The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-08-16
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ri, "Would II liH~ been wrong IN
have dbthIned fTGid OcnCrm Van
l3urcn thcrsglstarce w'ichh!suontl'
oflnbor, and therefore intimate knowl-
edge Of whit had been done, and Of
what had been proposed to do, rem
dercd him capable Of giving" Con-
dcmncd criminals are allowed to work
for. the public ~good;rafter they lmvc
been placed where they can do nc
harm. General Van Buren, was not
condemned, only accused, and why
We're the new Commissioners called
upon to act rs his judges? neither
accuse or excuse General Van Buren,,
but one thing is sure, had he been per-
mittcd to finish what he had begun, or
had they used his innocent assistants,
America would not present so dcspica-
.b!e an appearance in the eyes Of ma
tons as she does, torn b. discussions,
degraded by personal quarrels and
aIimosities, her people. embiltered
against each other, and striving harder
to attain some little petty personal
end, than to present or country and
her products in thomost favorable
light. Another thing is true. The
goods sent to the Exposition were most
admirably prepared and marked. l
have heard one man, of extensive busi-
siness experience, say, that be never
saw goods so wellpnt up and addressed.
Not only the size and weight of.the
box were given, but it was part icularly
marked for the especial department to
which it .bolonged, so that there was no
need of hesitancy or confusion in deci-
ding where the box should go, or diff
Guilty in assigning space for its c:n-
tents even before they were>unpacked.
A competent man had been sent to
Trieste, to oversee the reshipment of
the goods by rail, but he was recalled
by telegram, and not permitted to fin
ish his work, though it could have
been finished iii twenty-iDur hours le-
cause he had been sent by the sispeD-
lcd Commission, Competent men Of
fered TO 20 for nothing, and do this
work, but We're not allowed, and goods
Belonging to.the' threeDepartmc.ts in
the Machinery Hall, Agricultural Hall,
and Industrial Palace, were loaded pro-
'miscuously in one car, and were then
dumped by the Austrians in oneplace,
where some. Of them lay two or three
DAYS in the rain. This error in reship-
ping the goods ut Trieste, was carefully
pointed out to The Commission, and
not profitirg by experience, tie second
ship load was managed like the first
and so endless confusion reigntd, and
the worl. of arranging goods was much
retarded.
The Commission WAS discharged four
days before the pcning, just in time to
infict the strongest disgrace upon them
personally, and most etiectually torre:
vent anything being dode towards ma
king display upon that day.
Temporary Superintendent of De-
partments We're appointed, but We're
informed that they. could only assign
space temporarily, and, AS II matter Of
course, exhibitors were not willing to
put up their goods only to he obliged to
take them down again in Il few DAYS,
and remove them, perhaps, to some
Then there were no plans of the bull
diIgs, no statement of SIRE Of rooms, or
whetherspacc had already beenassisn-
ed, MS some exhibitors claimed, and so
the new Superintendent OF the Palace
Hall fused and iumed and fretted, be-
cause lie had not their papers; but
the Superintendent OF the Agricultural
Hall had energy enough to measure
his building himself anG assign space,
Observation-Disclosures papers which might
never make their appearance, and
the Machinery Hall steadily grew into
order under the management of
the chief engineer, WAC haa assigned
space for goods belonging TO his de-
partment while he was crossing the
ocean. lie not being a Commissioners,
but paid Il salary, and also being one
whose place could lot be filed, has re-
taihed his positi91 aud has done his
work well.
4 Every one waiic,i most ilnpatieniIy
for.the appearances 1f Mr., sclflltxt, the
new Chief Commissioner, OF whom it
was stated that he "hadsmore brains
than all the rest of the t'eIsn,isss6i ~ put
togetlfer.'' / have not t1oshted die
truth of this statement, though have
been some times fereibly lelHindcd o.
the fact that goods I'm great bull; be-
come unwieldy and often unavailable.
Things did not 90 as if oiled, even after
the arrival Of the man with "brains,"
but there began to be progress. How
ever, 'Mr, Schultz did not secm 10 be q
man of magnanimity, but allowed him
self to be influenced by personal feel
ings, as, for Instance, when lie allowed
himself to be a little provoked at gen
tleman, .who.told him that the cotton,
contrary to his decision, belonged to
Industrial Palace, and afterwards,
when the same gentleman offered to
do gratuitously a certain work that
needed doing, If schultz womb only
furnish him men, Schultzsorilors were
'Dont furnish single man"
Like many men in power, Mr..
Schultz's faults can be referred TO his
advisers. One. man.. especially, has
had great Influence over hipl-a MIR.
Reek, an American architect, who
came over to build the American Res
taurant, that has been the great cause
of the trouble in the commission, and
this Mr.. Reck was very active against
General Van Buren,, and. as reward,
perhaps, is now "Architect of the
American Commission A man OF
little taste and not sound Judgment,
vet he. More than any one else. coiIli