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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
SAN ANTONIO PARKS.
These Ample Breathing Places
Make Reaplendent Beauty in
the Future Possible.

These Ample Breathing Places
Make Resplendent Beauty in
the Future Possible.
| looked over the city and found
that there are more than twelve
public parks and fully as many
private ones belonging to individ-
uals or corporations, and more or
lcss.Open TO the public.
Only a few of the city parks are
in a presentaOle condition as vet,
but beginning has been made,
difficulties have been overcome
and there is promise that in time
San Antonio parks will be her
crown of beauty. The park com.
missioner, Mr.. l.. w. MadarasZ
gives his services free OF charge,
and under the further direction OF
the head gardner, Mr.. Chas. Seidel
and his assistants, Mr. Herman
Milius and Fred DeConinck, the
work Is gradually growing into
magnificent proportions. There are
Alamo plaza, Military plaza, Main
plaza, Travis Park and the wonder
of parks, San Pedro Springs, with
its menagerie, lakes full of fish,
presided over by pure white swans
and other water fowl, its numerous
little brooks issuing forth from
hidden places and caves under the
rocks, then like the river itself
winding its way independently
through the city. These are the
only parks so far completed.
With practical economy, as the
shrubs and trees multiply in these
parks, the gardeners transfer the
surplus to other places, and after a
while there will be developed
system of parks unequaled by any
city Of its size in the dominion OF
Uncle Sam.
| counted the evergreons on AL
amO plaza and found the following
families repre- sent"d: Ligustrum,
LOquads, Japanese plump Magno-
las, Eunanemus JapOnica in vari-
cation; Lqurels, PetispOrums, Flo
renZias, Box, Privets, Cedars, Yuc-
cas-, AlOes and PdlmettOes.
But private enterprise is in no
way behind and over the va
riOus street railways by the power
OF the lightning in chains, there
can be approached Riverside Park,
ConnOr's Grove, Central Garden,
West End Lake, Elmcndorf Lake,
MadarasZ' Garden, Breckenridge
Park, Unfortunately closed to the
public, Alamo Heights Park and
many smaller ones still unfinished
at South Heights, West End and
other suburbs, that the stranger
within the city shall not suffer
for want OF diversion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
STAGE TWITTER

Marie Wainwright feels that she
has accomplished something that
Is rather remarkable thia year.
she Is the only American star that
mat has appeared throughout the
ehtlre season in one play, Daught-
ers OF Eve, written by American
authors. Here and there she has
| given occasional matinees OF Ca
mile, cut to all intents and pur-
poses, Daughters Eve has been the
medium for the display OF her
ability during lS9i.9j.
James O'Neill the romantic star
has a home called Monte Cristo
Villa at New London, Conn. His
neighbors there are rather Puritan
lcal and an actor is an individual
upon whom they look from a dis.
lance. "SOme years ago" saws
ONeill "the Common Council of
New London called upon me and
offered to buy my property so as to
build a school house upon it. NO.
gentlemen replied, Il will not
sell the property, but l will give it
to you, with its deeds, provided
you will call it The O'Neill Sch COL
They never returned, but built a
schoolhouse elsewhere"
There is a new stage story. 1t
concerns an actress who got an en-
gagement upon the accuracy of an
accent. 1t was an important part
OF a Russian adventuress-tbe
sabled, be-diamonded, poi5on-bear-
Ing adventures who speaks pure
Siberian Russian mixed with
Partisan Fr5nch, and aveuges all
through the play. 1t was a matt
nee, at the Globe Theatre, London
and the piece was called The
Monks Reason. f. S. Willard
played the leading role, but adven-
turesses were scarce Just then on
the London stage. Marion Lea.
the American actress, now with
the kendals, was then at Brigh-
ton. She heard of the need OF the
management, and fastened to the
manager. She began to act at the
moment she entered his office
81 hear Eat you wish a actress to
play Russian character, il Eat
So" she inquired. The managers
eyes expanded. awe do" he re-
piled. "Nep she continued. 81
like very much to play re part"
The manager engaged the Russian
actress, as he considered her. on
the spot. "Your genuine accent
Will carry the piece" he said. 81
hope So" replied Miss Lea sweetly.
resuming her American voice.
Oscar Hammerstein, the New
York theatrical manager, has Just
celebrated his forty-sixth birthday.
Iiammerstein is remarkable. He
made his furtune In the tobacco
business and there is scarcely a
patent no machinery used in cigar
factories that has not his name
stamped upon it. In a single wear
he made $4,000 on his patents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
Citation by Publication.
The City of San Antonio J
M o-OQ VS.

