Fort Worth Daily Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 193, Ed. 1, Wednesday, April 23, 1890 Page: 4 of 8
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The Gazettes special Jay Gould Can-
non Ball St Louis train via Denton
Whitesboro Sherman Bonham Paris
Clarksvillo and Texarkana will leave
the union depot this morning promptly
nt 255 For the convenience of the
Texas public from Dallas and other
points the Pullman attached to The Ga-
zettes special Jay Gould Cannon Ball
train will be opened at 9 p m every-
day and passengers by The Gazettes
special Jay Gould Cannon Ball can thus
save all annoyance from early rising
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April 14 1690
This boy whistles loudest when ap-
proaching the oemetery
To our old friends in the parallelo-
gram The Gazette greets you
When the people visit the Texas Spring
Palace they will see the electrio cars
ruuning in all directions and the only
eightstory bnllding in Texas
Advertisements to secure Insertion
in Thb Gazette must be accompanied
with some responsible name No atten-
tion is paid to anonymous requests
It is said that not long since a full
grown cobra fell down among the print-
ers in the composingroom of the Bombay
Gazette As this was a larger snake
than the boys are accustomed to
they fled in affright
The investigating committee that has
been getting testimony In the matter or
election frauds In Ne Jersey had a num-
ber of women subpoenced to appear be
fore it They were appeared in the
courtroom they objeoted to being made
witnesses sad ten of thom loft the
courtroom without the usual form by
your boners leave
TUB GD News is chuokling over its
publication of Mr Hoggs speech on
Sunday Why did not the News print
the speech on Saturday and then
laugh out loud
Metiiodist ministers hove never been
overpaid even in theory but according
to the investigations of the Rev J B
Hamilton in thirtyfive conferences
during the forty years from 1833 to 1872
there were deficiencies in salaries amount-
ing to the enormous sum of 6450000
If the people of Fort Worth could re-
alize the great opportunity presented to
them at this time work on fifty business
houses and 500 residences would beein as
soon as the plana could be drawn and the
contracts let Never had a town such
an opportunity to become a city in one
short year
Work on the Seventh street railway
has begun at Houston street and will
proceed as rapidly as men and money
can push it until the road is completed
Tne Chamberlin investment oompany will
expend 5350000 in improvements within
six months from the date of the begin-
ning of their work
The Bremond Bulletin made Its bow
to the public last week It is well edited
by Messrs M M Bond and M P Long
It is Demooratlo in politics and patriotic
in principle and its editors ask only a
fair Held to show the stuff that is in them
and the hearty cooperation ot the people
of that section to make their venture
successful
A New Haven paper speaks of a oar
sidetraoked at the union depot in that
city and contains specimens of the min-
eral and vegetable products of Middle
borough Ky This town two year8
old with 5000 inhabitants is the work of
New England capitalists And yet there
are those who say railroads do not aid in
the development of a country
The charaoter of the testimony to
Fort Worths superiority as a distribut-
ing point is unassailable The United
States has located the headquarters of
the Eleventh postal division here and
Fort Worth is the home of two Methodise
bishops Now comes Jay Gould with his
well let him give if out through New
York as he did that packery and refrig-
erator item
They take t some pills in England It
is estimated that in tboi country over
five and a half million pills are swallowed
daily or one pill aweek for every soul
in the kingdom The pills consumed In
a year would weigh 17S tons making o
train load which would require two pow-
erful engines to haul it If these pills
were placed side by side they would
make a line nearly C500 miles long
The Gatettes valuers an advertis-
ing medium receives many attestations
these days and the following note is ap-
preciated
Fort Wortu Tex April 22 1S90
Editor Gazette
A kind word where meiited is always in or-
der Permit us to say that advertising in The
Gazette pays Our card in your paper has
brought us business from 8pringfield 111 Los
Animas Col and from quite a number of
Texastowns Gid E Johnson Co
That was an interesting special
to The Gazette from New York
yesterday morning New York is
quick to catch on and was not slow to
learn of Jay Goulds interest in the beef
packing and refrigeratine works of Fort
Worth Jay must have let the cat out
of the bag The Gazette promised not
to tell nnd did not until New York
leaked Now does New York know that
Jay
Gould will re well we will
keep that promise too
York does scoop us again
even if New
