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1875
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For sale,
for a few days only, two large new buildings, one a cotton gin
and the other a corn and wheat mill, in complete running order,
with smut mill, corn sheller, a good cotton press, a sixty-five
saw Pratt gin stand, with an excellent engine of thirty horse-power,
an abundance of spring water on the premises, and three-quarters
of an acre of land, situated on the southeast corner of Poydras
and Wood street, known as "Horton's Mill." Apply to
W. F. Lyte & Co., real estate agents, No. 109 Lamar street.
- January 2, 1875,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
The new
brick row on Elm street, between Market and Jefferson, is ready
for the cornice.
All the hotels set extra fine dinners
yesterday, the Commercial leading off with one of great variety
and excellence.
- January 2, 1875,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Messrs.
E. & M. Kahn have dissolved partnership, Mr. M. Kahn retiring.
Mr. E. Kahn continues the business.
- January 5, 1875,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4
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Personal.
Moise Kahn,
formerly of E. & M. Kahn, is going into the wholesale liquor
business with Messrs. H. H. and M. J. Jacobs, next to Wadsworth,
on Elm street.
- January 6, 1875,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4
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The Public Library-A
Proposition
About the Matter.
DALLAS, Texas, January 12, 1875.
To the Editor of the Dallas Herald:
I noticed an item in the HERALD with
regard to the Public Library of Dallas. I will furnish a room
eighteen by twenty feet, upstairs, in a brick building fronting
on the square, keep it open from 8 A. M. to 11 P. M., for $75
per month, or will take the library, giving approved security,
for one year, for two-thirds of the proceeds. Can give first-class
reference in the city.
Yours, etc., H. BLEDSOE.
- January 13, 1875,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Mrs. L'Hommedieu
called to ask Dr. R. H. Jones, the other day, the price of a
certain lot opposite George Meriwether's residence, when the
doctor very gallantly and delicately begged that she would accept
of it. Now, that's what we call a good deed, kindly done.
Messrs.
Carnes and Guedry have associating themselves as general fire
insurance agents, and we refer our readers to their card in another
column. The line of companies they represent is headed by the
London and Liverpool and Globe and North British and Mercantile,
of London and Edinburgh. Coming nearer home, they are agents
of the Traders, of Chicago; Petersburg Savings and Trust, and
the Albermarle and Farmville, of Virginia. They also write risks
on cotton and other merchandise in transit to and from any of
the northern ports of the United States. We recommend them to
the public.
- January 14, 1875,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4
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"Martha"
- The First Opera in Dallas.
On
the 19th of February, at Field's theater, Flotow's beautiful
little comic opera of "Martha" will be presented by
a number of ladies and gentlemen (amateurs) of this city. The
opera here has been in active rehearsal for some time, and as
this will be the first opera ever presented here, its production
will be quite the musical feature of the winter.
The role of "Martha"
is to be taken by Miss Ella Rives, one of our most accomplished
and charming vocalists, who has one of those plaintive soprano
voices which are always effective in this opera.
"Nancy" will be personated
by Mrs. Ben Ward, who is so favorably known here as possessing
a voice of unusual power and melody and the requisite taste and
cultivation to do justice to the part. She will doubtless
add to the laurels already won as Miss Lizzie McGee.
The part of "Plunkett"
will be in the hands of Mr. R. H. Foat, who has the reputation
of possessing a voice of rare power, richness, flexibility and
sweetness. To a handsome personal appearnce, Mr. Foat unites
admirable musical taste and hard study, His success is a foregone
conclusion.
"Lionel" will [be] personated
by Dr. McGee, who as a tenor voice of more than ordinary meit.
He sings with taste and feeling and will doubtless achieve
a triumph.
"Tristam" will be represented
by Major Obenchain. The major's voice and musical culture
are familiar to all lovers of music here, and are ample to commend
success.
"The Sheriff" wil be
represented by our modest young German friend, Mr. Hess, who
has a very strong, melodious voice of much tone and volume.
The chorus will be sung by a number
of our young ladies, each one of whom is attractive enough to
fill the house.
Prof. Otten will have the musical
direction.
The occasion is the anniversary
of the Knights of Pythias.
- January 14, 1875,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Storage
for all kinds of machinery, agricultural implements, etc., can
be had on reasonable terms at the Dallas Compress warehouse,
corner of Lamar and Wood streets, as will be seen by our reference
to our advertising columns.
We have received the prospectus
of the Montague News, a new paper to be started in Montague,
Texas. The News will be democratic, of course. The material on
which the paper is to be printed is the old office of the Texas
Signet, formerly printed in Dallas by Rev. Lee Newton.
Hamm and Wilson, butchers at the
city market, continue to make a handsome display of delicious
meats of all kinds, which they are selling at the lowest prices.
We stepped into the market yesterday and viewed their choice
cuts of beef, mutton, pork, veal, venison, etc., and thereupon,
ordered our meats for to-day's dinner. Go there and do likewise.
