Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-19
TO REBUILD THE CITY.
Capitalists Say that Galveston
Shall Not be Abandoned.
OPPOSE A NEW SITE.
Precautions to be Adopted VIII icll
will Prevent Future
Disasters.

Austin, Tex, Sept. 14.-Gov. Savers
urges that the people of Texas and the
whole country give encouragement 20 the
sentiment that Galveston must and shall
be rebuilt He said yesterday:
with this encoura cement on the part
Of the press and the people of rebuilding
of the great gulf port it will not be sixty
days until a wonderful change has been
wrought in the appearance or the devas-
tated city. The work OF rebuilding
should and will, in my opinion, begin Iust
as soon as the present distress can be re-
lieved. Galveston occupied too grand a
position as one of the great commercial
and shipping centers Of this state anu
country to be abandoned because Of this
calamity. Another visitation may never
occur again. Buildings erected there III
the future can be so constructed as TO
guard against collapse should another ter
rible visitation occur.
Il believe that confidence will soon De
restored and the work of building VIII
be begun. Much can be done to give
protection and security to the city. In
ten years | hope to see not Il sign OF
the present ruin, but in it's stead great
and thriving city mark the spot. AS an
aid TO the poor people who have lost
their homes building associations can be
formed which can undertake the work OF
replacing residences and allow them to
not let us talk of abandoning that city
which has for so many years been the
pride of the people of Texas, but let us
all give the unfortunate people there our
mite of encouragement to redeem their
losses by putting the place back where
It was few days ago and ever make
it a greater city than it was before
Railroads Take Action.
Bryan Tex. Sept 14.-Nicc- President
and General MANAGER Tric1> Df the Infer
national 4 Great Northern railroad says
the railroad losses will aggregate $1,000
900. He says that better shipping facili-
ties will be established at Galveston than
ever as fast as men and money can place
them there. Negotiations are now going
on to the end that all railroads entering
the city join forces and materials and es
tablish temporary bridge across the
bay and if the plan succeeds. it is hoped
that trains can be run into Galveston in
thirty days. The negotiations going on
also contemplate the construction of II
permanent double-track steel bridge to be
used by all the railroads entering the
city
Galveston, Tex. Sept. 14.-G. W.
Bcschke. assistant engineer of the South
ern Pacific railroad. has received orders
by wire from New York to prepare plans
at once for a doubletrack steel bridge
across the Galveston bay, ten feet higher
than the old one and TO proceed with all
the force possible. Engineers arc at
work making survey and running lines
preparatory to the resumption of work.
Willis Moore's Suggestions.
Chicago, ILL.,, Sept lin q communi-
cation to the Tribune. Willis l.. Moere
chief of the United States weather bu-
reau, says that coast cities are not con-
structed properly, and that safety lies in
the erection of buildings on stone foun-
dations ten feet above sea level. Mr.
Moore says:
| should not advise the abandonment
of the city of Galveston. 1t is true that
tropical hurricanes sometimes move west
ward across the gulf and strike the Texas
coast, but such movement is infrequent
Within the last thirty years no storm of
like severity has touched any part of the
coast of the United States. There are
many points Oh both the Atlantic and
gulf coasts. some of them occupied by
cities the size of Galveston, that are
equally exposed to the force of beth wind
and water, should hurricane move in
from the ocean or gulf and obtain the
proper position relative to them 1t
would not be advisable to abandon these
towns and cities merely because there is
a remote probability that at some future
time q hurricane may be the cause Of
great loss of life and property
We have just passed through a sum-
mer that for sustained high temperature
has no parallel within the last thirty
years. Records OF low temperature. tor
rental rains. and other meteorological
phenomena that have stood for twenty
and thirty years are not infreuuently
broken. There does not appear TO be. so
far as we know. any law governing the
occurrence or recurrence of storms. The
vortex of Il hurricane is comparatively
narrow, at most not more than twenty
or thirty miles in width. It is only with
in the vortex that such q calamity as
has befaHen Galveston can occur
Galveston should take heart. as the
chances are that not once in thousand
years would she be so terribly stricken
and high. solid founda tons would doubt
less make her impregra able to loss of life
by all future storms.