San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 289, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 23, 1891 Page: 4 of 8
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Jhc Jaily Sight.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER23IB9I
WEST .TEXAS
Abstract and Guarantee
COMPANY.
(INCORPORATK D)
H. M. AUBREY. SecretaryTand Mgr
OFFICE:
421 E. HOUSTON ST.
Will furnish rename aostractsof title
to lands in Bexar County either city
ar country property upon short
entice and reasonable terms.
TELEPHONE NO. 406
ON ACCOUNT of LEAVING the CITY
FOR SALE AT ONCE.
Almost New —A nice Bed Room Set
Kitchen Outfit Ice Box High-arm Sing-
er Machine and other house furnishings
At No 430 Matagorda Street
OUR BREATHING PLAGES.
THE CITY PARKS AND HOT-
HOUSES.
Their Care the Amount of Work
Demanded and What is to
Be Done to Them
Next Year.
The city parks now are demanding
considerable attention of the public
park commissioner and his assistants
and for the past few weeks of the lat-
ter part of the fall and the first of De
cember these men have been the busi-
est in this city.
The early housing of the tfiany
tropical foliage and flowering plants
demanded immediate attention and a
good deal of hard work.
This to a great extent has now been
accomplished as a Light reporter
has been informed by Park Commis-
sioner Hettier. The flower beds of
the pretty park on Main plaza have
been plucked and the border plants
which made such pretty vari-colored
spots in the summer have now been
denuded and the cuttings have been
placed in the large hot house at San
Pedro park. Of these there are two
varieties of which 40000 cuttings of
-each are now under rapid and healthy
growth at this hot house. These will
supply all the city parks with fine
plants next summer and will be econ
omical as well as none need beorder-
ed from florists
Alamo plaza roses have been trim-
med and part of the big banana center
piece has been removed. A large
number of the bananas have been up-
rooted and placed in the tool house in
the Alamo building for preservation
during the winter. A number of
stalks have been left standing
as an experiment to see if
they cau stand the Minter.
The other city parks Milam Mav-
erick Travis and Madison square
that are partially under cultivation
have not much to be attended to ex-
cept the prunin ' of trees or replacing
of tnose that have died or shown a
poor growth. The fence around Travis
park will be removed next spring as
the hedge will then be large enough
to trim and be beautiful.
In Maverick park and In Milam
and Madison squaressome more trees
will be planted and probably a tew
roses or foliage plants will be added
in the spring. With the limit-
ed number of laborers and gar-
dener now at his command and
a not too large annual appropriation
the park commissioner must not plant
more than he can til) though he has
ample supplies for all.
Washington square is one of the
now barren parks he will improve
with trees and shrubbery next year.
Ban Pedro park needs attention.
A landscape gardener should be em
ployed to lay this beautiful park out
in drives and pretty spots for flowers
trees and shrubs. It is capable of
great improvement. The little park
now in the way in front of
the upper ball could be placed
in a more advantageous posi-
tion and a broad approach to the
springs could then be made. Shell
walks and drives pretty borders and
beds of foliage plants would also ren-
der the place very beautiful. The
two hot houses one of which is the
little old one are now crowded with
thousands of the finest of plants
some of which are very rare and to
botanists very valuable. A list of
them is not obtainable as it would
require a complete botany and
several issues of the Light
to enumerate and describe them.
There are the tulips for instance.
Mr. Hettier has 200 plants in differ-
ent colors and sweet bay box gerani-
ums oleander snake plant AlocaHo
cape jessamines daisies pansies
agave African banana India rubber
msfht blooming cereus hibiscus etc.
etc.
These teside the public parks are
taken care of by two gardeners all
the year round and six laborers. In
their duties lies the care of Alamo
plaza Main plaza Franklin and
Crockett squares Santa Clara foun*
tain place Madison square Travis
Park Maverick square Milam park
Washington square and Ban Pedro
park. On an average there are three
hydrants for the distribution of water
in dry seasons in each park.
Next year Alamo plaza will
eon tribute some of its rather over-
crowded plants to the other parks
and other kinds of plants or trees
needed will be added.
