Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-14
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Fort Worth Works.
Austin Statesman.

Sent Rl:ht Straight Home to Center-How
Fort Worth Works.
Austin Statesman.
MIR. Thomas j. Hurley was asked
after his return from viewing and exam
lining the dam site yesterday what he
thought of 1t. He answers that it is the
most important work ever suggested in
Austin. The citizens must see to it that
ground is broken on this great enterprise
within one month. He said that he had
been informed that Austin bankers
would take the first $500 900 in bonds.
He hoped the report was true. They
could use them at any bank in the East
as collateral for their face value. When
asked if his firm would bid on the con-
struction, :, he answered that his firm
erected only public or mercantile build
iugs. They had now nearly one million
dollars unfinished work on hand; that
only hydraulic contractors could success
fully compete on the dam job, and he
understood that several were now igur-
ing on the same.
Mr.. Hurley continued by saying that
he had been informed that it was unpop-
ular for him to talk so much about Aus
tin being backward in bringing the town
forward, and added by illustration what
other towns are doing. For instance,
Fort Worth had fifteen citizens who have
Just subscribed $1,000 apiece TO bring the
great Pompelian show to that city, which
is TO open the 18th OF this month. The
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce have
also assessed themselves $1,000 per month
for q period of years to build, equip and
maintain an immigrants hOme-where
immigrants can get free coffee, free
berths and other necsssaries-and where
an exhibition of the products of north
and west Texas will be presented to
induce these same immigrants to
settle in country con-
iiguous to Fort Worth. Printed matter in
all languages to be sent oil over the
world TO advertise the matter. Mr..
Hurley snid how well it would be IL about
the same number of men in Austin
would tax themselves $1,000 per month to
do such work. How long would you be
finding fifteen men In Austin who would
contribute $1,000 apiece 10 bring great
spectacle 10 the city like the Pompeiiau
exhibition which alone employs 800
people in the cast. Unless Austin gets q
move on she cannot hope TO be a great
CITY. II Is UOl tuS puIIusc VI Oulsue
making Investments in the city to come
out and give tuffy but solid facts. Five
hundred houses ana 1856 600 in mercan-
tile buildings are in course of erection in
Fort Worth. The men who are putting
them up have never been fed on taffy or
intense responsibility, but on haid every
day work and push. think
the trouble in Austin Is that
you have too many rich men who care
nothing for the progress of the city. In
Fort Worth the rich and influential vie
with the man who carries the dinner pail
Us to W no can put in the hardest licks for
the city. You cannot succeed in Austin
without methojhcal and united effort. All
must pull together. ! am sorry also to
state that / can read MANY signs on
buildings of people who say they are
doing business whose names l never see
in the advertising columns of your pa
pers. That is something we cannot un-
derstand, for with us we claim that cur
first duty is to the newspaper, a Medium
that is doing our work not only in the
day but in the night when We are asleep.
A town that cannot afford TO support
live aud progressive newspaper cannot
hope to succeed IN this hustiing age.