Thi MoKinley bill that crossouts so
many interests iB bringing some queer
methods to licht It seems that some of
the fat fried out was of the nature of
mutton suet That is in the late inter-
view between the ways and means com-
mittee arid the Philadelphia carpet
manufacturers it is shown that from
them and New England thore was 125
000 contributed to be used by Quay and
Dudley in the late campaign An in-
creased duty on wool was not what they
paid for but what they will get if the
MoKinley bill is made a law
The Evening Sun is published at
Weatherford under the editorship of Jobi
Hoeny Sr The editorin his salutatory
announces that the publication of this
daily is in accordance with a promise
given nearly a year ago that when the
Weatherford Mineral Wells and Norths
western railroad was an assured fact
the Sun management would issue a daily
edition It speaks well for the future of
that city that Mr Hoeny being an old
newspaper man should feel that he was
warranted in making this yenture which
it is hoped will prove successful
ANEWfoundation for a political party
has been found AJklr Jones of Sohuyl
kill county Penn has discovered that
eaoh of 2700 voters in thateounty has
lost either an arm or a leg andit has
oqourred to him that here is the material
for a new party whose platform shall be
a demand that these orlpples must have
onethird of the offices It has sometimes
been found elsewhere that legless one
legged men run for office uncommonly
Veil and the loss of an arm should not
diminish and might perhaps Increase a
candidates standing or running capacity
Mr Jones thinks the outlook promising
for a new local party on this baBis with
himself as its head He calls it the
limbless league
THEGAZETTEt POET WORTH TEXAS WEDNESDAY APEXL 23
ELECTRIC ROADS
Careful analysis of the working of elec-
tric roada goes to prove that when oper-
ated with skill and discretion they are
fafty per cent less expense to run than
horso railroads are What does this
mean One thing it means is that many
roads can be built tbnt would be out ot
tho question with horses Another is
that roads not paying can be plaoed on a
dividend basis In 1888 out of nineteen
horse roads reporting m New York city
ten showed a defioienoy Last year their
net earnings were much better but it
is evident that a horse road is not alway s
a mine of wealth though it may be of
fertilizers A third point is the estab-
lishing of a new class of investments of a
solid enduring nature It is within
everybodys knowledge that the accumu-
lation of capital tends constantly
to the reduotkm of interest to a
minimum There was a time when
the long stocking ana the iron chest
were the common bankers for the sav-
ings of the timid and the capital that
was bold earned the double reward ot its
bravery and scarcity As Walter Bage
hot the economist has remarked the
English people have always wanted to
put their money into something safe that
will yield 5 per cent and this is un-
doubtedly one reason why English capi-
tal free and fluent is so much a power
in the finance of the world and why so
much comes this way As Mr Bagehot
says In most oountries most men are
content to forego interest but in more
advanced oountries at sometimes there
investment than
are more savings seeking
there are known investments for It
is thus in America so far as safe in-
vestments are conoerned and by safe we
mean such as do not require tne active
care and ceaseless thought of the capital-
ist but may be held by trustees widows
hospitals universities savings banks and
the like The competition of capital for
the best class of government bonds mu-
nicipal bonds railroad stocks etc has
reduced the earnings on these to a very
low figure whether in America of En-
gland or Germany and the result is that
we see tbday as never before the plan
nine of enormous trusts and glgantio in-
dustrial enterprises which represent in
no small degree the endeavor of capital
its wonted income
or savings Btill to enjoy
come but in newer fields Now we look
upon the street railway business of tho
country under the regime of electricity
as offering one of the best opportuni-
ties for local capital and for what may-
be called the organization of local
sayings whioh might otherwise lie
around in napkins like the unjust
stewards talent and be of no use to
anybody The capital in street rail-
ways in America today reaches from
175000000 to 200000000 If the
statement we have made as to the su-
perior economy of eleotrloal power be
true how much greater becomes the
earning capacity of this investment how
much greater are the attractions held
out to construct the hundreds of new
roads that are still wanted and will be
called for as quptowns and cities 0w
Of course we are fewnie that it may d3
said thai this showing mitit lead to a
demand for lower fare s It mightbut
the publitiLre Intelligent enough to know
