Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-25
A DRIVE OVER THE CITY.
what "a Gazette Man Saw Yesterday while
behind Pair of High -Steppers.


Yesterday afternoon patroniz M
FREUD asked GAZETTE man TO take
n drive behind pair of Keutucky
thoroughbred horses which request
was. with becoming modesty, accepted.
| Starting at the head of Houston stree
we spun along towards the depot,
lodging the many holes in the pave
ment with the ease and skill which
comes only from long experience in
handling the ribbons over The thor
oughbreds There is no installing the
fact that Houston street is well paved
ii is equally as certain hat IL is kept in
poor condition ON the surface. The
gravel (>o-called) is rs full of holes as IA
huge serve. Ii seemed To he scribe IA
he Kept bouncing about in the buggy
that IL required only wagon-load Of
gravel dunnp,d in each hole to
make the street useful as q drive.
However he supposed the street and
alley committee of the city council
bad inspected the street, and came to
the conclusion that The holes were
here for some goud purpose. a boy
once in wiring u conn iosition on The
Ibis conclude q his 7, markable eflusiun
by laying This gorgeous bird planes
himself ON the banks of the nile
wadcs IN the sacred waters, up tn his
knees, and then wades cut again, and. |
- Cd only knows what he does IL |
for" Tie reporter came to the same
us To why the street and |
alley committee let the holes on
Houston street. Whlrliug around the
freight depot the thuruughhreds were
sent half way across the r, ser walton
up 10 Jennings avenue, filed right. and
niIer several turns entered Lamar
street. Here the same condition If
Affairs WAS found. The graveled road
way WAS fun Vt holes, and IL WAS not
until the buggy. wheels got out on
ields that good driving was found
turnuuts we're met and
passed, all apparently in search of
good road TO speed their teams on.
Tossing the rhIiruad, the next point ,
iisltvd was the south end Of the city.
rhe reporter counted over hundred
which have been erected in j
he past three or four muuths-all sub q
tautial aud beat houses. AT 10 pc
lod in the history of Fort Worth has /,
ny particular section uf IL grown so
at rs the south side has done III the [,
asst few months. Pulling the horses
- in front OF the Texas Continental |.
! eat cOmpany's mammoth building. +,
ne scribe and his friend went through a
le place. Nothing else so well dem.
lstrat,s the enterprise of the business
zen of Fort Worth. Any visitor view a.
~ tins mammoth concern cannot 81
ii TO lie impressed with the enterprise "
its stockholders. 1t is one of the
gpest advertisements Fort Worth has IL
'er had. Ct
From this point the eastern streets W
ere visited aud, and everywhere
ere seemed 10 be building boom.u W
l one place the scribe noticed a new in
,use being put up, apparently in the cl
iddle of the street, aud az ,in came to vi
IL same conclusion in regard To it as
re boy did about TIE Ibis. The GA u
2TrE man in reviewing the incidents ~,
the trip, came TO the conclusion that n
Is Is grea' city, that 1t has grown -
.ry fast since last summer, that 1t IA
rs some of the prettitst girls in the l.,
GRID, hut that there was not single 4,
rect, at present, in the corporation
liits that can be driven over with =,
eed and pleasure. W