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SAN ANTONIO-HER TRADE,
experience measured by his business life, of constant practical working at
the trade and with undaunted industry, energy and enterprise, he started
business and his growth has been rapid and sure. Increasing demand
arising from the progress and settling up of the country, and the merits
of his products and square business policy, has extended his trade through
this State and into Mexico. His factory is most conveniently located; it
is 30x70 feet in dimension, and the main building is 20x75, and it is most
thoroughly equipped, with a full line of the best modern machinery and
mechanical appliances for the perfect construction and furnishing of his
products—planers, lathes, mortising and tenoning, scroll sawing and turn-
ing and dressing lumber. Mr. Boelhauwe manufactures and keeps in
stock, sash, doors, blinds, etc. His annual trade will reach $20,000. He
is a cordial and pleasant business man and conducts his affairs on legiti-
mate, honorable and liberal principles, by which he has gained the respect
and esteem or the trade and his fellow citizens generally. Mr. Boelhauwe
has been connected with Mr. Kampmann for seventeen years. Mr.
Boelhauwe manufactures an improved ice box, which, in construction and
arrangement, is a great improvement on all other methods. He makes
them for families, hotels, butchers, saloons, etc.; any size required.

SAN ANTONIO STREET RAILWAY—Col. Augustus Belknap, Presi-
dent; Office, San Pedro.
Improved facilities are the true indices of progress and most intelli-
gent manifestation of the onward march of civilization. Evidences of en-
terprise by a community, in projecting modern improvements and carrying
them out to accomplishment, are the best criterions by which to estimate
the enterprise of its citizens and their appreciation of the modern ideas of
progress, that they are not fossils of the past, mere clogs to the spirit of
the age, but keenly alive to all enterprises that promise to enure to the
public welfare and their city's, reputation. While such measures reflect
credit on the community at large, how much individual credit is due to
him, who, not only unaided, but actually impeded, forces, so to say, such
needed improvements on a city. Ideas are epidemic, especially after suc-
cess has been achived and the formulators claim credit and participation
in the results; but the wreath of victory, with all its rewards, is due to
him who carved out of seeming uncertainties a pronounced certainty—a
splendid success—by his sheer vim, force of character and industrious abil-
ity. We have been led into these remarks, while looking over the history
of the San Antonio Street Railway, one of the most beneficial improve-
ments in this or any other city. In modern times, when quick transit is
the great desideratum, the transportation facilities of a city are its life.
Upon them depend not only its growth, but its very existence. There
must be modes of conveyance wherever there is trade and its handmaiden,
enterprise; and, where these facilities are deficient, to that extent is trade
hampered and restricted. The street railways have proven, in the great