Dallas City Directory, 1918 Page: FRONT TITLE PAGE
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EXCELLENT
DEPART-
MENTS.
SCHOOL AT-
TENDANCE.
GOOD
TEACHERS.
LUNCH
ROOMS.
OTHER EDU-
CATIONAL
INSTITU-
TIONS.
MANY
CHURCHES.
A PUBLICA-
TION CEN-
TER.The scholastic population in August 1918 is 27,230. The system comprises
twenty-nine grade schools and three high schools, representing a financial outlay
of nearly $2,500,000. A Teachers' Training School, School for the Deaf and
specially conducted classes for delinquent children, together with an excellent
system of industrial and manual training, domestic science, music, physical, and
military training, commercial education, organzed supervsion of playgrounds, and
evening schools are the leading features of the Dallas public school system.
More than 15,000 children attend regularly. Most school buildings are brick.
In all 671 teachers and supervisors are employed. A compulsory attendance law
is in effect.
The annual cost of instruction for the scholastic year ending June 30, 1918
was $579,525. A majority of teachers hold permanent state certificates. Lunch
rooms are operated in three high schools, and in most grade schools. The board
of education consists of five members who serve without pay.
There are 72 private schools in Dallas teaching all branches. The Southern
Methodist University, occupying 660 acres of land in a beautiful section of the
city represents an asset in excess of $3,000,000. This is a nationally known uni-
versity and consists of a college of liberal arts, theology and music. St. Mary's
College is an intermediate, preparatory school for girls. It has departments of
music and fine arts. The University of Dallas is a school of higher learning with
departments of medicine, arts and sciences for young men. There are numerous
business colleges, schools of expression, music and industrial arts located in Dal-
las, all of which maintain high educational standards. Many Dallas colleges
now offer courses in military training. The Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., the Public
Library with branches in residential sections are noteworthy institutions.
Dallas has 154 churches and places of worship fulfilling every devout and
denominational creed. The general moral and religious tone of the city is ex-
cellent. Dallas people two years ago voted saloons out of existence, and other
evils attendant upon them have disappeared from the city.
Dallas is the second largest publication -center in the south. More than 65
newspapers, magazines and periodicals are published here. Many of these have
national reputation and circulation. Many nationally known writers reside in
Dallas. Hence it may be said that Dallas leads in intellectual and educational
affairs.One coming from older industrial sections of the country is impressed with
the general aspect of cleanliness of Dallas. This is due to the absence of the
A CLEAN smoke evil which has been obviated by the use of natural gas and fuel oil for
CITY. manufacturing and household purposes. Natural gas is obtained through pipe
lines from the famous Oklahoma fields, and has largely done away with heavy
smoke production fuels.
Health conditions in Dallas are unexcelled. This is due partly to usual pre-
A HEALTH- cautions exercised by municipal authorities over these matters, and to natural
FUL superiority of climate. At this particular point the air is of sufficient rarity to
CLIMATE. relieve, and in most cases entirely remove skeptical tendencies of health, pro-
duced by less favorable climatic conditions. Cases are rare where the health of
newcomers is not immediately improved or invigorated.
TEMPERA- Temperature at Dallas for 1917 averaged 64.4 degrees. The highest tem-
TURE. perature recorded was 104 degrees July 10, and the lowest was 13 degrees Feb-
ruary 2nd.
BODILY The relative humidity for the year taken at 1 p. m. was 45 degrees, indicat-
COMFORT.- ing relative bodily comfort during summer months by reason of evaporation.
Dallas is developing a twenty year program of parks and city playgrounds.
PARKS AND This embraces an extension of the city's twenty-two parks to an area of 3,500
PLAY- acres to be made accessible through a system of parkways and boulevards.
GROUNDS. Numerous golf links, tennis courts, swimming pools and campuses are placed
conveniently about the city.
Municipal band concerts are given in the parks during the summer evenings.
THEATERS Dallas theaters afford the same standards of art and entertainment as Chi-
AND cago and New York. The best productions, including metropolitan Grand Opera,
AMUSE- come to Dallas, many of them with original casts, and the city is on the "big
MENTS. time" vaudeville circuit.
For -elegance and commodious arrangements the moving picture theaters
of Dallas lead all other cities.
Notable among the institutions of Dallas is the State Fair of Texas, being
the largest State Fair in the United States. It occupies 162 acres of ground and
is valued at $2,200,000. Its buildings consist of a Coliseum, seating capacity
STATE FAIR 5,000, a Text'le and Fine Arts Building, Exposition Building, Ladies Rest Cot-
OF TEXAS. tage, Live Stock Pavilion and Concrete Swine Barns, Vehicle and Implement
Building, Grand Stand and Automobile Building. Nineteen, separate buildings
are owned by exhibitors.
Other notable buildings of Dallas are the City Hall, Court House, PubI
NOTABLE Library, Sacred Heart and St. Matthew's Cathedrals, City Hospitals, St. Par
BUILDINGS. and Baptist Memorial Sanitariums, the Scottish Rite Cathedral and many -
tiful churches.
The Dallas-Oak Cliff Viaduct-length one and one-eighth miles, bui
VIADUCT. cost of $700,000 is said to be the longest and most beautiful concrete vehi'
FAMOUS duct in the world. JOHN F. WORLEY DIRECTOR
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Worley. Dallas City Directory, 1918, book, 1918; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth806922/m1/3/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.