The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-08-29
LOCAL NEWS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Some Of the Citizens Of the Proposed New
Town Ask 10 be Taken In by Dallas.
The citizens residing in the vicinity OF the
fair grounds are not as rampant for incor'
porsting a new town ss they were few
days ago. The fever is fast dying out. In
fact some Of them oppose II, and, on the
other hand, wish TO be taken In by Dallas
proper, and the following petition TO that
end, designating the boundaries, Is being
circulated and signed
We, the undersigned citizens, residing
adjoining TO the city OF Dallas, III the
county OF Dallas. and state OF Texas, here
by Join in call for meeting ON The 9th
day of September, 1882, OF the citizens re-
siding within. the limits hereinafter defined,
10 vote upon the question OF whether or not
said limits or territory shall become .
part and parcel Of the city OF Dallas.
Said meeting to DO held at -,
ut the hour Of o'clock on said day.
BOUNDARY LINE,.
Said limits are described as follows:
beginning at point on the north cor
poration line Of the city OF Dallas, when II
crosses the 900 acre line Che centre line Of
Cochran street,, thence north i5S east 400
feet TO the south corner of % acre tract
belonging 10 N. Guilllott. Thence north
40 west 500 feet alonghis west line, thence
north As . east 5000 feet to the division line
between lots o and Of tho Grigsby league,
thence south i5o east along said division
line 1000 iect. Thence south t5o west 900
feet TO the east corporation line OF tho city
of Dallas passing along the division line
between John Eakins 1854 acres, and the
1000 acres of Crawford Grigsby), thence
north IA west along the cast corporation
line TO the northeast corner oil said city cor
porati0n thence south 70 . west along the
north line Of said corporation TO the place
OF beginning,
This survey will embrace Freedman
town and Stringtown, the colored suburbs,
and that portion OF the fair ground neigh.
borhood tho line running just west of
Judge barksdale's residence, and including
the car shops. This will add population
to the CITY oil from 4 900 to 5000 souls. The
prospect Is that there will DO bitter fight,
hguratiyely speaking; between the corpara-
ti0nsts and the anticorporationists, and
whatever the result may be, IL will be
watched with considerable interest by the
dcniaens of Dallas. A HERALD reporter
gagged the feeling IN East Dallas yester-
day, and found that the property-holders
wero, by u large majority, opposed to join
Ing the fair grounds neighborhood, forming
a separate town. Many Of those who at first
favored incorporating have calculated the
cost and after weighing the matter care
fully, come TO the conclusion that II would
not be for the best. One of the main rea-
sons why they favored II was with the view
OF establishing free schools but since the
last meeting II transpires thata joint stock
company TO be known as the East Dallas
Improvement company, with u capital of
$4,000, Is about TO be organized TO build
the school building. The amount appears
excessive, and besides II good many object
to any company owning or controlling the
school. The election on the above petition
comes off day earlier than the one favor
1 ng incorporation.