The stop at the traction company’s assault of tbe eea that proved so des- Schlosser with an alligator traveling scenery. the principal banking and wholesale 1900. from the members of the associa- but not a DOWN IN TEXAS LAND power plant was not only for Inspection tructive lu bag Last, least Ban Antonio is street, where the buildings are being came the The Commissioner of Finance Pastor- with all of that plant, but to get a motion pic- Next grade raising. tion. city the city conveniences; cut of! and the street widened, for % Doings ol the National Editorial ture of the party. This was taken by city wsb literally lifted nineteen feet iza spoke in behalf of the city of Hous- magnificent modern hotels which pro- distance of about six blocks. Association. A Trip to Gal- of the Sunset Film Company of Houston, iu air while 20,000,000 cubic yards of ton and Past President Herbert told vide every luxury of equipment and of Public improvements now being car- veston. Sugar-land and the affiliated with the Mutual Film Com- saud filling were pumped in beneath the first time the National Association the culinary arc. It has numerous ried on will cost about twenty million Quaint City of San An- on street car tracks on had been in this of tbe and theaters and pany and will be sent on the regular houses stilts, part State, places of amusement; it dollars. tonio has circuits over the United States in con- trestles, elevated sewer and wa'er the grow tbthat had occurred since that churches and schools, and a com- A story of San Anto-iln would not a of All the time. the tbe street car nection with the views of the battle- mains, at cost $2,000,000. During speaking impro- plete system whose transfers be complete without a short history of THE THRILLING STORY OF THE ALAMO was and vised tables were cleared one all over ships taken on the trip about the bay. vegetation again destroyed, dining away carry the city. Its water the Alamo. The history was written Continued from last week Upon arrival at Galveston a commit- was once more replanted. Thereafter and the rainy afternoon was enjoyab- supply, drawn from thirteen astesian aud copyrighted by J. C. Butteifield tee of headed John F.Lub- the causeway was built, costing over iy whiled away with dancing. Date wells at a depth of 1,200 to 1,600 feet, of the Book Houston, Texas, Saturday, April 26. boosters, by Shop and is used here of The NewB It is a two-mile steel rein- in the afternoon the train was taken is the best and the most wholesome to with his —The average country editor is run- ben, secretary-treasurer $2,000,000. permission: be and C. H. forced concrete bridge joining the Texas back to Houston. bad in America. The water is For a Visitor to come to San ning bis newspaper at a practical loss, Company, McMaster, presi- Antonio dent of the Tribune mainland at Virginia Point with tbe Antonio sparkling, cold and delicious to the and fail to see the Alamo be and making his job printery make up Company, ably On to San would taste and assisted Frost of the Gal- shore of Galveston Island. Vessels coming from such a depth Is worse than Boston and over- tbe deficit. And, worse, the average by Secretary Our special train consisting of six visiting veston Commercial Association, con- pass through an opening bridged by beyond the reach of all germs or im- Bunker Hill—a which country editor does not know it. Those Pullmans left Houston over the Katy looking thing ducted the to four large the largest roller lift bridge in tbe purities. Bostonians would never the were the impressive facts brought out party pleasure line at 10.30 on tbe night of the 27th permit, by for the and world. The people of Ban Antonio are hos- The at the session of the National Editorial yachts engaged occasion, and we arrived at San Antonio on way. great Southwest from Lou- a ten-mile down Galveston’s activities are almost pitable and cordial. The isiana Association Saturday morning, and we were ofl for trip port time. stranger to California, is dotted with the with a luncheon served en rivaled by her record as a resort. The within the gate is always welcome. missione of more which the facts were proved by men who had bay, TUESDAY, APRIL 28 pretentions, of beach on the south shore of Galveston Even the casual man on the street will route. The docks along the two-and-a- their present possessors are Intensely studied their subjects systematically This city is about 200 miles west of half-mile waterfront make a surprising Island possesses wbat tbe Oleauder go out of hie way to direct you where proud and thinks and thoroughly. Houston and Mexico lies about 180 jealous—but nobody with some wish to and show indlcatiou of the traffic ou seagoing City natives believe, justice, you go to you any of the Alamo as a mission. It Is a The most enlightening discussion of miles to the southward. It was the vessels from the port of Galeston, and “the finest surf bathing in the world,” simple