8/6/2019 2424 Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1904-05-29 3

1/1

SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1904 *r~g0S#THE FORT WORTH TELEGRAMG R . O W T H A N DDevel ope mer it of NORTH FORT WORTH |

/By B. T_ Webb. Jr )From a mere village of a few hundred inhabitants to an up-to-date andthoroughly modern city of 7,500 people is the history of North Fort Worthduring1 th past two year-*. In farthardly two years as the advent of thetwo great packing houses marked th eera of growth and prosperity of thepacking house city. Until It was anassured thin* that branch houses oftwo of the greatest concerns of theUnited States would be located In th ecity of Fort Worth, very little interesthad ever been taken In property northof th e Trinity river and the populationconsisted principally of people who hadchosen s location on that side of theriver to avoid the dust and confusion ota city. Marine which was the centrallocation of the North Side prior to to *erection of the packing plants consisted of a postoffice, a few stores anda scattered resident population, a majority of which were dependent uponwork in th e city or Fort Worth for alivelihood. With the certainty of thecoming off th e meat Industries realestate at once took an aerial voyage,v it J values Increasing steadily untileven th e residence lots in th e suburbsof th e little city In a short time werealmost at a premium. t*th specula'and home seekers flocking tn for investments, some intending to make th eNorth Side their permanent home whileothers wished to buv and hold propertymerely for the benefit of an advance

The business section of the city Inthe Immediate vicinity of the oldMarine postoffice was the first to sellto investors, and within a short timebusiness houses of all kinds wereunder erection and as fast as completedwere rented out for the carrying on offthe xarlous kinds of commercial business. After th e establishment of agood business center in Marine merchants began th e erection of storesaround th e stock yards, and today Inwhat is known as the stock yards district, nearly every class of business 'arepresented, including grocery stores,saloons, drug stores, restaurants, confectionary stands, real estate officesand offices of the members of the legaland medical profession.

As a place of residence there aresections of North Fort Worth whichare not to le surpassed anywhere !nthe state. While- th e city as yet haarert : n f"larger towns possess, at the same timethe most needful have been sectand with the advantages of naturalslopes and a good elevation, th e cityan Ideal place for a home. BuildingIs gradually spreading ou t until nowthe extreme limits of the Incorporationare thukly settled Vast expanses ofrolling prairies, which two years ag o

were untouched by the hand of progress and Improvement ha\e been sur-ve>ed and platted into city lots and arenow covered with neat houses, thehomes of men who arc Interested Inbusiness properties of the growing cityand who have settler! In th e town because they preferred it for Its convenience to their business and it* desirability as a pljce of residence Notonly has the laboring class of peoplewho are employed at th e packinghouses and stock \ards bought homesthere, but also a great many of theofficials of the plants and stock yard*and even some of the commission menwho ha\e offices at the l l \ stock ex change have bought property and

buildings on the principal busl-streets are fast giving way to: tar:tisa| houses, many ofat has L_. .

root to have a atrlctly fire district sothat th e liability to life and propert

straight municipal election was heldfor a mavor. five aldermen and a citymarshal!. James D Farmer, who baJbeen largely Instrumental In espousingthe M U M of city government, was

leading citizens boih resident and non-for two terms, be,ng: defeated at therecent election held M M April, at whichtime 1* O Pritcb.-rd. county superintendent of roads and bridge*, waselected by a small majo-ny. Upon theincorporation of the town a lav rateof one-fifth of one per cent was made -vfixed rate, and although the Income derived from tax revenue was light thecity, under a good, consecut ive administration, managed to remedy -nany ofthe evils and by dire economy was able

of the racking plants real estate val-des took a Jump and with th e passingof each week wlu**s gradually in creased until now only the vacantproperty in the surburban parts of thetiy can be had at a reasonable price.The ground for the two plants wasdonated to the companies by Iind hold-*ers who were interested in the locatingof the two industries north or the river.After sites had been decided upon forthe building of the plants companieswere formed which bought up ail saleable vacant property adjacent to the

rered douole its original value, but arestill holding for the future as they believe that North Fort Worth Is. like St.Joseph and other packing house centers, destined to become a city of 15.-000 or *0 eco population. Certain it 1*that no other feature of a growing citywill go farther In a convincing futurethan th e condition and sale of its realWith the substantiality or the cityassured and a continuance of the rapidstrides of progress which have characterized Its past history th e packinghouse city has an unlimited field for

