Texas City Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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THE TEXAS CITY TIMES
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THE TEXAS CITY TIMES
SUGAR REFINERY CONTRACTS SIGNED
Caution
‘ FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1910
the handling of the raw material
LET US HELP YOU
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J. H. SCHWARTZ, Texas City Texas
Pleased to
Meet You.
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Remember Loblolly Pine is inferior for this
coast country, experience shows the life of
LongLeaf Pine to be many times greater.
The best is none too good for our patrons,
therefore we carry up-to-date grades of
LONGLEAF PINE
and allowing you to pay for it in easy monthly payments
and low rate of interest.
Evidently the steamship rate
war is still on and then evidently
it is not. The “ruinous compe-
tition” inaugurated by the Texas
City Steamship line has caused
a mighty upheaval, to the extent
Sicilian Nobleman Will Bring 2000
Families of Rice and Fruit
Growers.
General Manager Moore States Big
Enterprise a Certainty.
Galveston’s Big Department
Store
, W.F. BOOKMAN, Editor and Proprietor
Terms of Subscription: $1.50 Per Year, in Advance.
Advertising rates made known on ap-
plication.
Entered at the postoffice at Texas City,
Texas, as second-class matter.
the Texas City Terminals, had
been signed up by both parties
to the agreement and there was
nothing whatever in the way of
the building of the plant.
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ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS COMING
The cotton crop over the state
has been cut down considerably
by the drouth, yet the price that
the farmers are receiving is
splendid, so that the people will
be as well off if nor better fixed
than if a bumper crop was made.
Houston lacks only 21,200 of
the coveted 100,000 population.
Be patient, brethren, all things
come to those who wait. The
Bayou City will attain the goal in
the next ten years if Texas City
does not annex it.—Bryan Eagle.
Texas City has no immediate
intention of annexing Houston,
but does expect to meet her some-
where up the bayou by the time
the next census is taken.
Besides the new terminal fa-
cilities that are being installed
in Texas City at a cost of $3,000,-
000, and the million-dollar oil re-
finery now in operation here, the
tile factory, lumber and fuel
Since the primaries the secret
of J. Martin Jones’ condidacy
for governor has come out. Jones
got a $10,000 bet that he could
name the hind man for governor.
The other fellow thought he had
three chances to win to one to
lose. The name was written,
sealed up with the checks of each
of the bettors and placed in a
bank vault until after the elec-
tion. Jones wrote his own name
and the next day he announced
for governor, ran through, was
the hind man and won the bet.
Reap the reward of the money you have
been paying for rent
BY BUILDING YOU A HOME
The Galveston Cotton Carnival
has passed into history, and
proved of more practical bene-
fit and thorough pleasure to the
thousands of visitors than any
large entertainment ever given
in Southern Texas.
terests have begun a rate war on
canned goods, spuds, farm ma-
chinery and other commodities
from Baltimore, still their agents
are insisting that the rates on
other classes of freight out of
New York for Texas City and
Galveston must be raised, or all
the lines will be forced out of
business. It is a case of much
smoke and little fire, and is mere-
ly mentioned here to call atten-
tion to the Times’ statement last
week that in the reorganization
and strengthening of the Texas
City Steamship Company compe-
tition will still exist — that
neither the Mallory or Morgan
interests control the New York-
Texas City boats. On with the
circus.
companies and the southern dis-
tributing plants of the Davis
Coal and Coke Company and
Tufts & Osborne, Texas City is
to have within the next few
months a $1,600,000 sugar refin-
ery, a cotton seed delinting plant
that will cost about $150,000, a
compress on which approximate-
ly $40,000 will be expended, ad-
dition of two or more ships to
its New York line of steamers, a
$20,000 high school building, city
waterworks, electric lights and
sewerage, a steam laundry and
an ice factory. These are suffi-
cient industries to insure her be-
coming a city of 50,000 people
within the next three or four
years.
