Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 71, Ed. 1, Monday, September 12, 1904 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. XIII NO 71.
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12 1904.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS.
ARTMENT STORE
THE CITY OF
BROWNSVILLE.
Interesting Write-Up of Conditions
Here by a Visitor.
I take this method of announcing t6 the public that I
have opened a first-class DEPARTTMENT STORE
and am now ready for business. I extend a hearty
welcome to all to call examine and price my stock.
We positively have but one price and that is for
8 F'nii mw.Jwii.j2?MZf imi inn
SB
New Lindsey Brick Building Elizabeth Street
Next Door to First National Bank Buildim
Orders from our Rio Grande friends
lor anything to be had in. Corpus
Christi will have our best attention
A L W A Y S AND
DELIVERED PRICES
at any station on St. L. B. & M. Ry
E..H. CALDWELL
Our store is Headquarters in
Quantity . Quality
Price
Planet jr truck gardeners implements Avery
plows Birdsell wagons disc plows Buckeye
hay mowers and rakes windmills pipe cas-
ing vrire robber hose packing and engine
supplies. SjB IRRIGATION SUPPLIES
Corpus Christi
Texas
MANUFACTURERS OR...
ARSOLUTELY & PURE
ICE
BT the famous ACID process. No Ammonia no taste
no smell are now prepared to take orders and make
yearly and monthly contracts at reasonable rates.
FREE DELIVERY.
SAX A XT ON I O .E'XAS
liflrrigaMoiij!
I
C. F. Elkins U.. B A. B. cole. IX. B.
ELKINS & COLE
ATTORNEYS-AT-IaW
Will practice in all courts. State and Federal.
Special attention given to land and ab-
; stract business. Will do collecting
enworb" Tells the World a Few Facts
Concerning the City by the Rio
Grande.
The following extract is taken
from an extended write-up of this
section by a special representative
ofjthe Texas Stockman and Farmer
San Antonio who spent some time
here recently:
THE CITY OF BROWNSVILLE
Is situated immediately on the
banks of the river the principal
streets running down to the water
edge several of them reaching the
stream through prett3 green parks
that are most delightfully shaded
bjr giant willows of both the flow-
ering and common varieties. The
old steamboat landing is faced by
blocks of brick buildings most of
them two stories high with high
parapet walls surmounting them
making them strong forts for small
arms should such a thing ever
prove necessary. All of the streets
of the city run at right angles
north and south are sixty feet wide
and built up principally in Mex
ican style though there are numer-
ous handsome exceptions- Eliza
beth street on which is situated the
fine customs lioifse post office and
United States court room is the
principal business thoroughfare
office over Botica del Acniia. combes Drug store portions of it forcibly- reminding
one of certain parts of Galveston.
; Just below the city proper and
at the foot of the principal street
sis Fort Brown now garrisoned by
NIEVES" GaMERO $ BRO.
Corner Twelfth & WasningtoVi St.
Watchmaker
Machinist and Silversmith.
Established 1844.... 1
Carpenter and Builder. Con
tracts taken for both frame and -
brick buildings and all other work
the 26th United States infantry.
! This -post is one of the oldest and
J most important in the southwest.
I At one time it was looked upon as
weli improved and equipped but
is now in rathei a dilapidated con-
dition. Extensive improvements
are now in progress in the sewer-
in my line. Also painting and re-
pairing. ' Cypress cisterns made to
order. Address W. S. Corxill
Eleventh street bet Elizabeth and j
Levee streets. Brownsville "Texas.
age department Capt. Van Riper
i the well known civil engineer is
superintending the work. Consid-
i erable sums of money have been
spent by the national government
in efforts to prevent the washing
awaj of the post grounds 'by the
river. While as a general thing the
business buildings of the city are
small and built on the old Spanish-
Ppsf n ii m ni i-zzz
J. A Tillman Prop.
Table supplied with the best the
market affords. Board $1S.00
per month. Meals 25c.
ggr Eleventh St. Opp. Firstatienal Bank
Established 1379.
