The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-08-07

residences, and can ne heard above
the hustle and hustle and din Of
thu ever busy thorQugbfaro, Instead
ol growing fNinDer'as time progresses
the cry hhcomca louder and tho desire
for anch has now developed into a de-,
mand Along with this we are again
reminded OF the scarcity of rental
dwellings, and arc prompted Ia once
mora call the attention 10 such and
urge the necessity Of them The
venture rs made that there arc TODAY
IN the city Of Amarillo eve hundred
people who arc In the market for
rental houses. We venture tho as-
sortion further, that there comes 10
our city from forty 10 atty people
each and every week that have tho
same desires with tho continuance
Of the present rate Of Increase Ia
population, which s2cms very pruha-
hlc, the Queen city of the Plains
bids fair 10 have her twenty thou
sand inhabitants within two years.
Tho question arises. whore are an
these people 10 reside? H. Us true
that tho greaterpor cent Of arrivals
here are people Of means, are we'll
able, and who do live the life of
luxury and ease, at thc-b0arding
houses and hotels These people We
need, and extend 10 them tho VOL
come hand and bid them be- among
us and become ono OF as That, how
ever, Is not The serious question. No
city, whether large or small whether
located in the crowded factory dis
triCts of ihc cast or ON the broad
prairics Of the great southwest, can
long exist as such without the cii-
zcnship or tho laboring man, Labor
ors arc needed Amarilothc same rs
any other class, from tho man with
the pick and shovel TO the skilled and
the Office man and clerk They are
Just as necessary to our advancement
MS the capitalists with their Golfers
Of gold and silver. One without the
other would be useless, the two to-
gether- can accomplish wonders We
have the capitalists and some
laborers, You ask why this demand
for more labor, why is IL that a. IS
not here as I'm other places? Win
the present eXhorbitant prices for
rental houses and board, TO say moth
ing OF the scarcity of such, then Il
is simply impossible for a laboring
man, especially with a family, to
exist here, much less to live. The
only way to get these people to come
among US. 10 make this their home,
and to have them here TO help rs
they are needed, Is TO build more
rent houses. And, after such Is done
instead Of demanding such blood
sucking prices as $50, or S25
per month. for house with
four or five rooms, and them SO
small that you would have to so out
side 10 think honestly or express an
opinion, put the charges 10 a reason
able point, where person can reach
II and at the some time a good pratt
can be made from the investment.
Until such is done II can not be aN-
psctsd for the middle class, the PEG
pie who happen to he not blessed
with the purse OF a Croesus, to como
among us. The average laborer could
not make enough here I'm two months
as It now Is, 10 pay expenses one
Il is serious question, ana one
that the citizens of Amarillo, those
who have the welfare of the city at
heart, should take up, discuss, aud !
II possible, solve. The future Of !
Amarillo depends more on the pres |
ent than anything else in the world |
and II these needs are properly at |
tendd to, the question will be solved. !
The matter may be little thought |
of by the merchant, the business man
and the banker. but II is thought Of |
and seriously too, by the laboring
man 'the man who pays the freight !