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The grounds comprise 127 acres with improvements costing $550,000, not including the $100,000 coliseum. The grounds with the present improvements was turned over to the City of Dallas, without compensation, by the State Fair Association, in 1906. The Association in making this magnificent gift to the City of Dallas further agreed that from the profits accruing from the State Fair each year, there would be no dividends declared, but all such profits would be expended for permanent improve- ments on new buildings and beautifying the grounds of the Fair Park.
Here each year for sixteen days, the greatest Fair in the United States is held and the Agriculture exhibits, together with the live stock, poultry and other exhibits have in the past few years exceeded that of any fair in the World with the-exception of the International Exposition held at Chicago, St. Louis and Paris. More than $80,000 is given away in prizes and premiums each year, and each annual Fair is greater than the preceding one.
Under the able management of President E. J. Kiest, Secretary Sydney Smith, the State Fair of Texas promises greater things for the future than has been given to the public in the past.
THE TRADE TERRITORY.
Dallas has a territory lying tributary to it which is the richest agriculture section in the world. Its soil took the first prize at the Paris Exposition for chemical fertility and general productiveness. This territory known as the black waxy land belt of Texas is producing the wealth which has made Dallas great.
In a circle of 100 miles radius of which Dallas is the center, there is 8% of the area of the State of Texas; 30.3% of the rated business houses of the State; 34.2% of the assessed valuation of the State; 30% of the railroad mileage of the State; 42.4% of the population. In this radius there is 11,013,251 acres of land under cultivation on which is grown one-fifth of the cotton crop of the United States. In this circle there are 1,257 cities, towns and villages, comprising 42 of the 246 counties of the State. Such is the trade territory of Dallas, known as the Garden spot of the Southwest.
A more comprehensive idea of the value of this territory may be gained by a glance at the enor- mous business done through the Dallas wholesale houses, a large portion of which is confined to the 100 mile radius. In the year 1905 the wholesale business done by Dallas houses amounted to $67,365,000, while during the year 1910 the figures reached the stupendous sum of $131,600,000, showing an increase in five years of $63,285,000, or almost 100%.
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Medical Evolution in Dallas
By MARTIN E. TABER, M. D.
Probably no man now actively engaged in medical practice today remembers that Drs. Field, Cornelius and Newsome preceded Dr. J. L. Carter as health officer of Dallas. The community, then small and correspondingly careless of its sanitary details, maintained a health department consisting of a meagerly salaried officer without aids or equipment. During the terms of Dr. Carter sanitary in- structors were employed, a crematory erected and a two-story frame building on South Lamar Street was used as a hospital, then the only such institution in the city, public or private.
Dr. W. L .. Wilson succeeded Dr. Carter in 1890 and continued the plans of sanitary supervision without notable change, the same being true of the administration of Dr. C. M. Rosser, who agitated the need of a new city hospital during his term as health officer without securing its settlement.
Dr. V. P. Armstrong was more fortunate in this particular. The present city hospital, though too remote from the city's center, was a great improvement over the unsuitable structure of former years, but must inevitably give way to a modern building suitable and more accessible.
During the incumbency of Dr. Armstrong the office of sanitary inspector was abolished by the City and the work was aggressively carried on by Dr. Armstrong, very much in person.
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DR. MARTIN E. TABER
BISHOP ALEXANDER CHARLES GARRETT President St. Marys College, Dallas, Texas
Dr. J. H. Florence was then elected and shortly given an assistant in the person of Dr. Lindsey Smith, and this enabled the city to assume care of pauper cases not transferred to the hospital. During this period a detention point, now grown into the Union Hospital, for smallpox, was established. Dr. J. H. Smart held the office for two terms, and Dr. T. B. Fisher is the present occupant.
HOSPITALS
Dr. H. K. Leake, with his associates Drs. A. C. Graham and W. B. Brooks, established the first private hospital here in 1891 for 20 beds, opposite the City Park, and three years later, upon the present site, corner Canton and Pearl, a building to which an equal addition has been made was erected and has been since operated
In 1897 Drs. Rosser and Milliken opened a private hospital on Elm Street called "The Hermitage," thus adding to the hospital facilities of the city.
