San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-05

can Gulf railway In January 1889. To
the president General Geronimo Ire
vino, and the general manager Col. j.
A. Robertson, are the citizens indebt-
ed for the building of the shelters,
machine shops, foundry, breweries,
nearly all the factories and two street
car lines. They caused millions of
dollars to be invested in mines
and the Improvements that
have been made and are now
going on throughout the city.
The building of that road has done
more towards building up this city
and to developing the country than
all the men that preceded them.
A PARROT RANCH.
AS there are so many tourists COM
ing to see this wonderful land the
hotel keepers find great difficulty to
find interpreters for them. In order
to supply reliable Interpreters an en-
terprising citizen conceived the idea
of establishing q parrot ranch for the
purpose OF educatlng them to speak
Spanish, English, French and Ger
man. The gentleman has men in the
woods in the vicinity of Victoria and
Tampico, gathering them. AS soon
as he has them trained he will
hire them out by the hour to
the tourists They will tell them
where to 60, what street car to take,
and show tnem round town. One
class Of them will be for ladies only;
and they will have the privilege of
purchasing them for $25 90 each; the
others will be hired out to the men,
but they will not be for sale at any
price. 1t is we'll known fact that
parrots are great tell tales and to
avoid family troubles when the male
members OF the tourists reached
home, those parrots might tell things
that shonld not be rehearsed around
the family circle, hence they will not
be for sale.
BALL AND CAVE.
Saturday evening ABOUT TWO nund-
red of the prominen citizens of Mon
terey chartered q special train from
the M. & M. G.. R'y company, and
went up to the city of Garcia, twenty
four miles from Mon terey, where
they had grand ball at the resi-.
dence of the mayor of the city, and at
Q. m. Sunday, they started for the
mountain on burros, and
spent the day in the highest cave in
the world. All had agrand time and
reached Monterey at 9p. m. Sunday.
CAPITALISTS COMING DAILY.
There is not a day but what the
trains bring capitalists to this city.
All of them has been induced to come
to this city on account of the many
that she offers capitalists
and on account of her climate and
scenery.
Friday night there arrived here
from the city of Mexico via the Next.
can National J. e. Iverson, d. E.
Murphy, A. Frohbach and General
Chas. Winkler, all of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. ALI of them are promi-
nent business men and capitalists of
that city. They spent one day here
and then went down on a special to
Tampico. They will come back this
way and 60 home by way of San An
tonic. The mission of these men to
this country was to examine the min
eral and agricultural resources of
Mexico and to put some money Ia
mines. They visited the Topo Chico
hot springs and took bath. They
were accompanied by Mr.. Bert Peter
son, the superintendent of the Guada-
lupe mines. In the atternoonthey were
shown through the city by Messrs.
J. P. Flynn and w. w. Price, whose
guests they were. When they return
from Tampico they will spend day
or two more here.
Friday morning Mr.. G. H.. Gid
dings, banker of Brenham, Texas,
arrived. He and his brother, ID. 9.
Giddings are here on q prospecting
tour. There is every reason to be.
lieve that they will invest some money
here before they leave. Monday
morning Mr.. d. q. and his daughter
took trip to Saltillo for the purpose
of taking look at the Buena Vista
of the Sierra Madre. ..r.s
HUNTINGTON IN MONTERREY.
At $50 a. m. Monday, Col. c. P.
Huntington and wife, II. E. Hunt
ington and wife, and J. S. Mackie,
New York, A. G. Hutchinson, New
Orleans; Randolph Nalite, Morgan
City; Jules Krutchnitts, w. G. Van
Week, Houston; l.. M. johnson and
wife, Porfirio Dias; J. f. Dukey and
William Mackenzie OF Eagle Pass, ar
rived in this city. They were met at
the depot by Mr.. @. X. Dunlap, the
commercial agent of the Mexican In.
ternational railway In this city who
took them in charge and showed
them around while here. They
visited every place of interest
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