Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912 Page: 35 of 85
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VOL. XXXII.
GALVESTOX, TEXAS: MAY 16, 1912.
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ALVESTGN County is dotted all over with progres-
sive towns and villages and neat, prosperous homes
that give evidence of thrift and comfort on every hand.
Like the adjoining counties, Galveston contains much
rich land, some of it as fertile and productive as any on earth,
that, with proper treatment and intelligent cultivation, produces
large yields of quick selling, valuable crops. But few if any
semi-tropical fruits known to 'horticulture are forbidden by the
climate and soil of this section of the Gulf Coast country, and
most of them do exceptionally well here, yielding abundantly
and proving profitable.
The extreme mildness of the climate permitting of work
in the garden and fields at all times, affords, also, a long grow-
ing season—in fact, throughout the entire year crops are found
in the ground. An abundant annual rainfall can always be
counted upon and drainage systems completed and in course
of construction make ample provision for carrying off any sur-
plus. Crops are not only safely grown, but in variety not pos-
sible in sections less favored in matter of soil, climate and
rainfall, which insures bountiful returns to the hand of indus-
try and thrift.
The towns, farms and country homes situated between
Galveston and Houston and Galveston and Beaumont are di-
rectly in line of the travel and development that is fast settling
up this territory with thrifty people. The cities named make
immediately accessible markets and commercial centers of
magnitude and world-wide importance. All sections of the in-
tervening country are pierced by ample transportation facilities,
and excellent wagon roads, in addition to water and rail lines,
now traverse nearly alL of this territory, the Galveston-Houston
interurban electric line being the latest addition and a most
important factor.
In addition to the businesss side of life in the Galveston
suburban section it is a delightful home place, where the cool
breezes from off the gulf temper the summer heat to pleasant
mildness and the wintry blasts are seldom so severe as to cause
annoyance. A land of sunshine and of shower, a mine of vege-
table wealth yielding to the touch of the husbandman; a land
wherein the only temptation is'to prosper; a haven to which
all people residing in the colder northern sections of the
country and in less favored portions of the south can come and
find a cordial welcome and a happy, prosperous home.
ALVESTON, even in the earliest years of her history,
was looked upon as a gateway into the empire of the
great Southwest, through winch those from other
4. countries might enter and find here every condition
congenial for the making of a new home in a new land. In
the memory of those yet living here there still lingers the re-
membrance of the many sailing ships that entered Galveston
harbor, bringing to America large numbers of German immi-
grants, and today these people or their descendants are to be
found in many sections of the state, where they have proven
an important factor in the making of Texas as the state
exists today.
Witii the passing of years and the superseding of the sail-
ing ship by the steamers, people of other nationalities began to
seek homes in this country, coming through Galveston. As the
immigration laws of the land became more stringent it was
found that not so many sought citizenship in America, but the
quality of those who did was very much higher. Today those
who are found seeking entrance into the United States are
people w|io would make good citizens, of any country. Russia
now contributes the largest percentage of aliens desiring to
establish homes in this country and the Balkan states are a
close second.
Recognizing the need of,proper facilities for the handling
of large number of people reaching our shores from foreign
lands and having but limited capital, the United States govern-
ment has erected in this port a commodious building provided
with every accommodation, for the comfort and convenience of
these aliens and the officers who are to exercise the proper
vigilance concerning tlieir admission into the country.
Galveston as a city has readily co-operated with the federal
government, while a number of organizations have’ concerned
themselves in looking after the bodily comfort of the immi-
grants, exercising a sort of paternal surveillance over them
while in the city and seeing that'they are properly started on
their way to their permanent destination. The numerous abuses
that h^-ve marked the handling of immigrants through the ports
of the North Atlantic have never been permitted in Galveston
and the federal officials in charge of the task here are careful in
seeing that every precaution is taken to assure the immigrant
just treatment and at the same time preserve the people of this
country against a visitation of infectious disease.
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Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912, newspaper, May 16, 1912; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth871897/m1/35/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting San Jacinto Museum of History.