that other things are more necessary
suchAbetter cars with better heat and
better light improved tracks faster
running time and shorter headway so
that the 1500000QOO passengers on the
street railroads every year may travel in
all safety and comfert s
CASTING SHADOWS
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Qf course Hosrg will carry Williamson
county Ho will in fact with the exception ot
the Taylor precinct sween it If the people are
given a voice Bell county will al30 instruct for
nim Bartlett Democrat
It is probable that Hon J M Strong
of Dallas will be in the field for commissioner of
the land office Mr Strong ha3 served two terms
in the legislature and is very generally known
over the state f Mcxia Ledger
We understand that ExGovernor
Hubbard will bo a candidate from this district
for congress Two candidates from Smith
county will give Uncie Buck a better show We
are of the opinion that Hon Buck Kilgore will
hold his job for another term Timpson
Times
The Marlin Ball is for
for against the field
Throokmorton
Throckmorton is
governor
boom
gaining ground very rapidly as the Hogg
dwindles awav the Throckmorton boom takes a
spin ahead Watch the grand old man when
the state convention meet3 Corsicana Ob-
server
Diok Hubbard runs a very great risk
of losing his V aisle by running for congress
against Kilgore If KilgQrs beats him he had
as well hang His political horn up in the garret
for he can never assemble the clans with it
again Rockwall Success
A baillfant lawyer of this city who is
nttm favor of Mr Hogg for governor made the
remark the other day to the editor of this pa-
per that the attorneygeneral is ttafirst ever
holding ihd position of attorneygeneral of this
state who Jaas vitalized and given lorce to our
present constitution Brenham Banner
ExGovernor Diolc Hubbard has an-
nounced that he will be a candidatefor con-
gress from the district now represented by Buck
Kilgore Hubbard has the size butKilgore has
the staying qualities and if the exgovernor
isnt careful he will find out that he his bit off
more than he can well mas ticate Mexia Ledger
frhen barWhselej gets fully Into the
canvass for governor aria gets out amonjrthe
pVople gathering strength as he goes Hogg
aud Throckmorton stockis going to take a drop
in tho market for gubernatorial honors Th eres
an unlimited amount of adhesive attractiveness
possessed by our candidate that will hold a fol
owing wherever he goes Cisco Roundup
Hon Alf H H Tolar would make an
excellent land commissioner No man in Texas
is better posted on the land question than he is
he is able fearless and on the right side of all
touching the interests of the people
Questions nominates him for the position and
hones that his many friends throughout the
state will go to work to secure his nomination
Rayner Lasso
Diok Hubbard Is not Tylers tsandidate
for congress He is tea s nse a state candi-
date almost sTjatkJnal candidate Bigheaded
bighearted and bfgrbodied no Hpent up
TJtica confines his powers but as a modest
public servant he awaits the verdict of his con-
stituency while the Democracy of the Union
looks on ready to ratify the choice with a chorus
of welcome Tyler Record
The Texas newspapers are ringing the
changes on Hogg and Hubbard and Throckmor
ton and McDonald Who will turn out bull of
the rinjr when the convention meets is uncer-
tain McDonald is probably the best man men-
tioned but it is yery doubtful about his getting
there The best man in a Democratic conven-
tion like the best man at a wedding always
gets left San Antonio Light
A number of Hon J O Terrells
friends are anxious for him to become candi-
date for congress believing of professiiicjqbe
lieve that now ishiBgoT qnopportunity Ve
are beginning to think that some of the would
be shrewd politicians realize now that they made
a mistake when they sent Judge Abbott to con-
gress believing that when they gpt ready they
could encompass his defeat easily Kaufman
gun
Hogg a demogogue indeed If there
ever was a time in the history of this great state
When tho people should rise in their mightand
power and swear by their votes that they have
found a man who vail do his duty regardless of
consequences and he shall be promoted now is
the time If it frightens Eastern capitalists to
death let them die If men must be encouraged
to steal and plunder the state to keep the wheel
of progress rolling stop er and if it rolls
back ten years let her go Gallagher
burne Chronicle
Cle
The Lone Star News says Texas owes
the Hon James W Throckmorton a debt and
she will pay that debt in November by electing
him governor Thatia the veriest nonsense
to talk of the state owing him a debt because the
carpetbag government removed him from the
offlco of governor It he claims anything for
this act he certainly has been amply repaid by
the people electing him to congress as long as he
would have the office A debt indeed He is
