San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-23
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600 visitors here every winter to
enjoy the benefits of our climate.
Hotels, boarding houses, restau.
rants, bakers, butchers, dairymen,
merchants and the street cars
would all derive share of the ben
eft resulting from these visitors.
Should these 10000 visitors aver
age an expenditure of $3.50 during
the winter the sum spent by them
would aggregate the snug amount
of $l,5O0,000.
A fair proportion of this sum
would be the profit reaped by our
city.
What would be the effect OF the
expenditure by visitors, Of $780,
600 every winter in San Antonio.
1t would be magical; and what is
better, all would come in for a
share of the benefits from the ex-
penditure Of this sum, either d.
rectly, or indirectly, since it would
enliven every branch Of business
and render money plentiful.
When money is plentiful, busi-
ness is brisk, the price Of real es.
tate advances, buildings are erect.
ed, there is a lively demand for Ia
Dor, and a larger number of persons
wishing to rent rooms and houses.
Is not the procurement of the ex-
penditure Of $l,500,000 here every
winter an object worthy Of an en-
ergetic and united effort on the
part of our citizens? 1t most GER
tainly commends itself to every
man.
Once the uneqalled climatic ad.
vantages of San Antonio have been
made to every nook and corner OF
the West and the North, and the
tide of health seekers has begun to
flow into San Antonio, there will
be no further necessity for adver-
Using our city as health resort.
Those who come here will adver-
tise it's advantages and spread its
fame as health resort when they
return home,
An advertisement In the Boston
Advertiser, the New York Herald,
the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Chi
cago Times, the st. Louis Globe.
Democrat, the Philadelphia Times,
the Pittsburgh Post, the Toledo
Blade, and the Detroit Free. Press.
would be read by at least three
millions Of people.
The above named papers circu-
late all over the north and west,
where pulmonary diseases are
most prevalent, and where persons
of competent fortunes are anxious
to escape from an inclement elm.
ate and winter in genial and
balmy climate.
No other method Of advertising
the unequalled climatic advant-
ages Of San Antonio, would reach
the same number Of persons as
that indicated above. That is the
principal object in advertising the
advantages of a city, as a health
resort-the wide dissemination OF
the information conveyed.
Another advantage possessed by
San Antonio remains to be men,
toned, and that is the hot sui
phur baths. The water flows
from an artesian well, and has a
tenn perature Of 104 degrees faren-
heit. This water possesses just as
curative effects, as the water at
Hot Springs in Arkansas, on govt,
rheumatism,a all cutaneousd diseases,
bIotches, pimples and syphiltic di-
seases. 1t, also, eradicates the ma
laria contracted in a swappy and
unhealthy region, where miasma
is inhaled at every respiration.
Consumptives can find no place
on the continent, which is at all
comparable with San Antonio, for
the restorative effects of the eli
mate on pulmonary diseases. 1t
has cured thousands Of consump-
tives.
A city of the size of San Antonio
possesses many advantages over
small town. The Accommodations
are better, the mail facilities are
superior, the markets are much
more plentifully supplied and there
are always public amusements OF
one sort or another.
During fall and winter San An
tonic is adundantly supplied with
game, fish and oysters and the
tropical fruits.
San Antonio is also we'll sup
piled with street railways, on which
invalids can ride for exercise or
recreation any day during the win
ter, without risk to their health.