. City of Houston . POST OFFICE AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING. HARRIS COUNTY COURT HOUSE. the steady demand of its infield for sup-plies, more evenly distributed throughoutthe year, than in most of the cotton towns ;and is especially active in thebalmy winter season, when thecotton is moving, and the harvestseason of Texas products is at itsheight. Then it is that the streets ofHouston present onights a mostanimated picture, with the lightsstreaming from the shop windows,or from the electric lights without,on the passers-by. On the gaycrowds bound for the theatre orother places of reso
. City of Houston . POST OFFICE AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING. HARRIS COUNTY COURT HOUSE. the steady demand of its infield for sup-plies, more evenly distributed throughoutthe year, than in most of the cotton towns ;and is especially active in thebalmy winter season, when thecotton is moving, and the harvestseason of Texas products is at itsheight. Then it is that the streets ofHouston present onights a mostanimated picture, with the lightsstreaming from the shop windows,or from the electric lights without,on the passers-by. On the gaycrowds bound for the theatre orother places of resort. On theloiterers by the wayside, lendinga listening ear to the curbstonehawker of wares. On all thebrighter, and some, too, it mustbe admitted, of the darker, phasesof metropolitan existence. On theaspects, however, of a metropoliswhich is certainly, if not one of thelargest, one of the most thriving,progressive and solid in the land 10 THE CITY OF HOUSTON. A CITY OF WEALTH. Houston is an old city—an ancient,al
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