Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-29
FRIGID FACTS.
Fort Worth Shakes the Tree, Dallas
Gathers the Fruit
DALLAS. Tx. April %, 1890.

To the Gazette.
The suggestion which first appeared in THE
GAZETTE that Northwest Texas organi re an inn
migration association with headquarters at For'
Worth has been adopted; but the headquarters
are not in Fort Worth. They are here in Dallas.
Fort Worth was offered these headquarters
with all the prestige and all the advantage they
would bring her. She was Indifferent in the
matter, and John Howard, George Byrne
and their associates turned toward Dallas. and
asked Mayor Common and the members of the
board of trade, ''Will you, gentlemen, Join us in
this proposed enterprise OF advertising North
western Texas and the Panhandle countryH'
And Mayor Oonnor and the board Of trade re-
sponded, 1--WE will.'' Invitations were then
sent out by telegraph to the Panhandle country
citizens to meet in Dallas to talk the mater
over and give practical form and force to THE
aAZETTE's suggestion.
The meeting took place within sixty hours
after the suggestion was made by THE GAzgTTR,
and twenty -fours later, or on Wednesday
afternoon last, Mayor Oonnor and the Dallas
board Of trade were celebrating another victory
over Fort Worth, and one of the most important
in the history OF the two cities.
In looking back over the annals of Fort Worth
and Dallas one finds that it has been too fire.
queEtly the case that the suggestion has orig
mated in Fort Worth, but the action has been
tree, bat Dallas has carried away the fruit.
Only few days ago prominent Dallasite said
''THE GAZETTE has always done its duty by Fort
would prove Of advantage to the city. II Fort
Worth business men would only adopt and act
on these suggestions, and do for their city what
tie business men OF Dallas are doing for this
city, the two places would, in few years. stand
in a very different relation to each other
Thare is world of truth in this, and it is to be
hoped that this latest mistake on the part of
Fort Worth business men In letting Dallas Sc
cure the immigration headquarters of the abb
lene and Northwest Texas countries will open
their eyes to the necessity of prompt and ener-
getie se'ieh in the future.
The Dallas board of trade has among its MEM
beTship several shrewd and far-seeing men.
They were quick to see the value Of THE GA
zETTE's suggestion and prompt to act upon it.
They didn't even wait for the mails to carry
their invitations to attend the meeting to those
whose presence they desired They used the tel
egraph. They made the visitors their guests.
As soon as they learned what the delegates from
the Abilene country and those from the country
along the Fort Worth and Denver wanted, they
said: "Gentlemen we are with you. We viii
furnish you headquarters here in our city and
will bear Is per cent. of the expense necessary to
thoroughly advertise your respective sections.
Not only that, but we thank you for coming to
Dallas"
Then they all went over to the Dallas club
room, and the Dallasites entertained the visitors
and made merry among themselves, because, by
prompt ana shrswd work, they had once
more submerged Fort Worth in the soup.
These are hard lines to write, They are
pleasant to read; but, hard as they are and I'M
pleasant as they are, they are true The cues
ton Is, Are they always to be true: Is it to be
the mission OF TIE GAZETTE to go on making
suggestions for Dallas to act upon, or will Fort
Worth business men finally get their eyes open
and their minds aroused to the necessity Of act
ing on these suggestions themselvesf Let Fort
Worth not only shake the tree but gather the
fruit.
This immigration movement means . great
deal. net only for the Abilene and Panhandle
countries, but for Dallas. 1t brings these Sec
ti0ns into closer business relationship with this
city. The merchants aIong the line OF the Texas
and Pacific and of the Fort Worth and Denver
roads viii not be apt to forget that Dallas busi-
ness men are putting their hands in their own
pockets to IeVeIop these sections OF the state.
With immigration headquarters here, a bond Of
union, community OF interests will result that
VII prove OF testing and permanent amen sdyantage
present prestige over Fort Worth as wholesale
center.
building of the Abilene and Panhandle countries
may result from the proposed generous, intelli-
gent and systematic advertising to be effected
by these immigration bureaus VIII also prove Of
great and lasting benefit to Fort Worth, but it is
hardly the thing for Fort Worth to be indebted
for it to Dallas.
This is written in no unkind or carping spirit,
but simply from q desire to lay the frigid facts
before those who ought to sit down and ponder
them. 1t is a matter for regret that Fort Worth
9ret Is made ali the keener because Dallas never
misses chance to profit by Fort WORMS mis-
takes.
on her side. Nature has done more for her as
the proper site for q great commercial and rail-
road center than she has for Dallas; but Dallas
has a way OF reaching out for what she needs
and getting il that has given her lead and an
advantage OF which she is constantly makingthe
most.
What is needn't at present Is that Fort Worth
business men and capitalists Join heart, hand
head and purse and push the city to the frops.
Intelligent continuous, well-directsd and eEer-
getic effort viii soon tell. and In few years, at
the farthest, place Fort Worth IN the nrst place
Among the cities OF Texas. When that time
comes, no one will have eause TO complain be-
canse Dallas instead Of Fort Worth acts on TIE
GAzETTE's suggestions.