The Evening Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 111, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 30, 1882 Page: 2 of 4
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The Evening Light
PUBLISHED DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAY) BY THE
EVENING LIGHT PUBLISH’G CO.
235 Commerce Street.
nEUVERED by carriers throughout the City at
Ten Cents per week payable to our agent.
Single copies for sale by newsboys at Five Cents.
Subscription per Year S 3 In Advance.
ADVERTISING RATES:
ONE PRICE—NO DEVIATION
Locals Ten Cents per line each insertion set in
Nonpareil type. Display Advertising One Dollar
per square inch first insertion and Fifty Cents for
each additional insertion. For three or six months
three dollars per month.
j3"Home Advertising payable on first of each
month. Transient advertising payable in advance.
Only metal cuts printed for which an extra charge
of 50 per cent is made.
B. F. JOHNSON is duly authorized to solicit
and collect tor the Evening Light. Subscribers
not receiving their paper will please make complaint
to him or at the office.
Entered at postoffice at San Antonio lexas
as second class matter.
Tuesday May 30 ’B2.
A GREAT ENTERPRISE WAITING
Half a dozen years or more ago
Representative Wm. S. Herndon in-
troduced into the House with a glow-
ing speech which we have before us a
bill for “uniting by means of a canal
for steam vessels to be constructed
on the line of the Gulf all navigable
waters west of the Mississippi river
through one common channel with
the Atlantic sea-board.”
There could hardly be anything
startling on the face of so long and de-
scriptive a title as this but it seems to
to have announced an enterprise from
which ought to have flowed before now
very startling results. Why did Mr.
Herndon ring in this measure with
such clangor and then hang on to it
only until everything was in readiness
for operations ? Perhaps he will him-
self answer. Here is the design of a
great national work the promise of an
Arabian Night's wonder and just as
soon as the surveys are made and re-
ported to congress it is incontinently
dropped. We like everything in its
plan as explained by Mr. Herndon.
It was proposed to be constructed
owned and carried on by the govern-
ment. After completion to be self-
supporting by means of toll etc. with
its immense patronage under control
of the President. To be sure in this
respect the bill was open to all those
political considerations which divided
the two great parties of the country
from Thomas Jefferson down to recon-
struction. We hold it good doctrine
that the Federal executive should be
curtailed whenever practicable of
power to exercise and office to bestow
But only government could have built
this work. It was too grand for indi-
vidual effort. Individuals can not on
such a scale anticipate production. Its
results are too munificent for individ-
ual trusts. And the frauds consequent
on corporate associations if it were
practicable are less tolerable than ex-
ecutive patronage even moderately
abused.
The object of this work as ex-
plained by Mr. Herndon gives it yet a
national interest. He proposed to
gather into one channel all the waters
west of the Mississippi river and con-
struct them into one grand highway
tracing in its course the 500 miles of
continuous sand bars along the edge
of the Gulf of Mexico from its begin-
ning to the Rio Grande. He anticipa-
ted that of the whole line of conduit
say 800 miles two-thirds would be
saved from the need of excavation by
adopting the natural streams. The
work would remove dangers and ob-
stacles which now bind as within in-
surmountable walls the inexhaustible
wealth of that vast regoin of the most
fertile lands on the globe. “It will”
says Mr. Herndon
“Unite in a long chain the Atchafalaya
Teche Vermillion bayou and bay Thermen-
teau lake and river Calcasieu river and lake
in Louisiana ; and Sabine river and lake An-
gelina river Naches Trinity San Jacinto
Buffalo bayou East bay West bay Oyster
creek Brazos river San Bernard Caney Mat-
agorda bay Colorado river Navidad Lavaca
Guadalupe San Antonio Aransas Nueces
and the Rio Grande in Texas.”
And here are some of the benefits
which Mr. Herndon promised should
flow from the great enterprise he so
readily abandoned. It was to open a
market for 20000000 acres of the
finest timber lands; to open to immi-
grants 4500000 acres peculiarly adapt-
ed to Sea Island cotton and 29000-
000 acres short staple cotton sugar
rice corn and all the cereals; to sup-
ply in a new field of industry the iro-
zen north perpetually with vegetables
and tropical fruits; to develop the vast
mines of mineral wealth salt sulphur
petroleum; to supply by the cheap
rapid transportation of stock the north
and east with an unprecedented quali-
ty of beef at one-third the present
cost; to bind more closely together by
one common and all-pervading inter-
est the states of the Union; to operate
as a line of defense in case of foreign
war. Wars recur. The world has not
recently made any obvious approaches
toward that perpetual peace which is
its favorite dream. Some combina-
tions might awaken us some day to a
war whose proportions would dwarf all
precedent wars. In that day this
work would have secured advantages
in massing troops of which recent wars
have demonstrated the advantage.
