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SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
Fouded January 20 1881.
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LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN SAN ANTONIO
What they Say
About the Census
over the state. As usual the expressions are of diverse im-
port varying as might be expected. Some papers are disap-
pointed. some astonished some surprised and others delighted.
One paper even attributes the census growth of San An-
tonio to Callaghan but as might be expected the paper that
cherishes this ridiculous idea is printed in Dallas. Manana'
Diethods in San Antonio suit Dallas exactly.
Following are some of the paragraphs referred to:
To Bryan Callaghan San Antonio Texas: The
goods are yours. —Dallas Times Herald.
San Antonio’s 96614 population is a glowing trib-
ute to persistent and systematic advertising.—Kerr-
ville Mountain Sun.
Congratulations to San Antonio. It has held the
lead as the largest city in Texas with a population
of 96614 being 4500 greater than Dallas. —Austin
Tribune.
Nobody ought to be surprised that the San An-
tonio census takers counted 96614 people in that
town. Many San Antonians are accustomed to see-
ing double. —Dallas News.
San Antonio may not have any games of chance
but she has had a lead pipe cinch on the metropo-
lis of Texas for ten years at least. —Kerrville Moun-
tain Sun.
With all of San Antonio's boasted population it
is passing strange that so few of them are voters
with poll tax receipts in their pockets.—Austin
Statesman.
When the next census is taken Dallas Houston
and Fort Worth will each have an area at ieast
equal to that of San Antonio. At least that is
the indication from what their newspapers say.—
Corpus Christi Herald.
San Antonio celebrated its census showing by a
big mass meeting last night in which music and
hot air were the features. San Antonio is the town
that contains 19000 men of voting age and votes
about 4000 in the democratic primaries and brags
about banners. It is perfectly disgusting.—Hous-
ton Post.
The census bureau has paid this section a de-
served compliment in declaring that San Antonio
is the metropolis of the state. It was also an appro-
priate recognition of the keen foresight of San
Antonio in deciding to locate itself in southwest
Texas.—Laredo Times.
Dallas was 10683 behind San Antonio in 1900.
Ten years later according to census figures with
San Antonio’s enormous area Dallas was only 4510
behind in population.
In 1900 Dallas was 1995 behind Houston. Ten
years later Dallas was 13304 ahead of Houston.
Dallas was 15970 ahead of Fort Worth in 1900;
in 1910 Dallas was 18792 ahead.
In ten years Dallas gained 49.466 new people the
record for Texas. It gained 2822 more people than
Fort Worth; gained 6173 more than San Antonio
and 15299 more than Houston.—Dallas Times-Her-
ald.
The census returns published elsewhere in this is-
sue show that the percentage of increase in popu-
lation of Fort Worth was 174.7 and this likewise
shows what the packing house industry will do to-
ward the building up of a community.
San Antonio’s percentage of increase was 81.2.
Galveston because of the flood which cost more
than 10000 lives lost 2 per cent.
Turn Texas loose and watch her grow and give
west Texas a square deal and see her population and
wealth climb!—El Paso Times.
The Times Herald believes that the census enu-
meration of Houston should “average up” with all
other Texas cities and that Houston rightfully be-
longs in the 90000 class.—Dallas Times Herald.
The census of Houston taken by Messrs. Morri-
son & Fourmey this year and which was completed
on June 1 showed 95930 by actual count. Includ-
ed in this count are the immediate suburbs which
together with the city proper it is estimated would
mean about seventeen square miles less than one-
half the area of San Antonio and considerably less
than that of Dallas. With the same area of San
Antonio Houston would have about 115000 popula-
tion.—Houston Post.
That International & Great Northern sale may be put over
until doomsday before a legislature will be found to repeal
the claims bill. The people of Texas as a whole like a square
deal and are not content to see the Goulds lift a couple of
millions of Texas money on a legal ruse.
Haskell as a contemporary stated may be out of the
woods but he is still in the mire. Today will likely tell the
story.
—- J.
The price of Illinois legislators seems to be somewhat high
er than that of Pittsburg councilmen. In the Smoky City
the price was from $2.79 up while in Springfield a good live
one brought $2500. Up there the laborer is worthy of his
hire.
Didn’t see any commission government men on that com-
mittee the mayor appointed to look over the commission
league charter. What’s the matter with the man who drew
it up?
