Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-03-21
Street Car Tracks and Roller Skates.
Editor Herald:

Editor Herald:
| will write a few lines for your
paper if you will print them, and
if you will not, please return. the
paper to me by return of mail as the
children might like to have it when
| am gone to a better world-re-
turn postage prepaid.
While | have a very good COM
mand of the dictionary | am not
much on punctuation not having
been brought up to have my trousers
ir0ned down the legs two or three
times a week like some of those
smart young newspaper men who
meet me at the station and inquire
into my family history and where l
am going now and hereafter.
Though a little weak on punctua-
ton ! have some opinions of my own
about turning Brownsville into an
elongated switch yard for the ac-
commodation Of Great Mogul en-
gines. | had rather see the poor
kids r1ller-skating on the sidewalks,
they not having any other place to
skate without %patronizing a skating
rink, than to make Brownsville The
joke of the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley on account of the undue promi-
nence of her street car tracks when
they first meet the eye of the
finniky visitor from the east.
You can bet your sweet life those
two big streaks of rusty railroad
steel will stay, though | reckon the
poor kidlets will have to take their
skates off the concrete or off the
beloved of all the gods than another
it must be a city council that takes
itself seriously and becomes real
stern and relentless when it comes
to squelching the children, even
lHuuSh ~ mdg Hhu ito1ll uhdplc W
cope with a well-equipped, properly
ordinanced street-car company.
j have been pleased to learn that
the committee to which the ques-
ton of the monumental a rails
was referred has been real tender
with the rails, though hear it was
not a committee with power to act.
Speaking of committees with power
to act, it always seemed like a pro-
vision for side-stepping the work a
legislative body is elected 10 do. But
then | am one of those old out-of-
date-almost out-of-print-people who
have been brought-up in the belief
that the best way to do a thing is
to do it yourself and do it now, be-
fore the sun goes down and the
night cometh when no man can get
between a too evident car track and
the common people. am glad the
committee had no power to act. and
shall continue 10 be glad until |
hear from the next meeting of the
council.
AS to the school children, | am
sorry for them. They have my
sympathy. Nevertheless there are
very evident symptoms of depressing
the roller skates. Speaking of COM
mittees. why not appoint a board Of
experts to figure on the attrition,
friction and disintegration caused
to a given area of cement walk when
roller-ska,ed on by a healthy young
lady of IL, between the noon recess
and time for books 10 take up?
Well. | am a believer in Emer-
sons theory of compensation.
Though we lose the skaters we shall
probably keep the ~protrusive, exub-
Grant, highly-oxidized, S%0-pound
railroad irons where the eastern in
weston can stub his toe on the
Brownsville street car system the
first time he crosses Elizabeth street.
Hoping that the council will not
weaken on the kids and the roller
skates, even If the street railway
proposition is too much for them,
am,
Yours truly,
Innocent Bystander.