The Velasco Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1893 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 2.
"Cod Might Have Made a Better Country, but Surely Never Did."
VE LASCO, BRAZORIA COUNTY. TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH .'J, 18ÍKJ.
NO. 27
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APPLY TO
BRAZORIA
J. R. MARMION, JR.
Renl Estate and Agent for Investors,
Velasco.
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OR MAKE A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT IN THE CITY OR COUNTRY BY CALLING UPON
Finnie, Douthit & Jones
General Real Estate Agents,
Velasco, - Texas,
UNIMPROVED LANDS TIMBER AND PRAIRIE IN ANY SIZE TRACTS.
Plantations Large and Small.
In tin, Vicinity of VoIhspo ami Angloloii.
Town Lots at Velasco,
Qui n i a n a a r i c.l A ngletori.
Should you como to Brazoria county call on us, and wo will take
pleasure in showing you through the county.
RUTCH1NS-HOUSE
HOUSTON, TEXAS.:.
First-class in all Departments
Popular Prices—andS2.Ó0 per
Day. ,
Turkish and Hushian Baths at
all Hours.
GEO. 3D. XXOSOXIS,
Manntfev.
FARIAS
If yon deslro to make
A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT
Cull on or \Yrilo ¡o N. M. Norflsct,
Vc'.a.co, Texas. Business Lots
from f!00 to $£01)0. Osi.v ()ni>
Timti) Cash.
+ ~~] THE WORLD'S FAIR-
| Passes to the Grounds Hard to
11 Procuro.
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},M01 i:i. OP TÜK SANTA MARIA
= 1!
(iiiiqdnt.' Out.—A Pine IMspinv Prom
Colorado. Pvcr.vtlilntf Will ho in
licmlincHs P« r the Opening oil
flic First of ,M v.
To obtain a pans to the fair will
be a ditllcult matter alter the cx
¡I BRAZORIA : COUNTY : LANDS, initio,,Ia.t „ ¡ V..,.
; j easy thing to get one even now.
FINNIE, DOUTHIT & JONES,
Real Estate Dealers.
A Grand. Opportunity for all to
PROFESSIONAL CAltlH.
!Le WIS R. BRYAN,
¡ ATTORNEY-AT- LAW,
(Olllce ovc!' New lir.nk.)
Volosoo, TOKFIH]
Will priiflio ' In tlio cotn-l.s nf Urusorln. Muta
i it 1 u nuil iiilJoluliiR counties
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W, A, FLEKISTER, !)|iiit,
Office Cor. Ave.B and South 2d St
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
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llouso.i. Texas, t
M a. M onhon-, J o
Veins ¡ .
MUNSON & MUNSON,
.attorneys sxt - La\T.
(0111 lee over Nat'l Bank )
VELASCo T EXAS
"I <11-1 ¡l'l have very tmoil luck with m y
k.viI.s lnsi yenr," u fitinror was .hcui-'i to siy.
Tiiis (lives rise to tTie que t'.oir Til)w nutty' fiSof
ern¡is (mu luMiltriliiile.l Id "luck" in the selee
tidii ol'seeils.' H u y i i ilt seel In an Important faclm-
in farming and shotiM reeeive I lie en refill jtnl};-
ment ami consiilcratloii of the funnel1. It I-
¡Many employe have considera-
| ble trouble in getting the cards
bearing the signature of the new
•superintendent of admission. Eve-
ry person having a puss i* requir-
ed to show his card every time he
enters the grounds whether an
employe or visitor. Even foreign
| commissioners are compelled to
j throw open their coats and show
j the tickets to convince the guards
til lit they have not farmed out
their passes to friends. The mild
insinuation that these representa-
tives of foreign governments
would be guilty of lending or sell-
ing their tickets is a new sensa-
tion to them. They say the ex-
position company might with
equal propriety put detectives on
their track to see that they were
not guilty of carrying away every-
thing of a portable nature within
reach.
The regulations now in torce
are lax compared with the preeau-
UoA Lhut will be taken next sum-
mer to prevent the misuse of com-
plimentary tickets. The photo-
I graph of t ass-holders will be
i.linos, always imponible l.i- «listin,'nish 0„- R|„p(| t||(,j,. t'OUipliltlOntariCS
m"'1n by «ight, un ) tlif ,n 1
go oil from the luid in
only infallible initio for the planter is
reliability of the veedsjnau. I>. M. Ferry A: <
of Detroit, Mich., have for many year.-- I cen th
loading seed house of this country, and tlioir
reliability Is unquestioned, The\ is.-ue a book
annualy which (ontains a complete digest of
I he very latest gardening k o\v ledge1 I ;, the
hot authorities. The 1.SU8 edition i< handsoincly
i 1111-trat«d and loutain.' information about tic
selection and planting c.f si ed which will prove
of the greatest value to every one planting a
ardí ni a 'aim II is mniko tree to any «Míe
making application t« the firm'* address
the j l'y this simple system of idonlitl-
• ! cation the abuse of passes will be
! prevented. At least 20,000 per-
jsmis will sit in front oí the camera
(lining the next three months and
•have photographs mude for fuir
passes.
