San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-01
AWAKE THOU THAT sLEEPEsT

AWAKE THOU Thai SlEEPESI'
Some Of these days San Antonio will
wake mp and find herself alive. When
she does and shakes herself together and
makes move for results there will be a
new order of things in the capital Of
sleepy hollow. Even now possibility
OF some better thing seems gently creep
ing through the roots of the municipal
hair, or insinuating itself into the mind
of the average AlSmOner and, ii may be
that ere long the spirit Of enlargement
will be found moving like the primal
energy upon the face of old Chaos, over
the hitherto formless void of our public
spirit, bringing the day-dawn Of NUM-
CIpal life Of which so many have
dreamed, but died without the sight.
Work has been commenced upon some
Of our public streets that actually looks
as though the city intended to have
some really Creditable thOrOughfares a
call is being made day by day, and every
day louder, for the performances Of the
promises made the citizens by the coun-
Gil of the city, and in this call We hear
the voice Of the people demanding a
more vigorous prosecution OF the work
OF public improvement; the sanitary
needs of the city are forcing themselves
week by week upon the attention of
those sons Of ease called the board
of health, and in time the blessings
Of that pure air that nature gave us
will have free course and be waited
through a decently clean city; the long
felt want ola city and county hospital
will soon be supplied, as the really cred
liable structure now under construction
will soon open its doors to the afflicted
of our citizens and the strangers within
our gates who may need such an asylum
when the hand of disease or accident is
laid heavily upon them; our public
schools are receiving just recognition at
the hands of the city and our school
buildings are credit to our educational
enterprise; Uncle Samuel in providing
for the "boys in blue" has devised nObly,
are source of pride and means of no
small revenue TO our city; the projected
public building for customs, courts and
pOstofllce will soon rear its stately VIA
on our finest plaza and add one more
the tokens of regard given us by t. -
national government; our public spirited,
, citizens are on the the eve of erecting q
private clubhouse and opera-house thst
will not be surpassed by any structure
Of the kind In the state, and the abuse
ment loving people of this beautiful city
will be provided with what they have
long hungered and thirsted for; our
Arkansas Pass road lie open fcf 100 miles
towards the gulf and we are waiting
and working and hoping that the
dirt will soon be flying on the first
one hundred miles of the northwest
extension. Having done so much it
only remains for us to go on and DO the
rest. We want water free as air for our
citizens; we want sewers to carry off
our sewerage and leave our city clean
and sweet as the face of newly washed
girl baby. We want lots of things and
one of our most pressing wants is new
court house where men can transact
business-where courts may sit, and
juries deliberate, and counsel plead, and
judges sit in judgment, and witnesses
squirm, and the officers OF the courts
keep their records without being tor
mented before their time. Bexar coun-
ty and San Antonio need building for
their conjOint public business. A build.
ing not enclosed by brick and mortar
surroundings, wedged into narrow
street, open to the heat of the blistering
sun from early morn to dewey eve, shut
out from the possibility of cooling air
currents, and its business liable to con-
slant Interruption by the roar of street
traffic. The county needs court house,
comparatively isolated from surround
in y buildings, on some Of our plaZas