Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-08
FORT WORTH'S GUESTS.
Charles Francis Adams and Party En-
tertained by the Board of Trade.
A Visit to Commercial Houses and the Great
Union Stock Yards-President Adams
Talks OF Fort Worth.

Having received a message from Su-
perintendent Duncan of the Denver road
that President Charles Francis Adams OF
the Union Pacific and party would arrive
in this city at 1890 Yesterday, President
! Paddock and other officers and mem
| bers of the board of trade made
some hasty preparations to en-
terrain them. They were met
at the depot and invited to enter a num-
| Der Of hacks that waited there. After
| an inspection of Joseph H. Brown s
mammoth grocery house and a visit to
! the rooms of the Commercial club, the
visitors were taken through the residence
portion of the city and thence to the new
bridge over the Trinity
Here the party boarded an electric car
on the North Side line and were rapidly
transported to the Union stOckyards.
Mine host Ricard of the hotel at that
place had been duly notified of the COM
ing of distinguished guests and had pre-
pared very proper entertainment for
them.
Having inspected the improvements
being made out there, they were directly
taken to where, under sheltering avn
ings, a fine oyster roast had been pre-
pared, and there invited to enjoy the
succulent bivalve in his most delightful
state. Before the spaces under the sew
eraI waistcoatS had been nearly filled
the guests were taken from the tables
and led to the dining hall of the new
Stockyards hotel.
Here a splendid banquet had been
spread. 1t was served in courses, the
fish, prepared in the highest perfection
of the cuisine art being followed by
meats and vegetables that were their fit
succeeders, and the whole being rounded
off by fruits and reflections that
pastry cook has never excelled or
vine surpassed. OF course wine was
there in plenty to wash them down, and
from claret, that gave flavor to the fish,
to champagne, that added pungency to
the grapes, al were of the rarest vintage
and excellent age.
When the substantials had added vigor
to the body and the wine had cOnjured
up the wit, Col. J 2. Smith arose and
proposed a toast to the Union Pacific
railway aud its line through Texas to the
gulf.
The toast was drunk standing, and
Mr.. Adams was called upon to respond.
He did so in very felcitous manner
He said in coming out over the electric
railway line he had been forcibIy re-
minded of his first visit to Texas, twelve
years ago this month. He had come
down here with Mr.. Talmage of the
Missouri Pacific road, and on the
trip had met MeSsrs. Noble and Bond :.
managers of the Texas and P9diHe
While they were waiting for BREAKFAST at
the Fort Worth depot he had an dppor-
tunity to notice the chief characteristics
of the town as distinguishable from thaf I
point, and there seemed to be a big
courthouse at the end of q long and |
broad street that had a street-car line !
on it. A bod-tail car, drawn by one
mule stood at the depot. MIR. Noble |
came out and remarked that street-car !
stock was the best stock they had in this |
section, as it paid about 10 per cent a
month. But the month previous the |
of the line had come to /
the stockholders and said he was very |
sorry be could not turn over the usual |
dividend, as a mule had died, and he 1
was obliged to buy another one. Inf
twelve years how marvellous the |
change. From one-mule town |
Fort Worth had grown to a city of large |
and great commercial i'm |
portauce, and the electric car of to-day |
is the rapid, though natural, evolution |
Of the car drawn by one mule twelve |
years ago.
Ttaeaeenntry has developed to such suef