There seems to be an impression that the senatorial com-
mittee investigating the bribery charges against Senator
Lorimer are throwing the mantle of charity over a great
many pieces of material testimony. The country hopes that
this will not be a second Ballinger committee and that Lori-
mer if guiltless will not be obliged on account of the over-
THURSDAY
That 96614 scored by San
Antonio in the official gov-
ernment census for 1910 has
been the subject of editorial
comment bv newspapers all
zealousness of the investigators to eternally rest under a
cloud. Let in the evidence and either clear or convict and set-
tle the dispute once and for all.
Right on the heels of the census report came a tremendous-
ly increased activity in real estate transfers. For about two
weeks previous to the announcement of the census figures
there was a slight lull but immediately following the news
from Washington to the effect that San Antonio was still
the leading city of the state activities began. During the
past few days the transfers have been particularly heavy.
Brookins the “boy wonder”—there is always a boy wonder
in every field of endeavor —displayed unlimited nerve when
he started on his flight from Chicago to Springfield. He rose
in the face of a headwind aud made a wonderful flight under
adverse conditions. Now is the time for the child wonders
to get in the game if they want to be in fashion a year or
two from today.
Lots of these speeders will now wish that they had gongs
on their autos.
"With a leased wire it is the evening paper that carries the
news first. Today's news today is what the reader gets in the
Light and Gazette these dayk Have you compared ’em?
The baron has some nice things to say about San Antonio
and Texas. Folks here say that he is a prince.
When a man who earns $12000 a year deposits $30000
a year and is in politics is he straight? This is the question
that is puzzling Illinois.
Uncle Walt
The Poet Philosopher
The country’s now in better case than ’twas in any age; for
every man there is a place to earn a goodly wage; the poor
man's larder's well supplied against the
winter’s storms; so let us rip things open
wide and spring some new reforms. The
DISCONTENT
merchant has within his till a good fat roll or two; the wheels
are turning in the mill. and. idle hands are few; the ware-
house groans beneath its weight of costly box and bale; so
let us get our gall on straight and send some men to jail.
The cities flourish and expand nature laughs and sings; pros-
perity's on every hand and peace should spread its wings;
but we shall all our time devote to this rip-snorting game;
o'erlook the painting while we note the flyspeck on the fram°
There’s something wrong when people thrive; there’s some-
thing wrong my friend; we want to see bad times arrive
and have the banks suspend and see the mills all close
their doors and half the merchants fail: so let us fill the
air with roars and send some men to jail!
Copyrlcht. 1910. by Georfe Mattnew Adami
As Others View It [
LIKE INSECT FLYING.
So far nearly all aeroplanes fly almost like insects. The
fly makes three hundred beats of its tiny wings a second.
The propeller perhaps one-third as many revolutions but the
albatross and the frigate bird and the buzzard make at most
only three or four beats a second. But albatross and frigate
can sustain themselves two or three days without lunching be-
tween dates. Let's hear of prizes for longer and longer
flights on the least gasoline. When the thing gets down to
brass tacks it mav show that the aeroplane only needs to put
on strong power in going up to its aerie. After that it may
soar away and use its gasoline only to meet certain unusual
conditions in the upper or lower air—Now York Press.
COUNSELS TO CHAOS.
Theodore Roosevelt would be better advised —we say this
in all good will—if he would let the supreme court alone
and particularly if he would refrain from such offhand sal-
lies (against the federal courts as he made in his Denver
speech.
Mr. Roosevelt has never been happy in his criticisms of the
courts notably in the anti-injunction controversy and in the
aftermath of the Landis fine. That trial he should have al-
lowed Brvan and the Bryanites to tread alone. It is a sim-
ple fact that the supreme court decisions have steadily ad-
vanced the conception of popular rights. Attacks upon that
body from whatever source are counsels to chaos.—New
York Evening Mail.
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
Rall sorts i
• Copyright. 1909. by I
: Post Publishing Co. S
Z By NEWTON NEWKIRK. J
“A man’s notion o’ lightenin’ a
woman’s burden is ter carry th’ para-
sol so she kin use both hands ter pack
th’ baby.”
HIS POPULAR PLATFORM.
He can’t make good at politics
This isn’t very funny
Until you know that he can mix
And has a raft of money;
While all the time he plays the game
His pocketbook is leaking
And further that he’s blessed with
fame
Since he is good at speaking.