The new Skinner truck for Dallas
Hook and Ladder company No. 1, contracted for by W. C. Connor,
chief of the fire department, when last in New York, has arrived.
Chief Connor, while in the metropolis of Gotham, saw its workings
on Broadway and contracted for a similar machine immediately.
It cost at this factory eighteen hundred and seventy-five dollars,
and the freight to Dallas via the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
and Texas Central railways, was two hundred seventy-five dollars.
It has a patent self ___ vating fire escape, and its arrival
marks a new era in the annals of our fire department. Chief Connor
and a number of our citizens rode out yesterday afternoon to
examine it, and a detail from Dallas Hook and Ladder company
will bring it to the truck house. The old truck will be transferred
to the fire company of East Dallas, who, no doubt, will give
a good account of it.
- January 20, 1875,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
R.
V. Tompkins, flings his bunting to the spring breezes from the
outer wall of his new mercantile fort, corner of Lamar and Commerce
streets.
- January 21, 1875,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4.
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OUR NEXT ENTERPRISE.
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The Northern Texas
Blooded Stock
Association--A New Company
Formed With Ample
Capital.
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Ground Bought--Buildings and
Race
Course to be Built and Arranged.
For some
time past, it has been very evident to some of our far seeing
and public-spirited capitalists that much good could be done
by the organization of a blooded stock and fair association,
upon a substantial basis, for the improvement and development
of this state, and our city also.
THE MEN AT THE HEAD OF IT,
are Messrs. W. H. Gaston, C. C. Slaughter,
William B. Miller, J. E. Barkley and J. Y. Field. They have purchased
seventy-five acres, which will be enclosed with a close fence
nine feet high. The buildings, race course, club room, billiard
room, restaurant, main stand, amphitheater, booths, etc., are
to be planned after those of St. Louis.
THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS
are already being drawn up by Mr. Jack
Ryan, one of the most accomplished architects and civil engineers
in the state, lately in the employ of the Texas and California
construction company, a graduate of Trinity college, Dublin,
and a gentleman whose taste in such matters is first class.
CASH PREMIUMS
will be a special feature and large enough
to attract the best stock men and exhibitors in the country,
all of whom will be communicated with, in time for the next fair,
which will be some time in October, so arranged as not to be
interfered with by the St. Louis fair whose exhibitors will be
invited here also. A liberal system of advertising will be a
feature which will make it familiar to the exhibitors throughout
the country.
THE RACE COURSE
is to be constructed on the best modern
known plan, forty feet wide and to be one mile in distance. The
form will be that of a parallelogram, rounded at both ends, thereby
giving quarter of a mile stretches on easy curves. Inside of
the track proper will be a speed track thirty-five feet wide.
Outside of the track will be a broad carriage way, the whole
to be surrounded by a strong wire foot fence.
At a suitable place inside the
race track will be the spacious amphitheater with its booths
and appurtenances, such as gentlemen's club room, ladies' reception
room, billiard room, restaurant, music stand and judges stand.
Hereafter, a commodious and elegant
grand stand will be built outside of the race track, with a seating
capacity of six or eight thousand.
Work will be commenced shortly,
the track will be laid out immediately, after which the necessary
contracts will be let.
It is proposed to have everything
completed by the 1st of September, when Dallas will have the
best race track in the state, if not the south.
- February 6, 1875,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4 col. 2.
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1876
Important
to Real Estate Buyers.
The
importance of careful and correct field notes in making deeds
cannot be too much insisted upon, now that property in this city
and county is becoming so valuable, and to avoid useless litigation,
all parties should see to it that the land conveyed in the deed
is plainly and particularly described; metes and bounds given,
and the initial point well established.
In those good old times of Arcadian
simplicity, when the land between Poydras street and the Houston
and Texas Central railroad was sold by the Grigsby heirs to Uncle
Jack Smith and Judge J. M. Patterson at about one dollar per
acre, men were indifferent as to the exact description of their
land marks, and the records of the County Clerk's office show
some curious field notes. In a deed from Turbeville to Masten,
the field notes say: "Commencing at the corner of my turnip
patch," and it puzzles the present city engineer hugely
to locate that turnip patch.
In another deed in Judge Good's
homestead, it says: "Commencing at the corner of T. C. Hawpe's
horse lot," and not no man can put his foot on the corner
of that horse lot.
The deed from Uncle Jack Smith
to the Methodist church college, says: "Commencing on the
north side of Elm street at the end of my picket fence."
Now, where is that picket fence?
In some deeds, Bryan street is
called Swiss street, and Swiss street is called Butcher street,
and some streets in our city have so many different names, that
confusion arises to locate the property.
Too many parties content themselves
in giving the courses in the deed as Easterly, Westwardly, Northwardly,
and Southwardly, when all this may mean something within the
360 degrees of the compass.
In some deeds, varas are confounded
with yards, and the rates in a deed gives varas, yards, feet
and links indiscriminately.
