Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-10
REALTY AND BUILDING,
A Very Important Meeting Called for
Saturday Night.
TIE Spring Pslaca Directors Meet New Euild-
ings Proposed-AnothPr holesale
House in View.
AN IMPORTANT MEETING e.

All merchants, business men, real es-
tate men and others interested in the up
| building of Fort Worth are requested %
meet at the rooms of the chamber OF
commerce on Saturday night at s o CLOCK
! TO devise ways and means TO protect and
promote the manufacturing Industries of
Fort Worth. T. J. HURLEY,
Chairman Manufacturing Com.
The above call has been issued and
should fill the chamber OF commerce
with those who are interested in the
we'll being of the city. Every citizen of
Fort Worth can do something for the
city and its factories. The chamber of
commerce committee will have some
thing to submit.
SPRING PALACE MEETING.
The directors OF the spring palace
company met yesterday morning and af-
ter transacting some business adjourned
to day later in the month to be named
hereafter. At this meeting it will prob
ably be decided whether a spring palace
will be built for 1891. The merchants
oil favor the rebuilding.
GOOD SALE.
W. F. Lake yesterday sold to Z. p.
Downey of Seymour q bill of $4,000 worth
of hardware. Mr.. Downey is opening up
a large hardware establishment at Sey-
mour, and came to Fort Worth TO buy
his entire stock, and is well pleased with
his purchase in eli respects.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
The fire hall in the Fifth ward has been
elegantly furnished by the enterprisinG
members OF the Tucker company.
plans heve bpeD DraDarad fire
hall in the Sixth ward.
The walls of the big brewery are going
up rapidly.
The Martin Brown six-storY building
is nearly completed.
Pressed bricks for the Hendricks six
story block are being received.
James Ryan. who Is back from Eastern
Texas, says that the people there are
well-informed on Fort Worth matters
and ask about our progress.
Among those getting ready to build
are John TIerney, fifty feet front, four
stories; J. U. French, twenty-five feet
front. three stories; Thomas Roche,
twenty-five feet front, three stories.
All on Houston street, between Seventh
and Eighth.
The grand stand on the Spring Palace
grounds for the Last Days of Pompeii is
nearly done. The lake VIII be finished
this week.
Committees were at work yesterday on
plans to make Fort Worth the best cotton
market in Texas. The determination
has been reached to pay top prices for
cotton, higher than any market in Texas.
The compress is very busy now work
ing night and day. One firm in Fort
Worth has bought Is 200 bales of cotton
this season.
Well known men are at work on a
project to give FortWorth another whole
sale house with a capital of 500 900.
The stock is nearly all taken.
If nothing slips the shoe factory will be
at work in few weeks.
The Cypress tent factory, recently
secured for Fort Worth, will employ
thirty skilled wOrkmen.
Work has begun Oh ten residences in
Ellis addition, North Side, being built
by NJ. G. Ellis.
Active steps toward the erection of
fine church for St. Andrews parish will
be taken in the next few months, posi-
bly, weeks.
RECORDED TRANSFERS.
Fort Worth wooden mill COM
pany to John G. Mccarthy,
lots 3 and block 10, Wooden
Mill addition. .S 100 90
S. o. Noodle to John s. JEFF
fries, $40 acres Ann E. Ives
patent. ................... 1o, 200 90
James Ryan to Thomas Lumey,
lot block l, Noodle &
Evans subdivision block 20,
William Welch survey 256 90
Henrietta A. Harris to James
w. Swayne and c. NJ.
Crane, lots and block 8,
Afford & Veal's addition 80. $500 90 |
s. NJ. Furman ct al. to Eta
Nicely, lots and 10, block
l, Greenwood subdivision,
block II, Evans south addi-
ton NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 900 90 |
Henry W. Darrah to W. r.
McLaury, lot 8, block l 8.
Gaugheuaut addition. 1900 90 |
Texas and Pacific railway COM
pany to w. J. Hardin, lot
IA, block So, Texas and Pa
ciic railway addition . $50 90 |
G. E. Watson to S. A. DAT
mond, l00x100 feet, Sam