Velasco Daily Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1891 Page: 3 of 4
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THE - ONLY
IEAPORT
,We*t of the Mint)iMli>pl Illver into which h ve* '
el drawing Mxlwn fret of water can enter mid
the Üuly Seaport on the One Thoui-nn'l Out
Hundred and Serentv Mile* of Coast l*«twcen
Mid river and Vera Cruz, From our ducks nn!
Hundred and Seventy Mile of Coast l*«t>vcen
HE mm CITY AND MOT COMTAHY
of Vciattco 1h ufttttttuU'd lor the comino year # j
50.000,000 OVE AND A HALF mili.ION* DOT.'
LAK8already expended «11 ocryiiuciit «.irk 011
the Jetties by private enterprue|
iiitiiiiiinutiim —"nr"~l
V EL. A SO WILL liE TIIKGl'LK TERMINUS,
'of all the great railway nystemn entering Tcxm-
Artesian Water* Supply
I IVepeft «M il ljoci !eot, through elay fouudntiou
jsTKEI# RAILWAY'S. Nine mile* of electric
line* now Imlldiasr.
VKI.A-H'O TERMINAL It It. now l.ullt 21
(r.tík (■; Clirmuiy•> for cdiuu'ctlou with I. ,t (J. X
IR. 1!
The new e'c;aiHt HOTEL VELASCO and the
|ino«t stylinh fratni'hotel iu Text**, has accomo
dntioiu for .VjO rie.i -.
j VELASCO Is tlie HANK AtVOl'ST of the
'farmer of the W.-t: •JOO.OOO.OOO hu«lu>U of wheat
will lie exported thin >v/ir. It'll w> re exported
via the port of Velasen It means $200,000,000 mot-
ocean ship can today tro to sea with a full ci.ru
^Within the last three months more than a ÍHUÍIÍIIIHIIItltl<Mi MtlÍtllÍ|ltii ntltlllWltlllllltllllÍ!IUItlMlllttlMIMtlHlítlllllllllllllMIIIII1lttlttllllllllllllllll||HIIIIIIIMfílll||IMIIII1llti)nilllirinilIininiltil|||líltl
«hips have entered this j<ort with tin uwriei
cargo of 1300 tous each
Represents 300,000 Acres.
AS - A - SKAHOKT - oi'tlut
! through {lie Gulf instead of the Atlantic Veluwio
ia nearerthan New York to San Francisco
Biggest of all Booms Coming to Velasco.
mile*. ta Ht. Loui# 850 miles, to Little Kock 7<ki: O O O
(miles. |
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For Full I'ltrll'-ulrrs as to condition and intentions of the Company. Frlees of Property, Ktn, Address
ERNEST W. EMMONS,
VICE PRESIDENT AND
GENERAL MANAGER,
•oatffloa Box Wo. BO.
VELASGO, TEXAS,
he port of Velas. _
money for the farmer than via anv other outlet.!
; \ elusco. the only outlet to the Ottlf of Mexico,
¡Will receive a volume of business amounting to)
9400,000,000 annually from the great West audi
foreign countries. j
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THE DAILY TIMES.
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w. h. steat)man.
TIME CARD.
leave quintana. leave velasco.
SHE HAS DONE IT TWICE BE-
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The Mason in the Lead Drawing Sixteen
Feet and Nine Inches.
MENTION THE TIMES.
Any person receiving a Copy of this
paper, will do the proprietors a favor
by mentioning The Times in writing
to advertisers or the Brazos River
Channel and Dock company. The
Times is working hard for Velascoand
wants what credit it deserves—the
Times will answer all letters prompt-
ly and furnish all ¡information it can
about the future metropolis of Texas.
Mention The Times in your correspon-
dence to Velasco property owners.
Fine store rooms and office rooms for
rent. A. J. Gkeiner & Co.
Before leaving the city list your
property with Murrell & Brown.
Hand made shoes of all kinds at B.
Cahn's.
Tender steak and chops at Mcllvain
& Dunn's English Kitchen.
Ladies should go to B. Calm's to*
«11 kinds of fine dress goods.
For fine clothing and gents furnish-
ing goods B. Cahn is the leader.
Murrell & Brown have somo of the
best bargains in Velasco. Call and
see them.
DEEP WATER DRIFT.
Odd and Ends Caught on tbet, Fly by the
The Times Rustler.
To-morrow is New Year's. Every man
should turn over a new leaf of some-
kind even a relief would be better than
no leaf at all.
used oaths repeatedly loud enough to
be heard all over the boat. This man
never had a sister or a mother or he
would have bad more respect for the
ladies in his presence oven if he did
not fear their escorts.
