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grapevine arch made room for the 

 modern improvements seen today 

 at this popular outing resort ; and 

 one more of the many, once ex- 

 ceedingly attractive landmarks of 

 our old San Pedro Park, includ- 

 ing the old Duerler homestead, 

 with its adjoining large music and 

 dance hall, surrounded by a dense 

 forest of giant oak trees and ever- 

 green shrubbery, and the old and 

 much-admired museum, with its 

 collection of typical Texas ani- 

 mals, and including a costly and 



Another landmark of the thous- 

 ands of San Antonio's interest- 

 ing nature-assets, full of beautiful 

 scenes and romance, is our old 

 San Antonio River and its tribu- 

 tary creeks. But here also it 

 would be folly to attempt review- 

 ing all of our river's beauty-spots 

 — several of which having already 

 been mentioned and photo-illus- 

 trated Up. this book, and 

 only, therefore, two additional il- 

 lustrations from nature may be 

 added — both great outing and 



Deer and Forest Scenery at Brackenridge Park, Near Old Club House Building 



rare mineral collection of curios; 

 and the once famed Zoological 

 Garden, with its moi e or less 

 typical Texas and Mexican col- 

 lection of wild animals — all this is 

 now gone into oblivion with the 

 enormous advancements of mod- 

 ern times and a busy business 

 world — but the sturdy old oak 

 trees, the ancient springs and the 

 old park and lake are there today 

 and will be there for centuries to 

 come — it is hoped. 



fishing places along the romantic 

 pecan groves and river bottoms 

 south of San Antonio. Both of the 

 river scenes depicted herein show 

 the river bottom place where the 

 prairie hawk, mentioned in an- 

 other article, was captured, and it 

 fairly illustrates what these attrac- 

 tive fishing places, and others, 

 look like — with the imposing for- 

 est vegetation and trees and the 

 river tule along its edge, etc. In 

 olden days all of these river-Jjot- 



