Show TO SAIL AIL S ON PRAIRIE SCHOONER 11 THE INVENTION OF GAIL BORDEN difficulty of controlling it made vehicle too dangerous to be popular early day texan had stormy jour ncy ney through life A man from texas was talking with a new yorker when a wagon with the name gall gail borden painted on it passed by the name Is retained by gall bordena bordens successors though gall dorden himself Is dead 1 I do not know when borden came to new york said the texan but the sight of his name recalls a b bit t of interesting history which I 1 venture to say few if it any new now yorkers ever heard gall and his brother used to be editor editors in texas they were the founders of the texas telegraph which had a hot history it was the first newspaper published in texas it was printed in san felipe in 1836 1835 on the approach of tile mexican Alex ican army irmy president burnet and his cabinet fled to harrisburg and were followed by tho bordens with their press and type and they were there working off a form of the paper when the advance of santa annas army ap feared at that place they were forced to abandon the work and flee for their lives the type and press were thrown into the bayou and the printing office de te strayed st royed after the victory at san jacinto the publication of the paper was renewed at columbia but was as with the government transferred trans ferre d to the new town of hoiston Hoi lio uton niton and soon afterward was sold thomas was older than his brother gall and besides being a partner in the paper was nas also engaged in surveying and selli selling fig lots in galves ton gall invented the steam gauge and also a vehicle called a prairie schooner this was much the same as an iary covered wagon but was made to run by sails and it would run but too much go at it was not easily controlled and I 1 it would do unexpected things and was dangerous it bould run into the gull gulf or up against things and the model was finally fill nIly wrecked in a drift on gal veston island and anti the project aban boned borden intended these aehl clea cles to be used on the tile great level dry plains hence the name he gave them this idea of his afterward caused tho the great trains of covered wagons in ane west to be lie called prairie schoon ers gall borden filled a number of civi offices and nas as a member of the con bention at san r elipe in 1833 lie was also the agent t for the Galve city gas company and the tile first collector cf of tho the port 11 ort of V after annexation he distinguished himself as an inventor first securing a valuable patent for preserving meat in a form he lie called meat biscuit ho he also invented and secured a patent for a process s of condensing milk which Is a staple article of commerce he made the first condensed milk where the town of glidden Is now in colorado county but then called borden AP late as 1887 his sign was still to bo be seen there at that lime time a postoffice post office nce and bordens tiace were about all there was there in the way of business the county of borden at the foot of the tile plains was named for him aa was also the county seat which Is gall call |