University of California Berkeley 
 
SAN ANTONIO 
 
 
 Jil 
 
 DAW CROCKETT 
 
 THE MISSION CITY 
 
SAN ANTONIO 
 
 SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES 
 
 TEXAS AND LOUISIANA 
 HOUSTON, TEXAS 
 
 NOTE. We are indebted for the historic scenes appearing in 
 this book to the Triangle Film Corporation, taken from their 
 classic production, "Martyrs of the Alamo." 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 To the Texan, proud of his native State, no 
 single thing in all the glory of its accomplishment, 
 but pales before the lustre the heroism, the patri- 
 otic fire which animated those wonderful martyrs 
 of Texas independence who went to their doom 
 within the walls of the Alamo. 
 
 History tells of the messengers who fled from 
 bloody Thermopylae crying the tidings of defeat, 
 but history tells us also, that when the smoke of 
 contest cleared from the walls of the Mission Ala- 
 mo life had gone with the mists of battle and the 
 heroic defenders gazed towards the blue heavens 
 with eyes that saw not and ears no longer attuned 
 to the melodies of Earth all, all were dead. 
 
 Time smiled triumphantly that sad March day 
 of 1836. Rapacious Mexico had overwhelmed 
 and buried beneath the solid phalanxes of trained 
 soldiers, the fires which burned in the breasts 
 of these heroes, but history had halted but for 
 the moment, for, on April 21st of the same year, 
 the forces of General Santa Anna which had 
 stormed and conquered the Alamo, went to irre- 
 trievable and lasting defeat before the untrained 
 men led by the Texas general, Sam Houston, amid 
 the oak groves of San Jacinto. Thus were the 
 final chapters in the struggle for Texas independ- 
 ence written, and while the name of Houston 
 will always shine upon the walls of fame, the 
 Alamo, with Travis and his indomitable compan- 
 ions, gloriously sacrificed upon the altar of a 
 never-dying patriotism, is eternally enshrined 
 within the minds of every man, woman and child 
 who has lived, and still lives, with a knowledge 
 of their martyrdom and the cause they so nobly 
 and so unselfishly represented. 
 
 The records of achievement the world over are 
 strident with the deeds of man. Civilization has 
 builded upon human effort and human sacrifice. 
 Heroes are not alone developed upon the battle- 
 field, nor is accomplishment measured by for- 
 tune's vagaries. Truth and honor live, and will 
 
 Crockett, "Silent" Smith and Bowie. 
 
Planning the Revolt. 
 
 always light the heavens of thought and of desire 
 with the pure and abiding beam of noble enter- 
 prise. Yet, did civilization build upon the blood 
 shed in the Alamo, and did Texas lift from the 
 heel of the despot to an all-conquering destiny 
 and with open arms welcome the peoples of the 
 earth to erect their rooftrees upon a generous 
 soil, watered with the tears of women and chil- 
 dren, but pregnant with the promise of peace and 
 plenty. 
 
 Travis and Crockett did not die in vain, for 
 out of the noise of battle, from the bk .dy dust 
 of the arena has risen a manhood that points 
 with pride to the birth of an independence that 
 shall live forever. 
 
 Today the Alamo looks somberly upon the plaza 
 of the same name, in beautiful and progressive 
 San Antonio. Behind the screen of palms gently 
 swaying to the winds from the Mexican Gulf, 
 this time-scarred Mission tells its own story, but 
 peace, and prosperity, and content smile at the 
 worn carvings of the facade and at the cold 
 stone walls of the ancient abode of the friars. 
 While the ritual of Rome long since ceased to 
 echo within the crumbling edifice, the faithful 
 of the "Mission City" pay devout homage to its 
 memories, and at vespers, the whispering zephyrs 
 linger for the solemn tones that near two cen- 
 turies since awoke the echoes of the spreading 
 prairies, calling the wandering savage to the new 
 prayer and the new God. 
 
SAN ANTONIO 
 
 HAT is now known as San 
 Antonio had its inception 
 with the establishment of 
 the Mission San Francisco 
 de Valero, the "Mission of 
 the Alamo." Originally con- 
 structed or begun in^l718, 
 the edifice which now 
 arouses the interested awe 
 of the observer was built 
 in 1744. Prior, however, to 
 the first date, the Spaniards 
 out of Mexico had visited 
 the location, then the camp 
 
 of a great Indian tribe which had settled about 
 the beautiful springs now known as San Pedro. 
 Under a kingly charter from Ferdinand of Spain 
 in 1689, the original prospectus of San Fernando 
 was conceived and later established upon the 
 west bank of the now San Antonio river. The 
 Mission San Antonio de Valero was then located 
 on the east bank, and administered by the Fran- 
 ciscan monks, San Fernando being held by the 
 friars of Queretaro. In 1736 the Spanish 'mon- 
 arch authorized a colony sent from the Canary 
 Isles, and upon the arrival of this party, the 
 two locations were merged under the name of 
 San Antonio, and since that day has progressed, 
 notwithstanding the vicissitudes of nearly two 
 hundred years, to a position of prominence and 
 distinctiveness second to no other city in the 
 great Southwest. 
 
 Originally established to carry the voice of 
 Christianity to the hearts and souls of the won- 
 dering and untutored savage, as well as to more 
 firmly plant the golden lion of Castile in oppo- 
 sition to the advancing prestige of the French 
 marching through the savannahs and lowlands 
 of Louisiana, the Alamo and its sister Missions, 
 which still mark time in the changing years, 
 have served to centralize civilization and estab- 
 lish the homes of a thriving populace where once 
 
 "Let every man who will stay and die with me, 
 cross the line." Travis. 
 
And the Last One Perished.' 
 
 only the smoke of the tepee and the shrill cry 
 of the desert dog marked occupation. 
 
 San Antonio has witnessed the winds flaunt the 
 flags of six governments to the heavens the 
 insignia of Spain, the Lily of France, the Serpent 
 of Mexico, the Star of Texas, the bars of the 
 Confederacy, and the Stars and Stripes of a 
 united country. History, tradition, love and ven- 
 eration, have each contributed to the develop- 
 ment of San Antonio, which today while no less 
 inspired by a wonderful record, throws open its 
 doors and invites the world to lift the latch string 
 and partake of its always generous hospitality 
 and welcome, and that within a metropolis which 
 typifies enterprise, energy, progress, and man's 
 attainment. It is a city of sentiment, of material 
 development, of wealth, of industrial accomplish- 
 ment. It possesses every feature and concomi- 
 tant of a strenuous and up-to-date civilization, 
 as manifested by its wonderful natural advant- 
 ages and commercial development. Its parks, 
 roadways, streets, buildings, climate, environ- 
 ments, and above all, its citizenship, conspire to 
 create an entity that is alluring in the extreme, 
 and which offers every advantage to the indi- 
 vidual seeking the pleasures of a handsome 
 resort city or the opportunity of becoming profit- 
 ably identified with its business life and a part 
 of the one hundred and twenty-five thousand 
 souls who now live with reasonable happiness 
 and content within its rapidly extending con- 
 fines. 
 
