The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-06
BE UP AND DOING.

Dallas must bestir itself. If therS IS
one thing Shove another that tails pa
per has advocated in season ard Cut Of
season,i5 has been activity on the part o.
orr bdsiness men and property owners
looking TO additional railroad conuec-
lions and manufacturing establish.
nents. Upon these our future is to be
huilded,o our success and prosperity to be
experienced. Without them Dallas can
hang its harp on the willows and sing a
song of the olden. times.
We have a vigilant and progressive
rival only so pAiles from us. The Fort
Worth folks are terribly in earnest.
No stone Is left unturned there whose
inactivity would stand in the way of
Fort Wort'a's advancement or contrib
ute to thai Of Dallas. The smallest en-
terprise calls for mass meeting and
patriotic addresses and subscriptions,
and ali the talk about paper enterprise
fails o diHprove the fact that the people
of tn at town are willing 10 subscribe TO
every scheme calculated to carry the
Fort to the front and distance rivals,
Nobody hats, but all respond with
ale.crity and liberality, and the city
moves apsce in steady progression.
The following important news was
received from that city day before yes
terday by special to the HERALD, and
theattention of business mon here is
belted to it, "The people of WsSeha-
ohie this evening accepted the prosposi-
tiCn Of the Fort Worth company 60 fur
dsh $4,000 cash, the rightot-way
through Ellis coGnty and depot grounds
in TINS city in order 20 secure road
from Fort Worth. all the bonus re.
luired was properly guaranteed to-day
and Fort Worth projectors notified. AL
| though Fort Worth has just secured the
| Waxahschie road, she is now discuss
ing narrow gauge to Birdville, Grape
vine and Mckinney. Wealthy men in
the county offer aid. w. s. PENDLEToN,
DIR. FIELD, DIR. II. S.jBRoILEs and RIA.
BAKER are the movers here. The road
is to cost scme $1,000 per mile. The Fort
Worth Il Rio Grande win be built to
Grsnbury by January l, 1885,"
This is che way theeo people of the
Fort are working. Suppose the Cen.
trsl is tapped by the WaxahachiC
branch snd the East Line is met at Nc
Kinney and the Granbury line com
pleted, Dallas is practically cut OIL from
the best trade 1t can possibly acquire
Our Dallas people have just recently or
ganized q Dallas Il Northwestern Rail .
way company, but important as it is
the activity does not appear TO be equa
to the occasion and the matter, there
fore, seems to DO in allegiance to the Get
riment of this city. By this time tn
contracts should be- let for at least 81
miles OF the road, end additiona
and other enterprises of like char
acter should have beer inaugurated
There Ia no use in mincing matters
no use in Dallas people ignoring thes,
progressive and giant strides of Fol
Worth. Our city must do somethin,
and rise with the occasion. Enterprise
active effort, progressiveness have be
come absolute necessities here and tn,
HERALD has persistently and consist
emily urged these matters upon its Dial
las readers. If failure results or For
Worth by splendid efiorts succeeds il
distanc.ng us, it will be q happy though
with tho HERALD that 1t has left M
stone unturned and no admonition un
expressed calling to tho attention of on
people the necessities Of the hour. /
Dallas is left in tho race for municlpa
greatness it will be through no fault O
negligence OF ours.