Kowals
General Merchandise
L9
Get Rich
Raising" Onions & Tomatoes
Prices and terms most
reasonable to all who will im-
prove lands. "
The Brownsville Land & Town Co
for the citizens in the early morn-
ing the head of the house with
his market basket on his arm
puffing an early morning cigarette
and escorted by the family dog be-
ing a common sight. One thing
can be said about official lifeA in
Brownsville though there are no
more offices in Cameron county
than any other in the state by
dividing up the slices of chicken
pie that have been received in the
shape of offices by long division
and then making a deputy for each
Fourth-Class Postmasters.
unit nearly all are enabled to get
a seasoning as it were of official
Jife. . Even this small and economi
cal taste seems to pleasesome of
them mightily.
There are numbers of large stores
in Brownsville that carry Stocks of
goods in all lines' and that do an
immense retail along with quite a
respectable jobbing trade. Before
the advent of the St. Louis Browns
ville and Mexico railwav nearlv all
trade with the east and north was
carried on by way of Brazos San-
tiago or Point Isabel as it is usual
ly called a short line of railway
quite worthy of being preserved as
a souvenir of the past both as to
roadbed and equipment bringing
the goods from that port to the
city. Brownsville has much more
the air and customs of a Mexican
town than that of .Texas and were
in not for the big starry banner
that flaps and snaps in' the gulf
breeze from the tall flag staff on
the parade grounds one could easi-
ly be convinced that he was in the
land of Diaz y libertad. Srx and
a quarter cents puts one over the
river into Mexico a street car line
with mule power carrying one from
Santa Cruz as the river terminus
is known up to the city of Mata-
moros. Santa Cruz on Sunday even--
ings is largely patronized from both
sides of the river cock fighting
pony racing and all classes of gam
ing constituting the amusements.
A grande'baile generally winds up
the festivities by dawn Monday.
At present there seems to be a sort
of international trust in . existence
between the two sides of the river
on Sunday as everything is open
in Brownsville until noon that day
when they close until Monday the
Mexican side seeming to take
charge of the trade for the rest of
the day and night.
see.
PROWiNSVILLF
TEXAS
l
I The
Sole agents for Atlas Engines and Boilers;
Bvs Clarke Centrifugal Double Suc-
tion Ptir.ips; Smitn & Vaile Steam Pnmps
Star Windmills and :
American plan there are a num-
ber of large ones that are a credit
to any city . There are many hand-
some homes with yards and patios
that would delight the eye of a
florist. Besides ail of the flowers
with which one familiar with the
West Brownsville
Only $10 down. Fine lots
-$50. Corners $75. Half-price
to builders.
The Brownsville Land & Town Co.
A Brownsville Possibility.
Postoffices of the fourth class of
Texas taken as a basis for som ;
statistics give some interesting in-
formation which shows that the
State League of Postmasters of the
fourth-class offices are not at all un-
just in their demands. Civil ser-
vice is afforded to all other Govern-
ment employes save postmasters
and as a special class it should be
extended to the postmasters of the
fourth-class.
iThese postmaster have been
drawing pay on the sane basis since
the Civil War and it is but just
that a better salary in keeping with
the work required be afforded
them.
As it is. now they receive noth-
ing for the extra work done on-account
of rural free delivery other
than the cancellations of the car-
riers and in some.cases this is suf-
ficient but is the majority it is not.
for the State average is 3 000 pieces
per carrier per month while the
State average for cancellation is
not in keeping with the work per-
formed .
Then too another feature is the
money order business. They re-
ceive 3 cents per order issued
which the department says should
pay for a money order clerk which
would do very well when an office
issued a hundred orders per dav
-
but none do this and the amount
allowed is not anough when it i.-
taken into consideration that the
postmaster must give bond for hi
services keep a separate set of
books for this work remit his
money to his designated depository
and then report all this to the de-
partment and keep all records for
four years.
There are in Texas ovet 3;o
postmasters of the fourth class and
they are certainly entitled to some
consideration for labor done and
labor expected in the future.
Austin Statesman.
NEWS ITEMS.
Controller of Currency calls for
statements of the condition of
National banks.