His platform —let’s see what it is—
He stands for prohibition
And praises suffragettes (Gee whiz!)
And Ballinger’s position;
He pleads for higher railroad rates
For Cannon he is crazy
And blissfully he advocates
Our tariff is a daisy.
HARRY R. BLYTHE.
She stood pensively gazing out in au
absent-minded way upon the crowded
thoroughfare. She was a beautiful
creature of the blonde hair type but
not the kind of “blonde” which comes
in bottles and is labelled “Peroxide.”
Her wealth of golden hair was all her
own and there were no “rats” or false
“puffs” (sometimes known by the
name of “Deerfoot Farm Sausages”)
in it. This “crowning glory” was
done up in coronation-braid style.
Her eyes were the dreamy kind her
cheeks held the delicate tint of new-
blown roses and her lips were ripe and
red as cherries are.
Presently a large French touring car
drew up and stopped before the win-
dow but at the opposite curb. Her
eyes for a moment lost their dreaminess
and lighted up with new interest.
“Ah.” she murmured. “If I could
only have a car like that for my very
own. tow happy I would be!”
Then she turned to him and said in
gentle inquiry “How much would a car
like that cost?”
“That car” he replied “would cost
not less than $8000.”
“Well” she sighed “It’s a perfect
love of a car and I want one very bad-
‘ “But I can't afford to pay $BOOO for
an automobile and you know that very
well yet I want to gratify your every
whim if possible and I am willing to
spend $7OOO for a car which it seems
to me should answer every purpose.”
“No no” she snapped turning from
the window with a sad sigh “if T can’t
have an $BOOO car I won’t have any so
there: it's either a car just like that
one across the street or none at all?
“But my dear.” he remonstrated gen-
tlv “the $7OOO car is almost as big a?
that one —it will hold seven passengers
—it is beautifully upholdstered and is
just as comfortable and as speedy as
that car across the w»y.” _
“It doesn't make any difference
she retorted peevishly “it is either the
$BOOO car or nothing!”
Thereupon she turned indignantly
away and losing all interest in him
went about her own affairs.
He looked down his nose for a mo-
ment and then he said to himself “Can
vou beat it! ”
MULLIGAN AND HIS MONEY.
Strolling along the boardwalk at At-
lantic City Mr. Mulligan the wealthy
I retired contractor dropped a quarter
| through a crack in the planking. A
friend came along a minute later and
found him squatted down industrious-
ly poking a two-dollar bill through the
■ treacherous cranny with his forefinger.
“Mulligan what the divvil ar-re ye
i doin’?” inquired the friend.
“Sh-h” said Mr. Mulligan. “I’m
Itryin’ to make it wort’ me while to
| tear up this board.”—Everybody’s
Magazine.
HAZEL THE HEARTBREAKER.
Josh Wise Saya:
“FUSSY.”
Observant Citizen
Said tho lady with the huge head
gear:
“The other night I attended that
‘Gambol on the Green’ given by the
Press club. They had things to eat
many and varied. They also had things
to drink from lemonade to Dr. Pepper.
I ate and drank and listened to tho
speechmaking. Then 1 went home. My
husband said he had enjoyed himself
immensely. So had I.
“But that night 1 got into a bunch
of nightmares and dreams that fixed
up a regular inferno for me. There
was some big mogul coming to town
and my husband and 1 were standing
at the gate to see him go by in the
procession. Three big-whiskered an-
archistic chaps came up. We were hor-
rified to see that they carried immense
bombs. One of them they placed di-
rectly in front of our gate and then
skiddooed. But not quite as fast as
we did for we didn’t want that bomb
to explode with us near. We ran to
the back of the house and 10 and be-
hold there were our three nihilists
Ranting another bomb. Every which
way wo turned those fellows had a
bomb fixed. We were desperate when
a terrific downpour of rain came and
washed away all the bombs and then
carried away the house with us cline-
mg to it. 8
ri2J h i a \X ambol on the S™”’ an
right but it comes too near causinc a
dream of the rarebit fiend.’” 8
swwTflimSGo]
(From The Light Sept. 29 1889).
• . L. Trueheart has been appointed
by the fair association
and will leave tonight for Mexico with
advertising matter.
Postmaster Schweppe of Boerne is
in the city.
Ex-Governor Paeheco of California is
in the city on a visit.
Aiderman Kalteyer returned last
night from a trip north.
Ex-Governor Roberts is in San An-
tonio for a few days.
