The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-03
DELIGHTFUL DALLAS.
Facts Formulated for Home Consump
lion and Interior Inspection.
The City as She Is and rs She
VIII BE.
comments Commended TO Consideration

A reporter In his diurnal rounds after tho
oyanescent news item IN forced 20 travel
over vast portion of the territory Ia which
Ia located the Light OF Civilization TO which
he ~ attached. Asa rulo he 10 keen.eyed
ana impervous 10 surprise. You NAV tell
him OF IA horrible murder--it only Interests
him AZ a readable bit OF news You pour
iato his ear wondron8 tale Of fortune
made or lost, and he will wind no by ask.
log you the precise initials OF the man who
has made or broken. In short, there are
very. few, iiems Ia the chapter OF sncidenlo
or, incidents 70 which mortal flesh j.
heir That will cause his professional
instinct TO shy from the path OF prosaic
duty. And when csee.hardened newt-
Iatherer, who. knows every stone IN his
daily route IN does tho canal hack the All.
locks and miniature valleys OF tho we'll.
tTodden tow path, confosses to surprise at
finding the familiar objects of his daily
rosd9 changing at every hour he passes
them, IL Is something worthy Of extended
remark. Dallas 10 essentially bus ness
city. Men come and 20 from counting
room TO homo in beaten path
and amassing fortunes without being
aware OF the prodigious improvements
going on within few blocks ofthem. The
sound OF the saw and the merry ring OF the
hammer fell upon their ears every hour la
the day, and that faithful organ, osllous
icatss to the brain the grand poem Of pro.
eress hat Is being recited In every street
and alley VI our busting city. Turn In
Whatever direction you may, you are sure
TO bring up against some building in the
process OF erection, whether II be the
half finished mansion OF come merchs an,
prince, or the massive walls OF a trade EN-.
porium. Ask real eatate dealer the price
of lot on which his BbiDgle is planted,
now, far away from the hum OF trade, end
no will name figures that will cause each
and every hair on your head TO stand out
as the quilts on the htlul porcupine. En.
deavor to rent a dwelling from him, aud
you become forthwith impressed with the
fact that somebody equally in earnest has
bsen there before you. Look for al idle
mechanic. and II he be n workman worthy
OF his hire, you Lad better hunt the tra-
ditlonal needle IN the iinmutsblo hay
stick. Aek the wholesale merchant how
business" Is, and his CHEEKY answer,
whether ouisEioal or in.esrnest, convinces
you that the pennies are blinking merrily
into his golfers, and the same responge will
be rscelved from his little brother, the re-
tail man. This article ID not written IN q
spirit Of exegseretion. The state
ments above made arc facts
that our men of business will
readily conoede. II he could only spare
moment from his engrossing affairs. Look
a. our stately Merchants exchange, the
Architectural beauty OF the ate; at the
magnificent hosterie that is going up in
tho rear OF our stste-iamed Windsor; at the
elaborate preparations that are being per.
fected ior the erection OF the massive gov.
ernment building; at the holt complsted
structures on our main arteries OF com
meroe that will In q month or less be
otocked with wares that only lind their
way to metropolitan markets; Gt the ex-
pensive proportions OF the ware.
house and compress company building,
rising Phoenix. like from ashes Of
the great fire OF last fall, Mt the swarm of
lahorers stretching the steel bands of the
belt railway and the rushing throng that
are preparing tho way for the pavement
that will make Main street the grand.
est thoroushfaro OF AL tho
think for moment of the magnificent finsn.
cisl enterprises that find our city fertile
tield, aud of the resr guard of metropolitan
necessities tina. are flacKing into the city
every day and filing out the little crooks
and CANNES into rotundity. Dwell
for moment on these and
q multitude of other facts. that will follow
unbidden into your brain, and il you fail 10
realize that you are living and having your
being In one OF the liyeiest cities OF our
country, you are to be pitied for your
lamentab.e lack OF perceptiveness, and pos
sibly to be scored among the few failures
OF Dallas.