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PUBLIC BUILDINGS 
 
 .AN ANTONIO is nothing if 
 not enterprising and pro- 
 gressive, and much local 
 money has gone into hand- 
 some edifices of varying 
 character. The city has 
 eighteen public buildings 
 and sixty-seven churches 
 and chapels, many of them 
 of fine design, and several 
 of the latter both architec- 
 turally and historically in- 
 teresting. 
 
 The postoffice and Feder- 
 al building is of remarkably handsome *vpe and 
 generally admired. 
 
 The Court House, situated on Main Plaza, is 
 also a very imposing structure, and its admirable 
 architectural qualities have been widely com- 
 mented on. The City Hall, on Military Plaza, 
 has also a distinctive beauty as well as useful- 
 ness. 
 
 In the Market House San Antonio has another 
 public building that furnishes not only a sanitary 
 market, but the second floor is a large convention 
 hall capable of seating three thousand people. 
 
 The Carnegie Library is a handsome building, 
 erected in 1903 through the generosity of Andrew 
 Carnegie at a cost of $50,000. In 1906 a second 
 gift of $20,000 was made, which has been ex- 
 pended in building an auditorium adjoining the 
 library. The library has now more than 25,000 
 volumes. 
 
 Churches, practically of all denominations, are 
 found in San Antonio, many of them handsome 
 structures made doubly attractive by vines, 
 shrubs and flowers. The stranger in San An- 
 tonio will find people of his own faith and a 
 hearty welcome in the place of worship. 
 
 San Antonio has 129 secret societies, including 
 all of the leading orders known to the United 
 States. A number of these are strong enough to 
 
 Mexican Rule. 
 
Alamo Plaza. 
 
 own their own homes, and especially may be 
 mentioned the Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the 
 World, the Masons, who have erected a hand- 
 some temple at the corner of Losoya and Crockett 
 Streets; the Elks, who have a splendid three- 
 story club house on Avenue E, just in the rear of 
 the Postoffice, erected at a cost of $50,000, and 
 the Hermann Sons, who recently completed a 
 fine building on Garden Street, costing about 
 $60,000, which is the State home of the order. 
 These three buildings are among the handsomest 
 of their kind in the South. 
 
 During the past five years San Antonio has 
 expended nearly $15,000,000 for buildings of all 
 descriptions, and the progress so indicated is 
 being stimulated by the expenditure during 1915 
 and 1916 of several millions of dollars raised 
 through bond issues and utilized for streets, sew- 
 ers, sidewalks, bridges, county roads, schools and 
 other public improvements. 
 
 Added to this is some $3,000,000 being spent 
 by the public service corporations for paving 
 and extension of utilities. 
 
 Several important business thoroughfares have 
 been widened at heavy cost notably Commerce, 
 in the very heart of the city, all of the business 
 buildings being either moved back some twenty 
 feet or cut off and reconstructed. Other material 
 civic improvements of similar character are now 
 being consummated and in which the value of 
 property taken and destroyed was nearly a quar- 
 ter of a million dollars. 
 
 The public spirit of the San Antonio people 
 was never more in evidence than in this most 
 commendable work. 
 
THE PLAZAS 
 
 HE originality of the Dons 
 who first established the 
 limits of San Antonio was 
 no better exemplified than 
 in the location of the many 
 breathing places or "plazas'* 
 which dot the present city, 
 many of them of course 
 having been added during 
 the past twenty years. 
 Twenty-three parks afford 
 fine opportunity for a grow- 
 ing population and make 
 out-of-door life a matter of 
 easy accomplishment and of pleasing variety. 
 
 The most lovely and extensive is Brackenridge 
 Park, formed by improving the natural surround- 
 ings of the San Antonio River, where it flows 
 between wooded banks, its water reinforced by 
 a series of natural springs. Great live oaks, pe- 
 cans and cottonwopds forest the parks, and beau- 
 tiful driveways wind through the full two hun- 
 dred acres comprising the same. Herds of elk, 
 buffalo and other animals, give pleasing variety 
 to the park, which, liberally endowed by Nature, 
 has been further beautified by the park commis- 
 sion. 
 
 The plazas, or open squares, have been well 
 planted in flowering shrubs, palms and other 
 semi-tropical products. Pomegranates, yucca, 
 cactus, myrtle and pampas grass provide a luxu- 
 riant vegetation of pleasing variety and of never- 
 ending interest to visitors, particularly on winter 
 days when the invigorating sunshine makes the 
 outdoors desirable. 
 
 The most attractive of these numerous small 
 parks are the Alamo Plaza, Main Plaza, on which 
 fronts the historic Cathedral of San Fernando 
 and the Bexar County Court House; Military 
 Plaza, in the center of which is the beautiful City 
 Hall; Travis Square, where is located the Con- 
 federate monument. 
 
 San Pedro Park and Springs, in the center of 
 the residence section, includes some forty acres, 
 
 Main Plaza. 
 

 The New Commerce Street. 
 
 splendidly wooded. The giant springs gush from 
 the tree Voots, cold, clear crystal. The lovely 
 grove was first settled by the ancient Indian 
 tribes and later by the early Spanish, who were 
 succeeded by the first Texas settlers. War and 
 rumors of war oft disturbed this sylvan glade, 
 but today peace sings in the twittering of birds 
 and the cries of happy childhood. 
 
 "In the Spring the young man's fancy lightly 
 turns to thoughts of love," and in the Spring 
 San Antonio blossoms like the rose until every 
 yard is a garden and every garden a bower. 
 
 Recent developments in the roads leading put 
 of San Antonio into the country have vastly im- 
 proved the situation from the standpoint of the 
 motorist. Many of the roads, including the cele- 
 brated "loop" or Mission pike, are hard sur- 
 faced, making them ideal for motoring or riding. 
 Over 185 miles of these country roadways radi- 
 ate from the city in every direction, touching 
 all suburban points of interest and traversing 
 farm and prairie sections, touching the hot sul- 
 phur wells and baths. To the north these ave- 
 nues ascend by easy grades to the mountains 
 and to the 17,000-acre government reservation 
 near Leon Springs, recently acquired by the Gov- 
 ernment as a target range and schooling place 
 for new troops. The scenery is always interest- 
 ing and attractive, and the environment in every 
 direction pleasing. 
 
 A new motor road is being developed to Medina 
 Lake, while southwards the way is easy to the 
 gulf coast with its several water resorts and their 
 attending hunting, fishing and boating. 
 

 
 FORT SAM HOUSTON 
 
 N Fort Sam Houston, the sec- 
 ond largest army post in the 
 United States, visitors find 
 a never failing source of in- 
 terest. Here the bugle's 
 shrill clarion, the roll of 
 drums, and the tramp of 
 armed men reproduce the 
 picturesque pageantry of 
 war without any of its dis- 
 agreeable features. Fort 
 
 Sam Houston, in 1870, embraced a tract of 40 
 acres. This has been increased from time to time 
 until it is now 944 acres, and the Government has 
 just contracted to buy an additional 310 acres, a 
 portion of a 660-acre tract that has been held by 
 the Government under lease. 
 
 The buildings and grounds represent an in- 
 vestment of approximately $7,214,500. During 
 the fiscal year 1911 the improvements approxi- 
 mated $414,501, included in the total investment 
 just set out, and improvements approximating 
 $50,000 have been completed during 1912 or are 
 under way. The post was enlarged to a brigade 
 post two years ago and the development of the 
 last two years makes the post the largest in the 
 United States. 
 
 As a brigade post, the garrison consists of one 
 regiment of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, 
 three field batteries and two squads of the signal 
 corps, comprising altogether between 3,500 and 
 4,000 men with a monthly payroll of $225,000, 
 but the companies are usually distributed among 
 several smaller posts in Texas so that the ordi- 
 nary garrison here consists of 132 officers and 
 2,212 enlisted men. 
 
 Part of Quadrangle, Fort Sam Houston. 
 
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 Drill Ground, Fort Sam Houston. 
 
 It is the great military center for the Southwest, 
 and its close proximity to the Mexican border has 
 on several occasions been the scene of great activ- 
 ity. The commissary and ordnance branches be- 
 ing especially in demand. 
 
 The Headquarters of the Department of Texas 
 is maintained here. The fort is splendidly sit- 
 uated on Government Hill, a beautiful rolling 
 plateau which commands the city and surround- 
 ings. 
 
 All departments of the service are represented 
 infantry, cavalry and artillery including an 
 aerial squad. Many handsome buildings are a 
 feature of the Post, which is considered one of 
 the handsomest and most desirable in the coun- 
 tryC 
 
 Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays at 4:30 p. m. 
 a dress parade and review is held at the Post, 
 to which the public is always welcomed, and 
 which is always well attended. Practically all 
 of the well known army officers have been locat- 
 ed at Fort Sam Houston during their military 
 
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 Post" has always 
 
 career. 
 
 As a social adjunct, the 
 
 played an important part in San Antonio's ex- 
 istence, and the recent Mexican situation has 
 contributed largely to the development of the 
 always interesting location. 
 
 
MEDICINAL AND HOT WELLS 
 
 AN ANTONIO has gained con- 
 siderable fame in her pos- 
 session of several hot sul- 
 phur wells of remarkable 
 curative and medicinal 
 properties. This water 
 comes from a very deep 
 stratum and was discovered 
 several years ago, the prod- 
 uct apparently varying in 
 constituents there being 
 twelve or thirteen different mineral waters, with 
 properties well established both by analysis and 
 experience. 
 
 The Hot Wells Hotel and Bath House is located 
 within easy reach of the center of the city both 
 by electric car and auto road. The hotel is situ- 
 ated in the heart of a natural park of two hun- 
 dred acres of oak and pecan. The buildings are 
 well constructed and comfortable, and the man- 
 agement has completed a good nine-hole golf 
 course. Quite near is the "Second" Mission of 
 San Jose, and also the ostrich farm. 
 
 The Harlandale Hot Sulphur Well is located 
 three miles from the center of the city, and is 
 reached by street car and good roads. The sul- 
 phur water is obtained at a depth of 2100 feet 
 and flows about 500 gallons a minute. A hand- 
 some and thoroughly equipped bath house pro- 
 vides, in addition to the regular tub baths, Turk- 
 ish, Russian, Roman, electric and mud baths. 
 Steam and vapor rooms of varying temperatures, 
 showers, massage, cooling, lounging, and recep- 
 tion rooms furnish complete and luxurious equip- 
 ment. 
 
San Antonio River. 
 
 Terrell Hot Well, located about five miles from 
 the center of San Antonio, at the townsite known 
 as San Jose, has also established a reputation 
 for remarkable curative powers. It is easily 
 reached by street car. The buildings are essen- 
 tially modern as are the bathing appliances and 
 treatment. A fine open air bathing pool is a 
 feature of the location and an attractive Inn is 
 adequate to care for persons wishing to remain 
 in the neighborhood. 
 
 The baths and mineral waters have proved of 
 great curative value for rheumatism, gout, sciatica 
 and diseases of the stomach, liver and kidneys. 
 They are efficacious for skin and blood diseases; 
 nervous disorders, and have tonic and stimulative 
 power. Also for neuritis, eczema and some forms 
 of blood pressure. 
 
 Close to San Antonio are also the mineral wells 
 of Sutherland Springs, where seven distinct wa- 
 ters may be found, each of which differs in cura 
 live properties. 
 
 
 
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CLIMATE 
 
 HE climate of San Antonio is 
 altogether delightful. The 
 atmosphere is dry and brac- 
 ing, possessing a high per- 
 centage of ozone which 
 makes it invigorating. One 
 may ride and drive in Jan- 
 uary, and furs and heavy 
 outer wraps are rarely need- 
 ed. Vegetables and fruits 
 grow in the winter months. 
 The average of the winter temperature is 54 de- 
 grees; the average of the spring temperature is 
 69 degrees, and of the fall months 70 degrees. The 
 mean annual rainfall is 28.7 inches, and the pre- 
 vailing direction of the winds is southeast with 
 an average hourly velocity of 7.4 miles. These 
 are the correct official figures as furnished by the 
 United States Weather Bureau at San Antonio. 
 
 One will not suffer from malaria or fevers at 
 San Antonio, which is, by official statistics, one 
 of the healthiest, if not the healthiest, of cities 
 in the United States. Among the native born one 
 almost never encounters pneumonia, bronchitis 
 or pulmonary troubles. The climate is indeed 
 strongly recommended for moderate sufferers 
 from these diseases who, with reasonable care 
 and open air life, are always benefited, as numer- 
 ous visitors can testify, returning season after sea- 
 son to enjoy the blessing Nature provides. 
 