The City of San Antonio
No 27O9, vs..
Timothy O'COnnell.
In the District Court of Bexar County,
45th Judicial District.
The State of Texas to the Sheriff or anv
Constable of BeXar COunty-Greeting:
You are hereby commanded, that by
making publication of this Citation in
some newspaper published in the County
of BaNar. once in each week for eight
consecutive weeks. previous to the return
day hereof you summon Timothy O'COn-
nell and his unknown widow and drViSpp
whose residence Is unknown. to be and
appear at the next regular term of the
District Court Of the 4jIh Judicial Dis
trict in and for BeXar County, to be hold
en- at the Court House thereof. in the Citv
OF San Antonio. on the 21th Monday after
the LIST Monday in October, A. ID. 1891 the
same being the Sth day OF April. 1895,
then and there to answer a petition filed
in said Court on the 3lSt day of January,
lS91, in suit numbered on the Docket of
said Court, No. 21O9, wherein the City Of
San Antonio. municipal corporation
duly Incorporated under the laws OF Tex
as, is Plaiatiff, and Timothy O'COnnplI,
his unknown widow and deViSee are De-
PENDANTS. wherein Plaintiff alleges as fol-
lows. tO-wit: To recover the sum of SlI.7 90
for taxes for the years 1858. 1889 and 1890
due Plaintiff by Defendants on lot No. 9.
block II, fronting 20 varas on east side
Crockett square, in the City OF San An.
tonic, Bexar County, Texas, owned by
said Defendants and TO forecloSe the tax
lien on said property.
Herein fail not, but have you before
said Court on the said first day OF next
term thereof this writ with your return
thereon, showing how you have executed
the same.
Witness, Nat Lewis, Clerk OF the Dis
trict Court of Bexar County
Given under my hand and seal
II. 81 of said Court at office in the
City Of San Antonio. this, the
3lst day Of January, A. d.
1895.
NAT LEWIS,
Clerk District Court OF Bexar County.
By DAN LEWIS, Deputy.
Issued same day.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
SAN ANTONIO GIVES LIFE.
It's Pure Air, Perennial Springs
and Healing Waters IN
riyo11ad

At this writing the Laurel is in
bloom. The festive array. Those
magnificent evergreen are now a
mass Of dark or paler blue and the
fragrance is being waited on the
wings OF the light air. a short
distance northeast OF Laurel
Heights the most weird mountain
scenery is equalled only by those
wonderful dreams OF the Rockies.
At Alamo Heights, above the
springs of the river, surrounded by
the blue OF the Laurel, the pink OF
the dwarf Buckeye and the Virgin
snOwiness OF the proud Spanish
dagger, hidden by venerable trees
whose branches are laden with the
bearded moss, are the homes of
cliff jewellers OF a more modern
age. Those mansions having been
reared with all the art OF modern
architecture and their highly col
Ored roofs, visible on the approach
are enhanced in splendor by the
reflection from an ever smiling
sky.
NATURES HEALING FOUNTAINS
Mother Nature has been very
lavish in San Antonio. Where every
man has made a hole in the ground
out has come the treasure of the
earth spOuting forth into life and
usefulness. Water pure and cool
for the supply Of the daily demand
OF a great city-water pure and
cool for the use of the husband
man in irrigation and for stock
purposes - waters hot for the
bathers-water pregnated with
minerals for the benefit OF the
thousands Of hcalthseekors who
receive the hospitality OF the city
over which spreads an eternal clear
sky and which is purified by an
ever refreshing breeze blowing
fro m the gulf.
IndeSart place shall waters spring forth
And streams in a thirsty land.
And underneath the hills there
are waiting for tho hand of man
coal and mineral oils in abundance
promising a future for the city,
which only the Imagination can
fancy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

