San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-17
The 1ai1Y Eight.
Office No. f. East Commerce Street.
TEXAS AND COLORADO.
NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST
JOIN HANDS,.
The Denver Delegates and San An
tonio's Hospitality.

RADIO Springs have come, they have
formed our acquaintance and they
have gone. AS noted in yesterdays
LIGHT they spent the day under the
guidance Of the committee of arrange
ments and other public-spirited citi-
zens in viewing the city, and last
night they were entertained by some
thirty members Of the San Antonio
club, the directors of the club having
generously placed its spacious parlors
at their disposal. This last hos pitable
attention closed the drama and the
delegates left this morning for their
mountain home. Their coming has
marked an era in the life of San An
tonic, not because San Antonio has
not received just as distinguished and
representative and genial gentlemen
heretofore, for she has. San Antonio
is the great center TO which great ma
ton is sending its representative men.
Not for this, but because of
the mighty interests that are rep
resented by these Colorado gentle
men, and the illimitable possibilities
cause of these things has the coming
of these gentlemen marked an era in
the history of southwest Texas and Of
this city. These gentlemen are here
to hunt for deep water harbor on the
Gulf coast, and to open the eyes of this
CITY to the immense commerce that is
ready to pour it's tide through San An
tonic towards the Gulf. They are
here, not for pleasure, though they
have had better time to the square
inch in San Antonio than they ever
enjoyed before. They are not here as
real estate spectators and investors,
though they were busy yesterday
pricing real estate and enquiring
about properties. They are not here to
arouse enthusiasm over railroad en-
terprises to the northwest, though the
inevitable tendency and result of their
coming will be to quicken as with a
spur the movement for a northwest
railway line from this city direct to
Denver. They are here to find the
quickest, shortest, easiest, and least
expensive outlet to deep water on the
Gulf, and to second every effort Of
southwest Texas to secure it.
THE BANQUET.
abundantly demonstrated at the ban
auet table in the club room last night.
In addition to the thirty or forty gen.
tlemen who acted as hosts on that oc-
casion, there were present, as invited
guests, the Colorado delegates-Gen.
r. A. Cameron, J. r. Cornforth, w.
G. Sprague, F. s. Dana, J. G. Gallup
and u. w. Sprague (all of Denver),
J. Bent, of Colorado Springs, Col. Full
toni sometimes known as old Arkansas
Pass, Gen. G. H. Smith, Capt. J. G.
Balance, Lieut.. A. M. Smith, Major
S. II. Cushing, DR.. p. Ornelas, Next
can consul at this city, and the repre-
sentatives of the American dailies of
San Antonio.
The room had been most tastefully
decorated, flowers in profusion being
skilfully arranged on stand and table
by the artistic fingers of Mesdames
SIayden, Ainsworth and Duval, to
whose loving labors 80 much of the
success of the banquet was due. Maj.
Cresson, secretary of the club and
secretary Adae Of the board of trade,
had general charge of the arrange
ments which were as admirably
carried out as they were happily con-
ceiyed, Covers were laid for fifty
guests in the spacious hall of the club
and no more delightful banquetting
hall can be found in Texas. The
tables were richly spread, the
decorations in fruits, ices and flowers
being alike original, elaborate and
artistic.
The reception committee, Messrs.
Patterson, Schryver, Kampmann,
Gregory, Belknap and Andrews, were
most attentive and placed the guests
so much at their ease that long before
the parlors were deserted for the ban
uuet table the hum of animated con-
versation and the hearty laugh float
ed through the opened easements and
out upon the refreshing breeze that
always fans the faces of those who
dwell in this delightful summer at
mosphere.
Muth's band discoursed sweet
music during the evening, and the
soft strains of their instruments
ehimed in most melodiously with the
sounds of genuine enjoyment that
neryaded the air until Col. Andrews,
as master of ceremonies, raped to or
der at 10 o'clock and introduced
Col. Columbus Epson who made the
address of welcome.
The address was graceful, humor-
Gus. pertinent and pithy, and was
loudly applauded. Supper followed
in due course, the gustatory exercises