Hot Springs, Arkansas; its hotels, baths, resorts and beautiful scenery .. . Jl^e Jrip to J^ot Sprii^f^ JII{;RE is no question that the trip to Hot vSprings a decadeago was attended with a few inconveniences, especially aftertlie traveler left Malvern and the railroad. The huge lum-bering stage coach was cramped, stuffv and shaky : the driveruncouth and profusely profane ; the streams to be forded fre-quent, frolicsome and deep: the mud likewise, except wherethe way was stony—and there it was hilariouslv frolicsome,you can be sure—the wild and woolly road agents, withregulation black masks
Hot Springs, Arkansas; its hotels, baths, resorts and beautiful scenery .. . Jl^e Jrip to J^ot Sprii^f^ JII{;RE is no question that the trip to Hot vSprings a decadeago was attended with a few inconveniences, especially aftertlie traveler left Malvern and the railroad. The huge lum-bering stage coach was cramped, stuffv and shaky : the driveruncouth and profusely profane ; the streams to be forded fre-quent, frolicsome and deep: the mud likewise, except wherethe way was stony—and there it was hilariouslv frolicsome,you can be sure—the wild and woolly road agents, withregulation black masks and six-shooters, were ubiquitous, aggres-sive and acquisitive, and the journey such a twentv-five rugged,jostling, weary miles, that it delivered the venturesome passengersat the Springs in a condition of physical, mental and fre(juently ofRnancial collapse. If the gentle reader will turn back to page 5, he will find thereI graphic portrayal of the wonderful transformation in the methods:>{ transportation through this region. The stage coach has givenAay to the Pullman palace car; the boistero
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