The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-22
KAHKl CLAD GIRLS
ENTERTAIN THRONES
THOUSANDS or PEOPLE VISIT
CAMp TNRA To WITNESS \
PARADE BY GIRLS.
Lake Worth as Pleasure Re<or,
u attracting Thousands OF us
notwithstanding Day
i'm the city.

Sunday. a representative of the
Daily Light and Enterprise visited
Fort Worth. ON arriving. our first
thought was TO attend the Ham
Ramsey meeting. but changed our
plan aud visited Camp Tyra at Lake
Worth, where the Girls National
Honor Guard camp is located. All
the cadet girls, eighty in number.
were dressed In Khaki uniforms and
| presented pleasing appearance.
The drill by the girls in the after
noon was Witnessed by thousands OF
visitors and pronounced success.
They are no longer rockies"
was the opinion of the many peo-
pie present from all over the state.
who stood spell-bound as the eighty
guards women marched in review
during the Daughters of the Revolu-
tion flag presentation ceremony pa
rade. Congratulations we're heard
on every tongue.
During the afternoon at Camp
Tyra. thousands OF visitors. includ
ting the cadet girls, witnessed the
hydro-plane, the only one of its kind
made, glide gracefully over the wa
ters of Lake Worth. Glenn Smith,
age 81. is the owner and inventor
and has a patent on the machine.
1t is a costly machine, the engine
alone costing $4,000 Mr.. Smith
was three years in building his
lhydro-plane. during which time he
attended college and finished school.
son of Finance Commissioner Buck
Smith of Fort Worth, Whom your
scribe had the honor to meet, and
also his excellent wife. Other dis
ltinguished visitors the reporter met
at Camp Tyra we're Mayor Tyra OF
Fort Worth and Chief of Police
/ Bailey. At the camp we were pi-
i loted around by w. s. Kemble, a
brother. who seems to know every
one in the Panther City.
At this camp splendid view of
Lake Worth is had. This lake is
thirty miles long and the width va
res from three-quarters TO three
Smith of Fort Worth, whom your
miles, which the reporter ''looped
the loop in an automobile, travelling
distance of so miles, in company
with f. II. Sanguinet, of Sanguinet
4 Stats. architects, and winding up
at nine-mile bridge, where we wit
messed about a thousand people,
both women and men, bathing in
Lake Worth. Your scribe was not
aware that Fort Worth had a beach
resort next to the Galveston beach,
until we stopped at nine-mile bridge
where as above stated. a thousand
lpeople were bathing. Fully thou
sand automobiles We're at this re-
sort and the bridge. half mile in
, length, was lined up with automo-
, biles. This beach is part of Lake
Worth, which we circled. In future
the lake will furnish water for the
city, and hundreds OF laborers are
at work on the conduit and it is
expected the water will be running
into the city from the lake about
October LIST.
, Although Sunday, many thou
sands of visitors were out on the
lake and we could not but think the
many places of religious worship
would be shy OF an audience
As to the Ham-Ramsey meeting, it
4 is rocking along, and it is said the
revival would continue until hell
4 freezes over they said, cor close
the doors of the saloons in Fort
Worth" Their mode OF preaching
is on the sensational order. and
considerable interest is being mani
tested. though there are many who
are not much concerned in the re-
| yiyal. Learning of the six-shooter
play at the revival Saturday night,
had its weight on us attending the
service. Hearing OF the Girls, Honor
Guard camp at Camp Tyra. what
was the use. for everybody was
there. so we followed the crowd.
A few facts about Fort Worth
The population in 1880 was 6.3G3;; :
1916 the uopulatiOn was 100 600
Fort Worth handled in 1915 1885,
201 freight cars. Has Is railroads.
Bank clearings for 1915 were $435.-
2S9.425. Postoffice receipts for
1915 were s431.3271O. Has IS
grain elevators. Third largest live
stock packing house center in the
United States and is the gateway to
143. 900 square miles of west feeder
territory The city has eighty miles
of the finest paved streets, which