A growing city demanded enlarged hospital facilities, and upon the initiative of Drs. S. Eagon and J. S. Letcher the Dallas Medical and Surgical Society took action asking the co-operation of Bishop Dunn in securing the institution built and conducted since 1898 as St. Pauls Sanitarium-capacity 100. The names of these two medical men can never be disassociated from this institution for it was largely through the diplomatic relation of one and the untiring energy of the other that it was established.
Later The Good Samaritan Hospital was founded by Dr. C. M. Rosser, was owned and conducted by him until transferred by sale to the Directors of the Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium in 1905. Upon these grounds, with additions thereto, the Baptist Sanitarium now stands, and the original building is used as a nurses' home, and has been in operation about two years.
Other hospitals established are: The Marsalis, the property of Dr. J. H. Reuss; The Polyclinic, the property of Dr. S. E. Milliken (discontinued); The Briggs Sanitarium for tuberculosis cases, lost by fire; and the needs of the colored population has been met by the Bluitt's Sanitarium
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MEDICAL SCHOOLS
Two medical colleges are maintained in Dallas: Baylor University College of Medicine and the Southwestern University Medical College, a department of Baylor University at Waco of the Baptist knomination, the other a department of the Methodist University of Texas.
The earliest effort to organize Medical School in Dallas was at a meeting in the Oriental Hotel la 1899. At this meeting Dr. J. M. Pace, S. E. Milliken, R. H. Chilton, C. H. Sherman, C. M. Rosser, and H. L. McLaurin took part, though no charter was procured, and the matter was dropped for the time being, when in 1900 C. M. Rosser took the initiative and pushed the movement to successful culmination.
In 1900 Dr. C. M. Rosser, who by that and subsequent acts became the chief founder of the first medical college in Dallas, induced Chas. Steinmann, Ben E. Cabell, President Commercial Club and Mayor respectively, and Hon. W. J. Moroney to issue a call for the Doctors of Dallas to organize a Medical College, which was done and conducted under a charter to the University of Dallas until it became by agreement with the trustees of Baylor University its Medical Department. It is now located on the Baptist Hospital grounds, corner College and Junius Streets, and under the management of the efficient Dean, Dr. E. H. Cary.
The Southwestern University Medical College was subsequently formed by a number of Dallas physicians, Drs. R. W. Baird, J. B. Shelmire, and J. B. Smoot, and others, headed by Dr. Jno. O. McReynolds, who has since been Dean of the faculty.
These institutions, since their organization, have maintained free clinics for the treatment of the worthy poor, a feature only at intervals properly given attention.
The first of its kind was established by Dr. H. W. Wandlers in his private offices in 1896, but it only rendered service to cases of eye, ear, nose and throat trouble, the same being true of the North Texas Charity Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital clinic promoted by Dr. M. E. Taber, with the assistance of the Sisters of St. Pauls Sanitarium some years later.
BOARDS OF HEALTH
During the administration of Mayor Curtice P. Smith a board of health was inaugurated with Dr. J. M. Pace as its President. Other members were: Drs. C. M. Rosser, T. B. Fisher, and E. M. Reardon. The present board consists of: Drs. H. K. Leake, President; O. M. Marchman, Miles J. Duncan, E. Aronson and Col. C. E. Moss.
CITY CHEMISTS
L. Meyers Connor was twenty years and more city chemist. The office was abolished, but re-established with J. Connor Chism, and now Dr. Landon C. Moore with his assistants look after the details of that department.
Appropriately here we may mention men who have been identified with the development of medicine, and now lamented and remembered by many living: Drs. Morten, E. L. Thompson, J. S. Letchem, J. L. Carter, W. L. Wilson, Ben C. Taber, J. W. Crowdus, Wm. Newsome, W. S. Sutton, S. D. Thruston, J. D. Parsons, R. H. Chilton, A. M. Elmore, S. W. McJunkin, Pleasant Gray, R. Pope, Dr. Elliott and the venerable and scholarly Dr. T. H. Stout.