 RELIGION AND SCHOOLS 
 
 San Antonio is also an educational center of im- 
 portance. It has 34 public schools, representing 
 an investment of a million dollars; 45 private 
 schools representing an investment of two million 
 dollars. The scholastic population of the city, 
 
 Breckenridge Park. 
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Hot Wells Park. 
 
 
 based on the public schools, is 22,983. Students 
 come to San Antonio schools from all over the 
 Southwest. Formerly a large contingent came 
 from Mexico, which with the restoration of peace 
 in that country, no doubt, will be resumed. A Car- 
 negie library on Market Street, a model institution 
 of its kind, offers facilities for the fiction reader 
 and the research student. 
 
 Practically all of the religious denominations 
 are represented in San Antonio and the city is 
 blessed with beautiful houses of worship, and 
 the moral tone of the city is excellent. The peo- 
 ple without being bigo'ted are representative, de- 
 cent, clean-living Americans. Strangers are al- 
 ways welcome in the San Antonio churches. 
 
 San Antonio does not neglect the opportunity 
 for entertainment and has provided facilities for 
 this chapter of city life that are not excelled by 
 any of its sister communities. An excellent opera 
 house in which the spoken drama is presented, is 
 supplemented by several of the handsomest mov- 
 ing picture houses in the South, and in addition 
 thereto a fine theatre devoted to a circuit of vaude- 
 ville attractions. 
 
 The San Antonio Music Festival Association, 
 the Symphony Orchestra, present during the cool- 
 er months programs of merit and a high state of 
 histrionical excellence. 
 
 
 
SAN ANTONIO CLUBS 
 
 HE citizens of San Antonio 
 are warm hearted and hos- 
 pitable, and this phase is 
 evidenced by the extent of 
 the club life of the lovely 
 city and by the character of 
 the many buildings which 
 have of recent years arisen 
 to care for the development 
 of this community idea. 
 
 Among these may be men- 
 tioned the Casino, which has an attractive build- 
 ing of its own in the heart of the city. The 
 Country Club, which will compare favorably with 
 any of the clubs the country over, owns a magnifi- 
 cent building on the very edge of the city, beauti- 
 fully situated and supplied with every feature of 
 club life calculated to make its membership and 
 visitors thoroughly satisfied with life. 
 
 The Travis Club is said to be the largest city 
 club in Texas, and unquestionably has the finest 
 building of any such institution in the Southwest. 
 Its home is a splendid eight-story structure with 
 a roof garden, swimming pools, gymnasium, pub- 
 lic and private dining rooms and cafes, library, 
 living rooms and a club service unexcelled. Vis- 
 itors to the city will have no difficulty in secur- 
 ing cards to the club or non-resident member 
 cards for the winter months. The club has many 
 social entertainments and is largely patronized 
 by the wives of members. 
 
 Of the clubs maintained by the German-Ameri- 
 cans of San Antonio, the Casino has its own build- 
 ing near the center of the city and is famous 
 for its open handed hospitality and its wonderful 
 New Year's Ball. The Beethoven Society has just 
 
San Antonio City Hall. 
 
 rebuilt its club house on South Alamo Street; 
 it has a very large auditorium and social enter- 
 tainments as well as theatrical engagements are 
 staged there. Turner Hall, the home of the Turn 
 Verein, is a handsome brick structure, also cen- 
 trally located, with an excellent gymnasium, ball 
 room, assembly rooms, etc. The Hermann Sons 
 have built a handsome new house on Garden 
 Street, which is equipped with all modern ap- 
 pliances. 
 
 Of the secret societies, the Benevolent Order 
 of Elks maintain a club house, the Masons have a 
 Temple, and the Odd Fellows also have their own 
 home, and the Woodmen of the World have a 
 handsome home. 
 
 One of the most attractive clubs of San An- 
 tonio is that of the San Antonio Automobile Club, 
 which organization has a membership of about 
 eight hundred and maintains a handsome club 
 house on the North Loop about ten or twelve 
 miles from town. Its grounds are beautiful and 
 it is one of the social centers of the city. The 
 Automobile Club also maintains a branch at the 
 Medina Lake and under its auspices from time 
 to time regattas and aquatic sports are held at the 
 Lake. 
 
MEDINA LAKE 
 
 O CITY in America possesses 
 a playground that can sur- 
 pass Medina Lake in attrac- 
 tive features. This magnifi- 
 cent body of water, which 
 is about the same size as 
 Lake George and similar in 
 shape, some seventeen to 
 twenty miles in length by 
 from one-half a mile to four 
 miles in width, is impound- 
 ed by the Medina Dam, a massive concrete struc- 
 ture 168 feet high. The Dam was built by a com- 
 pany capitalized at $8,000,000.00, chiefly English 
 capital, for irrigation purposes. This company 
 and its subsidiary allies own 60,000 acres of 
 land. This is the largest irrigation project, ex- 
 cluding one or two subsidized by the Govern- 
 ment, that exists in America today. Its diver- 
 sion dam and lake, four miles below the main 
 dam, its main ditch and flumes and laterals are 
 monuments of engineering skill and objects of 
 great interest. 
 
 This lake is large enough for sail boats. On 
 it are maintained a number of house boats, a reg- 
 ular flotilla of motor boats, skiffs and canoes. A 
 line of small excursion steamers is projected and 
 a bathing beach is being developed there. The 
 San Antonio Automobile Club maintains a branch 
 tavern at the lake and plans are under way to 
 build an interurban line to the lake, to put up 
 an attractive rustic hotel of fifty or sixty rooms 
 and develop the resort features for both winter 
 and summer. A fine automobile road from San 
 Antonio to the lake is now under construction. 
 
 
Medina Lake. 
 
 The great feature of the lake, however, is the 
 fishing. It has been stocked with fish by the 
 United States Government and expert anglers 
 from all over Texas declare unanimously that it 
 is the best fishing place in the State. Big mouth 
 black bass abound and it is no unusual thing for 
 a single fisherman to catch fifteen to twenty 
 pounds of bass in two or three hours' fishing. 
 
 The place is one of great natural beauty, as 
 the lake is surrounded by a circle of mountains 
 which generally are vivid blue, and the water 
 being blue with purple shadows when the clouds 
 float is rarely beautiful. The elevation being be- 
 tween 1100 and 1200 feet it is generally pleasant 
 in summer and nights are delightfully cool. In 
 season the inlets where creeks flow into the lake 
 furnish places for hundreds of wild duck and 
 the sport of duck shooting, quail hunting, wild 
 deer and turkey hunting, make this a sportsman's 
 paradise. 
 
