San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-07
WE NEED IT BAD.

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A Large Market Building, Where
We VIII be Enabled to Get
Meats and Vegetables Fit
to Eat.
To the Daily Light:
During the last twenty years
San Antonio has wonderfully adj
vanced in city improvements. We
have one of the finest public parks
in the front OF the old historic
Alamo and postotfice building, sur
rounded by elegant business
houses; then, all along Houston
and East Commerce street one
large commercial building is seen
near the other and a number OF
fine iron bridges cross the river;
Main Plaza has its old historic
cathedral and u large number OF
elegant business houses, the i'm
posing county courthouse and a
fine public park with all sorts of
tropical plants and Military Plaza
has one of the finest city halls in
the state OF Texas, also surrounded
by large and thriving business
houses. All the plazas and main
streets of the city are permanently
paved with solid mesquite blocks.
Our city also has one of the best
waterwOrks system, electric light
plants, sanitary sewerage system,
public schools, street car lines, a
number Of factories, hospitals and
generally wide awake business
population.
But, what San Antonio has not |
got in the way of modern improve
ments and absolute needed re-
quirements is a large public mar
ket house.
Every woman and child is famil-
lar with the present way and
means our market products are
and we need not dwell
long in demonstrating the absolute
need of large market hall to take
care Of the market products as well
as the market-going people. A
large, practically arranged market
hall can be kept in better munich
pal sanitary control, and it can be
so arranged that all the flooring OF
the stands, in fact, the entire
inner market hall be easily kept
clean by flushing it with hydrant
water, and it is the purpose of the
present administration, it is I'M
derstood, in the first place to bore
an artesian well in the center OF
the market hall and utilize the
water for all purposes needed at
the hail. Also the hall is sup
posed to be two-storied, the i'm
mense large upper floor to be used
for crowded conventions, eXhibi-
tions, musical feasts, etc, etc.
Such a market hall will be a pride |
to San Antonio and no matter
where it be located, it is bound to
bring more prosperity to the entire
city, besides identifying our. town
with one more imposing public
building. But, one thing is sure,
it should be located centrally and
in a healthy location, not near
river bottom but on large open
plaza, such as Washington or
Paschal square within easy reach
of the street car lines and railroad
depots. The latter is one Of the
widest and largest public squares
available and most admirably
suitable for a big market house, as
here is already the old hay, wood
and country produce market; and
then, this plaza is supplied with a.
fine large public park, entirely
separated from the plaza proper,
and thereby afiording ample VEN
tilation to the market hall and sur
rounding buildings. With its pic
turesque surroundings, including
the many lighted chill stands at
nighttime, this market hall
would be a most attractive scene
to our visiting tourists and our
own people in general.
Give San Antonio another lift,
Bryan, and let us soon have that
market hall CITIZEN.
THE U. S. MARSHAL FOR