During these years Medical progress has been aided by the scientific atmosphere created and kept by the various medical societies which have been in existence with more or less regularity throughout but let us not forget the labors of those faithful men who have practiced here many years, among whom are: Drs. R. W. Allen, J. M. Fort, H. L. McLaurin, E. J. Reeves. and Theo. L. Arnold, one of the first Eye and Ear Specialists in North Texas.
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INTERURBAN AND URBAN STREET RAILWAY FACILITIES OF DALLAS
Today there are four Urban Street Railway Systems in the City of Dallas, as follows: Dallas Consolidated Electric Street Railway Company, Metropolitan Street Railway Company, Rapid Transit Railway Company, and the Northern Texas Traction Company, operating the Oak Cliff Line, and a Lich speed interurban between Dallas and Ft. Worth. The first three lines, together with the Dallas Electric Light and Power Company, have been under the general management of the Stone & Webster Management Association since September 30, 1902, with Edward T. Moore, Local Manager; E. J. Emerson, Superintendent of Railways, and J. C. Woodsome, Superintendent of Lighting.
The present city mileage, including the Oak Cliff line, is approximately seventy-five miles; of this total the first three companies mentioned above operate about sixty-one miles. The companies own 158 passenger cars, having an average length of 40 feet, as follows: 55 open, 14 semi-convertible and #A closed cars. Forty-three of the closed cars are equipped for prepayment operation, which has been successfully used on several of the lines since November, 1909.
The monthy pay roll ranges from $25,000 to $28,000 per month. An average of about sixty cars is operated on a basis of 18 hours per car per day The maximum number operated at one time during 1910 was 123. During 1910 the companies carried 18,465, 184 fare passengers and 4,144,592 transfer and free passengers, making a total of 22,609,776 carried. During this period the company's trainmen operated 3,385,000 car miles, of which 3,249,000 was passenger mileage. The above total car mileage was operated in 433,769 car hours.
All city lines are operated with a five cent fare and universal transfer system, which permits of a maximum ride on a single fare of a trifle over 16 miles, and half-fare tickets are issued to school children. In addition to the Northern Texas Traction Company, the Texas Traction Company operating an inter- urban from Dallas to Denison also enters the city over the local Company's tracks on Commerce Street. The power for operating the railway lines is supplied from the plant of the Dallas Electris Light & Power Company, located at the foot of Griffin Street, west of the M. K. & T. Railway tracks, where the company owns nine and three-fourths acres. The power plant buildings occupy approximately 30,000 square feet. Improvements and additions have been made continually since the company came under its present management until it now has a generating capacity of 5,800 kilowatts. The boiler equipment consists of fifteen high pressure boilers, having an aggregate of 6,990 horse-power. There are four re- ciprocating steam engines, totaling 4,040 horse-power and two Curtis General Electric Steam Turbines, having a combined capacity of 5,000 horse-power, or a grand total of 9,040 horse-power in steam engines.
These engines drive six electric generators with total capacity of 5,800 kilowatts, as above stated. Oil is used exclusively as boiler fuel, the tank cars coming direct from the oil wells to the company's spur track from which the oil is transferred by pipe lines to the two storage reservoirs, having a combined capacity of 175,000 gallons. The daily consumption of oil is from 28,000 to 30,000 gallons, depending on the station load. The company has its own artesian water system, one of the wells reaching the Paluxy strata. In addition to the main generating station, (which includes a sub of 1,000 kilowatts,) the company has a sub-station on Commerce Street of 1,040 kilowatts capacity, furnishing power for both the lighting and railway departments. The maximum main station load during 1910 was about 7,600 kilowatts.
