Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-02
SOLID WORK.
The Street Paving improvements and
the Benefits Derived Therefrom.
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Local and Personal.


pavement IN entirely HnIsheu iroi
Jefferson to Austin street, and severa
blocks additional are ready for thu
boIs dare aud other material. The
improvement made on thi, thorough
fare by thepavcment and the necessar,
construction OF new sidewalks OF uni
form width and surface, Is very great,
and the publIcare beginning to properly
appreciate IL. Main street appears
fully twice M wide ns before, and Is
certainly twice M valuable for business
purposes M II has been heretofore,
when traffic had to work. Its way
through fathoms OF mud. One thing
has been conclusivcly demonstrated
by the partial paving of Elm, Main
and the connecting cross streets, and
that II that the work viii have to be
continued eastward Mt least TO the
track Of the Houston Il Texas Central
railrond ~ satisfy the public, and that
Commerce street will within the next
year demand similar Improvement.
In street paving, sewerage, sidewalks
and enlarged water facilities, Dallns
will during 1884 have expended fully
half million dollars, aud during 1885
the prospect Is that equally as large, II
not a greater expenditure will be made
In the same character OF improvements,
and the principal beauty of the whole
thing X that all the paving, sidewalks
and enlarged water facilities tint the
city In securing have not nocesstated
the mourning Of bonded debt obliga-
lions, the cost Of the improvement
being collected from the property
fronting thereon, except the Increased
water supply, which II TO be
paid for, under the proposition and
virtually accepted Inst night by the
city council, out Of the general fund of
the city or the revenues OF the water
department. Dallas IL certainly
making more substantial and extern
sive public improvements than any
other city In Texas.
Judge Fleming OF Cisco, a delegate,
and w. q. Sterett Of Dallns, an alter
nate, left last night for Chicago To Mt
tend the national Democratic conven-
ton. II free grass or the lease System
were issues before the convention, and
they Ind TO be settled by Fleming and
Slerett, n dead lock would bc the re-
suit.
Judge Ferris of Waxahachie, one OF
the delegates 10 Chicago, from this,
the Sixth district, passed through Dnl- |
las to-day, EN- route To the convention. |
A. A. Kemble and Mr.. Parell, lead |
Ing members of the Waxahachic bar, |
spent tho day In the city on court mat
ters.
L. j. Peterson andM @. Meehan OF |
Fort Worth have been In Dallas to- |
day, ndmiring the metropolitan sights |
OF the city.
In tho Justices court nj Rockwell
yesterday the caseo OF w. b. Wade w.
v, II. Pace, ex-cnnstable OF Dallas, and
his bondsmen, alleging failure Of Pace
10 return nh execution, was decided
against the plaintiff, with costs.
The report published here that the
city council, ut Its meeting last night,
in secret SESSION. had accepted the
gang-well water supply proposition
submitted by Messrs. Dorgan, Treye-
vant, Stone and Ciowney, IN Incorrect.
No proposition has as yet been nc.
ceptcd, and nothing definite In detail
In tho water supply problem has been
THE GAZETTE corrc-
spondcnt learns this to-day from AN
interview with "A member Of the board
oil aldermen, who stated that the
were handling the matter
quietly and In secret session,
That the public interests might
bc subserved by the public being tenn.
pornri'y kept In ignorance of what
In going on. The reason given for this
course Ia that IL Ia now IA well-estab-
iished fact that the city is 10
nave sufficient water supply
from some source, and IN conse-
luenco there are many persona anx-
ious To furnish the supply, aud II they
knew what action IL being taken by
ne city council. obstacles would be
thrown IN The way OF the various prop
os'tlons by Tho rival parties desiring
70 contract with the city, aud the OBJ |
)ect sought by the people aud their
In the council bs de.
ieated. Tho city has determined.
within the next sixty days, To build n |
new stand pipe on the site OF the pres.
ent for tile present city wator-worlts.
This staud pipe is to be II feet |
IN diameter and ll8 feet In
heighth, and have u capacity for
holding nearly ak hundred thousand |
gallons or water. Large mains are TO |
10 laiu down Commerce street and In |
other streets In various parts OF tho |
city, the whole improvements to cost
about sixty thousand dollars. The |
council now has under consideration
from w. G. Conner and
Drogan, Trescvant, Stone
4 Clowneyi II, Chaplin aud associates.
but nothing has been positively done
on any OF them, and nothing may he
done. The council has not yet nbau.
doned the recomnen dations OF Messrs.
Chester Il. Davis and William Soov
Smith, hydraulic engineers OF Chlc,eo
prepared 1 At y COS. 70 the city Of 1880