Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-27
THE WORLDS EXPOSITION.
Circular Letter From Commissioner
Elliott to the Public.
DALLAS, TEXAS, May 20, lSS-

DALLAS, lEAaS, May ~, toot'
DEAR SIR-I would respectfully i'll
vite your attention to the acconpa-
nying documents referring to the |
Worlds Industrial expt sition, to be
opened in New Orleans next De-
cember. Any additional information
/ may become possessed of will be
promptly furnished to 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 in-
| terests of your district, and all its
counties in the matter OF procuring
and having in readiness for transport
| ing to \ Jew Orleans, this summer and
in the fall, all such products or evil
dence of resources whereby full indus
trial, fine art and other particulars of
your section of the state may be
placed before the world, at truly the
greatest fair the world will have ever
seen mot excepting the Philadelphia
Centennial.
The organization of ladies' societies
is also especially requested, that the
handiwork, the skill. the industry
and the talents of Texan women may
be thoroughly evidenced to all.
With our products, our resources,
f our facilities, and other possessions,
whether in the departments of agri.
culture, manufactures, mining, live
stock, transportation, education, fine
arts, woman's specialties, etc, all man
ner of ingenious 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 De stored away fol
after years more wildly in the
. memory.
Quaint household furniture, car
riages, wagons, etc., ETC., can bt
:, fashioned from our infinite varieties
o of woods; handsome pyramids, shafts
and receptacles can be made of our ores
marbles and stones, lime, cement ant
brick novel exhibits can be furnished
u by our manufactures beautiful
II wreathings for stars, crosses, bells
sr baskets, etc, can be supplied by our ma
10 tive cereals, grasses, cotton, tobacco, Ell
$ gar stalks, leavesaud q aims, and by gu
pressed flowers, and our fruits and on
vegetables. So, likewise, can cage
and cases of our birds, insects, reptiles
hi fishes, etc natural and stuffed, be In
terestingly constructed and displaye
u. IN artificial hooks, caves, etc, refrigt
rated meats, preserved aud desiccatet
e. specimens of all farm product coul
be admirably displayed; handsome
ut wares and terra colt,s, nodded from
our clays, might be wonderful
wrought.
So, also, with all sorts of needl,
y work, embroideries, paintings. wa,
feather, and other graphic or plast
on. designs, and the fine arts general,
ow Ornately arranged piles of educationi
re. books and equipment might be pr
All sented with equal taste. So, ais,
with Texas scenery, rural and urbal
yn and our stately structures, public an
w private.
Indeed. the Held Is limitless al
!, fancy must suggest, and industry an
pe tact fashion int vivid presentation
va the counterfeit duplicates aud mini
ture models of Texan actualities al
b possibilities. Thus we will be able |
ia show to any section Of the world, tn
~ the Texas of to-day Is its peer.
Nh Your hearty and continuous coop
ration In securing all this aud mo
for Texas credit Is most earnestly 3
W. liclted through organization IA abo
~. indicated. Very respectfully,
JOHN Il. ELLIOTT,
Commissloner-in-C Chief.