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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-27
SAN ANTONIO PLAYGROUND
FOR NATIONAL ATHLETES

Cities have claimed to be the swim
ter Playground of America" but
when it comes to offering a varied
program to visitors, San Antonio
leads. More national events are
staged here during the winter months
than any other city in America.
A progressive citizenship is taking
advantage of an almost ideal winter
climate TO stage events that will not
only entertain the thousands of tour
lists who annually spend the winter in
this city, enjoying the parks, plazas
and Fairgrounds, but also those ua-
tional attractions which turn the at
tention of the entire country to San
Antonio. as the mecca of diversified
sports and spectacular events.
BIG POLO MEETS
During the Christmas holidays there
was staged National Polo Tourna-
ment, under the direction of the
United States Army. Twenty college
civilian and army teams competed in
the events which extended over pc
Rod of two weeks, with horse-shows,
gymnasium and social events of en-
tertainment for the visiting poloists.
An innovation of this tournament
was the college events. Texas A. &
NJ. College, New Mexico Military
University, the University of Arizona,
Colorado Agricultural College and the
University of Oklahoma sent teams to
participate. 1t was the first time in
the history of polo that college teams
had had an opportunity to compete
in the west or south in as extensive
a program as was carried out. The
College Tournament was won by the
University of Arizona, by daring
craftsmanship and deadly accuracy
with the mallet and national polo
players who witnessed their triumph
pronounced them in a class with the
best of eastern teams. Civilian teams
came from as far away as Detroit
and all the Army posts and camps in
the Southwest entered teams in the
tournament.
1.-THE TEXAS OPEN"
Next year it is to be put on a much
more extensive scale. A larger tour
nament can be handled admirably, in
asmuch as San Antonio has five ex-
cellent polo fields, the finest being the
municipal field in Breckenridge park.
1t is planned to bring the champions
of the East to San Antonio to play
the champions of the West during
Christmas week.
The first event planned by San An
tonians to bring their excellent golf
facilities to the attention of the coun-
try was the Texas open golf cham
pionship, which this year was played
February IA TO Is. This was the
largest tournament for, the biggest
purse in golfdom and was staged on
the municipal course in Breckenridge
park.
LARGE PURSE.
1t was the third time the Texas open
golf tournament has been held, and
this year. as in the past, no less than
six champions were here to partici-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-27
VARIED SOILS
BOOST bEXAR
PRODUCTS

Bexar county raises q wide variety
of products because it mas so many
types of soil. The north part Of the
county lies in the foothills of the
mountains forming the southern edge
Of the Edwards plateau. The east
part of the county extends out into =
broad level plain of black land formed
on a structure of limestone, rock and
clay.
The south part of the county con-
tains more sandy land and is well
adapted to the growing Of fruits and
truck crops. The native timber con-
sists of mesquite, which grows in this
section very abundantly. Along the
rivers and valleys there axe great
numbers of native pecan trees, also
some live oak. This was originally a
fine grazing country. At the present
time approximately p per cent OF
more of the land is in cultivation.
FINE FOR HERDS.
Dairying is practiced quite extern
sivcIy in the vicinity of San Antonio
and also in the billy regions north
and west Of the city, and some Of
the finest Jersey herds in the United
States are maintained in this vicinity.
In addition to the dairy interest,
many ranches are devoted to the rals'
ing Of beef cattle, sheep and goats.
All staple crops of the temperate
zone are grown in this vicinity. Com.
cotton, maize, kaffir, feterita, Sudan
grass, peanuts, sorghum and other
similar crops produce excellent yields
on all of the various types Of soil in
the county adapted to their culture.
There is also a considerable amount
of fruit frown-peaches doing especi-
ally well.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-27
IMMENSE USE OF BRICK.

