Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-08-03


VISITORS TO BOCA Chica Sun
day estimated that at least five
beach there Sunday.
II every car carried four persons
doubtless many carried more
there were easily two thousand per
sons on the mainland beach Sunday.
II five hundred cars will visit a
beach with the sort Of roads now
in existence. how many would make
the trip over a first-class highway.
The same can be said Of the Padre
Island beach.
A splendid $4,000 bathhouse is
now going up on Padre, being built
by the James Dickinson company.
II will have all the facilities %
modern bathhousc, and promises to
be the most attractive on the Texas
gulf coast. Neither Galveston nor
Corpus Christi will have anything
like il.
Good roads to the coast will find
om 10000 to 10000 persons from
Valley towns visiting the re-
every week. Possibly more.
BENITO IS planning FOR the
orUAg or she very attractive
Stonewall Jackson hotel.
II will be San Benito's first big,
modern hotel snd will rank with
ether similar hostelries in the Val
ley.
Blu. It is different from others.
Ii was built under different sort
Of plan. San Benito citizens, md
citizens from the farm sections
around San Benito maie il possible.
They took the stock Of the hotel
building company. And il will be
operated under lease.
STEEL RAIL Is being laid on the
extension of the Southern Pacific
from Harlingen to Brownsville.
II is being put down from the rail
head in Harlingen 20 the bank Of the
Arroyo Colorado. over 70 the east.
After which il will cross on
temporary bridge. pending the build
ing Of steel bridge.
Then the track laying will start in
the southernly direction toward
Brownsville.
Weather uniting. there is every
reason 10 believe the Southern Pa
cific will BE- able TO build its
Brownsville yards by November.
Upon which Brownsville will he
something of u rail center. IL We
will be permitted % include the Ma
tional Lines of Mexico. which is ac-
tually connecting line at Browns
willie over the Brownsville & Mata-
moros Bridge Compauy's lines.
Brownsville will have the Mexican
road. the Rio Grande railroad. the
Missouri Pacific and the Southern
Pacific.
All Of which will bring from
twelve - twenty trains a day. pas
senger and freight. into Brownsville
Matamoros.
DEVELOPMENT, PROGRESS, have
their little tragedies
over on the Southern Pacific
right-of-way into the City Of
Brownsville. there resided nearly
800 persons.
Their homes were humble little
places. but their homes all the same.
And about their homes they had
planted flowers and shrubs OF mO-,
every conceivable species.
Go out there any day. particularly
in the late afternoon and you'll find
these residents. whose homes are 20
be moved 10 make way for the rail
road. digging up, carefully. pains
takingly. their shrubs and flowers.
which they will replant on the sites
OF their new homes.
TRAINLOAD OF water pipe for
Point Isabel.
Which means fresh water system
for the coast town.
Point Isabel has for years depend
cd upon Brownsville for its fresh
water supply. except such as Il
r.shered in its cisterns from rain
fell.
And Il was delivered by the fam
iliar old water ears.
Now il will come in streams
through faucets.