Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-28

= WE MUST HAVE IT.
Few Instances Where Push Did the
WOrk-Let Fort Worth Push.
Advantages Un.o'd to Ba Derived from tn
Big Hotel sch. ma->hort talks With
MOnryed Men.
Fort WORTH. Tex, Nov. 81, 1890.

Fort WORTH Tex, Nov. %, 1880.
Editor Gazette.
am sorry so few people were at the
chamber of commerce last night and
listened to the many good things said in
favor OF u good frst-class hotel for Fort
Worth. The story told by Col. I. j.
Hurley how he had ''lost a man who
had come all the way from New England
TO invest here, - should be passed around
in confidential way, as one of the
hundred like events which have occurred
here during the last year. A friend from
Denver with Us few days ago. said to
me: "If you will push your coun try as
winter resort, and get people from
Denver and the North to come here and
spend part of the winter, you neei not
be troubled about selling your real
estate or getting money for your many
excellent schemes you have 10 pres emit.
That part will tuke care of itself. -
'But,' sand l, twill your wealthy
people he satisfied with the kind of ac-
commodution We have to offer them?'
mot quite, said he. eff your
people expect to get money to manufac,-
ure with, TO build railrUuiS. AMI invest
i'll your reul estate. you must hold them
a while ;at least until they can get in SYM
pathy with your schemes; and
learn enough about your section so
ns TO intellis emily tnke In the situation.
But 10 do that you must house them COM
Iortabiy, for men worth half million
dollars don I cure TO be penued up like
pigs. They prefer to ride up stairs in nn
elevator rather than climb; they prefer
water-closet to Il pig pen; wash room
rather than crowded barber shop; u
reading room and Il writing room rather
than the common crowded lobby aud
vestihue OF II crowded hotel. -
Here he shook nv hand and departed
for Denver and TO mediate. l thought
of how Denver wus stuck i'll the mud
until the Windsor hotel was built. That
story have told so often on the street
that Will not repeat 1t here. But
thought of Colornd' Springs, how her
people put up the site for hotel and
other property. How Gen. Palmer sold
the lands Eust and the Antlers was
built; how hundreds of rich men and
their wives had fingered i'll that pala,al
hotel: how Colorado Springs had caught
thereby more than twenty men worth u
million, of which Erich of New York had
invested in various enterprises over half
million, AMI Hugerman had built
the Midland railroad, another party the
railroad TO the summit OF PlKe's Penk.
another party put in bottle manufac-
tory for the Mariou water, another or
gnniZing IL bottilng company, and so on.
In fact, Mr.. L .i,or, l know we could go
to Colorado Springs to-day and get ten,
twenty. even forty peopls 10 come here
and spend IL month this winter, If we had
IL good pluce for them. vino would aver
age IN investment: Of $50 900 each.
Mr. 6. z. johnson last night said to
me that his brother had thirty lots in
suburb worth 500 each. How much,
said he, do you think this hotel will nd-
vance the value? l told him about Sl00
lot. directly and indirectly, and that
Is IL total of $4,000. So he walked up aud
subscribed $500 to the fund.
suid directly and indirectly the direct
benefit to us from this hotel will be the
expenditure of $3.50 900 in buildings and
$500 200 in furniture immediately. Then
we shall catch the contractors and ex-
pert workmen they bring with them.
Then we shall catch the influence of the
Chicago and Kansas City men who put
up this money; and so on forever. l
remember what Sumner sail in the sem
ate when discussing The Alabama claims:
'England can pay the direct damage of
$40. 900 600, but the indirect and con.
seQuentiul damages to our marine COM
merre and to us rs nation is so great
and far-reaching rs to ruin her if she
was compelled TO pay us. and there fpres
it is folly for US to take it into consider
alton.
There is no end to the great and good
results which is TO flow from success in
this enterprise. We need it. We must
have it. II. A. CAMERON.