Council Proceedings: May 1, 1906

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The Western Union Telegraph Company

THE LARGEST TELEGRAPHIC SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, OVER ONE MILLION MILES OF WIRE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.

It has over 24,000 Telegraph Offices, including Branch Offices. It has also Direct Connection by Telegraph or Telephone with as many more remote and smaller stations, making a total list of over 48,000 in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and this number is rapidly increasing.

The Western Union Company has Two American Atlantic Ocean Cables from New York to Penzance, England, direct: both CAbles duplexed. Four Anglo-American Cables, and one Direct United States Cable, Direct communication with Germany and France.

Direct Wires to Galveston, Texas, connecting with the Mexican Telegraph Co. and the Central & South American Telegraph Co., for all points in Mexico and Central and South America.

Direct Wires and Cables to Havana, Cuba, and all points in the West Indies, and to the Bermudas and Bahamas,

Pacific Cables to Australia, New Zealand, Honolulu, Guam, Philippine Islands, Chia, Japan, etc.

Connects with U.S. Government Lines and Cables to and in Alaska.

Domestic and Foreign Money Orders by Telegraph and Cable

THE TWO TELEGRAPH POLES REPRESENT THE RELATIVE SIZE IN NUMBER OF THE OFFICES OF THE WESTERN UNION AS COMPARED WITH ALL OTHER COMPETING COMPANIES COMBINED

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W.J. ESTES, Assistant

OFFFICE OF JNO. T. MONTGOMERY.

City Secretary

FORT WORTH, TEXAS APril 28 1906

To the Honorable Mayor & City Council

Gentlemen

The arrangments for the religious meeting in the City Hall for May 1 is to be 24 May and I therefore request same courtesis as heretogore granted for which I Thank you very much. This meeting will begin 24 May and continue to some time in June and will bring many people here and I trust do much and lasting good in a religious way.

Respectfully

H.S. Broiles

Petition

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Filed Apl 25/06 Jno T. Montgomery City Secty

Resolution

Be it resolved that the Mayor appoint a special committee of three members of the city council to advertise for bids for doing the sprinkling of the principal streets of Ft. Worth. That said advertisement be made in the daily papers of the city for ten consecutive days and that the term to be bid on shall be from 3 to 5 years. All bids shall be sealed and none of them opened until 4P.M. the last day of publication when all bidding shall be declared closed by said committee. The city shall reserve the right to reject all bids. The general specification for the character of the contract to be bid on shall be drafted by the City Atty. and approved by the Mayor and filed with the City secretary for the inspection of bidders

R.F. Cook