The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-04-14
A GLIMPSE AT GALVESTON
NEW YORK SUN" ON SAND CITY
Its Fortunes aod siisfortunes and Their
Erect on Texss-Capt. Eads, the
Wharf OF Monosoly- The Pa
pers-Other subjects.

S0htiJ PuoAiShVu q special Sultl0n con
tanning full page map of North Annex.
lea, showing that most of the important
lines u travel and transport by rail or
water of the United States and Mexico
are tributary 10 G4lyes ton. The news.
paper was the organ of the Esds lobby.
which modestly asked 81, $50, 900 from tn
fedeTa treasurnor dredging the bar st
Galyesi ion, promising for that much
money to give channel thirty feet
deep where there is now about fourteen.
The hope OF handling such sum night
well excite the imagination. Still Gal
weston is bound to be an important nlaco
The fact that in 1883 IL received and
shipped $4,000 bales OF cotton alone
proves that.
But an obs,icle to the growth OF Gal
weston, and OF exas IN general, is its
slimate, which is hardly tolerabla far
the races from northern Europe or FOR
persons from our own II Nrthers stateI
From the beginning of May until we'll
on in November the mercury seldom
falls below "a , +, and it usually keeps nm
in the lineiies, with little or no frost ir
the s0-cailed winter to brace up the sva-
tom against the next summers heat
About May all Texans, whose busi.
ness or means permit, HE them 10 tha
north, MOI returning, if they can help il,
before November or December. This
does not apply to the Panhandle or
northern strip Of the state, bnt it does
apply To tour-filths OF Texas. 1t is
land where the flowers are always in
bloom, 1t is senti-ropical climate,
suited 70 seml-tropical races only, The
whites who ought to settle there should
be natives Of the other Gull states ar
Spauiards, southern Italians, Greeks
and tie like. There are many thrifty
Germ rs already in Texas, but il is an
interesting problem as to how their de-
sceudents will develop after two or
three generations under the Texas sun.
twill not be many years before the
growing population and increasing
trade OF the country between the Missis.
sippi river and the Rocky mountains.
south Of Missouri, vii be camorinr for
a good seaport, and there appears 10 be
no other port 20 feasible rs Galveston
But rs TO the Fads plan of improving
the harbor, or any other plan, il in iusI
as well to remember that nature ia
mighty force to fight
Nature does not often provide good
harN IS wh re The sea coast is q low
stretch OF plain, onle a few feet or
inches above high tide. The engineer
who can make very good har6or on
such q coast is yet to he born. From
Granda the whole shore line of Texae il
30 indefinite that a stiff breeze from the
south or southeast, if continued for
few hours, as is often the case, sends
the waters of the Gull of Mexico mile
or more inland over the prairie. With
such breeze tho streets OF Galveston
are always some inches under salt
water. On q coast like that,
where one, can walk half mile
out into tn sea before the water
reaches his ermpits, a channel for
ships must be dug as deliberately as
canal and IL would take as many mill
ions TO keep ii from filling up with sand
as IL would cost to dig il Ia the first
place. Capt Eads may be q greut en-
ginoor, though his Mississpphlnouth
has not yet had time to be fairly tested.
His channel there is said to have mar
rOwed IN soIue places TO about 80 feet
vide. Pretty tight "scrooging" for a
ship TO get through.
A common sense observer, uncon-
nectoe ~ It'll any lobby, would say that
if Galveston wants to be seaport, the
only thug to do is for the city to move
out into Tue sea for mile or so, till it
gets 20 Tho deep water IL longs for
North Of Galveston, just sGr0ss the
channel, is a sand bar extending out
toward thogu'f. For less millions than
the Eads and Galveston Wharf compa
ny's LOBBY a.ked tho outer end Of this
sand bar could be converted into some
sort of entry port, v hich BY constant
improvement might be made into an
outlet for the trade Of the southwest.
Texas is still a very new and very
raw state. II has future, for it has
great capacity. What that future il TO
be, and what kind Of people are to
work. 70 cut, is Tor a prophet to say.
Texas I'Clared It's ludepenGe Ia 1857,
but ! not yet an indep udont state.
It's jnt ats ale got controlled by its Ia
habi,g IL il governed, and rather
tyrani. 100, by Outsiders, by cotton
ana cat, specu atUrs, mostly English
and Scut.h aliens, and tIo promoters OF
the jay Could aud Huntingdon railroad
syst, ms. Aliens own 100000 acres Of
its LAND, though how many other acres
they bro 80 their cattle on without any
Slain OF ownership whatever, and with
out paying rent or taxes, IL Is hard to
say. II the aliens do not vote, they
sontro, very many votes. The Cotton
exchange, with tbs device OF q crowned
cotton bale on its pedimeut, rules Gal
weston, md the Cotton exchange CON
tains more Manchester mon than bona
hde Texans. Ii was the Cotton exchange
and the Wharf company of Galveston
which furnished the backing for the
Eads lobby.
There are not more than three, or per-
maps four, newspapers In the State with
any merit. The typical Texas paper
tontains a few paragraph squibs, a few
personal notes relating to advertisers OF
to local political rings, and, besides the
advertise ments, few columns of "pat-
emf rsady-set matter sent out In ste
NnNsH nNIa
Lou, or the three or four newspapers
OF n 10, at least two, and the two lead
Ing pers NJ that, are under railroad
and alien influences, The negroes, who
are numerous, have no voice except at
the polls, and there they vote usually
With little intelligence. This looks like
apossimistic sketch of things In Calves
ton and Texas at large, but it is the re-
suit OF twelve months close observation
by olo who has seen good deal Of the
world
Texas is dominated now by cotton
speculators, cattle kings, and railroad
wreckers What the state needs is more
Narie agriculture and manufactures.
The Manchester school OF political econ
omy which controls the Texas press
may bs Mortified at the suggestion, but
Texas will dowell ifit will discourage
Manchester and other alien capital for q
while, aud set about developing It's own
resources, IN its own way and for III
own benefit. One Of the most usefu
men In Galveston IL denounced by the
hanchg ster coterle, and those Texans
toollshly led by Manchester as tear
pet Bigger" But, at all events, he IL
an American, and, whatever his con
neotiou with recon STR elton may have
been, no has done more for Galveston
and Houston than the combined Cotton
exchanges Of the two sister cities. HI
mas given these cities rect car lines
good hotels, electric lighting and other
useful things.-[ York Sun.
some fashionable ladies' are not salts
ned with ready-m8de fans, but mus
nave them nado TO order. They are