The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-22
Austin.

The homes Of Austin are widely
celebrated in all the west and south,
no less for their elegance, hospitality
and refinement than tn cir bea uty.
Her churches are numerous, elegant
and costly. Her schools are up to, if
they do not surpass, those Of any 9TH
er city in the state, and they are grow
ing and increasing with almost unex-
ampled rapidity, so much so, indeed,
that the city is already justly regarded
as the center of the school interests
of the state-no small advantage, as
everyone can understand. There
is conferred here, however, but a
small trade. Our commercial
enterprises are upon a small
scale, compared with what they should
be. or could be made with intelligent
and perfect organization. Outside Of
the elaborate and extensive retail
houses for the supply of city needs,
we have but little in q commercial
way to interest people. Our whole
sale and jobbing business is meagre
and unimportant, fitful and uncertain,
where, with a little iberality and
enterprise, we might sustain one
good jobbing establishment in
each of the leading lines Of
trade; and in dry goods, groceries
and clothing, two. What jobbing
enterprises we already have are
practically unknown. One never
sees an advertisement or anything
else from them, and there are many
people even in the corporate limits Of
Austin who are actually ignorant of
the existence of such houses. How
can great enterprises be built up upon
such basis of modest retirement and
a conservatism which thus shrinks
from the public noticep 1t maybe a
great satisfaction to build fine and
extensive business houses, and fill
them with elegant and costly goods
and then sit down in a comfortable
chair, and, through the clouds of
fragrant Havanas, see the silks.
brocades and other finery grad
ually grow old, musty and
dingy on the shelves. But
we are of that order of old fogyism
which believes that there would be a
far higher order of satisfaction expe-
rienced in seeing these goods coming
in and going out every season, and a
healthful profit on the transactions 60
ing into the till of the dealer. This
can only be done byl ,ur merchants u.s.
ing the means which other successful
men do in the same line. Show us
successful man in any line Of business
and we will show you one who
purEues a far different policy.
one who advertises, and who does not
carry stock over, and thus suffer it
to go out of style at loss to himself.
The organization of board of trade
here, composed of our leading and
most most active merchants, would
be an adjunct to the commerce of the
place Of almost incaleulable value. |
BY it that degree of coherency and |
harmony could be secured, which is
always SO necessary to the successful |
conduct of commercial operations, es-
pecially upon respectable scale. We
believe If the merchants and husiness |
men of Austin will seriously turn this
over in their minds
hey viii, sooner or later,
ldopt it, and at once organ
re a board of trade, such
IS other live towns OF our class have.
TIE STATESMAN has already and of
en- treated this subject, and recurs to
again at the risk of being consid-
red importunate because we regard
he early organization of our business
men as one of the most pressing, and