IMMENSE USE OF BRICK.
No materials are sold at these dis
triet offices, so that the prospective
builder feels no obligation in visiting
them. Information is cheerfully given,
and in. each office there are registered
a number of builders and contractors
TO whom prospects may be referred
for dependable service in erecting their
homes. The increase in the use of
brick is what might be expected from
such tried and proven methods of de-
velopment.
The condition in the brick industry
is found by the current months re-
ports 10 be excellent as the year passes
into its second half. Several plants
in Connecticut are closed by a strike
of employees, who are demanding a
change from the open shop TO the
closed shop basis. Other plants closed
throughout the country are for rea.
sons of repair, except in the south.
western and middle states, where
building has not yet returned to its
normal volume. In the larger CEN
teS, including particularly New York
and Chicago, the demand for brick is
strong.
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CENTEREVEN
IN II | 6
City Has More Historic
Spots Than Any Place
in America.

San Antonio was first settled by the
Spaniards. on May IA, 1716, when St.
Denis, Frenchman, led Don Domingo
Ramon and his expedition from Mexico
City northward, and encamped at San
Pedro Springs.
In the fall of IT'S, the first perma-
nent settlement of the Spanish in Tex
as was made near the head of the San
Antonio river, when Don Martin de
Alarcon arrived with families consist
ing of 80 persons. and established San
Antonio De Los Llanos. consisting of
the village of Villa de Bejar, the Pre-
sidio San Antonio de Bexar, and a
mission, San Antonio de Valero, later
known as The Alamo.
FIRST SETTLEMENT.
In 1871 the Villa San Fernando de
Bexar was recognized officially as the
first civil settlement in Texas, when
the Spanish king sent Is families,
composed of IS persons, from the Ca
nary Islands. to settle in what is now
the City of San Antonio.
In 1874 San Fernando, now San
Antonio. was made the capital OF
Texas by Governor Manuel de Sando-
val. ..a..-
Early explorers recognized the
strategic Importance of San Antonio
because of its location, and its Won
derful supply of water.
THE CONQUEST.
The French who had attempted to
settle near San Pedro Springs, as the
headquarters of trading post, were
early driven out by the Spanish, and
then began the great conquest by the
king of Spain through the Catholic
church, to convert the savages, and at
the same time erect great military
posts as a protection against the
French.
About 1716, the Mission Espada,
and Mission Conception were begun.
In 171S was erected the Immortal
Alamo. Later. about 1720 San Jose,
the largest and most beautiful of all
the Franciscan Missions, was estab-
lished, and in 1871 San Juan was
begun.
The erection Of these missions. and
their use as churches and forts sue
cessfully held all of Texas for Spain.
$50 HEROES DIE.
When Mexico gained her independ-
ence from Spain, Texas was still a
part of the Republic of Mexico. Re-
volt against Mexican rule grew into
armed revolt, and after the Battle of
Conception. in which the Americans
were victorious, continued fighting was
carried on, with San Antonio being
alternately under Mexican rule, and
the Republic of Texas.
On March 6, 1886, took place the
famous Battle of The Alamo, in which
David Crockett, James Bowie, William
Bartlett Travis, and $50 unnamed
heroes gave their lives in defense of
Texas Liberty. when they made their
stand against Santa Anna, and his
1000 Mexicans.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-27
FOR YOUNG AND OLD.

Forms of recreation for the young
and old have become so varied in
character and universal in demand
that few cities have kept pace with
adequate facilities for the enjoyment
of all their various ramifications, but
San Antonians were early IN recogniz-
ing their advantages and have at
tempted to keep abreast, despite the
fact that this city has experienced a
phenomenal growth far beyond that
of other winter resorts. A compre-
hensive program of outdoor amuse.
ment has attracted the attention and
received the commentator Of those
who demand the best in comfort and
convenience.
For continuous days of uninter.
rupted playtime, San Antonio has al.
ready been established as the out.
standing American city. An early rec.
ognition of the climatic and health
proclivities of this section was evinced
by the United States government long
before the World War, when Southern
Department headquarters was estab.
lished here. Training can be carried
on almost uninterruptedly throughout
the year and commanding officers. are
able to lay out programs of training
scarcely interrupted throughout the
winter.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-27
DISPLAY ROOMS.