George A. Ormistouof Pittsburg
defeated Walter J. Travis in the
National amatour golf tournament.
Awards of prize money to Manila
Ba3' heroes are being nlade.
Organized armed bands of ne-
groes are giving trouble at Pavo
Ga.
Judge Parker received 655 Dem-
ocratic editors at Rosemount.
Cotton planters have combined
to hold cotton and force it to 12
ceits.
Packers' strike declared' off a
victory for the packers!
Joseph Eisle a Louisville aeron-
aut fell 100 feet and hroke his
neck -
Fouf prisoners escaped from the
ntJVAL WEST
The editor was in a small east
Texas town a few days ago and
at a hotel noticed sitting on the
. r " j&neooygan County UVisJ jail
edhke representatives of speedy whiIe tfae Sheriff
and ill gotten wealth. One had on j babies
a tremendous Stetson hat of the j
ten-dollar price and made to order
ea wun ivncmng tor running over
and killing a child.
Bricklayers and masons decline
Themotorman and conductor of
a Chicago trolley car were tbreaten-
ATTOKNEY AT LAW
San Antonio Texas
ritacs BuruEG main plaza.
flora of a northern and temperate
zone is accustomed dozens of new! most as big as a hickory nut
j ones strange and beautiful are to while the third had a gold watch !
be found" in this semi-tropical cli- r chain which must have weighed j
(mate. Oranges lemons bananas j balr a pound. to join the American Federation of
j phthtains-. figs . and pomegrauites Approaching the hotel proprietor ; Laber.
tare to oe jejuna in almost every i " uiquueu: iuusi nave pretty ; t he War department vill srivt
S
FaJCJi BuxuH?rc mais PI.AZA. - -v. "i"v '"'j i - i iic war aepanment viil giv
Wm practice in the federal and sfaite ! yard frequently from the bloom to vide open town for such a small the statue of Liberty a ia m
i tne ripe fruit. Lone?
J . . !
At present the paving- and erad- Why" said the proprietor.
W. L. LAY TON. ! ins: of both streets and sidewalks " Vhv all these eramblers here. '
; is in bad condition the unprece- j 'Which gamblers? said the pro-
dented rainfall for the months of prietor. "Those fellows sitting
July and August having much to out there on the porch." "H .'
do with it. In addition to its other said he. "thev ain't ramblers: the-v
Firs Class Work Solicited and Satisfac-' .r u.-u- n ... "
. public bmldiags Brownsville has ; arc iarsicr. Guess you am i po.t-
- churches of ail the leading denomi- ed on things in these parts!"
L. LAYT0N
Architect and
Superintendent
Magistrate Poole. New York
ruk-that a man can not rr disor-
derly in a saloon.
Philadelphia!:- become enraged
with a ue.ro a:;.l start' a race riot.
to
J. J. Hill (.!-: ;es seliin;:
the R :.; .;: Governmr
tion Guaranteed. At Dr. Lav-
ton's Residence.
MODEL Gaso!
En
me
tne
he Herald office.
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Made q onitrr fS
! I Call at I. Beeitfc Barber Shop
' natur-le. Elc.
vrrsv-..iu-" 1 'Ja.jniTn.-.v.r.t' . i . .n.aa
i nations several of them being quite Producers Review
costly. A neat opera house vh -re
;piays Dota in k.:igiz aau bpcih
by troupes of good actors are given
during the season : another at-
traction ot the citv. The cilv hell
Tf1 WEATHER.
feritv.itli nurou market
EssJ ' lower stor- is the gath
!a' :-r in the
.-ring olace winIs.
Brott-nsa'IIe. Tc-x. Sept. 12. 19
Ditcl N Orl::-.. La. -Tonight
Ta-"rli ".'tr! . t'.outi to c''u
New York stocks close
bonds firm.
Reneer at Clu i
Ja;-ru.- :e:r. .: .-
sians on Sept. 5.
Elaborate Tjreparaiion
n:a k ;:i Me-- : r tT;-
vesisels
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Wheeler, Jesse O. Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 71, Ed. 1, Monday, September 12, 1904, newspaper, September 12, 1904; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146658/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .