The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-02
ISLAND CITY NEWS ITEMS.
la,crest Ia the Suit Against the
Wharf Company.
VIEWS OF SUPERINTENDENT Do WINS
lie Think. N Terminal ROnd Would
Relieve the situation - Another
Lot Of German Emlgrnnts.

avowed purpose of securing legislation
mission TO regulate the wharf company S
charges continue TO form the chief topics OF
discussion among the business ulen Of the
Island City and opinions are rs diverse as
are the individual interest General Sup
'crintendcni Downs of the Santa Fe dis
GUESSING the suit against the wharf COM
pany before the commission egid he tepre-
Gated that action on the grounds that it
will fail in accomplishing the purpose seem
insly desired. Nr. Downs is OF he opin-
ion that the time is not far distant when a
change will be worked In the terminal
methods Of the port, and thinks such suits
as that now before the commission will
prove a hindrance to the work He favors
the plan OF the wharf company dis osng OF
IT'S tracks to a terminal company, which
could be formed to r".rhnae. romod i End
operate them on broad basis. which would
give much better results than are possi blc
under tho methods Row in vogue
IMMIGRANTS AND EXPORTS.
The North German Lloyd steamship
ccllaneous cargo and another batch of i'm
migrants. 40 In all. which Is the largest
number brought TO this port by any vessel
OF this line or any other The immigrants
are mainly for Texas points. most of them
going to Bremond and Schulenburg. The
Halle is due here next Tuesday or wcdnos-
day. and will sail on her return trip on the
10Th. Her cargo is already engaged. and
IL includes a large consignment o. canned
meats, Part OF which Ia already here. This
will be the first shipmen, of canned meat
through this port The Halle. about sixty
DAYS ago. carried out the first shipment of
lard, which came as an experimental chip
mont from Kansas City. The steamship
Crefeld OF the same line had another ship
ment of lard a month later. and so salts
factory have been the experiments that ii
is expected the Halle will have a good
shipment on her next return trip. The
Kansas City packing houses have all along
been disposed to patronize the Southern
port, whien is SO much nearer than the
Atlantic seaboard. but could not trust the
tramp steamers Nov that there is n regu-
lar line of packets between Galveston and
Bremen it may be safely counted that tn =
exports Of packing house products via Gal
weston will be large.
CAPTAIN THOMAS GONZALES
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'a'hee OF ms daughter Mrs Stanwood' in
Boston, Mass. this morning of paralysis
He left here several weeks ago for Cape
sr,i,cs ", ,,.or rroooos,nr ., n,,,,
Springs, where he was taken seriously ILL.,.
and thence taken to his daughters r, ST.
denee in Boston.
Mr, Ho'IaiSs .ni'sleI 70 the army "t the
in tho wear 1851 ana yoe tho ua,t,nor, a;
the Wilson battery Inter when Wilson
was promoted major General T.,,,;trn.,nt
Gonzales was promoted TO the captnin,,v and
his battery particinatod in 10 attic n
Galveston, firing the FIRST shat. thus giving
u'ner batteries the signal to begin orora -
s,ocir how'd and ,o, M" ,tr ~ t'I'
and later on formed a co-partnrr, shin ,rdrr
the name of Sloan & Gonzales. rnd for
many years conducted n cotton business
, ,,nr,,,.rtt ,,.b tt - ~ ne i'l my Nv u
mama or rbcs cory,i,s G., '''". Wv