under a debt of gratitude to the people for be-
stowing honors upon him Colorado Citizen
Mr Kilgore would do well to be in his
district looking to his fences We venture that
when the subject of adjournment is sprung he
will for once be an affirm ative voter He will
be present and wont object for the dis-
trict is becoming sadly muddled Tyler
Record
If the Democrats of the Third congressional
district permit the retirement of Col Kilgore
they should be excused from further service in
th eparty ranks They have surely not reached
such a pitch of madness as to throw overboard
tho most useful and best known of Southern
members If Col Kilgore gets weary of doing
the Third district tho honer to represent it we
would like to have him move over into the
First Navasota Tablet
The people of Texas want no third
term governors Neither Ross nor Roberts will
ever receive another nomination for governor
The next governor ot Texas will favor a railroad
commissionand his given name will be Jim
Greenville Herald
As to whether Texas will ever have the same
man to serve three terms as governor is a ques-
tion yet to be solved but if Gov Ross had seen
fit to apply for the third term the News is of the
opinion he would have had no opponent and
would have been elected the third time The
Herald may be right about the next governor
being named Jim That is the name that
Throckmorton bears and he will be the next
governor of Texas Bonham News
Some of onr confreres are badly put to
it in their advocacy of candidates and worse so
in seeking items of opposition against the gal-
lant gentleman who has given so much offense
to the railroad lobbyists Just now Mr Hogg is
being howled at because lalely at Val Verde he
recovered ninetysix sections of land illegally
issued to the Galveston Houston and San An
tonio railway for sidings For a public officer to
be scourged because of doing his duty and be-
cause of being successful in doing it is a revela-
tion worthy if not characteristic of the
BlancheTrayandSIckem style of the pack on
the heels of Mr Hogg The offlee of attorney
eeneral has for years been almost a sinecure It
lias been a kind of graceful attachment to the
gubernatorial staff Mr Hogg by his strong
individuality and stern integrity has revolu-
tionized official routine and has so commended
his administration that the people with rare
unanimitv have called upon him to come up
higher Bless God ho has accepted the invita-
tion and in due time will be found serving his
state as faithful as its governor as he has as its
attorneygeneral Tyler Record
Hon J N Rushing of Baird in a pub-
lished card in the Baird Star declines to be-
come a candidate to represent the Fortythird
district in the twentysecond legislature but
promises his aid cheerfully to Hon B R
Webb in the race for attorneygeneral Killing
two birds with one stone is still the fashion
reversing the rule however in this instance to
this extent it knocks down one and knocks up
the other Rushing would make a valuable rep-
resentative for the Fortythird but Webb does
not carry a long enough pole to reach the at
torneygeneralship Eastland Chronicle
Hon B R Webb might not be able to
secure the nomination for attorneygeneral
should he decide to become a candidate but it
would not be for any want of legal ability or
auything of the kind for he is undoubtedly the
peer of any candidate so far mentioned in con-
nection with the attorneygeneralship Tho
Chronicle does not say why Judge Webo would
fail to secure the nomination but we will say
this if it was a contest of intellect and legal
learning and not the numerical strength be-
tween the East and the West which cuts the
most figure in the selection of candidates for
state offices Judge Webb would hold his own
with the best of them Baird Star
BAILEY ON TOR
He Got There on a Vote that Surprised
His Warmest Friends
And When tho Election Was Over the Celebra-
tion Was Held When Mr Bailey
Will Take His Seat The Yote
Three hundred and fortyeight to 99
are tho figures on which Mr W J
Bailey was reelected alderman from the
Fourth ward yesterday
Early in the day it became apparent
that Mr Bailey was walking
away with the situation but the
friends of his opponent Mr John F
Moore hoped on against conviction
There was not a heavy vote cast After-
noon when Mr Baileys friends esti-
mated the standing of the count they
were of the opinion that their favorite
would get there by 150 to 200 majority
They didn t imagine it would reach be-
yond that
Both sides worked hard A great
deal of money was bet on the result
The Bailey men seem to havo worked a
trifle more quietly than their oppo-
nents
There was very little disturbance to
mar the eleotion Charlie Luttrell a
Bailey man allowed his fist to
encounter the head of Tom
Hallahan who was yelling for Moore
The result was disastrous to both Hal
lahan was badly hurt and both were