PLAN:—Say you want $1,000. You make application for
ten contracts of $100.00 each on which you pay $1.00 per
$100.00 when application is made and on the 15th of each suc-
ceeding month until ninety days expire from date of appli-
cation when you are entitled to loan of this amount of money.
Before loan is made you have to pay in an additional amount
to make $12 per $100.00 for the first year from which you
are credited back with $10.00 per hundred on return pay-
ments, the $2.00 per hundred being used for expenses of loan.
Loans are to be secured by first lien on property. Returns
payments are made at the rate of $1.25 per hundred borrowed
which covers all interest.
Work has begun on the con-
struction of the Houston-La
Porte interurban line.
Jackson Loan & Trust Co.
JACKSON, MISS.
C. D. GUSTAVUS, Texas City, Texas, Agent
Governor Campbell has been a
stickler for platform demands,
and his chief boast has been that
he has held the noses of his legis-
latures to the grindstone until
they have obeyed literally every
plank in the state platform. But
it is different now. At the last
account the governor had not
even read the Galveston demands
of his party, and is going ahead
in direct contravention to same.
The governor regulates his course
by the rule that “consistency is
the virtue of fools.”
B. H. Carroll, Jr., writing in
Sunday’s Houston Chronicle,
says that efforts are being made
to place in the near future in
Texas and Mexico over 2000
families of Italians of the bet-
ter class. This movement is the
most completely planned and
well organized of any effort ever
made in Texas to secure a high
class of citizens from Europe.
Trained farmers will be
brought over and the families
who will come are from people
who have been farmers for cen-
turies and who represent a
hereditary aptitude for tilling
the soil and are in possession of
desirable technical knowledge as
to some of the forms of agricul-
ture that are best adapted to
Texas.
The culture of citrus fruits is
one in which Italians excel. It
is from Sicily that the great bulk
of lemons that come to the
United States are shipped, and
many fine varieties of oranges
and other citrus fruits, are
grown. The immigrants from
South Italy are especially gifted
in this form of agriculture, and
the coast country of Texas is en-
tering on a progressive era in
regard to the raising of citrus
fruits.
On the other hand the immi-
grants from Lombardy, in North
Italy, are experts in rice culture
and many of these rice farmers
are to be brought over both to
Texas and Mexico. The culture
of small fruits is another branch
of gardening in which Italians
excel. The great success that has
been made by the Italian set-
tlement at Dickinson, between
Houston and Galveston, where a
good sized colony of Italians has
taken firm hold, shows that a
few acres in strawberries can
support a large family. Straw-
berry culture will- attract many
of those who come who will be
selected because of their experi-
ence in and aptitude for that par-
ticular industry.
The active agent in securing
the settlers is an Italian noble-
man, Baron Benedetti D'Alto-
monte of Milano, Italy, who has
for years made a special study
of Italian emigration to this
country. It would be difficult
to find a man better adapted to
such a work. Baron D’Altomon-
te was educated for the diplo-
matic service of Italy, graduated
from the ancient university at
Pisa in both law and agriculture,
is a specialist on citrus fruits
and southern gardens, has had
several years’ experience in
bringing Italians to America and
has withal had a career so ad-
venturous, so filled with swirl-
ing excitement, that many of its
events seem almost incredible,
but are vouched, attested and
proven.
Attorney General Davidson
and his assistants did commend-
able work in convicting trusts
and other malefactors, and the
fines collected fattened the state
treasury to an extent never be-
fore experienced, but the gover-
nor is investing a large part of
them in legislative hot air and ef-
forts to correct his own mistakes
More money is now being put
into public improvements and
industrial enterprises in the Tex-
as City country than in any
other part of the world of equal
size. Strictly modern ocean ter-
minals, factories, interurban
lines, school buildings, business
buildings and government works
in making the finest harbor that
can be found, shelled roads and
automobile speedways and the
wonderful causeway connecting
Galveston island with the main
land, all combine to make this
section one immense hive of in-
dustry, where everybody is busy
and twentieth-century progress
is evident on every hand.
