San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-04
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1886 in which everyone composing tn
little garrison persisted, made Sal
Antonio hallowed ground, and GOV
cred her with unfading glory. TIL,
building, consecrated to liberty by tn,
death of Travis, Bowie, Crockett, anc
their comrades, is situated on the cas-
side of Alamo plaza, and is built o
rough rock. 1t is now the property o
the state and is open to visitors six
days in the week.
San Antonio can boast of as splendid
buildings as can be found in any city
in the south. Most of them are built
of hard rock and will last for centu.
ries. The Dullnig building, the
Kampmann building, the National
bank aud the Maverick bank are
elegant and substantial structures.
The postofiice building, recently COM
pleted, is tasteful and imposing. And
when the new city hall is finished, it
will be fully equal to any structure IN
the south, in all respects, and a credit
to the city.
There are hundreds of elegant and
tasteful private residences, scattered
over the city, that would do credit to
any city.
The hotel accommodations of San
Antonio are ahead OF those of New
Orleans, with its population of 243, 900
inhabitants. The Menger, Hotel
Maverick, Southern, st. Leonard,
Mahncke and the Central Hotel,
nI,
the hotels of New Orleans. In adj
dition to the hotels, there are numer-
GUS private boarding houses and res
taurants for the accommodation of
visitors 10 the city.
The Grand opera house is q hand
some structure, and surpasses any
theatre in New Orleans in archi tee.
tural appearance.
San Antonio is dotted over with
parks containing from three to ten
acres, and San Pedro park is by ma
ture lovely spot and is susceptible
OF being made the equal of any park
in the union.
We have four national banks in San
Antonio and several private bankers
of established reputation and solv-
ency.
There are two brewerIes, two cleo
trio plants and three ice factories in
successful operation. There is also
an iron foundry in operation. A cot
ton oil mill will soon be in operation.
There are various small manufactures
in operation in the city.
About eighty miles of water mains
are laid down and new ones are laid
down every year to meet the needs of
our increasing population.
The principal streets are either
paved or substantially graded, and
street improvement is the order of the
day and Is being vigorously pushed.
There Is about twenty miles of
street car tracks in use, and the cars
on all the lines, will, in q few days,
be run by electricity by means of
wire stretched overhead. The city is
lighted by electricity.
But any photograph of San Antonio
would be sadly incomplete without a
description of the West Eud addition
to the city. The owners of this prop
erty have formed a beautiful lake of
limpid water, which is supplied by
artesian wells bored tor the purpose.
Electric cars now run to West End.
A female college will be built pretty
soon at West End, and other improve
ments are going forward continually.
San Antonio possesses two hospi-
tails, Santa Rosa hospital and the City
hospital, both of them being under
the control and management of the
sisters of charity, who are unexcelled
as gentle and skillful nurses of the
sick.
There are located in San Antonio
Catholic male college and a convent
for the education of girls, and the
buildings are large and substan tial,
and also well situated.
The population of San Antonio is
quiet and orderly. HoUdlums and
roughs have pretty we'll been weeded
out by the police, or have realized the
necessity of being quiet and orderly.
Three daily papers are published in
San Antonio; one weekly live stock
paper, and half a dozen weekly
newspapers are striving to gain a firm
tOothold in the field of journalism.
There are several excellent job print
ing offices in the city, capable of exc
cutting any kind of work in capital
style and at reasonable rates.
Every laborer Is at work at fair
wages, and so busy are laborers that
it is difficult to get an odd job exc
cuted. ANTHONY w. DILLARD.