M E M B E R S OF THE BUSINESS OFFICE F O R C E

I H fo rview of the rapid growth of the townIt would hardly tie surmised that th eWrger proportion of the populationconsisted of a class or well-to-do people who intend to make It their permanent home as the advent of greatcommercial concerns such as the packing pi ints as a rule draw a floatingpopulation which with th e tide of dissatisfaction move to tome other place.where, in their minds, they believe theycan be betterd. if not in location, libusiness advantages Various add!until now It is estimated that fullyl^ae people interested in bur-mea onthe north side ..re living outside or thecorporate limits or the town. Un^enHeights, one of the principal residencesection* has a pop-ilation o r IO0Qpeople, while Dnmon d 11 ill and other ad ditions contain an cpial number of

1TH Itm WrK tl tl i IMI'OHTs^CI-While >ct in ll in fancy In more wu>8than one. North Fort Worth, from a

I P R E lM t ** k 'i'j*!**f*m?x *%?*&:R E A S U R E R

:*~rs:

MissIoADi.ACKM/>M$f . cJ .L .LovE.

B E S T O F f l L L T H E 1R A I L R O A D C I T I E S

Fort Worth's Great Advantages in Handling Trainsand Business

**Atrain of twenty to forty freight carsbrought In here rrom any direction can bedistributed to fourteen other railroad outlets from Fort Worth Inside of an hour,"said a practical man the other day. andbe added: ~i don t enow another city tnthe country where It could be dune In less Jthan half a day. and In most places' *t *would take a day or more. As comparedwith Iallas. let me teU yon what Is a *fact. Tralnloads of agricultural lople- "ments sent to a Dallas firm for variousparties in the state have repeatedly be nbrought to Fort Worth for distribution tothe different connecting roads."This may sound like brag, but they areplain statements of fact, and the reasonsare obvious, when we consider that atnost other cities railroads arerreightttuslness Is concerned, cars beingexchanged around the outside of the busl-center by belt lines. In Fort Worththe Texas and Pacific railroad was granted a broad strip of land through what !snow the center of the city- Crossing thiswide Up Is another, so that bisecting tt*emap of Fort Worth In both directions Is agreat Iron cross. The Texas and Pacific

The Telegm started t

has been libera! In Its arrangements withI, and also contributed to thecost of the steel viaduct across all of lbstracks, and this Improvement, with theIon of the trackage, gives a m texcellent opportunity for making up trainswith close connections and prompt service.The consequence Is that there is morefreight cars In Fort Worth at any timeall the cars to be round in Dallas.). Austin and Galveston,nutacturers and others will do wellto bear this fact In mind in seeking a location as to central sites, as to trackingfacditles and as to most prompt andeconomical securing of raw material anddistribution of products.North Fort Worth the system offreight car interchange 4s also easy andadmirable. Fort Worth is the great rad-way center between Kansas City andLos Angeles. Its great advantages in thisrespect can hardly be overestimated as, abasis for future growth in wealth andpopulation.

win be> reduced to a minimum and theInsurance and water rates cut downaccordingly. Prior to the time of theerection of the packing plants th e mainbusiness section of the city was arounlMarine, but kith the gradual increaseof population, brought about by thecoming of the two great commercialresident shortly after the completionof the two packing plants began amovement to have the town incorporated The original Instigators ofthis movement were O W. Matthews,secretary and treasurer of th e Fort

concerns, business is gradually drifting north on Main street toward whatIs commonl> known as the stock >ardsdistrict, where already nearly everybranch of business is representedCommercially speaking th e city is divided into two MCtaons, that of Marineproper, and the stock jstrds businessdistrict, but with th e rapidity whichhas characterized th e thrift of themerchants of the town it is now only amatter of months until the whole ofMain street from Marine to Exchangeavenue will h thickly settle! with

