The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-03-10
HEALTH OF VELASCO.
HEB CLAIMS AS A TEXAS HEALTH
RESORT.
The Be burb, Surf Side, a Place tt
Please the Taste of the Most Fastid-
lous and to Meet the Demands
of the Health Seeker.

VELAsCO, Tex, March 5.-While
Velasco is being rapi lily built into a
city and is destined to become great
commercial entrepot and industrial
center, it also lays claim to being, and
can prove that il is one of the health
lest spots on the globe and the pleas
ATTEST summer resort in Texas.
Every urban population needs q
beautiful spot for su burban residence,
out of the noise and dust and turmoil
of 1.-The madding crowds ignoble
strife" for the almighty dollar. This
| Velasco possesses and is peculiarly
blessed in it. Straight away four
miles stretches the beautiful wide
gulf boulevard. Its head resting in
this busy, bustling, newborn city
and embryo commercial giant, and its
feet iaved by the cooling waters of the
great gulf ON the most beautiful beach
ID the world at Surf Side.
1t is OF Surf Side [ would speak.
There, as far as the eye can reach
curves in beautiful crescent form the
lovliest beach er beheld, 200 feet
wide, as smooth as velvet carpet
and a. fine as marble floor. Upon this
rolls the delightful surf OF the Gulf
and offers absolutely uneXcelled bath
ing. Out in the surf you can wade
tor half q mile and dispolt your tired
body in those grateful waters without
fear of tide, undertOw or sea nettles
This is Velasco's suburb; this is We
lasco's sanitarium. Here will be built
the summer houses of the Velasco
business men, ranging from the home
like cottage TO the artistic villa. The
work of building on this beautiful
beach has already commenced. The
Texas Land and Immigration company
have begun the erection of beanti
full hotel tour stories high, and which
will be fitted up with every couven-
fence and comfort. This company is
also rapidly constructing an electric
railroad from NelascO's business CEN
ter to Surf SHE straight down Gulf
boulevard, over which ten minutes
ride will take one from his business to
his home by the sea.
The lots in Surf Side will soon be
placed on the market, and the man
who gets in on the ground floor is the
man who gets the choice les. All the
lots front towards the beach. The
block on which the hotel is being
built is about the center of the bow of
beach. Back of it for several blocks
in length and one block in width
stretches beautiful promenade and
children's park.
The beach is two hundred feet wide,
and reservation in the deeds pro
hibits purchasers rem using the lots
in the blocks f'onting the beach, for
business of any kind. 1t is the de-
termination of the promoters of Surf
Side to prevent any feature OBJ
jectionable to the most re-
fued taste or instinct from offending
the resident or visitor to Crescent
Beach. The hotel will be ready for
this seasons bathing and will be
crowded with guests. Many business
men here will begin building as soon
IA the lots at Surf Side are placed on
the market. Nothing will be left I'M
done to make Surf Side the most at
tractive and the most popular resort
in Texas or the south. There, with
the gentle breeze con 4tantly tanning
your cheek, the incessant murmur of
Che surf chanting lullaby, sur
rounded by your family, living be-
comes luxury and simple existence
delight.