Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-01
A TRAVELLER.
lie Returns and Tells His Impressions
Of Fort Worth.
Tie Most Widely TaIked-of Town in Texas
EetgOsre1,!an I'm possible - A News
pspar Mans Cha.

Frank Brady, who is welI-known 10
almost every newspaper man IN Texas
and whose Faber has manufactured
"copy' in many newspaper office IN
the state, was detected in Il rurinetive
mool in the lobby Of the Mansion yester-
day afternoon hy q reporter for The
GAZETTE, who asked him:
"Come back to stay?''
'fwhy, cert. have lost nearly sixty
pounds Of flesh Gud rot oue OF nav lungs
famed since 7 wandered away from the
prn;ries aud took to grinding out litera-
ture h7 the ward in the moist aud uu-
certain climates OF Eastern cities; end so
[ have concluded that Texas IS large
enough for M 10 spend the balance of
nv tluva in, and healthy enough TO make
them long drawn out.
"By the way, Fort Worth elbows
ed Improvement since ! was here
last. come fourteen months ago, al
though il is no suTpri9e to find ii so, as
il was al ways a hummer.
'.Do you know, nay dear sir, pluck,
energy and intelligent advertising of its
manifold resources on the part of its cit
liens have made il, not only in extreme
Eastern centers Of population, but also
in the young cities nesting throughout
the Northwestern states the most widely
talked OF town in Texas:
'RetrogTess ion is Impossible for p
community that has built up such a city
within q period four times shorter than
uas marked the growth OF some of the
Incsi prosperous Southern towns On the
eastern side of the Mississippi. Ny iyn
I. 49,, -. two
show more marked strides in wealth pro-
.sress AMI population among the cities of
North TeERs, and by these DO
not mean Fort worth and Dali
jas alrne, but include in the
enumeration such towns as Paris,
Greeuyii,c, sherman. Gainesville and the
.ike, than WIS ever before witnessed IN
auv stutp N0rth. south, East or West,
Gnriag auy perio! Of similar duration IN
fGp history Of the country. The reason
Tor TINS prediction Is easy 10 be under
stood. The expansion and application
ot The resources oi the vast, fertile and
hru,iLy areas Of territory that consti-
'utr aH Agricultural euvirCn:Gaut, the
IKE ,t which can be found no
whore e.-e in tHe world, ~lli
brian 70 The commercial cente5s
y,tn these conditions surround
q con ,nu; inflow Of CASH producing pro-
,.ur-e, ,IiicalaE merchants, huailers and
.rt.saas Aiiae. .srpHotiu@ tbs growth nf
,t.... ,i'rs every wear M" drawing -
.l,I4 - ,ui.stau. stream Of profitable IN
v.strr.i.
''.la great .'a.A9Hl!a region is Just
uuw o;,!y iu he dawn Of is future .eTeat-
ness. The yrngs WI he not many he
lore !. VIII tt-.n Through al lis length
E.ys
whose curameru.pl Mecca will naturally
. be the cry of Fort worth. 10 = man
M Irnp il is absurd TO
thinl, tEat ihe sharp rivalry
hetwe4n rbp two Leading cities af North
Texas cnn seriously cripple or retard tho
growth OF either oAe of them. Out OF
Ihe country come those elements which
make the greatness IN the growth Of
towns. Gnd so fast rs the agricultural
and mining districts tributary 10 Fort
Worth become Tiled, develOp5i aud
populated, Just 40 fast will her CONNER
cial and trade relations ice extended, her
spirit Of enterprise wideuei and quick-
ened ana her manufacturing possibilities
mGtrrinli2ei.
"Hous;on, too, - continued Mr..
Brady ais taking On It fresh access of
the OLD time life aud viror that used TO
make her struggle for the first place III
the procession six yeaTS ago; Galveston
IS feeling good and putting new crImD
into der waterfall By reason of Uncle
Sans seven million dollar Y pertinent
to he tried on her narDor; while my old
friend Grice's STAN ping ground, des-
pIte its wild and wooly eXpe-
rienoe OIL the tariff question, its
Moonlight hotels nni 'dobe runs has
found favor in the ewes of Census Super
intendent Porter and put down C'hot ia
male') as the most populous city i'll the
stale. -
80 what do you attribute this all
round growth in TeXns?'' asked THE
GAZETTE reporter.
ITO plenty of good air, good wafer,
lots OF room, variety OF resources of !
every Kind and description, abundance !
of iirst-C.as3 schools and churches, partly !
10 healthy immigration, somewhat, and /
/ should even say, largely 90 numbers !
OF good aud patriotic mothers; also to !
progress in railroad buiidug and activity |
in rPschIng ont for four or five harbOrs: I
and Inst hut not least, TO ihe large Dem /
uCriuo End Caucasian majority with !
which Texas IL go str;EinElv blessed /.
above all the older southern states. -
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