. The geography of Texas, physical and political. Fig. 110. Galveston looking west from the CourthouseThe building in the center is the Ball High School of the sea. For this work a bond issue of -fl,500,000 wasautliorized. Galveston has a large wholesale trade in dry goods,groceries, and clothing. Its public schools have long beenknown for their excellence, especially the Ball High Medical Department of the State University is locatedhere (see Fig. 90), also the John Sealy Hospital and SaintMarys Infirmary, the latter under the care of the Sistersof the Incarnate Word. The city is g
. The geography of Texas, physical and political. Fig. 110. Galveston looking west from the CourthouseThe building in the center is the Ball High School of the sea. For this work a bond issue of -fl,500,000 wasautliorized. Galveston has a large wholesale trade in dry goods,groceries, and clothing. Its public schools have long beenknown for their excellence, especially the Ball High Medical Department of the State University is locatedhere (see Fig. 90), also the John Sealy Hospital and SaintMarys Infirmary, the latter under the care of the Sistersof the Incarnate Word. The city is governed by a boardof five commissioners elected by the qualified voters. THE nUXCIPAL CITIES OF TEXAS 179 136. (5) Fort Worth (26,688), the county seat of Tarrantcounty, is situated on the Trinity river thirty-two mileswest of Dallas. It is one of the most enterprising citiesin the state, with many fine business blocks and Fig. 120. Tarrant County CoruTiiorsE, Fort AVorth Among its new and costly buildings may be mentionedthe County Courthouse, the Federal Building, the Texasand Pacific Passenger Station, and the Carnegie Library. This city is another large railroad center, no less thanten lines converging here. The Texas and Pacific, extend-ing from New Orleans to El Paso, is joined at this pointby its transcontinental branch from Texarkana via Paris,Sherman, and Whitesboro. Tlie Fort Worth and DenverCity crosses the Panhandle and, with the Colorado South-ern, forms a through line to Denver. The Chicago, 180 THE GEOGRAPHY OF TEXAS Rock Island and Gulf, in connection with the Chicago,Rock Island and Pacific, reaches the Indian Territory, Okla-homa, and the many points on the Rock Island Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, from Galveston, passesthrough the city and, continuing northward, connects withthe great network of railroads in Kansas and other western ) ^ Fig. 121. Texas axd Pacific Passenger
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