Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-16
FROM NORTH SIDE.
How the Streets are Blockaded--
How tho Hogs do Roam
at VIII.
The Plucky Little ROsedale Comes in
for its Share Of the Blame,

10 the Honorable city Council OF Fort
Worth:
The repeated meetings Of the clti-
zens Of the South side" have awak-
ened some interest in the North side
say from Bluff street at least north-
eartward to the city cemetery, the old
cemetery--I presume we, too, would
like to have a meeting and resolute,
but several considerations intervene TO
prevent.
First may be mentioned the fact that
! the streets are so completely blOckaded
that doubt If we could all convenient-
| ly assemble at one place at one time,
and rather than take IL In broken
| doses, as our brethren OF the South
| side have been doing, few OF Us got
together the other day and appointed
myself spokesman to you. Now ]
cannot complain on the usual plan and
say that II Is all the fault Of the city
fathers, because il isn't. We have but
ourselves 10 blame. We have allowed
our hogs, sheep and goats TO
roam at will In these parts till GUS
tom has done away with the hog law,
but not the hors. We have stopped
up Bluff street at it's junction with
Elm street. We have stopped up Elm
street at Gray's residence, though Mr..
Gray Gays that he gave the street
through his property with the under
standing that IL was to 60 on. ] gave
Ii through my little lot next 70 Gray
with that understanding, but it don't
go. IL stops, something stops IL. Peach
,treet Is stopped up at both ends, and
until the Rosedale street rail-
way came along It did have
little place TO wiggle in the
middle at Jack Flint's residence, but
the plucky little "Rosy,n in its hurry
TO get to the race track and beat
the old company, has raised such an
embankment mt the turn there where
II goes into Bon2 street that II destroys
the only mode Of egress and ingress 10
the city from the north, where So 00O,-
coo worth of taxable property in Tar
rant county must pass over the OBJ
stru ctiOn 10 get 10 this market. IL the
Rosedale had stopped with this sin
we might have forgiven It, because 1t
the under dog in the fight.
But utter petitloning the city
council to open this only
outlet from the city northward through
| the Sherman wagOn-yafd, ands after
they had done thar, this street railway
plowed right through this forty feet
THAT ought to have been eighty feet
and has made great gulch there and
left ID so, for GrapevlI BirdVille
Bedford, Keller, Bransford, Spring
Garden, Smithlield, Dido, Double
Springs, Paden's atore aud all those
living northwest OF Dido and gCo1ly
portion Of Parker county TO drag over
these distractions for the privilege of
trading with this market.
In the next sixty days this section
| Will be compelled 10 pay into the state
and county treasury some 100000 In
the shape of taxes to keep the ma
| chinery of government in motion, and
! TO do thisthey must sell their produce
at this or some other market. If they
trade here 1t will be by dragging over
the difficulties mentioned. But Grape
vine has long since declared her indie
pendence OF this place, and who knows
but this has something to do with it,
l certainly should not be very much
impressed with the desire on the part
OF Fort Worth togreet my section II
were to come from there ana meet such
difficulties tot get to town.
Now who Is at fault for these things7
10 is "A fact that when the town map
was first made and property owners
began TO sell, the streets named were
not INSTRUCTED, hut showed from IL
that they were open to the public;
since then property has passed from
hand to hand till IL would be diillcult
TO say who Is at fault. The owners
were gradually permitted one by one
TO close up and sell of these streets till
IL became the exception TO leave them,
and when II has been done ii
Is by the council purchasing the right
ofway. at one time called the atten-
ton OF our worthy mayor 10 this state
of facts and he said with 20 much
force Of justice that l could not gain
say IT. little council Ia to purchase
land IL can dose at much cheaper ratef
than the market value you people
place on dirt that you propose that We
purchase for your own benefit" Now
this 10 eminently correct, and II We gc
on with such spirit OF obstruction as
this and will do nothing for ourselves
we deserve little from The city coun
oil. Can't we begin with the
ltosedale aud get It to make good II:
promise TO leave the streets as good a,
It found them? III we can't do any.
thing with corporation these day
when every one that strikes on,
fetehes blood, then we are poor indeed
Let ns begin on little Rosy and my
neighbor Tuck Bosg, who IL bOsaing IL
and maybe the balance OF the Nortt
side will wake up long enough To driv,
the hogs out aud open the streets.
Yours truly q. @. CUMMINGS.
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