Another great cause of confusion
in locating property from fixed rates in deeds, when monuments
cannot be found, is the variation of the needle; some lines have
been run with a variation of 90°, and some at 90° 50
East, some lines calling for N 450 [45° ?] were run at N
41 E, and two confusions become confounded, all of which could
be avoided by specifying in the fixed rates, the variation of
the needle used in each survey, and it might be well to give
the name of the surveyor for future reference.
These suggestions are thrown out
to caution our people against useless negligence in an important
matter, so that they may avoid future trouble and expense.
- July
8, 1876, Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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THE COUNTY CONVENTION.
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The Body that is to Nominate
Dele-
gates to the District Convention.
DALLAS, TEXAS, July 19, 1876.
To the Democrats of Dallas County:
FELLOW
CITIZENS - You are requested to meet at your respective voting
precincts at twleve o'clock m. (except in Precincts Nos. 1, 2,
3 and 4, which will meet at eight p. m. on Saturday, the 19th
day of August, A. D., 1876), to select delegates to represent
you in a county convention to be held at twelve o'clock m. at
the Court House in the city of Dallas, on the 26th day of August,
A. D. ,1876, to appoint delegates to a District Convention to
be holden in the city of Dallas on the 20th day of August, 1876,
to nominate a candidate to represent this Congressional District
in the next Congress.
The interests of the county demand
that the Democratic party of this county, as well as the District,
should be united and harmonious, and that the District should
be represented by the candidate of its cohice. The whole number
of delegates to the county convention, based on the last election
for Governor will be one hundred and two (102) apportioned among
the several voting precincts as follows:
Voting Precinct No. 1 (Courthouse) 23 delegates.
Precinct No. 2 (Broom Factory) 6 delegates.
Precinct No. 3 (Buckhorn Corner) 9? delegates.
Precinct No. 4 (Young's Schoolhouse), 3 delegates.
Precinct No. 5 (Oak Lawn) 3 delegates.
Precinct No. 6 (Mash's) 3 delegatres.
Precinct No. 7 (Richardson), 6? delegates.
Precinct No. 8 (Upper Duck Creek), 2 delegates.
Precinct No. 9 (Poorville)., 2 delegates.
Precinct No. 10 (Bale's Schoolhouse), 2 delegates.
Precinct No. 11 (Pleasant Valley), 3 delegates.
Precinct No. 12 (Worthington's) 2 delegates.
Precinct No. 13 (Lower Duck Creek), 3 delegates.
Precinct No. 14 (Long Creek), 1 delegate.
Precinct No. 15 (Craven's), 1 delegate.
Precinct No. 16 (Haught's Store), 2 [delegates.]
Precinct No. 17 (Scyene), 3 delegates
Precinct No. 18 (Mesquite), 2 delegates.
Precinct No. 19 (Lancaster), 3? delegates.
Precinct No. 20 (Hutchin's), 3 delegates.
Precinct No. 21 (Cedar Hill), 3 delegates.
Precinct No. 22 (Five Mile Creek), 1 delegate.
Precinct No. 23 (Valley Church), 1 delegate.
Precinct No. 24 (Lisbon), 3 delegates.
Precinct No. 25 (Eagle Ford), 3 delegates.
Precinct No. 26 (Stult's), 2 delegates.
Precinct No. 27 (Grapevine), 1 delegate.
Fellow
citizens, I earnestly urge you to turn out at your respective
voting places on the 19th day of August, 1876, and send up your
delegates to the County Convention, send good and tried Democrats,
and let the action of the convention be the voice of the people,
and thereby meet the approval of every true Democrat of the county.
Come out, then, and unfurl to the
breeze, the flag of Democracy, with reform inscribed on one side
and Tilden and Hendricks on the other, and select the men of
your choice.
W. L. CABELL.
Chairman Democratic Executive Committee of Dallas County.
- July 22, 1876, Dallas
Weekly Herald, p. 2, col. 3.
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OUR MILLS.
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The Dallas Flour
Manufacturing Com-
pany-A Modern Enterprise
The dimensions
of this mill are forty by eighty feet. It is built of brick,
three stories high. In the basement are three kilns with a capacity
altogether of about three thousand bushels. There are two apartments
on the first floor. The first is used as a store room, the second
as a grinding room. In the second story is the bolting chest
and cleaning machinery. In the third story are the bran duster
and the separators. The grain, when received, is placed in the
bins?, thence it is carried by an elevator up into the top of
the building, where the first cleaner takes it and cleans out
all of the heavy dirt, straw, sticks and trash; thence it goes
through the second cleaner, which scours the wheat from dust
and fuz, and separates the light from the heavy by means of currents
of air and scouring apparatus; thence through the third cleaner,
which repeats the work of the second cleaner. Then it is carried
by an elevator to the stock hopers over the stones in the first
floor; then, as it passes to the stones, it passes through a
Vendergriff feeder, which takes out all of the light and imperfect
grains. From the stones the flour goes to the bolters, eight
in number, and twenty feet by thirty-two inches, in the second
story, from whence it goes to the flour packer on the first fllor,
where it is put in sacks and barrels.
