Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-17
A DAY AT DALLAS.
Water and the Spirit Rampant Reli-
glon With Muscular Man.
lfestations.
Returned from Bridal Tonr-A New
Candidate for Mayor.
81. Patrick's Day-A Pricsily Fraud
The Street Car Contest.
Breezy Political Items-A Good LegiS'
la,ivc Suggestion.
snncinl 90 the Gazette.

Special 20 the Gazette.
- Dallas, March TO- The colored p
m Pile of Dallas have gone wild over |
n. ligion of the power.movlng and glor
IA shouting kind. There was publ
j. baptising of converts this evening
:, Nussbaumer's tank in East Dallus, q
~ tended by upwards Of two thousal
!, negroes and five hundred whites, Il
n latter as privileged spectators. BE
=, euteen men and twelve women wei
dipped under the water, one ut q tim
: and were then rushed into dressin
:, tent close by Darkness closed I'll
" water-wOrks exhibition, but the lun
=, power of the crowd is still unchecked
: The power took possession of one Of III
= sisters, and she began yelling "glory
;. the sky am splitting and Pse gwln
/, home?p She became so frantic tina
she kicked n hole through the tent
= aud IL took six full-grown men TO hol
, her down. She finally fell into an ap
purentiy dead swoor, and 10 still I'm
conscious.
Mr.. Fred Boulware of the City VA
tlonal bank of Fort Worth, passed to
night with his bride, nee Miss Frankie
Nichols, daguhter of John Nichol!
also ofthe City Rationale zen route HON,
from three weeks bridal tour.
Hon. James b. Simpson Is n candi
date for mayor of lInst Dallas, Judge
John l.. Henry refusing TO run for Il
third term.
The Hberniaus will honor st. Pat
rick and perpeluale his memory to
morrow in their usual patriotic way
and proceed to paint the town green.
A fraud passing himself ~ Father
| Ryan, the famous poet-priest of the
south, has been working Dallas the
past week, collecting money from
many Catholics on representation that
he was raising funds for various chart
ties, The police arrested him this
morning and he Is now in the city
prison. He will appear before his
honor, Mayor Cabell, in the morn
ing.
The city council met last night in
| adjourned session and were deiiberat-
| ing until nearly | O'Clock this morn
ing. They finally passed the ordinance
granting right-of-way and other Irivi-
leges to the new Belt railway comps
ny, to build, equip and operate line
| OF street railway around and through
the most thickly settled business and
lNothNilNt EplAlbi1 VI tlt Guy. NEW
York and Dallas capitalists are inter.
ested in the new Belt scheme, which
Is said TO be financially the strongest
street railway corporation in TeXaa.
The organization and securing of fran
chises and privileges by the new COM
pany has been strenuouSly opposed by
the old City railway company,
who claim to have exclusive
and monopollstic rights over the
street railway service, present
and prospective in the city. This the
city council deny. Now that the Belt |
company has organized and been fully !
recognized, 1t proposes to 20 ahead |
with its scheme, and the prospects are
good for decidedly lively contest in
the matter. The old corporation, In
order TO shut out its rival, is talIiinp
Of injuncti0ns and other legal resorts.
The new company met quietly at
late hour last night and organized rs
follows Lehman Sanger, president;
w. .. Conner, viee-president; +. Il. !
Bryan, sccretary Gerson Meyer, treas- !
uror. The following board of directors
was also chosen: Gersou Meyer, a
Sanger Z, Sanger n. L. Barry, q. y. |
Ouillman. II is understood material
has already been contracted for and
viii soon arrive when the
work of construction is to begin,
and then the dauce viii proceed In
dead egrnes. between the two corpora.
tons. The Mtssrs. Keller, $. j. Adj.
ans and j. y. Aldridgc, owners OF the
stock IN the OLD City railway company,
and their attorney, Mr.. G.. II. Plow-
man, met this morning 10 view and
discuss he situation, but what deter
mination was arrived at has not been
made public This Belt road enter
prise IL only the foreruuner of nunef-
Gus other schemes that are being and
win soon be developed to give Dallas
the street railway facilities sheso badly
needs particularly lines TO run from
the business center of Dallas eastward
through the splendid territory of East
Dallas 10 its suburbs, now almost dos-
utute Of street railway service, but
having n population so largo and so
rapidly increasing IA TO make ear
lines absolute necessities and invest
ments decidedly remunemtlve.
The council at It's meeting last night
also took new departure regarding a
source of revenue 20 be derived from
street railway companies already doing
business in the city or to be built and
operated in the future. The plan Is
not yet fully matured, butt will either
he n direct tax on the annual gross
earnings or on the actual number OF
feet of main lines, switches, turu-outs,
etc, the tax 10 be fined each year hg
the city council All the members OF
| the present board voted for the mems.
ue last night, aud It Is evident the
street railway business Is hereafter To
receive no more iav0ritism or cOnsid-
Grafton than any other line of trade or
occupation. All OF the others are made
to pay an occupation tax, and the argu-
ment Ia used that street RAILWAYS
should not be made an exception.
me Minnie Hauk combination ar
rived nom Fort Worth this morning
On route 10 fill an engagement IN some
nelghhoring town, and spent the day
IN Dallas. They did not put IN at tile
Grand Windsor hotel this time.
Neither the Minnie HaulS or the Dal.
las opera house management made
very favorable impressions with Tho
Dallas public on the occasion OF the
oompany's visit during the cattlemen's
convention. They had played at most
OF the large aud small towns Of the
state NJ o maximum price for tIcSets OF
2i,au, hut when they reached Dallas
they touched : lheDall es and their
guests for S3-a discrimination that
Will not soon be forgotten or forgiven
toward the management Of the Dallas
opera house or the Minpie Hauk com.
pany.
James Griffith and J. n. Mitchell
accused OF nt,ering and passing coun.