Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-02
ELLIS COUNTY
One OF the Most Beautiful n,
OF the Lone Star Stats'
Magnificent Scenery Springs !,
and Sparkling Water. :
The Polytechnic Institute ANA
Enterprises aud AttractIo.'

I eAAst tOWD4
spring into existence by rea,,
natural accumulation of causes
than from any artificial den
premeditated plan. In the cas-,
lothian, u town was needed An,
fore n town has been built. IL.
has been normal, and therefore,
and steady. Its people, known
to live and what TO IL,
In order to get the y
good and happiness fross|
istence, have planted and \
those institutions in their mid.,'
influence shall continue to pror'
welfare and real happiness Of M
long after the founders hsvs'
gathered home to the world Y
Nothing that is calculated TO y.
and make permanent the n
ment of n town has been omittss
churches and schools, being ~,
by this progressive people "a y
Importance, they have been bul
yonr correspondent, when
miles away looking towards N.
ana beautiful green mound unos
the town stands, received IN
substantial and pleasing proot
prosperous and enlightened com,
by first beholding in the lack
of n landscape which seemed
to the skies, church spires n
roof of the Polytechnic acsdenr
much cannot be said of the hen,
healthlulness of its location
preaching town from the nor
the eye is relieved bv ohs
the dark green belts of timber
skirt the meandering streams q
sides of it. Sitting upon a b.
mound as 1t does, the
overlooks these bodies Of
and intervening meadow-like
and valleys, and is constantly
by health-giving breezes, and
the heat seldom becomes opv
In a beautiful grove of timber
one mile and u half from tbs
your correspondent, through Ii 5,
tesy of Mr.. w. H.. Hale, was
the
HAWKINS SPRING.
Imagine yourself riding n
scorching hot sun, thirsty beys
scription, the THERMOMETERS 10
shade, heart beats humping
the top of your head, every
limp with perspiratiop, ant
when the idea aud desire for
dunk strikes you most
bly, you suddenly
from old Soils fierce wrath bye
a grove of large spreading Tree
dense foliage, and stand by th
of a spring so large, SO deep,
and yet so clear, that the e.
trates and distinguishes the
pebble Mt the bottom, which isf
eight feet from the surface. NJ
the water, 1t is pure, cool, de-
we drink heartily, and are
FULLY refreshed, aud then, for
time, we look up and take In, Va
glance, the surroundings.
Eden have been more be-
After that drink the cool bred
ing in among the trees caus
leaves to rustic gentle music
ears, and then as if a part of
gramme, southern sea bit4A
forth O. song from the spSy
o'erhead as clear si
rs the music of a flute. We'll
ike lying down in natures /
place of rest, viz, a beautih
with a clear cool spring at my
Mr.. Hale is now
one or two friends half
of the property coz
This noble spring, the Gull, ~
y Santa Fe Railroad compap
,he owner of the other
mas been artificially walled ~
sides. 1t is in size alb
eet and eight feet deep. Quit
stream is at once formed by Y
neanders through the grove
ng 1t, making one of the fine
II the state for picnics. I'd n
srove in Kansas cannot comphrese
{ when art is brought TO thshe i,
latIre, as 1t has been at th,fe.i
'lace. The property consists ionp
wo hundred acres, and Gallon al
reasonable expense be so imhSs \
o fern artificial lake fro,
nut flooding the sprlnghefi /
# all kinds can be inieollp ID
pleasure grounds, walks an me
'ardens can be accomplished X n
iale informs me that they their
he near future. Some tow ora
landing, by reason Of ulfoVen
vents outside of themselves d isc
y take a new lease of lifett. an
nd there you notice stresI1h. as
But these newu fl
re often marred in their bea5 SchO
ng entangled with fossilizexrad e
hey cannot dispose of. JrSe vii
pirit of modern Impoverished
Id hitherto unprogressive Th
often entailed and hampe' e cei,
ogyism. Midlothian is neIness a
'ered; its people progressive;a b ain
yell laid out, and 10 1Qter
asst. Two new grain vbasis q
we're building during my sb ea
own. The new school bull in
tories high, is about to be 80 "
ize. And this leads me nnls, a
ect of forna,
POLYTECHNIC He ii
With Prof. w. w. Works 81 ,et /
acked by a corps of earnesF ice,
Inc year ago this instiIf lack
aenced with thirty pupils fiaki
nee and closed a short TIM BIZ, i
yer one hundred. The PRES a
ngs together with the adj str,
uilt are planned with 4 Ia,
GOD ventilation and succe be, III
york. New improved very
'nown as the Gothic desk te 70
nd they are models dhrm
nd beauty. Your correspS ted,
,und no better appar.l rails,
chools heretofore visitedl14 is oh
he last are n cabinet orgots dep
meteorological chart hd is
welve outlined geograp1@4 Tn
.ppleto0's reading charp part {
lght-inch revolving gig Pal fal
Ical forms, patent nds 1
rasers, abacus, etc. OF 4
COURSE or srUni y. 4
Primary department.; frin pre- d