The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-21
TO ADvERTIsE.AUsTrN
Mr.. VIM. A. Bowen Intends Giving Aus
tin a Big Write-Up.

Mr.. VIM. A. Bowen, an old newspaper
man and formerly an attachee of The
Statesman but now on the staff of the
American Resorts, is in the city in the
interest of his paper Mr.. Bowen in
tends giving Austin big write-up in his
paper, highly illustrated with cuts of our
many beautiful sites. In an interview
with him yesterday, Mr.. Bowen said:
Let me say that Austin's opportunity
is now, since her great meandering lake,
at the foot of which is a veritable Nj
agara, winding its tortuous course for
30 miles amidst scenes of beauty, grand
eur and picturesQueness that can not be
surpassed anywhere-a trip on which is
as Il second Hudson palisades and noun
tains with grOttoes, creeks and rivulets
breaking the mOnotony of solid banks
on either side. These scenes of beauty,
with the green cedars, gray and moss
covered rocks, fire Scared cliffs where
yet plainly remain the seams and rents
of the seismic throes of old earth when
they were flung above the rivers bed by
the cataclysm that scooped out the beau
tiful channel of the COlorado-all of these
play upon the mind in such rapid success
sion of pleasing pictures as to make one
believe it must be the ineXplicable COM
binations of n monster kaleidoscope and
when to this is added your genial climate
--milder, purer, drier and brighter than
that of Florida, you have what is des-
tined to make Austin great-famous the
world over. An IDEAL an almost perfect
winter resort. With these attractions,
offering people place where they can
find everything out doors to attract which
they can find anywhere else in winter,
added to which is a climate only eQualed
by few places in the world and Il lake
that even nature does not surpass Though
1t is mans work., to which is added city
with every modern facility for comforta-
bic and luxurious living, intellectual and
social recreation, etc, all of these make
it only necessary to let yourselves he
known to draw from 10000 to 100000
people every year. Why not? The
things l have mentioned are advantages
which are invaluable. Places with only
a few of them and with not half of Aus
tlns permanent population, draw as many
ana more people every year. How?
Simply by letting people know the truth.
This can only be done by reaching them
through high-class publications. Get
people to know it as a fact-to enquire
about IT. Then they will come. The
places where people can go and spend
the four or five months of severe weatn er
are not many. They are so few that
those which are known are crowded each
year by the same people. They return
again and again, because they know of
no others-and many stay home because
the old places have become monotonous.'
American Resorts was started for the
purpose of giving accurate and reliable
information about the summer, winter,
health and pleasure resorts and pic
turesque places of America. This kind
OF information has never been given
through any permanent medium hereto
fore and could only be had, even in trag-
mentary. and scrappy form, through local
advertising pamphlets-which the public
take with considerably more than grain
of salt. Such men as VIM. Nj. Knox
and Frank E. johnson, two of the best
known writers of the country, and Chas.
+. Biakely, president of the Blakely
Printing company of Chicago, who prints
all the great art works of the Bancrofts.
compose the company back of American
Resorts. In illustrations it will far sur
pass IN character and number any Pc
rlodical i'll the world and in matter it
VIII have the best writers, while each
issue will be Il work of art and classical
description of those places of attraction
which place America in advance of the
world. And its circulation is almost
entirely among actual resort goers-at
least 30 per cent of its circulation being
to this class.
am here to get up an article thor
ou%hly descriptive of Austin, and while
| believed in and readily told of Austin's
beauty and attraction while | lived here
SIN or eight years residence in the North |
and an acquaintance with almost every |
winter resort in America has taught me |
the almost Incompatible value of these !
of my old home. To write !
of and illustrate its beauties will be a |
pleasure. If you never get foreign |
factory. your dam will be great invest |
ment. The Roman mother exhibited |
the Gracchi as her jewels. Austin can !
show her dam, her lake and its attrac- |
tons, her beautiful homes in a most beau |
tful city. her mild and genial climate. |
mellow winter sunshine and pure. re- |
air and say: These are nv
jewels" and of inestimable value they |
are, too"