Kidney, L_i<
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Wild Animals With
* The Murder Lust
Scene in Humber Oil Field on Line of H. E. & W. T. Railroad, Eighteen Miles Northeast of Houston.
1896, a movement was at once started
i deepen a. channel through Galveston
iy and Buffalo bayou from Galveston
i Houston. On December I. 1897. an
ninent number of government engineers
ported in highly favorable terms upon
e feasaltllity and advisability of mak-
g the Houston ship channel 25 feet
■ep. thus permitting large ocean-going
•ssels to reach the city of Houston. In
199 the first appropriation was made,
revision has since been made for a
liform depth of I8L, feet. This will be
dlowed by subsequent appropriations
be quadrupled. As now situated. Hous
ton gets the benefit of water rates, and
with this channel completed, her growth
which has already placed her ahead of
all other Texas cities, will go forward
with leaps and bounds until she becomes
not only the leading city in Texas, but
will take rank next to St. Louis in the
southwest.”
WORK ACTIVELY PROSECUTED.
Seven immense dredges are a' work
now on the Houston ship channel, one
being the largest dredge in the Unittd
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j and the discovery of oil brought, thou
sands of settlers into her midge. Right
j at her doors Is tiie great Humble oil
| fields, from which a pipe lire is build-
i ing to the town.
Speaking of tiie advantages of Houston.
| it may be well to quote front the official
leport of the special agents of the United j
States postoffice. treasury department {
and department of justice, who in 1902 j
■visited the town for the purpose of in
vestigating its needs regarding a new \
federal court house, customs liou.se and j
postoffice. The result of their visit was!
tiie appropriation ol' $400,000 for federal I
buildings in Houston. The report in part !
says;
UNCLE SAM SPEAKS.
"The business interests of the city j
of Houston are very extensive, compar- j
ing favorably with cities three or four!
times the size. The aggregate deposits j
in the hanks of the city are SI0.000,000.
while tiie business done through the
clearing (house last year is said to have
been $466,426,159.
"Houston cannot fail to increase rapid
ly, and in ali probability t he next con- j
sus will show a population exceeding i
100,000. Tn view of these conditions,
we are of the opinion that a libera!
policy will prove ultimate economy in .
any building operations in that city that j
are projected at the present time.”
This is the unbiased opinion of United ’•
States officials, embodied in a. communl- (
cation sent to congress by Postmaster:
General Payne. Attorney General Knox j
and Secretary of tiie Treasury Shaw. •
Reverting to Houston as a great rail- j
toad center, tiie tirst to encourage the j
building of railroads in tiie great, state of j
Texas was General Sam Houston, the j
father of the state. How lie hammer- j
ed away on tiie subject of railroads when j
misfortune visited the state in the form |
of fraud, and faint hearts grew dis- i
couraged and antagonistic. To one he
said, after an address made before the |
legislature at. Austin: !
“I conic by request of our committee;
in favor of railroads to enlist you in a j
subject that should be dear to every •
Texas heart. Texas must now decide j
whether she is to be a mere cow ranch, j
sheep pen, or a grand empire state. If
she is content to be a sheep pen or cow j
ranch, she has about all she needs; but i
if she wishes to be the grandest state
on tiie continent, she must have rail-1
roads. She has no navigable rivers,
bays or seas, but is the best adapted
for a system of cheap railroads of any
state on the continent. She has no
mountains to tunnel, and is almost a
natural grade, and can be fitted for ties
and railroad Iron at comparatively little
cost. But she has no freights and no
travel to .pay capitalists to build her
roads, therefore she must give the rail-
• ... • ••• 9 0-—0:-0:-0 •••
HOW me ;i striped wild an
imal and 1 will show you
one you want to keep your
eye on." Thus spoke the
animal man as he sealed
up a cage, of hyenas for
shipment to Chicago “[
had more trouble putting
that bunch into their ten
ding cage than with near
ly all the others. | have
hud to do with wild ani
mals now for a good many
years—I won't tell you
how many, because I am getting old
enough to feel tiie weight of these time
posts—and i have never yet come up
with a striped beast that did not show
mean traits. Sometimes T wonder if this
is not the way nature has of marking
up the bad fellows, so that they may be
known, just as we put striped suits on
tiie impossibly had of the human kind.
Take those hyenas, for instance. They
come under the head of the dog species.
How seldom you ever hear of a dog
snipping the hand that feeds it? These
ugly things are liable to do it at any
time. They tire the most uncomfortable
things in the whole menagerie and if I
had unruly nerves they would have me
jumping like the lake in a ripping storm.
You can't train them, because they can
never be depended upon. Their heads
arc not big enough for much storage of
sense, but, for all that they have more
room there than sea lions, tiie most
highly intelligent, unless possibly the ele
phants, of all beasts.
"Tiie hyena is so cussedly mean that I
leave him severely alone and generally
put him in a dark corner, where lie can
pad. pad to his heart’s content. His
■ 0.m-0'.-0—-9-»-‘
food .is shoved in to him c
handled pan.
“The tiger is another striped bad one. |
Even kitten tigers hiss and scratch and |
hump themselves, showing that the i
meanness of their nature is in the bone, j
Most kitten and puppy animals are j
stupid and friendly and lil^e to have their
heads rubbed. Kitten tigers will scratch
the hand that tries tIris, even though
their eyeis are little, slits not yet open.
A nimble young tiger would rather fight
than eat. and wild animals certainly like
to eat. A full grown tiger will fight to a
finish with anything that walks, but it
is more cunning and does not take so
many chances as the exuberant young
sters.
TIGERS ALWAYS BAD.