Washington square will be planted
with 150 shade trees and carpeted
with sod.
Milam square will receive carpet
planting roses and frees.
Maverick park will be put in carpet
and shade trees added.
Madison square will be replanted
in shade trees put in lawn and the
fence will be removed.
Banta Clara place will have shade
frees put In where needed.
At Ban Pedro park cattle ought to
be excluded I y fences or other-
wise as they not only dam-
age shrubbery and trees but
threaten the necessarily low hot
houses. If the cattle would be kept
out and pretty fences placed where
needed a very beautiful park could
be made very cheaply.
As it is now the parks are in excel-
lent condition are being cleaned
trees trimmed flowers cared for and
manure spread where needed. All ap-
pear to oe in a very flourishing condi-
tion. Next year and it will not be
long will see the fruits of the city
park guardians’ labors and the be-
holder would then not know of the
immense amount of labor required to
obtain these results if be had not
perused this report in the Light.
A CHRISTMAS TREE.
How to Make One Beautiful to Be-
hold Very Cheap.
Tomorrow is Christmas eve and
Christmas trees will be prepared
with all their delicate beauty to hear
their queer fruit placed there by lov-
ing hands for loved ones. It would
tie well to explain to the unitiated
perhaps bow to decorate a pretty
Christmas tree. After selecting your
tree according to your means num-
ber of presents and size of the room
in which it is to be placed get a
numbered rosy cheeked appleswhich
must be nicely polished with a dry
cloth. Some pieces of string some
tapers and holders bits of tinsel
colored cornucopias.balls strings of
popped corn. lemons crangts
bright candies colored strips of
paper a piece of red cloth and a
tree stand are needed. Put the tree
in the stand on a table or dais over
which the cloth must be spread.
Then take a cup full of melted rosin
and a glass tube about ten inches
long (to be had at a drug store) or a
clay pipe. Dip the end in the rosin
and quickly blow it over the tree.
The effect will be to spray it finely
and give the appearance of frosting.
Tie up your apples to the strings
frost the strings put on your tapers
trout them then your other trinkets
making the strips of paper into long
chains for pendants and frost it all.
Place little presents on the tree
the larger and heavier ones at the
base and a little more frosting will
hurt nothing as it quickly brushes
ofl and then you will have an old
style beautiful German Yule tree
that will be a picture and may be
kept until after the new’ year has
opened.
Catholic Knights' Election.
St. Mary's Branch No. .304 Catho-
lic Knights of America held its an-
nual election of officers last night
with the following result:
Spiritual director—Rev. C. J.Smith
O. M. I.
President—William Campbell.
Vice President—Ed. Braden Jr.
Recording Secretary—P. J. Scully.
Financial Secretary—Alex F.Pollok.
Treasurer—W. R. Ulavin.
Sergeant at-Arms—Aug. F. Miller.
Sentinel—Joseph Morawietz.
Trustee for three years—Anton
ton Adam.
Color Hearer—Wm. Dobrowalski:
assistants Constantine Weiss and F.
Grunder.
The officers will be formally install-
ed at the next regular meeting Jami
ary 12.
A Fine Lecture.
Major C. E. Dutton chief ordnance
officer post of San Antonio delivered
a fine lecture at Rieche's theatre last
night to a small audience however
his subject being “Modern arms and
equipments.”
I’he lecture was indeed very enter-
taining and of a high class and was
illustrated with several stereopticon
views.
Make Them Glad a Day.
Editor Light:—Christmas is so es-
sentially the festival devoted to child-
ren that no apology is needed in call-
ing attention to the children who can
only < cjoy some small share of the
day’s pleasures through the acts of
the generous and the charitable. The
friends who have in the past years
helped to make Christmas bright and
happy for the little ones in the Home
for Destitute Children will without
doubt aid the directors this year in
giving the children their customary
Christmas tree and dinner. Donations
can be sent to the matron at the home
at West End or can be left at the
office of Chabot & Cresson corner of
Yturri and Market streets.
