Newspaper Page Text
6 SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE Founded January 20, 1881. *Even!ng Daily. Members Associated Press. Sunday Morning. S D ROBBINS * Publisher TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office and Circulation Department, both phones 178 Editorial Department, both phonea 1359 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier ar Mad. Daily and Sunday, one month 50c Single Copies, Daily or Sunday Sunday Edition, one year ... 2.00 Daily and Sunday, one year (mail only) in advance |5.00 Entered at the H»stoffice at San Antonio, Texas, as Second class Matter. The 8. C. Beckwith Special Areney, Representatives, New York, Tribune Bldg. Unicago, Tribune Bldg. TO SUBSCRIBERS. It is important when desiring the address of your paper changed to ' give both old and new addresses. Should delivery be irregular, please notify the office. Either telephone 176. The Licht and Gazette io on sale at Motels and news stands through* nt ths United States. * LARGEST CIRCULWDN OF ANY PAPER IN SAN ANTONIO Mr. Yoakum's Mistake ————————— brainiest railroad men this country boasts are committing a blunder in Texas. B. F. Yoakum and other men of like ability have been deluded into entering a newspaper campaign to try to force the repeal of the International & Great Northern bill, passed by the last legislature. No one can presume that Yoakum or his associates would come out in the open and stand sponsor for what they knew to be a manifest wrong. So it must be that these great railroad men are deceived and do not know that the issue in the International & Great legislation turned upon the question of common honesty. The International & Great Northern railroad was literally caught trying to get away with the goods. That road was given enormous land grants in Texas and manv other favors from the state. In short, its property gifts, if wisely man aged. would have enabled it to pay the whole cost of con struction. Putting it the other way, Texas built the railroad and then gave it to the Goulds. Subsequently, the road by mismanagement, and the milking of its earnings to support the extravagances of the Goulds, was bankrupted in times of prosperity when it should have enriched itself. The collusive receivership through which the road has been passing was plotted five or six years ago with deliberate intent to defraud the creditors. This is a matter of almost common knowledge to railroad officials and it is strange indeed that it did not reach the ears or eves of MrSl oakum. The plan was to send the gross earnings of the road to the east to pay interest on bonds held by the Goulds and their clique, letting the Texas creditors wait for their money, though these Texas creditors were paying the operating expenses, supplying the funds that kept the rail road a going concern. By unquestioned proofs it has been shown that since 1908 the receiver paid out of the gross earn ings $1,900,000 as interest on first, second and third mortgage bonds. An amount almost as great was expended out of the gross earnings for permanent betterments. The total of the gross earnings thus diverted was $3,500,000, while the Texas debt* accumulated and left unpaid through the same period amounted to a smaller sum, this being $2,225,000. There is no getting around these facts. The money that came in from passenger fares and freight receipts was sent east to the Goulds and the Texas creditors were bilked to keep the road running during this deliberate diversion of the gross earnings. And then, the acme of the fraud, came the announcement of proposed sale, which was sure to cheat all these Texas creditors out of the money they had advanced to aid the road in its extremity. Their claims would not only be left unpaid, but literally wiped off the books. It was a fraud out and out and conceived in sin. No one will believe that'Mr. YoMsurn and his friends stand for this. It is a plain question of right or wrong. The Texas legislature, in stopping the sale until the Texas creditors were paid, did no more and no less than is done when a de faulter is stopped at the railroad station as he attempts to flee the town, while the authorities take his loot away from him and turn it over to the rightful owners. When Mr. Yoakum and his associates hold meetings and pass resolutions declining to build this or that extension— that they did not expect to build, in fact—giving as a reason that they dare not build because the International & Great Northern bill was passed, they do themselves a great wrong by appearing to condone the boldest fraud in high finance by which Texas has ever been threatened. Do the gentlemen stop to consider that in standing by the International & Great Northern, right or wrong, they tire placing themselves in an attitude which will wonderfully encourage the legislators who favor a two-cent