Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-09
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20 Mexico City in the new border
service, flying to Mexico City from
San Antonio.
He declared that the Laredo Mex
leo City route Is the most difficult
and dangerous in existence. accord
ing to a City of Mexico dispatch
70 La Prensa, San Antonio.
And adds that there Is not s
single route in the United States
that offers rs many difficulties.
Anyway. Il is y highly sporting
flying adventure for the most dar.
ing flyers.
In the meantime the San Antoni,
newspaper hears rumors that the
Mexico City-Tampico air mail soon
will be extended to Matamoros.
When that is done il is quite
likely that the L. s. air mail line
projected from Washington on to
Atlanta, New Orleans and Houston.
will be extended 70 the border.
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO this writer,
then youth, got a job in Browns
vile. A job on a newspaper. On
The Herald. in fact.
His "run' included the offices of
the Brownsville Commercial Club.
On lower Elizabeth street.
There he met L. A. Whitney, secre-
tary-manager. now a resident of 81.
Petersburg. Fla.
And r. q. StegmGn, who passed
away later.
The latter had a map. And he
had an organization. II was known
as the Brownsville Ship Channel
association. Located next to the
Commercial club.
II proposed 10 build ship chan
mel from Brownsville 70 Brazos San
tiago pass.
Conditions were not right. The
Valley was still young. The project
never got beyond the survey and
formative stages.
II is that survey, largely. and
maps prepared then that are the ba-
sis or the present movement fer a
ship channel from Brownsville 20 the
coast.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is
giving attention 70 the smaller cities
Of the country in allocating build
irg projects under the Sl00,0Oo,OOo
eight year program.
A dispatch from Washington states
that among the smaller cities IN
Texas that will come into the pro-
gram are Harlingen. McAllen and san
Benito.
These cities in 1925 were in what
Il known as the $4,000 70 $4,000
class in postal receipts.
Since then they have gone into
the $4,000 to $4,000 and above that
figure, at least in the case Of Har-
linren which expects u get rating
Is a first class office.
TWENTY-FIVE MEMBERS Of the
woman's Advertising club Of Hous-
ton are planning a visit 70 the
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
They will be accompanied On their
,our by Mrs. Nat Metzel Of Ray
mondville, a member of the organi-
cation.
Other luncheon clubs have visited
the Valley before. Houston and san
Antonio Rotariarz, advertising men.
and others.
This will be the first tour by a.
voman's luncheon club.
The Valley certainly will do its
best TO entertain them.
SAN ANTONIO has in its midst
the American Legion.
Sixty thousand or more Of the men
and women-who had service at
home and abroad during the World
war.
out os that number there must
Re many who served On the lower
border in 1916, with the National
Guard and federal troops
Many of these are expected to
visit the Valley on side trip.
For that reason a general call for
automobiles has been sent out BY
all towns.
Autos from towns az the east end
Of the Valley will pick up loads and
take them from Brownsville to Pro-
gresso.
Autos from the other end Of the
Valley will pick UP loads at Edin-
burg.
The two motorcades will meet At
Progreso and exchange passengers,
returning down the Valley.
The arrangement will make the
trim easier for all, and is a new plan
for handling large crowds IN the
Valley.
NEW SIDEWALKS are being laid
in some sections of the city.
That's a progressive movement.
More sidewalks mean additional
facilities Of various kinds.
For example. they will put
Brownsville in line for additional
mail carriers.
More than half the city is with |
out free mail delivery service, prin- /
cipally for lack Of sidewalks
Then again. streets without side
walks are a hazard TO school chill |
dren. who will take to the streets |
when there are no sidewalks.
The police department is doing
everything possible % safeguard |
children in going e and from
school.
But t~re are some things they
cannot control. 1