San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-08
CONTRIBUTED SCRAPS.

Antonio to move.
That excursion train on the Sal
brought 300 people to San Anto-
MO and each one went away with q
feeling OF gladness in his or hel
heart that he or sac had seen oul
picturesque and beautiful city
They will all want to visit il
again.
If those 3,lOO eXCursiOnists spent
on an average So per head, in Our
city, San Antonio received an aces
sion of the snug sum OF $4,000 to
her circulation. That sum was not
all profit, of course, but it is a help
to a business man to sell his goods,
help to street cars to carry
crowds Of passengers help to res
taurants and hotels to entertain
crowds Of visitors, and help to
hacks to be we'll patronized.
Our business men should use
efforts to induce the other railroads
to give excursion rates to San An
tonic, both from the east and the
west. The roads make money by
these excursions, and would con-
suit their interest by giving
frequent excursions. They cause
the people TO regard the roads with
a more friendly interest.
Will our business men shake off
their apathy and use energetic eff
forts to build up San Antonio by
encouraging the railroads to give
excursion rates? Or will they so
act as to give currency to the ma
ton that San Antonio is a veritable
Sleepy Hollow, populated with in
cOrigible sluggards, whose only cry
is "a little more folding of the
hands and little more sleep"
Our business men must bestir
themselves and spare no effort to
build up San Antonio and to at
tract visitors, health seekers, set
tiers and capital. Let them go to
work to induce the other railroads
to give excursion rates. By this
means they will extend their re-
tail trade in all directions.
"Contributed Scraps" was in
formed few days ago by gentle
man who formerly lived in Kansas
City, that the merchants of that
live and gO-ahead city enjoyed a
retail trade to a distance of $50
miles, in all directions.
Did they obtain this lucrative
retail trade from the country by
lying on their oars and Micawber
like, "waiting for something to
turn up?"
Very far from it. The gentleman
above alluded to said that the mer-
chants had entered into an agree
ment and contract with the rail-
roads, running into Kansas City, to
pay them a certain sum for each
and every eXcursionist they bring
into Kansas City from specified
points, and that by this means the
railroads were induced to give ex-
cursion rates frequently. The fire.
quent excursions had extended the
retail trade Of Kansas City mer-
chants, in all directions, to the dis
lance of $50 miles.
Here is telling instance Of what
a parcel of live and gO-ahead mer-
chants in a city can accomplish,
both for themselves and their city.
The business men of San Antonio
could not do better thing than to
follow the example set them by the
merchants of Kansas City. Will
they do so:
Would it not largely benefit San
Antonio if the three railroads
running here were to give eXcur-
sion rates twice a month to our
city? This would give our city six
excursions a month, or seventy
two in year.
By following the plan adopt
ed by the live and go-ahead mer-
chants Of rustling and hustIing
Kansas City our business men GER
tainly could secure six excursions
month to San Antonio for the
year round.
These frequent excursions would
largely increase the trade Of our
merchants, double the income of
the street railroads in the year and
enliven our city as it never was
before.
They would help our breweries,
restaurants, hotels, fruit dealers
and saloons. The peanut fellows
would dispose Of their entire stock
on the occasion of each excursion,
and the shoe blacks would get
rich and blossom out as aristocrats.
contributed Scraps" gives three
cheers and tiger, with the "rebel