The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-02-24
WHAT DALLAS WANTS MOST

On thursday evening TOMORROW Nv
o'clock, the members Of the Board
of Trade aud our citizens generally,
meet together 10 consider matters q
Importance within the province OF the
board, and affairs of wider and more
general interest to the city.
THE HERALD has always encouraged
and fostered every enterprise of u
character likely to benefit Dallas. 1t
has grown grey In the service of this
city, county and state. What II has to
suggest, then, to the meeting must be
taken in proper spirit, and not mis-
construed.
The great want of our city Is, first, u
thorough overhauling of It's financial
affairs, and the management of them
hereafter, so as to make Its paper worth
ut least ninety cents Oh the dollar in
stead OF fifty, as 1t is now.
The second is, more capital and
cheap money. To accomplish this the
inducements our city and county offer
investors and capitalists must be made
more widely known throughout the
country.
The third Is, that some concert of ne
ton must be taken to establish man
ufactures of agricultural and other i'm
plements, cotton and wooden mills,
boot and shoe factories, tanneries,
wood, willow and furniture factories,
and everything which can be success
fully made. Without manufactures
Dallas can never fully develop In pop
ulntion, wealth and influence,
The fourth Ia, that some action must
be taken to turnpike all Of the roads
leading into Dallas, rs far IA the county
line. Remove all tax upon wagons, in
the way OF bridge toll, by buying the
bridge, and thus have all OF the ap-
proaches to the city, free.
The fifth ~, that system of paw
Ing the sidewalks and graveling the
street must be agreed upon by
the property holders and the city
authorities, which viii secure the
means of quick transit all over
town Ia bad weather. Our present apol-
oyies for pavements are Irregular in
grade, dangerous to pedestrians, and
are eye-sores to civilized people.
The question of a city boys and girls
high school public, the building of "a
new and substantial nil, the erection
OF city hospital, the building of more
comfortable passenger depots by the
railway companies, the enclosure OF
the graveyard, and fifty other things
which might be named, should he dis
cussed and taken hold of.
One OF the most important of all the
; things to be fostered, encouraged and
literally supported is the local press.
lts hands must be strengthened and
held up by a generous, general patron
age. The outside world judges this com
munity very often by the papers it
sends out. The burden of publishing a
paper is great one, and one but little
understood or appreciated by the pub
lie. Its ceaseless exactions upon the
mind and labor of all connected with
1t are memorable. The business mart
of II must he consi Tered with the clos.
est attention in detail always to be
successful.
The experience of the past win ter
must convence all that our city hns
need Of either Accommodations tor tray.
cling or local dramatic and musical
representations. The few halls we have
are untitled, by reason of poor acoustic
properties, for flnt-class musical en-
tertainments, the ceilings being low
aud but poorly adapted for sound.
Here Is fine opening for some man
who has the nerve anttbthe money 10
supply the demand.
A county immigration society Il
much needed, also, to whom strangers
can write or go. There are hundr, "a
OF letters received here every month
nom every section OF the country.
from parties wanting information be.