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vlctes the build ins: into four sections on i each of the three floors. The hotel proper 13 on the thirrl floor. The first floor.is given over to offices of commission merchants, a barber shop and i± place where the thirsty cowboys cult' obtain a glass oC the liquid which cheers and loosens the tongue. The second floor .is almost bare and is used for store rooms and one or two Cattle buyers have their offices there.The third floor is the hotel. Here the cowboys sleep and cat. The table Is placed in the hall that it might get full benefit of the cool breezes. . The To nr sections of the 1km iso arc divided Into bed rooms tvlth two and sometimes three beds to the room. Cots ftbe*:,placed- 011 the-Vida galleries and a cowboy has only to pass tho price and take his pick. hi the summer months, it Is stated, the rooms are deserted, a« all of the boys prefer an out-of-door place to sleep, ft Is saId. fo be a common occurrence for a man | to come in and finding all of tho eotsJ Df the gallery filled to take u bed from one of the rooms and set It up on theKllery and turn in. There Is no line en un the beds mid lb ere. Is nci hot and cold water Jn the rooms. ThereThat is Why for twenty years the hotel at the stock yards has held its own. :In tho early fall, when the annual slipping of cuttlo to the north begins, any evening will find the wide gallery crowded with men in big grey tiatsv smoking cigarettes, spinning yarns,' playing pranks arid keeping up a general fuss, having a good time. The saloon is, of course, the favorite place of meeting, but it Is stated that there | is more noise, daughter and. joshing! and less drinking than one would suppose. Contrary to public opinion, the cow puncher is not, as a rule, a hard drinker. Many of them like to wot their wli^Ftlea once in a while, hut thuro is HUlo drunkennewa, Jt i« also claimed Xbl, Us ex- e is- almost no fighting. The cowboy is, a? n rub1, gbOil nature d and full of pranks, but he is liot quarrelsome. True, he Is quick to resent an Insult and can and will fight when necessary, but he will stand any amount of ,4kidding” Jrtyn his associates, and mluiy practical jokes which would cause a fight among gcntlor (?) company arc passed over with :l loud laugh and the resolve to pay brick in kind yonje day.Trade Horses for 1)1 version.The BEXARTraveling Men's Headquarters iALFRED SANNER, Prop.san antonio. - - texasiThe ~MengerH W. WILLS, Mgr.San Antonio, ; Texast-TSU-OH-HOUSTON, TEX., :LOW EXCURS\IAAlmost any day at this season of the year a* good number of the regular patrons of the house,may he found there late in .the afternoon, gathered in little groups on the gallery, discussing cattle prices, or swapping yarns. The inan with a proclivity for trading horses* is always there and you will often find two or three men squatted, about a pair of ponies,, whittling sticks,, eyeing the horses and asking now and Uien n casual quesLlon in a studied and careless tone.: .Swapping horses is one of their favorite diversions and they engage. In It for the ;sa.ke of tho .game as well as the desire* to obtain a good horse. To heat the other fellow in the gam a and the bitten one always takes his medicine with good grace, and even takes with a'grin the joshing'' of the man who beat hiim He hopes the day wiu come when he will get oven. Mod r“ftBROUND TRIP—Ticket limit to leave Houston ROUND TRIP—Tick01 IS, inclusive: limit No1 II. fi. WAfi.NET Corner Houston Street jhkI Avenue U-fights ever result from a burse trude and no matter how bad one has been .skinned,'; there is no howling. It is all In tho game mid ho has held the bising hand. Ruck will change sonic day.The past fortnight has boon more productive ot new pumped water plants for irrigation than any other similar time in the history of the wonderful development of the Jjower Pecos and Toy ah valleys of Texas, says F. Woody Johnson in. the Industrial Record. To date, or since, theN«Ni
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San Antonio Light
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 12, 1911
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