. City of Houston . ce its naturalbeauties, and is a spot well worth a not unmindful of religion andcharity, are the people of Houston in themidst of their diversions. Liberal con-tributions are made by the public tomaintain the orphans and for the assist-ance of the indigent. There is a Wom-ans Exchange and Employment county of Harris provides a publichospital, and there are several privateinfirmaries, chief among them that ofSt. Josephs, conducted by the CatholicSisters of Charity. And as for churches,with no less than thirty-five of them,building and built, Houston may
. City of Houston . ce its naturalbeauties, and is a spot well worth a not unmindful of religion andcharity, are the people of Houston in themidst of their diversions. Liberal con-tributions are made by the public tomaintain the orphans and for the assist-ance of the indigent. There is a Wom-ans Exchange and Employment county of Harris provides a publichospital, and there are several privateinfirmaries, chief among them that ofSt. Josephs, conducted by the CatholicSisters of Charity. And as for churches,with no less than thirty-five of them,building and built, Houston may fairlybe called the Texas City of Spires. HOTELS OF HOUSTON. The principal hotels of Houston arethe Capitol, the Grand Central and theBoyles, the latter the old Hutchins Houseremodeled. The Grand Central Hotel, situateddirectly oppositethe Grand Cen-tral Depot, inHouston, is anew house, withall the modernappointments ofelectric call bellsand lights, baths,etc. It was builtlast year, at a cost of $20,000, and is man-. aged by James Lawlor, who runs theGrand Central Depot Dining Hallhere, and the lunch room at RosenbergJunction, on the Santa Fe and SouthernPacific roads. He is a hotel man of many years expe-rience. He was formerly connected withthe Driskell, at Austin, Tex., the Lindelland Southern, of St. Louis, and theTremont, in Chicago, and he was proprie-tor of the Grand Central Depot DiningHall here, for three years before this hotelwas built. The Grand Central is 75 by 100 feet,and three stories high. It has twenty-eight rooms and accommodations for forty
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