The capacity of the mill is one
hundred and fifty barrels every twenty-four hours. The mill runs
day and night. The machinery is all run by steam. The force employed
are one superintendent (David Langton), two millers, two engineers,
two flour packers, one clerk and three laborers.
During the past ten months, the
mill has turned out four thousand barrels. The cleaning machinery
was manufactured by A. H. Halterman & Co., St. Louis. this
mill will turn out, this season, fifty thousand barrels of flour,
of which there are four grades. First, Dallas Crescent Mills;
second, San Jacinto; third, Empire; fourt, XX.
This mill was formerly owned by Dr. J. E. Scott, and is located
on the branch near Browdus' Spring, a mile and a half from the
Court House.
We examined very carefully the
grain used in making flour and found it first class. The various
qualities of flour made are noted in the market for the purity
and excellence of the quality.
The mill is conducted with the
utmost system and order, and the various departments of it are
all managed by themost experienced hands. The flours made by
this mill are not surpassed by any in the country. To. Mr. S.
T. Stratton much is due for the interest he has taken in making
this mill's flour famous.
- July 22, 1876, Dallas
Weekly Herald, p. 3, col. 2.
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1880
The New Court-House.
The County
Commissioners court met yesterday pursuant to adjournment to
consider the bids submitted for the rebuilding of the court-house
which is to be raised another story, making it a three-story
building, the dimensions of the additional story to be 66x110
feet and fourteen feet high, to be surmounted by a comely, substantial
dome sixty feet high, with a clock, which will make a handsome
edifice, far superior to the old court-house. the following bids
for the work, with the amounts specified, were submitted:
S. Neilson...$26,080
Caruthers & Morrison...25,000
Leftwich & Jamison...26,100
John Paul...27,812
Britton & Long...24,000
J. M. Harry...24,908
D. C. Mitchell...23,442
R. L. James...24,950
H. Kruegel & Co....23,712
A. Brownlee...24,475
Mr. D. C. Mitchell's bid being
the lowest, he was awarded the contract, to be finished by the
15th of June.
On motion, fifteen days extra was
given the contractor in which to finish the wok, though, with
opposition on the par of colonel Wm. J. Keller, as he did not
deem it fair to the other bidders to grant further time after
the contract had been let. this evening, the proper papers will
be signed and the bond of the contractor will be taken to guarantee
the faithful performance of the work, and a superintendent will
be appointed to oversee the construction.
There will be a number of changes
made on the second floor and throughout the new court-house will
be a great improvement on the old one.
- March 12, 1880, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 8, col. 2.
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Another Artesian Well.
The workmen
engaged in boring the second artesian well for the Browder Springs
ice company have reached a depth of four hundred and ten feet
and expect to reach water within the next few days and calculate
on finishing their work by Saturday week. The company have put
in extra machinery, and hence, the necessity for two wells.
- March 12, 1880, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 8, col. 2.
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East Dallas Stock Yards.
Mr. J.
A. Carter, the proprietor of these yards, is a man reliable in
all his transactions, and business entrusted to him will receive
efficient attention. These yards have no superior in the city,
and persons wanting to buy or sell stock of any kind will be
the gainers by calling on Mr. Carter.
- March 12, 1880, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 8, col. 2.
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Grand-Windsor.
Monday
evening, Col. W. H. Whitla and Mr.. Pepper leased the Grand-Windsor
hotel, embracing both buildings, for five years. There are to
be improvements on the building to the extent of $8,000, and
then it will be the finest hotel, and has been the best kept
under the management of Col. Whitla, in Texas. The expression,
"he is a good man, but he can't keep hotel," is often
heard, but the latter half of the phrase does not apply to Col.
Whitla. He knows exactly how to keep a hotel, and the public
is well aware of the fact. Already popular in the extreme, it
will become more so when the improvements are completed. A genial
host, and thoroughly understandomg his business. Col. Whitla
spares no pains to entertain his guests as they should be entertained,
and to make them comfortable and at home.
- March 24, 1880, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 3.
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An Elegant Opera
House.
A meeting
of a number of our prominent citizens and capitalists was held
at the parlors of the Grand-Windsor hotel last evening to discuss
the propriety of erecting, in the city, an opera-house and Masonic
temple. The following named gentlemen were elected directors,
with instructions to, at once, secure a charter and open books
for the subscription of stock, viz: Messrs. W. E. Hughes, Alex
Sanger, W. H. Gaston, L. M. Knepfly, W. C. Connor, John C. McCoy,
G. M. Swink, R. V. Tompkins, W. H. Flippen, S. J. Adams and H.
S. Ervay. The meeting was enthusiastic, and the names of the
gentlemen given above, who take an active interest in the matter,
insure the success of the enterprise. The building is to cost
$50,000.
- March 27, 1880, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 8, col. 3.
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An Important Suit.
The District
court, during the present week, has been engaged on the suit
of Smith, Murphy and Peak vs. John B. Stone. In this suit, is
involved the title to fourteen acres of ground in the heart of
the city, and embraces some of the most valuable property lying
on Elm, Main, Commerce and Jackson streets. The result will be
looked forward to with great interest by many parties now claiming
title to the same. The property is valued at nearly a half-million
of dollars.
