Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-02
i'm OUR
VALLEY

A GENERAL PROTEST among
srus fruit growers in the Valley.
Has reached The Brownsville Her
a.
Telephone calls. Personal visits 10
he Herald 70 correct that thing.
Ar over typographical error.
it all goes to show what a little
biographical error will do.
he other day The Herald pub
ned a dispatch from San Benitc
.shich quoted a representative or
the Pennsylvania railroad As stating
he wanted To contract for a seasons
supply Of grapefruit for the Penn
tylvania lines dining car service.
But his road insisted on grape
fruit of a certain size. The dis
patch said he wanted "64's".
Now everybody knows that "6i's"
very common size in the Valley
I'D can be had by the carload.
Bot what he really wanted was
te's" which is "a horse Of a differ
mt color
THE as SIZE is produced in the
Valley. Of course. but IL is said 70
he very hard on the trees
j., And the large producers or the
\ xchanges would not care, j. is said
contract to deliver a large guam
ity Of this size.
Anyhow, that typographical error
certainly raised furore.
The letters in some way. some
where. reversed themselves. making
a 81 out of a 46. Which is not an
uncommon error.
THE BROWNSVILLE Real Estate
Board were hosts N quite \ gath
ering Of homefolks 81 Hotel Fl Jar
din's handsome new dining room
Monday evening.
Guests included ritv officials.
members of the kivsuis. Rotary and
Lions clubs. ard of the Business and
Professional WomeH's clubs.
And heard City Commissioned
Burt r. Hinkley, sri. suggest park
and playground program for Browns
vile.
He believed that s5O.ooo year
for four years-s20o oo0-wou'd III
the job up quite nicely.
He mentioned that $4,000 VS.
available for Washington Fark
which is being improved after exist
ing for some thirty years IN the
shape Of two square blocks of empty
lots
RAY MACkEI, San Antonio. who
had much t. AZ with the develop
ment Of San Antonio's park system,
was the speaker of the evening.
He indicated that San Antonio
: started out with much loss than
Brownsville has-and everyone who
knows his San Antonio is familiar
with what the Alamo CITY has done
IN the way Of parks and Fairgrounds
He passed along estimates that
Ssn Antonio has $4,000 70 $4,000
tourists annually. ard they leave
something like S9l,0o0.oO0 with the
city.
IN fact. ne indicated that were II
not for Fort Sam Houston and tour
lists, an Antonio would indeed have
been IN a very had way during the
past two years
a. WAYNE v WOOD. president nj
the real estate board, told the rect-
irC that il is not the intention of
the bosrd 20 initiate but n get
behind" every movement having ~
do with the development If the citv.
And the real es.atc board regard y
parks as one of the prime essentials
in the building ~ Brownsville
And rightly 81.
J. W. NIX. rrc .idcnt wy Hotel PVT
Jardin company and managing di-
rector. was congratulated or tho
hotels new banquet hall.
II ~ really p beautiful room. am
ply large "a accommodate y crowd
of 400 70 500 persons at tables.
~ was an aftcrthought. Built
after the completion of tho hotel
building and its rvo-story garage WV
the rear.
Connects the two buildings. qrd
conforms to tho general archtoc-
turaI lay out.
Great chandelier four w thov.
hide ceiling fans that do full duty
in the way of creating breeze.
Tinted walls. and ceilings i'm c0'or-
that conform II those of the walls.
The real estate board dedicated
the banquet hall. X promises to he
the scene or many great occasions
in the future
TWO YEARS kGO. when the
railroad discontinued thc "hra--h~
train. this column suggested the
establishment of bus mail service
Il fil the gap left by the ranec.i7.
tion of the train
Valley business needed more ra
cilities than those afforded hv n
single overnight service
Soon after G.. W bennett became
Brownsville postmaster. ~ took rn
the matter with higher postal Off
cials.
With the result. after some Few
months. that tho service went into
effect Monday
And some 5000 letters we're said
70 have been handled PEI the car
the first day
A letter mailed at Mission before
~ q. m, viii 10 ir 4 postofrice NV