The catering company that has
I the con tea c I tor operating all the
The l.'irls' School in Koine.
The Scuola l'rofesslonale, the
groat school for girls in Rome,
which is recognized by the Queen
and the municipality as one of the
most useful institutions in the
Eternal City, was founded by a
woman, Ki^nora ltioiyhini. The
I American restaurants ha- just let
j the contracts for the erection of
its general depot, store house and
I. i i elien in the exposition grounds.
¡The building will be I2fi feet wide
and 32"i feet long, two stories
high.
"In this building all the heavy
cooking will be done," said Mr.
ilium includes sewing by (¡age, of the catering company
hand and by machine, dressmak- ! last .evening. "Our bakery will
ing, the mending of all fabrics,1 be 150 feet long and 7ñ feet wide,
embroidery in gold and silver and
silk, stocking weaving, artificial
flower making, washing, ironing
and cooking. Indeed, mending is
elevated among the intellectual
fitted ii)) with twelve large, ovens,
the combined capacity of which
will be from seventy-five to one
hundred barrels of flour a. day.
The serond floor of this biiildin<:
Do you U30 Envelopes.
Thk Times lob office ha? lust re-
ceived a fine assort men t of
IOO.OOO Enotopes
of the very best quality, and will sell
Hneklen's Ariiirn Salve.
The best salvo in the world for Cuts'
Bruises, Hores, Ulsers, Halt Kheutn,
Pevor Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to
tbemata very low rate. Call and give perfoct satisfaction, or money re-
funded. J'rlce 25 cents per box. For
sale by J . G.Bovit's, the druggist1
arts by the regulation that girls ] will be u.-ed as a dining room for
who take a course ill geometry, employes. In a room 25:) by ¡00
that they may understand the do- feet we expect to feed from 15,000
signs of fabrics. Oeomelry is also to 25,000 employes each day.
considered an essential in cm- Scute will be provided for 1500
broidery. Hut, besides these feni- men at a time.
¡ ¡nine arts, there are courses in '• \Vc arc just beginning to make
j moral and civil law, in domestic estimules of the quantities of food
|und commercial mathematics und we will serve," continued Mr.
business forms, including instruc-1 Gage. "At least fifty beeves, or
tion in modern languages. In the ! 15,000 pounds of meat, will be
dressmaking classes gowns and j served each day. When the
'costumes arc made for the Queen buildings were dedicated last Oc-
and the ladies of the court. The lobcr we use i 5,000 pounds of
i course in artificial flower making ham one day in sandwiches. The
, begins with drawing and copying, average consumption during the
from nature, and in the prepara-1 exposition will be much larger,
tion lor the mending of laces the We shall have from 1120 to 150
making of point venisc and gotbic eating places, some of the large
point is mastered. The secrets of buildings being supplied with a
ancient tints and colors arc dis- j dozen or more.
; covered by patient experiment, From .'$,000 to 5,000 cooks, wait
, the beauty of old designs, frayed crs and dishwashers will be need-
land faded, are reproduced, and ed. Our first contract for coffee
lost arts are regained and supple- was for 400,000 pounds. That
raxmine them.
m en ted with new industries by
¡ the 800 pupils and their numerous
i teac'iers.
will make 10,000,000 cups. We
have bought 5,000 stools for the
lunch counters, 12,000 chairs for
the tables and 00,000 coffee cups,
we will be prepared to serve 150,-
000 people a day, and on the usual
estimates our receipts will be
from #0,(100,000 to #10,000,000 dur-
ing the sorson. Three grades of
¡restaurants will be operated—one
a high class place, where the ser-
vice will bo similar to that in the
best restaurants in the country;
another where popular prices will
prevail, und a third grade whore
bakery lunches will be served.
A company has been organized
for the purpose of providing visi-
tors with all kinds of things need-
ed in camping out. A village of
tents will be laid out south of the
park provided with all sanitary
arrangements, watchmen, etc., and
everything at hand for the com-
fort and convenience of parties
desiring to occupy tents instead
of hotels and boarding houses.
Though Colorado is generally
looked upon as a mining state its
people claim the right to rank it
among the agricultural states, and
the grangers have decided to
make a line showing. The ex-
hibit will be under a pavilion
eighty feet long and forty feet
wide and twenty-three feet high.
It will be entirely covered with
grain. The columns will be wrap-
ped w' i tlx grain; the arches will be
covered with grasses, the frieze
will be composed of a series of
pictures wrought in colored grains.
Several tables will support grain
in glass jars stacked in a pyramid.
Close to the main entrance will be
a display of mineral waters with a
fountain playing mineral water for
the benefit of thirsty visitors.