The distributing system of the Dallas Electric Light & Power Company covers the entire city, in some cases extending for a considerable distance beyond the city limits. The Company employs at the present time from 150 to 200 men in its operating departments, and the monthly pay roll ranges from $12,000 to $15,000. Over twenty horses, two automobiles and two motor cycles are required to take care of the outside work. The company is now serving 12,100 revenue customers and has over 13,000 meters connected to its lines. Current is furnished for 930 municipal and about 550 commercial
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arc lamps, and the equivalent of about 217,000 in 16 candle power incandescent lights. Power is sup- plied to about 860 motors having a capacity of 6,400 horse-power. The company has over 900 åstributing transformers on its system, with a combined capacity of 8,000 kilowatts. The total con- nected load of all revenue customers is 16,900 kilowatts.
During the year 1910 the output from the main generating station was approximately 25,000,000 kilowatt hours, or over 2,000,000 kilowatt hours.per month. In addition to the power generated, 643,000 kilowatt hours were purchased from the Dallas Ice Factory, Light & Power Company for use by the Railway Department during the evening rush hours.
STATEMENT REGARDING STONE & WEBSTER, FOR THE STANDARD BLUE BOOK.
The Stone & Webster Management Association of Boston, Massachusetts, manage the companies which operate street railway systems in Dallas, El Paso, Ft. Worth, Galveston and Houston, and furnish electric lighting in Dallas, El Paso and Galveston. They also operate an interurban line between Dallas and Fort Worth and have under construction an interurban line between Galveston and Houston, . which is expected to start operation about the end of 1911.
These companies employ about two thousand men and operate about 300 miles of equivalent single track in Texas. Their power stations have a combined capacity of about 25,000 horse-power. These properties represent many millions of dollars invested in Texas, their securities being held by several thousand persons in various parts of the United States, Canada and Europe, including Texas itself. They require an annual expenditure of from two million dollars a year upwards in new money to take care of extensions called for by the growth of the city in which the company operates. In the way of new development, the announcement has been made that interurban lines are to be constructed between Fort Worth and Cleburne and between Dallas and Waxahachie.
The combined financial statement of these Texas properties for the calendar year 1910 was as follows:
Gross earnings . .
$4,865,769.82
Operating Expenses
$2,883,266,03
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$1,982,503.79
Interest Charges and Taxes
845,308.02
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$1,137,195.77
Bond Sinking Fund
88,576.23
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$1,048,619.54
Dividends
640,671.00
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$407,948.54
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The bonds and stocks of these public service companies present a very safe and stable form of investment. Stone & Webster believing that the people of Texas should be interested in securing such an investment, offer the bonds and stocks of their Texas companies for sale to the investing public in Texas, and they have a department in the Wilson Building in Dallas for the sole purpose of handling these securities for Texas investors.
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Interior view of JOS. SAMUELS' COMPANY JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT, 1014 Main Street, Dallas, Texas
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DALLAS, THE GREATEST TELEPHONE CENTER
In proportion to the number of inhabitants in the world, with more subscribers than has New Orleans or Louisville or Atlanta, or many European nations where restrictions of government have interfered with the development of the most wonderful utility, has built to the necessity of quick and certain intercommunication by spoken word as it has built or is building to all things else. Today there are between 17,000 and 18,000 telephones in the service of 95,000 people. The Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co. provides the means by which any one in the city may speak to practically any one else.
Thirty years ago there were no telephones in Dallas. Twenty-nine years ago there were exactly forty. Now there is an instrument for every six and a fraction of the people and the general use has given an added value to the service rendered every individual.
The country and the company grew together. The local system and the city are twins in ad- vancement.
Little Rock, Galveston and Houston had telephone facilities before ever a dollar was spent in swinging wires over the Dallas housetops. The work of installing the local system commenced in 1881, and in 1897 the records of the company showed 1,000 subscribers. In 1898 it was announced that this city stood first in the territory of the Southwestern Company in the use of the telephone.
Since then the growth has been beyond expectations, and Dallas has advanced from an overgrown town into a full fledged city.
Few of the original "Telephone Men" are left. As wonderful a change has come over the service as has come over the city.
