Hot Springs, Arkansas; its hotels, baths, resorts and beautiful scenery .. . 12 usual freight train time, irregular running and utter lack of accommodation. TheHot Springs Railroad, however, is a bright and shining exception, and to thetraveler there is nothing about the track, cars or the time, to indicate that he is noton a main line of some great system. Three passenger trains are run each way daily betweenHot Springs andMalvern, c o n -necting with allIron ^Mountaintrains and mak-ing the Springsperfectly accessi-ble, without de-. coupon ticketscan be purchasedand baggage checkedthrough to
Hot Springs, Arkansas; its hotels, baths, resorts and beautiful scenery .. . 12 usual freight train time, irregular running and utter lack of accommodation. TheHot Springs Railroad, however, is a bright and shining exception, and to thetraveler there is nothing about the track, cars or the time, to indicate that he is noton a main line of some great system. Three passenger trains are run each way daily betweenHot Springs andMalvern, c o n -necting with allIron ^Mountaintrains and mak-ing the Springsperfectly accessi-ble, without de-. coupon ticketscan be purchasedand baggage checkedthrough to any pomtin the United States, everyfacility for the convenience oftravelers being provided. ThePacific Express Company oper-ates over this line and has anoffice at the Springs. Well, there goes the the passengers are collecting 13 their grips, wraps and umbrellas. The train stops at a tasty little brick station^backed by a handsome park shaded with lofty forest trees, and we disembark. Theentire population is here to meet us—for it is one of the features of the dailyroutine to go to the trains to welcome the coming and speed the parting what a cosmopolitan crowd it is! English, French, Germans, Spaniards,.Italians, Greeks, Turks, Russians, Arabs, Africans—natives mostly—Indians, Chi-nese—they are all here ; and of our own Americans, every State in the Union isrepresented. Yet it is a good-natured, jolly, jostling crowd withal, with a generalair of bonhomie that is contagious and makes one feel
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