The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-18
GEORGETOWN.
The Principal Points and Sur
roundings About a Live
Texas Town.
It's Unsurpassed Educational Fea-
tures-Mlneral Waters-Its
University and the
Chautauqua.
GEORGETOWN, April Is.

Georgetown, situated In center of Will
hanson county,at the foot of the Colorado
mountains, was started as village in
1912; organized as a city in 1868; Esquire
Page the first mayor. The site was do
mated by George Glasscock, father of the
present senator.
The corporate. limits extend one mile
square and rests on two sides on the
beautiful San Gabriel. Population, $500;
has four wards; owns her perfect system
of water works from an inexhaustible
spring through stand-pipe 25x100 feet
scrip at par; can boast of the biggest if
not the best mayor in Texas, who,
with one alderman from each ward,
has lately been elected without
opposition. Mayor Strickland is young
man, active and energetic, and promises
to be a live man to all our city's
interests, and we expeo i oh from the
present administration, as they were
elected by the "internsl improvement
party" So the city has good promise
OF keeping even ahead of broad-gauged
necessities.
Besides the line of business and bust
ness men mentioned further on, they wish
to emphasize what Georgetown considers
her most important features and induce
ments, her special boasts, viz: schools,
Chautauqua, manufactures and nurseries.
Her schools consist of the Southwester
university and Ladies' Annex; her free
schools, white and colored.
The Southwestern university is owned
by the Methodist church, south, and was
organized as a result of the effort of the
late F. A. Mood, d. D., to concentrate
and build up one thorough classical school
in the interest of higher religious and
moral education, and in 1872 Georgetown,
with her characteristic liberality, offered
a larger subsidy than her competitors and
secured the valuable prize. The Univer
sity has grown with marvellous strength.
From a matriculation in 1873 of only
thirty eight, she now registers more than
400. The district schools of her church
are correlated and cooperate with this
school by contributing to the University
for all higher degrees. Her faculty con-
sists of fourteen professors and instructors,
chosen for special fitness for their
places. The regent, DR.. j. W. Heidi, was
called from the presidency of one of
Georgia's best schools-and the school
! is moving grandly on, with almost no
friction, even among the highest class of
boys. The buildings are all gifts, from
donations by philosophical and religious
minded men and women over our great
state; and consist of a preparatory de-
partment, block of land and two
story frame building, in charge of Pro-
fessor Williams; a messing hall, two
stories, to accommodate forty boarders;
two cottages to accommodate divinity
students from the conferences which
built the cottages respectively; three more
are soon to be built and the college build
ing for young men, four stories high, in
campus of ten acres-and the ladies'
annex building-sitting like royal queen
in the midst of her thirty acres of campus.
The schools are separate, yet the curricula
are equal for boys and girls, and com
petitive. The curriculum is equal to any
college, and the course is very complete.
1t claims the largest register and as
thorough facilities as any school in the
south, excluding technical schools.
Though yet young, it has it's lawyers, min
listers, doctors, representatives, senators,
judges and editors of renown from her
alumn@. Her property is valued at
$l65,000.
The public white schools are superin.
tended by Professor Brooks, who has
very efficient corps of assistants; has en-
rolled 260 pupils, teaching term of nine
months, and has eight grades, making his
classification very high indeed. The city
is much pleased with her public schools
success. The colored public schools num-
Der 13S pupils, and they are all orderly
and progressive, quite we'll up in the art of
teaching and governing.
THE MEDICAL WATERS
discovered two years ago in our suburbs
have, after thorough crucial test, proven
to be all that the local medical men
thought. The chemical analysis, by the
chemist of the Southwestern uni
versity, and also the State university, at
Austin, as well as government chemist at
Washington city, agree that the waters are
almost identical with Carlsbad (sprudeD
springs in Germany, which brings them
mp in the list as only second to the
Carlsbad, if not fully equal to them,
in the enre of rheumatism and dyspepsia
also chronic female diseases are cured,
besides very many special cases of long
standing. 1t is claimed as almost spe-
citic for dyspepsia. Kidney troubles are
relieved as well. There are several of the
medical wells in radius of a mile two of
them largely impregnated with sulphur,
which adds virtue as curative agent in
skin diseases. There are also two artesian
wells. When first bored their flow indi-
Gated petroleum, but the enterprise was
never pushed. These people here believe
that heslth-seekers cannot do better in
our state than to camp in the beautiful
parks surrounding the wells, or board in
the city and drive out to the parks and
drink freely of the health and youth Civ.
ing waters. A fine opening is
offered for enterprisiug capital to take
an interest in some of these resorts and fit
up in modern comfort and style for vale
tudinsrians.
There are two nurseries here on the
banks of the Gabriel which supply the
country and city with all the classes of
fruits, flowers and shrubbery that thrive in
Texas, and are eXperimentinp with COM