Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-25
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Correspondence OF the Gazette.
New York, March 20 The remarl,
of Mr. Il. y. ID. Andrews while re-
spending To the toast, Fort WORTH
at the Dallas cattlcmen's convention.
predicting the future would see her "A
rival of New York, London and other
metropolitan cities, made ne remark
10 myself Il talk a good deal to my
sell, consequently have n patient and
complimentary anditncel: Fort
Worth may never he as large "a New
York, but New York was once ms
snlnll rs Fort WORTH Now il there
u any Significance Ia this remark,
think 1t out. | certainly have not
Time to spell 1t out for you New York
Is the largest animal of the city species
l hive seen up 10 this writing. If n
WAS not New York 1t could not hold
Barnum's circus, which Is here now.
1T is said no other city gets II chance
to hold all of IL nj one time, hut then
mat remark covers u criticism made
on all circuses. | saw the parade the
other night. 1t was "simply i'm
mense.h ] thought II resembled
something ! had seen before. But the
senlblance was not large enough.
ind have caught the Two New York
diseases, catarrh and Initiation. IL u
lhing Is not big, New York has no use
forit just here the troop of elephants
passed by, and one of them, no doubt
hampered for mir by the crowd raised
Its trunk. pointed IL toward the side.
walk and sneezed. That sneeze struck
a policeman about the middle button
OF his coat, knocking him backward.
into the crowd. Like a flash, the
whole thing popped into my mind
slapped stranger ON the back and ex.
claimed: Strange coincidence. This
proc, s-ion family resembles the last
Fort Worth Fourth OF July parade,
and that elephant like the Galveston
company has shot II city OIL
ciai. The strsagor desssted ,ns In.
j have been told since that IL
Is the objectionable sin to treat n i.Ian-
haitian Island dude with such Western
familiarity. am sorry, but If he will
come up like man and ask my par
don | will forgive him.
A newspaper friend, Mr.. Norman T..
Mack, proprietor of the Buffalo
Daily Times and The Buffalo
sunday Times, invited me TO dine
with him at the ST. james hotel
Friend Mack Is one of the boys, but
Hilhal, careful and sure In business
Nhy w manu- botl tHuh meet. therefore
was astpnished at this invitation, for
he st. James IL away up wonder
n tone aud price. When we were
Gated mt the table i snid Mack how
5 the daily?n
"Flourisbing, you can be sure; eight
age, cut and pnsted.n
Now In Texas all towns of 10000
ave that kind Of daily, but In New
,ork 1t Is different. Buffalo has 900
10 people. and yet / was surprised ut
lr. Mack's newspaper temerity.
How Is the circulation of the Sunday
ines" Readers, not newspaper PEG.
lie, mark the wording of that ques-
on. did not ask him how large tho
rculaiion was. Fraternally speak
~, that Is excessive bad taste.
Larger than ever, and increasing
arvelously fast. and my job office
ms day and night. Ny business here
10 put In more material.n
Right then and there L
,termined to have one square meal
e GAZETTE would not have to pay
!. The dining room was nearly fill
with elegantly dressed ladies and
ntieinen. was dressed well enough
Texas. aud think what is too good
New YORK 10 just good enough for
Shs. There was quite sprinkling
congressman, one ex-governor, sew
Al senators, and one dude In the
)in. The latter sat at n table right
front OF NJ. Mack kept looking at
m, and at last said: "Do you know
~ that fellow makes me think of
uY, A Blue Point oyster stuck In
, thfoat as / said, mo, sir, do
~ HE Is SO different
Aftcr dinner we went TO the Bijou
'ater. The opera, Orpheus and
rgdice, was magnilicently put on the
70. such music! Such girls! with
nix that a society should at once be
whose duties should be look
after The proper heating of theaters
lind HE drop curtain. Whenever
curtain went up perfect northtr
tied over the audience from the stage
! made me shlver. II / had
n Clothed In such fairy costume, as
y, should have had st. Vitus' /.
zee then, and an attack Of pneuno- Il
,i the , next e.. day d max just d here
ron, the boy tragedlan. died OF
after an illness OF three 81
RS. Last Saturday Miss Emily al
athersby, leading member OF Mr..
q. G00dwin's company, died OF IL
same disease. bShe was sick only q 1&
days. ! saw her play the evening III
ne 9Th. Pneumonia IL an ali-too- III
mon complaint among actors, and III
want Of a properly heated stage IL III.
ionbt frequently the cause oft. fe1
wanted TO tell you something new
It Gen. Grant, and about parsi-
'ious Southern (?) gentleman, now I
ny In this city, but have not ~
v. know nothing OF politics or
Ions, so must write about what I
n New York that we don't see or
W about IN the biggest and best
8 In the Union, Texas.