A. C. Cresson Secretary.
FORCED TO THE WALLS.
The entire stock of the Houston
Street Jewelry Store Is offered for sale.
Possession given at once. Make your
offer. In the meantime persons con-
templating buying holiday presents
can have a fine selection by calling
early. Make me an offer.
Bernard Ganter
1211 12t Trustee.
GREAT $l5 SUIT SALE.
To close out some small lots of $lB
$2O and $22 suits we have marked
them down to only $l5. They are the
beest value we have ever offered. A.
I Pancoast & Bon. 12191 m
MILITARY NOrKM
The wife of (he telegraph operator
at Fort Sam Houston was fined $7 at
the recorder’s court yesterday morn-
ing for using abusive and insulting
language.
This evening is ladies’ evening at
the officers’club at Fort Sam Hous-
ton and if the weather permits a re-
ception will be tendered them at the
clubrooms. The music will be fur-
nished by the 23d infantry band who
will render their concert in front of
the club rooms.
The sporting events which general-
ly take dace during the holidays at
Fort Sam Houston are very few this
year. Nothing of the kind wili be go-
ing on that is known of.
The next man discharged from the
baud will be Wm. Westerzil. He
goes out in about two months.
Tnls Christmas will be about the
dullest that the post has seen for
years. The ladies at the post will have
a Christmas tree at St Paul’s Episco-
pal church and probably one or two
entertainments will be given which
will be about all.
Captain Summerhayes post quar-
termaster at Fort Sam Houston is
laid up with “la grippe.” He
has been ill ever since his return
from the hunting trip.
Corporal Johnson and Private
Graves K troop 3rd cavalry were
discharged from the service of the
United States army last Sunday.
Private “Windy” Wiles K troop
3rd cavalry wili be discharged from
tbe army on the 4th of January ’92.
W. Wilder and wife from Fort
Clark Tex. are in the city. They
are guests at tne Menger.
Under the provisions of general or
ders No 80 series of 1890. Head-
quarter of tbe army adjutant gen-
eral's office the commanding officer
of Fort Ularke Tex. will grant Pri-
vate John R. Geissler Company D
18th infantry a furlough for three
months to terminate March 27th 1892
and on that date he will be given bis
discharge from the service of the
United States provided he makes
timely application therefor.
Sergeant J. M. Boisner D troop
3rd cavalry has applied for a four
month’s furlough with permission to
leave the United States and to take
effect on tne date of his reinlistment
January 18th 1892.
FIVE LOTB IN GRANDVIEW.
At a bargain. Finest located property
nthecityT. B. Tohxson. Light Office 1
BOYS CLOTHING.
Thousands of delighted mothers can
testify to the fact that L. Wolfson
“White Elephantclothing House” is
offering the best inducements in styl-
ish wearing apparel for boys. Special
reductions have been made in order to
close out our mammoth stock of fall
aud winter suits and overcoats prior
to Jan. 1 1892. 21 3t L. Wolfson.
AUCTION SALE.
John K. Beretta & Co
Will begin sale of entire stock of dry
goods clothing boots shoes hats
etc Thursday 17th. ar 10a.m. As
we have but a few days to wind up
the business goods will be forced ofl
fast. N. A. Harvey
12 16 tf Auctioneer.
A BIG AD.
Read Wolfson’s grand holiday an-
nouncement on page 8.
Extraordinary inducements on all
kinds of Christmas goods.
Headquarters lor fine album* etc.
12 21 3t.
- ■ ♦ » ♦ "■
HATS. HATS. HATS.
New styles derby and silk at
1218 tf' Young & Arnold’s.
—— ' ♦ ♦ ♦ -- —
Olsen $ Waike.
Always ready to move pack and
store your furniture. 11-9-lm.
INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS.
Silk and linen at
12 18 tf Young & Arnold’s
ALAMO WOOD YARD
The little one horse yard that the
big fellows are trying to run out be-
cause we are selling coal and wood
too cheap.
Stove wood $5 50 per cord.
