The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-24
A TALK TO TEXANS.
"Attentlon, Company" Cries the Com
missioner. in-C Chief.
Text OF Ills neutrality-suspicious.
Worthy 10 DO Weighed.
En- Ayant for the First Place

The Texas commissioner In chief to the
New Orleans Worlds exposition has H.
sued the address ~ below TO the district
commissioner, and through them 10 the
honorary commissioners. Accompanying
respectively OF
Flrst-As TO receipt aud classiiioations Of
oil applications TOR space.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT regulations Of all con-
csssions and privileges, plans, maps, etc,
rules and regulations Ter exhibitors, etc.,
competitive prizes, etc.
agriculture, etc. Rules for the fruit ex'
hibit.
Following ia tho address to the commits
Bionert:
Texas onicc wofld's Industrial Continual and
Cotton Exposition. Dallas. Texas. May 20. 1851:
DEAR Sin: i would respectfully invite
your attention to the accompanying d0cu-
ments referring to tho Worlds Industrial
exposition, to be opened In New Orleans
next December. Any additional informa.
ton | may become possessed OF will be
promptly furnished 10 you
In The meantime | would urge that you
take immediate measures for the formation
OF county and city or town societies for the
forwarding Of the Interests Of your district,
and all its counties, IN the mstter OF procur'
ing and haying IN readiness for transporting
to New Orleans this summer aud In the
fall, all such productP, or evidences Of Ie.
sources whereby full industrial, fine art and
other particulars OF your section OF the
state, may be placed before tho world, It
truly the greatest fair tho world will have
ever seen, mot excepting the Philadelphia
Centennial
The organization of Ladies' societies is
also especially requested, that the hapdi-
work, the ,kill, the industry aud the talents
OF Texan women may be thoroughly evil
denced to oil.
With our products. our resources our
facilities. and other possessions, whether
In the departments Of agriculture, manu-
factures mining, live STOCK transportation,
education, tlne arts, woman's specialties,
etc all manner of ingenius devices can be
woven into novel and attractive shapes to
especially arrest the attention OF visitors,
to be the subject OF particular comment,
and TO be stored away for after years moro
wildly in the memory.
Quaint household furniture, carriages,
wagons, ETC., to-, can be fashioned from
our infinite varieties OF woods: handsome
pyramids, shafts and receptacles can be
made Of our ores, marbles and stones, lime,
cement and brick; novel exhibits can be
furnished by our manufactures; beautiful
wreathings tor stars, crosses, bells, baskets,
ETC., can BIO supplied by our naive cereals.
grasses. cotton, tobacco sugar stalks,
leaves and grains, and by our pressed How
ers, and our fruits aud our vegetables. DO,
likewise, can cages and cases oil our birds,
insects, reptiles fisher, etc., natural and
stuffed, be Interestingly constructed and
displayed in artificial nocke, caves, ETC.;
refrigerated meats, preserved and dessica'ed
specimens OF all farm products, could be
admirably displayed; handsome wares and
terra cottas, moulded IRON our clsys, might
be wonderfully wrought.
So, also, with all sorts OF needle-work,
embroideries, paintings, wax, feather and
other graphic or plastic desgne, and the
fine arts generally. Ornately arranged
piles OF educational books and equipment
might be presented with equal taste. SO,
also, with Texas scenery, rural and urban
and our stately structures, public and pri-
vate.
Indeed the field is limitless, and fancy
must suggest, and industry and tact fash
ion into vivid presentations, the counter.
felt duplicates aud miniature models OF
Texian actualities and possibilities. Thus
we will be able to show any section OF the
world that the Texas of to-day is its peer.
Your hearty and continuous cooperation
In securing all this and more for Texas
credit is most earnestly solicited through
organization as above indicated.
Very respectfully, JOHN Il. ELLIOTT,
Commissioner-in-C Chief.