put under bond by Marshal Farmer
L4stnight about fifty of Mr Baileys
friena sJvaud admirers proceeded to
that genti emtra s residence on West
Texas street takingw lth them an or
ohostra Arrived at the residence they
took possession and before lone under
the genial hospitality of Mr Bailey and
the ladies the party were
pouring congratulatory expressions
into the ear of their host
and pouring other equally subtle fluids
in another direction where they would
do no less good It was a pleasant
event thoroughly enjoyed by the visi-
tors as by the host
Mr Bailey will be installed into his
old chair at the aldermanio board next
Tuesday night It was the sense
of tne city couno l last night
that the report of the officer
who presided over the eleotion
yesterday Mr Dan Parker should
be heard immediately upon the assem-
bling of the oounoil next Tuesday night
in order to allow Mr Bailey to qualify
take his seat and participate in the pro-
ceedings of that meeting
The
ALTAE AND TOMB
Gazettes Daily Compilation of Texas
aCarrlages and
near Springtown April 17
Deatfc
MABB1AGES
Dr A L OB rjeiurad nss yira Douglass
Hear Yoakum AprlUG v
Mr J EBSSS and Mrff Sarah J Jteyiaolas
ajr John R Yesey and Miss Fannie Shelton
WiLco April 16
3lr John Harvey and Miss Jenme Stnddard
Sjyraour April 14 V
Mr S Cj rKeynQlds and Miss Hattie Cook
Lipan April 13 i t
Slr pavenport and Miss Lillian Smith
Thorpbrings AprilJh J
JlrfEa McCane andMySLauraBarnesBelch
crville3prill6 <
Mr James Quinh nd > iliss Bndgett Toole
jc DEATHS v
Mrs N S Bonham Gilmer April 11
Mr Tom Ezell Corsicana April 20 v
Mr Thomas A tew s Arcfcer City Aprt
Miss Minnia Crawford BelcherviUe Ap
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Sill MAGE NOTES
Wilbarger county has forwarded an-
other carload of material for decorating
the Spring Palace
Taylor county will have an exhibit at
the Spring Palace that will be worthy of
that county and section
The veterans with one accord pro-
nounced the incomplete Palace a beauty
and many of them will return to see it
when completed
The Wabash railway writes the Spring
Palace management that that road will
bring its complement of visitors to the
Texas Spring Palace
A gentleman resident of the mountain
dlstriot of Tennessee writes that the
mountaineers will visit the Palace in
large numbers They are coming in
large numbers this spring
The goddess of liberty smiles upon the
oity from tbo western dome of the Pal-
ace and her running mate Ceres is
being dressed in appropriate raiment to
oooupy a pedestal in the eastern dome
The olemeats are not conduolve to
rapid work on the Spring Palaoe The
rain drove the decorators indoors yes
terday But the Palaoe will be ready to
reoeivo company on Saturday May 10
all the same
ac
The Morgan News will have an extra
edition of 5000 copies for distribution at
the Spring Palace and will also put a
copy in every household in Bosque
county In this edition of the News
Bosque will be elaborately written up
and the resources of that splendid county
faithfully portrayed It is a good work
and Bosque has a good man in Editor
Tinnon to perform it
SPRING TALACE SPECIAE EDITION
Terrell Register nardly had the ink
dried on our declaration of intention to
publish a mammoth edition for distri-
bution at the Texas Spring Palace next
month when it became evident that the
proposition would meet with approval
This week we began our canvass and
the few that we have thus far visited
nave shown a liberality which is encour-
aging in the extreme
Richardson Coming
Correspondence of the Gazette
Richakdsox Tex April 21 This
town will be well represented at the
opening of the Spring Palace
Cisco Should Como
Special to the Gazette
Cisco Tex April 22 Up to this
time no organized effort has been
made to prepare an exhibit from
this place for the Spring Palaoe It is
probable however that our enterprlsina
nurservm an Willard Robison will be on
hand with samples of his fruits and veg-
etables
Benton Notifies Pnddoclc
Special to the Gazette
Denton Tex April 22 This morn-
ing the board of trade had a oalled meet-
ing VioePresident T W Abnoy pre-
sided and muoh business was transacted
Mr C F Witherspoon who has been
absent from the city looking into
the workings of an oil mill had
returned and was present at the meeting
and made a report The board of trade
wired B B Paddock of the Spring
Palaoe that Denton oounty would accept
space in the Spring Palace pamphlet
and he was also wired that Denton coun-
ty would accept the space reserved for it
fora oounty exhibit A good attend
ano e was present and all seemed en-
thused over the success the board of trade
wbb having and the good that was being
done by it
Tho Veterans of the Kopubllc of Texas
FCrt Worth Tex April221S90
On yesterday there assembled in our
oity to commemorate the battle of San
Jaointo the remnants of the bravest men
that ever went to battlo In appearance
