Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-21
REALTY AND BUILDING.
A Chance for the Real Estate Men TO Do
Missionary Work.
The Fair and Driving Park Taken In Hand.
Distinguished Yisi ors Coming-A Deal
In Fort Worth Realty.
SPREAD THE NEWS.


The following letter received by J. 6.
Harris. agent of the St. Louis. Arkansas
and Texas in Fort Worth, shows the de-
sire for Information about Fort Worth.
The real estate agents will doubtless
avail themselves of the opportunity.
! Here is the letter:
| MEMPHIS, TENN, Oct. II. $780,
| Mr.. J. G. Harris, Fort Worth, Tex;
| DEAR SIR-If you could in any way Sc
cure back numbers over issue of your
| Fort Worth weekly papers, l would be
pleased TO get them. do not get enough
OF this matter. 1t may be that real estate
! firms have their advertisements In the
papers and would gladly pay the price of
paper for them and give them to you In
! order to spread their business here in the
Southeast. Please see If you can help
me in this matter. Respectfully,
s. q. WARNER,
Southeastern Passenger Agent.
THE FAIR AND DRIVING PARK.
Some thirty we'll known citizens as
sembled at the chamber of commerce
yesterday afternoon TO discuss the fair
and driving park. Capt. Thomas Wit
ten presided. The matter was generally
proposition made was good one. The
plan of operations was partly agreed on
and when fully matursd will be pre-
sented TO our people. II the citizens of
Fort Worth desire it, they have an OPP
portunitY TO get the finest driving park
in Texas aud the same opportunity TO
have the grandest fair ever seen in
Texas. Workers are in charge of the
matter and everything possible will be
done. -
COMING THIS WEEK.
On Friday some sixty to seventy-flve
bankers and merchants will be in Fort
Worth to look at the city. With the
party are several gentlemen who In days
gone by invested in Fort Worth and who
have friendly feeling for the city.
They ask that our citizens show the visi-
tors what We have in Fort Worth. On
Saturday the Washington correspondent is
will be here on the invitation of the
chamber of commerce. aud it Is desired
to entertain them as royalty as possible.
Those who wish TO aid can communicate
10 the secretary of the chamber of COM
MERGE what they will be pleased to do.
Both parties should be well cared for
during their stay in the city.
NOTE OF PROGRESS.
r. P. Linscott of Round Rock, Tex,
is in the city, and Will probably engage
i'll business here. He was greatly i'm
pressed with the progress he noticed to
have been made since his last visit o
year ago. He bought South Side prop
erty.
A number OF ranchmen are coming to
Fort Worth TO reside. In nearly every
case they are trading ranch property for
Fort Worth real estate. The packery,
refrigerator aud stock yards are drawing
them TO the center where their business
is transacted.
E. e. Chase had party of Rhode |
Island capitalists in charge yesterday |
and spent the greater portion of the day |
in entertaining them. 1t is said that the |
gentlemen come to look at certain prop-s9
critics near Fort Worth.
A committee appointed at the fair |
meeting yesterday will canvass the city
in the interest of the association.
The gentlemen who visited Fort Worth |
yesterday are George c. Bailey, Maj. ]. |
s. Coy, Hon. F. E. Rich, Charles A. |
Morgan, S. H. Grove. Charles S. Lar
kin. John Mcdonald, james T. Tylfer
and Eugene Y. Pendleton of Westerly, I
X. I.
Messrs. NJ. G. Ellis, W. F. Lake and
others yesterday bought an Interest in |
Fields Hillside addition, paying $40 900 |
therefor.
Citizens should not forget the fifteen
public spirited citizens who brought the
spectacle of the Last Days of Pompe to
Fort Worth by paying SIS 900 as guar
antee. Boxes or parts OF boxes should |
be bought from them.