banks OF the silent San Antonio,
the missions, reared by a primitive
race, assisted by the self sacrifice
OF the Christian monks, whose
blood was given, like that OF the
Saviour, that they may grow and
live in other lives.
1t is true those old missions are
remnants merely OF a more glorious
day, but their mighty TampartS,
now wrecks Of time, tell the sto"y
OF fortresses against the still saw
age Indian tribes-fOr behind those
fOrtreSseS deVOut men could wOr-
ship the Great Spirit in peace.
Vines and cactus are now living
and basking upon the walls-the
old bells have dropped to the
ground, and few remnants of
the once mighty Aztec race still
enter the holy shrine, still lay
their tribute at the feet Of the holy
virgin, that her blessing shall &C
company them as they reach out
their hand to the visiting stranger,
in the expectation OF aims. The
early monks and their Aztec
charges combined religion with
military tactics-but in our day
the two have grown more and
more apart.
FORT SAM HOUSTON.
Our progressive age has invented
mighty instruments of destruction
and reared up arsenals and militia
ry posts to keep a Christian civili-
cation in a peaceful mood at the
mouth of a cannon. But that some
OF its terrOrs may be hidden from
the public gaze, the government OF
our land of the free has spent mil
lions to embellish the home of its
army of destruction--in rearing
most beautiful post on hill over.
looking the city, in the mansions
for its officers, and cosy quarters for
the common herd" Even the
horses and mules of Uncle Sam are
quartered in palaces compared to
homes OF the remnants Of the once
glorious AZtecs, whose shanties
covered with flattened tin cans and
cast-otf rags of civilization, are be-
ing pushed more and more to the
outskirts of the city into low creek
bottoms among cactus and mes
quite, soon to wander again, as the
Of the pale face claim the
earth.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

Denison Herald: "Old men ar,
wise in counsel, young men bril-
liant in action. The city council
is no place for the utilization O.
dash and brlliancy. Slow deliber
alton and cautious acton should
distinguish that body. These at
tributes are seldom found in young
men"
Brenham Banner: "Cuba will
stop her revolution habit when she
is annexed to the United States
Congress will keep her so busy
swearing that she will not have
time to think Of a revolution.
"FOrt Worth Gazette: 1t is inter
esting to note that the district
judge of Harris county was
Knocked down by one Of the county
commissioners in street fight
last Sunday. That is the way
Houston observes the Sabbath"
Waco News: GA good ADVERTISE
ment is a business missionary. The
number of converts it succeeds IN
making is only limited by its at.
Effectiveness and power of convic-
ton"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
SAN ANToNIo's DEFENcEs.
Missions and Arsenal Filling the
Same Place in Her History.

Same Place in Her History,
With the first dawn Of conscious.
ness there rises in man feeling OF
divinity. The mystery OF his sur.
roundings and all their magnifi.
cence fill him with awe and won.
der. He feels that he does not
stand alone, but that somehow or
somewhere there is source Of life
from whence his own has been
taken, and which he can only pic
ture in his Imagination.
He erects an altar in the grove,
that he may sacrifice unto that be-
ing-or he rears a cathedral, eX-
pending upon it all his energy
in architecture or art, that, sur
by all which his mind
and hand has wrought, he may
Ilneel down In devotion.
And here they stand, along the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
SAN ANTONIO RIVER
A Living Dream of Beauty Murmur-
ing in Its Sleep.


The Mississippi at New Orleans
is a mighty river and its unceas-
ing eddy, its tremendous current
fill the heart with awe. For its
source it has almost the whole
Union east Of the Rocky divide
and the mind fails to trace its
many paths.
The San Antonio is calm and
smooth. Laughingly it issues forth
from a thousand springs. Its real
source is hidden in the mystery o.!
the cave. All at once it issues
forth in the dry land, as though a
Moses of old had struck the rock
with his staff and then the river
starts on it's winding journey Sc
renely and calmly past mighty
forest trees, upon the sides Of which
wind the ampelopsis and the wild
grape. Here and there a little
rippIe over a few rocks or over a
dam, built by the hand of man, and
then again the same silent majesty
and beauty. Through a city full
of activity it winds its way, and
in spite of back yards and factories
never even losing its beauty. Its
banks are ever bordered with
cannas, bananas and calladiums.
/ am often envious Of the San
Antonio river. For my own life
with its excitement, its woe-why
cannot it flow along like that beau
tiful stream, calmly and serenely,
unaltered by the rocks and boulders
in its path-passing like dream
from the secret source Of God over
the rocks and bOulders OF destiny
to the ocean Of life and light and
love whence it is flowing
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
SUNDAY, APRIL = 1873

