. The street railway review . and past the ruins for which thetown is famous. The greatest natural power in the vicinity are theFalls of the San Antonio, where the water descends 60feet, furnishing the means of manufacture to scores ofthrifty men. The narrow streets of old San Antonio present a curi- Sometimes a Norther fills the air with dust andsnow, but ordinarily there is no more lovely cHmate inall our country and the weak lungs that can not standnorthern winters or western elevation thrive and growstrong in the salubrious air of the Texus Summerland. Historically it may not be generally
. The street railway review . and past the ruins for which thetown is famous. The greatest natural power in the vicinity are theFalls of the San Antonio, where the water descends 60feet, furnishing the means of manufacture to scores ofthrifty men. The narrow streets of old San Antonio present a curi- Sometimes a Norther fills the air with dust andsnow, but ordinarily there is no more lovely cHmate inall our country and the weak lungs that can not standnorthern winters or western elevation thrive and growstrong in the salubrious air of the Texus Summerland. Historically it may not be generally known that SanAntonio is one of the oldest settled spots in the areaof what is now the United States. Away back before1698 there was a mission conducted by the SpanishRoman Catholics and called San Fernandez. In 1698,however, the mission of San Antonio de Valero wasremoved thither and this was changed to San Antonio deBexar. The different missions which flourished there,alternately forts and churches, sometimes both and some-. STIRLING BOlLEKb—.SAN ANTONIO STREET RAILWAY. ous sight any day, with the gayly attired higher classMexican vaqueros, the dirty greasers, the black, brown,yellow, cream colored and white negroes, the burly beg-gars riding about complacently asking alms from theelevation of his burro and feeling no whit richer fromhis less tiresome means of travel. Here the priest whorules his flock and gives advice, spiritual, temporal orphysical; here is a southern gentleman, old style, smoothshaven and affable, here is a northerner with his quickerstep and his restless eye, here a cowboy coming in for acarouse in town after months of lonliness on the greatplains; an Indian may perhaps be seen or a blue bloodedSpaniard proud of his lineage and his record; adobehouses with dull exteriors and dim, cool interiors. times neither, are now heaps of dust and wrecks of stoneand adobe. The last of the missions was the Alamo;once peaceful but successively a defence against theFr
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