The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-19
A FORT WORTH FUR0RE.
pIvAL STREET RAILWAYS AT WAR,
The Town EXcited-Arrests, Court Scenes,
BAD Feeling Newspaper and
Gambling Situations and
Rumors Thereon-EtC.

lows Stl'''i'h "''N WV HS"i'C 'lC 'pll- 4
.,ornv divided into parties ON oues- !
''', of ,romentons imnort IN tbo .it,.
uoHe VI ~ - W. '''O o''S
At tins h'uI " oclYcN houston street
rs q Dive VI e.~g',VllshV from the
square TO me d1pOL Were hundreds Of
men IN Ih- employ Oh TWO powerful rival
COlpcIa''"H' "lg az Nu'A caring up the
street a"Q "SiIiS He9 "hl ia1t IOf y
street ca me- nc Vieclflc iight ana
gas l!lulh'H".eS u"e acehe' VIM? as lar
as uo eye ca" fe5 ca STURDY IIIshmen,
neg oe5' humans ana Germans win plck
aud shoLeJ, ah9 WGshnS u.s. men
never worked before; inc Sidewalks are
Hned WIN people discussing inc altua-
ion, Wine lawyers are blsN ~ WORK IN
heir Offices clQSGJeq win the directors
aid officers OF the tosgda!e street kali
ray company ana me Fort worth street
Railway company The facts in the case
re Some time ago anew ~trect-car com
mny, called the hosedale, was moor
Oratcd, and later obtained from the
city Council tne riBhtoi-Way on !loua-
ton street, mayor Hlnilh Neloed lie
ordnance, giving as ms reasons That
Houston street was the principal DRIVE,
was llne!N hla"aaahllHeu ana should be
elt for the wagon tralllc. The Council
passed the ordinance over the
Veto when property owners
along houston street ,enJolned
the Rosedale from building. me case
on saturday came up before Judge |
Hood, at eatheriord, when the lnlunc-
lion was dlssoINad' Al Ihls tlme Col'
Huffman ana others OF the Fort Worth |
Street Railway company, were watch
ing events, Tor they claimed under 4 |
charter obtained from the state in ISL H. |
and an ordinance passed by the city in
1881, that they had right TO bulld on |
the street II any one had, This charter |
and ordinance gave them the exclusive |
right to build ON the streets, and the
right was to endure for ninety-nlne |
years. The council could say to them
when and where they wanted street
ear lines built, ana the company
must build them. IL was the intention
Of the Rosedale to begin work on Hous-
ton street next week, but Morgan Jones
had advised with Col. Peeler, of Austin,
Hon. Alexander Green and Attorney
General WemplctOn as go The rights OF
the Fort Worth company, and was pre-
pared to maintain them. Some time
Ibis morning, about half-past o'clock,
agang of forty men, headed by Jones
and his foreman, together with the as
sistant City Engineer, who had been
routed out of bed, filed into Houston
street. the engineer pointed out the cen
ire OF the street, Morgan Jones gave the
word 10 the foreman, who ordered the
men. AMI The work OF forcibly taking
posspssi,g OF the street granted to the
Roscinle began bv the Fort
Worth street Railway company.
When morning came the ci'i-
zcus. and especially the Rosedale
pppplp. we're astounded TO see the move
which had been made. w. j. Morphy,
president ofthe Rosedale, nj once con
shifted LAWYERS and then went before the
recorder. Swearing out warrants for the
arrest of Morgan Jones and thirty men
ior ohstructing the streets. The police
men went down in body aud arrested
the men, taking them TO the City Hall.
lladlcy had the thirty-one gone when
from the street ear stables forty
more men marched over to Houston
street, headed by NJ. O'Neil; and took M
the work where the others had left TO-
As soon as Murphy could be notified
o.her warrants were sworn out, and the
iurty-Ouc arrested. Major Van Igud
PROMPTLY gave bond for the first thirty
one, aud they went back to work. Thci
bond WIS given for the others and they
went zoo work. Tho Rosodale people
thcu wont To- work, and as rapidly a;
possible aired men, bought picks ano
shovels and throw sixty men on inc
street above the Others ana went 10 work
The City Council was at once Gale,
together ana thelawyers ana presidents
of the rival corporations asked to appeal
ployed by the city, ana AFTER nearing
statement OF the case from the attor
neys, the Council adjourned till after
noon. ON reassembling,, Colone
llogsntt said the Council was
legislative body, could make laws
but could not Gdludicale dillerenc, $, hu
asked for still further time. In tn
meantime an attorney Tor me itoSeual
had gone To oathorord To obtain an ~
junction restraining. the. Fort WORT
company. on the Ho,Glock p. M tran
~. Nj. Garter lett Tor ealherIoru 10 ON
tain an injunction restraining the Rose
dale rom building, a, ana the pG'9,a ,,, !,
ties are that both Will be granted, but u
at work and track is being laid Bitte
Telling is ongenderod ana not Word
passed to-day on the street aud I'm IN
Council chamber between Mayor Smitl
the attorneys and the aldermen. m
people, as n rule, are opposed To IN
building ofany line ON Houston stree
aud the Fort Worth company are WI
ling TO accedc TO their wishes provide
the Rosedalc be not permitted TO us
the street.
LArER-rhe rival street railway com
panics are paying laborers forty CEN
an hour, Locomotive, head lights hay
been, placed all along the street
Torches are held in lines M
the men are working und,
high pressure. The officers
the roads say by III o'cloC
tomorrow the track VIII
laid and cars running rom the square
the Union depot, a distance OF nearly
lie. AZ this time tl2@Oa. M Grove
are still ON the street viewing the I
markable contest.
Judge Hood to-day granted an ordt
oil sale for the properly OF the lnVes
ment company, TO take place FRIDAY