Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-24
REALTY AND BUILDING.
Directors OF the Chamber of Commerce
Set after the Telephone Company
A Numbar Of Houses to Be Bullt-Prolact Tor
an immense warehouse - The Grand
Hotel-Notes of Progress.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The directors Of the chamber commerce
held an important meeting yesterday
afternoon. There was full attendance.
Several matters pertaining TO the uo-
building of Fort Worth were discussed.
A resolution was adopted in regard to
the poor Telephone service, and it was
decided that if the service was not
bettered that complaint should be made
to the parent company in the East
Gen. r. A. Cameron was admitted to
membership. The resignation OF a. NJ
Carter. L. August and Maddox y Ellison
wer. accepted. 1t was decided to hold
no more meetings in the interest of the
emergency fund until the performances
of the Last Days of Pompeii were over.
HOUSES FOR FORT WORTH.
Through tie influence of James Ryan,
Mrs Margaret o. LoughlIu of Boston,
Mass. has purchased twelve lots in the
Union depot addition, and will erect
twelve residences TO cost $1,000 each on
the lots. The contract has been let and
work will begin on the houses at once.
Messrs. Eugene Peudleton, Charles
Morgan and others of Rhode Island are
here to organize company to build
number of residences and large ware
houss to cover a block. Their plans will
be matured in few dava.
H.B. Sanborn of Houston cOntem-
mates erecting fine residence on
Arlington Heights.
NORTH SIDE IMPROVEMENTS.
George Is. II endricks, secretary and
treasurer OF the North Side street rail-
way company, by virtue of his office has
assumed the general management of the
roads in the system. New ties
and steel rails have been ordered
for the Belknap street line,
| q 5OO-horse power Hazleton tripod boiler
will be put IN at the power house. 1t
will require rs 200 brick to wall this
boiler IN. It is the largest single boiler
! in the Southwest. An improvement III
the street car serve will be the use OF
! different colored lights for the different
/ lines at nights SO people may know what
/ car to get on.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
NJ. Dillon was offered Sl4 900 for two
| lots on Rusk and Tenth streets yesterday
/ but refused 20 sell,
The huge electric light dynamo and
EXETER for Arlington Heights have been
recci;e ed and are being placed in position.
/ Poles and wire have been shipped and
in a short time the grand boulevard will
be lighted from one end to the other.
A. W: Caswell while East had con-
versatiou with the gentlemen who pro-
! pose to build the grand hotel for bonus
of half block of ground. He says they
are still willing to do as they proposed :
The Riverside street car company ~
now laying track on Jones street, and
expect 10 have the line completed by the
latter part of next week.
L. c. Wall, secretary of the driv-
ing park and fair committee,
saws that one-half the stock
has been taken, and to-day the
committee will get down to hard work.
The lGC acres donated can be sold at any
time for sl5, 900.
James A! Patton and Moi. Ellis,
prominent bankers of Houston, are IN
the city with probability of investing.
RECORDED TRANSFERS.
Texas and Pacific railway COM
pany OR. Washburu, lots
5 and 8, block Is, and lots 3
and block 20, Handley.. IS II OF
Union la nd company to Mar
garet 10. Laughlin, lot IS,
block l9, lots 8 and IS, block
90 10th and IS, block 81,
lots and is, block %, lot
Is, block %, lots and IS,
block p, lots and IS, block
%, UdiOn Depot addition -. $500 Of