Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-02
COOKE COU>TY's CHIEF CITY.
A Tourist at Gainesville--Its Thrift
and Progress--A Visit to
tho JaiI
Special correspondence OF the Gazette.


started from Whitesboro on an over
crowded train, IL is noticeable how
much travel there Is to pnd from
Gainesville Yes, and / had to slsep
with tour Others in the hotel parlor
last night" said n mourntul man in
the ear Certain it was that the lead
ing hotel had only room on the out
side and the next hest---well, they,
serve you up a whole halt peach ut
once When you are in Gainesville
you know yol are in a city. Do you
want better evidence than Is furnished
by the oroide.go ld-watch man crying
his wares to q doubling crowd on the
square? Better evidence than is fun
Tlshed by cleaning saloons topped
with brilliantly and suspicionsly light
ed windows auuve-Windows very
suggestive of the more dangerous part
of menageric Well, III give you
better proof What but n city has eX
cellent iuacadamiZcd street? Block ai
ter block of solidly built stores, huus-
ing stocks eqGal to any. Two daily
papers and three weekly ones. Two
banks whose business the past year is
reported at over 5000, 900. Gas all
through town and wuter-works To be-
gin in February. An ice factory Will
cool the aching brains and stomarhs
10y next summer and other necessities
in the way Of public improvements
will $ on find u habitatiou here. And
the schools. Think of building con-
tanning youug ideas aggregating in
personality over seven hundred; this
school house cost $1,000 and Sl5 900
more is being spent in the same wise
way. White and black alike are be-
ing provided with school facilities,
in separate buildings. In all necessary
directions leading out o! town the
roads are well macadamized, and the
"nt-rprising citizers are agitating the
subject and will build substantial
bridge across Red river, six miles dis
tant. 1t is not properly the work Of
the city to build this bridge, but
Gainesville people propose doing it.
and before very long you may be sure
it will be there for you to cross on.
The same company that put in Fort
Worlds water works is about to do
The game thing here, under the Holly
system, charging the city merely So
much per hydrant for the year; forty
two hydrants will be used by the
town.
Thus far 25, 900 bales of cotton have
UCtu ItttiN Cb Iitlc OiUtD liltIt are
looked fora marked increase over
last years receipts. These figures
would seem TO Justify the erection
of Il compress here, but Sherman
and Dennison do the work.
So much cotton at once indicates the
large farming interests OF the neigh
norhood and the quantities of grain
raised emphasize the fact. Very
largely are the cattle interests repre-
-rnted here by the numerous wealthy
stockmen who make this their home
Not unirequently is such-and-such an
one said TO have spent $40 000 on his
residence. Xack lSddington is build
ing probably the finest in town, OF
pressed brick and stone trimmings at
n cost OF $2S 600 for the bare house; add
several thousand more for ornament
al grounds and fittings inside and
out, and fifty thousand viii! soon be
used up Andy Addington's house
alone cost about $4,000; G c. Rumril
paid over S. 900; Jno. n. Belcher con-
tructed for house at $4,000; Ike
Cloud spent 5000; Mr.. Bouriand,
$1,000; Mr.. Ruby, S. 900;
&. J.. Potter about 81, 900:
Pack LANES, about 1000; Gus Mad
doX, DIR. Barrett and very many 9TH
ers have put up neat and comfortable
homes here, all that are mentioned he.
ing among the recent improvements
A prominent builder says not less
than 800 homes have been built here
in the past four months. Is this
city? Well, il is fast approaching that
state. The building fever has severely
attacked even the county Jail, One OF
those "Hesperians, whose latter
name is McEwen (he Means we'll,
gently amhled with this tourist up 10
Il neat little cottage-still possessed by
those necessary evils. painteIs-and
calling aside gentleman within
most probably suggesting Piper Held
sieck or Mumm's Extra Dry said gen
tleman kindly led us down the interior
steps-to the wine cellar, certainly.
Only they locked us in, and said that
that one in the cage was in FOR muir
der; and that other one in the
second tier was under sentence to be
hung. Your readers will remember
the siclening Sharpe rape case. Fifty
Years in the penitentiary and to be
hung. The last first, and the first
superfiuous. In here are twelve pris-
oners. with charges from murder down
the list. Nesterday, on a charge of ob.
locked up a man who had been boast !
ing himself about town rs fence
cutter. Now, here was n curiosity-if |
he was a feDce-cut,er; but TO this !
writer he declared he was not u
knight Of the nippers suggestive of
the old Is. n. party, the Know Moth
ings), and said he was innocent of the |
soft impeachment in every particular, |
and so This curiosity did not pan OUT F..
well. \ hoy of about seventeen is in
for pochet-picking during the races
he got pocket and two |
years in the penitentiary. The law de-
mands its pound of flesh, and possi- |
bly, association with full iledged |
convicts for two years will give us II
nineteen-year-old man, who will make
sure next time of securing something
more substantial than kerchief.
But if Cooke county keeps within |
her Jail some representative criminals,
ii does not follow that society at large |
is behind in all that goes to elevate.
Crime suggests, what ought to be at
least. its most potent preventiye-the
In that respect Gainesville |