The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-07
CITIES.
, Few Plain Facts and Few Pointed
Questions
Touching She Comparative Enterprise
of Fort Worth and Dallas.
Carefully Read, Ponder and Digest.

FoRr WORTH, June Especial Cores
rondence Asa resident ofDallas, ION the
wing" most of the time, cannot but con.
Hnuslly during my travels compare what.
ever may see in the way of growth and
enterprise outside with what know to
he Going on within my own city, which all
finer citizens so positively claim to be the
noueen City Of North Texas" and an
In consequence often compelled to recognize
the fact that in many particulars Dallas is
suffering herself TO drop behind some of her
wide-awake and formidable rivals.
After six months absence l have Just
returned to this city and | am
sstonished at its growth, prospects and
mimic enterprise. | am well aware of the
feeling in both Dallas and Fort Worth
against saying anything good by the one or
rilIzens of either for the other, but Dallas
people must learn, and the HERALD-p,r-
nit me modestly to suggest-must also
learn that here is city that seems destined
in no great while to literally LAY Dallas
in the shade" If your, citizens
and business men do not
manifest more public spirit and cease i'm.
agining that Dallas Is the center of the
universe where all capital and
population must gravitate.
You have learned that just yesterday the
sum of $500 900 was raised in a lit1y here
for building a narrow gauge road TO Brown
wood and beyond. This DAD, it is an open
secret here is merely to be continuation
of the Texas & st. Louis road, which your
people refused to get because after months
of effort $4,000 could not be raised as
bonus for the road. Fort Worth is sure to
nd oh 10
The enterprise that pushed the Fort
Worth Il Denver City road into the Pan.
handle is well-known and the
same unquestioning a!acrity to respond
in any amount to any enterprise that
premises to build up Fort Worth, aud es.
pecially over. Dallas is always manifest.
There again in the matter of street paw
ing, water works, city hospital and all the
adjuncts and demands of growing, live
and progressive city, the same active and
liberal public spirit is seen. conscious of
the fact that cities are only built by public
spirit and enterprise, Fort Worth is BOOM
ing ahead at rapid pace. was especially
struck with the large number OF new build
ings, stores and residences, all, or nearly all
of handsome design, that had gone up since
last visited the Fort, and there seems
to be no cessation in this di-
rection as yet, but all the indications of
growth are on every hand. The only thing
that Dallas has recently ipaugurated that
Fort Worth hasn't got is your exchange
building, and even this it is on foot to
rival in the Fort. While this exchange has
been attracting your attention, the Fort
has been figuring for more railroads and
has got them and will soon be the greatest
railroad center and shipping point in the
southwest.
These are serious facts, Mr.. Editor and
instead of insisting, as the HERALD
has uniformly done, that Dallas
was the 'all in alp it strikes
me that your city would be
better served if the eyes of your citizens
were opened to the fact that Fort Worth,
with everything else that Dallas has got,
and more railroads and public spirit, is
forging ahead OF our boosted Queen City,"
or, to use common phrase, is simply
getting away with u.s." When a trouble
threatens and is to be met the policy is a
tent of the danger and exclaim, who's
afraid ?" And yet this, must again be
permitted TO say, is exactly the policy
that has been pursued by Dallas and
the HERALD with reference to the
rivalry of Fort Worth. | thought, as am
deeply interested in the growth of Dallas,
that it was about time your attention was
being called to these truths by somebody
who wasn't afraid of mourning the displeas-
ure of those close-fsted and sleepy business
men OF Dallas who answer every appeal for
public enterprise by declaring that lit is
bound to come to Dallas" This idea that
everything lis bound to come to Dallas" is
putting Fort Worth in the lead of
our city at a rapid pace. Here
they expect nothing without an effort and
the expenditure of money, and have faith
only in such destiny as they make for them
selves. would like for the HERALD orany
of the business men of Dallas, to point out
a single particular in which Dallas has
any advantage over Fort Worth, and yet
affects not to fear the rivalry OF this place,
although they are moving heaven and
earth here TO beat u.s. lfyou will publish
this random communication, | think you
may do Dallas public and general good.
RAMBLER,