‘Tigers have been trained, but tiiey
are apt to 'go off any time and make
trouble for their master. It may lie a
scrap between themselves that stirs their
savage blood, it may be a hurting whip
or it may be a crazji. impulse born of
something no one can spell. After tiie
tiger once, gets the taste of blood, the
best tiling to do is to kill him. I feel
toward him much as the man felt to
ward the redskin, when lie said, 'The
best Indian is a. dead Indian.’
"Zebras are pudgy little horses with
stripes that give away their tempera
ment. Every now and then you hear of
zebras broken to harness. Well, I have
seen a few of these, but the ydidn’t go
far before something else was broken
besides the zeb'ras’s mean nature. They
are strong and good-looking, but so in
fernally cussed that there is no doing
anything with them. They serve all
right in a menagerie, as a part of a big
Pain or dull ache in the back is urnnls- |
taka.ble evidence of kidney trouble, it is
Nature's timely warning to show you
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but ihat about I water hits their heads and backs. I
j don't like to do this, because they ha\>
sensitive spines and are apt to take cold.
| Big as they arr, it doesn’t take it cold
long to grip their lungs and hurry them
giraffe is the mildest thing on four legs. ■ Into pneumonia
The two with Ringling Brothers are pel- ! "Animals with a solid color from the
display of wild
let's them out.
"On tiie contrary, spotted animals
apt to be gentle and teachable.
The I
feet specimens, with big melting eyes
and shrinking airs. They make me think
of a red-cheeked country girl, who wants
to run from every stranger. The spot
ted species of the deer £
and further carry out
crown of the head to the tip of the tail
generally turn out to be well balanced.
Tiie black tiger is rather against this
theory, but he, after all. Is an unfair ex-
■ just as timid j ample, because his spots are plain to
tiie idea. Of j bp seen when the light is strong. The
course, there is the leopard, a rather I elephant is good-natured and obedien;.
bad animal. But h e is an exception, and j The camel takes life easy and doesn't
the meanest of his kind is the black, seem to worry about anything so long
The black leopard is frequently called I as he Is left to munch by himself. A
black panther, but tiie spots are not visi- ! bear with a fur of several snadings is a
jjj c i bad one to take risks with. Bears are not
“Sometimes a lion's mane is marked '' much good, anxwax. to mv mind,
with uneven black envies. When this is j POLAR BEARS THE MEANEST,
the case it is wise not to get too familiar. > “The polar bear is the meanest of them
It is the sign of a bad streak soi 0 j a i] JI is coat of solid white goes against
where in Leo's makeup and there is no ; . , , .
, ... , • the notion that an unvarying color marks
telling when this stain might turn his .
strength into savage danger. In the j the ammal as being level-headed, but this
splendid Ringling collection there is alia only an exception. The tapir Is a
group of magnificently grown lions with | harmless beast and rather affectionate.
He can even cry. Big rolling tear drops
show this when liis keeper cuts him out
!“ of a meal or goes away for a day or
I two. His suit of nature's clothes is what
headgear of this beautiful marking. Every
time tiiat any of them mixed long with
other lions in the big exercising room
at the winter quarters in Baraboo a. bij
row took place, and the lion with the
striped mane was sure to be in the midst j ^'e girls call drab. The llama is on
of It. They are good fighters and will! amiable sort that may be properly classed
never give up until killed. Last winter I j with the spotted animals. Brown and
had to wave torches and throw hot water | w hite and black and white in huge
to break them apart. As a last resort,! splashes lend to the good looks of their
when these beasts get into a savage j curling coats. They have big lamblike
struggle, I use hot water. They don’t j eyes and would run from a baby,
mind beatln* with iron rods, but will! “Monkeys are in a class by themselves,
give up and turn tail when Lh e steaming j U one of them has red hair, he is sure
j lo be a dandy scrapper. The best tighter
| is always the leader. They hang togeth-
! er and bow and scrape before the boss
; just like a good many people. Monkeys
| with rod faces and Hat heads will whale
i the life out of those smaller than they
| are. but will run like the wind when It
j comes to an even break. A monkey riot
is a funny spectacle. Even in the same
J cage you will find groups horded togeth-
j er. as if there was some class distinction
: and the lines were drawn tightly. If two
of the big ones come together In a row the
others generally stand off and let them
! have it out. But if any of the little ones
i get to scrapping then the father and
j mother are apt to mix In and the next
| step is a general row. AVe separate them
! by i#%iing on the hose and punish them
! by locking up the dan, so that they
1 cannot get any peanuts from the crowd
j and hold back their meals. This plan puts
| them on their good behavior for a while,
j at least. The monkey likes to eat and
! likes to be noticed.”
Cotton Scene in Honston, Texas, at The Height of the Season.
BETWEEN FRIENDS.
! Bess—"Can’t you persuade your fiance
I to sign the pledge?”
Nell—"Why should he sign the pledge?
; He doesn’t drink.’’
| Bess—"But he’ll probably be' tempted to
after you are married.”
DOLLY CRAY
WlMiS: I Must've been a-Dreaaiag, Ims Ctw
'9 Coon. Honeysuckle and the Bee, Goo-Goo Im.
VmiM ‘’-Tie. Fortune-Telling Man A>!»
Chris Lono’e parodies Go Way
Md Let Me Sleep. Won’t Toil Cono Here*. Bill
Bailey. Words and music of “Sho’s Only Seee*
Sisfeen” and •♦In That Golden Summertime.’*
Also 84 miniaturesactroseee and acters. ALSO
‘■Snggettfena en_ Matrimony” and “The Art ef
j “Dixie Novelty Co.” AndersonviUe, Ga