courtesies in bis power. monument. The of the Alamo tbe financial problems of tbe country most southern visited. We story com- point the great vessels at anchor in the roads and last year tbe transportation COMMERCIAL SAN ANTONIO is a story of eleven one crown- publisher yet heard in the convention breakfasted at the Gunter Hotel before days—of interest for the 600,000 visitors to that deed. All was Herman of the had especial members, panies reported the historic of ing that goes before or that by Roe, publisher starting in with the program of the Against background were all from the interior. beach. follows as who nearly the after, is merely incidental. Northfleld (Minn.) News, known day, which bad beeu arranged by the storied past, modern San Antonio Several of the large vessels were Just The port is an important military who are fond of for the “Minnesota’s Model Weekly,” who San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. has grown up, a busy commercial city, You, sighing station. Forte Travis and “ In from Mexico, and there were about Crockett, good old days of yore; who declaim on spoke ou Wbat Constitutes a Remun- At 9.30 tbe gathered at the developing more rapidly than any Ameri- Ban armed with ten-inch dis- party 1,800 refugees, mostly of them JaciDto, in the courage and heroism of the an- erative Advertising Rate.” Mr. Roe Alamo and listened to a other city the Southwest, and ow- coast defense with a thrilling story can citizens, aboard and detained by appearing rifles, to cients, remember that was a school superintendent until four of that historic After a ing the fact that her tributary terri- “Thermopylae to of twelve the har- spot. thorough when he the News. the six days’ quarantine required range miles, guard is but had her messenger of defeat—the Ala- years ago, bought inspection an automobile trip was in- tory yet partially developed, guard against yellow fever. First of bor. For the past year 12,000 United mo bad none!” You, who bemoan the His first investment following the pur- dulged in and the historic pointB of possesses almost unlimited opportun- was Admiral Con- States have been encamped was the of for a all Mayo’s flagship, regulars ities for future passing of the age of swashbucklers chase spending $112 the city and vicinity were visited, in- growth. necticut, where the sailors and marines, here watting the word to move to Mex- aud of chivalry, reflect that lees than cost system. This system proved to cluding the old missions, Fort Bam Ban Antonio is a jobbing and whole- a thousand ico. And from Galveston the first an together with half refugees, sale and does the eighty years ago the supreme test of him that bis rate of 16 cents inch Houston, which, by the way, is the center, distributing llued the rails for the troopB to invade Mexican soil left in was met was him He moving pictures. for a as as the State of chivalry by men apparently losing money. compiled second largest army post in the United territory large Civilians are not allowed aboard a tbe army transports. the least chivalrous because the least bis figures, showed them to the adver- BtateB. It bad been that our Ohio. It has also a large business and their Indicates Galveston also the expected and raised his rates to from 20 battleship, presence originated city with Mexico. New railroads spectacular—Americans. For, in the tisers, party would witness an exhibition projected an extreme Another commission form of government and one an to 30 an necessity. big this Alamo, hundred and eighty men cents inch cents inch, tbe drill at the but owiug to the through San Antonio territory was the tender was the first of the United States poet, to boat battleship Dixie, city will further shut them- low price every week advertisers active war this was of develop that country as —Americans—deliberately another the collier The to it into effect. preparations selves to and Cyclops. put practical working well as the new die that others might be and tbe high rate to occasional adver- necessity omitted. city, and bring oppor- Ward line Esperanza and the oil tank This plan has since been copied by saved. tisers. Contracts for lees than a year At 12 30 tbe at tunities for business and Investment. They disobeyed positive orders, atten- more than cities in the United delegates gathered steamer Trinidadian attracted fifty San Antonio and interposed themselves as a stum- were made for rates between the mini- the Royal Theater and witnessed the has 837 manufacturing tion. But perhapB the most interest- States and Europe. bling block to the advance of flve mum and maximum, according to the first presentation of the siege and fail plants, large and small. Its two lead- were the four Galveston’s beach is also a nation- thousand Mexicans amount and character of tbe advertis- ing lowlying torpedo ing breweries are the largest of the in order that the Here of the Alamo, reproducing as faithful- boat destroyers which