The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-01
ISLAND CITY NEWS ITEMS.
Necessity Of More Grain Elevators
Is Fully Recognized.
PLANS FOR A NEW ONE SUBMITTED
Run into By . Trolley Car--The Bolivar
Ferry Matter Monument to Texas
Heroes to BE Built.

Galveston. Texas, October si.--A meeting
OF the board OF directors OF the Galveston
Wharf company WAS heli today to con-
slider plans for the building OF the proposed
new 1000 600 bushel grain elevator. about
which SO much has heen said and written
during the past year. Four plans were
submitted and committee was appointed
to examine them ard report TO an ad-
journed meeting Of the directors to be held
next Saturday. 1t is said that as soon
as the plan is accepted advertisements for
bids will be inserted IN the newspapers
and that the work OF building will be be-
gun as speedily as practicable and carried
through TO fnsh without any avodable
delay. 1t was the intention Of the Wharf
company originally to build two elevators.
and II there had been no hitch they would
have been completed and ready for bust
ness long before this. but the project sp-
pears TO have been abandoned when the
rush OF grain TO this port took everybody
by surprise and emphasized the necessity
for better facilities TO handle the business.
Then 1t was the Wharf company was stir
led and again took up the project, bat
changing their plans so as 10 provide for
one htr elevator Instead Of two smaller
ones
MONUMENT TO TEXAS HEROES.
The design OF Professor Amailes Of
Washington for the monument to the
memory OF the Texas heroes Of indeQend-
ence has been finally accepted and the
contract awarded to him by the committee
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'v!IeseAl'Hs thp h"st4NsiA "s'a'e' ~
place selected for it is at the intersection
OF Broadway and Bath avenue. Il VIII De
siXty-seyen feet nigh and thir'y-tour feet
six inches at the base. The statue sur
mounting 1t will be twenty feet in height.
It's four sides VIII be given equal IMPORT
ance. II is composed Of four shafts and
is OF the Doric style of architecture.
The top figure represents the STATE ot
,be rayo I'",,'s Will Vim the Other hand
she holds the sword Of war cntwluol win
garland OF flowers emblem Of fruitful
peace after war. On the iolr secs Oh lue
synsboIiraI If tbe ouaiitles which sr,ra,,ed
the heroes Of the struggle. ON the first
dado OF the base there ~iii be an inscrp-
Ion Ioill''' 40. a,lls .He s' ". i'eu'
roar N ~. monument roDrrsent the genius
Of war and diplomacy. Each group holds
a shield, representing respectfully the por
traits OF Houston and Austin.
A statue with the date october ? 1894
represents the people 10 rheir FRS, attempt
10 break the chains Of Mexican auiocrauy.
Another figure With the date April H.
lse5 the day Of the battle " san Jacinto.
represents the people standing proud and
independent. Around the alh-base there
Will be sixteen portraits OF the most dis
tiuguished men OF those times. the selec-
tion Of which viii be made By the COM
Dlittee. Upon the four sides OF the dalo
there will be four has reieis representing
the scenes at Golial tho Alamo, San ia
oln.o and the surrender Of Santa Anna
The pedestal VIII be o. gray concord
s,a 1',,, - ,i, lls, W 700, -,
nnd one-ha.f years before the monument
IS ready for unyelliug.
STRUCK Bf a TROLLEY CAR
trolley car ran INTO 4 covered wagon
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noon ana Knoeheo y Oyer on US SIDE out
as the horses were gentle and did not at
,er,pt IN r,,n no sar,ous a,rnsro was done.
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PIE ''a"i'f ''''"F'"'' N'0 A'eS u" a"
farm six miles doNu the island, and who
was the driver and oriy cccurart NJ the
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