A CORNER IN THE BUSINESS OFFICE

si nd H.mt ight bo Just-is far ahead of thator tlie ord nar , frrowmsf cit y From afew o . . I * swn* a ptftstoffice and theusual blaclksipitll shoo of the villas.;.the corr.rr.c'cia! importance has urownto lar^e proportion* Store buildingsnow nn ~ ( net tly ;n three of the leading stret ts of tl e bus.ness section, andIn those Mores can be found anythingthat the ltrger tores of A city contain.Be'c!*s th e nnnv groce ry store*), dm *stores and markets. North Fort Worthnow ha* two lir^e department 'lores,where the feminine shopper can findanything from a DM to the latest intailor-made gowns. *a\lng both timeand expanse an her shoppings Th e

Worth Stock Yards Company. James D.Farmer, vice president of the NallomlU \e Stock Commission Company andWilliam 1\ McLean, jr. who was em-Ployed In the capacity of an attorneyto bring the matter to perfection anlPush it before th e state government.The people then living on the NorthSide felt that they should be exemptfrom th e high tax rate assessed inFort Worth as the town wi s only anovergrown village with practically nomodern advantages whatever. In th eearly fall of IMS a special election washeld to decide th e question of Incorporation with the result that the townwas made a municipality by a largemajority. Followlnc two months, a

business concerns or every known de scription. Since January of this yearno less than twenty new buildings havebeen erected around Main street andExchange avenue, which is th e central business point adjacent to thestock yards and packing houses andas fast as eich has been completedbusiness concerns have been openedup and now with a waterworks systemand electric lights that section of thetown has as aniny advantages to offerto the resident as any or the largerand more up-to-date cities of doublethe population.ITS MCMC1PAL OVKRSSIE*T.With a view'to its future importancecenter'some X th e

to do a great deal toward public im provements, the most c* th e money being expended upon the streets. .* largomajority or which were in had condition, as practically no grading whatever had been done on them by thecountry. The city now I I JS th e streetsIn fairly good shape, has electric lightsand a partial water works systemwhich will shortly be Improved Upo*land enlarged to accommodate the entire population. The tax rate question is also receiving th e attention ofthe council and within a hort time anew rate will be fixed which. In addition to the school tax. will increase th*present rate to about ''> cents on the1100. ITS IIKI.T II1 I CMT4TIOV.The prevailing impression or a g r o tmany people who have never residedIn North Fort Worth is that the citywith the heavy sewerage output of thepacking plants and th e s|.,ck yards 13a very unhealthy location as a pl-*eeof residence. On the other cand It isone-of the bealthie-t -pots in the fi t-The town la situated on a high knoll ata sufficient distance so that the obnox-oua odors from th e plants do notreach the populited districts Thiscondition especially applies on the we-tend around Ito-en Heights and some ofthe larger additions which have recently been added to the re-ident s-ection.The packing houses have also underconstruction a srpuc tank seweragesystem, which will, when completed, doaway with th e entire sewerage outputwhich will then pass ofr-from theplants in the rorm or diluted water.This system Is being: put in by thepacking plants at a cn*t of about $10.-00 and upon Its completion the citywill endeavor to make arrangementswith the packenes for a connection toran extensive sewerage system winch sbeing1 planned tot th e city Barring; theusual contagious diseases and the common epidemics v.i.i.-i; are j-revalent Inall sections or th e country, the NorthSide has experienced very little localsickness In hl s annual report beforea recent meeting of the council, thecity pbvsician. a>tate that there hadbeen an unusual scarcity or sicknessduring- the winter and spring ?nrt su ggested that with the necessary precauli..-..; commonly used for the prevention of di-eae fcerms there should lievery little local ilines during; th e present summer Thus ftr North FortWorth has had but little use for ahospital and the few cases ut siekneof a serious nature are sent to the infirmary In the city Roth the Swiftand Armour racking companies mr-ln-am a temporary hospital depa

lo.brought Into the town by transients orcaes of indigents they are removed tothe county pest hcute or to the cityhospital In Fort Worth, where attention is given at the expense of tfc*

