San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-30
AUSTIN LETTER.

AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. sS, 1892.
The pleasant weather following the
late cold spell has been gladly welcomed
by the populace an all that could have
been enjoying the glorious sunshine
Austin has been called "a town on
wheels" and it has never more truly
deserved this cognomen than during the
past four days. Every vehicle in town
was out it seems: carriages innumerable
filled with ladies beginning again their
almost never ending round of calls"
livery stable buggies. with shiny wheels,
meaning So TO some HOPELESS youth on $40
a week: in short the town has been get
ting move on it, and enterprise is in the
air.
The appearance of Corinne on next
Monday will be the occasion of full dress
theatre party given by Messrs. Smoot and
Edgar Smith to their friends, the first one
of the season All the younger society
people will be in attendance. A banquet
will be served at BilleiSons cafe after the
opera. The privilege of being among the
''elect" will set the boys back exactly ten
dollars each.
Fern Clff'' is billed for Saturday with
a matinee. The support is well spoken of
and the bills are attractiveA Added to
this it is one of only two plays this week,
and will no doubt draw we'll.
The Hotel Orr, which has been closed
for the past month or more, will shortly
open under a new management. There is
no reason why this hotel should not pay
well.
The Young Mems Christian ass citation
of the State university have on foot a
scheme to build $4,000 building on the
university campus. They are showing a
real live interest, and have succeeded in
interesting number of others around
town. They have some 5000 subscribed.
About 400 students are attending the
State university this year. This is quite
an increase over past years and the
friends of the institution are much en-
couraged.
The large cable at the dam, which, by
the way, is the largest and longest of the
kind now in use in the world, Is suspended
the length of the dam, which is one third
of mile, and hangs about 60 feet from
the ground. 1t is used in transporting
the material for the structure, and It's
workings are intricate and wonderful.
Loose rock, etc, are carried along this
cable on "skids," platforms about feet
across, suspended by four chains, the
whole on the plan of the pan to drug
gist's scales, and shaky looking concern
even to contemplate from a dis
lance. Sometimes the chains break
and large mass of rock Is
precipitated among the busy workmen
below, though this is by no means an eV-
cry day occurrence, and so far no one has
been hurt by such an accident. p"gard-
less of chance mishaps, Railroad mis-
sioner Foster and three friends were brave
enough to mount one of these skids the
other day and skim like a bird" and
swiftly across the blue waters of the
Colorado. Fortunately some men are
Drawer than others.
The Cattle Mems Convention meets in
Austin on the End of February. Big
crowds are expected and the affair will be
quite grand in its way.
A Waco paper lately discovered that
the builders of the Alamo monument in
the capital grounds, had actually in
scrihed thereon the words, 81 will neither
surrender or retreat" which error went
the rounds of the press and was much
commented upon. But the fact is no such
Inscription exists on the monument, the
sentence actually being, 81 will never sur
render or retreat" =. j. Z.