- March 27, 1880, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 8, col. 3.
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UNSAFE BUILDINGS.
The falling
of the wall of the building on Elm street yesterday should serve
as an illustration of the necessity for strong, substantial buildings.
It is, no doubt, common in young cities when the flush of a new
born prosperity is upon them and everything is going forward
with a rush and at break-neck speed, for buildings, whether of
stone, brick or wood, to be built in the same way. There is a
feverish excitement pervading all things and owners of property
are anxious for their improvements to be hurried to completion,
that they may take advantage of the flood tide of prosperity
and begin quickly to realize on their investments. The consequence
is that almost any sort of material is taken, rather than wait
for better, and any quality of work accepted rather than submit
to delay, and the buildings thus erected are but shells, unsafe
and dangerous. It is greatly to be feared that there are many
of this character of buildings in Dallas, and it is to the interest
of the city, as a whole, as well as to the property owners themselves,
that a thorough and impartial inspection be made, and wherever
the evil feared may be found, that it be corrected, at once,
by strengthening walls, braces, etc., and even by rebuilding,
if that be the only remedy. Fortunately, yesterday no lives were
lost, no casualties resulted, but the bare thought that there
might have been, makes one shudder. Several thousand dollars
worth of property was destroyed and two or three business firms
forced to lose time in securing other places, rescuing their
goods undamaged, from the debris of the building and in replacing
those ruined. Furthermore, have they not sustained a dead loss
of the goods ruined? Such catastrophes beget a feeling of apprehension
and awaken fears in the minds and hearts of all business men
who, reasonably enough, ask themselves, at once, if their places
of business are safe. They are calculated to make people contemplating
entering into business here, distrustful and disposed to seek
other localities for settlement. An ample remedy and sure safe-guard
is in easy reach of the city, and she owes it to her people to
avail herself of it. We need the enforcement of the existing
ordinance or a new one; also, a vigilant building commissioner
or inspector, and he should be a man skilled in the construction
of houses and in the strength, durability and other qualities
of building material. He should be a gentleman of integrity and
reliability, with the heart and the intelligence to appreciate
the responsibility of his position. If the present city ordinances,
as published in this issue and prescribing the nature and quality
of building material to be used, the thickness of walls, character
of mortar, etc., in the construction of buildings are inadequate,
the Council should, at once, enact such ordinances as shall be
sufficient. Dallas is a city large enough now, of sufficient
importance and rich enough, to afford a building commissioner
to superintend the erection of all buildings and see to it that
they are erected in accordance with the requirements of safety,
both as to substantiability and fires. It is true that a building,
no matter what the material used may be, whether iron, steel,
stone or brick, cannot be made entirely fire-proof, but they
can be made very nearly so, in fact, practically so. They can
be made strong enough not to fall down; strong enough to withstand
the storms, ravages and decay of centuries, and it is the right
of every citizen of this city to demand that the city authorities
see to it that buildings be made safe and strong, so that the
lives of inmates and passers-by are not in constant danger. All
cities of importance have a building commissioner that guards
with jealous eye against the violation of the laws enacted to
secure the construction of buildings that will not be a constant
menace upon life and property. Dallas can be thankful that there
are no mourning households in her limits to-day over the results
of yesterday's catastrophe, and in her rejoicing for this good
fortune, she should determine to guard against the contingency
of any such calamity in the future. This is a matter worthy the
gravest consideration of our City Council and of every citizen
in Dallas.
- April 2, 1880, Dallas
Daily Times Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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1886
THE FAIR GROUNDS.
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A Magnificent Selection Conditioned
on the
Performance of Public Duty.
The directors
of the Fair Association met yesterday and agreed to select for
their grounds, eighty acres within 600 yards of the Main street
car shops, conditioned upon their success in raising between
$15,000 and $20,000 additional stock. This site is located on
the Texas and Pacific tract, is outside of the corporate limits
of East Dallas, will be reached by the street cars, and with
certain arrangements for Texas and Pacific and Santa Fe trains
every quarter of an hour for the accomodation of visitors to
the fair, offer the most complete facilities in every respect
conceivable. The directory, therefore, all united on the grounds,
provided the additional stock, essential in view of the complete
exposition buildings to be erected, can be raised. In view of
the almost incalculable advantages to accrue to the city from
such a selection, it is expected that those who feel a pride
in making Dallas the commercial metropolis of Texas, and who
are wide awake to their own interests will put their shoulders
to the wheel of progress and make it hum by coming to the rescue
on this very important occasion, in which a word to the wise
should be sufficient. There is necessity for immediate action,
and THE
NEWS
hopes that it will be met before the week closes.
- March 26, 1886, Dallas
Morning News, p. 8, col. 2.
