Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-13
IN OUR
TOWN

IL TOWNSVILLE people who nearly a
~ year ago backed up their faith in
Brownsville by agreeing to contribute
to bonus of $65.00O to be given any
one who would erect a tourist hotel of
not less than $50 rooms, now will be
given an opportunity to hake good
1t has been announced that the col
lection committee, of which Z. J. Tuck
er, J. B. Lindsey and A. H. Fernandez
are the membefs, will proceed immedi-
ately to notify the bonus participants
that the notes are payable thirty days
after demand, and the demand will be
made
TIE sooner the hotel is started and
completed, the sooner will Brownsville
receive the benefits from the propects.
The people of Brownsville have it with
in their power to greatly facilitate mat
ters il they will meet these notes
promptly, members Of the citizens com
mittee point out.
Now that Lee B. James and A. y.
Dickinson have agreed to build the no
tel, they propose to do the job as quick
ly as possible. They hope to have the
hotel sompleted and ready for operation
within year after work begins. 1t will
be a large building, and time will be re-
quired. There are innumerable prelim-
mary details to be disposed of before
actual work starts.
The people of Brownsville have never
failed to meet the situation of the mo-
ment. The hotel is the next big mile
stone in the history of the city's prog
ress.
As John G.. Fernandez has well said,
it is the greatest thing that has hap
pened to Brownsville since the opening
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley by the
building in of the st. Louis, Brownsville
e. Mekco railroad.
Let's get our share of this hotel
money out of the way. There are other
big things the success of which de-
pend on the completion of the hotel
So let's go to it.
People of Brownsville have become
80 accustomed to the idea of the Rio
Grande railroad being standardized that
they have given little attention to the
really dramatic thing that is taking
place on the railroad today.
1t is being standardized. Twenty-six
miles of single rail will, in a complete
revolution of the sun, be taken up.
moved out and spiked down. Tomorrow
standard guaged motor car here
after will be the regular equipment on
the road between Brownsville and Point
Il H. 1n-
rying mail, express and passengers be-
tween Brownsville and the coast town.
Years ago ID. A. O'Biren said that
when the proper time came, the road
would be changed to standard guage
within twenty-four hours time. That
promise is being carried out today under
the direction of l.. S. Bourne, general
manager of the Sugarland railroad and
and his assistants, Merrs. Beadle and
Burks.
Mr.. O'Brien could not be here to see
the final accomplishment of the task he
set out on years ago. He has been away
on a needed erst. However. there is no
doubt that today he is visualizing every
step Of the work.
w. 7. Eldridge the Sugarland rail
road man. stepped into the situation at
a critical time, and it has been due to
his financing ability and his interest
in building a railroad out Of the Valley
to San Antono that the work on the
iRo Grande has been completed. Little
is known here of his planes other than
that he proposes a new route in and out
of the Valley.
When the stockholders of the Rio
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