Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-20
ELECTRIC CAR LINE.
WILL BE run TO THIS BEAUTIFUL
ADDITION ny THE FIRST
OF NOVEMBER.
school, Churches, Homes, Energy
and DctermInation-A Model
AddItIon-Mr. yickery.

1t is doubtful If many people OF Fort
Worth know that while they have been
content to sit quietly down and Jet
the waves of hard times" roll over
them that others have been ut work
and comparatively speaking have
known no hard times.
A Gazette reporter had occasion
yesterday to visit the eastern part of
the city where work Is under way
on the new electric car track of the
Gleeuwood road, and while In the
neighborhood strolled out to Glen
wood. the prosperous little town Of
$50 to 1000 population. built ulp by the
energy of II. Nickery of Waxahachie
and his co-laborers. 1t Is surprising to
see what has been done here. Where
n few years ago house or two stood
there are now at least $50 good resi-
dences, all OF them neat and home
like and many of them equal to preten-
tiOus houses in the city.
Glenwood Is just beyond the city's
limits, the new school house located
in the center of the town being about
one and One-half miles from our court
house. by the way this school house.
which will soon be completed, will be
the finest school building in Tarrant
county outside of Fort Worth. 1t is
an exact duplicate OF the Ninth ward
school building, and viii cost $500.
| The people of GlenwoOd incorporated
for school purposes and decided at once
that a good school house was O neces-
sity. They accordingly voted to tax
themselves and issue bonds, which
were sold at par. Not much hard
times when people can do that The
school house has six rooms and will
NhAu 10 V.NNl.I
sian well near the building which
will furnish ample fire protection. In
addition TO this well are some eight
or ten other arteslan wells from which
number of residents have run pipes
and supplied themselves with water.
The streets are all graded and many
OF them graveled.
Vlckery Boulevard, which is the
chief highway OF Glenwood, is eighty
feet wide and is wen graveled. Glen
wood has three churches, and while
a reporter was in the town well at
tended meeting was in progress at one
Of them
within three blocks Of the public
school building is Tyler's lake and
pavilion, "A delightful summer resort
for the people of Glenwood ut their
very doors,
The electric car line will soon be in
operation, and the citizens of Glen
D
and from the city The Arlinpton
Heights company will run its cars over
the new track and a Glenwoodlte can
be In Fort Worth at Main and Seventh
In fifteen minutes from the time he
starts,
Mr. Nickery has been very liberal
| in extending aid TO those who buy lots
| In Glenwood and wish to build. lie
| helps the owner 10 build and requires
I only ordinary monthly payments 10
return the loan, Glenwood Highlands
| overlooking the town ana CITY Is n
beautiful bit Of country, and At re-
! quires no prophet to tell that the dav
/ Is not far away when many OF oIir
| richest and most refined people will
build homes here.
Polytechnic college is not over ono
mile away from the heart of Glenn
| wood and Is accessible to all for n.
! higher education.
II Is understood that the best lots
| In Glenwood cost only $500. while en-.
cellent lots can be bought for s150
Messrs. Vlckery aud Ashe and their
| representatives in this city. Messrs.
/ Heaton Sc Bury, deserves credit Tor.
what they have done at Glenwood
and Indirectly Fort Worth and Tarrant
county. .,Is's'S MI I'm