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1887
[No Heading]
W. A. Crowdus
and H. M. Sutton tell the city council that they are prepared
to furnish the city with electric light, and ask permission to
erect pole and wires along the streets of Dallas. The matter
was referred. The council is waiting to hear from other electric
light works.
- January 17, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 2, col. 1.
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Turner Hall.
The foundation
of the new Turner Hall has been laid in a convenient and beautiful
section of the city, fronting Harwood and with entrances on Canton
and Young. the building will be 60x120 feet, with brick basement
twelve feet high and a two story frame superstructure divided
into six rooms on first floor, all of which will be used exclusively
by the society. This floor has gymnasium, bowling alley, bar,
reading room, dining room, kitchen, closets, etc. Two flights
of stairs lead up to the second story, making escape easy in
case of fire and landing in an entrance with cloak room, ticket
office, toilets, etc., from which entrance two stairways lead
up to the gallery. Folding doors open into the main hall, which
is 60x75 feet, clear of columns or other obstructions, and to
be elegantly furnished in neatly finished natural wood with comfortable
seats, heating apparatus, etc. The stage is 22x60 feet , connected
with which, will be dressing rooms and other conveniences and
handsome scenery.
The gallery story has, in addition
to seating capacity for more than 250 persons, rooms for the
janitor and the committees. The roof will be of shingles, self-supporting
and finished, with paneled ceiling over main hall, and supporting
the gallery by large iron rods extending down. We learn from
Messrs. Bristol & Clark, architects, that the hall will be
completed in two or three months.
- January 31, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 3, col. 1.
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Mr. H.
C. Clark will erect on Swiss avenue, in East Dallas, the finest
residence in that fashionable little town. He has already let
the contract for the brick and wood-work, which amounts to over
$13,000.
- March 24, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald, p. 8, col. 3.
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AN OLD LANDMARK
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Soon to Disappear,
and in Its Place Will
Appear a Grand Structure.
On the
corner of Main and Poydras streets, opposite Patterson's drug
store, stands an old frame building, now occupied by Mr. Martinez
as a cigar store, which was erected in 1861, and then occupied
by Jack Smith as an army supply depot for pork; afterward, it
was occupied by Mr. Angey as a foundry. In a short time, this
old landmark will be removed, and on the ground, will be erected
by Knepfley & Son, an elegant brick building to be used as
a jewelry establishment -- to be one of the handsomest and largest
in the State.
- June 4, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald, p. 1, col. 4.
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The St. George Reopened.
...will reopen August 3, 1887.
- August 1, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald, p. 4, col. 1.
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A Double Track.
The Dallas
Consolidated Street Railway Company want to lay a double track
form Jefferson street, to the corporate limits on the east.
- August 1, 1887, Dallas
Daily Herald, p. 4, col. 5.
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Local Notes.
A frame
structure on wheels ran down Elm street this morning and excited
the small boy. It was another old landmark getting out of town.
The housemovers do a smashing business in Dallas.
- September 6, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4, col. 2.
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Landmark Gone.
The old blacksmith
shop at the corner of Jefferson and Commerce streets was torn
down and the debris is being removed. A good business house
will be built there at once. This old shop was the finest
business house in Dallas not very long ago, and the builder had
great difficulty in getting to Dallas, the lumber out of which
it was built. It was built in the days when pegs were used in
framing houses.
- September 15, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 1, col. 5.
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It is said that
the opening of the Grand Avenue & Rockwall Road, which was
ordered at the last sitting of the county commissioners court,
from the Rockwall road beyond White Rock creek to the fair grounds,
and across the land of Dr. Browder, will give East Dallas property
a boom. This road will be located on the Lagow league line, and
will prove a valuable outlet to that portion of East Dallas.
Property is already on the rise.
- November 21, 1887,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 5, col. 2.
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1888
City News.
The gravel has
been washed off the white rock in many places on Bryan street...
- September 1, 1888,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 2?, col. 1.
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Red sandstone
for the new building of the North Texas Bank is coming in from
Lake Superior and is being placed upon the ground ready for use.
- September 1, 1888,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 2?, col. 3.
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City News.
The Times Herald
is indebted to Mr. J. D. A. Harris for a "Souvenir of Dreams,"
consisting of lithographic pictures of some of the principal
business houses and handsome homes of the city. The work is first-class,
and reflects credit upon Mr. Harris, the publisher, and also
upon the city.
- September 5, 1888,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 5, col. 1.
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City News.
The county commissioners
met yesterday and let the contract for constructing an iron bridge
across the Trintiy at Dauk's [Dawdy?] ferry to L. S. Leversedge,
for $11,615.
- September 11, 1888,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 5, col. 2.
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City News.
The committees
from the city council and the commissioners' court have selected
the rock crossing 300 yards below the Oak Cliff elevated railroad
bridge as the site for the new iron bridge to span the Trinity
at this point.
- September 14, 1888,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 5, col. 2.
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The new
bridge at Rock Ford will be a great convenience to people who
live out the Hutchins road to the southward of Oak Cliff.
- September 27, 1888,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 4, col. 1.
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About the Metropolis...
