Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-29
PROGRESS.
Fort Worth Is Moving
Well Forward.
RAILROADS AND BUSINESS ESTEu-
PRisEs INCREASING.
THE NEW DIRECTORY.
BANKS, BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS
AND STORE HOUSES ERECTED
LAST YEAR.
schools, Churches and other Public
works and Hank CiearinEs.

In Yesterdays Gazette was a notice
OF the new city directory recently pub
llshed by Morrison q Fourmy. In
that notice mention was made of the
Increase IN Fort Worth's population,
as indicated by the census necessarily
taken In the preparation OF the dlrec-
tory. An increase Of more than %
per cent in one year as shown by
that census Is something for this city
to be proud OF. But there are other in
terestlng facts to be gathered from
this new publlcatlon--facts that show
fully as well AS the mere Increase In
population.
New enterprises OF various kinds and
the enlargement OF old plants mark II
long step In the Industrial and com
mcrcal progress of the town, But the
real Importance OF this business ad-
vance cannot be fully appreciated UNI
less the reader bears in mind the adj
verse conditions that have surrounded
the whole country during the period Of
which this IL written. General depres-
sion has stubbornly resisted every eff
fort at Improvement and what has
been accomplished has been In the
face " adverse conditions. Despite
these, there may be mentioned few
Of the signs Of progress to be found
| recorded In as dry and unlnteresting
book as a city directory
Fort Worth has. In the first place,
| by securing tho transportation facill.
| ties Afforded by the entrance or the
| great railway system known as tbs
| Rock island, The location of that
SYSTEMS headquarters here IL Of great
| ynluc In many ways.
Following this 10 the movement which
| Will almost certainly be contaminated
| within reasonably short time. for
| the erection Df splendid Union pas
senger depot This viii add greatly
| to Fort Worth's already recognized
| Importance as the transportation center
OF Texas. Eight railroad companies
are interested In this enterprise, and
| the erection Of such a building will
| sim more firmly bind each OF these
| great corporations interests to those
of the city.
In the way OF financial Institutions
attention may be called to the estab-
lishment of three building and loan as
| soclations, all now In active operation,
and two national banks, All these
| distributors Of currency, and encour-
ayers OF local enterprise are doing
| wen.
Commercial enterprise is marching
right In line with financial energy, and
! fourteen business houses In process OF
construction, aggregating a cost of one
and a half hundred thousand dollars,
mark Its progress, This does not in
clude, OF course. the government build
ing now being erected, at cost Of
something like $500, 900; nor the county
court house. Just completed. at cost
OF nearly half a million dollars. and
which Is the finest structure OF the
kind In the country. But such public
enterprises as these and the new water
works need but to be mentioned The
erection OF three ward school buildings,
though, In well worth special mention,
which, OF course, the Gazette has made
at proper times
In fact all these matters have been
mentioned In these columns, but IL Is
well for them to he kept before the
public and In association, SO even the
unobservaut shall not lose sight OF the
rate at which the city In moving for
ward. Fort Worth university, the
Polytechnic college and the Medical
department of Fort Worth university
are well worth mention In the marks OF
Improvement,
Revertlng to commercial and finan-
cial movement, IL should be written In
black letters that Ave wholesale houses
have been established and the bank
cleuringa have increased nearly 2S pei
cent this year over corresponding peri
ODDS OF last year,
II In these briefly stated facts Their,
are not to be found many thlngs that
challenge the admiration of the rcun,
Try and stlr the pride and patriotism
OF the citizen. then the Gazette doe,
not understand the Significance OF
events.