so unassuming yet in each face you read
fortitude forbearance bravery endur-
ance and honor In each one
there ia an individual history worthy
to be emblazoned in letters of
gold They were never many
today they are but few and theirannual
rollcall shows how fast thoir ranks are
being lessened by death These men are
the ones who entered Texas when it be-
longed to the republio of Mexico and
Santa Anna was its diotator and presi-
dent Those men are the ones who
wrested it from his power at a dreadful
cost These men have been fighting
from the time they set foot on Texas
soil up to within a few years ago
when thev corralled the last Comanohe
Indians These veterans can recall to
you the days when their families were
massacred by either Indians of Mexicans
The comrades of these brave men under
Travis and Crookett died fighting to a
Alamo The comrades
man at the battle of
rades of these veterans were all masacred
at Goliad These brave and illustrious
men themselves are all that is left of
the 600 who gave battle to Santa Anna and
his 7000 well armed and pioked men of
his army These are the same or what
Is left men that cried out Remember
the Alamo Remember Goliad It
was war to the knife There was no re-
treat and surrender meant death They
out the bridge behind them It was fight
or die These brave men oaptured Santa
Anna his army with all its artillery and
small arms the treasury con-
sisting of over twelve thousand dollars
in gold They killed more Mexicans
than they bad men This fight ended
the war and was tbo cause of having an-
nexed to the United States more terrl
tory than all of New England combined
at their meet
Yet I heard It announced
ing on yesterday that there were some of
the members absent on account of not
being able to be in attendance from a
pecuniary standpoint etc It is a
shame to the state of Texas to
allow it for they above all veterans
should have ample pension from the state
to make them independent for the little
time allotted them now They will hold
but a few more meetings Old age ia
creeping on and thinning their ranks
j yery ast Many of them on yesterdu
T ar
made their last public appearance and
tneir next parade will be when the
Good Angel sounds his bugle sum-
moning them to appear before their God
to be blessed and at res for ayo Bles3
you is the prayer of yours in exile
Eating HoixrNGSWORTH v
P S It was a noticeable laot that
there was but one flag In the whole pro-
cession on yesterday made in conformity
with the flag of the republic of Texas
and that was the ono carried by Col R
M Wynne
By an amended act ot congress Jan-
uary 25 1839 made the permanent flas
viz Blue perpendicular stripe size one
third of the whole white star five
points in the center of the above two
horizontal stripes of equal breadth
upper white lower red The flags in the
procession had the red stripe where the
white should be with the one exception
mentioned Respectfully E H
WASHINGTON LETTER
Something About the Western Union
Telegraph Company Which
Girdles tho World
Senator Blairs Flan of Helntroduclns Bills
Proposed by fllni and Rejected in
Prevlons Concresses
Correspondence of the Gazette
Washington April 16 It may be in-
teresting to the readers of The Gazette
to know something about tho Western
Union telegraph company whioh girdles
the world The house committee ou
postoffices and post roads has recently
had under consideration the subjeot of
tho postal telegraph with a view to re-
porting a bill proposed by the postmas
tergeneral Amoug the witnesses ex-
amined was Mr Norvin Green the pres-
ident of the Western Union telegraph
company who furnished some interest-
ing statistics The total receipts of that
company for tne year ending June 30
18S9 were 207S319i the total
expenses were S14 65152 s howing the
enormous net profit of SG218041 or
2500000 more than in 1SS8 Another
statement made by Mr Green which is
of special interest was that fortysix per-
cent of the amount of the telegraph
business is purelv speculative It is
a took jobbing wheat deals in futures
cotton deals in futures the most active
and exacting service thero is Pool-
rooms in New York City horse races and
other snorting messages paid the West-
ern Union last year 750000
Concerning the proposition that the
government should establish a postal tel-
egraph Mr Green said
As to the necessity for the government tele-
graphing I say to this committee that I have
examined the question far enough to ascertain
and I assert that the Western Union company
pavs to the government in postage more than
the government business amounts to outsido or
the sienal service which is an exacting servite
that nobody else can do If however it should
be decided that the government ought to take
the telegraph then the only just and equitable
thing to do is to take the existing telegraph
properties and pay for them That is what every
other country has done Why make an effort to
