San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
Find Many Attractions Here
Aside From Climate and
Especially Appreciate e.
forts to Make Them Feel
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1t was the dreariest kind OF an aft
ernoon, with rain falling in spectral
white sheets, and the gloom of a mid
shadows, unusually somber, over the
streets of San Antonio. This was the
kind of weather to bring forth medi-
cine bottles, long forgotten grouches
and pessimism on the part of housed
up people whose usual genial dispo-
sition must naturally be depressed by
the dreariness and the dampness of
the world outdoors.
In the Tourist House, where more
than a dozen tables of tgames were
In progress, the gas logs in the old
fashioned fireplace blazed cheerfully.
and without, in the croQuet court,
fifteen devotees of the outdoor game
were tapping wooden balls with as
much vim as though blue May sky
were overhead.
"What terrible weather It's is,r
remarked a native San Antonio man,
and he apologized for the behavior of
the skies by saying that this was very
unusual for February.
"Very unusual, / assure you," he
SAID.
His bridge partner from Wyoming,
smothered a smile.
"You really call this bad weather,
Mr.. Jones? That is most peculiar. In
Wyoming, you know, We would call
this remarkably fine weather for Feb
ruary. What is the temperature to-
day:'
Mr.. Jones replied that the Their
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outside.
SummerliIe i'm Comparison.
The winter tourists at the bridge
table smiled knowingly at each other.
In their home towns, they said, Feb
ruary weather averaged from 10 to 80
degrees below zero. Mr.. Jones ceased
to apologize about San Antonio win
tiers.
1t was on this particular afternoon
that an attempt was made to obtain
criticisms from winter visitors in
this city, frank, constructive criti-
cisms. whose logic would have value
in helping to improve San Antonio's
attraction as tourist city. 1t was
extremely difficult to find a tourist
who would suggest any improvement
or make any criticism whatever, as
the average attitude was that of deep
gratitude to San Antonio and her
people for trying to promote friend
ship, comfort and better acommcda-
tons for the city's winter guests.
In every case, deep appreciation
was expressed by the visitors for the
cordial hospitality that San Antonio
has shown her tourists this year. One
man, aretired banker from Minnesota,
said:
This Is my fourth winter in San
2 Antonio. The first time | came. l
ing more than half dozen people.
cousin from Minneapolis, were in San
Antonio for four months before We
met, and then we met by accident on
the street. We were the only two in
the city, at that time. rom our sec
ton of Minnesota. The third. year,
we brought some Of our friends back
with us, making party of six from
Minnesota. This year, nineteen poo
pie are here from our immediate dis
trict, and they all came because they
heard about San Antonio from my
self and my friends. l do not say
this in the spirit of unkind criticism.
but / will state that from my obser-
walton and experience, l believe that
less interest was shown by San An
tonic in her tourists, until recently,
than have ever seen displayed by a
city with as wonderful possibilities as
San Antonio has. Now. however, n
real effort is being made to please
and accommodate winter tourists, AMI
/ predict that if the present system Is
continued, it will not be many years
until San Antonio is the Los Angeles
l.. v.1naca1 I
bring my friends; these people bring
sequence of circumstances, and it is
safe to say that on this basis, San
Antonio's growth as a tourist town
will be steady and consistent"
Refreshing Because Different.
A Kansas woman who has Travelled
extensively in Europe and America.
said that the city in .tself. rather
than the climate. attracted her.
II have found few places offering
wider number of attractions than
San Antonio" this woman said. "The
background Of history. so inspiring
and always interesting, and the
crooked streets with their mixture of
all races and colors Of people; the
cosmopolitan atmosphere of the en-
tire city, and the beautiful river that
lends romance to the busting buSl-
ness ssreets, all these things and the
indescribable charm of San Antonio's
real Southern hospitality. combine TO
make a visit in your city a daily
round of pleasure. 1t is not 80 much
the modern attractions that interest
me; / like the regular routine of San
Antonio's life. like the unique mix
ture Of Old World buildings, and New
World business, and the city's metro
politan manners, combined with an
cient traditions. San Antonio is re-
freshing because it is different. There
is no city in the world like it, offer
ing such widely. diversified attrac-
lions, from the greatest of all army
posts to the most wonderful fishing.
hunting and sport grounds in the
South. And there are few cities hav-
ing such hospitable people, showing
real cordiality to strangers"
"When we tire of San Antonio"
one Minnesota man said, I'VE can ride
a couple Of hours, and find ourselves
in the hills, among mountain streams