Work on
the city hall proceeds without interruption and the walls of
the building will soon be up.
- September 29, 1888,
Dallas Daily Herald, p. 5, col. 3.
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For Forty Years.
The TIMES-HERALD acknowledges
with hearty thanks the receipt of a basket [of] delicious grapes
sent around by Judge Nat M. Burford. Judge Burford has been in
Dallas forty years today. The first man he met on his arrival
here was Mr. Wm. Beeman, who kept the "Pitch-in" hotel,
and who the Judge met on our streets this afternoon. Messrs.
J. M. Patterson, John W. Smith and Mesdames Elizabeth Dergen
[Durgin] are the only persons now living in Dallas who were here
when Judge Burford first came to this place.
- October 8, 1888,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 3.
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The Swann Cotton
Gin.
This factory
was established in 1883 and built the first gin made in Dallas.
Their sales have doubled each year the amount of the previous
year. Their factory, corner Young street and Santa Fe railroad,
has a capacity of 300 gins per year. They have save many hundreds
of dollars to Texas ginners since their location in Dallas. They
have one of their outfits in County Exhibit Hall, which attracts
a great deal of attention from the ginners who crowd to see it
and admire its construction. Every ginner, cotton planter and
merchant should call to see it. A cordial welcome extended to
all.
- October 17, 1888,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 4.
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THAT REPORT.
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Copy of the Report
of the Special
Committee Upon the Location of
the New Trinity Bridge--Alderman
Hughes and Mayor Connor
Upon the Situation.
For the information
of the public in this matter, a copy of the report of the special
committee appointed some months since to select a location for
the bridge and adopted by the city council at their last meeting
by the deciding vote of the mayor, is applauded. It is as follows:
DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 15, 1888.
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council.
GENTLEMEN: Your special committee instructed to confer
with the county commissioners in regard to the selection of a
location for the erection of a bridge across the Trinity river,
beg leave to report:
That we have personally, with the county
commissioners, examined the same, and recommend as the most favorable
point on the river for the erection of a bridge, the crossing
known as the rock ford, and that the same be adopted by the council,
and that the city engineer be and is hereby instructed to make
a profile of the crossing and estimate of the probable cost of
bridge and approaches, and to make a survey of two streets, one
leading from the bridge to connect with the foot of Austin street
or Lamar and the other from the bridge to the cotton mills.
We further state that the commissioners
agreed to pay half of bridge and approaches and bring a road
to the bridge. Mr. Cockrell, by petition to the commissioners,
stated that he would grant the right-of-way on this side of the
river. All of which is respectfully submitted. THOS. B.
LOUCKX,
W.
M. EDWARDS,
J.
M. WENDELKEN.
But sixteen votes were cast at the meeting,
Aldermen Hughes and Johnstone being absent. A reporter, therefore,
to get the views of these gentlemen upon the proposition called
to see them this morning.
Alderman Johnstone was absent from the
city, but Alderman Hughes was found at his office, and in answer
to the interrogatory as to how he would vote upon the question,
he said without hesitation that he would vote against the location
of the bridge at that point, believing that it was too near to
the other to possess the numerous advantages that it was intended
to have.
"I am not opposed to a bridge,"
he continued, "nor to the city's bearing the proportion
of the expense that the proposition contemplates, but I am opposed
to locating that bridge so near the other."
What location, then, have you to offer
in lieu of the selection made by the committee? Asked the reporter.
"Well, Corinth street or Grand avenue
at the points where they would cross the river furnish a much
more eligible location for the bridge than does the point selected.
Corinth street would furnish more direct access to the mills
than any other route, though Grand avenue would be more in the
direct line of travel between this city and the towns of Hutchins
and Lancaster."
You would, then, favor a bridge at the
expense of internal improvements?
"Not at all. The city needs the
bridge badly, and is perfectly able to do both. Her more direct
connection with the country would inure her material benefit
in enhancing property values, etc."
Mayor Connor was then seen in his
office in the city hall and was asked if he opposed the building
of this bridge. To this he declined to reply, saying that he
had voted for the adoption of the report out of courtesy to the
committee, since its adoption did not necessitate the building
of the bridge. He thought anyhow that the fist steps necessary
in the premises on the part of the council was an appropriation
for this particular purpose. "I might with as much reason,"
he continued, "say that I was going to build a house on
that lot (pointing across the street) which does not belong to
me, or to say that I was going to marry before I had found a
woman who would have me. No, there is nothing to be feared from
the adoption of the report," he added.
- November 27, 1888,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 1.
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AN OLD LANDMARK
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GOES DOWN IN MIDNIGHT
FLAMES.
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The Old Historic Crutchfield
House
Burned the Second Time.
About 2 o'clock
this morning, the fire department was called to suppress a blaze
which had started in the east end of the old Crutchfield house
in a room usually occupied by a Mrs. Reese, but last night temporarily
vacated. No fire was in the room, and the origin remains a mystery.
