Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-08-30
SAYS LAS PALMAS
Is IDEAL PLACE
FOR A H0STELRY
WIDELY KNOWN HOTEL MAN DE-
ClARES ITS NATURAL BEAUTY
WOULD MAKE IT FAMOUS.
BELIEVES 1T OFFERS UNTOLD OP-
P0R1UhlTlES AS SITE FOR ALL
YEAR-R0UNO RESORT.

G. Beraud has fallen victim to the
cAa rms OF Collector of Customs Frank
Rabb's Las Palmas palm Grove, eight
miles from Brownsville. a. offering untold
opportunities for the location Of an all
the year round hotel and resort.
Mr.. Beraud's smack- OF hotels, and he
j. "A hotel man, OF wide acquaintance
Formerly with famous Paris hostelries, he
came t. the United States some years ago
with William Waldorf Astor and after
many years with famous New York no
tels, he struck for the southwest, opening
the Rice Hotel at Houston two years ago.
later going To the st. Anthony at San An
tonic a. manager and few months ago
70 Port OConnor, where he assumed the
management of the La Sale hotel, no
ted coast resort.
Several months ago Mr. Beraud was
told of the wonderful forest of thousands
of great palm trees, natural growth, on
the Rabb place, near Brownsville He
promised 10 visit i and the opportunity
came Just yesterday.
"of course | expected To see something
worth while" said Mr. Beraud today.
but never did | know that such beauti-
ful scene was 10 be found outside of the
tropics IN Africa, or some equally distant
tropical country where the palm grows
It's natural beauty surpasSeS any growth
OF trees ] have ever seen. | am surprised
that the world has not been told Of this
forest Of palm trees. | am sure compar-
aiyelv few people Know 01 its cNistcnce
At least, ! never heard of ii until told a
few months ago, and am amazed 10 find
that that IL j. even more wonderful than
the wonderful descriptions of it | had
heard
The Las Palmas unquestionably offers
unlimited opportunities a. an all-the- year
round hotel resort What the missions
have been to san Antonio. what the fam
Gus beaches have been L. other resorts.
Las PalmaS can certainly be to Browns
vile. Don't change the forest itself. hut
build a nice hotel. construct good auto
mobile road from Brownsville 10 Las Pal
mas. prepare lanes and roads through the
forest. establish it, own truck gardens,
dairy farms and - on, for food supplies
put IN hurro- and cart, and other amuse-
meut> for the children and | venture To
say that Las PalmaS would seen become
the most famous place in Texas. or in
the south for that matter
1T has every advantage of resort
There Is the Rio Grande running along
side II there j. lake in the grounds. two
and a half miles long. There il very at
tractive Mexican village of thatched hou-
So~-ihe kind of native villages we see
IN the moving pictures. And by the way
! am surprised that the moving picture
concerns have not discovered Las PalmaS
md taken advantage Of it, opportunities
Ii j. all wonderful. wonderful
This j. Mr. Beraud's first trip Ia
Brownsville, trip taken purely a. a viist
of pleasure. 10 Mr. rabbi personal
friend ot his and on Mr. Rabb's invita-
tion. In company with NIr. rabbi and Ed
WIN S.aRrodix IF San Antonio. h. left to-
day for a visit to points up the border
Mr.. Bcraud was impressed with the city
itself. and predicted that the future holds
much in store FOR if.