drive out the telegraph companies and break-
down the value of their property and then buy
it as has been declared to be the policy of the
covernment by some distinguished people Is
that iust Is it just to the BGOu stockholders in my
company aud to the stockholders of all the other
companies Is the government engaged in that
sort of sharp bargaining It does not matter
what the capital stock is that has nothing to do
with it It has nothing whatever to do with it
The act of 1S66 provided a means of valuing the
property and gave the government the right to
take it upon appraisement of a commission of
five persons two of whom should be appointed
by the postmastergeneral two by the telegraph
companies and they should choose the fifth Is
there anything fairer than that If the Govern-
ment wants to go Into the telegraph business
they will need not only all the telegraph prop-
erty in existence but they will need twice as
much more There are 50000 postoffices at
which there are no telegraph offices and with
the spirit of thi3 country how many of them
would not demand a telegraph office if the gov-
ernment operated the telegraph at whatever
the cost especially if the telegraph was being
run at a loss as it would most probably be
How many of them wouid not come here and
say to congress We are helping to pay the
losses on this telegraph business and wo have
no offices Seven hundred and fifty thousand
miles of wire would not be half enough for the
requirement of such a business
When I was sent for by one of our stockholders
meet the postmastergen
to go to Saratoga to
eral and this scheme of the government postal
teleeraph was suggested to me his idea which
was presented there was that there areC8000
postoffices and only 18000 telegraph offices
There are 40000 places having postoffices
where there are no telegraph offices Why
can you not extend your lines to these
40 000 postoffices at places where there are no
teleeraph offices where the postmasters have
very little to do and where they might Boon be
taucht to operate tne telegraph and give the peo-
ple telegraph facilities The postmaster it was
suKKested would take the same commission on
the telegraph service that he got on the sale of
stamps and the cost would be very trifling ex-
cept in extending the lines Naturally the busi-
ness would be very light but it would be of
some advantage to the public That struck me
as worth considering but what have we pre-
sented here instead Here is a schomepresented
to get about 447 telegraph offices to postoffices
that had a freedelivery system where there are
already abundant telegraph facilities in towns
where there are ahundreabranckoffices already
That is the way the postmastergeneral proposes
to give 53000000 of people the benefit of the
cheap telegraph
number of telegraph postoffices
Tho
given for the state of Texas Is as follows
Telegraph offices 718 postoffices free
delivery included 2139 Only four letter
carrier postoffices in Texas are located In
government buildings They are Austin
Dallas Galveston and Waco
Senator Blair is not readily discour-
aged over the lack of enthusiasm with
whioh the most important of his great
legislative propositions are refused by
the senate Immediately after the de-
feat of his educational bill he reintro-
duced it in a somewhat ohanged form
The other daj he sent to the desk a large
batch of reprint bills which had pre-
viously been introduced by him in various
congresses Some of the measures are
sweeping For instance to prevent any
person corporation or partnership from
owning more than 320 acres of agricul-
tural land or more than 640 acres of
land of any description Another one of
his back numbers provides for the settle-
ment of disputes between railway com-
panies by arbitration Senator Blair in
tennis parlanoe is a stayer
>
IM3IENSE IMPORTS
The Custom House at New Laredo Inadequate
The Finest Inland Port
Bpeclal to the Gazette
Laredo Tex April 22 Three years ago the
Mexican government completed the finest cus-
tom house in the republic in the city of New
Laredo across the Bio Grande from this point
It was extremely commodious at the time of
its construction and many thought that the
exigencies would never arise which would cause
the snrnlus room to be used This however
was a mistake and now the authorities are
crowded for room The Imports have grown most
wonderfully within the past two years and
today Nueva Laredo is the finest inland
nort of the Republic of Mexico her
irnoVrts aggregating over 1000000 a month
and filer custom receipts only equaled by those
s t j w Cruz the
on
r
first
BUILDING AND REALTY
Fort Worth Js the Hub and the wl
MoYes
Packerica and Refrlcerators When Backejtj
Honey and Influence Are Bund to
Win The Prominent Eveat
FORT WOTITTI IS SOLID
New York April 21 It is stated t r
Gould became largely interested ia On