THE series OF very readable
articles that are found in this
issue on San Antonio, its river
and parks and suburbs etc, is
from the fertil pen OF Rev. y
Shultz,to whom the LIGHT and its
readers have been frequently in.
dcbted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
COME TO STAY.

DO not believe for a minute that
we are not going to stay in the
Wall Paper business. Another car
load had to be ordered. This surely
shows you we are doing business
in our new enterprise.
I 6 1t PAUL WAGNER.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

Easter is indeed the festival of
the rising into new life-the fes-
tival OF Spring, symbolical of the
new impetus given to the upward
movement Of humanity by the
resurrection OF Christ.
With the close Of the life of the
great Master of Nazareth, there
came to the world that great and
silent moral revolution, which
even today has not ceased, for
even now the world only catches a
few Of the truths embodied in the
life Of the Master. To coming gen.
erations, with more of that inward
light known as spirituality, and
with the outward light callei
science and history, it will be pos
sibie to make a nearer approach to
His example and to the meaning
of His words.
Easter is as old as man. We find
traces of it as having been cele-
brated among the ancient Copts
OF Egypt, from which evidently
the sons of Israel took it along
through the desert and finally into
the promised land. The Greeks,
the Romans, and not less the
ancient TeutOns celebrated the
day as the advent OF spring and
they made sacrifices to the Gods of
the harvest in expectation OF
abundant crops. tbs indeed the
day of spring in the truest sense of
the term, when after the peaceful
sleep Of winter, when the young
bud commences to swell, when the
insect world unfOlds its wings IN
the sunshine and all Nature bursts
forth into new life. 1t is at once
apparent that movable feast
cannot originate in the celebration
Of definite event, but the def
mite event may arrange its celebra-
tion on some movable feast day
previously established.
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All Communications for InIs paper should be
accompanied by the name of the author, not
necessary for publication hut as evld.nce Of
good faith on the part Ofthe writer. Write on
one side of the paper, in a plain hand. Anony-
nous communications VIII not b' noticed.
The LIGHT will not be responsible for the
statements of its Correspondents.
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

The Republicans OF New York
and Chicago have elected Strong
and Swift men to the mayoralty
OF those cities and the results
that are anticipated from their
election will be looked for hope
fully.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

The citizens of San Antonio are
well stirred up over base ball and
it would not be amiss to put little
heart into their agitation Of regu-
lar weekly contests among the
"previous horses" that are in and
around town. The Jockey club
grounds could be made quite lively
once a week for the next two or
three months il the interest was
put on tap and regularly drawn off
fixing.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

Waco has her Cotton Palace /;
Houston has her Confederate re-
union; Fort Worth has her eye
fixed on a Semi-Centennial; San
Antonio has corralled the CONNER
cial Tourists of the entire CONT
nent and, now little Tyler jumps
into the arena with a proposed
Fruit Palace which bids fair TO ma
terialize. Thatexhibit of the fruit
possibilities of the state would
open the eyes of those who have so
long imagined that Texas grows
only cotton and long horns, cow
boys and coyotes, cactus and cuss,
edness.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

For the rest OF his season
Thomas @. SeabroOke will alter
nate nat The Isle of Champagne and
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
Written for the LIGHT.
THE ANCIENTS
And the Day We Call Easter
By REV, SUI-I,TZ.

