Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-01
maintained ON an equal footing with the othe!

maintained on an equal footing with the other
universities.
The trustees of the Texas Wesleyan college
have transferred all the property TO the board
of education on condition that the society pay
all its debts, to be held b. that society in trust
for the use and maintenance OF an inStitutio n
OF Christian learning IN or near the city OF Fort
Worth. This trust clause protects the citizens of
Fort Worth, and secures peTmanency in all the
buildings and lmprOv ementS they may aid Us IN
erecting. The transfer Is being made. and BaS-
tTOp GOodsel has agreed to raise SI5 600 by jan
uary, 1890. The duty OF this educational society
Is 10 ala IN erecting buildings, securing endoW-
ments and paying teachers salaries. This ar
rangement gives strength and permanency to the
institution and pledges the Methodist Episcopal
church, with its :, GOO, 900 members, and wealth
to the support of this university. This
Is a great victory for Fort Worth, and means
more for the development of the city in a few
years than anything that has ever come to the
city. Heretofore the college had only the sup
port of the Methodist Episcopal church III TexOs
which was neither large nor StrOng-5ut now
the institution is 10 have the fostering Of the
entire church.
Because of this new arrangement. giving scope
and permanency to the university. large and
handsome donations have been made to the in
stitutiOn recently as follows:
The American land and Investment company,
of which II. Is. and A. W. Chamberlain OF Den
yer, Col. and j. Z. DOwnev of Pueblo, are lead
ing spirits, have given twenty-five acres in fee
simple for campus for the university, and one
fourth interest in the profits OF goo acres Of land
lying around the campus for permanent endow-
ment fund.
lying just south OF the university campus for
buildings.
The Fort Worth land and street railway COM
pany, Boston syndicate, give 100 acres Of land
just north OF the university campus for build
ings.
Robert Mozart gives $1,000 cash on completion
of the first building.
A W Chamberjin gives SI5, 900 cash for scien
tiic apparatus on completion OF the science hail.
Other parties who interested viii make
other donations in the future. The above
donations have been closed up by written con
tracts the university agreeing to put $780, 900 in
buildings on the campus IN five years.
By improvements, which the American land
make ) in the. shape OF an eIectri,
cal street railway and g:aded and
grayeled highway to the university campus, the
property will rapidly advance in value and
at least two hundred thousand dollars for build
ings and endowment. These lands are situated
west of Fort Worth, across the Clear Fork of the
Trinity river, on and ii vicinity of what is
known as the Mozart tract OF land.
The lots in the aOu-acre tract lying around the
university campus will be put on the market at
are begun.
PLANS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
An amended charter of Texas Wesleyan col
lege mas been secured changing the name 10 Fort
Worth university. The present property will
VIII remain where it Is and be a part of the
university, and in a year or so will be
come the preparatory department of the
institution. The work OF the college will
go right on next year the College hill prop
be erected in West Fort Worth. boys board
ing hall, under military discipline, VIII be
erected this summer on the present campus at
cost of $780, complete and furnished, that
the prepatOry department viii be complete IN
itself when the institution moves 20 the univer-
sity buildings, and so that the instruction OF the
college may not be hindered while erecting new
buildings.
The plans of DR.. Johnson and others for new
buildings on the university campus as fol-
lows, subject, however, to changes by the board
of trustees that may be deemed best for the good
OF the institution:
l. 4 college of liberal arts. costing. . $50 600
2. Boarding hall or dormitory for young
ladies. costing. Is 900
3. Boarding hall for young men........... 1900
l. science nail. ................. 2j,GDO
1t is hoped that work on the college of liberal
arts viii begin in the next few months.
In time 1t is expected to establish all neceS-
sary professional schools, in addition to the
college of liberal arts, school OF
sciences, normal school, commercial
school and school of technology or
men, grow and strengthen with age; and surely
broad plans are being laid for Fort Worth uni
versity. Institutions OF this character, while
under UNCONVENTIONAL control, are not intended
to be SeCtarian, but stand for higher Christian
education in its broadcast sense.
1t is understood that III the development of the
university in West Fort Worth, the citizens viii
opportunity viii be given them TO aid in erecting
the boys hall on College hill. President 4. A.
Johnson has pushed the founding of this institu-
ton for number of years. giving his energy,
home. and nearly all OF his property in order to
plant the college, and to him more than anyone
else are our citizens indebted for this institu-
ton.