Why should not this measure be re-
vived ? It promises almost fabulous
results. The enormous increase in
wealth and production from a contin-
uously inflowing tide of capital and
labor immediately remunerative has
to be left without numerals to signify
its probable extent. In Mexico it
would open a direct highway from her
rich mines of gold silver lead copper
tin saltpetre and sulphur and her pro-
duce of coffee and dye stuff as well as
invite her to an enormous stock of pro-
duction. It will bring her stability in
trade while that trade will be wholly
controlled by us worth many millions
and constantly increasing.
And a little further on as an ulti-
mate lies the inevitable absorption of
the Mexican states New Leon Chi-
huahua Coahuila and so much of
Tamaulipas as lies within ‘he continu-
ous mountain range which constitutes
the natural boundary between the Re-
publics. There is no other true boun-
dary. An inadequate unconvincing
aabitrary line is that of the Rio Grande.
Extension will do its work without di-
plomacy or war—the peaceful triumph
of enterprise without annexation in
the rhetoric of the statesman. Peopled
by the new emigration and strength-
ened through their inter-relations with
Texas and the line of states toward
the Atlantic border the elements of
nationality will change unperceived;
while Mexico will accept a higher na-
tionality made secure by her new re-
lations wise and powerful at home
and everywhere respected abroad.
We know of no other world wonder
no great national enterprise to com-
pare with this excepting the New
York and Erie canal two-thirds of a
century ago. Few imagine now how
large a portion of that prodigious pros-
perity which has culminated in an em-
pire so vast as the great state of New
York and in private fortunes so innu-
merable and of such magnitude is 10
be ascribed to the genius of DeWitt
Clinton and to the consummation of
that great work which brought to the
doors of the marts and markets of the
country the whole vast producing re-
gion of Middle and Western New York
a great portion of which until then
had gone untilled and whose yet vast
stores of production had annually rot-
ted in the granaries. It is too late
far the imagination to recall the time
and to take the case out of the startling
realities into which year after year were
dissolved the shining hopes hedged
by the popular incredulities of a period
not yet broken into familiarity with the
daily recurring splendors and munifi-
cences of fairy tale. But immense as
was that agricultural region beyond
Cayuga bridge and remote from the
waters of the Hudson—which was the
only great highway for navigation cr
transportation within the state—it was
yet as nothing in extent to the enorm-
; ons stretch of territories comprehended
in Representative Herdon’s bill com-
posed of lands the most fer.ile and
I productive within a climate the most
genial on earth almost garnitured with
the verdure and the fragrance of per-
petual spring groaning with a wealth of
mineral ores whose tempting mines
will yield to slight effort and
millions of their acres teeming with
grand old forests the growth
of centuries that never yet reverbera-
ted to the sound of the woodman’s axe
the whole of which are denied to in-
dustry and enterprise shut in from la-
bor capital and skill by these 500
miles of shifting sand bars that almost
uninterruptedly follow the margin of
the great gulf from the mouth of the
Mississippi river to Mexico. If we are
not mistaken in our impressions the
greatest development of natural re-
sources known to modern enterprise
would wait on this work if carried
through—or on one analagous to it in
scope objects and design.
We learn that since the homologation
of the surveys no action has been taken
upon the bill. Whether representative
Herndon was quieted into renown by
the introduction of the bill or found
practical difficulties in the way of the
execution of the work he had not fore-
seen we have not learned. Any in-
formation will be thankfully received.
CURRENT NOTES.
The Jeannette survivors will reach New
York next Sunday.
Dr. I.oring Commisssioner of Agricidture
is a candidate for Governer of Massachusetts.
Secretary Folger recently received a con-
science contribution of $2787 20 in an enve-
lope postmarked St. Joseph Mo.
On April 11 the Rev. Stephen E. Gladstone
son of the British Premier and rector of the
Hawarden Parish church burst a blood-ves-
sel and at last advices was seriously ill.
Little Denmark which has a population of
abour 1800.000 and a national debt of $28-
ooo.coo is going to spend $18500000— a
good deal moro than her yearly income— in
forts and new shipsof war.
A Better Day.
‘When my dead roses bloom once more.
And these dark daisy-leaves with stars
Of white are powdered o’er and o’er
And through you rusty lattice bars
The jassamine thrusts its yellow tips
And the bright pansy pranks it head
And the tall lily’s pallid lips
Part slowly and from green to red
The beaded grapes begin to turn
And round the outskirts of the lawn
The woodbine blossoms faintly burn—
Ah I then perhaps on me may dawn
The morning of a better day :
And this sad heart its woeful hue
May reverently put away
And deck itself with something new.
—Geo. 11. Boker.
MIDLAND
—
The Picturesmic Route of Texas!
o
Gull Coloriido and Santa Fe
nail'wsiy.
CONNECTIONS.
AT ARCOLA with I. & G. N. R R. for Columbia
and towns in Brazoria County.
AT GALVESTON with Mallory Line Steamers for
Key West and New York with Morgan Line
Steamers for New Orleans Indianola Corpus
Christi Brownsville an 1 Vera Cruz Mexico
and steamers for all parts of the world.
