The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-09-19
TO REBUILD THE CITY.
Capitalists Say that Galveston
Shall Not be Abandoned.
OPPOSE A NEW SITE.
Precautions to be Adopted Which
will Prevent Future
Disasters.

Austin, Tex, Sept. 14.-Gov. Savers
urges that the people of Texas and the
whole country give encouragement TO the
sentiment that Galveston must and shall
be rebuilt. He said yesterday:
with this encouragement on the part
of the press and the people of rebuilding
of the great gulf port it will not be sixty
days until Il wonderful change has been
wrought IN the appearance Of the ueyaS~
tated city. The work of rebuilding
should and will, III my opinion, begin jus5
us 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 and
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
riblc visitation occur.
Il believe that confidence Will soon DC
restored and the work Of building will
be begun. Much can be done to give
protection and security to the city. In
ten years [ hope to see not sign Of
the present ruin. but III its 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
be paid for in small installments. DO
not let MS 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 Il few days ago and ever make
it a greater city than it was before"
Railroads Take Action.
Bryan. Tex. Sept. 4-Eicc-President
and General Manager Trice of the Inter
national 4 Great Northern railroad says
the railroad losses will aggregate $1,000
600 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 Il 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 OH
also contemplate the construction of
permanent dOuble-track steel bridge to be
used by all the railroads entering the
city
Galveston. Tex. Sept. 14-G. w.
ROSchkC, assistant engineer of the South
crn Pacific railroad, has received orders
by wire from New York to prepare plans
at once for Il d0uhlp-track steel bridge
across the Galveston bay. ten feet higher
than the old one and to proceed with all
the force possible. Engineers are ut
work making Il survey and running lines
preparatory to the resumption of work
Willis MoOrc's Suggestions.
Chicago. Ill., Sept. 14-In commune
cation to the Tribune, Willis l.. Moore,
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:
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 infreuuent.
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 on 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 OF, gulf and obtain the
proper position relative to them. 1t
would not be advisable to abandon these
towns and cities merely because there is
4 remote probability that at some future
time 4 hurricane may be the cause of
great loss of life and property
We have just passed through a sum
ihcI lhat IoI SuStalneu nlgn 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 infrequently
broken. There does not appear to be. so
far as we know, any law governing the
occurrence or recurrence of storms. The
vortex of hurricane is comparatively
narrow, at most not more than twenty
or thirty miles in width. II is only With
in the vortex that such Il calamity as
has befallen Galveston can occur.
Galveston should take heart, as the
chances are that not once in Il thousand
years would she be so terribly stricken,
and high, solid foundations would doubt
less make her mpregnable to loss of life
by all future storms