Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-26
IA YOUNG GIANT OF A CITY
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! trade by looking into the shop windows.
The tax lists show that Dallas Is the
wealthiest city In Texas. 1t mas the high
est assessment, and pays 10 per cent more
taxes than any other.
Manufacturing is coming in gradually.
There are by the recent census 51s plants.
with a capital of $2O.-
Big Factories 600 zoe, employing G,9S1
hands, with a pay roll
&AVvAAS ILL of $5,160, 795 for the
year and q total output of $l1. 1888 SIS.
This is not as good as it ought to be. 1t
would be much more healthful If Dallas
used up more Of the raw material than is
produced In the vicinity, but the proper
ton is increasing every year.
There are nine banks, with capital OF
So SOC, 600 and deposits of about $35,OCO.-
co.,
There are 1865 telephones in use,
which is more per capita than in any
other city in the world. and Dallas stands
No. in the United States in the num-
Der Of messages handled by the telegraph
companies.
During the last year 100000 worth of
new buildings were erected and *oOO.Ooo'
During the last five years there mas
been a. noticeable improvement In the
architecture of the city. The cheap and
expressionless structures of the business
sections are being gradually torn away
and replaced by handsome blocks Of eight
and twelve stories. steel and concrete,
fireproof and entirely up-to-date. There
are now in process OF erection three
twelve-story buildings. two eisht-story
buildings and q twenty-stcry hotel that
will cost more than million dollars.
Adolphus Busch of st. Louis, the brewer,
Is the proprietor, and he declares that tne
Oriental, as he has christened 1t, viii De
made the finest, as it will be the highest
building in the state.
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The church architecture Of Dallas is
unique. All of the recently erected houses
Of worship are
na11as Churches without the tradi-
tional steeples,
Without Steeples. and look more
like clubhouses than churches.
Several of them suggest the Greek
temple and the ancient basilica. and at
least add to the variety Of architectural
effect The schoolhouses are unusually
good, and Dallas is entitled to the pride
she feels in her schools. There are
nineteen modern brick and stone school
buildings representing an investment OIL
million and a quarter, and hign
school, just completed. at cost of 500.
600. There are 5000 pupils in the pub
i,c schools. under $50 teachers. In addi-
ton to these are several other private
institutions, four for young women. two
for young men. two conservato1iss .;
music, two medical schools. TWO oenta
schools and a school of pharmacy. with
q million-dollar university in prospect.
Although Dallas has the reputation OF
being a fast city, the rolls of the lOa
churches show a membership OF nVu,
nearly one-ialf of the entire populaton,
and one has a membership of more than
800. There are sixteen Methodist con-
gresations, eighteen Baptist. the Chris
tians and the Presbyterians each nave
eleven. the Catholics nine the Eplsco-
pal:ans five, the Evangel!cals, Congrega-
fiOnalists and Jews have four each. while
the Unitarians. Adventists and the chris
tan Scientists each have one: All OF
these are for white persons. The negro
population is about equally divided pc
tween the Baptists and Methodisfs. The
v M. c. A. has a observation-disclosures
ty-five-thousand-do dollar building and ::.aU
members The Y. w. G. a. has comfort
able quarters and 300 members: Ihere
are seventeen hospitals and asylums Tor
the weak and the weary. the sick and the
afiicted. and three centers of settlement
work.
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There is a handsome public library,
with 1900 books. and fourteen clubs.
Each section Of the city
Big Library, has a park, and others
are being improved
Good Clubs. gradually. There are
altogether eight parks and Fairgrounds,
the largest having 127 acres. with inn
provements valued at 100000.
Dallas was one of the first cities in the
United States to join in the public play
ground movement, and the city authori-
ties have been very generous In their
appropriations for this important public
service All the Fairgrounds are equip
ped with gymnasium apparatus and are
furnished with shelter houses. lockers
and shower baths, which are free to the
children of the city. An athletic league
has been organized among the children
in physical culture by organization and
cooperation and by contests of skill and
strength for trophies and prizes.
The most important public institution,
however. Is the st2te fair OF Texas. with
127 acres of ground and buildings on the
outskirts OF the city costing more than
half a million dollars. Here. for sixteen
days in October OF every year. Is heid
what the people Of Dallas believe to be
the greatest agricultural fair In the world.
portant because OF the interest they have
stimulated in breeding UP the ranch cattle
Of the state. They are growing In impor-
tancc every year. More than $4,000 Is
offered in prizes and the competitions
are increasing very rapidly in activity
and interest.
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Dallas would like to be q seaport, al
though it is situated 500 miles from tide
water, and it's peo-
The Trinity pie are willing that
River Project. nns 's should s espena
whatever amount may be necessary
to canalize Trinity river from this
city to it's mouth in Galveston bay.
1t flows through one Of the most richly
stored sections Of the universe, with vast
resources of coal. oil, iron ore and tim
Der, as we'll as fertile soil. The people of
Dallas believe that the bed of the river
can be deepened to fourteen or fifteen
feet and the rapids subdued by locks and
dams at q cost not greater than $1,000
Co., so that they will be enabled to float
their cotton and other merchandise on
barges to Galveston. The Texas delega-
priation to make a survey which is now
in progress.
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