The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-10-14
SUBURBAN NOTES.


Worth fifteen or eighteen years AGO and
before she had any thoughts of railway
connection with the outside world and
of putting on city airs, or claimed the
appellation of the city of Heights" or
entering the Fort Worth of to-day look.
around him with bewildcrment nc the
change that has taken place; and par.
ticulHr 50 if he has not been on the
"hill' for over fifteen years, as was the
case with Jour correspondent. Remem.
berlng the place rs it was in these old
days wnen the familiar faces of the
johnsons, the Tcuys, the Peaks, Fields,
Daggetts Brinsons. and others whose
II mes escape me Mt the moment, were
always to be seen ut the square to wei
come their friends of the ncighhorinr
village Of the "Three Forks, he now
looks around him and scarce recognizes
a single face Of all those who make up
the multitude that crowd the streets Of
the now busy little mart of commerce.
1t is true some Of those "old relies are
stu living and may be- found but the
Johnsons Cloth lamlics) and the Ter
rvs are all, or nearly all, under the
sod, Captain Julien Field has his resi-.
dence here, but is seldom to be found
on the streets. Jack Brinson lives in
the country, and rarely visits town
and the only ones Of the many old
friends OF former days that we meet is
the hearty and genial Captain Eph.
Daggett, the energetic and rustlng Dr.
carroll NJ. Peak and the whole-souled
Dick King. The latter have not seen,
out ms sign still swings on the square
OF old, These say, are all Of the old
timers OF former and happier days that
we can recognize on the streets of the
presehtaspiring City Of Heights Peace
TO the ashes Of those who have gone
before and hearty Godspeed to those
VINO yet remain and are assisting by
Their energy and muscle to build up
tins vigorous young city
But while one does not meet many of
tae old set Of ante-bcllum times, there
are still number of familiar faces here,
who were former residents OF Dallas,
and have followed the advice of "ll0r
ace and gone west Among them
notice our old postmaster OF former
Years Sam Seaton, who is IA clerk in the
banking house of Tidball Van Zandt n
Co.; our clever young German friend,
r. Wolf, formerly with Sanger Bros,
Dallas, and now the proprietor Of the
Dollar Store in this place; Mr.. r. C. Pat
t,on OF Dallas, who is just opening
here my old friend of wartime mem
Dry Pat. Morrison, commission mer-
chaht and cotton factor, one of the
truesl-hearted fellows in the world and
others whose names escape me just
now Messrs, Sanger Bros. and Bartlett,
Parker ~ Co, both have branches OF
their establishments here and are doing |
we'll
Fort Worth, since the advent of the
railroad, is a stirring place, and its
prospects bright for the future Within |
the past month or two improvements |
are OF a better class than formerly.
Brick and iron are coming into play
the brick made here, the iron work done |
IN the Dallas Ioundres-and really,
some OF the buildings now completed
ana IN course of erection would do |
credit to any town. Houston street,
the street leading from the west
side OF the square to the depot,
seems to be the principal business street,
and on this nearly all the new buildings
are gong up To commence, on the
east side Of the street, the first building
is that occupied by }. II. Brown, whole
sale grocer, two stories high, jOXSO feet;
the building is owned 10y Sam Seaton,
ana Is valued at about SIS 900 Next to
this is a two.story brick, 25xS0, owned
by W. ii Davis, and occupied by Kaiser
~ SamucIs with dry goods; next, two
story brick, owned by John Scion, and
occupied by Mr. Frye as "A dry goods
store; two two.story bricks 2jHS) owned
by W, H. Davis, one occupied as dry
goods store and the other 10y Max Eser
telegraph office and stationery store
and Mr., Williams, silversmith; next, Is
Il two-story brick, 2jxS0, owned by Da-
vid Boa2, and occupied by A. Goldstcin
as clothing store, These are all on
one block and ON the colneror the block,
Mr. NJ, b. Lloyd, purposes to build u
two story brick, as banking house. On
the west side of the same street is an
other solid block of two-story brick
buildings, owned and occupied rs fol-
lows Corner Of Weatheriord and uous-
ton, owned by A. Fitzgerdld occupied
by D. c. Bennett, as II dry goods store
next owned by II. C. Holloway, occu
pied by Sanger Bro, dry goods store
next owned and occupied by b. c.
Evans, dry goods; the above old, but
good buildings all brick or stone. Then
comes the handsome new iron front
block, first store owned by Dr. c, NJ.
Peak, and occupied by Mr. Goldberg
dry goods; next, store owned by W. j,
Boaz and B. c. Evans, and occupied by
Thomas Powell, drug store next, two
stores owned by DR.. c. M Peak-one
occupied by A. lsraelsky, and
the other by II, Myer u
Co., with dry goods; next,
is the corner building, torty-fve feet
front by eighty deep, two stories high.
owned by Nichols, Evans " Marklec,
aad to be occupied by Duhlmam ~ Co.,
as u clothing store below, and the up
per floor as a public hall Two blocks
south of these on the east side Of the
sulle street, II announcer h'l'o'I'' " ""
going up, twenty'tiyeb by ninety feet ODE
occupied by j. b. Reed, and another
owned by NJ, Darter and occupied by
NJ. Thomson with dry goods. Ga the
corner of Wcatheltord and Ru9k streets
is another new brick building fifty by
eighty feet, one room occupied by the
Texas Express Company, and the other
by the Howe Sewing Machine Company.
On the south side of the square,
between Houston and Main are two
brick buildings and one concrete, the
first occupied by Boa2 Markleo ~ Co"
bankers, below, and by the Democrat
office up stairs, the next by Tidbali,
Vanzandt n Co., also bankers, and the
last owned by W. L. Randall, Esq, OF
your city, and occupied by the new