Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-14
LET us HARM0NIzE.
To the Texas & Pacific Railway, the
Street Railways and the Peo-
pie of Tarrant County.
A New Enterprise Which Gan be Secured
to Fort Worth by All Parties
Working in Unison.
Fonr wonrn. rnz.. Dec. 70. lssl.

Il
In your issue of November 81, you
published an article in reference TO the
machine shops, and requested all
who favored the project to write some
thing in reference thereto, and you re-
commended that committee be
chosen to harmonic the diflerence s
existing between the street railro ad
lines, the city council and the Texas d
Pacific railroad officials. Again in
yesterdays GAZETTE there was an ar
ticle to the point on the same subject,
and favoring that a portion OF that
So, son, 900 to be expended should be eX-
pended here.
AS vice president of the Fourth
Street, Union Depot & Lake Park
Street Railway company, l will give
you a synopsis oil the proposition made
TO our committee while at st. Louis.
The committee went there for con-
sultation at the Geographic request of
ex-Gov. John G. Brown, who is at this
time, believe, president of Jay
| Gould's Southern system of railroads.
The committee brought back this
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II iifty-foot right Of way across our
reservation, around and under all of
our tracks near the Union depot, and
agree TO build four iron bridges OF
| liity-ioot span, each, upon the consider
alton that the street railway, and city
council eXCavate the dirt and build
the abutments thereto; that the city
and county officials pledge themselves
TO be moderate in assessments and
strive to have others do the samen
! understand the city council have
| pledged themselves to do their part,
and also that some of the Rosedale
Street Railway company have prom
ised to do their part, and believe that
the Fort Worth Street Car company
will do their part; IL not, why not?
After ell that has been said, they have
complied with their contract with us
in toto as far as they have the right
OF way, and they have shown them
selves TO be gentlemen of their word
In building and operating q line ON
Calhoun street, and / believe that
when the time comes they will also do
their proportion of this work.
Let this committee by all means be
chosen at once and let this work
90 on.
The Texas & Pacific officials pledge
themselves in consideration of the
above, TO put in sixty switches, ma.
chine shops, offices, f1undries, etc.,
and to employ w0rkmen enough so
there will be $50 coo per month paid
out at this place. A plat of all this
work anyone can see at the editorial
room OF THE GAZETTE, which our
committee brought back from st.
Louis with these propositions.
Excessive prices have been charged
and collected from this railroad com.
pany. Only yesterday heard of two
cases. One was for a Texas pony
, killed, which could not be sold for
more than Sl5. The party got 800, or
nearly seven times its worth. In an
other case an animal that cost $50 was
killed on the track, and the owner got
5000, or twelve times as much as it was
I worth. And last, but not least, a
claim of SIT was asked for the killing
Of four geese, worth about two dollars.
For these impositions do they ask the
cooperation of our county and city
officials, and appeal to every man in
the county: TO assist in checking this
outrage. They are willing TO nav all
they are worth and more.
BY having ali this done we will soon
: have city of so 900 or more inhab.
itants, ana instead of a $4,000 600 as
r sessment, as il now shown in the
county, we will s9on have S20, 0OO,-
600 assessment. Let every mau inter
est himself and assist in this great
work, and it will help us all. Six
million five hundred thousand dol
. lars have been raised to improve
Gould's Texas & Pacific railway. This
is our last chance, for they can 20 TO
Dallas, Denton, or Cleburne, ana can
! also get $500, 900 for their ground here.
Jay Gould represents more wealth
than the total assessed value OF the
whole state of Texas. Let
, us not Kill the goose that laws the gold.
en- egg IT this grand work is done
here other rich men will bring mil,
lions TO this county and city To buy
cattle, land and city property. Let US
strength. .
Brothers from the South side as,,
you to consider the old adaga. nITnited
a we stand, divided we faliu LET ne
!, harmonize and show to the world at
a large that we have that spirit within
a taken from our mothers breast thai
Q gave us that beautiful name. "the
. Queen OF the West"
!. With our reirigerating works. our
' OH mills, dozens of Touring mills.
I. thousand OF cords of wood, the Trinity
/ river and that beautiful Clear ForlS
i with good prospects of sew.
! eral more railroads and with
4 these our other Improvement,
: ! ask II u Is no, worth little self-de
q NAL and some exertion from alIq 7
again ask If 500, 900 per month regular
/ y "a hard cash would not help us all +?
Ana as to the street railways, IL wonld
y Increase four-fold their receipts, and ne
8 70 hotels, boaIdlng.houses, grocery
9ry,,goods and other stores, II would
r double their receipts, and to the labor.
3 ing man, who to-day Is probably sich
!, and out of work, while his children
r are crying for bread, and their mothers
y nave barely clothes enough To cover
Their nakedness aud no money with
winch to buy more, such an enter.
prise means salvation.
Io each and eve-y citizen do appeal
a with nplifted hands, as child pleads
q with It's parents. 10 assist In this vrsa,
work, aud had "A Voiea that ,a,sl N ,Ae