Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-20
REALTY AND BUILDING.
Now is the Opportunity TO Secure a
Grand Hotel.
A Plan for spring Palace in 1891-The Epls-
coral CoIlege-The Harmony Club.
Fine Street Cars.
TIE PALACE For 1891.


heartily endorsed by the people of Fort
Worth and of the entire state. 1t is not
by any means too early to discuss plans
and ways and means to make the Palace
a superb exposition of Texas. Mr..
Tngham Graham of this city has evolved
the plan of Spring Palace which will
certainly be beautiful and appears to be
entirely practicable He proposes to
erect building in the shape of a
fve-pointed (Texas) star, the points of
the star to be $50 feet long, thirty-two
feet at the base, terminating IN towers
thirteen feet in diameter. There are to
be five castles between the points
of the star, these castles
castles to be of marble, granite, sand
stone, limestone, etc., all taken from
the quarries of Texas. Each castle is to
be surmonnted with dome, while the
center of the Palace will be covered by
an immense dome fifty feet in diameter
and 200 feet high, to be
built of native woods covered with
beaten copper taken from the mines in
Hardeman county. Mr.. Graham pro-
poses to make the lower part of the star
point buildings of glass and on the
inside would have the grains, cotton,
vegetables, fruits, flowers and all veg
etable products of the soil, as far as
possible, growing in the native soil
placed in glass front boxes filed to
depth of three feet with the different
kinds of soil known IN the state. The
exterior of this palace would be so beau
tifuI and attractive that it would not be
necessary to decorate it unless so de-
sired. The entire building to be
constructed of Texas materials. The
interior of the building could be dec
GRATED ad libitum. Mr.. Graham is form
ulating his plans fully and will be able
to set forth the beauties of his Palace
in all their grandeur IN a short time.
FINELY FINISHED BUILDINGS.
Mr.. ]. S. Memory, superintendent for
the Fort Worth loan end construction
company, has returned from Chicago,
where he went to select novelties and the
most approved designs in locks and splen-
did inside trimmings for the Hurley eight
story office building and the Martin
Brown seven-story dry-goods palace.
He brought back with him samples of
store door handles and locks in floral de-
signs, society savings designs, arcadia
designs made of bronze, oxidized bronze
and Bower Bariff metal, the latter of
which is unique and very beautiful. The
interior hardware and trimmings will be
snperb. While away he selected the very
latest Hall elevator, which by
new arrangement does away
with the unsightly tank on the roof
gives uniform pressure and hoists man
500 feet minute, or down to 100 feet
minute if he objects to rapid transit.
The cost of these elevators alone will
amount to a small fortune. There is one
thing recorded, that the two buildings
mentioned will not be exceeded in beauty
or modern convenience by any in the en-
tire country. Pretty good for Fort
Worth. A number of persons interested
have ca led at the companY's Office on
Main street to see the articles mentioned.
The interior finish from basement to
attic is to be of oak, and yesterday the
contract for this work was let to the
Payne lumber company of Oshkosh, Wis.
THE BIG HOTEL.
The following letter, which was re-
ceived yesterday, explains itself:
BOSTON, Mass. June I6, 1880.
Mr. Thomas J. Hurley Fort Worth Loan and
Construction Company, Fort Worth, Tex:
DEAR sIR-We have just had the honor. of
visit from the president OF the board
zens of Fort Worth, several Of whom,
together with yourself. have been in correspond
ence with us durin the last half year concern
lug the erection OF a hotel In your city. We be-
Iieve the scheme thew nresent to be a feasible
one, and that the time is now ripe for it. Some
financial friends here with whom We have con-
ferred) are ready to take the matter up under
reasonable agreements.
The vital factor in an enterprise of this char
acter lies in the location, which canDot be too
carefully considered, in view OF the magnitude
of the undertaking. as on it depends the CHI ance
Of renting to desirable, permanent tenants at an
amount which will make the stock and bonds of
the hotel company attractive investment. As
this land bonus then must be the basis of the en-
terprise, respectfully suggest that such loca-
ton be at once purchased, the Zee being taken
months option in which to organize the COM
pany, make the plans and start the building.
II the capitalists of Fort Worth pursue this
course promptly, we feel ourselves safe in say
ing that a 200-room, fire proof hotel will be
ready for occupancy in your town by January l,
1888.
Here is definite proposition from re-
sponsiple persons-a haIf-million dollars
will be invested in a magnificent hotel
with large rooms, every modern conven-
ience, and building that will be an or
nament to the city, if our people act
promptly. 1t is proposed to have the citi-
Zens of Fort Worth decide on the location.
All know the imperative need for a
this city in hundred ways. 1t would
attract capital and cause many men to
make Fort Worth headquarters. The
hotel is the first business in hand for this
city and owners of real estate should.
land the project on the bank of success
at once.
THE EPISCOPAL COLLEGE.
If the Episcopalians of Fort Worth
would work hard to secure the location
of the proposed college at Fort Worth, 1t
could be brought here. Messrs. limbo
den and Twombly have made most
liberal proposition and the resident
Episcopalians should for the sake of
their church and this city aid them in
every possible way.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
MIR. NJ. Douglass of Minneapolis,
Mimi, arrived in the city yesterday
after short tour of the state, having
visited Galveston, Houston, Austin and
other Texas cities. He is greatly pleased
with the push and enterprise of the city
and is satisfied as to her future. He
purchased block three in Grandview adj
dltion from A. a. johnson for SIS, 900,
and expects 10 erect a number Of fine
resIdence thereon in the near future.
Chautauqua Park, four miles west of
the city, is being made beautiful place,
and during the next few months Capt.