Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-15
LAST NIGHTS BANQUET.
The Con merciai Club Honor Number Of
Prominent Railrona Wen.

prominent railroad men In this city The
culinary part OF tho affair was
placed In the hands Of Capera
& Brop who prepared Tor
the guests a supper, which not only they
but the clubs OF the city should well 1 Q
proud. The aifair, although impremp,u
10 great extent, did full Justice to the
club and TO Fort Worth.
AT about Q O'Clock the guests were in
vited TO the coy room OF the club, and
soon thereafter supper was announced,
when each Of the visitors, with
member OF the club accompanying him,
took his seat at the table aud VAS COM
fortably seated. They spoke highly OF
the supper SO nicely prepared, aud then
the oorks Of the champagne tiles be.
gan 10 pop
Col. w r. wynne was master OF cere-
monies and performed his duties In his
usual oourtly style,
Col. Peter Smith WAS called upon and
responded TO the toast OF "0ur Rail-
roads,
His speech appropriately applied
mostly to Gen Dodge and his endeavors
TO build up Texas and especially this sec.
ton OF the state. IL was we'll received,
especially the part In which he showed
what great beneiactor the general had
been to our city
Gen. G.. NJ. Dodge was then called upon
TO respond to the toast OF "The Pan
handler
The general arose and said al saw
the Panhandle In 1866. ! have not for
gotten that the people told me then what
they said about the country around Fort
| Worth; that IL was only cattle country
and not capable OF development can
remember when nothing was raised west
OF the Missouri river, except by Irrigation.
| also remember when Salt Lake Ciiy was
considered Ia the same way
but now time has proven that
rainfall follows the settlement
of the country. You know full we'll the
resources OF your own country adjacent
to your own proud city. You know what
Kansas and other states and territories
West OF the Missouri river have done
My theory is that the great Panhandle
country will soon be in luxuriant farms
1t Is an easy matter TO build railroads,
but the hard thug was TO have them sup
! ported" Fort Worth has enoughlrailroads
now to make II a great metropolis, and so
far as he was concerned, II he was a citl.
zen of this city, he had rather have ten
Browns than tifty railroads. This city
must pay attention to manufactures, etc.
From DenisoD southwest WAS now con-
sidered the best agricultural country In
Texas. when first he knew II, II was
considered for this purpose valueless.
The way 70 build up the Panhandle was
to rent actual 3 tuers small tracts
OF land with good Titles. There was a
great future for Fort Worth and North
west Texas.
No. At la, a.. a..
Fort Worth, said; We are the only city
in Texas that has the trrmini OF the Fort
Worth Rio Cirande, OF the Fort Worth
& New Orleans railroad, Of the Fort Worth
Nenyer City railroad, OF the Fort Worth
Western, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad, OF the Gnlf Colorado & Santa Fe
railway. Of The Transcontinental, bssid' 8
its through roads. We have more rail-
roads, more churches, and more aud bet
ter schools and more children, more peo-
pie and more voters than any town In the
state.
w. IL. II, Lawrence, iR response TO a
toast 10 the Fort Worth Western, said
that he came TO this state Ia 1870; that NJ
that time II was considered unsafe for
him TO travel through this country with.
on. an escort. When he first saw Fort
| Worth he prophesied that II would be a
great railroad center He came TO this
country on account Of asthma; that bav-
| ing been entirely cured no wonder that
ne felt deep interest In Texas.
That he was the frat contractor ugtieT
Gen. Dodge west OF Shreveport He WAS
| the man who drew the charter for the
Fort Worth & Denver City railroad. He
felt deep interest In Fort Worth. lie
had never failed In any enterprise he had
started. II was not his desire to make
money; but was DESTROYS OF seeing his
enterprises succeed As 70 the Fort
Worth Western, 1t would be built. He
might not live to see IT., out he
mad as much faith In the Fort Worth
Western as he had In the Fort Worth &
Denver In 1878. or when Gen. Dodge took
hold OF II 10 1868.
Mr. Robertson OF Dallas responded 10
the toast, "Tbe Long.ieAf Pines OF East
Texas" and made one OF the best speeches
OF the evening II was replete with hn.
NOR He said that the sooner Dallas and
Fort Worth could see that East Texas was
yet TO furnish the greatest
commerce for West Texas the
better II would be for them.
He lived 10 Dallas, but he was afraid that
from the snap, energy and enterprise he
hltN Eglh WV Va H'noNoHNAf AfeAANH 'tNtN
have 10 get her lumber through and by
way Of Fort Worth. That this city by
Its energy and enterprise kept Dallas In
a state OF nervousness all the time. That
they did not and could not see
where we would strike n'xt.
That from the energy aud git
up .aud.git displayed by the citizens OF
this city, he would not have been sur
prlsed TO have seen city half as large as
Dallas.
Coz. r. NJ. wynne spoke eloquently
and feelngly Of his old home In East
Texas.
Col J. n. o'NelB showed the develop
ments OF the Fort Worth Denver City
railroad.
Mr.. Blood Of Wichita Ralls spoke Of tho
great Northwest, Some other spfechs
were made, after which Mr.. Rivers pro-
posed toast 10 Mrs Cleveland.
The whole sffair was grand success.
Champagne flowed in proiusion and
The guests spoke highly OF the manner In
which the Commercial club trested them.