The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-08-01
THE REGATTA COMPANY TIlE
HOPE OFAUSTIN.

nhc spirit Of enterprise broathcS i'll
every word Of Mr. John H. Peolcr's letter
published in The Statesman yesterday.
The regatta company not only proposes to
give the finest exhibition of skill by the
most noted OaIsmcr of the world, but
they propos. ALSO 10 rival our sister city,
San Antonio, in battle of flowers, not
ON THE dusty streets hut upon the silver
bosom OF j. axe Mcdonald.
For tine purpose of keeping up lnJm year
to year these delightful entcrtainmcntsand
Attractions to Austin the Regatta com
pany haas been organized and chartered,
ard it only remains for the entcrpr,sing
cltizers Of Austin TO make tit u sue cess.
If every basn.SG man and real estate
owner i'm Austin win invest some of his
money in taking stock in this regatta
company 1T viii really be like scat cring
bread upon The waters that will come back
i'm time ten, fifty, u hlndlel fold to every
such investor.
There is no bcttcr way for tile mcr-
chant TO a.Gtrlct customers to Austin,
both wholesale smd retlil, than IT, way
this company proposes. The rcal estate
owner could find no better way or means
Of advertising ihc desirabilhy of homes
Ia Austin, and their purchase by men of
means, who only have to come here and
see our advantages, than by taking stock
in this regatta company.
This is not Il company devoted entirely
10 sport 1t lNas a deeper and more far
rcaChing meaning. 1t means ito advertise
Austin 10 the world as the most delight
full place in the South to reside. TO gen
tlcmcn of means who seek good society
and all the advantages of educatiUn for
their o1bdr,n, 1T means to convince them
thHlt Austin IS preferable TO any and
all places of the South in which to Reside
ana rcar and educate Il family of children.
1T means more than THAT; it means that
the dam and its magnificent power hous,
affords the very best advantages for the
erection of Factories not only for the mani
uiacturc of cotton cloth, but for all kinds
of manufactured articles. We have here
u power unriyallcd i'm chcapness and dura-
bility Il at can mt lie found elsewhere
in the whole South or in any section
of this country
Our people know this and it is only nee
cSNHry for them to organize and divide
the expense of advertising it among each
other to develop all these advantages.
The organization of this regatta uSSo-
citation means to embrace all we have
suggested as a nucleus for publishing to
the world all of our splendid resources.
When You take stock in the regatta you
are not merely supporting a temporary
effort TO afford tref amusement to our
citizens, but you are laying the bed rock
for our Development along many lines of
progress. In alfording this limo
cent amusement to the visitors
~ Austin You are inauguut-
ing n scheme tlut will bring enterprise
and capital to our young city. You are
really advancing a small sum on your pros
poets and property that will yield You
largely in he future. If we did not know
the scope. and purpose of this regatta
company we would give it only brief
local notice, but we understand it to he
the initial effort ut the inauguration of
4 system of advertisements that will re-
dourd TO the growth and development of
one Of the most magnificent water am
electrical powers on the face of the cart,
not second even to the development of the