SWEET SPRINGS HOTEL/MARMADUKE MILITARY ACADEMY BARRACKS c. 1892
Courtesy of The Historical Society of Missouri (Nancy Ehrlich's Adam Hill Collection)
SWEET SPRINGS
Published in Brownsville Herald
13 April 1877
The great work goes steadily on, and everything is under whip and spur. The sound of the hammer is heard from early morn until the setting of the sun. About fifty active working men ae now pushing to completion the mammoth hotel, under the watchful eye of Mr. Richard Shinnick, the contractor, and the boss carpenter, Mr. Silas Robinson. Not a moment is lost from seven to twelve, or from one to six. When Mr. Frank Shinnick is heard to cry aloud, “six o’clock”, then all hands-carpenters, brick and stone masons, painters, roofers, plasterers, plumbers, teamsters and laborers – with one accord are seen moving off to their boarding-houses at double quick time; and if you don’t think they do justice at the table, just drink Sweet Spring water and work one week for the boss, and you will have some idea of what it costs to keep boarding house at the Springs.
