Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-29
A DAY At DALLAS.
Interest Of Northern Cities in the COM
ing Fall Races.
Indications That Jay Gould VIII soo'
Control the Central.
Other News Notes and Giimpses
LEGAL Happenings.
special to the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
Dallas. September 2s.-Dallas aud !
Fort Worth were to-day put in con.
munication by telephone. J,
Mayor Cabbell WILL ut the next reg !
MAR meeting of the city council, on e
Tuesday night, October 2, recommend ]
the passage of an ordinance author
! izing the paving of about 600 feet OF
| Lamar street, from Main street to the ,
| Pacific depot, at the intersection OF
Camp street; the material to be the
/ same as that being laid on Elm-gravel,
bois dare blocks and coal tar
Mayor Cabell hasAaken the sentiment
| of the property owners, and iinds
| them favorable TO the proposed inn
provenent. Lamar is one of the most
! important business streets in the city,
! and paving it will vastly improve and
be Of great convenience to the public.
Riley of Chicago, Roach ofSt. Louis,
Kelly d Bliss of New York and Price
OF Pittsburg, the kings OF
the pool-seIling fraternity OF
the United States have
| written to Dallas to arrange for receiy-
ing reports of the fall races, direct
from the track, stating that they Wish /
to sell pools In their rooms Oh every !
race in the North Texas cireut-Dal- |
las, Fort Worth and Gainesville. rms |
illustrates how rapidly and proml-
nently this section is coming to the |
front in horse-racing. The appllca-
tons referred to give the Information
indirectly that the best horses of the
North are to be here this fall and selling
in New York, Chicago, st. Louis and
pittsburg on events in Dallas, ranks it
among the iirst-class turf centers of the
country.
Manager Charles Benton of the Dali
las opera-honse, left for Fort Worth
this evening to perfect some theatrical
: business arrangements for the coming
, season.
! The work of finishing the new opera
: house is being rushed. The contract
=. REQUIRES that it be completed by two
I, weeks from next Monday.
Mr.. w. Il. Hughes, now in the city,
has perfected all arrangements for the
!, enlargement of the Grand w indsor
!, hotel, SO soon as litigation affecting u
. small, portion Of the necessary site can
-. be disposed of, which it Is believed
, will be 1T an early day, as the matter
- is before the state court Of appeals ana
has been transferred from Austin,
= where the docket Is greatly behind, To
. TYLER, where it will be reached IN .
- short time. The addition will make
the hotel occupy full square OF
: ground. and will be four stories high.
y with an elevatorand all other modern
p. iZations.
: In railroad circles here it is believed
. that Huntiugton's interest and au-
~, thorty in the Houston d Texas Central
:. railway is much smaller than the
-, people have been lead to believe, and
there are those who profess To believe
Of that Jay Gould will ultimately eontro
the system in question. Two recent
~ little incidents gave color to the be
", lief that Huntington is not the boss
y y a party Of gentlemen Of Dallas abou
~ two weeks ago endeavored T.
w. charter a Houston & Texas Contra
~, ear for an excursion to South reXa
-, points. The car could not be secured
ad the reason given being that the trai
~ service of the roadN on the Hampstead
a. Austin line had just been doubled, an
all the rolling stock was in service
While the party was in San Antonio
the GAZETrE's Dallas correspondeu
being along, took pains to learn wha
was meanc b. q cannon BALI irei
Of recently put on and Iunnin
between San Antonio Hout
ton and Galveston over til
International and the Texas Cent?.
=, via fAuSllI dlltl Iltlll ilSlcdt, III
ne developed the fact that ii was enc
IVY train in opposition to Mr.. Hantin:
eol tons Sunset route, direct from Sa
Antonio to Galveston via the Galve
'ru ton, Harrisburg and San Anton
W road; that it leaves San Antonio tW
hours later than the Sunset train, an
- arrives i'll Galveston an hour and
lls, half ahead of it. ii goes like streG
~ of chain lightning, and is sure enoug
ock cannon ball train" III
mo was very lucid statemen
iiS' If Mr.. Huntington is supreme in n
thority over the Sunset and the CeI
opul trail systems, this is a queer way of
,py Illustrating it--making one fight I'll
live other. 1t looks something like II ma
70 pounding himself with his right han
SIG and rubbing the bruise wish the left.
the The Brown Stockings have no gan
ent for next Sunday. The Fort Wori
the boys would be welcomed if they Won
s 1a come over fer game on that day.
10y SeYenty-tive acres Of land in cottl
1T the Dallas county poor farm has III
eA duced fifty bales of middling stap
re-. 'rhirty-one bales of the crop Was nil
,oo- keted here to-day. n
TIE ,if Rev. John Davis, rector OF St Sg
u .1 thews tEpiscopal) church, BAL 6
n.e- leaves ON Tuesday next for I.exinql .
~, ,,' Mo, where he will assume the pil /
M rate Of an Episcopal congregation c
eit farewell musical concert was q l
= Mrs. Davis by her lady friends, q
Iii iu the residence of w. j. Keller, ton,
=, ~, Henry Shanks, charged with +
~! .he deriug August Weimer, is havla
~, wy preliminary examination In JeS
,nui kenGall's court
my TaN-collector Peak IL collectire
~. school house erection fund forhst
Won , Dallas, amounting to about 1904
'oeN Charles Evans and John Ska
Were bound over on eXaminati 70 |
day ON the charge of rohbins thdar I
ETY. theatre Of 500 worth OF spygd /
garments.
=. Local option WAS defeated in nat
NiS NO, 3 this county, by two maion
De Witt Smith Que OF the JIG
weighers, has resigned for wantpa-
tronage.
x The work on the mammoth rFoir
AL. az the mouth Of Cedar creek, t@ply
Sn % the city ample wafer, is beln@gor-
~ ously inaugugated.
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