Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-05-29
IN OUR.
TOWN

HE announcement of c. w. Strain,
= ,enerai passenger agent of the Gulf
Coast Lines, that all-the-year- round
tourist rates will likely soon be effec-
tive from large part of the United
States to Brownsville. is of more than
passing interest.
Year by year, the number of tourists
visiting this city and section is increas-
ing.
Establishment of all-the- year round
tourist rates means that the number
will be increased several times.
1t will require some time, probably,
to work out the rates, but by the time
the Brownsville tourist hotel is ready
for occupancy they will likely be in
full effect.
Hotels now In existence in Browns
vile have been again and again taxed
to their capacity. The coming year will
no doubt find it even more difficult to
find hotel accommodations in Browns
ville
With more hotel facilities Brownsville
will be in position to handle statewide
conventions.
But suppose they come, how will we
take care of them?
A convention requires some place that
it can meet.
This brings up the proposition of an
auditorium.
How about a city auditorium?
Brownsville should have one if it
proposes to go after conventions.
Amarillo has convention hall-and
gets conventions. Amarillo is that place
way up in the Panhandle that's so cold
in winter and so hot in summer.
Brownwood has convention hail.
So have many other cities of the size
of Brownsville. They secure conven-
tions because they have the facilities
to handle them.
Charles Burton, Brownsville laundry
manager, says he could get the state
laundry meet in Brownsville if we had
some way to take care of them properly
Their conventions are usually attend
ed by some 900 delegates and their
ladies.
Richard c. Morris, speaking for the
fumbermen, says there is no reason why
the retail lumber men could not be in
dnced to meet in Brownsvile--if we
had the facilities.
-. By the way, Mr.. Morris has been agi-
tating for an auditorium at least for the
past two years.
There are any number of conventions
that can be gone after.
There are excellent prospects that our
chamber of commerce will soon be in
opef alton. The organization will no
doubt list the conventions held annually
in Texas, and arrange to go after them.
If we don't get q convention one year,
we can begin the work that will bring
them here eventually.
Brownsville and the Valley are so
much in the public eye of Texas, that
there is hardly business man or pro-
fessional that would not like to visit
this section.
Brownsville has more lawyers and
better lawyers than most cities its size.
Why couldn't the State Bar association
be brought here for convention?
We could mention dozens of posi-
bilities in the way of conventions.
But we must be properly prepared to
care for them when they come.
One of the prettiest possible drives
in Brownsville. when the street is paved
and otherwise. improved, will be that
road that circles the West Brownsville
lake.
Some of Brownsville's prettiest homes
are to be found in the district The
section will likely soon become a part of
the city.
If that drive is not already named
we have one to offer for the consider
alton of its residents.
It's Crescent Drive"
No charge. Just hope you'll adopt it.
The publicity campaign committee re
Gently named by the Valley Chamber of
Commerce upon the suggestion of AL
Parker, who was made its chairman, is
to meet Monday night at the community
clubhouse at La Feria
The Missouri Pacifics announcement
that it will cooperate in such a cam
paign by issuing and distributing liter
ature on the Valley is also long step
forward in selling the Valley to the
country at largeA
Brownsville's broadcasting station
which, by the way, is being popularized
with some very excellent programs, is
another advertising feature for the Val
ley.
Valley towns have been invited to
avail themselves of its facilities without
charge. Their programs are being laud
ed on every hand. Without their as
sistance the station would be silent
most of the time.
Cooperation is being manifested on
every hand in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
It's the thing that will go long ways
toward solving our problems.