The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-01

I rocks, for the jetties are % or 30 feet | wide at the top. Nevertheless, at the time of the great storm in 1900 many of these mighty blocks were lifted up by the sea and moved for some distance.
 Sailing in through the jetties you enter the channel that leads to Galveston har- Dor. It is just about an hour from the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico to the wharves. You leave the jetties and pass the quarantine station, which is on 8 little island at the side of the channel, and then go on to the port, which is formed by Galveston, on the one side and Pelican Island, just opposite. Pelican Is land belongs to the city, and it will event. ually be developed as a part of the port. 1t has a water front almost equal to that of Galveston proper. Between it and the Galveston docks there is a channel 140 feet wide, where the water is as quiet as a mill pond.
 On the Galveston side of the channel Is continuous line of concrete ware houses, elevators and wharves several miles long, with slips or great arms of water running back into the land The warehouses face the slips, and they en- able three large steamers to anchor on each side, and, in addition, is the space at the front. As it Is, 90 large vessels can be handled at the wharves of Galveston
 
 including the slips, has length of more than five miles.
 The famous sea wall which now covers the entire frontage of the city facing the gulf is to be extended out to the jetties. It will go as faraas Fort Jacinto and will then be five or six miles in length. The work will be begun within few months and pushed to a speedy completion.
 During my stay here have been stop ping at the Hotel GaIvez, facing this wall I have walked miles back and forth over it and have motored along the wide brick boulevard which has been built just behind it. I have also taken an automobile and speeded for miles along the beach at low tide. Galveston Is the chief bathing resort of the soutn- west and the beach is one of the finest In the United States. It is frequently the scene of automobile races When the tide is out you have a stretch of 30 miles of solid white sand and the machines go flying along in full sight of the ocean. The slope of the beach is so gradual that you can wade far out from the shore. The bathing season begins early and lasts. until late in the fall.
 Just back of this beach, protecting Galveston from the sea, is the sea wall which forms the promenade of the peo- pie. It Is somewhat like the Board walk at Atlantic City. The walk here, however, is upon the concrete top of the wall or the wide road paved with brick and lined with beautiful lawns which runs just behind it. The place is ideal as a summer resort and hundreds of thou sands come here during the season to en- joy the air and the bathing.
 The sea wall is one of the wonders of creation. Mechanically 1t Is a mass of solid concrete reinforced with steel rods embedded in foundation of cypress piles, which have been driven down 50 feet into the clay under the ocean. The wall rises from this foundation 70 a height of IT feet above the waves at low tide, and it curves inward so that 1t throws back the waves in a great curtanlike spray as they dash against it in times of storm. In front of this wall is an apron of huge granite blocks which