San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-03
WHERE WILL you PUT THEM7

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without calling up the fair and can
wasting its prospects. Out of every
twenty who do so nineteen remark
but what will we do with the people,
There is but one auswer-take care o.
them. To invite twenty thousand
people to our fair and provide accom-
modations for not more than five
| thousand is a meanness that San An
| tonic cannot afford to be guilty Of
Immediate steps should be taken to
remedy this lack. The regular hotels
and boarding houses can be trusted
to make their own arrangements.
They will no doubt secure cots and
extra bedding and make preparations
to care for every possible guest for
whom they can find cot room. The
committee having this matter in
charge should see that in the de-
pots aud in the street cars that
run from the depots the names
and locations of hotels and boarding
houses are gwen as we'll as the name
of the person having register of rooms
to let and where he can be found.
Such information it is in the power of
the committee to grant and it would
be most commonsense thing 20 do.
1t would greatly add to the comfort of
strangers coming into the city to find
such information so publicly afforded
them. The LIGHT has repeatedly call
ed attention to the wisdom and the
imperative need of canvassing the city
to see what citizens would open their
doors to strangers. 1t has not been
done and by neglecting to do it from
three to five thousand people will be
left unprovided for who might have
had lodgings secured for them in this
way. The LIGHT still urges that this
be done. There are in this city many
fraternal bodies, as the Masons, Odd
Fellows, knights OF Pythias, etc. The
members of these organizations might
mitigate the situation and greatly re-
lieve it by arranging to care for the
strangers of their several brother.
hoods within the city at that time
Each lodge might arrange to
do this in its own way, and
the LIGHT will gladly give publicity
to all that may be determined upon
so that the public and the fraterni-
ties interested may be informed.
There are some vacant rooms, halls
and other commodious quarters in
which cots might be spread and hun
dreds accommodated thus. 1t would
be infinitely preferable to passing the
night on the streets or in hack as
was done in more than one instance
last fall. A little cheap hospitality
now will pay large returns in the tu-
ture. Let San Antonio establish a rep
utation for careful consideration and a
generous treatment of strangers and
strangers will reciprocate. Her prais-
es will be sounded abroad and when
ever she invites the country to enter
her gates for any celebration they
will come with will, in the full GER
tainty that every reasonable arrange
ment will be made for their comfort
while here. The days are few in
which it will be possible to accom-
pish anything. Much too few for
what remains TO be done. All the
same the situation will not improve
itself. The fair managers have their
hands full arranging the exhibits
which are multiplying beyond all ex-
pectatiOn. This matter of caring for
the strangers is work for the citizens.
Let the committee enlarge its sphere
of operations and make such pro-
visions as they still may for the
thousands so sure TO be in San An
tonic next week, and for whom no
place can possibly be found in the
hotels and boarding houses.
THE New Orleans Times Democrat
is not among the number of those
who lay back and kick at the deep
water conventions and plead the
claims of New Orleans in inaction.
The Times Democrat is of opinion
that New Orleans missed it bad in
not taking deep interest in that con-
vention. The convention, however,
was called in the interest of a deep