BY KEY. SIICIT/.
The ancients were not ignorant,
Being much with nature, they had
ample opportunity to watch the
sky for signs and seasons, and per-
haps more so than we do today. as
the city streets are more or less
detrimental to a mans Unborn ma
ture. They observed that the moon
changes had something to do with
the advent OF spring, or as the
weather prophet, Foster, would
say: "They knew something about
planetary meteorolOgy" They had
made the observation that the
moon had certain influences over
the seasons and that in connection
with the vernal equinox influenced
the approach Of spring. SO Easter,
or the feast of spring, came to be
regulated according to the new
moon and was celebrated upon the
first Sabbath after new moon fol
lowing the Vernal equinox.
With the ancients, all changes
In the seasons assumed a religious
character, and the Gods, each one
OF which has his own supposed
duty to perform were wOrShipped
according to their nearnoss to man.
Easter was no exception to the
rule and when the early Christians
found their new born God, who ac-
cOrding to their belief had risen
from the dead, what wonder, that
the festival was retained in Christ
ian lands, although it gradually
changed its original meaning.
From the heather Gods who had
become discarded the festival was
transferred to the new born Christ
ian God whose rising they believed
had taken place on Easter morn
ing near the holy city of the Jews
Tyler Reporter: "The Texas
legislature has pledged itself to
use its influence to raise the price
OF cotton to six cents. Was dem
agogery ever more patent? Let it
now regulate the wet and dry
spells, and all will be right"
Texas Stockman: "The United
States department OF agriculture
has just recently declared that
there is not case Of pleuro- pneu-
monia among Texas cattle. In the
face of this the governor Of South
Dakota issues proclamation ex-
GLIDING Texas cattle from that state
for year, because OF the alleged
existence Of pleuro-pneumonia
among our cattle. Texas cattle are
not affected with this disease, and
no one knows this better the South
DakOta's governor"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
Written for the LIGHT.l
EASTER DAY.
The Significance of the Day and
That of Which 1t Is a Symbol.
BY REV. SHULTZ.

Hail. bright, glorious Easter morn.
Now lilies hill ana val- adOrn.
Joy in every heart is born.
For Christ is risen today.
Birds that sing on every tree,
Mountain heights and rolling sea,
All your tuneful praises be,
GLORY to Him who has risen today
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
Written for the LIGHT:
WHAT HAS EASTER BROUGHT?
Growing out of the New Philosophy
What. Has Folio wed.
By REV. SHULTZ.


The coming OF the master o!
Nazareth is indeed symboliCal OF
new dawn. With him are upset all
the old theories Of revenge. OF
savagery, Of human grecd-of an
eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth
and there is being substituted the
altruisttc doctrine: Love your
enemies-Pray for them that hate
yOu-Do good to them that curse
you. AS the kissing sunbeam
melts the frozen river, which
swelling carries everything before
it's Current-so the enthusiasm Of
the followers of the great Nazarine
broke the ice OF the human heart.
1t subdued kings and potentates-
1t stopped gladitorlal fights and
human sacrifice. Now and then it
lost sight Of its true object and
alas for human nature, the perse-
cuted became the persecutors-It
instituted an inquisition, a witch.
post and funeral pyre-but final
ly 1t became aroused out of it's
temporary insanity. The train
having been switched off is now
gradually getting back on
to the main track and in
the spirit Of the master
it takes up the battle again. Swell
ing with reform, it carries along
all sin and evil, purifying the
world, breaking the letters OF the
slave aud tba naSciop ~ tbn Jru,ly
ard. Every onward step. every
development of Christianity, every
new light in the heart of the
brothers Oftho Lord, is but a new
arising, a new Easter morn, out OF
the darkness of the past!
| have often wondered, what
would Socrates say, or Moses say,
or Jesus say, if rising out OF the
ashes of the past they should look
upon the world today. If they
should see the steamships and
railroads encircling the earth, the
wonder of the telegraph, the
telautograph, the telephone and
photograph outmiracling the Won
ders Of the Hebrew leader, and al
most the reputed works of the
Master. II they should see the
printing press and the mighty
instruments of destruction-the
tremendous factory wheels and the
wonderful revelations of the micro
scope and the telescope. The
steamplow and weave stool, cleo.
trio cars, the arc light and all the
wonders revealed in that secret
then il they should
see the marble palaces Of wealth |
side by side with novels of poverty
and dens OF crime-should see the |
pollution and corruption Of our day,
riding in victorias past famished .
women and ill-clad children, with
elevators filled with grain and
StOrehOuSes with clothing-what
would they say!
Is there no rising, no Easter for
all
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

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