The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-01
IL sDiId Another Market.

re the Editor of The Post.
Houston, Texas, June 20.-Since tho dc
strrction of the market hall by fire a
regular panic seems to have taken hold
Of the members Of the city council and or
some citizens, and they seem to have lost
Az at once their heads. All kinds of pos
s.hle and Impossible propositions have
been advanced TO extrieate the city from
her difficulties.
While it IS true that this calamity took
Place at a time when the city was least
prepared to meet such emergency, II is also
equally true that by a cooler consideration
vciious ways and means. can be found to
build n magnificent market house. which
Womb he a credit and pride to the citizens
of Houston, and without any great en-.
harflssnlent TO the city administration. One
df these ways would he TO organize n
STOCK company or syndicate. Whatever II
miaht he called, Of the Houston moncyed
men: The revenue of the market house
WcUiti he amply sufficient not only to meet
the Interest, of the invested capital. bur
would also leave a nice margin to pay of
gradually the principal.
60 sit idly by the road and 'weep over the
ruins of Jerusalem"
Other communities, and some much
smaller In Importance than Houston. have
hah oven greater calamlties. but their on
ietprising, liberal and locally patriotic in
ti'i'fs citizens PIT Mt once their shoulders
70 me wheel Of progress and soon had
Why can this not he done in Houston.
a city which pretends to be the metropolis
of the Lone Star state? 4 city, which, in
tho near future. NAV have a population OF
at least 100000 inhabitants. Whore are
those WORTH gentlemen fellow;;citi2ens now
Who some time ago published in the col.
unins OF The Houston Post beautiful ar
,!c'es. with very cheap advice on the sub
Jet How e. make a greater Houston?''
Nero 0To they uDWy Why 1Dnf fhPv
come Mp, Just at this time. AMI put thcf,
shoulders to the wheel Of progress, and
saw I'VE want a greater IloustonI" Why
don't they turn up and make liberal pr9)o-
si.ious to the city administrators to help
70 meet the emergency of the time? Are
they silly enough to expect that other
citizens of small means shall come up b.
themselves TO foot the hill for making
a greater Houston, for them only, by which
they would reap the greatest benefit, with.
ont putting their hands in the pockets.
while they still consider the balance of
taXpaying and ridden people as common
rabhie, 70 he exploited at their pleasure
In TAXATION and everything elsef
VIII any one of these "gentlemen-fellow-
citizens take a lead In organizing such a
stock company or syndicate ana bring re
lief t. the city administrations Get out
from yonr obseqred fog and show yourself
are willing to do privately TO make a
Create Houston.
Besides all this, the $4,000 insurance
moneS could he added TO the funds raised
is such a stock company. IL So desired.
AS for the city han, the city could well
do without 1t for a time. until better
tnGlcial circumstances would appear. A
c.'y hail, as a public building, ought TO he
ertis ely separated from a market hall,
ii should be built, as in other cities, upon
n separate block. with imposing features,
and It's surroundings ought to he created
pleasant to the eye Of everyone to look
upon.
Even a modern. up to date, elegant city
hail could he huilt without the least in
convenience TO the administration, upon the
sane plan as mentioned above,
and pride exhibited by the Houston
nuueyed class would insure a Greater
Houston but not before. And still the
proverh is true: Where there Is a viii.
there Is a way" Yours truly,
A. g. f, STREET.