. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. ectric rapid transit Street Car Lineshave been extended in several of the suburbs of the city. Page 6. 4. For Espado read Espada. on illustration. Page 20. ■5. The Magnetic Needle omitted from Alamo Mission Plan. Note—the .Alamo Church fronts almost due west. Page The Government Post has been recently officially named Fort Sam Houston. Page 2).7. Turner Hall has been converted into Risches Opera House. Page 34. 5. For weeky read weekly. Eleventh line, page .3-5. !». ForW. .A. Little, Esq., read C. C. Cresson, Esq., last line San Antonio Club.
. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. ectric rapid transit Street Car Lineshave been extended in several of the suburbs of the city. Page 6. 4. For Espado read Espada. on illustration. Page 20. ■5. The Magnetic Needle omitted from Alamo Mission Plan. Note—the .Alamo Church fronts almost due west. Page The Government Post has been recently officially named Fort Sam Houston. Page 2).7. Turner Hall has been converted into Risches Opera House. Page 34. 5. For weeky read weekly. Eleventh line, page .3-5. !». ForW. .A. Little, Esq., read C. C. Cresson, Esq., last line San Antonio Club. Page4l).1(1. The Waterworks proposition was rejected by a large majority on September 80th,1890. Page .57. 11. For Prom read From. 4th line, page 7.). 12. For St. Patricks Day : read without the colon. KItli line, page For anialuer read amateur. ]7tb line, page 117. 14. .American Biographical Dictionaries differ OS to the year of General R. E. Lees birth, butthe liest aiithoritits give January 10th, ; not 1S06. Page J San Antonio de Bexar. Introductory.— By far the most pleasant as well as interesting town inTexas is San Antonio. So writes George Wilkins Kendall in ISKJ, in his Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition of the good city of old Bexar,that stood for a generation or two, bravely up in the seething of the meeting ofthe waters,—the meeting of two great opposing races and civilizations. Over therolling western prairies had crept, moving eastwardly, the fringe of the tide of theSpanish,—the I^atin-Indian civilization from Mexico meeting after awhile here amightier and colder current pushing westward—the American, the ever restlessAnglo-Saxon flood. The stronger influence overcame. To-day, San Antonio is aflourishing, enterprising, American city, as Texas is the greatest of AmericanStates and one destined to a magnificent future. It boasts an historical past. SanAntonio was a bone of contention, Texas was the meat and fat for the victo
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