In 1902 when J. E. Farnsworth was made General Manager of the Southwestern Company general offices were established in this city. Once a newspaper man at Austin, Mr. Farnsworth had entered the office of the auditor of the telephone company, afterwards became auditor and then division super- intendent with jurisdiction over north Texas. His appointment to the central position unified the Southwestern Company.
Within a short time the telephone structure was crowded and it was recommended that an addi- tional story be added. Two were placed instead, as if in an extra generosity of space, but every inch of room was quickly utilized.
At the resignation of J. E. Caldwell in 1904 Mr. H. J. Pettengill, who had previously been Vice President, was elevated to the highest executive place and J. E. Farnsworth was made Vice President and General Manager. Within a short time Mr. Pettengill gave up his other telephone interests to come to Texas and to Dallas to give his entire time and energy to the operation of the Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company. By that move the company was made to stand alone-an integral part of the great system of allied corporations.
Meanwhile, as business grew by leaps and bounds, six buildings were required to accommodate the employes in the various departments of the Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company in Dallas. The 850 men and women in this one city on the pay roll of the corporation were cramped in their work. Branch exchanges were being established or had been opened in different cities, and the total number of subscribers served by the Southwestern Company increased to 200,000.
A ten story steel building, planned to support six additional stories, is to be raised in Dallas. It will incorporate every facility for the support of the service and the development of the system. From it will radiate, perhaps, 18,000 local lines and 150 double tracks for the voice to afford communication with the cities around about, in a radius of 2,000 miles
In the structure whole floors will be given over to the comfort and convenience of the employes. There will be cafes for the use of both the young women and the men employed in the intricate detail of the work.
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Interior View of THE KONEMAN MILLINERY ESTABLISHMEMT, 110 North Ervay Street, Dallas, Texas Mrs. T. W. Koneman, Proprietor
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Interior view of one of the finest Jewelry Stores in Texas, where you will receive every courtesy, and find it a pleasure to do your shopping. C. M. BAILEY, JEWELER, 1006 Main Street, Dallas, Texas.
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The Art of Music in Dallas, Texas By MRS. WILLIAM E. WHITE
The people of Dallas have expressed a palpable desire for musical culture in the liberal patronage they have accorded to the many great artists and fine musical organizations who have visited them.
In several instances they have distinguished themselves. In 1902, for the opening of the Confed- erate Reunion, Ignace Jan Paderewski, the great pianist, played to an audience which ranked second only in point of numbers to any before whom he had appeared in his previous career, and for which he received $4,500.
In 1904, the German Singing Societies of the State held their 25th Jubilee Saengerfest in Dallas, augmenting their own large aggregation of singers by the Chicago Orchestra and a company of soloist singers, with Rosenbecker as conductor and Marcella Sembrich, the great prima donna, as the chief center of attraction. Mme. Sembrich sang to thousands of enthusiastic listeners and received $6,500 for her two appearances. The receipts for the three concerts reached the sum of $21,000.
In 1905, on April 21, San Jacinto Day, the Metropolitan Opera House Company, with Hertz as conductor, and Fremsted, Dippel, Van Rooy and Blass in principal roles, presented the wonderful religio-musico-drama, Parsifal, the last flower to burst into bloom from the brain of the world-genius Richard Wagner, to an audience that taxed the capacity of the house, all seats on the lower floor selling for $10.00 and the receipts amounting to approximately $11,000, although it was a holy day with many- that of Good Friday. For the success of these noteworthy events honor and praise must be awarded to a few zealous and enthusiastic men who gave freely their time and efforts aided by public-spirited citizens who gave their financial guarantee.
In the summer of '89 a Comic Opera Season was inaugurated in Oak Cliff and continued for several seasons, the MacCollin Company doing good work, giving such operas as Fra Diavolo, Bohemian Girl, etc. (this feature having been revived in late years and wonderfully improved); the Lake Cliff Park, with its modern summer theatre, The Casino, being the home of as good comic opera as can be found throughout the land, the better class of composers, such as Gilbert and Sullivan, Victor Herbert, and Reginald DeKoven being presented.
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