Four foot wood $4.50 per cord.
Indian Territory’ coal $7.50 per ton.
Santa Tomas coal $7.50 per ton.
Telephone 515. Try us.
Luedde <& Morrison
Ab. Scrugs Manager.
LADIES ’ATTENTION.
Smoking jackets aud dressing
gowns just the thing for your hus-
bonds or sweethearts.
Winstead & Adams
12-16-8 t 2-37 E. Houston st.
Furniture;.Backed and ShippedLl
By Olsen & “ alke tl *near Houston
street bridge. 11-9-lm.
—Friendship Council No. 22 Order
Chosen Friends give a grand ball
and banquet at Mission Garden New
Years Eve Dec. 31. Committee in
charge leaves nothing undone to
make it one of the grandest affairs.
They have secured the Juvenile or-
chestra. Hall will be handsomely de*
corated and a good time guaranteed
all. 1216.6 t.
BIG DRIVE ON PANTS
At A Pancoast’& Son. 11 19 Im
HEAVY LOSSES SUSTAINED
By not aUHolland’s
THE CHEAPEST TEAS.
Holland’s “Happy Thought” 50c per lb.
Holland's “1 know” 60c per lb.
Grand Closing Out Sale
Of WATCHES. DIAMONDS JEWELRY & SILVERWARE also Dressing and
Toilet cases and many other nice Christmas presents at W. Samuels & Co. 303
Main Plaza. We have in our stock as fine a line of Gold Watches Diamonds and
Jewelry as can be found any place in the city aud are Actually selling them at
cost as we are positively going out of the Jewelry business. This is NO ADVER-
TISING SALE only but is positively the truth. All we ask is for the public to call
and examine our fine stock and the prices we give them will convince them that
this is surely a closing out sale. We also offer for sale our fixtures show-cases and
a fine Hall fire and burglar proof safe.
W. SAMUELS & CO. 303 Main Plaza.
J. S. THORNTON- W. B. WRIGHT
THORNTON WEIGHT & CO.
Bankers - San Antonio Texas.
COR. HOUSTON AND NAVARRO STS.
Accounts of Banks Bankers and Individuals solicited. General Banking Business
transacted.
THOS. B. WREN
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Hardware Agricultural Implements Tinware
Stoves Holloware Cutlery Rona and Woodenware Paints and Oil Belting and Machin-
ery Supolies Iron Steel and Wag >n M iterial Iron Pipe and Fittings. Blacksmiths and
Tinners’ Toils Fence Wire of all kinds Ammunition Builders’ Hardware etc.
413 East Houston Street near Alamo Plaza San Antonio Texas.
Fka NK JSMa W
3io EAST SAN ANTONHT.
HOUSTON ST. TEXAS.
CWEU
CENTRAL - MEAT- MARKET
STEINHARDT & WEIL Proprietors.
Keep on hand a good supply of Refrigerated Meats of the best quality only. Parties
wishing meat delivered to any part of the city will please notify us. All orders
promptly attended to. Open all day.
North Sice of Villita Street. Telephone 697
a (b.
■ vSIK Antonio
GIVE US A CALL
and we will convince y’ou that youj'can
save money by purchasing from us. We
have on hand a large stock of
FORFEITED PLEDGES
which we can offoid to sell cheap in
Watches Clocks Diamonds Guns
Pistols Sewing Machines etc.
8. A. Brewing Assn
XXX PEARL BEER.
The purest and tc
any part of the city.
Damaged Brusselt Carpets.
Balance of stock must be disposed
of by today and tomorrow. Choice
patterns still left and only slightly
damaged at 45c 600. 67 l-2c per yards;
former price 90c $l.OO $l.lO.
Haas & Oppenheimer.
ooy
GO TO THE
■■ HERB'
ACROSS THE SAN PEDRO.
OPEN EVERY NISHT.
The place for gentlemen to pass
a pleasant evening.
Admission 10c. 15.25 c
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BARGAINS
In Christmas cards albums all kinds
of books and games at Moss & Reams
Commerce street. 12 18 8t
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