Texas City Lumber Company
OFFICE: ^SEand 2d Ave N. £ Nunez, Mgr. Industrial Site No. 2.
That’s what we say to our custom-
ers because we are not afraid to
meet them on the street—they al-
ways have a smile foi us because we
satisfy every single one of them—we
give every man his money’s worth
better tailoring and materials that
are guaranteed.
Every Garment we sell is made by
hand to the individual measurement
of the customer.
Come in and look over our assort-
ment of pretty new spring fabrics—
we are waiting to take your measure
that the Mallory and Morgan L. 1____io -C ________ _
lines operate at a loss, so they and product of the refinery by
say, yet they keep on operating. " “ 7
Now the Mallory and Morgan in-
Come and see us. Let us figure on your Lumber wants, our
business methods are consistently liberal.
Let us give you a home price on the Yale & Rex Buggies
and on the Luedinghaus Wagons; they are the best and we
sell them at the best price. And don’t forget that we sell
the best roofing, (<That Old Reliable J. & M. Regal Roof,f
It is the best in the market.
The movement inaugurated
Tuesday night, when the county
health officer met with the citi-
zens of Texas City, will result in
this becoming one of the cleanest,
healthiest cities in the state.
Situated as we are, on the north-
ern shore of Galveston bay, with
absolutely nothing to interfere
with the delightful breezes that
blow for thousands of miles over
the waters of the gulf, there is
nothing to cause sickness unless
we ourselves create the sources
of infection, and there is no ex-
cuse for that. With our pure
artesian water and cooling breez-
es that are free from dirt,
germs and all impurities, there
is nothing to stand in the way of
Texas City becoming a noted
health resort as well as a great
industrial center.
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Mr. S. S. Lees, who is down
from New York making arrange-
ments for the construction of the
$1,600,000 sugar refinery in Tex-
as City, as detailed on the first
page of today’s Times, is actively
at work on the enterprise. What
few doubts there may have been
regarding the building of the re-
finery here were all set at rest
by General Manager H. B. Moore
on his return from New York
Tuesday, who stated that the
contract between the refining
company and the Texas City
Transportation Company for the
building of the plant on the in-
dustrial reservations here and
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Silks, Linens, Table Damasks, Napkins, Towels,
Bed Spreads, Mosquito Bars, Cotton and Woolen Dress ’
Goods, Hosiery, Notions, Boys’ Clothing, Men’s |
Furnishings, Ladies,’ Misses’ and Children’s Ready-to-
wear Garments.
Carpets, Mattings, Window Shades, Draperies. A com- •
plete stock of Shoes for Ladies, Men and Children.
We want your business. Our Solicitor Mr. Bell, visits
Texas City regularly. Drop him a note care Texas City
Hotel and he will call on you with samples.
We pay Express or Boat charges to Alvin, League City,
Texas City, Anahuac, and other nearby cities.
That construction work on a
number of brick and concrete
business houses in the new busi-
ness center of Texas City will
begin shortly is now a certainty.
Mr. Harvey A. Thomas, man-
ager of the land department of
the Texas City Company, author-
izes the Times to state that work
on several new fire-proof build-
ings will begin within the next
thirty days.
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Now that the new bathing pier
is completed and is the source of
much pleasure and recreation to
the citizens generally, steps
should be taken to provide for a
keeper of same and the bath
house, whose duty will be to
keep the latter clean and in a
sanitary condition, also to keep
away all persons who have no
right to the privileges of either.
The present condition of the
dressing rooms is a decided dis-
credit to the city. A small sum
per month from each person in-
terested would pay a keeper well
and bathers and pleasure seekers
would suffer no further incon-
venience or annoyance from the
depredations of young hoodlums.
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Bookman, W. F. Texas City Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1910, newspaper, August 19, 1910; Texas City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1577147/m1/4/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.