RCtl. KST1TK V t l X E S .With the first rush of speculatorsto th e Nuitii 5id after the assurance

property of the packing1 plants, surveying It and platting It Into Jots and lateroffering It on the market. In manycases on the Installment plan, buildinghouse* on the lots aiul celling to employes at a small cash payment an lthe remainder on easy monthly payments ID this way it was only a shorttime until a great nrvny or the mechanics and artisans brought hero from theNorth by the nackerles were couvlentlydomiciled In new homes which offeredencouragement to others, many ofwhom bought lots and erected homes.

growth and prosperity and itsdestination Is for a population whichwill rival that of any city of Un ageIn the United States. Steps, will ahort-ly-~be taken to commence plans andmethods for further improving tb* cityand putting at on a thoroughly modernplan and berore Its citixers hardlyrealire It they will be residents Of oneof the greatest commercial towns ofIts size In the country. With th e establishment of the \at Industries alreadill be

(Continued rromof 150.000. It will be onlya short time until we have a largnumber of mills and factories built andoperated In Fort Worth. This Will givework to a large number of people, atfair salaries, who arc now small retailmerchants on HonMon and Mainstreets. They wall close -up these

cause they will be compelled to get outor business- to make room for bigstores. Now, I belie.e on Ttusk andThrockmorton streets will be ourfuture wholesale business housesProperty is cheap at the prices askedfor it. I think the railroad trackshould be extended all the way upRusk street at once, so that trackage s*accommodations could be had for ^wholesale purposes. If this was dore you would see a lot of fine buildingsthattreet already has some fine buildings

ANOTHER CORNER. IN BUSINESS OFFICE

nent hoa-a hme always been at a[premium, and as fast as erected hav-been occupied. A large per tent or theI houses now rented are *.ome**hat inconvenient to the laboring class strictly as they are mostly situated in the{suburbs where property is not so ex pensive. Now that a new street rail- way has beep put In which takes in the more thickly portions of the resi-ident sections of the town, homes on the'outskirts or the city will be more popu-I lar than heretorore an d more buildingwill be Induced along the new road.Some of the investors and speculatorsiwbo bought property early have be -[come rich while others have been of-

derive benefits which can come onlyto a town which has the InducementsNorth Fort Worth offers to new enterprise-*. Already agent s representingcapital from some or th e northernstates have visited North Fort Worthand have been impressed with Its possibilities as a commercial center withIts vast networtcor railroads and convenient location for wholesale andmanufacturing establishments andwhen the time la rloe for thes concerns to look for a Southern locationor a central point for a branch houseFort Worth will have the preference ofall other place* for the establishmentof these concerns.

that are an honor to the cltr--Prices on real estate arc more thandouble what they were two years ag-o-You know where tee Page additioa is.Two jears ago we ofrered lots ootthere for JliP. Owners ore sellinghe same lots at %1*9 each- A friendof mine bought a lot on Main ilrwtabout four ye:rs off* at 15.000. Hwas offered this week 19.500 cash forthe same lot. I helieve that there isnot a single lot on Slain street out iwhat would prove a Tne Investment aiSIS COO and will sell for more moneyinside of one year. Kverybody whohas as much as J580 cash, should buyreal estate In Fort WortnT

. _ 5v2>-*-*r&J n-rf -Sft- ^ ' ^ s f ^ K B

http://ards/http://ards/http://ards/http://ards/http://ards/