fare! Bather than take such a risk, and rather than uphold the Interna tional & Great Northern when it stands self-convicted of an attempt to swindle, wouldn’t it be a more popular move for Mr. Yoakum and his railroad colleagues to unite to compel the International & Great Northern to pay its honest debts in Texas! If the mayor really wants an unbiased opinion concerning the commission form of government, why not write to Des Moines, Galveston, Shreveport, Fort Worth and a few other cities that have been progressing under that sort of rule, wip ing out their debts and building up fine cities and oiling *streets and abolishing dust and collecting garbage in a sani tary way and doing a thousand and one things that our city government is not doing. Of course, no one doubts that the mayor will appoint an unbiased jury to find out for him what the charter is all about, anyway. Evidently he has been reading it over and there are some things in there that scare him—the recall and referendum for instance—things that would give people too much voice in their government and would abolish one man rule. The nine men the mayor names to poke holes in the charter cannot find as many flaws in it as the mayor has already discovered. There ought to be a law for the prevention of cruelty to charters. Own Your Own Home Own a home. It seems like we have read that line before. O, yes, it was in the real estate columns. It was paid advertising, but this is rot. It may pay you to heed it nevertheless. If you are getting any kind .of an income at all you can save part of it. Don’t spend it' all having a good time. Go out and use your judgment in the selection of a lot. Make a payment down and arrange to make additional payments at allotted times. You will find the investment fascinating. It will take you out of a rut and give you a new grip on your- WEDNESDAY. Sometimes very bright men make very bad mis takes, and it happens just at this time that some of the This is not a real estate advertisement, but a straight heart-to-heart talk to young men who are working on salaries. self. It will make you interested in the neighborhood and in the community. Out of self interest you will become inter ested in the tax rate nnd in the spending of public money. It will make you a better all around citizen. San Antonio real estate is the best possible investment. It cannot get away from you. It will not depreciate in value unless you blundered in your selection. Use the money you are using paying rent to make pay ments on a permanent home. In a few years you will find yourself the possessor of a valuable property, instead of the owner of a handsome collection of rent receipts. You can’t sell rent receipts, but you can usually find a buyer for good property. While we, are on the subject of investment, just remem ber that 60 years ago the relatives of John Hnnt of New York tried to have him sent to the insane asylum because he paid $2400 for a strip of New York real estate. A few days ago the same piece of property sold for $1,825,000. It is announced that the San Antonio Press club is to gam bol on the green next Thursday. No rangers need apply. The passing of the railroad pass did not come to pass. Ac cording to the figures, just published, it would appear that the newspaper men are the only people in Texas who have to pay. Uncle Walt The Poet Philosopher I spend my weary days in jail, and O, the hours seem sad and long! I lean against the bars and wail, and gaze upon the passing throng. Why are these fetters on my legs! Why do I sleep on mouldy straw! I sold a man two dozen eggs that would not pass the pure food law. The peelers came then to my JUSTICE IS BLIND. store and smote me roundly with their staves, and cast me on this dungeon floor, and no one succors, no one saves. I look through the prison bars and watch the flood of humankind, and see men pass in motor cars, who tried to rob the city blind. Across the street a statesman stands, his pockets full of ten-plunk notes; he often uses both his hands dish^ibut- ( ing the price of votes. The grafting aiderman drives by, big diamonds glowing on his shirt; he sees me, and he winks | an eye, and leaves me to the gloom and dirt. The plutocrats i are on parade before my dark and dreary cell; if they were asked how much they’ve made, I doubt me much if they could tell. They break some laws most every day; they all; hire lawyers by the year; and yet they blithely go their! way, while I, alas! am weeping here! Copyright. 