The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-06
ISLAND CITY NEWS ITEMS
Government improvements 10 The Rcsurvey
viii Be Very Extensive.

wv w w! tAte"s'S
IMMENSE AMOUNT OF FILLING TO BE DONE
A Number of Texans Sailed for New
York and others VIII Get
Home sunday.
Galveston, Texas, September 5.-When
the improvements the government has in
contemplation for Fcrt Crockett in the
Denver Resurvey are completed Galveston
will have one OF the handsomest and best
arranged military reservations in America.
Captain John Baxter, Jr., Is constructs
ing quar,ermaster in charge of the i'm
proyements here.
On one of those great long ard wide
draftsmen's tables was spread out map
OF tho Fort Crockett reservation as IL Is
20 be. The reservation. II may be re-
marked, will be considerably different
from what It luoka like tsdav.
The fact that Contractor Harry Dev.in
has contract for the erection OF quite
number of permanent buildings on thu
reservation is known, but there has been
nothing said OF the additional improve
ments. The map that was sprca on on
the draftsmen's tabls took in these add
tons
/. The filling In of the beach end Of the
reservation from Forty ninth to Fifty
third streets-iour blocks-to a level Of
sixteen feet above mean tide. On this
plateau the dwellings OF the officers VIII
be built. Tho approach TO this plateau from
the beach side VIII be by means Of three
terraces. these terraces TO BIO so1ded and
set OFF with salt cedar hedges and such
shrubbery as will grow there.
2. The laying OF complete sewer sys-
TEN. with pumping station. etc. The
sewer will take nearly two miles Of piping
within the reservation and the discharge
pipe will extend far out TO into the sea
at ebb tide until the city's sewer rlalt
Is built.
3. The building Of about two miles of
fine nsacadsmized roadway.
a. The laying OF water mains, etc, for
the water system of the reservation.
There will have to be an immenee
amount of filing to bring the reservation
up TO the height the government is flgur-
ing on. The bayou and the arms o. the
bayou that are within the reservation
must be filled up and the whole spa
properly and scientifically drained. The
filling for this work will be pumped from
tho gull.
Texans Going to New York.
/ Galveston, Texas September 5.-Tho
Mallory line steamer Concho sailed at IL
o'clock today for New York with the fol-
/ lowing list OF cabin passengers: Mr.. and
Miss Ethel Kirkwood, Miss Ara Klrkwo cod,
Miss Ethel irkwood Miss Ara Klrkwood
II. t. Hunmaster Miss Josephine Day,
Mrs. T. W Tarrant Galveston; Miss Mary
Baugh, B. F. Baugh, Robert Maverick,
San Antonio; Edgar Mueller, Hal Man
gum, Uvalde; Colonel A. ]. Jackson an /
wife, Denver; W. F.. FULLER and wife and
/ child, Field, La. T. n. Ions AMI wife
san Angelo; Mrs, r. Lyons, Mrs. "A. Cor
corn. Boston; Henry Ash and son. MSS
Ash, Palestine; Lawrence l., Tweedy,
Jose Tweedy, Melich Tweedy, H. Twe edy,
/ Knickerbocker; II. ] Dale Gu. pus
| Christi; c.. A. Boas. Fort Worth; George
H. Hervey, A. E. Dexter. E. Lleb, Hous-
ton; A, A. Bailey, B. r. White, II. S.
Wheeler, New York; Sam Ringer, Hot
Springs, and a good list in the steerase.
The Mallory line steamer Alamo from
New York, arrived at $3.50 this morning
with the following list of cabin passen-
gers; MIR, and Mrs. W. NJ. Muller, NJ IS
Mamie Muller. T. G. Lyon. william
Kuhne James Berger, Rev. F. Pridel, Ag-
mes Pridel T. F. Loughlin, wife and child,
p. G. Pefferner, Miss Frances Oughtty, S.
| Meyer, Miss l. Rogers, DR.. F. X. Fischer
and wife, Miss Stella b. Wiensteln. san
Antonio, and good list In the earag,.
The Mallory line steamer Comal viii
; arrive Sunday with the following list OF
cabin passengers: Miss Florence No tn,
| ]. H. Scott Miss Lucy Scott ], NJ
Saunders, Miss Julia Rookie der, C.
Flomer, s. Pulver, Mrs. W. G. CONS ock,
+. G WadWarth j. B. Thy ng Miss
Daisy Conuell, Miss Nettice Jemison, Carl
B. Goldbeck and wife, Mrs H C. John
ston, Fl. n. Crook, Mrs. A. G. Lewis,
sister and children, ]. W. Parish, Mrs. r.
c. Florence, O. Kellnen Mrs. I. Trano-
yitz, Sam smerlng, F. Johnson. Miss y.
Cellar. j. B. Palmer, A. NJ Goldsm! h,
Mr.. and Mrs. J A. Rockefeller and two
children for Benson, Arizona !. A.
Cooper, Miss Edna George. Weatherford;
r. II. Toledona, Mexico; Miss Ida Maetze,
Miss Rosa Miller, Bellville; W. w. Will
kins Mrs. H. Morriss, San Antonio
Notes and Personals.
Galveston, Texas September 5.-Morris
Sheppard OF Texarkana, sovereign banker
OF the Woodmen of the World. and w, A.
Frazer, State deputy. Will talk on wood
craft at Woodmen's forest corner Twenty
second and Market, Saturday, september
8. The public is cordially invited TO at
tend.
Chief of Police f. " Ketchum returned
yesterday afternoon from attending the
annual encampment OF Grand Army OF the
Republic in Chicago
, Mrs, R. A. Chadwick OF Houston and
Miss Anulette Carter OF Hillsboro arrived
in the city this morning and are the
guests Of Mrs. Josephine LIVINGSTON Coo.
Ben Kimbrough, we'll known travelling
man Of Houston, Is In the city.
George H. Hervey OF Houston sailed to-
day for New York on the Concho.
Fremont Arrivals.
Galveston, Texas, September 5.--Follow-
ing are today's arrivals at the fremont
Morris Sheppard, Texarkana; w. A
Fraser Dallas; C. A. Freeman, New York
james F Lswlor. Houston; George A..
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