Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-27

lshed truth. Hotel accommodations
from the very nature of the case, are
prime considerations of every town
and city that hopes to profit by indu-
cling the stranger to tarry within its
gates And yet, the people of Fort
Worth need not be told that the city
has no hotel worthy the name, either
in facilities or accommodations. What
was ample in the days gone by, is now
wofully insufficient, and the search of
people daily for some place to stop at
bears additional testimony to the fact
There is not a man in the city who
has not had this crying need brought
to his notice, for the plentiful lack of
hotel accommodations in Fort Worth
is known and talked of from Chicago
to Monterey-from New York to Eel
Paso. SO far as the demand is con-
cerned, there is absolutely no hotel in
Fort Worth, and the worst feature of
it is, everybody knows it. No man
will stop over in the city if he can
avoid it. They all shuu it, and other
towns, with not one-half the attrac-
tons otherwise, reap the harvest
which should be ours. This is mat
ter OF daily converse ton on the
trains. 1t is the FIRST complaint of the
visitor, and people hurry away from
Fort Worth as though it were afflicted
with plague, to clay overn at other
places in which they have no other
business than to find where they can
lay their heads. The amount of money
thus lost to the city in the last five
years would build finer hotel than
any town in the state can boast Of In
all other particulars, Fort Worth is
not behind any town in Texas, and
in many far ahead of all of them.
No city has a more
ample, imposing and appropriate
opera house. When completed our
sidewalks and streets will be the envy
of all her sisters. No city pretends to
compete with our magnificent supply
OF artesian water, flowing from an
hundred wells, and no one of them
has superior system of water works.
In but one essential are we lacking
and that, unfortunately, is just where
we should not be deficient. OF what
avail our splendid walks and thorough
fares if people cannot find a place to
eat and sleep? OF what avail any at
traction of the city, if people cannot
find a suitable place to stop while
viewing it? Without hotels, much of
the money expended on other improve
ments will he as money thrown away.
These are all patent facts to our bust
ness men and real estate owners, and
yet there seems TO be an Indifference
to them utterly at variance with the
enterprise and public spirit so charac-
teristic of Fort Worth. The GAZETTE
IS confident it publishes no news when
it declares that this city has no hotel
worthy the absolute needs of the place.
and that it scares away no man. Ev-
erybody knows it, and none better
than those who would stor here were it
otherwise. It is for those who
are vitality interested to say
what they ARE going to do
about it." In the discharge of its
duty the GAZETTE advertises the fact
that 'ae cry is not supplied with
proper Aotel accommodations and if
those who daily lose money in conse-
quence thereof can stand it we shall
tfy to borrow patience, to be consumed
IN answering the daily question put by
strangers; "Why don't you have a
hotel here.?n