 In the mountains west of San Antonio the more 
 hardy sportsman may also indulge in the chase 
 of the bear, wild cat and other predatory animals. 
 
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OUT-OF-DOOR SPORTS 
 
 AN ANTONIO is a golfing cen- 
 ter and games can be played 
 almost every day in the 
 year. At the San Antonio 
 Country Club, a twenty-min- 
 ute ride from the center of 
 the city, there is an eigh- 
 teen-hole golf course as 
 good as any in the country. 
 The greens are especially 
 smooth and well kept and 
 
 the fair way is in excellent condition. While 
 this is the usual Country Club with an exclusive 
 membership, visiting golfers, by showing their 
 membership cards in other clubs, through ar- 
 rangements with the several hotels or the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce, can get the privilege of playing 
 on these links under the usual conditions. 
 
 At the Hot Wells Hotel, four miles from the 
 center of the city to the South, an excellent nine- 
 hole golf course is being perfected, which is 
 semi-public in character, and visiting golfers can 
 secure privileges here also. This course prom- 
 ises to be very fine, as it crosses and re-crosses 
 the picturesque San Antorilo River and is in 
 sight of the famous Second Mission. The Hui- 
 sache Golf Club on Laurel Heights, also a semi- 
 public course, has a five-hole field, and a magnifi- 
 cent eighteen-hole course is being developed by 
 the city in Brackenridge Park, to be known as 
 the "Municipal Links." 
 
 At Fort Sam Houston there is maintained a 
 splendid polo field, and these stirring and excit- 
 ing games are a part of the regular training of 
 the officers located at the Post. Visitors who 
 care for this energetic sport are cordially wel- 
 comed by the men of the army, and as many polo 
 ponies are raised and trained in the vicinity of 
 the city, there is usually little difficulty in secur- 
 ing proper mounts. 
 
 A Day's Sport in the Gulf, South of 
 Antonio. 
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Southern Pacific San Antonio Depot. 
 
 The Country Club has developed several fine 
 tennis courts and these outdoor facilities are also 
 promised as a feature of the Hot Wells Hotel, 
 while it is expected they will also be provided 
 at one or two of the city parks. 
 
 FOR ROD AND GUN 
 
 There is much fine sport to be had within a few 
 hours' ride of San Antonio in quail hunting. The 
 management at the hotels and the Chamber of 
 Commerce can give the visitors complete direc- 
 tions in these matters. In addition to the quail, 
 doves, squirrels and rabbits are to be found in 
 great abundance. From fifty to one hundred 
 miles of the city excellent deer hunting and num- 
 erous wild turkeys can be had. Special arrange- 
 ments can easily be made for hunting privileges 
 on certain ranches and with due notice guides 
 and equipment can be arranged for. 
 
 In addition to the duck hunting and fishing on 
 the lakes, a night's ride to Rockport, Aransas Pass 
 and Corpus Christi will bring the visitor to the 
 Gulf of Mexico, where he will find ducks of every 
 variety, wild geese, brant, and other water fowls, 
 and the deep sea fishing cannot be surpassed 
 anywhere. In this, too, the hotel management or 
 the Chamber of Commerce will be glad to furnish 
 detailed information showing the names of the 
 resorts, boat owners and guides and any other 
 facts that a sportsman must know in going in 
 new country. 
 
 
 
FOR THE TOURIST 
 
 OCATED in one of the health- 
 iest sections of Southwest- 
 ern United States, San An- 
 tonio is particularly well 
 situated from the standpoint 
 of the man or woman who 
 seeks recreation in the open 
 air and a life free from the 
 restrictions imposed by less 
 favored cities. 
 
 In every direction the 
 breeze-swept plains stretch 
 to the horizon. Gently roll- 
 ing, to the south they find 
 
 their way to the Gulf of Mexico and its warm 
 green waters. Westward, with gradually increas- 
 ing elevation, they merge into the dry, treeless 
 areas which form the American bank of the Rio 
 Grande. In the north the blue of the mountains 
 marks the boundary line, and east the prairie 
 drifts again to the sands of the Gulf through the 
 great cotton, corn and rice fields of the coastal 
 plains. The mesquite savannahs please the eye 
 with their feathery foliage, and in the spring 
 the scent of the yellow blossomed huisache fills 
 the air with a sweetness that is like no other 
 sweetness, while the stiff leaves of the yucca 
 rattle in the early winds, and the pheasant and 
 bob white run riot among the purple-fruited cac- 
 tus which is in evidence everywhere. 
 
 The river beds, more often dry than running, 
 are lined with cottonwoods and the precious pe- 
 can of commerce. The spring-fed creeks are 
 luxurious with a dense vegetation and, radiating 
 in all directions, excellent roadways make travel 
 easy and pleasant. 
 
 San Antonio has been the most important of 
 the gateways to Mexico for many years. The 
 Southern Pacific, operating via Spofford and 
 Eagle Pass, and via El Paso, has brought the sister 
 republic into close touch with San Antonio, and 
 hence the Mexican element injected into the 
 population of the city is just sufficient to give a 
 pleasing variety and distinctiveness that is in 
 
 Residence Section. 
 29 
 
Gunter Hotel. 
 
 harmony with the surroundings and a somewhat 
 picturesque individuality. 
 
 Opportunity for golf, polo and kindred sports 
 is much in evidence, and these features of San 
 Antonio life are not neglected by the energetic 
 visitor. Deer are still numerous in the mesquite 
 and chapparel while the several coast resorts, 
 tributary to the attractive metropolis, afford 
 splendid fishing, boating and bathing. The finest 
 tarpon fishing location in America is only a half 
 day run from San Antonio, and here also, in 
 proper season, is to be found possibly the best 
 duck shooting grounds on the coast. The Me- 
 dina Dam and Lake is a nearer attraction. This 
 lake has been well stocked with black bass and 
 the intelligent angler is always sure of a good 
 day's sport at this wonderfully beautiful sheet 
 of water which rivals its more pretentious arti- 
 ficial lakes of the great West. A new club house 
 is a projected feature at Medina Lake and motor 
 roads to the resort will soon make the forty-odd- 
 mile trip one of extreme enjoyment. 
 
 Hot sulphur waters with fine curative proper- 
 ties abound, and several bath houses, attractive 
 and sanitary, provide necessary facilities within 
 the city proper. 
 
 The proximity of the army post, Fort Sam 
 Houston, with its military features, drills, hops 
 and dress parades, is not the least of San An- 
 tonio's attractions, as the Post is always in evi- 
 dence so far as the visitor is concerned, and 
 much frequented by the San Antonio people. 
 
