Identifier: cityofhouston00morr (find matches)
Title: City of Houston
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Morrison, Andrew
Subjects: Houston (Tex.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: (St. Louis? : s.n., 189?)
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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derable in itself, is insig-nificant in comparison with the enterprisesprosecuted by private capital. Theseinclude the conversion of the street car.lines of the city from horse to electricroads, the building of a railroad to and thelaying out of the suburban addition ofPort Houston, and other projects of quasi-public character and extra importance. Itis estimated that fully $2,000,000 has beeninvested of outside money in land, rapid.transit and industrial concerns at Houston and is now applying electric processes topropel its cars, so as to abandon horsepower entirely. For this purpose it has erected an elec-tric power plant on Commerce street andthe Bayou, where it will have the advan-tage of the water route for its supplies.It has here its car house 100 feet by 150,its blacksmith, repair and paint shops, anda power house 100 by 116, in which havebeen set up two Reynolds-Coi-liss com-pound condenser engines, of 275 horse-power each, with a fly wheel of 18 feet 20 THE CITY OF HOUSTON.
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STEAMBOAT LANDING ON BUFFALO BAYOU IN THE HEART OF HOUSTON; DEPTH HERE TEN FEET. diameter, and 44-inch rim, weighing24,000 pounds. Its lines ramify all quarters of the cityand suburbs of Houston, and pass by thedepots, hotels, banks and principal busi-ness houses, the Public Market and CityHall, Cotton Exchange, Court House andPost Office. They proceed also to Glen-wood Cemetery and to the VolksfestGrounds, a favorite place of resort. Theyconnect, also, with a suburban dummyline running to Magnolia Park, a wild-wood whose sylvan charms are indicatedby its name, and in whose leafy shadesthe excursive Houstonian loves to recreateon holidays and Sabbath afternoons. This road operates with 50 cars, 300horses and 100 men. The fare to allpoints on the system is but five cents. The rapid extension of these linesunder their present management hasvastly expedited both urban and suburban growth. It has been the first cause of theenhancement exhibited in real estate val-ues generally. And likewi

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