The brick manufacturers in the
Pittsburgh district will shortly have
district organization there, with
an office and information bureau in
Pittsburgh. The manufacturers in the
vicinity of Toronto, Ontario, are also
contemplating the establishment of a
bureau in that city. Manufacturers
in British Columbia will shortly con-
slider the question of affiliating with
the acific-Northvest District and
opening offices IN Vancouver and Vic
toria. Another group is contemplated
in the immediate future for northern
New Jersey, with headquarters at
Newark.
At several Of these district offices
there are maintained display rooms,
where visitors may secure all the lit
erature of the national association,
and see specimen walls laid IN TO
demonstrate the various types of ideal
wall and economy wall, which are
coming into common use as money
savers for home builders. Offices
having such display rooms at the
present time are New York. Chicago,
Denver. Cleveland, Detroit and Hart
ford. Prospective builders at all these
pointse are finding these displays of
great assistance in visualizing partic-
ularly the new types of construction
and of special value in arriving at
just estimates Of cost Of the brick
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-27
BRICK BUREAU
SAVES MONEY
Of BUILDER r.
Engineers Are Employed
As Advisers Showing
Industry's Advance.

There are today complete informa-
ton bureaus upon the use of brick
in sixteen of the leading cities of the
country. Engineers are employed by
these sixteen groups to help the ar
chitect and builder with his problems
and TO give dependable information
and estimates of cost to the prospec-
tive builders.
This broad extension OF the service
of The Common Brick Manufacturers
Association of America through these
sixteen district offices best express
the development that has taken place
in the industry during the past three
years. This national association has
become the clearing house and labora-
tory for the brick industry, and the
data gathered is transmitted to the
district offices and there applied and
disseminated by skilled men.
Other groups are being formed. and
the plan of the Common Brick Manu-
facturers' Association is to have such
an information bureau for the aid of
builders and building investors in
every important city in this country
and Canada. District offices in charge
OF trained men are now maintained in
Chicago. Cleveland, Denver, Detroit,
Hartford. Los Angeles, Nashville. New
Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia,
Portland, st. Louis, Salt Lake City,
San Francisco, Seattle and Spring
field, Mass.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-27

pate in the events, including Joe
Kirkwood, Australian champion Bob
Macdonald, Metropolitan king, and
Gene Sarazen, American professional.
Amateurs from all sections of the
United States came to participate in
the bcst-ball events when more than
100 stars of golfdom struggled to
carry away a share Of the $4,000
purse.
The Fiesta San Jacinto has always
been a sterling event in the civic and
social life of San Antonio, celebrat ting
as it does, the victory at San Jacinto.
1t is made not only week Of cele-
bration, but also a most impressive
event, reaching its height in the Bat
tie of Flowers parade, when blossoms
are scattered over the Alamo, 10 be-
deck the graves of those who fell in
the immortal defense of Texas and
died so gloriously in this quaint old
chapel,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-27
LARGE PURSE.

1t was the third time the Texas open
golf tournament has been held, and
this year. as in the past, no less than
six champions were here to partici-
Palisadian., 1925-01-30
Parent Teacher Association

The regular meeting of the Parent
Teachers Association of Cliffside
Park will be held ON Wednesday eve
ming, February 4, at s o'clock in the
Cliffside school. Two speakers are
expected to aid by their addresses in
the constructive program undertaken
by the organization for school ber-
ough improvement.
Mrs. M. M. Mack of Hillsdale, N. j.,
press chairman for Bergen county for
the Parent-Teacher Associations of
the state, and Miss Edgecombe, from
Englewood Hospital, speaking on so
cial Settlement Work. will give the
addresses, followed by discussion and
a social hour.
Everyone is invited to come out and
make these meetings of real value to
the town. Please note that meeting
is in Cliffside school instead of the
high school.
Palisadian., 1925-01-30
Uncle of B. Duncan
McClaveDies in N. Y.

John McClave, End, of New York
City, brother of The late Major Nc
Clave of Cliffside Park, died in his
fifty-ffth year in New York City the
early part of the week following a
short illness.
Mr.. McClave was one of fourteen
children born to former Police Com
missioner John McClave, ST., of New
York City.
He was brother of the late Major
McClave and known by his friends as
a man who never admitted that any
task was too much for him. He was
an inventor of an oil burner which he
was selling to manufacturers before
he was taken i'll.
Mr.. McClave was a member of the
Seventh Regiment, New York, and
also active in Royal Arcanum circles.
He is survived by his widow, who be-
fore her marriage, was May Coker.
Funeral services were held on
Wednesday from Mr.. McClave's late
home in New York, and interment fol-
lowed in Greenwood Cemetery, Long
Island.
Palisadian., 1925-01-30
DIES FOLLOWING AN
ATTACK ON FERRYBOAT
Family and Friends Mourn Pass
ing of Mrs. Capstaff in N. Y.
Hospital on Friday Last.

While on a Fort Lee ferryboat en-
route to New York on Friday last
Mrs. j. A. Capstaff, we'll known Grant
wood resident, suffered a stroke of
apoplexy and died a few hours after
ward in a New York hospital.
Mrs. Capstaff was in the company
of her husband and they were going
to New York on shopping tour when
she was suddenly taken ill. AS soon
as the ferry boat was docked on the
New York side the victim was rushed
to the hospital in taxicab but pass
ed away after few hours.
Funeral services were conducted
from her late home on Palisade and
Lafayette avenues in Grantwood by
the Reverend DR.. Leach of the Grant
wood Episcopal Church at 2 o'clock
on last Tuesday afternoon. Interment
was made in the mausoleum in Gut
tenberg.
She is survived by her husband and
two small sons.
Mrs. Capstaff had large circle of
friends and took an active interest in
the civic and social life of the COM
munity. Her passing is sad event
in the lives of all those who knew
her and the bereaved family have the
sincere sympathy of all.
Palisadian., 1925-01-30

On Tuesday, Feb. 10, in both Cliff
side Park and Fort Lee the annual
school elections will be held. The
polling place in Cliffside Park will be
the high school and the polls will open
at 8 p. m. and remain open for six
hours or longer if necessary. In Fort
Lee citizens are to cast their ballots
at the Whiteman street school, in Fort
Lee, between the hours of and
9 p. m.
Cliffside Park
In Cliffside Park three members
are to be elected for terms of three
years each. The members of the
present board, whose terms expire,
are Messrs. ]. NJ Akin, Henry
Dietrich and DIR. Walter Schmidt.
Both DR.. Schmidt and Mr.. Diet
rich have definitely stated that
they will not be candidates for re-
election, and Mr.. Akin up to this writ
ing is undecided. New candidates in
the field to date are H. E. Olsen Of the
West Grantwood section; H. L. Geb-
hardt of 72 Lafayette avenue, and
Geo. N. Venables. Mr. Olsen's can
didacy is just rumor, while Mr.. Geb-
hardt's is confirmed by himself, and
Mr.. Venables makes the following an
nouncement:
To the Editor-Will you please an
ncunce through your paper that | am
candidate for the office of school
trustee in the Borough of Cliffside
Park at the school election on Feb.
10, 1925?
My platform is: No part-time class
es in any of our schools; every child
to get a full and complete education.
Whatever new building is erected |,
should W MSe lPlSe ltPl9eed 4 Where the greatest
efficiency in education can be accom-
plished. No attention to be paid to
the survey by the state authorities
unless it shows itself to be real
city planning scheme for the whole
hilltop community.
GEO. n. VENABLES.
Fort Lee
In Fort Lee four members are to be
elected, three for three years and
one for one year The retiring mem
bers are Walter Oteil, Edward Pack
ard, John Abbott, Jr., and Dunbar
SPOTS of Palisade. All save Dunbar
SPOTS will seek reelection No new
candidates have yet announced them
selves in Fort Lee proper nor in the
Palisade section. 1t is supposed that
the three members desiring to be re-
elected will have no serious opposi-
ton. There are forces at work in
Palisade to find a man willing to sue
ceed Mr.. SPOTS, but up to this writ
ing nothing definite was known.
CIffsde School Budget
AT the meeting of the Cliffside Park
Board of Education, held on Thurs
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Palisadian., 1925-01-30
HENRY B0AS VICTIM OF
TRAGIC AUTO CRASH
Former GrantWood Boy Is Killed
Instantly When Michigan Ex-
press Train Strikes Auto.