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COMMERCIAL SAN ANTONIO 
 
 HE day was, and not so many 
 years since, when San An- 
 tonio was a frontier city, 
 the half-way house between 
 the effete East and the cow- 
 boy and sombrero-covered 
 hidalgo of Mexico. Today 
 it is one of the prosperous 
 and constantly growing 
 cities of the Southwest, the 
 center of a great trade, and 
 a distributing point of splen- 
 did dimensions. 
 
 Two fine daily newspa- 
 pers are features of its progress, and over two 
 hundred industrial plants have established a most 
 respectable pay roll. Up-to-date business houses 
 show retail products equally up-to-date, compar- 
 ing favorably with the shops of the biggest cities 
 of the country. 
 
 The jobbing or wholesale houses are equally 
 alert and progressive in their various lines, they 
 being thoroughly representative and operating 
 in a territory as large as the State of Ohio. 
 
 The wholesale trade of the city is valued at 
 $100,000,000 annually. 
 
 San Antonio has seven national banks, three 
 State banks, one of which does a trust company 
 business, three additional trust companies and 
 four private banks. The combined capital of the 
 State and national banks is $4,050,000; their com- 
 bined deposits averaging about $25,000,000. The 
 pay rolls of the manufactories amount to $5,500,- 
 000 each year with an annual product of over 
 $35,000,000. 
 
 With less than fifteen per cent, of its territory 
 producing, yet this territory has an assessed val- 
 uation of nearly three hundred million dollars, 
 with farm products, including stock, having a 
 value of approximately $65,000,000. The city 
 proper for 1914 shows an assessment of $96,233,- 
 000, with an estimated population of 125,000. 
 
 Menger Hotel, Loggia. 
 24 
 
lony Hotel. 
 
 ANTONIO HOTELS 
 
 Few cities of the South have so splendidly de- 
 veloped their hotel facilities as has San Antonio, 
 for, while it has always possessed accommoda- 
 tions of a really superior character, the past few 
 years have witnessed the establishment of several 
 thoroughly up-to-date, modern hostelries of pro- 
 portions and equipment sufficient to meet all pos- 
 sible demands. 
 
 The most notable of these are the St. Anthony 
 and the Gunter, erected each at a cost of from 
 $500,000 to $600,000. At the end of the first set- 
 son's operation the capacity of both hotels was 
 increased materially, bringing the investment of 
 each close to one million dollars. The old favor- 
 ite hotel, the "Menger," has also been improved 
 by the expenditure of a large sum, and these 
 three establishments, together with a number of 
 smaller hotels, of which the Travelers', Crockett, 
 Maverick, Hutchins, Bexar, Imperial, Nueces, and 
 Losoya are excellent examples, thoroughly equip 
 the city for all possible contingencies. Numerous 
 restaurants and cafes, whose cuisine is as varied 
 as anyone might wish, provide also for the trai 
 sient visitor. 
 
 
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AS A RAILROAD CENTER 
 
 OUR trunk lines of railroad 
 enter and pass through San 
 Antonio. Chief of these is 
 the Southern Pacific, Sunset 
 Route, traversing the won- 
 derful territory between 
 New Orleans and Portland, 
 Oregon. 
 
 This magnificent system 
 is the direct line from the 
 northern Atlantic cities, 
 connecting at New Orleans 
 with carriers operating 
 through cars from all im- 
 portant centers in the East, and also the Chicago, 
 St. Louis and Cincinnati territory. 
 
 For years this system has recognized the im- 
 portance of San Antonio from a standpoint of 
 commerce and also because of the splendid re- 
 sort features and attractions of the city, which 
 it has exploited the world over. So located as to 
 meet the schedule demands of the Southern Paci- 
 fic, that line has continued to build up its through 
 service, and sleeping cars now operate to and 
 through San Antonio, between Washington, At- 
 lanta, Chicago, New Orleans, Houston, Galveston 
 and El Paso, and points on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 The elaboration of the service of the Sunset 
 Route includes all steel trains, the best dining 
 car service in America, and oil burning locomo- 
 tives which make travel through and into Texas 
 the perfect travel because of the freedom from 
 cinders and smoke. Ninety-pound steel rails, 
 automatic electric block signals, and splendid 
 ballast, are features of the service, and San An- 
 tonio is one of the chief cities on this system. 
 
 The Southern Pacific lines also operate trains 
 to the Gulf at Port Lavaca and traverse a fine 
 farming and cattle country between San Antonio, 
 Cuero, Victoria and Houston. 
 
 San Fernando Cathedral. 
 26 
 
Mission San Jose. 
 
 
 ^CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 
 
 San Antonio has an active Chamber of Com- 
 merce numbering more than 2,000 members. Al- 
 lied with it are the leading civic organizations 
 in the city: The Publicity League, which has 
 the duty of advertising the resources and oppor- 
 tunities of San Antonio to the world; The Real 
 Estate Exchange, which has on its membership 
 roll every active real estate man in the city; The 
 Jobbers and Manufacturers' League, which looks 
 after credit ratings and other interests of its 
 members; The Fiesta San Jacinto Association, 
 which manages the spring festival held each year 
 in San Antonio; The Bexar County Highway 
 League, which encourages and assists in the con- 
 struction of improved streets and roads; The 
 Civic Improvement League, which encourages 
 sanitation and municipal improvements, and the 
 Young Men's Business League, which is bringing 
 the younger business men of the city into active 
 civic work and introducing them into the larger 
 affairs of the Chamber o/ Commerce. 
 
 With a public-spirited membership and an ac- 
 tive and efficient official organization, the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce has been one of the funda- 
 mentals in pushing San Antonio and in maintain- 
 ing its advantage before the world. 
 
 San Antonio Press Club is also an active factor 
 in promoting the interests of the city, and occu- 
 pies commodious quarters near the center of the 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 THE MISSIONS OF SAN ANTONIO 
 
 HESE interesting, ancientruins 
 speak in their own way of 
 America's early history. They 
 tell a wonderful story of the 
 efforts and faith of the Span- 
 ish monks to push the ritual 
 of the Holy Catholic Church 
 into the new and far lands of 
 a conquered world; to prose- 
 lyte among the savage tribes 
 of an unknown country and 
 make God an abiding per- 
 sonality in the hearts of a 
 strange people. 
 
 Then, too, in establishing these missions in re- 
 gions remote from those ravaged by Cortez and 
 his successors, the edifices served as posts for 
 Spanish extension and marked additional domain 
 for the Lions of Castile. The missions were 
 chained together, as it were, and built into the 
 wilderness, forming a connecting link with the 
 seat of government in Mexico. The decline of 
 the temporal power of the Empire left the seats of 
 spiritual strength vacant, and now, after centuries 
 of human effort, of human successes and failures 
 and the rise and fall of dynasties, these old walls 
 and carven towers tell mutely the long, long story 
 of a dead past. 
 