had Just come famous aptomobile speedway. kind women and children—their own and ing. He lost only one regular adver- as tbe battle with all its in the South and employ over The the world’s record of 200 miles was ly possible Into the harbor this morning. nine hundred strangers’—might be hurried to safety,, tiser because of tbe increased rates, incidents. This was men. It hae large found- har- made. stirring picture in- trip took us through Galveston ries and and their comrades have time to pre- and his receipts from advertising a headed machine shops, cotton com- and about APRIL 27 produced by company by bor, through Bolivar Boads MONDAY, and oil pare to meet the foe. For eleven pre- creased more than $1,000 during the Representative A. D. Rogers and cost presses mills, soap and saddle two miles out between the jetties. to Sugarland food cious days they held the Santa vear following their adoption. Mr. Trip more than To this factories, product factories, cloth- mighty which 835,000. procure the Forts Travis aud San Jacinto, sash and blind Anna and his hordes at bay—days Roe also Increased subscription The to today was one it was first to obtain ing factories, factories the entrance to the were trip Sugarland picture necessary of his from to guard harbor, and other The that meant the difference between sur- price paper $1.00 $1.50. that was thoroughly eDjoyed by all the permission of the Governor, the enterprises. develop- seen to the east, and the federal aud prise and readiness—and then died in He bad 2,500 subscribers when he and of much educational value. and ment of an oil field some distance stations aud the Sugar- Mayor city authorities, Daughters Texas quarautlne and the of the conciousness of a well done. bought the paper and now has 2,800. land Is about 50 miles southeast of of the and numerous other away, opening up fine de- duty station Republic several other United States immigration of coal the For, each of the one hundred and Mr. Roe cited instances Houston, and Is about five miles from organizations. The streets were closed posits lignite by projected were passed. railroads will do eighty accounted for at least three of in which the cost system had proved the turbulem Brazos river. The train to permit the staging of the attack. much to develops a A pleasant ride on the street railway the Mexicans. But let Sidney Lanier to country publishers that they were left Houston at 9.40 and reached Bu- effort was made to have the manufacturing industry here. all the most interest- Every line, encompassing San Antonio is tell the story of the Alamo in a more losing money on their newspapers. 11 a. m. the correct and the called the shopping of the garland at Along way pictures' historically ing and beautiful parts city, center of the and has worthy manner than I could to He said investigations had shown that several fields of cotton were seen film makes a of the war of the Southwest, some hope in the good reality show it to be most attractive of the retail do: tbe publisher of a paper with 1,000 and a air of Texans for and largest establishments The boulevards growing general prosperity independence perpet- circulation would have to an aver- spring garb. parked south of St. Louis. Its merchants im- "The citizens of San Antonio get was seen. Sugarland !b operated by uates the scenes of the battle for all poor lined with china berries, now loaded from de age of 17 cents an inch for advertising the an In- time. After the theater the port goods all over the world. Bejar do not enjoy the blessings of with blossoms and Imperial Sugar Company, leaving In to make a his palms, magnolia, In of in new life in those order living from that has caused afternoon was according to the percentage gain build- quiet; wild soldiers who and the dependent company spent crowning all, royal palms, San Antonio stands in the have stormed the town paper, wasted by job printing. the sugar trust much aud con- individual of each visitor. ings third cannot remain make the aud worry preference on a city unique delightful. list of American cities. Mr. Roe’s address brought spir- cern. It was established nine years At 7 o’clock a mexican was Three splen- long without excitement. Presently is to that all have supper It hard realize grown did new hotels ited discussion in which several editors and the on served Mexican hombres at the were completed in 1909 Dr. Grant revives his old Matamoras storm in 1900. ago, refinery produces by since the great and three new and told what the cost system bad done for barrels of cane Cafe Mexicana de Palma. This was office buildings of from project, soon departs, carrying is deserted average 1,200 sugar per Fort Crockett nearly now, six to ten in with them. President Oswald summed up The editors were taken also the Chamber stories height were com- him most of the troops that had was day. through complimentary by but a run taken thjnugli the been in the discussion by