1810. by Georg* Matthew Ad»m» Letters From the People To Editor Light and Gazette: Sir—Yon are certainly to be congratulated on the publica tion of the facts regarding the deliberate disregard of the state laws by those who were put in authority by the electors of the present administration of San Antonio. That men who solemnly swore to uphold the laws of the state should deliberately hold a council for the purpose of agreeing as to how far they should violate their oaths, by permitting the sale of beer, etc., on Sunday, and also the run ning of gambling tables in the open, and on city property, is beyond the comprehension of all law-abiding citizens. It will be a strange thing to the writer, now that the state offi cials have had to take a hand in the stopping of the games, and the calling on our county officials to have the taws ob served, if they do not go Lwther, and indict all who were direlect in their duties, before the grand jury, and see if they too will condone such lawlessness on the part of our citv and county officials. If the law is to be defied by our present authorities, in order to seek favor with the Mexican electors of our city, it is time that we got a new broom and sweep them all out of office, and try if we can find a few honest and capable men out of our boasted population of over 100,000 to take office and run our city as it should be. Had any American started a crap game during the Fourth of July celebration he would soon have found himself be hind the bars in the city hall, so I should like to know for what cause, if not to gain votes, the Mexicans were per mitted to defy our state laws with impunity by gambling and selling liquor. Yours very truly, SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE “PRO BONO PUBLICO.” PERCY THE PRESS AGENT “I seen you looking cross-eyed at that tall blonde in the second row to night,” said the Show Girl to l’Acy as he joined her in “Kids.” “Aw, forget it,” replied Percy. “You’re so jealous that you’ll be kick ing about my collar next because it clings around my neck.” “Don’t you flatter yourself,” sniffed the Show Girl. “I’m not as nutty over you as all that, but when a guy has pestered the life out of a girl to be hia’n for life and she hollers ‘yes’ just to make him quit annoying her, it’s he ought to have a little consideration for her feelings. “Don’t think I’m telling you this be cause I‘m jealous. Thank goodness, the gheen monster and I aren’t ac quainted, although green would go well with my Titian hair, but what rankles me is the laugh I t from the other skirts when they see my supposed fiance goo-gooing it with a brassy blonde. What you could ever see in her is” “Say, for the love of Mike, cut it out,” expostulated Percy. “I came in here to eat food, not to swallow words. Your accusation is both baseless and foolish. The blonde was telling me a funny story, and I had to listen. When a guy’s a press agent he’s got to be pleasant tp everybody.” “Does that include looking up into her eyes like a chicken with the dys pepsia?” asked the Show Girl, icily, but Percy threw up his hands despairingly and motioned to Joe, the waiter. “Br-r-r! Chee! but it’s cold arouud here,” said Joe as he got to the table and noticed the curling lip of the Show Girl, and the savage expression on Percy’s face. “Never mind the atmosphere,” 'growled Percy. “Bring me a plate of ; New Yorks, a side of buckwheats and coffee separate, and please remember that I’m hungry.” “My, how happy we are!” comment ed Joe as he bawled out the order. Then he waited for the Show Girl to ' begin. “Oh, is that you, Joe?” cooed the Show Girl sweetly, as she looked up, pretending she hadn’t seen the waiter up to then. “Oh, Joe, I wonder if you could bring me a plate of butter cakes, nice, soft and fluffy, like you did last night. You know you can be so nice if you want to,” and she gazed earnest ly at him. “You bet I can,” replied Joe in his softest tones, at the same time giving the Show Girl a knowing wink, “and there isn’t anybody I’d rather be nice to than them as is nice to me.” There was a smothered ejaculation from PercjNas the waiter moved away. “What did you say, dear?” mur murmured the Show Girl, “Oh, nothing,” answered her com panion, “only if I’d know you wanted to flirt instead of eat, I’d have sat somewhere else.” “How unjust you are,” replied the Show Girl, feigning surprise at Percy’s remark. ‘ ‘ Even if I did, didn't you read the other day where some wise col lege professor said flirting a little was good for girls!” “He was either dippy or was feeling good over some co-ed leering at him,” said Percy. “Oh, my; are getting jealous of cur old friend, Joe!” asked the Show Girl. “Of course not,” said Percy, “but if you want to flirt, I’d think you’d pick out somebody with a little more class. ” “Oh, I suppose you are real class, hey?” she asked, while Percv groaned. “I give up,” he said, finally. “Now look here, Kid, I ’ll promise to pull my hat down over my eyes every time n blonde hits mv horizon if you’ll cut out the kidding and make this a pleas ant meal. “Now you're talking” said the Show Girl, brightening. “Flirting is no bus iness. Percy. ’ ’ “You’re right,” he replied; “there never was much nourishment in it.” THE HALL ROOM BOYS. Observant Citizen “We've all heard the famous negro expression attributed to the old aunty who was asked where she was going. She replied: ‘Whar is Ah gwine? Well, Ise gwine whar Ise gwine, dat’s whar Ise gwine. ’ But I heard another the other night that I considered almost as gdbd. ’ ’ Several men listening to the travel ing man leaned back ia the lobby of the Menger and waited. “I was sitting in San Pedro park the other night when a parcel of blacks, men and women, came along. There was some talk, and then one negress accused a stalwart buck of being a ‘ ho tel bully.’ I don’t know what she meant, but it sounded as if she meant all sorts of things. • “The stalwart black vehemently dis claimed being any such thing. He iterated and reiterated his innocence, but the negress was skeptical. “ Yas, you is, nigger,’ said the wom an. ‘Dey tells me you sho’ is a hotel bully.’ “ ‘Now, you look yere,’ said the black. ‘Ah ain’t no hotel bully.’ “ ‘Dat’s what you say,* said the ne* gress. “ ‘Yas, dat’s what Ah say,’ replied the big fellow. ‘Ah ain’t telling you what Ah is; Ah is telling you what Ah ain’t.’ ‘ “I thought that expression about as good as the old aunty’s,” finished the traveling man, (did several present agreed with him. SANANTONIO£IYEARSAGO (From The Light, September 21, 1889.) Miss Lillie Peats is celebrating her birthday anniversary with a party of friends on Dallas street. Messrs. Rose and Post are in the city for the purpose of taking photo graphs to he used in illustrating the pamphlets and folders of the Sap and I. & G. N. railroads. Simon Veith and party have returned from a hunt on the Medina. J. T. Gunter and Nat Gunter of Dal las, are in the city. Amos Graves Jr., and his sister, Miss Smithie, have left for Philadelphia, to resume their studies. Frank Renny’s tall form appeared on the streets today. Te has gained ten pounds since his trip to Kerrville. H. A. Blair now drives out in a fine new phaeton. Col. W. J. McNamara is in the mar ket after 10,000 bales of cotton and 8000 hides. Uvalde will be represented at the San Antonio fair by some very creditable exhibits. Southern Pacific freight is unusually heavy for so early in the season. San Antonio Maennerchoir held re hearsal last night at Scholz’s hall. A called meeting of . the Bexar County Farmers’ alliance was held this morning at Meyer’s hall. F. Saltzer, Louis Robin and Alex Bar rera left this morning for A. Robin’s ranch for a few days’ hunt. A class of twenty was organized in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium by Dr. Bliem last night. Dr. Bliem delivered a splendid lecture before the meeting on the uses and benefits of the gym nasium. A. Schumacher will soon begin the erection of a $2OOO brick building on West Houston street. GENEROUS. “Come here. Tommy,” cried his mother from the edge of the pond, as she concealed the birch switch behind her. “What do yop want, ma?” asked the little boy, suspiciously. “I want to give you something.” “I—l ain’t doing nuttin’, ma.” “Then I shall be even more liberal. I am going to give you something for nothing.” Texas Talk twaddle. Texas legislators in their zeal to pose as stranglers of monopoly make some breaks that prove dis astrous to the people. Take the case of the Ban Antonio 4 Aransas Pass railroad as an example. The state compelled the Southern Pa cific to go through the formality of a bogus sale instead of requir ing the Southern Pacific to oper ate it in a first-class manner. Why ravp about dishonesty in public of ficials when the public are gold bricked by the Sap’s service? — Corpus Christi Herald. Curious logic these railroad newspa pers are forced to depend upon. If it was a “bogus” sale the Southern Pa cific was forced into, then it must be assumed that the Southern Pacific is still secretly in control and therefore responsible for the bad service. In fact, the Southern Pacific runs half a dozen of its branch lines with the same disregard of public necessities as seems to prevail on the “Sap.” RAILROAD HOGS. The railroads are spending a whole lot of money In an endeavor to get the farmers of Texas to raise more hogs. There is money in the proposition beyond question. Tex as is ideally situated for a hog growing state. The climate is fav orable and there is hardly a month in the year that good hog feed can not be grown. Now that it is pos sible to handle the cholera prob lem every farmer should have a herd of hogs and raise the neces sary feed for them. —Denison Herald. x Evidently the Herald favors other Ilogs than railroad hogs. Not so long ago this contemporary was fearful that the legislature had made a mistake in forcing the International & Great Northern tor\flisgyrge that $2,500,000. TO QUELCH HIATUS. If Governor Campbell has really discovered a hiatus in the prison bill it is to be hoped that he will depend on the rangers rather than another extra session of the legis lature to squelch it.