Show stride of a texas town in 1913 corpus christie texas was ill lighted lacked a single no im proved street and but a few miles 0 of f sidewalk paving worn out decrepit street cars cara bumped along their weary cary way a jest est to tourist strangers an and a source t f shame to residents the water supply was wes weak k A volunteer olun teer company ge gave av e fire protection an unsightly bluff frowned down on the business section of the city but a delightful climate even temperature a si fine sea benchland ben beach chand and nied medicinal irimie I 1 sulphur wells impressed citizens that the town had bad a future it if they cared to do as much for it a as a nature had done in 1916 corpus christi christ has 12 in miles iles of well paved streets and more under construction 17 miles of san gitary sewers nine miles of storm as sewer L t garbage crematory plant a new city building a national guard armory a commercial club municipal markets several pieces of in motor driven fire apparatus and are arc haws A new water plant cost in one year more than 15 miles ol of water plant were laid A municipal wharf harf was built the ugly bluff in the business busina district has been turned into a beautiful parapet ornamented with tone stone approaches and surmounted b by Y I 1 lighting standards the improve ed ad looks of the place has haa goaded the street car company to improve its rolling stock and with the devel op ment of the streets general building has advanced wonderfully the reason the times dwells upon tos this I 1 remarkable transformation of a small town is obvious it is done to illustrate what push and energy ap plied in the right directions can do corpus christi was poor decrepit and insignificant three years ago now it ts is on the road to unexampled prosperity of course some things were pos in sible b e in corpus corpus chesti risti t that at are im possible or inadvisable in parowan carowan but t what we ought to get la is the SPIRIT of corpus christi |