Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
ABOUT FORT WORTH.
What the Pluckiest City in Texas is Doing and
frying to Do-Notes Of
Progress.
THE PALACE FoR 1891 .

I destroyed by nre Would De erected Ict
| 1891, and this resolve has been most
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. Nj.
Tilgham 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 q building in the shape of a
| five-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 a dome, while the
center OF the Palace will be covered by
an immense dome nifty feet in diameter
and 200 feet high. to be
| built of native woods covered with
beaten copper taken from the mines in
| Hardemau 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, rs far as
possible, growing in the native soil
placed in glass front boxes filled to a
| depth of three feet with the different
kinds of soil known III the state. The
exterior of this palace would be so beau
tiful 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 short time.
FINELY FINISHED BUILDINGS.
Mr.. J. 8. Memory, superintendent for
the Fort Worth loan and construction
company, has returned from Chicago,
where ne 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 Martini
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
superb. 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 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 oompanY'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 HOTEL SITE.
Considerable discussion Ia going on
about the location of the grand hotel
proposed to be built. The Eastern gen.
tlemen who propose to erect the hotel
say they want it to be, and will make it,
the finest hotel in the South If the proper
location is secured, but if it
has one front on side
street they will not build as
fine hotel as they cannot afford to put as
much money in 1t. The site they desire
is on Sixth street between Main and
Houston. fronting north. This property
cabled last night to know il he would
so1l fnr
at what price. An answer TO this
cablegram is expected to-day or
o-morrow. Messrs. Caswell, Hurley, w.
A. Huffman, Mccarthy and others have
already agreed to contribute literally to
purchase the half block designated. The
hotel to be built if this site is secured is
to be fire-proof throughout, seven stories
high, l00x200 feet, to have all
modern improvements and to be
unexcelled in all its appointments by no
hotel south of Chicago. The people of
Fort Worth at last realize the absolute
necessity of fine hotel, and the COM
mittee having the project in hand do not
propose to let grass grow under their
feet.
IN THE EARLY FALL.
Mr.. J. c. Mccarthy, president of the
City national bank, who has lately been
in New York said yesterday, that two
strong financial syndicates had told him
they would come to Fort Worth in July
TO make heavy investments, but he per-
suaded them to put off their visit until
September, at which time they will be
here to plant their money aud probably
aid in developing the city.
NEW BUILDINGS.
Mr.. Wallace Hendricks said yesterday
that his mother, Mrs. E. A. Hendricks,
had decided to erect an elegant modern
structure on Main and Seventh streets
diagoually opposite the Hurley
building. It is to be 100 feet on Main
and 100 feet on Seventh street, six
stories high and will be an ornament to
the street. Work is to begin on this
structure as soon as possible.
Col. P. A. Huffman yesterday notified
the persons occupying the half block on
Main street to Twelfth to vacate by July
l, to make room for a 100
foot front two-story brick building
plans for which have been prepared, and
the contract for the construction of which
will be let in few days. Capt. E. B.
Daggett, it is said, will join this building
on the north with a hfty feet front two
story brick, which will be q great i'm
provement to that part Of this city.
1t Is understood that the Fort Worth