—Dallas News. If the governor merely announces that he thinks of sending the rangers it ought to be enough to put the hiatus on the run. It had that effect on Cal laghan. OLD SCORES SETTLED. That I. & G. N. bill put the fin ishing touches on a lot of contem plated construction. But there were some old scores to even up, and hence the bill.—Waco News Her ald. * A' Whatever may be the facts about the old scores that hadn’t been“set tled, there were some old and honest debts that the I. & G. N. had not set tled and was trying to get rid of in order to continue paying gross earnings to the Goulds as interest on bonds. It is this little scheme that has been halt ed by the I. & G. N. bill. SHOCKING. The Chicago policeman who mis took the chief for a newspaper re porter and thefi got fined ten days pay for talking “sassy” will not fiake the same break again.—Gal veston Tribune. It won’t do to be too kind to report ers. If policemen don’t “sass” them I they may suffer from undue surprise and nervous shock. EPTEMBER 21, 1W&. Little Stories MOTORITES. Mr. Newear (about to start on his first trip in his recently purchased motor car, to his new chauffeur): “Now, William, I want it thorough ly understood I will not have fast driv ing, Always keep well under the legal limit—not as close to it as you can. Twelve miles an hour is enough for me. What I want is comfort—not excite ment. Do you understand}” Three days later: “Er—William, I must be back home at 7 o’clock. This road seems very straight and wide. Don’t you think you might go just a little faster with out danger? ’ ’ Two days later: “William, this dust is very unpleas ant. If you could pass that car ahead, now—it seems to be going rather slow ly.” Next day: “Put on a little more pace, Wil liam. There’s no use being a crank. This road’s too good to lose ths chance.” A week later: “Open her up, Bill. There are no police within five miles, I’ll bet, and if there are, who cares! I’m 0 ,- c,for fun! Let her rip, my boy—let ihei rip! This isn’t a steam roller! Let’s have some speed!” Two students were one day riding along a country road. Thinking to get some fun out of a country fellow whom them met, one of them said to him: “My man, we will prove that you are a horse.’’ “Dunno ’bout that,** replied the witty rustic, “but I can prove as your saddle be a mule.’’ “How can you do that!’’ they queried. “Well, it’s something between an ’orse an’ an ass.” A HARROWING STORY. “Extra! Extra! Nine lives lost! Horrible accident!” Attracted by the cries of the bright looking newsboy, a gentleman pur chased a paper. “See, here, where does it tell about the accident?” asked the purchaser, after looking all the way through the sheet. “Second page!” retorted the Lay. “Tells about ‘Killing of a Cat’—lost her whole nine lives.’’ COULD HE HELP IT? A lady and a little boy entered the car, but’ the boy squirmed and fidget ed so much on his seat that at last one of the other passengers expostulated?? “For goodness sake, keep your child still, madam!” “I’in very sorry,” said the mother, “but the truth is, until I get to the hospital I shan’t be able to quiet him.” “Dear me! What’s the matter with him! ’ ’ “He swallowed a teaspoon yesterday, and ever since he's been on the stir!” FEMININE CURIOSITY. Her husband was a merchant, and one day while down town she dropped into his office. “What are all those books on top of the safe?” she asked. “Those are the daybooks, my dear,” he replied. “And where are the nightbooks?’' she queried. “Nightbooks?” he echoed in sur- prise. “Yes,” she rejoined, “those you have to work over at night sometimes when you are kept here until 2 o’clock in the morning.”—Cihcago News. Pride goeth before a fall, and a fool before a speeding automobile. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR Reputations a” made on billposters 1 boards. ■ A late repentance saves a lot of dull ness up till then. Man works for woman so as to make her work twice as hard for him. Everything in life is a gamble, except that you will lose, which is a sure thing. A costly thing about, getting mar ried is putting it off and spending more being engaged.—New York Press. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Jealousy indicates misplaced affection. Many a far-sight ed man is a close ob server. The rest microlie is responsible for a lot of laziness. Wise is the man who doesn’t know more than he should. After a young man kisses a pretty girl once, he gets the habit. It takes a widow to flirt and make a man believe that she doesn’t. Smiles cost less than electric lights and they make the home brighter. Too often the sup posedly dead past is merely a case of sus pended animation. It’s surprising how many things a girl can learn at a board ing school that will never be of any use to her. — Chicago News-