Col. N. O. Green has gone to Atas-
cosa county to attend court.
For seven days rain has fallen in
San Antonio and today the sun shone
for two minutes the first time since
the rain started a week ago.
No meeting of the council will
be held today it being the fifth Mon-
day of the month.
Gus Groben George Mudd and party
go to Boerne next Saturday on a hunt.
The W ells Fargo Express company
tomorrow assumes charge of the bag-
gage system of the east end of the
Southern Pacific road from this city
to New Orleans. The company already
has charge to El Paso.
A meeting of the insane asylum com-
mittee was held this morning. It was
decided to call on the people of Bexar
county to submit propositions of eligi-
ble sites of not Jess than 640 acres in
this county to the chairman Judge
Wurzbach before Oct. 15.
Colonel Frost is now the sole owner
of the half block fronting on Main
plaza and lying between Commerce and
Trevino streets.
William and Charles Campbell J. O.
Sullivan and Mr. Schulthers went out
hunting on the Medina at Lost Pond
yesterday and returned with many
doves and ducks.
J. J. Rvan master mechanic of the
Southern Pacific is in the city.
A GENTLE HINT.
1 The old man was down in the furni-
ture store; “By the way” he said just
[before leaving “my daughter has just
started to have a young man calling
and I suppose I. should buy them a
pretty sofa to make love on.”
“Ves sir.” responded the dealer
“and here is the very kind you need.
It is called ‘Cupid’s Retreat.”
“H’m What are the good points?”
‘' Why in just one year the cover
wears off displaying a card —‘It is *ime
to get married.’” —From Norman Ji.
Mack's National Monthly.
-
Texas Talk
STILL KICKING.
There is a great deal of consola-
tion in Knowing that Dallas has
gained more inhabitants in the last
ten years thtan any other Texas
city. In other words we have built
up a city of over 92000 people with-
in the last decade. Dallas has jump-
ed from third to second place ac-
cording to the Federal census and
it has accomplished this feat in an
area of 16.47 square miles San An-
tonio has an area of 36 square
miles. Dallasites smile when they
think of the showing they could
make in 36 square miles or 25
square miles or even 20 square
nules. Dalias is too busy to discuss
the census any longer. We have sev-
eral million Texans to supply with
everything they need in the way of
manufactured articles and it is go-
ing to take all our time for the
next ten years to do the work. In
the meantime Dallas is confident
the census figures will take care of
themselves. —Dallas Times-Herald.
Dallas cannot get over that awful
'bump. After taking in Oak Cliff and a
few other towns and announcing that
she led Texas the come down must be
pretty severe.
STILL SOME.
The Caller acknowledges a cour-
teous invitation from the San An-
tonio Real Estate Exchange to be
present at a banquet to be given
at the St. Anthony hotel October
1 to celebrate the official census an-
nouncement that San Antonio is
the metiopolis of Texas. We would
like to be on hand for the sake of
the occasion as well as the crowd
and the feed. By the way it was
San Antonio’s live real estate men
who kept the old town at the head
of the procession over such live
ones as Dallas Fort Worth Hous-
ton and Corpus Christi.—Corpus
Caller.
Yet. there are some people even in
San Antonio who do not seem to realize
this great fact.
SORE.
Mayor Callaghan of San Antonio
in Austin a few days ago said San
Antonio was a good law-abiding
town and that all the reports about
violations of the law were the re-
sult of too much yellow journal-
ism. We fear the mayor had not
arrived at a very clear conception
of just what a good town is. He
needs to read up.—Palestine Her-
ald.
Callaghan thinks that “yellow jour-
nalism ’ ’ is telling the truth about his
administration and consequently he
hates the truth-telling newspaper. He
has had to do a few things of late that
went against his grain and is naturally
out of temper with the people who
force him to respect the law.
ALL ONE.
Some San Antonio business
men announce that the dollar din-
ner is to be inaugurated in that
city but the management leaves
the public in doubt whether guests
can secure any reduction by pur-
chasing meal tickets.—Lartdo
Times.
One dinner one ticket one price one
■dollar and one object—the boosting of
[the good things in San Antonio.
QUITE DIFFERENT.
Up in Northwest Texas the peo-
ple are agitating a division of Tex-
as because of the passage of the
« I. & G. N. claim bill. The politic-
ians up that way must be getting
hungry. However the time will
come when Texas will be cut up be-
cause there won’t be officers
enough to go around. —Corpus Chris-
ti Herald.