saying that tbe pub- the and shown all the of Commerce. pleted recently. Store buildings, left Bejar for its defense, to- The Nineteenth and plant processes lisher who does not know what It grounds. Fourth, houses and residences have with the of the of making sugar. The plant not only San Antonio is different from any apartment gether greater part gar- Twenty-eighth Infantry, theBIxthCav- been rison’s costs him to publish his paper, as well refines the in this section other in the United States. It constructed everywhere in the winter supply of clothing, am- the Fourth Field a sugar grown city as alry, Artillery, San Antonio real munition and to do job pointing, is wandering iu of Texas but has an and indi- city. estate has provisions, and in ad- of U. S. Imports large quantities interest, atmosphere the aud to company engineers, Captain shown a In value dition such of darkness, extremely likely of raw from Cuba aud Porto all its own. The leaven of steady appreciation ‘pressing’ the property Grant and D. sugar viduality commanding, Compauy and business of the as get lost. Rico. It in the indus- the Latin a touch of properties in this city citizens he needs, insomuch left for Vera Cruz employs sugar population gives The session closed with announce- Signal Corps, Friday offer a most stable and in- that Colonel Neill at that time in com- at about 150 persons al- the even to the working profitable and others are to stait. try Sugarland holiday spirit ments President Oswald and Lee getting ready oue that is certain to in- mand of writes to the Governor by together on the 14,000 acres of land in days. San Antonio breathes of fies- vestment, Bejar, tbe man the Galveston is a city that has been the crease in value with the of the of Texas that the is left Rountree, with pleasant the Sugarland plantation. The larger tas and festivals aad its very name is growth place destitute face in Texas and tbe most center of much of the activities in the and defenseless. Soon afterward pleasant part of the land on the plantation is in suggestive of a good time. city. voice in tbe United after which epochs of the South- San Antonio has seven National Colonel Neill is ordered to the States, history-making cotton. Ten acres were devoted last The picturesque beauty of San An- destroy the were lined on the ver- west. Named “GalvestoD” after Count four State all of which Alamo walls and other delegates up year to celery growing, while large tonio Is a joy forever. Its historic banks, banks, fortifications, anda and a took a shot Bernardo de Galvez, Spanish viceroy do a trust five trust and ofl the no photographer quantities of potatoes, cabbage and all buildings are a never-failing source of company business, bring artillery, since at which should be beard in Mexico, afterward the headquarters and four banks. head can be seen there in them, truck crops are grown. This land Interest. The venerable Alamo, the companies private the present around the world. of the famous Baratarian pirate Jean The are estimated crisis the who is re- seems especial'y fine for the various Cradle of Texas Liberty, that was the aggregate deposits against enemy, Latltte before he was crushed by the the bankers at between seventeen in force San REPORT ON RESOLUTIONS vegetable crops aud produces proli- scene of one of the most heroic epi- by ported marching npon United States the ac- and government, city in the world’s is in itself eighteen millions. Antonio. Having no teams Colonel The following report was made by flcally. sodes history, tually started and grew from a semi- A RESUME OF SAN ANTONIO FACTS Neill is unable to the and the committee on resolutions: An important industry at Sugarland a shrine that is worth a journey to obey order, station when in 1836 Colonel military census Gov- presently retires, his unpaid men hav- "Whereas, This, the twenty-ninth is the Sealy Mattress Factory, which San Antonio to visit. Population 96,614, 1910. Michael B. Menard purchased of the ofi until but re- annual of the National makes the Sealy Tuftless Mattress, Outside the city four ancient mis- ernment estimate 1914, 115,000, which ing dropped eighty meeting Edi- and labor republic of Texas“one league still leaves San Antonio the main, of whom Col. William B. Travis torial Association has been made one which has a sale all over the country. sions, partly in ruins, recall the glam- largest of land” on the east end of Galveston assumes command. Travis of the and most It consumes the cotton grown on the our and romance of the old Spanish city in Texas. Of this population Cojonel pleasantest profitable for Island $50,000. macadam road are said to be Mexicans. promptly calls for more troops, but gatherings In ihe history of the organ- plantation and employs a large num- days. A beautiful 30,000 The on that $50,000 site is now The center of the gets none as yet, for the Governor and ization through tbe hospitable efforts city ber of men and