Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-25
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THE RESOURCES OF FARGO.

There see ms no end to the possibilities and
resources of Fargo. For so new place in SO
new region, the variety and wealth of talent.
material and capabilities for anything and every
thing desirable, is simply marvellous. The
latest manifestation of its capacity is in some
respects its most noticeable one. To talk of an
''Art Loan Exh bition'' in fve-year-old Dako-
ia town would have seemed obsurd few weeks
ago even to the most enthusiastic boomer full
of faith in the young city's wonderfulpower to
get to the front III whatever it undertakes The
enterprising ladies of the Presbyterian church
have shown that nothing is impossible in
Fargo, and tbat to try at anything is
to succeed. The Art loan exhibition
that began in the Keeny clock Thursday even
ing, would be highly creditabIe in st. Paul or
Minneapolis, and Is absolutely amazing here
There are nearly twelve hundred objects of
beauty and curiosity cataiogued, and hundreds
have since been added. Many of the articles
exhibited would be ra1a prizes for the British
museum the Smithsonian institute. There
are some really hne and valuable pictures, gen
uine sold Masters with pedigrees attached
There are charming bits of sculpture, and eN-
quislte pieces of tapestry. There are collections
OF coins some of which date back twenty eight
hundred years, and scores of relics of every age,
since blind Homer's harp poured melody through
Greclan portcoes and groves. There are
Innumerable mementoes of the
Mayhower and the Pilgrims, including quaint
and curious desks, chairs, guns and Bibles.
There are costumes centuries old, and one coll
lection of shoes of the various styles for nearly
two hundred years, including lady's wedding
CATERS OF hundred and fifty years ago. the
queer-loking shoes that took the prize at the
first worlds fair in London in 1858, and those
that captured the medal at the centennial expo
sition in Philadelphia in 1876. There are revo-
lutlonary guns, pistols, knapsacks aud costumes
and genuine G. Washington's old bull'seye
gold watch, accompanied by all the wills through
which it came down to Fargo man. There is
the mystical shell viii once involved large
part of Asia in war. and Rindoo,
Indian and Aztec gods enough to stock new
mythology. There are hundreds of pretty spec
linens of the artistic handiwork of Fargo's own
accomplished men ard women, in oil and water
In Tx and velvet, moss and straw, on porcelain
attractions, there are scores of lovely women
and girls ready to trot seeker for art and an
hquarian information around the spacious
hall, and give him a liberal education in one
evening, filling his cup of enjoyment to the
brim with splendid orchestra music, and a
glorious supper to wind up on. Such ladies as
Mrs. Newell, Mrs Henderson, Mrs. Dickson,
Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Phelps. Mrs. Conover, Mrs,
Ober, Mrs. Perry, Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Mott, Mrs.
Roberts, Mrs. Sheehan, Mrs. Potter and Mrs
Fitch, and Misses Wilson, Rolph, Hanson,
Snow, Thomas, Jewett Sage, Rrash, Holiday
and Chaffee deserve infinite credit for having so
successfully drawn forth Fargo's stores of art
and artistic capabilities. The display is a
grand success artistically, socially and fnan-
cially.i