 The story of the Alamo was written in the blood 
 of the bravest of the brave. Fighting for the in- 
 dependence of their country, the immortals fell 
 and their ashes mingled with the dust of their 
 loved homeland. Crockett, Bowie, Dickinson, 
 Travis, Bonham, and a hundred obscure heroes 
 fell beneath the persistent onslaughts of Santa 
 Anna and his six thousand soldiers. The conflict 
 of the "Alamo," meaning "Cottonwood," took 
 place on March 6th, 1836. No messenger of de- 
 feat carried the dire tidings. Death claimed them 
 all. On April 21st the battle of San Jacinto was 
 fought and with the rout of the Mexicans and the 
 capture of Santa Anna the bonds which had bound 
 Texas to Mexico were severed for all time, and 
 
 
 
 Mission San Jose. 
 28 
 

 Mission 
 
 the dead of the Alamo were avenged in the glori- 
 ous birth of the new Republic. 
 
 The Alamo was originally the Mission San An- 
 tonio de Valero, named alike for St. Anthony and 
 the Spanish Viceroy, Duke de Valero. The Mis- 
 sion was first established in the Gienagua of the 
 Rio Grande in 1703, later to Illdephonso, and after 
 another temporary location at San Pedro Springs, 
 where it remained for some years, was perman- 
 ently located on its present site in 1744 and secu- 
 larized by royal decree in 1757. It was the center 
 of many conflicts between the Indians and Ameri- 
 cans and later the Mexicans. 
 
 The architecture of the Mission is severely plain 
 with the exception of the ornate door and win- 
 dow carvings. The main chapel was laid out in 
 the form of a cross, 72x62 feet, with walls four 
 and a half feet thick. ^"V* 
 
 The Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purissima de 
 Acuna, one of the Spanish Viceroys, is known as 
 the "First Mission," and is one of the most cele- 
 brated of the Texas group historically, being the 
 scene of one of the bloodiest contests of the Texas 
 revolution. On October 28, 1835, one hundred 
 Americans, led by Col. Bowie and Capt. Fannin, 
 camped near the Mission and were attacked in 
 the early dawn by a vastly superior force of Mex- 
 ican soldiery. Hemmed in on every side by their 
 enemies, the Americans fought desperately and 
 
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 finally overcame their adversaries, who fled, leav- 
 ing nearly a hundred dead and wounded on the 
 field; the Americans losing only one man. 
 
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The Mission Concepcion was established in 
 1716 on the opposite bank of the San Antonio 
 River, but was moved to its present site in 1731. 
 In general appearance the building is Moorish, 
 possessing two towers, and curious inscriptions 
 on the cement-covered walls. Like most of the 
 Missions, time and vandalism are gradually de- 
 stroying this old edifice. 
 
 It was in the year 1689 that the first emissary 
 of the Spanish King reached the location after 
 wards known as San Antonio de Bexar. Don Alon- 
 zp de Leon, then governor of Coahuila, on his ar- 
 rival in the year named, at the little Indian village, 
 was greeted by its inhabitants with cries of "Te- 
 jas, Tejas," meaning Paradise. From this did 
 "Texas" originate. During the period 1690 to 1718, 
 six Missions were built, the first being that of San 
 Francisco de Tejas, afterwards renamed. 
 
 Mission San Juan de Capistrano was one of the 
 six and was probably completed in 1716. It was, 
 however, abandoned and permitted to lapse be- 
 cause of its distance from the settlement. Only 
 the bell tower and crumbling walls now stand. 
 
 The Mission San Francisco de la Espada, mean- 
 ing "St. Francis of the Sword," was named by the 
 then Viceroy, Domingo de Teran, and its ruins 
 stand on the original site. It was also permitted 
 to lapse, but was re-established in 1716. Time has 
 not dealt gently with Espada, and its walls have 
 been gradually crumbling. The De Zavala chap- 
 ter of the Daughters of the Republic endeavored 
 to raise a fund with which to preserve the curious 
 old tower which has always been the most char- 
 acteristic feature of the Mission. 
 
 The Mission San Jose de Aguayo, named in hon- 
 or of its patron, Saint Joseph, and of Gov. De 
 Aguayo, is undoubtedly the most imposing and 
 beautiful of the old buildings. Known as the 
 "Second Mission," it gives ample token of the 
 skill and architectural ability of the Franciscan 
 Fathers. The beautiful carvings which ornament 
 the great doors and windows were the work of 
 the Spanish sculptor Huica, who came across the 
 seas for that purpose. San Jose was founded in 
 1720, and was eight years building. It is today 
 the most favored of all the Missions, and is well 
 maintained. 
 
 
 Mission Concepcion. 
 30 
 
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 ALEXANDRIA, LA. 
 
 J. W. Harrington .... Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 ATLANTA, GA. 80 Peachtree Street 
 
 C. M. Evans ............................ General Agent 
 
 R. O. Bean ................... Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 David L. Griffin .......... City Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 AUSTIN, TEXAS Littlefield Building 
 
 W. R. Smith .......... Division Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 D. C. Cheesman ........... City Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 BALTIMORE, MD. 29 Baltimore Street 
 
 Wm. B. Johnson ...... Division Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 A. A. Price ......... Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 BEAUMONT, TEXAS Sunset Park 
 
 F. L. Sheeks ............................ General Agent 
 
 T. L. Cleveland ...... Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 O. B. Puryear ............ City Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 310 Brown Marx Building 
 
 C. M. Evans ............................ General Agent 
 
 S. J. Brown ................... Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 Geo. W. Ely .................. Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 BOSTON, MASS. 12 Milk Street 
 
 J. H. Glynn ........................ New England Agent 
 
 J. A. Blaser ....................... City Passenger Agent 
 
 Wm. C. Harris ................ Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 G. B. Brown .................. Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 A. H. Boyd ................... Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 BUFFALO, N. Y. 11 Swan Street 
 
 S. C. Chiles .......... District Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 H. D. Morse .................. Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 G. H. Vogel .................. Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 E. U. Sturdevant ......... City Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 CHICAGO, ILL. 55 West Jackson Boulevard 
 
 W. G. Neimyer .......................... General Agent 
 
 O. P. Bartlett ................... Assistant General Agent 
 
 W. J. Sack ................... Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 J. E. Maynard ................... Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 R, D. Williams ..................... City Passenger Agent 
 
 H. M. Kean ................... Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 R. Gunderson .................... Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 C. H. Hawley ................... Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 CINCINNATI, O. No. 5 East Fourth St., Sinton Hotel Bldg. 
 
