The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-29
Remarkable Work that Has Been
Accomplished in the Rebuilding
of the Gulf City Since It's
Wreckage by Storm in 1900.
PEOPLE OF THE TOWN BEAR
THEIR BURDEN HERoICALLY
Have Raised and Expended Many
Millions in the Work of Recon
struction, Until Now the City
Has Fully Recovered from Its
Awful Disaster.
Special to, Tho Journal.

Special to Tho Journal.
Galveston, Texas, Dec: 27.--what can
be said Of this city of Galveston can be
s saa St aa the tue IT
boundaries as physical region Is only
equaled by the magnitude Of its develop
mental powers. The educational feat
by
portation facilities connecting it with
more cosmopolitan. The state federation
marked ability. It's natural resources are
seemingly inexhaustible. The future OF
Texas, Respondent with progress and
Be os read in a the upbulding Of the meW
city of Galveston. II r. 80. =. 49,. 2... -
We talk Of the seven wonders of the
anclenI Wod anu marye! at the great
engineering skill shown, in the rebuilding
Of Galveston, the work which has been
older wonders pale into lnsigniacance.
Every one knows Of the terrible storm
that swept oyer this fair city in Sep
TENDER, 1900, leaving death and destruc-
our land thought that the RRop city a. would oufa
never be rebuilt on as extensive a scale
as it had been and that its industries
had re eclT such stunning boW that
who understood better the indomitable
strength and courage Of the Galveston
greater, more beautiful, more infuea.
tial than the, old one, would rise from
the mass of debris left in the pathway
of the storm; This prophecy has certain
ing in the midst of the hustling life
in the heart of the business portion Of
the Galveston of today, has to stretch
ms imagination to picture the scene Of
Wreckage In the same neighborhood in
the fall Of the year 1900, : Writing Of
conditions at that time. Mr.. W. w. Davis
very concisely sums up the situation as
1.-THE question was not one of inme-
date, municipal life or death as so often
has been; asserted, but. simply one Of
Prosperity or decline. The latter seemed
a floating debt of 100000; there We're no
erty had been destroyed; more than 6, 900
lives had been: lost, thereby materially
more than that number were penpiless;
above all things, confidence in the CITY
as a. place for home seekers and field
Tor financial exploitation was gone. Nor
two thirds Of the inhabitants of which
lived in; Galveston, in a better condi-
ton: Its rural districts had suffered
$SS4,0oo was owed. If ever in the his
tory or, communities there was gloom
fine 1t was here ACTION was impera
people to tremendous effort and: which
should have for its aim and one greax
object the restoration of confidence and
ne ne a abs protection OF the city from
IT This is a graphic,, picture of the situa-
ton which confronted the stout hearted
Galvestonlans that memorable September
r OF dSog = The story OF how they all
n Iaa1ea IL TO n meet the demands of the city,
and an poor alike giving freely Of. what
!they possessed money, the work Of their
brains ogains' Of Of their hands-to the one great
city. reads like the inspiring tales Of
n he,1{ self acrifice and endurance Which
fa Fq0Ys nations of the world rid t'S'oiy 81
eud huer me ne patie9t, far sighted, capable
body composed Of. s Wear enm of tbs
most influential business men Of the civ
me altered threads Of government were
fricate fa bp ana the weaving Of the
life was begun: Civic reform tn wag pa
sured, through the establishment ~ %
new form Of commission government the
executive power being held by a 1i3avor
sover roor commissioners co appointed by the
s+c The protection of the city against
1holn ana water. was, secured thro1eI,
. .ne unilrlng zeal of the prominent cifi-
Until T tbe meyer meyer rested in their endeavors
solid concrete sea wall aione 4 H. OF ,ie
'front.' and the raising of the eitv;s o,r gGLa
e were completed, and adequate funds were
meet meet 81 III IRON ano city. county. and state to
Tor r.; such a stupendous Undertaking
er;l me estimated cost Of these. great en-.
glneerlng feats.. was over three and %
nall million dollars, and it seems almost