Henry H. D. Boas, son of Professor
Franz Boas of Grantwood, and two
girl companions were instantly killed
on Sunday last when Michigan Cen.
tral express train struck the auto in
which they were riding at a grade
crossing about seven miles west of
Dowagiac, Mich. The girls were
Miss Anna Bleaseby, 20, of Chicago,
and Miss Caroline Stanger 20, also of
Chicago.
The Boas family have long been
residents of Grantwood and are we'll
known throughout this section. Pro
fessor Boas, the father of the victim,
is professor at Columbia Univer-
sity and enjoys national celebrity as
an authority on anthropology. Only
recently Professor Boas returned from
visit with his son in Michigan.
The son was a graduate of the
Storr's Agricultural College in Con-
necticut and for the past four or five
months he had been connected with
the Berrien County Farm in Michigan.
The body has been sent to the home
of his brother Dr. Ernest P. Boas in
New York City.
The sympathy Of the community
goes out to the family in the sad hour
of their bereavement.
Palisadian., 1925-01-30

Andrew Jackson DeVoe, a longtime
resident of Hackensack, 70 years old,
died at his home Sunday last on the
north side of the city, where he lived
many years on small fruit farm. Mr..
DeVoe gained certain form of no.
toriety as a so-called weather prophet
lasting over long period. He was
the author of an old-fashioned alma
nae which he sold at a price to the
Chattanooga Medicine Company and
others for great many years. He
got considerable income (said to
have been $4,000 a year, from this al
manac, and it was adapted to all Sec
tions of the country. 1t cannot be
said that his predictions of weather
in this almanac were based on more
than mere guess work, with science
having little to do with it. In the
month of December, some four or five
years ago, he mis-fired on the wealth
er thirty-one days, fact recorded by
a correspondent to a New York news
paper The old man laid great stress
on his having predicted the 1883 oliz-
zard. Probably he did. But it was
more accident than knowledge, the
way most people viewed it. l had
known DeVoe almost ever since l
have lived in Palisade, and he has
visited me at my home a number of
times and also at my Office in New
York. He always spoke of his Prov
Fess in the most familiar terms. conf
dent that he knew everything that
science didn't. He yielded no skill
to science. His theories on the wealth
er of this earth were all his own and
original. Our weather, he claimed,
was based on the way the light from
the moon reached the earth. This
was his one great theory, and he
claimed it as the basis of his predic-
tions. If the moonslantS hit the earth
at low, slanting angle we would
have cold or cool weather. If they
struck more perpendicularly it would
force warm weather. In my talks with
him DeVOe sometimes would claim
great intimacy with the consultations,
but | often wondered if he could call
one by name or point it out. In fact,
| never got myself to believe that he
knew the slightest thing in the world
about astronomy. l hope l do his
memory no injustice. Since l have
lived in Palisade he has predicted
scores of billiards. that never mate
rialized, and such storms" were his
hobby. The Hackensack Record at
one time or another has made a lot
of jest over DeVoe's predictions that
never came through. Every time his
weather eye got engaged he would
Palisadian., 1925-01-30

walk into the Record office and pre-
dict blizzard or storm. He often got
into the columns of the New York
papers, also, by predicting these
freaks of weather.
He got up an ingenious little circu-
lar weather forecaster chart made of
cardboard which he sold for about a
dollar or a dollar and half over the
county, 1t was a disc on which he
moved certain, metal hands" to
indicate where the storm came from
and what it would amount to- or what
the temperature would be in any part
OF the country. Set it right and there
you had the weather for week
ahead. He gave me one of the con-
trivances, but it was without the
slightest value as a scientific instru.
ment nor would it tell anything about
the weather
Whatever DeVoe was in reality he
was at least a theolist. | would not
call him an imposter, but he certainly
never had the slightest capacity be-
yond mere guesswork, as | viewed
the man, and | say this with all due
respect. | often marvelled at the real
audacity and cock-sureness of his pre-
dictlons that never came to anything.
Yet it is true that he had large fol-
lowing who believed him sort of
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