The building was of wood and brick; the former burned rapidly,
and soon the old landmark so dear to the memories of the early
settlers of Dallas was reduced to a charred hull. The old building
has an interesting history, and its demise has been mentioned
on the streets more than once to-day. Judge Nat M. Burford, who
came and has been living here over forty years, only two men--Judge
Patterson and John W. Smith--living then and now in the city
when he came here, in speaking of the history of the Crutchfield
house, said: "It was built in 1852 by Thomas F. Crutchfield
from lumber hauled from Red River county, and under his and his
estimable wife's management, was the foremost hostelry of North
Texas. It was destroyed by fire in June, 1860, at the same time
that all business houses in Dallas, numbering fifteen, went down
in flames. Mr. Crutchfield at once rebuilt it, and it was from
the veranda of that house which burned last night that John W.
Forney______?, the famous newspaper man of Philadelphia; Col.
Tom Scott, president of the Texas & Pacific Railway, then
150 miles east of here, and Robert Garrett, Sr., of the Baltimore
& Ohio road, addressed a crowd of Dallas citizens on the
subject of extending the Texas & Pacific road into this city.
It was during their visit that the present Texas & Pacific
depot and round-house grounds were located. During the Crutchfield
management, there was never a scandal, nor a murder, connected
with the history of the house. It was the most magnificent hotel
in Texas. Among the famous guests who partook of the hospitalities
of the place, I recall the names of Gov. Thomas P. Hathaway Bell,
Gen. Thomas Rusk, Gen. Sam Houston, Gov. E. M. Pease and O. M.
Roberts, the old Alcalde; among celebrated European guests was
Prince Paul, the reigning sovereign of Williamsburg, who remained
a week in the year '52, and went from here to St. Louis by stage;
Victor Considerante, M. Kantagrel, for whom one of the streets
in the city has been named, and M. Cosin, all prominently connected
with French immigration into this county. It ceased to be the
leading hotel after the death of Thomas F. Crutchfield, which
I think occurred in 1868. No, it was not the oldest house in
the city. The oldest house was built in 1849 and now stands on
the south side of Commerce street, just east of the Synagogue,
and is occupied by Mr. Davenport. Of the surviving descendants
of Thos. F. Crutchfield and wife, there remains now only James
O. Crutchfield of Lamar county and Mr[s]. Ophelia Eakins, of
this city."
The Crutchfield management referred to
by Judge Burford, was succeeded by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Johnson
was murdered by a gambler by the name of Charles Webb, who succeeded
in making his escape. The house then fell into the hands of Mr.
McIlhenny, the best known hotel host in the state. It was during
his management that an imported and, it is said, the only case
of yellow fever, made its appearance in Dallas. The party died
and Mr. McIlhenny assisted in arranging his remains for burial.
Later day changes were of little note as the famous hostelry
of a quarter century gradually grew beneath the notice of distinguished
travelers who put up at more metropolitan places which sprang
into existence with the flow of increased population and wealth;
but many of the leading and wealthy citizens of the city took
their first Dallas meal and rested their weary bodies for the
first time in the old Crutchfield house, around which clings
so much dear to their memories.
The little bell suspended from a china
tree on the sidewalk is said to be the first bell that ever did
service in Dallas. Originally, [it] occupied a position above
the roof of the house, and old timers recall a visit from Quantrell's
band along in the sixties when some of his men amused themselves
by shooting at the modest little bell of the town.
The property at present belongs to Mrs.
Ada Ranch Clark. The loss was in the neighborhood of a thousand
dollars, and it is stated there was some insurance.
- December 10, 1888,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 5, col. 2-3.
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Live Oak Improvements.
Live Oak street
is on a boom now and will, in another half year, present a fine
appearance; and Mr. J. S. Daugherty is building sixteen brick
stores on his property, south side of the street, west of the
Central Railroad, Mr. Rowe will soon erect a two-story brick
business house at the intersection of Masten and Pacific avenue
with Live Oak. The German Methodist Church, on the corner of
this street and Olive, is being painted and otherwise renovated.
The city council having promised to pave Live Oak early in 1889,
there is a move on foot now among the property owners to put
down the stone curbing and cement sidewalk all the way out to
the Central Railway.
- December 21, 1888,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 8, col. 1.
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A Model Market.
The enterprising
market man of Dallas is Mr. C. H. Williams. His place, on the
corner of Main and Market, is as neat and attractive as a market
place can be made. In 1872, Mr. Williams occupied a little red
shanty on this corner, and was the leading market in the town
of then 4,000 people. To-day, he occupies a brick on the same
ground, with the finest stock of meats, fish and game to be found
in any city, and proposes to make his place again the leading
market of Dallas, this time a city of 50,000 people. It is seldom
that one man deals out meats to a city of 5,000 and sees its
growth to 50,000, but such is true is this instance. Besides
the finest beef, mutton, pork, venison and veal he can buy, his
stock consists of crabs, lobsters, oysters, gulf fish and large
red salmon fresh from the Columbia river. Call and see his splendid
stock.
- December 24, 1888,
Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 8, col. 3.
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