Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-02-09
TWO SUGGESTIONS FOR
BRYAM's IMPROVEMENT
An Appeal for Better Streets and for
the Glddings cut-off Of the
Houston & Texas Central.

4>OW tndt the DOnu Issue eleCIiou 10
over and the measure has been in
gloriously showed under, and while
we honestly believe that the voting
down of this measure has turned back
the hands Of the great clock of prog
ress for at least score of years, still
we most gracefully bow to the newt
able and say that we could not help
| it, so let her go, Gallagher" We
have no time to grieve over what we
could not help. but we must turn our
faces to the future and confront other
problems that stand Immediately be-
fore us and demand our adjustment.
| Listen to me, citizens of Bryan.
There are two questions that must be
settled, and they should be settled at
the very earliest moment possible.
The first one is better streets for this
town. / am sure that there is not
man in Bryan who is worthy of the
name of man but who is willing to do
anything that he possibly can for the
permanent improvement of our
streets; and when | say streets, |
mean from Main street to the limits
of the city. Let every citizen put on
his thinking cap" and see If some
plan can not be evolved by which
something can be done; for we say
in the language of Holy Writ, or words
Ito that effect, How long, o Lord, how
long" are we as citizens of the fair
city of Bryan, Texas, going to have
to endure the present condition of its
streets?
The other thing is, the cutoff rail-
road that the Houston & Texas Gen.
trail is going to build from Hearne to
Giddings or from Bryan to Giddings.
| say. citizens of Bryan, which shall
it be? In my humble judgment there
never was a question so vital to this
town as this. Just as sure as the sun
shines on a clear day they are going
to build that road, and they are going
| to conect it either with Hearne or
Bryan, and when they build it they
are going to build so as to take in
all the big levee district of the Brazos
bottom and if Bryan misses that, as
she has today missed the bond issue,
| I for one will feel like old Jubal Early
did when he was told of the battle
and loss by the Confederacy at NAL
vern Hill. After listening to the sad
news, with trembling lips the grizzled
old general asked the courier to tell
him the truth and he was again told
that the day had been lost. He threw
up his hands and exclaimed at the
top of his voice: Gabriel blow your
horn"
Now, my fellow townsmen, am in
formed that Bryan with the proper
, inducements can get this road, and IL
this is fact there ought not to be
much sleeping nor eating done by the
citizenship of this town until we find
what those inducements are, and then
there should be no question as to
whether or not the required induce.
ments would be met. | appeal to
the Commercial Club to take this mat
ter up at once, and not stop until we
know for sure II there is the posi-
bility of a chance for Bryan to get
proposition submitted to them from
the Houston & Texas Central Rail-
road authorities. and then not stop
until we know what that proposition
Is, and then not stop until the propo-
sition has been accepted; provided, in
the acceptance we get the agreement
to bu;'d the road into Bryan, and then
no s'-p until we get the road built,
ar when we do this Bryans future
WI e assured
am told o. certainty that if this
road comes to Bryan that the shops
will be sure to come to Bryan; and
when we think of what another rail
road running down into the Brazos
bottom, connecting both the lower and
upper bottoms with Bryan, together
with the Houston & Texas Central
shops here, our heads grow giddy
when we go to set down the figures
that give anything like a proper esti-
mate of the benefit in dollars and
cents that such things would mean to
us, to say nothing of the other
benefits.
With these things right before us