women. Altogether limri with big trees leads to them, largest undevelop- the cotton port in the world ed in the United States. the Council are at deadly quarrel, and and good fellowship of our hosts and greatest on the plantation and in the various winding through green fields and territory and second greatest port in the United Bank amount to tbe soldiers are all pressing toward hostesses of Texas and of Houston; and, industries of the company 1,500 per- along the meandering San Antonio clearings $180,000,- States in volume of annual exports the a rare 000 Matamoras. Travis has brought thir- "Whereas, From the time our trains sons are employed. River and making trip annually. and Its inhabitants do the Has a that le excelled ty men with him; abbut tbe middle of croseed tbe border lines entering this imports. A new industry at Sugarland Is the pleasure. climate by export business per capita in Fernando Cathedral none on the North American conti- February he is joined by Colonel Bow- great and progressive State, we have greatest factory for Mixtrite Stock Food, which The old San the world, amounting to a value of is nent. ie with thirty others, and these with been met everywhere by that cordial is mauufaotured from the black syrup with its ancient pictures and relics for each mao, woman and Its rate Is less than 12 to the eighty already in the garrison, Texas welcome and royal Southern $5,600 yearly that has been a waste product in years also eloquent of old San Antonio and mortality child of the 50,000 population. Galves- the thousand annum. constitute the defenders of Ban An- hospitality, having been dined, enter- gone by at the sugar refineries, where the days when the Spanish grandees per for ton’s port record the fiscal year of was the Has the finest of tonio de Bejar. On the 22d of Febru- tained aud amused, interested by tbe cane sugsr manfactured. touched elbows with American examples 8panish in value of ex- 1912-13 was $289,278,496 new the missions in the Western ary appears General Banta Anna at gallant men of tbe South, charmed by Another industry that will s6on buccaneers In picturesque plazas. Hemisphere. next hi value to tbe head of a well of ports and imports, at Is a where the Gov- Is the centar of education in the appointed army the beautiful women of Texas, given be in operation Sugarland home Fort Sam Houston, some New York and $86,899,119 greater than where a has about three million Southwest and for Mexico. five thousand men, and marches everything that we have seen, prom- packing company, choice ernment spent its nearest port rival, New Orleans. meat will the second Stands third in straight on into town. The Texans ised all that part of Texas that we grade of products be pro- dollars in building largest building operations Gail Borden Jr. built the first custom Canned cured in America is also in the United States. retire before him slowly, and finally have yet to see; in fact, entirely won duced. meats, meats, army poet worthy house at Galveston in 1837. The and lard tourist’s visit. Here the The value of in shut themselves up in the Alamo; here over to the Lone Star State by all this lard compounds, neatsfoot of the bugle’s buildings completed first wharf was built in 1889 by Colonel 1912 exceeded the sum of strightway begins the bloodiest, smok- gracious Texas hospitality; therefore, and oleo oils will also be produced. shrill clarion, the roll of drums and $2,809,492. Amosa The port’s business iest, grimiest tragedy of this be it Taylor. Poultry food will likewise be manu- the tramp of armed men reproduce the Postoffice receipts, in 1912 were century. grew steadily up to the civil war, when of war William B. Travis, James Bowie and "Resolved, That it is the desire of factured. pomp and pageantry and the $337,648. was the only business done by the an accurate Assessments in David Crockett, with their one hun- this Association to express our grati- The general management of the visitor can get conception 1912, $96,000,000. blockade runners that slipped through Its total tax rate is dred and forty-five eflective men, are tude and sincere appreciation for the plant is under control of W. T. EI- of that Bplendld fighting machine, the only $1.44. the lines of the blockading federal gun- the of the States Parks and have an area of enclosed within a stone rectangle one i many unceasing courtesies shown by drldge, president company, United Army. plazas boats. The battle of Galveston, won 349 acres and are the most beautiful hundred and ninety feet long and one tbe lovable people and enterprising and It was the unanimous sentiment The San Atnonio River winds the confederates, was fought here • hundred and twenty-two feet cities of the ‘Blue Bonneted State.’ by of the visiting editors that if Mr. El- through the heart of the city and is anywhere. wide, the old Church of the Jan. 1. 