Grain iu the stalk will bo shown
upon the pane's octagonal upright
cases. There will be 400 differ-
ent varieties of wiuv.it, 100 ol oats,
:S5 of barley and .'¡5 of rye, The
above is but a small number of
the intiM'.Mtiiig exhibits to be
shown by the Colorado grangers.
Tile model of the Santa Maria
sent to the exposition by the gov-
eruin ': 11 of Santa Domingo lias ar-
rived on the grounds. It is eigh-
teen fee.!, long, seven feet wide '
and eight, feet deep.
The officials have received from !
the Netherlands a description of
the dutch exhibit. Iu addition to
the art section, there will be a large
col lee tion ill intra ting conspicuous
industries. There will Ir, two
diamond catting and pollishiiig
displays in the mines building
working with the diamond mining
exhibit, from the Kimberly mines.
The exhibit will be comprised of
manufactured confectionery, choc-
olates, cocoas, Dutch liquors and
cordials. A big display of bulbs,
growing and dried, will be another
feature.
Although the heaviest fall of
snow that has oceurod in Chicago
iu ten years is now on the ground
and must necessarily delay work
considerably. Director General
Davis says the exhibits will be in
place on lime and May 1st will
sec the fair gates open.
The steamship Dcramore will
liortly leave New Orleans with a
cargo of twenty carloads of machi-
nery and forty carloads of timber!
for the mining enmps around Stan-
ley l alls, Africa. The machinery
was ordered from Chicago, and is
mainly quartz crushing mills to
be used at the gold mines. The
point of destination is equally dis-
tant from New York and New
Orleans, but the shipment is made
via New Orleans because of its
superiority as a lumber centre.
This is the third shipment of this
character, and New Orleans is
coming into prominence as an
African shipping port.
VELASCO:
As Otlicr People See Us.
Nacogdoches Chronicle.
The editor of the Chronicle took
a trip to Velasco a few Sundays
ago and spent the day in that new
and hustling little seaport. Big
things are to "come from out of"
Velasco, if the prophccics of the
Volascoian are to bo taken for it,
and they are to arrive in the very
near future.
But whatever may bo the futuro
of Velasco, she certainly deserves
to become great. Private capital
and enterprise alone has been used
so far in placing her upon a foot-
ing to lay claim to prominence
and permanency ill the history of
this great commonwealth. Within
the short space of two years timo
the depth of water across the bar
at the mouth of the Brazos has
been increased from four feet ¡six
inches to soventoen feet six inches.
The city of Velasco is situated
four miles from the mouth,
and on the banks, of the
Brazos river, in the edge of the
prairie, fifty-five miles from Hous-
ton and forty miles from (Salves-
ton, and at the terminus of the
Velasco Terminal road.
Deep water at Velasco hooiiis
to bo an assured fact, and already
some of the largest vessels that
have ever landed on the Texas
coast have anchored there. It is
only recently that the Charles
Mitchell, a mammoth three-masted
schooner, drawing fourteen and n
half foot of water, after lying out-
side the bar at Galveston for two
weeks, was forced to go up to Ve-
lasco for a landing.
This was an important occasion
to the Velasco peoplo and was
celebrated in the most extravagant
fashion, in the words ftf a promi-
nent Velavco gentleman, "enough
powder was burned over the affair
to send a child to school six
mont hs." The cargo of the Mitch-
ell was barbed wire, and a great
portion of it was for towns inland,
¡every spool of which was labeled
with a Velasco advertisement in
box car letters.
Another very large vessel, the
steamship Tyzuek, was also iu
port there, loading with a mixed
cargo of cake meal, cotton and
cedar logs. She loaded up to fif-
teen feet three inches of water at
the wharfand finished to seven-
Icon feet six inches outside the
bar. The Tyzack left direct for
Liverpool.
We took a ride down to the jot-
lies on a barge, towed by tugboat,
Mollie Mohr. The length of the
jetties is 5,400 feet, and the width
between is 5(J0 feet. Since the
jetties have, been put in the gulf
has recod' d a thousuud feet or
more, and there is dry land now
where the tide used to play.
Work is still going on at the jet-
lies, but it being Sunday and the.
visit short wo had no opportuni-
ty to inspect the manner in which
it is done or note the character of
the work. It appears though that
at present the contractors are en-
gaged in filling in between the
rows of piling with brush, rock,
etc.
The jetties, the river, the wharf
and the big boats at anchor there,
are far more suggestive of a great
city somewhere in the immediate
vicinity than is the appearance of
Velasco at present.
But railroads and deep water,
together with lier enterprising
citizens, will make a city of Velas-
co that will tuin Galveston green
with jealousy.
Just keep your eye on The
Times. We will kocp you posted.
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Leonard, W. A. The Velasco Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, March 3, 1893, newspaper, March 3, 1893; Velasco, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185362/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .