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in 1882, it was bought in 1885 by William Marsh Rice, whose legacy
created Rice University, and later by Jesse H. Jones, who razed the
building in 1912 and built the first two wings (the third was added in
1926) of the existing hotel.
io. Vick's Park, c. 1900, an area now covered by the cloverleaf at
Waugh and Memorial drives and Allen Parkway. The tiny structure
at the far right is a pump house.
i1. The bandstand in Sam Houston Park, behind the present City
Hall, c. 1910.
12. Lords' Cycle Club at 109 Chenevert Street, probably in 1898,
when cycling was one of Houston's chief pastimes. The first bicycle
run to Galveston, 1892, took ten hours.
13. The first Houstonian to fly an airplane, one he built himself,
was L. L. Walker, in 1910. The plane, above, was a Bleriot-type
with a forty-horsepower engine; it flew at a peak altitude of 3oo
feet and had a top speed of nearly thirty miles an hour.
14. An open-air streetcar on Main Street, c. 1905, by which time the
city had about seventy automobiles.
15. Main Street, 1900, looking south from Congress Avenue. Only
buggies and a streetcar are seen, but three years earlier a horseless
carriage appeared on the street for the first time, and three years
later one T. Brady was given the first traffic ticket and fined ten
dollars and costs for "fast driving" on Main Street. He had exceeded
six miles an hour and caused a disastrous runaway.
16. Lower Main Street at the peak of its glory, c. 192o, when the
business district began moving south. This area, which began a gentle
decline at about this time, is now being restored, a little at a time,
by individuals.23o
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