1868. as a dozens of and Has 75 miles of electric street rail- having Alamo in "To Texas and to Texas people we dridge was good manager for the spanned by bridges the southeast in In 1890 as he was a host to most of its course Is lined with roads with free transfers to any of corner, which are can only say, ‘We came, we saw— congress appropriated sugar company the along part build the and hits of the their quarters and magazine. They YOU conquered. We thank you. We $0,200,000 to jetties dredge editors he must be a most decided big trees bringing Bylvan beauty city. of the to a of of the Its banks Has a trade of have a supply of water from the ditch- hope to come again. the channel port depth success. After showing the various into the fieart city. territory 600,000 square run the feet. In all Uncle Bam has visitors he are clean as tbe result or miles. es which alongside walls, and SUNDAY, APRIL 'M. thirty factories to the provided a Kept impos- of over In dinner for all. It was a fine for rubbish In Is located in a rich dis- by way provision they have about The trip to Galveston was a courtesy spent $20,000,000 Improving barbecue origin- ing $6 throwing agricultural built is bushels of corn and beef of the Houston Press and Galveston harbor. The wharves, ally planned to have this served out of the river. In addition parks and trict which rapidly developing. ninety thirty Club, by spe- entire on now 100 noon are scattered the Is the trade and tourist to cattle, their stock, all collected cial lnterurban train of live cars, leav- the “slip system," permit doors, but just about Jupiter plazas throughout gateway mind Of these the most beautiful is Mexico. since the enemy came in sight. The ing the Bice hotel at 9 and arriving at ocean-going freighters simultaneously Pluvius made up his that this city. on or dis- on which faces the fam- Has the second in walls are unbroken, with no angles the famous Oleander or Treasure Island to dock in key berths, taking part of Texas needed some more mois- Alamo Plaza largest army poBt which to command so the barbecue was ous Travis where the the United Fort Bam Houston. from besieging City after a delightful two hours’ ride charging cargo. ture and served chapel; Square, States, monument towers Its Its winters well with ad- lines. They have fourteen pieces of through the grassed plain, only a few In 1900 Galveston had a population inside the refinery building. Follow- Confederate compare Main on which In the North. artillery mounted, with but little am- leet above the level of the Gulf of Mex- of 88,000. The storm of that year ing the barbecue an address of wel- graceful height; Plaza, vanced spring one was San Fernando Cathedral and the Has fine hot wells. munition. ico. En route many of the party saw caused, by death and desertion, the come and that Instructive as the sulphur and Within miles of Ban Antonio “Banta Anna demands uncondition- their first orange grove, the first out- population to fall to some 18,000. In well was delivered by Judge Norman Courthouse face, Military Plaza, forty of Houston. in the center of which stands the through Ur. F. B. al surrender. Travis with a door palms, llveoak, fig trees and the fourteen years Galveston has more G. Kittrell, Vice Presi- English capital, replies After the ad- Hall. Pearson, has built a dam which im- cannon shot, and the attack commen- typical vegetation of this tropical sec- than doubled her population. And dent Rountree presided. graceful City San Antonio has about acre feet of water. A the a blood-red tion. An extra stop permitted the the city has spent about $6,000,000 in dress of welcome Joe Mltcbell Chap- In addition pounds 300,000 ces, enemy running up the National 186 miles of which of acres to be irrigated 1b in town. Travis a mes- more venturesome to Invade a straw- protective works. First came the sea- pie, editor of Magazine, very good roadways portion 60,000 flag dispatches meadow and farm to tbe now on the and lies within with a call to his berry bed and pick luscious ripe berries. wall, bnilt at a cost of $1,600,000. The spoke feelingly In behalf of the associ- wind past market, senger countrymen hills In the northwest where ten miles of Ban Antonio. The total for which concludes: It might be interesting to add right concrete barrier Is five miles long, 17 ation In presenting retiring President upland reinforcements, mountains No In Is over this call be I here that most of the figs for dining feet high, 16 feet wide at the base and Oswald with a diamond pin from the the begin. city expenditure $7,000,000. 'Though may neglected, America has more of automo- An unusual feature of Ban Antonio’s am determined to sustain as car service in the United States come 6 feet wide at top. In 1906 and again members of the association. Past mileage myself roads a of the for as and die like a soldier from this vicinity. in 1900 it withstood unshaken the same President Dowdell presented Secretary bile through greater variety Improvement, Almeda, years long possible,