What the politicians want and what
they get away with are often quite dif-
ferent. They "will cut no melon of this
sort in the near future.
SEPTEMBER 29 191(7.
Little Stories
WHOA MOTORBOAT WHOA!
Green Hand at Using One of Them
Unequal to an Emergency.
A small motorboat equipped with ev
ervthing that the new federal law re-
quires and with various things that
were supposed to be necessary undei
the regulations that some of the gov-
ernment officials tried to enforce be-
fore the present law was enacted fur-
nished amusement a few days ago to
the persons who happened to be on the
float of the Analostan Boat club when
the boat arrived.
The boat was a dory about 20 feel
long with a 5-horsepower motor in it
The seats were piled up with new lit?
jackets. On the floor of the cockpit
were a whistle a bell and a foghorn
Sailing lights and a white lantern wer>;
in evidence on the little forward deci
and the owner had two copies of tbs
motorboat law in a locker. The boat
also carried half a bushel of patent fire
extinguishers.
Watchers on the float as the strange
boat came in saw that there was ex-
citement on board. The boat came
nearly alongside and then veered ofl
and ent through among the boats ’.l
anchor or lying at moorings.
As she circled a series of explosions
came from the motor that seeme-l
greatly to alarm the occupants. Al
length as if not knowing what else to
do the man at the wheel headed the
boat for the float and ran full-tilt intc
it.
The boat bounded back after the
first impact and again bucked the
float. Then the man at the wheel
caught hold of a short painter that
was made fast to a ringbolt at the
bow pulled back with all his might
and yelled:
“Whoa! Whoa!”
The others in the boat seemed t<
think they should help and they hur-
ried to the front of the cock-pit—an I
joined in the same yell. Their weight
forward raised the propeller out of the
water and the motor raced at a spejd
that added to their alarm and all ths
while the motor was firing with pops
as loud as pistol reports.
A youngster who was sitting in a
skiff alongside called out:
“Shut off the current!”
“Have shut it off” said the man at
the painter “but she won’t stop.
Whoa! Whoa!”
Then the boy elimbed over into the
motorboat closed the needle valve and
opened the explosion chamber relief
cock and after a few more loud pops
the motor came to a standstill.
The cause of the trouble was the
failure of the water pump. The elec-
trodes in the cylinder had become heat-
ed to white heat and they kept firing
the charges after the spark was shut
off.
DIAGNOSIS BY AUTHORITY.
In the bright sunlight on a railroad
station in Georgia slept a colored
brother. He snored gently with his
mouth ajar and his long moist tongue
resting on his chest like a pink plush
necktie. A northerner climbed off :»
trgin to streteh his legs unscrewed the
top of a capsule and advancing on tip-
toe dusted ten grains of quinine on
the surface of the darkey’s tongue.
Presently the negro sucked his tongue
back inside his mouth and instantly
arose with a start and looked about
him wildly.
“Mistah” he said to the joker “is
you a doctah?”
“Nope.”
‘ ‘ Well then kin yo ’ tell me whar I
kin fin’ me a doctah right away?”
“What do you want with a doctor?”
“I’m sick.”
“How sick?”
“Powerful sick.”
“Do you know what's the matter
with you?”
“Suttin’ly I knows whut’s de mat-
tch with me—mah gall’s busted!”—
Everybody’s Magazine.
Charcoal is good for poultry to eat
as it aids the digestion.
The average man
is never fairly ' dis-
cussed behind his
back.
A woman doesn't
mind being fooled—-
when she does it her-
self.
Some railroad se-
curities are almost
as insecure as the
road itself.
A man isn't nec-
essarily charitable
because he gives nis
friends away.
Few things shock
people but it's so
respectable to make
believe.
There's a chance
for some men to win
a job lot of fame by
inventing a brand of
prohibition that will
prohibit. — Chicago
News.
REFLECTIONS OF
A BACHELOR.
The Lord always
forgives because peo-
ple never do.
There's hardly
anything that cau
cause a higher tem-
per than love.
A cynic is a man
who takes himself so
seriously he can't
anybody else.
The best way to
make the average
man respect yom
judgment is to ask
his opinion.
Prompt decision is
the secret of manag
ing a husband. Tht
woman who hesitates
is bossed.—The New
York Press.
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