Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-28

maintained on equal footing with the other
universities.
| The trustees of the Texas Wesleyan college
nave transferred all the property 70 the board
OF education on condition that the society pay
all It's debts, TO be held 5y that society IN trust
Tor the use and maintenance or an lrStltutIo
OF CHRISTIAN learning in or near the city OF Fort
Worth. This trust clause protects the citizens OF
Fort Worth, and secures permanently IN al the
! buildings and Improvements they may aid us in
erecting. The transfer is being made, and Bas-
trop GooGsel has agreed 10 raise SIS, 700 by Jan
uary, 1890. The duty OF this educational society
Is TO aid IN erecting buildings, securing endOw
ments and paving teachers salaries. This az
rahgeTnent gives strength and pernlaneGcy tothe
institution and pledges the nethodlst Episcopal
church, with its >, 00d, coo members, and wealth
to the support of this university. This
is q great victory for Fort Wor6h, and means
more for The Cieyp, ODreDt Of the CITY in q few
years than anything that mas ever come to the
city. Heretofore the college had only the sup
port OF the u 1thOdist Episcopal church in TeXos
which was neither large nor stronghold now
Tire institution IS to have the fostering care OF the
/ entire church.
BecaNse Of this new arrangement, giving scope
and peTnlanenCv to the university. large and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have been made to the in
stitation recently as follows:
The American land and Investment company,
of which H. b. and A. w Chamberlain OF Dem
yer. Col, and J. E. Downey OF Pueblo, are lead
simple for a campus for the university, and one
fourth interest III the profits of $40 scres OF land
lying around the campus for a permanent endow-
meht fund.
The Same parties give Is per cent. Of 2dg0 acres
lying. lust south Of the university carapQs for
Tae Fort Worth land and street railway com
p5uy, q Boston syndicate, give 100 acres OF land
ostH0rth OF the university campus for build
Robert Mozart gives $1,000 cash on completion
of the first building.
4. W. Chamberlin gives SIS, coo cash for scien-
tIhc apparatus on completion Of the science nail.
Other parties who aIe interested Will make
other donations in the near future. The above
donations have been closed up by written con-
m mt
buildings on the campus in five years.
By improvements, which the American land
make nnd ln2eS' tRe s oSpang f az agree electro
cal street railway and graded and
graveled highway TO the university campus, the
property viii rapidly advance in value and
make the donations to the university amount to
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 in vicinity of what is
known as the McCart tract of land.
The lots in the "G0-acre tract lying around the
university campus viii be put on the market at
an early day and as soon as the first buildings
are begun.
PLANS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
An amended charter of Texas Wesleyan cpl
lege has been secured changing the name to Fort
Worth university. The present property. will
university, and IN year or so viii be
come the preparatory department of the
go right on next year on the College hill prop
erty, regardless of the new buildings that may
be erected in West Fort Worth. 4 boys board
ing hall, under riilitary discipline, viii be
erected this summer on the present campus at q
cost of $500, complete and furnished, so that
the prepatory DEPARTMENT will be complete in
itself when the institution moves to the univer-
sity buildings, and 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 are 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, 900
2. Boarding hall or dormltOry for young
IaGles, costing. Is, 600
g. Boarding nall for young nen........... L. coo
T. Science .......................... 20, 900
1t is hoped that work ON the college Of LIBERAL
arts viii begin in the next few months.
In time it is expected to establish all neces-
sary professional schools IA 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
veYsity. Institutions OF this character, while
under denouinatiOnaI control, arg not INTENDED
to be sectarian. but stand for higher Christian
education in its broadeSt sense.
It Is understood that in the development of the
university in West Fcrt Worth. the citizens viii
not be asked to make any contributions, but an
opportunity VIII be given them to aid in erecting
the boys hall on College hill. President 4. i.
Johnson has pushed the founding of this inStitu-
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 iustitu-
ton.