Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1922-03-30
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS THURSDAY AFTERN ooN MARCH oslo22
SAN ANTONIO PARK EXPERT
MAKES PLEA FOR HJISACHE.
THE MESQUITE AND CACTUS.


A plea for the huisache, the mesquite
End the cactus was made before q
Brownsville audience at the Chamber of
Commerce last night by A. III. Hansen,
city park superintendent of San Antonio
who came to Brownsville with the Old
Spanish Trail party in the place of Com
missioner Ray Lambert who at the last
minute was forced to give up his Valley
tour.
Don't let your commissioners de-
stroy your huisache trees, the mesquite
or the cactus Mr.. Hansen pleaded.
They were put there by nature. They
mean nothing to you now, but at some
time in the future, if you allow them
to be destroyed, they will mean some
thing TO your city and your country.
These trees and plants are really beauti-
full, and they will appeal to the tourists.
If it becomes necessary TO cut down
any Of your palms to make way for i'm
provements of one sort or another, don't
cut them down. Remove them. Put
them in some other place. Give the
plant an opportunity to live and grow
beautiful. II you lose it in moving it
well, you've done your best to assist
il to live and il cap't be helped"
In the last seven years, since he has
been park superintendent of San An
tonic. Mr.. Hansen said that he has re-
moved more than one hundred palms,
some of them the oldest in the city, and
as high as thirty-five feet. "Of course,
We had to take them with roots and the
dirt they held together, but we moved
them and saved them. despite their
weight of 10000 or $4,000 pounds
In the party, who came to Browns
Vile last night from Harlingen where
they attended a meeting Of Harlingen
people and other towns in behalf of
beautifying the Old Spanish Trail, were
DIR. r. Il. Johnson Of San Antonio, pres
ident of the Old Spanish Trail Asso-
oia:ion, ID. Z. Colp, field manager of the
association; ii. III. Williams, staff cor
respondent of the San Antonio Express,
and Mr. Hansen.
President Johnson, who is the well
known owner of the Hutchins Hotel Of
San Antonio. addressed the audience,
which numbered about sixty people, in
cluding men and women, briefly stating
that in twelve months time the Old
Spanish Trail has out done the already
famous Lincoln National Highway. We
have received more publicity in that time
than the Lincoln road" he said. land
also we have more completed first class
road than that highway"
DR.. Johnson told Of his recent visit
10 Florida. Alabama and Louisiana. which
are traversed BY the Old Spanish Trail
and assistance that had been given by
the organization in helping to carry a
35,00O,000 road bond issue. lie also
told of the efforts on the. part Of the
women of those states, on the O. s. T.
route in Identification work. and that he
had carried there the message Of the
work being done by the women Of the
Valley in. this respect. He told of the
voting of S2.000.000 bond issue in Lib
erty county. defeat Of 100000 in Or
ange county which was later carried. and
the fact that every county on the route
in Texas except Live Oak county has
assure the passage of the Live Oak issue.
which will assure the completion of the
thre hundred mile road between
Brownsville and San Antonio.
Border Highways Planned.
Most interesting to the local people
was the announcement by Mr.. Colp that
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