Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-29
THE WHITE ELEPHANT.
Grand Opening for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Msrnincenee OF Its Interior

Msrniicenco OF its Interior
/ AT no time In the history of Fort
Worth has the curiosity Of her people
been so nnxiously excited rs during
the past week. Ten days AGO the iur'
niture and fixtures for the White Eie-
phant saloon were received, and the
work of arranging II for the grand
opening was completed last evening.
| In the meantime The front doors were
kept closed, and ono admissi0n' was
written over the side entrance. his
of course tended TO heghten eXpec-
| fancy, and for Two or three days Nam
| street, between Second and Third, has
| been the Crowded tburoughfare' oi
| the city. Yesterday afternoon a. GA
| ZEr1E representative gained entrance
through u window. and the sight that
met his astouished gaze beggars de-
scription. The room is fifty by ninety
feet and Is painted, frescoed and deco.
rated throughout with the gorgeous
magnificence OF an Eastern palace.
Extending scr0ss the entire room, JUST
inside the folding doors, ia - screen,
seven feet high, made of pure mabog-
ony, decorated and inlaid with varit-
gated colors In cathedral glass, and on
each panel of the screen below the
decorations is a handsome engraving
representing AN elephant.
The bar, like the screen, Is made of
pure nshogony, beautifully carved
and chased, and inlaid with beveled
mirrors. while behind the bar il an
immense mirror measuring twenty
ak feet in length by ten feet In |
width, supported by handsomely |
carved manogony frame, fourteen ieet |
4 a % Ia far |
immense mirror is carved, chased and |
decorated in the very highest style of |
the art, and the diniinutive Little bev-
and oval mirrors with |
which it il inlaid from bottom 10 top
gives IL beauty 10y gaslight that il
beyond he power of the artists pen
to picture hey ond the human tongue
to ~ liable
The lunch counter and RECEIPT able
FOR the dainIies to be served when IN,
house opens for busints s is simply
duplicate OF the beauty, splendor aud
Iofgeousness (if you allow the tx
pr.sslonl of the bar on the oppusit,
tide Of The room.
Near the center and toward the
ront OF the room, is second scret II uf
nlid French piate-plass. fourteen feet
ong aud eight feet high, aud around
ms screen II "A handsome railing sup
,orIed by mahogany posts, iDlaid and
HE'D with beveied.edged mirrors and
appel with Parisn stone.
Their stock Of silverware was
hipped direct from the Middleton
Manufacturing company, and for
eauty anu elegance cannot be sur.
,asstd on the continent.
SIX billiard tables and a number of
DOL tables are conveniently arranged
,waTd The rear of the room, and thir.
l'siX settees, of elegant finish, aflnrd-
isitors. Fifty-four gas lets light up
he rom, and when mis- light is re-
ected back by 200 feet of mirrors in
very conceivable shape, the result 10y
n exceeds the widest flight of the
ost vivid Imagination.
In their effort 10 eclipse anything of
le kind in the South, the manage
ent have succeeded beyond the NEST
.nguine eXpecl atoms of their friends,
I'd but little doubt exists in the
inds of those who have seen the
White Elephant" that it ia the finest
loon outside the city Of New York.
To day they open their house for ill.,
ection only, and extend cordial
vitation TO visitors. Ladies' are
pecially invited. No gouds will be
Id to-day, but on the contrary every
ing calculated To make their visit
easant one will be attended to, and
q writer Of this notice Is authorized
; Mr. Burgower to say that he would
pleased to See the house crowded :
rouYhOut tue Afternoon.