ingand refrigerating works iuFortWor
That is what Col John Hoxis re
The Gazette yesterday mormtu
wasnt news to Col Hoxie by any
but when a Gazette man
him and nsked him
it were true he he s
about giving a reply He said
Gould is a friend to Fort Worth a
will not fail to give us a lift towa
velopment and nro ress He w-
it that our railroad facilities a
neglected Fort Worth is li
stay She is the hul >
she is goim to contr 1
commerce of the Southwest Im
and refrigerators are eoing to bt
lished here and they are gem
operated with sufficient financial la
and railroad facilities to insur
success You can put that in yur
per
iec6pdei > transfers
J and 1 White to S A
Goode block 6 Evaus1
South addition and one
half of blocks 2 and 3
Whites subdivision
E P Cowan and William
Buchauau lot on Jennings
avenue east of T P di-
vision 1
J L Norvel and wife to T A
Cougnlm Lot 5 block 10
College Hill addition
W N Huffaker to W A
Moore Lots 1105 and HOT
on West Belknap street
P D Holllussworth and wife
to Mrs V S Wheat part of
block 29
George Mulkey and wife to
Mrs V S Wheat part of
the
block 29 on Second street 2
W A Archer to John Arm-
strong lot on Reading
street Roddy Smith sur-
vey
B F Ramsey and wife to W
D Foil tain part of block 23
on Walker street
T B Huitt and wife to B F
Ramsey part ot block 25 qk
First avenue
Texmis Abronil
Special to the Gazette
New Yohk April 22 W T Mw
of Dallas is at tho Astor house
Lasker of Galveston is at the M C
G S Ket of Texas is at Earl l i
Mr Megin of Texas is at the Cosiu <
tan
3IHE RECEPTION
Fair Women and Lravo Hen Gathered v
Commercial club A Pleasaat In-
formal Afiair
Tho comfortable rooms of the <
mercial olub were alive with I f1
light last night The members uf
t
club were giving the visiting puysa an-
a reception to whioh not only they C
some of Fort Worths fairest respoJ J
It was a very pleasant entertaiu z
throughout There were just eL
prosent to remove all appearance <
loneliness from everyone and few on z
to obviate the dlsagreeableness ol a
crush Cosy groups were s
tered through the cardroom au
library where some of the la I
encaging in and enjoying v
were games
conversation In the billiard room n
few of the ladies were handling th
and doing it with a grace that j
scores up on their side
tertainment was wholly
t w
a
The entirt i
informai sl
wholly pleasant
Besides the members of the ilnb cxi
others there were present the foliowL
ladles and physicians
Misses Minnie Nash Ruby Ball V a
Howard Mollle Punnton Mollie Kaf
ferty Katie Bourd Mrs Bii
MesdamesA B Smith M R ltuiv
New Orleans D T Booior 1 rw z
MoKinney Misses Tommie Adams MaJ
gie Wilson Fielding Sellers of Lex
ton Yaj Lulie Keller St Louis Mrs
Tiner Austin T B Burbridge Msscs
Cora Hogsett Cora Lingo Mrs Daue
Taylor Tex Miss King Austin Tex
Dootors Joseph Kempll L Kiinin
Q C Smith J It BriggsW P Buxt
Alonzo Sims M Matkin JW Cartart
J C Field W L York J A Emtrv
R D Talbott J K Stone J l >
Burcn W W Reeves P l
Coleman J E Prince J M in
W H Monday G R Martc
J J Roberts Sam R Burroughs J
Burroughs E P Rector P J Bow era
T S Burke J T Ross J R R KP
A P Brown W B Brooks D H
Blake W T Barnes C C Black >
M Borders J L Cunnmgtaa
Val Andruss 1
R M Swearengen
E Daniel J R Briggs J I
King VolReed R Rutherford M
Knox R C Nettles I E Clarli
M Ramsdell J T Bell R H Hud-
son Sr F S White J V Sprigi
T J Wagley A V Doah
W T Barnes S E Carnrs
ton F J Gilsen H C Ghent
J T Obarr R P Tye George H Leo
W P Powell H B West E J Beall
J W Irion J T Feild S H Stout
H L Fountain W P Alexander L
J Graham F E Yokum B t
Church D F Kirkpatriok C 21 R s
ser C M Ramsdell J M Inge EM
Rabb J M Litten Frank Litten r
J Ward J S Lankford
Benbroke
PARIS PROTESTS
u
t
and J T
The City Council Take Action on the Lead Ore
Question Opposing a Duty
Special to the Gazette
Paris Tex April 22 The board of trade at
its meeting this afternoon adopted the follow
resolutions unanimously
Whereas it is reported that the wars
and means committee of the housa
of representatives intend recommending a
duty of one and a half cents per pouna
upon the lead contained in ores imported Inc
the United States and
Whereas such action wiU be disastrous to i
state ot Texas first by closing its smelt
works second by destroying our growing tra
with Mexico and third by throwing thonsans
of laborers out of employment who ara now
directly employed only by importation of thesa
ores therefore be it
Resolved that the board of trade of the a
of Paris protest against the imposition of anr
such tar on these ores and be it
Resolved that we request oar representatives
in coneress to use every effort to prevent tas
imposition of any such duty thus protecting
the interest of their constituents and beitiur
Resolved that we recommend the fostering cf
curtraae relations with Mexico as they now
exist thus assisting us to bufld up our trace
with that country
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