THE-
Murrell & Brown are the proper per-
sons to list your property with If you
want the best returns.
B. Cahn keeps the best line of S^t-
son and all kind of stltThat .
In looking around for ^tistmas
presents don't floret that yd* can find
what you want a Jofcnsotte furniture
store.
Gi&Mftke Bros. tiü ri*y 1he best line of
dry goods aisd grdetties in the city.
' Velasco stifr 'h^ts at B. Calm's
l,- - 'mammoth "dry gWJds «tore.
For fiwe atinge property and city
lots in <Qulri&na or Velasco call wi
Murrell feown, the real estate hus-
tlers.
Qwi'ltfc and blankets at B, <0ato*Cs
big ftry "goods store.
Ife. Johnson ha6 a beattífifflí -stock
•df ifftrniture which he is -seWfingat
'vftKy law prices.
No "boom" prices the íRrunswick
•cafe. You will get lihe !b«st meal in
the city for 25 cents .
Latest novelties ingress shirts and
underwear of ¡ill "klnfls at B. Cahn's
mammoth dry go<s$« house.
Fresh oysters and lish at Mcllvain
A Dunn's English 'Kitchen. Open
day and night.
Cranberries, jellies, apple butter,
mince-moat, lemons and candies at
(leisecke Bros."
Game and lbwls at MeTlvain &
Dunn's English Kitchen. Opon day
and night.
Painters cull on B. Chan for cloth
for paper hanging. All kinds—lowest
prices.
To the Public.
The Times? will with pleasure pub-
lish the list of all who will receive
callers New Years Day.
For Sate.
A nice residence two stories high
several large and convenient rooms,
bath houses, cisterns, out. houses, plas-
tered rooms, high ceilings and every
'thing complete. Price $4,000, includ-
ing two lots. For further particulars
apply at tne Times offios.
That magntflcélit American sohoon-
er, the Henry P. Mason, Captain
Percy, paid her third visit to Velasco
yesterday. She was the second deep
draft vessel to enter the Brazos after
deep water had been secured here.
At that time Captain Percy was
so impressed with the possi-
bilities of this port that lie |
shortly afterwards invested several '
thousand dollars in Velasco real es- j
tate for which ho has since refused .
three times the amount he paid. On i
both of her previous visits the Ma-1
son broke the record for deep draught i
vessels entering Texas port and yes- j
terday when she came in from Pensa- j
cola drawing exactly sixteen feet nine.,
iuches, put herself on record as a ,
"sailing proof that steamers can t
enter the Brazos drawing eighteen j
feet. Tho Mason lies at our wharves |
and will not discharge cargo i'oc tjev- ¡
eral days. i
If any Giilvestoiiiau would like to
satisfy himself regarding the depth of ¡
water at the Braaos bar, he now has !
an excellent opportunity of doing so j
by running over hero and taking a
look at the "record breaker." 'the j
Mason crossed the bar shortly after ,
five o'clock lu the afternoon, and came j
swiftly the river to the foot of
South 2nd street opposite the coal
yardi, several blocks above where the
steamships Brixham ami Ceuriua are .
lying.
The Fair Play.
By invitation of that clever gentle-
man and accomplished seaman, Cap- ,
tain Louis Sorensen a Daily Times ¡
reporter yesterday visited the staunch
and fleet-winged schooner Fair Play,
shortly after h«c entering port, after
distancing a "considerable fleet of gulf
coasting traders that had an even
start with her from Orange and t-nke
Charlea. The Fair Play's oafclu has
recently been handsomely fitted up
«ad the entire craft overhauled,
painted and ornamented until she
really looks what her proud owner i
claims for to he, "the best, fastest |
and smartest craft of her size from
Key West to Tampion.
The Fair Play brought over about'
30,000 feet of picked lumber for Sol
Larson's yard and will finish unload-
ing to-day.
F. Narbon, a well known citizen of
Columbia, who spent the last two
days in Velasco, had on, besides the
usual articles of raiment worn by geu-
tlemen, a pair of steel grey pants made
from four yards of uniform clot i
issued to him in 1H64 by the confeder-
ate government. Mr. Narbon kept the
oloth carefully packed away until a
week or two ago when he decided to
have kt made up into pants wherein to ,
pay kiis first visit to the state's first
deepMvater port.
The Deger lumber company have
established their new yard between
tbrit of the M.T.Jones lumber com-
.ptiny and r-uhluil <Si Patillo's mill, and
.yestevday received and began unload-
ing at their wharf, 200,000 feet of lum-
ber and a number of bunches of shin-
gles brought from Orange in Eagle
barge No. 1, towed by the lug Senii-
; nole.
