The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-15
THE REGATTA.
THE SOLICITING COMMITTEE WILL BE.
GIN ACTIVE WORK TODAY.
They Have Secured About $4,000 Already
and Will Go In For Blood Today-COl-
onel Abe Williams Wires 5000
subsCrip ion From New York.

Don't think because nothing has
been said about the coming regatta
of late that nothing is beng done in
the matter. Far from it. The gen.
| tIemen most interested in the move
ment have been quietly but persist
emily at work and not without results
either. During the past few days
they have secured in the neighbOr-
hood OF $2500 and with this as nest
egg the soliciting committee will start
Odt this morning Oh the home stretch
and will not stop until the balance
sufficient to procure the regatta is as
sured. The committee will go at the
subscription business Systematically
from today forward.
Everybody will be given an OppOr-
tunity 10 subscribe from the widow S
mite on up TO the rich mans hun
dreds. The committee upto the pres
ent time have only seen few gentle
men who have readily gone down in
their pockets and antied up. One OF
these gentlemen who shows so much
interest in the coming regatta is no
lees a man than Mr.. Jack Steele OF
Georgetown who saw Captain CrOtty
and volunteered a contribution OF S25
toward the coming regatta. 1t this
gentleman, an outsider and man not
in any way interested in the coming
regatta from q pecuniary standpoint,
can give so literally to its iurtherance,
what should the citizens of Austin do?
AS has been stated before the inten-
tons of the management of the affair
are to make the regatta free thing.
1t shan't cost the stranger cent TO
see the racing, and when this matter
is taken into consideration a man OF
average sense even, can readily Fee
that the city will be crowded with
visitors. Captain Crotty now has in
his possession and is daily in receipt
of letters from prominent oarsmen
from every part of the world
asking bim to give them a
dating during the time OF the Re-
gatta. Captain ClOtty yesterday
said to q STATEsMAN reporter that
with only little assistance from the
citizens of Austin the regatta was
AN ASSURED SUCCESS.
That all the prominent sporting
journals of the country were teeming
with notices of it, and the men were
anxious to come down aud go into
practice at once In case the commit
tee succeed in securing the required
amount of money this week, the oars
men will be Immediately notified that
everything is o. X and by the first
of pril at least, every single one OF
the Contestants will be down here on
our lake in active practice and will
stay here until after the regatta
thereby making more than two
months sport instead OF ten days, fol-
they will constantly be arranging
friendly races between each other tha
will prove not only of interest Il
lhemselves, but to the spectators a
we'll. In connection with the regatti
subscription list The STATESMAN thi
morning takes pleasure in publishing
the following dispatch received by
the editor yesterday from Colonel A b.
| Williams ofthe Capitol clothil e house
l who is now in New York. The ColOne
S has been reading The STATESMAN
e since he has been gone, as is evidenced
/ in the following dispatch:
+ NEW York, Feb. u, 1894.
D Editor Statesman. Austin, Tex.
e Have seen STATESMAN on that re
= gatta matter. Put me down for 500
}: on the regatta subscription list
e Whoop her up and make a succesa GU
S of it. ABE WILLIAMS.
: This shows that Colonel A be i
with us, heart and soul, and if tn