Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-15
FOR FORT WORTH.
An Outline of the Plans of the G
beFlaiR Syndicate,
The Gentlemen on the Ground to Begin 0peri
tons What They Say OF Fort
Worth's Future.

q Brien and i. b. BurbFidge, the latter
returning home from a trip to St. Louis,
Kansas City, Cincinnati, Louisville, KY,
and Old Point Comfort, Va. Mr. Bur-
bridge was the first one of the party seen,
aud he said that while away, partly on
pleasure. he had devoted s. Considerable
portion Of his time to looking
iuto street railroads for the West
Side and other matters Of
interest 10 the city, bnt, - said he, 81
want you 10 see Mr. Chamberlin and Mr..
Tallant and lot than tell you what they
propose 20 do. -
Later the sTO gentlemen were seen at
the Ellis ana We're found to be pleasant,
energetic, bread -gauged men of basi-
ness.
"Mr, Chamberlin, Four company has
purchased large tract of land adjoining
Fort Worth on the west. VIII yop give
THE GAZETTE an outline of your plans?
We are here now to get the land suRsa
Teyed aud plated, aud have bPoug5a
well known colorado civil engineeE9with
us TO look at the land. University boat
leYard, which will be lao feet wide wlth
four rows Of trees running its enTlFa
length al seven miles from the northsssssfs
30 southwest corner of the land !
viii be graded and graYeled at once, anaE
with one exception, viii be the lQngegr
boulevard Ill the country, that eX-
ceptiOn is the Drexel boulevard in
Chicago. Mr.. 0'Brieu is a landscape
engineer apd win lay out this work, and
the contract to grade and gravel the en-
tire seven miles viii be let. We will
also, while here, make arrangements to
transplant as many trees of the 20 600
we own as may be needed. The
boulevard will be connected with the
streets in the heart of Fort Worth and
the character of the connection will be
decided on while we are here. We
will also build lake covering
100 acres, a natural basin which will be
filed with water from as many artesian
wells, eight inches in diameter, as we
may find necessary. The lake will
be about two thousand feet
south OF the campus Of the university.
This lake is to supply the property with
water through a Holly system of water
works large enough to supply city of
500 .0G0 people. We will also putsiEsA
sewer system, In connection wit{Sg fsf5s;
street cars we will furnish powN for /
electric lights for the BSHle-
ward and streets and for spss
Vate residences. We are now !
in communication with several elecfssi
companies in regard to our ear line
and If we can, we will pufH
in the storage battery sYstem.
am in hopes that inside Of
thirty days we can let the contract for
the Liberal Arts university building. to
cost $50 600 and to be built OF Manitou
red stone and pressed brick. This
building viii be completed by septem-
Der, lS90. The university is backed by
the whole Methodist Episcopal church. !
We propose to make of this |
ract the choice residence portion of Fort |
Worth if money, labor, engineering |
and unexceptiopal facilities will
do il, To execute our present |
plans will require $500 900, which viii |
be spent in Fort Worth. -
VIII you have rapid transit?''
Most assuredly, and we VIII take |
passengers from the heart of the city tEfs
the limits OF the track for cents, andsn |
not over twenty minutes time,
Here Mr.. Tallant said, "'when Vas |
here i'll March last 1 was struck with tsshss
fact that there was no drive near Fort 7
Worth, and when saw this splendid tregt n
Of land ! had that III view. am lust L
back from Europe, and l eau say withs4
truth that the view from the university Il
aud will be very fine,
not excelled in many places
4 the country. Besides the natural
beauties we will have parks, breathing
places for the people.
''Did you hear much of Fort Worth in
Europe?''
'fWell, you can say L dissfihstsd
great deal of Information Shouts Fort
Worth and I found q aispa s'tiatseven
amongst the most caEtseNsatige st2zer my
toitintHgt III 2his easy. -
''When will ypta a9a4lreadg fsr residence
xs - III
Mr.. Chalnbssliih - 6 Irslaego of slS
lays, Lasag eh sasiill hu5sd and
ma WITH gTg modea CONFLUENCE
.7ssd to pls x f6 ta50F the viii 5Ists
{ will mysef&slaIsSsz So 900 red
tone winter Sasid4nce and five
others will build residences to cost from
$4,000 to SIS, 900. Inside OF year there
will be twenty-five line residences built,
md before the year is out we
will have between thirty aud fifty
niles of streets graded and graveled
rhe streets will be graded from one and
me half to two feet below the lots, so Is
hat terraces can be made. IhSs
viii be kept spFinkled
rom the day it is completed, and in Sact
viii be done in cur powefAto
make this a fine residence section Imss
very point OF view. -
q Will you remain here?'' W
.'Mr. Tallent and myself will stay
lere during the winter and fall TO push
he enterprise, -
''What about factories?
owe shall not only improve our prop
rty, but we shall do all we can for
tort Worth. We have come to
elp Fort Worth, believing that
Tort Worth viii help rs have no
oubt about Fort Worth's future
; our investment here will
how. Fort Worth will be the largest
ity in North Texas. As far as factories
re CONCERNED We do not care q
aafp where they go so Fort
FeaR gets them. 10 SeptemheEsks
i sEfober we viii bring a partYiG ~
yye5Ee or fifteen capitalists here from |
Island and Boston, and I hope by5a hat
iais tessets a grand hotel III course ofzf
otlssf netion here.
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