 A. G. Little ............................. General Agent 
 
 W. T. Holly .................. Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 Earl Z. Giblon ................ Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 L. Liston ...................... Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 S. C. Sigler ..................... Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 Geo. H. Siebert .................... City Passenger Agent 
 
 CORSICANA, TEXAS 
 
 J. H. Evetts ......................... Commercial Agent 
 
 DALLAS, TEXAS Railway Exchange Building 
 
 S. G. Reed .............. Assistant General Passenger Agent 
 
 Leon Dismuke .................. Division Passenger Agent 
 
 J. M. Fariss ..................... Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 J. C. Loggins ............. City Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 DENVER, COLO. 313 Railway Exchange Building 
 
 H. F. Kern ............................. General Agent 
 
 M. Robertson ........ Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 DETROIT, MICH. 221 Majestic Building 
 
 E. A. Macon ............................ General Agent 
 
 W. J. Montgomery . . . Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 J. H. Desherow ...... Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 EAGLE PASS, TEXAS 
 
 T. G. George ........................ . . Agent 
 
 EL PASO, TEXAS 206 Oregon Street 
 
 Wm. C. McCormick ...................... General Agent 
 
 J. E. Monroe ............. City Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 Wade Cunningham .... Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 FORT WORTH, TEXAS Westbrook Hotel Building 
 
 H. J. Fitzgerald ....... Division Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 A. J. Patton ......... Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 E. A. Pennington .......... City Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 FRESNO, CAL. 
 
 C. H. Jasper ......... Division Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 GALVESTON, TEXAS 21st and Market Streets 
 
 A. J. Morris ...................... Division Freight Af*ent 
 
 GUAY1.IB 
 
 HAV?NA, 
 
 General Agent 
 
 J. W. Green ....... General Ae'pnt 
 
 HOUSTON, TEXAS Southern Pacific' Building' ' 
 
 R. H. Carmichael . . . Division Freight Agent G. H. & S. A Ry 
 
 T. & N. O. R. R., H. & T. C. R.R. '' 
 T. G. Ratcliff ......... Commercial Agent H. E. & W. T. Ry., 
 
 H. & S. R. R. 
 ?' ' 1 ,r S ..................... Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 J - F. s ni *- .: ............. Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 Rice Hotel Building 
 Tom Hood ................ City Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
KANSAS CITY, MO. 101 Bryant Building 
 
 C. T. Collett ............................ General Agent 
 
 L. F. McFarland ............... Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 E. H. Williams .................. Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 LAKE CHARLES, LA. Majestic Hotel 
 
 W. H. Stakelum ....... Division Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 210 Gazette Building 
 
 C. L. Bouchard ....................... Commercial Agent 
 
 LOS ANGELES, CAL., 600 South Spring Street 
 
 T. F. Fitzgerald ............. D. P. A., Wash. -Sunset Route 
 
 T ^o ThoS ' ' Bonnev ............. T. P. A., Wash.-Sunset Route 
 
 LOS ANGELES, CAL. Room 602, Pacific Electric Building 
 
 C. M. Knox ............................. General Agent 
 
 Grove Ketchum ...... Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 MEXICO CITY Ave. Cinco de Mayo, No. 34 
 
 G. R. Hackley ........................... General Agent 
 
 Or. P. Mena ......... Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 733 Metropolitan Life Building 
 
 C. A. David ........... District Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 NEW IBERIA, LA. 
 
 J. E. Carter ................... Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. LA. 225-227 St. Charles Street 
 
 Theo. Ensign ............ City Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 * rank J. Bole ......................... Passenger Agent 
 
 L,. P. Mathru-s. . . . Metropolitan Bank, Trav. Passenger Agent 
 
 r^TTr \rv, T - erre11 ........ Metropolitan Bank, Trav. Freight Agent 
 
 NEW YORK, N. Y. 366, 1158 and No. 39 Broadway 
 
 L. H. Nutting ............ General Eastern Passenger Agent 
 
 R. S. Stubbs ............... General Eastern Freight Agent 
 
 (T. L. Snyder .................... Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 366 Broadway 
 W. F. Anderson .......................... Ticket Agent 
 
 Frank Barthels ........................ Passenger Agent 
 
 1158 Broadway 
 A. C. Parker ........ J. M. Adler ........ Passenger Agents' 
 
 -Ticket Agent 
 
 ^T L - T fr ichar dson ......... District Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. 1200 Colcord Building 
 
 ? ? J > i nter ........................ Commercial Agent 
 
 T>T,TT , ^,SH\ ......... Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1600 Chestnut Street 
 
 F. T. Brookg ......... Division Freight and Passenger Agrnt 
 
 T c D Longacre ................ Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 J. S ^ Ramspacker ............... Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 J. G. Herring ........................... General Agent 
 
 treorge A. Smith ............... Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 J. L. Chapman .................. Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 I. F. Starke ................. Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 SAL? LA K l m TY; UTAH ' ' DiS ' r ' Ct *"'*" ""* *''""*" 
 
 A. R. Atkinson ........ Division Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 R. E. George .................. Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 W. H. Frazier ................... Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 E. McClannahan .......... City Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Rooms 1280-1282, Flood Building 
 
 P. K. Gordon ............................ General Agent 
 
 Walter R. Van Sickler. . . .Trav. Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Flood Building 
 
 J. N. Harrison ............ P. C. P. A., Wash.-Sunset Route 
 
 Jas. H. P. Mason .............. Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 SAN JOSE, CAL. 
 
 E. Shillingsburg ....... District Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 ST. LOUIS, MO. 1002 Olive Street 
 
 Geo. B. Hild ............................ General Agent 
 
 J. M. Mauden ................. Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 W. A. White .................... Traveling Freight Agent 
 
 L. B. Banks ...................... City Passenger Agent 
 
 SEATTLE, WASH. 720 Second Avenue 
 
 C. M. Andrews ........ District Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 SHREVEPORT, LA. 523 Market Street 
 
 M. J. Dooley ......... Division Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 F. J. Latter ......... Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 J. Gauntt ................ City Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 TACOMA, WASH. Bankers Trust Building 
 
 C. M. Andrews ........ District Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 TUCSON, ARIZ. 
 
 H. C. Hallmark. . . Asst. General Freight and Passenger Agent 
 
 WACO, TEXAS 112 South Fourth Street 
 
 J. G. Myerhoeffer .................. Division Freight Agent 
 
 C. M. Reeves, Jr ............... Traveling Passenger Agent 
 
 T. J. Shields ............. City Passenger and Ticket Agent 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C. 911 G Street, N. W. 
 
 A. J. Poston ........... General Agent, Wash.-Sunset Route 
 
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