Even the grippe at the mouth of the
Brazos acts fairer than at other places
and does not begin by striking below
the belt. The first pass it made was
to tackle Health Oil ice r Weisiger and
¡ Col. Ü. O. .larvis.
B. d. Vaughn & Co., are now solid-
! ly settled in their new store at tho
corner of Avenue A., and South 1st.
| street, and have their big stock of
' house furnishing goods straightened
' out for sale.
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Avarice is immeasurable, The
Times is sorry that there is not mo.-e
avaricious people in Velasco after ad-
vertising space in The Daily times.
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A kicker is one who kicks and finds |
fault with everything good, bad or,
indifferynt, and is an unmitigated
nuisance anyway. There are several
such people in Velasco.
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Remorse is like a pin hid in a silken
chai.'. The man who Aiilsto buy a lot in
Velasco and advertise in The Times
will suffer from remorse as long as he ,
remains in Velasco.
tub Times will receive callers to-1
morrow—provided each caller brings |
his owu refreshment* and á subscrlp-1
tion to the Daily Times. p. S.—Pos- !
itively no admittance to bill collectors.
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Inspirations are few and far between. I
When a man gets inspired he is ready |
to explode. The Times poet has been
Inspired and will explode his New
Year poem to-morrow." This is a fair
warning, so prepare tor the shock.
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C. S. Stevenson who built, the en-
gine house ami iron ware room for the
company, put up a ten thousand gal-
lon tank on Central wharf yesterday.
This and the tank on the lower wharf
are now supplied, through four Inch
pipes, with artesian water.
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A good joke is told on a certain young
mctfi in town who is in the habit of
tfppittg tho waiters. The restaurant
where he had been taking Ills meals
(changed hands, (not an unfrequent oc-
currence hore)and when the young man
came in for dinner there was a spright-
ly new waiter flying around waiting
on the table, he pleased the you:;g man
so woll that he quietly slipped a half
dollar in his hand. A few moments
later he asked the supposed waiter
when he came, and was much sur-
prised when he answered, "I yest
byed it this morning." He was the
proprietor.
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A captain of one of the large ships
that came in a few days ago, upon be-
ing asked how he found water on the
bar and how he got In, said, "Well, I
was coming down the coast looking
for Velasco when I saw a fence run-
ning out into the gulf, I just come
'round that there was two fences and
an opening between them, so I just
steered In bet ween them and come
right on up. Did not know when I
crossed the bar; don't think there was
any bar out." lie further stated that
he was drawing "some sixteen feet of
wat^r," and that it was ^some sev-
eral feet" more than t here was on the
Galveston bar.
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There is entirely too much loud
swearing and profane language used
on your streets," remarked a stranger
yesterday to u Times man, "this
mottling I saw two ladies coming hast-
ily across the street in the mud to
avoid passing a crowd of bums and
toughs who were congregated on the
corner using all kinds of profane lan-
guage 1 ntd enough to be heard half
¡t block away." The gentleman was
right. There is entirely too much
profane language used on our streets
and on boats and our officers should
try to put a stop to it. A few even-
ings ago as the writer was going to
Quintana on the Steadman there was
probably twenty-five passengers
aboard several of whom were ladies.
There was also a man aboard drested
like a gentlemnn and had the appear-
ance of one, but In conversation with
the gentleman who sat next to him
Christmas comes but once a year,
Ain't you glad, ain't you glad?
If oftenor I greatly fear
We'd all go broke—that would besad. |
Several in town have it—the Grippe. ¡
A new contingent arrived last night!
for Sherman's theatre.
P. D. Anderson & Co. will rent you
a gun for 50 cents and sell loaded
shells at ,fii.50 per 100.
Fok bent—Neatly furnished rooms
by the day or month. Apply to
13-1-1 01 Mrs. J. B. Askew. .
W. E. Bawls, a leading Sandy
Point sugar planter, is in Houston
on business tc day.
The tracklavers on the Velasco Ter-
minal railroad will reach Oyster Creek
this morning nearly nine inlles from
the city depot.
The ties are being distributed along
Gulf Boulevard for the electric street
railway from Biverside Park to Surf
Side.
The drawing at S. D. Anderson A
Co's. will take place on Friday, Jan.
1st, between 8 and 4 o'clock. Come
and bring your ticket.
The schooner T. f. P. with 19,000
feet of lumber and 200,000 shingles for
Siddall & Palillo came in from East
Texas yesterday morning.
