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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1899)
THE BATTALION. 21 The A. & M. Colleg-e justly recognizes among its best friends the officials of the H. & T. C. railroad, which passes its gates. Always generous in those matters in regard to which the ignorant call corporations soulless, always ready to foster the interests this Institution represents by showing us kindnesses little and great. The writer can assert, after an exerience of ten years, that all arrangements for legitimate pleasure and permanent good, requiring the help of this great thoroughfare, have found uniform sympathy and support at its hands, from its president to its lowest employe. At 12:30 p. m., President Poster with the majority of the faculty and their wives, officials and ladies of the cam pus, and some of the corps of cadets, embarked on a special train placed at their service, under control of Conductor Clarke, for Austin, via Hempstead and the western branch. The weather was most propitious, the track clear, every one knew his neighbor, our college band was along and willing to regale us,'so that with bunting flying, singing, joking, eating, dozing, no indecorum to mar our glee, we reached Austin without accident at 6 o’clock p. m. The hotels, boarding houses, and private residences of the Capital City showed our large party every kindness. Queenlike upon her hills sits Austin, the embodiment in dignity and beauty, if not size, of what Texas represents to the world. Her noble Capitol building, her department edifices, her governor’s mansion, elegant churches, abodes of refined citizenship, the beautiful river at her feet, her charitable asylums, and last, though not least, her splen_ did and growing University impress even the casual visi-
