Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-22

FORT WORTH.

What Visitors from Other cities Have to
Say Of This One.
From number of gentlemen who have
arrived and will arrive in this city to at
tend the convention, THE GAZETTE has
sought and obtained short interviews re-
garding their opinion OF Fort Worth, it's
past, pres emit and future.
Colonel Bill Sterrett Of Dallas, than
whom no man in Texas Is more compe-
tent to speak of q live and progressive
town having lived for years within thirty
two miles OF Fort Worth, keeping close
watch upon iD, ssys: "Fort Worth is
remarkable city - remarkable for its
pluck, Its energy and its perseverance.
II has been the architect of Its own for
tune, so to speak, with no assist
ance, but many hlndrances from
the outside. From its in
cipiency it has been Just behind Dallas,
and there has been a Continual hurry and
hurry and boom to get out of the shadow
cast by the latter city. In all this time
Fort Worth hiss never had genuine
boom. Dallas has had one, and already
q decline in the price Of real estate has
set in. Real estate in Fort Worth is still
on the rise, and when the present prom
| Using crop has ripened into full fruition
and has been gathered ready for the mar
ket, the people OF the great west will pour
into Fort Worth to sell their grain and
their cotton and their produce, and to
spend their money among the merchants,
and boom will set in which nothing will
ever be able to stop or stay. This is but
the beginning Of Fort Worth's growth and
prosperity"
Juan Hart of Ell Paso: "Wbat do 1
think of Fort WORTH l think it is the
most hospitable city ever visited"
Hon. Henry Exall of Dallas: "The
splendid streets, unequsled elsewhere In
Texss, the abundance Of excellent water,
and the superior railway connections give
Fort Worth an advantage over every other
city in the state"
Speaker George c. Pendleton OF Bolton:
siFort Worth is peerless among the enter
prising cities Of Texas"
Hon. Seth Shepard Of Dallas; "Fort
Worth's recuperatIve powers are unrival-
led, In the face Of financial disaster, in
spite of severe drouths for several con-
secutiye years, with no help but from her
own people, Fort Worth has struggled on
and on and on until she has reached her
present proud position. She has had an
uphill pull sill the time, but she has
reached the level at last and
will go away from all COM
petitors in gallop. Entire nous
1 believe my chances for going to Con-
gress would have been better had To-
Gated In Fort Worth instead OF Dallas"
! Barney Gibbs-"Fort Worth's eleven
railroad outlets lay over the possessions
of any other city in the state. II she will
establish direct connection with Arkansas
Pass she will win the race hands down"
Senator John Lane of Fsyette county
ga splendid city, filed with live, pro-
gresslve people,"
Mayor Fulton OF Galveston-"Fort
Worth has no equal in the south for pluck
and enterprise. Her growth is remark
able
WI. Hall Of Dsllss-"Whst q pace
Fort Worth does set for other cities.
|, Aud none of them will be able to keep 1t
. up, either. Fort Worth will prove an
, easy winner"
! Colonel George B. Zimpleman OF
| Austin-"Fort Worth's railroads would
make town, even il she had less pro-
t gressive set of people, and her enter
> prising people would make good town
even If she didn't have railroad"
r Colonel W. j. Swain Of Clsrksville-
e ga weeks stay IN Fort Worth would
t make progressive man OF the verisst
. mossback"
t Judge ]. T. Harcourt OF Weatherford-
= nFort Worth leads them all"
Hon. W. L. Crawford OF Dallss-"Fort
e Worth's rapid progress is q source o.
e continued surprise to me. II Dallas only
] had her railroads, streets and wafer sup
( nlv-1ut then she hssn'tD
8 Hon. George Clark Of Waco-"Ths
g Fort Worth srtesian water Is the fines
d beverage in the state" ~
e Judge q. B Davis Of 81 Paso-"N;
o other city in the south csn equs. it,"