ARBORICULTURE. 6i 



(^ Where to Spend the Winter ^) 



Some Famous Resorts Reached by the 



Iron Mountain Route 



This is the season of the year when the average tourist, health or pleasure 

 seeker longs for a trip to the Sunny South or the sub-tropical clime of Old Mexico. 

 If he has once enjoyed the luxury of sunshine and flowers in midwinter, a craving 

 for them is sure to arise each succeeding year, and how easy it is to gratify it, if 

 one only proceeds systematically and plans his winter trip, the same as he does 

 his summer vacation. There are a score of health and pleasure resorts within easy 

 access of St. Louis where a part of the winter may be most profitably spent from a 

 standpoint of both mental and physical improvement. 



Within less than a twelve hours' ride over the Iron Mountain Route from 

 St. Louis, in a basin of the Ozark Mountains, lies the greatest all-year-round resort 

 in the country. Hot Springs, Ark., had over 90,000 Visitors last season and it is 

 conservatively estimated that fully 100,000 will find their way to the great Valley 

 of Vapors during the coming year. 



It is not alone the thermal waters with their wonderful curative properties 

 that attract this multitude of people, but the world-wide reputation which this 

 National Sanitarium has attained as a pleasure resort causes thousands of visitors 

 annually to gather there from all sections. 



This season the Iron Mountain Route has retained as part of the excellent 

 equipment of its Hot Springs Special, Through Pullman Compartment Sleeping 

 Cars. This solid vestibuled train of Pullman Sleeping and Free Reclining Chair 

 Cars leaves Union Station every night at 8.01 o'clock, and arrives at the Springs 

 the following morning at 8.00 o'clock, in time for breakfast at one of the grept resort 

 hotels there, than which there are none finer in any of the large cities of the country. 



Whether the visitor is seeking health or pleasure, rest or recreation, pastime, 

 amusement or sport, he will find them all happily combined at Hot Springs, Ark., 

 or in the immediate vicinity. 



For those who prefer a longer trip there are the 2.21 p. m. and 8.20 p. m. 

 trains of the Iron Mountain Route which leave Union Station daily with through 

 sleeping cars for Houston, Galveston, Dallas, Fort W^orth, San Antonio, Laredo 

 and the City of Mexico. Along the Gulf Coast in the vicinity of Galveston there 

 is the greatest sport in the world for the ambitious angler, and that is tarpon 

 fishing. He is called the "Silver King" of the finny tribe, and will furnish more 

 genuine sport of a strenuous character than a long string of bass or basket of 

 speckled trout. San Antonio is the great cosmopolitan resort in the health belt 

 of the Southwest. 



In Old Mexico the tourist will find himself in a land so strange and foreign 

 to this, that he will wonder why the tide of travel to Europe every year does not 

 turn in this direction. There is mental pabulum in Mexico for the student, historian, 

 archaeologist and scientist, as well as health and pleasure for those who love to live 

 beneath cloudle3S skies and dream away the idle hours in a land of sunshine and 

 flowers. The semi-weekly " Mexico-St. Louis Special," solid vestibuled train, 

 makes the run from St. Louis to City of Mexico in sixty hours, leaving St. Louis at 

 9.00 a. m. Tuesdays and Fridays, beginning January 16th. 



The True Southern Route ( Iron Mountain, Texas CBb Pacific and connections) , 

 with through sleeping car service to Los Angeles, leaving St. Louis daily at 8.30 

 a. m., offers the well-known, excellent facilities for travel to California. 



H. C. TOWNSEND, 



General Passenger and Ticket A^ent, 

 ST. LOUIS, MO. 



