Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-22
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT
Edited by Bryan Civic League. ]

Edited by Bryan Civic League.l
Mrs. T. X. Lawrence is having the
interior of her home remodeled and
is also adding wide gallery, running
entirely around the south and east
fronts. When finished it will make
very handsome appearance.
Mr.. Frank Gartner, of San Antonio,
is drawing plans of handsome home
for Mrs. J. 0. Chance. When the home
is completed Mrs. Chance will have
a cement walk on the north side lead
ing up to her garage. This will make
the cement walks extend entirely
around that block.
Judge and Mrs. Doremus have
caught the fever (civic Improvement,
Their home has been in the hands of
decorators for months and the result
is beautiful. The judge now contem-
plates having a wide gallery on the
front to replace the narrow one that
he has outgrown. Won't the genial
judge look plaicdly happy seated on
his new wide gallery? He realizes
that our Texas climate forces us to
live in the open six months in the
year, and this wide gallery will be-
come a rendezvous for his neighbors
to meet and listen to his humorous
stories. The judge is famous re-
contour.
Have you seen the interior decora-
tons in the home of Mrs. w. S. Will
son, done by her son, Mr.. Frank Cart
ner? There is touch of the artistic,
combined with much originality, that
makes it entirely unique.
If you have tears prepare to shed
them" when you see the butchers
wagons driving uncovered along the
dusty streets, collecting microbes and
germs and flies. What are we going
to do about it?
Seven June weddings, and all of our
sweet girls leaving their native heath
to find homes in other cities, For
every bride who leaves Bryan the old
bachelors here should be fined 800.
You ask, What has the going away of
Bryan brides to do with our Civic I'M
provement League? 1t means, first,
the sorrow Of losing our sweet girls;
and, secondly, the loss of seven new
homes in Bryan. Old bachelors, for
sooth, Bryan is full of them. Let's
make them work the streets and teach
them civic beauty, if they don't care
for feminine beauty
April rains bring May blooms.
did you notice the sunset Wednes-
day evening? 1t was
"A wonderful glory of color,
A splendor of shifting light
Orange and scarlet and purple
Flamed in the sky that night
Italian sunsets pale by comparison.
Governor Colquitt is in favor OF civic
Identification. His great influence can
be made powerful factor in improv'
ing the appearance of Texas cities
and towns.
I'VE are advertised Shakespeare
said, by our loving friends" The
average Texas town might revise the
saying into the declaration that I'VE
are advertised by travelling men" the
chief difference being that the adver-
Using they give is not such as one
would expect from loving friends. A
night spent in a bum" hotel, to use
their own expressive adjective, will
move them to give town an advertis-
ing which, while it will lack nothing
in pervasiveness and responsiveness,
will be powerful in keeping away all
who have any control over their own
movements In such towns as can get
them no other way, the building Of
good hotels ought to be made a mat
ter of community enterprise. Nothing
that a town can do is more potent in
the way of giving it a good name
abroad than a first-class hotel. Even
if itself no more than pays expenses,
there is nevertheless good profit in
the good will which it wins for the
town by those who constantly travel
the state and relate their experiences.
The prospects of many town have
been blighted by its neglect to make
a good impression on its visitors. The
natural advantages which one town
has over another are not ordinarily so
great that it can afford to neglect what
appear to be the little things.-Gal-
weston News.