rk Hotel up in Happy Hollow. The one I mean was down on
Malvern. It burned in the fire of 1913. Law, when I come there wasn't
nothing but mule street cars. Hot Springs has seen lots of changes.

"Back in Kentucky I'd been working around where I was born. Worked
around the houses mostly. They paid me wages and wanted me to go on
working for them. But I decided I wanted to get away. So I went to
Little Rock. But didn't find nothing much to do there. Then I went on
up Cedar Glades way. Then I come to Hot Springs.

"First I worked for a man who had a big garden----it's out where South
Hot Springs is now----oh you know what the man's name was----he was
named----he was named--name was Barker, that's it, Barker." (The
"Barker Place" has been divided up into lots and blocks and is one of
the more popular residential districts.)

"Then I got a job at the Park hotel. No ma'am. I didn't work in the
yard. I worked in the refrigerators and the pantry. Then about meal
times I served the fruit. You know how a big, fashionable hotel
is--there's lots of things that has to be done around 'em.

"Finally I got rheumatism and I had to quit that kind of work. So I
got a job firing the furnace at the electric light plant. It was down
on Malvern then. That was before the fire of 1913. I was working right
there when the fire come. It was pretty awful. It burned just about
everything out there on Malvern----and places on lots of other streets
too.

"After that I got a job at the Eastman hotel. I fired the furnace and
worked on the boilers. Worked there a long time. Then they sent me to
the Arlington. You know at that time the same company owned both the
Eastman and the Arlington. It wasn't this new Arlington----it was the
second one--the red brick one. Built that second one while I was here.
The first one was wood.

"Back in the time when I come, there was a creek running through most
of the town. There wasn't any Great Northern hotel. There was just a
big creek there.

"But how-some-ever, to go on. After I worked at the Arlington on the
boilers and the furnace--I got a job at the Army and Navy Hospital.
Now that wasn't the new hospital either. It was the old one--it was
red brick too.

"Next, I worked at the LaMar Bath house. I was there a long
time----for years and years. Then they got to building over the bath
houses. One by one they tore down the old ones and put new ones up. I
worked on at the LaMar until they tore the old one dow