Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-21
THE ICONoCLAsTS.
Tho First Reuse Built IN Fort Worth Diasp
pears Ga s.ttler.

Thu First House Built In Fort Worth Dissp
pears The Ga gsttIer.
FORT WORTH. TEX. June 10. 1888
| To the Editor OF the Gazette:
net Frank TWombly yesterday and
get to telling him hoR beautiful MS resi-
derce location WAS ia the Second ward,
which he already knew, and he agreed
With ne wholly in every particular. Then
asked the question:
"Did you know, Frank, that tAe first
heuse ever built iu Fort Worth was
butt right on your grounds the1el"
"YcF," he replieo, "Gnd l have Just
torn it down." "Oh, what, IN icono-
clGst," said l.
Said he, Il did not want TO be cussed
ct, but know that you only meSa to say
shat 1 am an idol smasher, such re-
WAS Saint Paul when he w5s in
teIf ring WITH Demetrlus' idol business st
Ep1esus, away back yonder, but let me
say 10 Joa that business Is business in
this rushing age, ssd we can't pause to
weep over the temo of Adam ss did Mark
Twsin il bis Innocents Abroad. When
the old horse gets worn GU. we csn'E
psmpsr AHA with useless fsod, but like
Ne red msR Of these plains, as ne once
was, when the cid and inarn are 10
longer Of any use We gently remove
them. Tbs logs OF tbs cid house sre
there snd Ere subjsct to t. 9 order Of the
saEtimeRtally iIsliEed. Really" said
FrA1k, "this first house ought to be pre-
served and set along the Board of Trade
ksIlding"
Such wss the eonfah between Frank
and myself.
now, Kr. aAzETTK, wast to say that
you have been printing some very liter,
esting pictures Of the young Democracy
and the cid, and even the red-rsd-rlps
RepR JlicRns have come in for their share
OF show. As 10 ptysiognomy in your
very progressive columns, let me add en-
idea that would be poetic justice 8:
least, and that is TO give some Of the pic
lures Of the old scenes Of the earlier DAYS
ct Fort Worth end TsrrsRt cOua.y, and
house ever built hy G.. P Farmer and MS !
good wife. This is the wag he drew the
piclEre of il to ms:
al wss made OF logs. The sx did the |
wore, the lone ak. Toe boards |
uor wsgop, nor anything to hsul |
and dragged them to the spot where tie |
FreGk TWog5ly's yard. hy ED wons,
handed the boards 10 me, l fastened |
.hem down with log weiEats; We had 10
1sils. l made Ss e bad with this same |
2 xe; took TWO upright pieces fer bed legs,
made cut Of sspliEgs. stood them up in
one corner Of the csoin with Sirt f0or,
VT fTNy ciafE i,,ya b..
Of the Wsll, eEd our bed was made, at
east the frame work. Prairie grsss wss
much higher then than now, and 1t ST.
'orded ample material for stua0s the
yunny sacks for tick, anG we got 1t dsRe
one evening Just before dark. A
:ain wss coming up Ct rsined in Texas
,ven at that carly day. We got IN under
ais shelter Just In time to hearit eplstter
IN the roof, and maybe you don's believe
I was pleasant sleeping, listening to the
ig tree, or words to that effect. Then
when the patter on he roof was at the
hardest we heard growing sound; 1t
vas outside. Ipeeped through the cracks
md what DO you reckon / saw amid the
1sshes of lightning! For it had way of
ightniag here then sill the same as now.
" W&s UeaE anu C15OIS' luey Wels
lighting over some beef bones that We mad
brown cut. We cooked out Of doors
1nder the shade of them nice live oaks
iown there in F ank woRoly's yard
ne did, wife and l. Didn't have no
chicken pie for dinner, ike you sId the
Aldermen want. We didn't have no
sr1veled walks nor rockemised streets,
out We drank plenty OF gsod branch
- slrs l
vest, and we were happy without gas
works and lawyers and SIGH, Fer gas.
works aud lawyers, somehow, are might
ly alike In sound to NE, leastwlse l al
ways thought so. Maybe I sn wfong.
But let /. go. You lawyers can st,ad