Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n,—the combined strengthof the grade-raising force,—build, virtually, amountain; its cubic contents so great that ifevery individual of the 350,000,000 populationof Europe staggered under a load of sand, alltheir loads combined would hardly duplicate it.It would take more than 700 steamships the sizeof the great Baltic, which is the largest in theworld, to carry these 17,000,000 tons of sand. All this entails heavy accompanying expense.Pavements, car lines, sewer pipes, buildings,—all must be elevated to meet the increase ingrade. It will necessitate the raising of some8,000 buildings. The owners of these bear theexpense. The whole scheme of protection is now rapidlynearing completion. When this comes to pass,Galveston will stand reclaimed. From the con-ception of the idea in the gloom of failure anddestruction to the present wonderful achieve-ments the keynote has been—public spirit. Thepeople of Galveston, rich and poor, are bearingthe expense for these engineering triumphs.
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H.\ISIN(; Tllp; (iKADK OK GALVESTON STREETS. (The water flows off and leaves the sand.) THE GROWTH OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS. DOWN at San Antonio they are fond of tell-ing how, one day early in the fifties,Robert E. Lee, then an officer in the UnitedStates Army, stood for a long time on a highbluff in Kerr County, Texas, and looked thought-fully toward the Northwest. Joseph E. Johnstonand Albert Sidney Johnston are said to havebeen standing near by. Wliat do you see ? asked one. I am listening to the footsteps of oncomingmillions, he answered. Human endurance permitting, the famoussoldier might have stood there until the presentday without being jostled aside by the immi-grating hordes, but they would have made hima director of nations in peace, to guide them topots of gold and splieres of influence in the newEl Dorado. A million Germans, Poles, Czechs,and Anglo-Saxons have settled in SouthwestTexas since then, native peons and decadenthidalgoes are serving them and catering to theirwants, a

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