Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-01
PARIS PENCILrNt,s'
oase,.s Mans Nan, Notes and obseru.,,s,.
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IARls' May 2s.--There is q n,s,.
individuality about everything - .,''l
bright little city. Neutral o ? 49, .n,s
scarce. Here prohibition finds sta a, |
"uvoca'es very earnest in their wor,,
who claim to be prepared to nro,. "v.A
Pronibitlon prohibits; i ndaa,' snst
leader, Capt. T.. l.. Dahonev !; .nelr
ing TO undertake to convince VII.
worth on the subject by a nuh,Io Iors
cure, and the captain has Tur f r. lec-
especially in his minds eve = !" AhirE
Inc business men of Paris ~.
the most part of that clear.c,,t 1 loi
worth pattern, who maka ro,t
presence felt; and the few who q ~ sn ,sa.
so are the more conspic,,ons are not
general good example set then " Tue
The editorial chairs Of tho h,,-
liileu WIN men OF marked persons,itv.
sucn ior instance as A. P. Boyd. wiz
always speaks right out in meeting
Aho .he lawyers, as Judge Gaines. n
n, Scott, Henry Mcdonald, Cant
Hlghtioot and many Others, are of that
stamp VINO give forth no UNCERTAIN
life. "aihs oi
In religion there is prosperity and
aggressiveness speaking well for ths
pastors and people. But of all indi-
viduality discoverable here moss
backism probably holds the lead. Mt
perhaps that IL is in possession of the
greater Enthusiastically not of those
who are counted as the prominent cit.
liens of the place, but 1t holds its own
so tenaciously and effectively az 10
challenge admiration and wonder
Mossbackism says street lights are
costly and water-works q delusi0n and
snare. Does anyone 90 thirsty or
unwashed in Paris? Has there been
fire for several years? Is
not cistern water pure, and ali
that mortal men need? Then whv
have water works? And mossback.
ism clutches fast its money-baps and
says that Paris would to-day be better
off with no railroad, instead of reach.
Ing out for another. But the leayen Of
enterprise is steadily working its way.
and the grasp of mossbackism Is loos-
ening; and ere long Paris will awake
to new experience, boom. 1t has
never known the exhilaraticn of
boom. Grown to its splendid propor-
tions from the circumstance OF being
the heart of a magnificent country
roundabout, 1t has needed no boom to
help 1t to prominence and success. In
diyidual enterprise has filled out the
city with elegant and costly buildings
homes and stOres-to an extent
that makes the visitor not
notice that the hand of pub
lie improvement is nowhere apparent.
Indeed the taxes gathered are only
one-half of one per cent, and only suf-
ticient to pay the actual current ex-
penses of the officers. The policy OF
the city government all along has been
TO keep down taxation; and in this it
has been an eminent success. and
would be the envy of over-taXed com
munities +; but If fault is chargeable to
the city administration, II is that they
have been clingiDg to an extreme d
happy medium has not been struck
and public improvement of the place
is not attempted. A happy -go-lucky
place for which nature has done unu
sually much, and possessing all the ele.
ments that would go toward making
l
Since Fort Worth frightened Dallas
into feeble effort toward getting the
Gulf, Colorado d Santa Fee road TO ex.
tend their line from Dallas to Paris
the towns along the possible route hav..
all been agOg. Dallas was UNDERSTOOD
as willing to subscribe 100000 toward
the bonus, and Paris nobly responded
with $50,000 now Paris patiently
waits, while Dallas thinks it over
There ia q suspicion that Dallas has
not been half in earnest in this matter
not as much indeed as Dallas would
have Fort Worth believe, and the par
isians hope the Fort will yet tie he
effective tow line to the project and
pull it through. And Dallas keeps OF
thinking. ~
1t seems an assured fact that TN
Texas Central will be the first road t
push on into Paris. Already that roat
has a branch built on beyond Terrell
and it is contemplated that 1t VII
ultimately cross the Transcontinenta
at Paris and run to TeXarkana, cap
turing the produce of the Red rive
region and passing through consider
able timber needed by the road for IL
own uses. Ifit touches at Paris SOM
other road will reach down from For
Smith over the costly iron bridge nov
building there, and this railroad com
petition will give birth to one OF tn
heulthiest booms in Paris any towi
ever enjoyed. 1t is only matter Q
time. :, ~,
The amount of cotton handled in IN
season by one firm here, Fitzhugn
Marin & Wise, is in the nelghDorn.1,o ~.
of 90, 900 bales, and this is done IN IN
face of inadequate shipping, iaciil.'e
and discriminating freight rate
against them. The firm owns
} splendid compress, and has tne ials
hydraulic press at Denison uhdeI l usan
IL is their habit to buy largely an aiou
} the Transcontinental line, Dut l'G =.
experience in having cotton stana =
the weather for weeks for VAIN ~ =
shipping facilities leads them 10 vel!
earnest action toward gettins a1o LII
road here, and tie extern VI sL,,
, business az Circumstance ndicates VIC VIC
might happen when Paris Is po''s'
opened to the world. Lou an,
This week Messrs. Cnlbertson ~
CASTOR of Montgomery, Ala, NY w.
, prospecting with q view OF ioca.inS
; cotton seed oil mill. The city counu,
wisely relieved the enterprise q YAK AK
, ton for term of years, ana .ne ~ I
: tlemen seem more than dlsposeu als
: settle here; but Greenyilie - l.
reaching after them and oflsrins =
I ducements. ,nan
t The Paris Pressed-brick coIiPa =,
recently started work here AM ~ IN
now turning out splendid brick ~ eyd
dry pressed process, ana aa w,,. ThI