The steamer Hiawatha was a little
late last night but she made up for
that by bringing a rattling good list
of freight and about seventy passeu-
gers.
The schooner Devotl Brothers and
Ellen with 47,000 and 41,000 feet of
lumber for the M. T. Jones Lumber
company came in from East Texas
last night.
The Palace of Beauty jewelry store,
E. G. Schoeler proprietor, has been
moved to the corner of Ave. A., and
South 2nd, where he will be pleased
to meet his many friends.
Itev. Beaty of the North M. E. church
will preach at the school house next
Sunday morning and evening. An
effort will also be made to organize a
church at this place.
Vhe petition circulated yesterday to
divide this precinct so as to make a
new voting box at Velasco, had three
hundred signers within six hours, and
will receive as many more today.
The schooners Bosalle, Josephene I),
and Colombo, with 150 bales of cot-
ton and a quantity of country pro-
duce sailed from the San Bernard
yesterday morning for Galveston.
The (.'zarina swinging around in the
river at low tide, demonstrated to tlie
complete satisfaction of the most skep-
tical, that large ocean vessels will
have no difficulty menuvering in the
I Brazos.
Yes yes, we have seen the Brixham
and the Czarina, been all over them,
and they draw the usual draft that
such ships do wlion they arc loaded
and don't have to lighter to gel across
a bor—like Galveston#, which is some
sixteen feet.
Tho Brunswick Cafe's invitation to
The Daily Times force to take din-
ner there yesterday was accepted with
pleasure and tho least was enjoyed
immensely. The Brunswick's chief
cook is a genuine artist in h¡s line and
no mistake.
Some rascal tried to brean into Mr.
Sbultz' cigar, news and fruit stand
below The Timks office the other
night, and if tho prints had caught
him they would have reduced him to
chaos in less time than it would take
forty men to skin a minnow, for Mr.
Shultz is tho boys standby.
: <?onv9¿iE,
I OPEN EVERY NIOHT.
| —Strong Attraction of—
I FIRST * CLASS # ARTISTS.
CRYSTAL PALACE
— Saloon,
A. B. GRADY, Proprietor.
8. 'J. I^YmOOD,
ilCBRR i m i SUPERINTENDENT,
VELASCO, TEXAS.
W, A, FUUiTES, Dtntirt,
-oj'fick in nctiDiNu wrrii-
McWHOUTEIt, SHOEMAKER * MANNING
OPPOSITE HOTEL VELASCO.
Celaijd
Avenue H. Wetwet ti Fir«t and South Second Htx.
VELASCO, TEXAS.
Good Itnurd by liny or Week at HcitNonnblfi
Rnte Special Ratea to Families.
MRS. KATE KEATING. Proprletess.
F. W. HAINS,M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
Comer A ve. A and Boutli 2d at .
VELASCO, TEXAS.
Notice!
The gentleman who hired a gun
Sunday, Dec. 20th, from P. F. Combs
&■ Co., forgot to return it and will
please do so at once.
Charlie keeps a chop, house right.
Fish oysters and game.
For a good square meal go to the
Rrunswick cafe,
Kansas creamery butter and fresh
layed eggs at Mcllvain & Dunn's En-
glish Kitchen.
All kinds of fancy dross goods at B.
Cahn's.
17 pounds of granulated sugar for
$1.00 at (lelsecke Bros.
Charlie's Is the place to eat.
Suits and overcoats inado to order
$13.26 and upwards by the Plymouth
Rock Pants Co. Semples at tho real
estate office of A. J. (Iroiner Co.
Remember
O. B. Johnson makes fittingupoffibes,
restaurants, boarding houses and
hotels a specialty.
Housekeepers.
Buy your groceries Irom us and gef
tho best In the market.
P. F. Com hs A Co.
Do you Use Envelopes.
The Times job office has just re-
ceived a fino assortment of
IOO.OOO Envelopes
of tho very best quality, and will sell
tItem ata very low rate. Call and
examine them.
Sportsmen Attention.
A nice line of fishing tackle, guns,
amuniilon etc., always on hand.
p. f. Com us Co.
j The company's two double brick
buildings, one back of M. Cahn's store,
on South Second street, and tho other
on South Third Street below tho Ar-
; cade, were brought up to tho middle
of the second story yesterday.
¡Vffcssrs. Itosonstrauch & Rogers have
opened up with a $15,000 stock of dry
; goods, gents' furnishing goods, boots,
I shoes, etc., next door to the Theatre
Comlque, where they solicit a share
of the public patronage. They are
clever gentlemen and guarantee sat-
isfaction in every particular. Read
their ad on first page.
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