Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-12
FORT WORTH'S GUESTS.
Charles Francis Adams and Party En-
tertained by the Board of Trade.
Visit to Commercial Houses and the Great
Union Stock Yards-President Adams
Talks of Fort Worth.

Having received q 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 otheE1. officers and mem
bers of the afd ofss, trade made
some hasty Mgeparati6as to egs
terrain them. ghey 6ssere. met
at the depot and invited tcgEter nuIa-
Der Of hacks that waiteds1here After
an inspection OF JoseplE H Br9Sn IS
mammoth grocery hogs9and viSstaaksR
the rooms of the Coma rcial club, the
visitors were taken slfFough the residence
portion of the citysstAd thence to the new
bridge over the Eefnity.
Here the pagsy boarded an electric car
on the NortifSide 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 a very proper entertainment for
them.
Having inspected the improvements
being made out there, they were directly
taken to where, under sheltering avn
ings, 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
eral 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. It 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 favor to the fish,
to champagne, that added pungency to
the grapes, ell were of the rarest vintage
and excellent age.
When the substantials1 aaed vigor
to the body and the vine had sFHnjured
upsthe wit, Col. j RssSSmith arose and
prop6sgd a toast tette UnioIt8Pacific
railway aaslsits Inesthrough Texas to the
The toast was saa1ding, and
Mr.. Adams was called upon to respond.
He did so in very felicitous manner.
He said in coming out over the electric
railway line he had been forcibly re-
minded OF his first visit to Texas, twelve
years ago this month. He had come
down here with Mr.. Talmage of sthe
Missouri Pacific road, and on the
trip had net Messrs. Noble and BOlfd,
managers of the Texas and fS2eifi n
While they were waiting for bTeakfastsgt
the Fort Worth depot he hadSan oppoF4s
tunity to notice the chief characteristics
Of the town as distinguishablef Fqm that
point, ana there seemed to be big
courthouse at the end of a long and
broad street that had a street-car line
on it. A bod-tail car, drawn by one
mule, stood at the depot. Mr.. 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. q
month. But the month previous thee
superintendent of the line had come to5
the stockholders and said he WasEeTY
sorry he could not turn over the GSltss3
dividend, as q mule had died, and he
was obliged TO buy another one. In
twelve years how marvellous the
change. From a one-mule town
Fort Worth had grown to city of large
proportions and great commercial i'm
portance, and the electric car of to-day
is the rapid, though natural, evolution
of the car drawn by one mule&srsSelEe
years ago.
This country has developed to such an
Cyclorama closes for removal Monday
9th