AT ROSENBERG with G. H. & S. R’y. for San
Antonio and all points on that line with Star
and Crescent Route at Houston for New Or-
leans and all points in the Southeast.
AT BRENHAM with H. & T C R’y. (Western
Branch) far Giddings Austin and all points
on that line.
AT MILANO with I & G. N. R’y for Hearne
Palestine Rockdale Round Rock George-
town Austin and all points on that line.
AT TEMPLE with Mo. Pa< ific R’y for Waco.
with T«Ka> Central R’y for Waco
Marlin Hico Dublin Cisco and all points
on that line.
AT CLEBURNE with CT & M C. R’y. for
Alvarado Dallas and all points on that line
TAFqR V WORTH wi’h Mo Pacific and Texas
& Pacific R’ys for all points on these lines
as well as to St. Louis Kansas City > hicago.
New York and all points North East ana
West.
that your tickets read over this line.
r full information address—
Oscar G. Murray Gen’L Pass. Agt.
2-25-iy Galveston texas.
ALAMO HOUSE
P. C. ANXERSO.
Avenue D near Alamo Plaza
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
Sfcjjr Board and lodging by the week or
day.
Orders by mail promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. Prices reasonable.
THE “STTISrSET” ROUTE.
GALVESTON HARRISBURG & SAN ANTONIO RAILWAY.
Great East and West Line Through Texas.
THE TRUE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
This is the Direct Route Between West Southwest T?xas and Mexico and all points in the
East Southeast and North. But one change of Cars to St. Louis Chicago Louisville Cin-
cinnati Baltimore or Washington and but two changes to Philadelphia and New York.
a DAILY TRAINS A
1 Between San Antonio and Houston. T -
At Houston close connections are made with all diverging lines for points in Illinois lowa
Nebraska Wisconsin Minnesota and the East; and at Rosenberg Junction with all trains for
the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.
The Daylight Express has Through Palace Sleepers from San Antonio to New Orleans
Without change making close connections at the latter city with all fast Express Trains from
the North and East.
C. E. MINER Western Passenger Agent San Antonio ;
P. B. FREER Ticket Agent Mender Hotel San Antonio.
T. W. PEIRCE Jr.
2-I-I2m General Passenger and Ticket Agent Houston.
L KIHSCH’mnC
BOOTandSHOE MAKER
333 COMMERCE STREET.
Boots and Shoes of all styles made to order on short notice. Only first-class workmen employed and
the very best material used. Give me a ttial and I guarantee to give satisfaction both as to'price
and quality of work. 1-16-tf
HL. Rt-O-TJ-V-Jk-lSr-T
Agent for the Celebrated MEDICATED SPECTACLES for Western Texas
Mtrli DIAMONDS MICHES AND JEMIHI.
line of the very best of SPECTACLES. Having worked in the Largest Establishments
in France England and Switzerland I am prepared to do all kinds of work and guarantee satisfaction.
1 buy all my goods direct from Manufactures and Importers and can offer special inducements to all wish-
ing anything in my line.
280 Commerce Street Near Main Plaza San Antonio Texas.
MENGER HOTEL
SJYN ANTONIO - - TEXA.S.
This old and favorite Hotel is now under an entire new management. MR. FRANK. P.
HORD late Proprietor of Hord’s Hotel San Antonio and MR. CURLIS DAVIS
late Proprietor of the Bingham House Philadelphia both having a long Hotel experience
flatter themselves that they will be able to give general satisfaction.
The MENGER under its new management has been Refitted and Refurnished with
many alterations and improvements of modern character making it the Largest and Best
appointed Hotel in Western Texas.
HORD & DAVIS Proprs
CURLIS DAVIS Manager.
flousi sick mo ommi Him
313 Houston Street - - San Antonio Texas.
Graining Kalsomining Varnishing etc. All work promptly and neatly executed. TERMS
Reasonable. Call at shop and see samples of work. 3-1
E. Hertzberg
jewels iso omens
and Dealer in
WATCHES DIAMONDS
JEWELRY SILVERWARE.
CLOCKS ETC.
Call and examine my stock and prices btfore
buying elsewhere.
All goods will be sold under written guarantee if
d *«ir*d E. HERTZBERG
“ BILLIE & JOE”
FIRST- CLASS SALOON.
M'xed Drinks according to season put up i:
First-Class Style.
Pure Wines and Liquors
I'tE COLD BEF.R AND “ HALF-AND-HALf ”
ON DRAUGHT
at their popular saloon on Solednd street.
—The yellowest case of jaundice can be
cured by Carter’s Liver Bitters. They exert a
peculiar intluence on the liver and bile and
remove that unhealthy sallow look from the
skin. Wholesale by A. Dreiss.
J. H. ReTOsdorxoli
Awning and Tent Maker
i Houston Texas.
Our Tents are for Sale by HUGO & SUHMELTZER.
THE MOST POPULAR I
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J. E. THOMAS Agent
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