San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-12-29
A MAGNIFICENT POOL
FOR SWIMMING AT THE HOT SUI
PHUR WELLS.
San Antonio's Great Attraction
Hints to Our Citizens.

tention of her entire population,
towit: her warm artesian bath
houses; railroad excursions are
projected just to give the outside
world chance to try Waco's warm
water everybody talks warm water
in Waco, and the scheme has
brought thousands OF strangers to
that city, as a health resort. San
Antonio has so many attractions
that her citizens become indiffer-
emit to them and fail to make use Of
them as an investment. Yet, we
can not only discount Waco in
many ways, but in the very item
of hot mineral water. San Anto-
MO takes the lead of every resort
on the continent. An enterprising
citizen has built one of the most
complete sanitariums in one of our
suburban additions, to be found
in the United States. Mr.. c.
Shacklett, having leased the
State artesian we'll for period of
ten years, has expended a large
amount of money in the erection of
a modern bath house; it is located
in beautiful natural park, on the
banks of the river, and every detail
for the accommodation of invalids
and pleasure seekers has been
added, regardless of expense. a
splendid swimming pool, the larg-
est in the state, is just finished,
and will be great attraction to
our own citizens. The pool, when
filled, presents a beautiful APP
pearance, the water being of
clear blue color, and
of a temperature suitable for
all times of the year. This is the
only hot sulphur water sanitarium
in the United States, and has al
ready proven to be wonderfully
efficacious in curing chronic COM
plants it is pronounced superior
to the hot springs of Arkansas, and
has no equal in the world for
many diseases. A bath in this
water has the most invigorating
effect upon the healthy person, and
produces the most pleasant effect
at any season of the year.
When Mr.. Shacklett embarked
upon this enterprise it was under
stood that the Citizens Street Car
line would be extended to the State
Insane Asylum, but the road has
not only not been extended beyond
it's present terminus, but is not
opened to the end of the track; the
street to the wells has been left
unfinished and for half mile is
impossible for vehicles in bad
weather. The Arkansas Pass rail
road runs by the wells and yet the
managers of that road have not
discovered that a small platform
at the wells, and a moderate round
trip fare from the city would
not only be a paying card
but help bring into notice San An
tonio's great attractions. The EX-
press advocates a resort hotel,
car line to the sulphur wells, and a
reduced fare to passengers over the
Arkansas Pass, would develop the
greatest resort on the continent,
and fill our city hotels with guests
from abroad. If some venture
some capitalist, immitating the
example of Mr.. Shacklet, were to
take the advice of the Express and
build a great hotel in one of our
suburban additions would it be
forgotten as soon as built?
Our newspapers do great deal
of punching up to incite our citi-
zens to activity in embarking in
new enterprises; one day its an
"ostrich farm" the next it is a re-
sort hotel, then its manufactures;
we get our eyes rivited on distant
objects and overlook our unrivaled
climate, and resources at our very
doors.
The city should see to the street
leading to the sulphur wells; the
street railroad should be pushed on
to the asylum, and the Arkansas
Pass road managers should pay
visit to the sulphur wells; no
road in the land has such splen-
did resort on it's line and capable
of enlargement into world re-
sort.
The we'll that supplies the bath
house flows from the state grounds
and is wonder of itself, discharg-
ing over one million and a quarter
gallons of water daily, at temper
AZURE of 1919. Let our citizens
immitate the enterprising people
of Waco, who boom their artesian
wells, 1t will pay.
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Diaries for 1894
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