The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-03
TEXAS ATTHs EXPOSITION

we nave not space for an elaborate and
detailed articled on "Texas at the Expo
sition," and only purpose merely allud-
Ing to the way in which our great state
looms up at the New Orleans Worlds
Fair and Centennial Cotton Exposition.
IL Is gratifying to know that nearly
every county aud all the cities aud
larger towns in the state have on exhi.
bition products, specimens of art and
mechanism, etc., etc. As a whole, our
state far excels any other state or terri
tory in the union. You will find among
the Texas EXHIBITS, specimens of every
variety OF timber in the state; of ali
kinds of stone, building and precious;
all varieties Of soil; all kinds Of miner
ais; grasses; agricultural products;
the fauna; the flora; stuffed animal, and
birds; the reptilia; chronological spec-
mems; the handiwOrk of the artisan in
every line aud department of skilled
labor; the productions vi art in all its
branches; tho offerings of far woman,
from the planest to tho most intricate,
complicated, artistical and ornamental
products other deit fingers and exquisite
taste. Naught is absent of tho pro-
ducts, natural and artificial, of our great
commonwealth, varied aud innumer
able as they are. They are arranged,
too, most attractively and in manner
to show plainest and most readily the
Woud -riul resources aud the iucdlcul-
q 10 advantages OF Texas, In the broauest
sweep and fullest sense of the words.
All our cities, Dallas, Houston,
San Antonio, Fort Worth, Aus
tin and Waco, and all the
larger towns, such as Marshall, Sher-
man, Deuison, gainesville, BRENNAN,
Denton, Paris, Bonham, Terrell, Green
vile, and numerous Others, have elec ant
and interesting displays, exhibits that
reflect credit upon them and that speak
volumes in their behalf. The display of
Galveston, the great city beside the sea,
the yearner tor deep water, is some
thing marvellous in its beauty, marvel
Gus in its scope, wonderful in its elab.
orsteness, wonderful in its appropriate
ness. When the visitor reaches the
space allotted to Galveston, his eye
gaxes not upon sculptured marble or en-
craven brass; II rests not upon pink
tinted, pearl Tipped shells, or tangled
sea weed, or corals from the peri
haunted caves of ocean; it sees
no aquarium Of saltwater fishes
or fiddler crabs; it observes
no collection of clear-cut sand
crystals neither from the bar or the
beach; it notes neither grasses nor flow
ors, nor needlewOrk, nor the cunning
masterpieces of skilled workmen, nor
the gifts OF Ceres or Pomona; il finds no
mineral, nor stone, nor tree nor MOSES,
nor lichens-it meets not even with a
disquisition upon deep water. Calves
ton has her display though. Two pri-
vste gentlemen, alone, unaided, at their
own expense and peril, have seen to IL
that Galveston should, as she does In
all things else, even IN her modesty,
stand unequallod, unrivallod by any
Texas city in her display at the great
Worlds fair. From the eternal Ice OF
Siberia, the snow-covered steppes of
Russia; from the heights Of palmatia,
from the depths OF the Carpathian
mountains: from rose empowered Per.
sia; from the sun.kissed slopes of Italy;
from the breezy groves OF Spain-irom
every land and every cline, from orient
NJ "A frnn, noctdant frnn ayary atata aud
territory OF our own country, thousands
aud multiplied thousands or visitors
will wander through the halls and cor
ridors and departments OF the mighty
exposition buildings, viewing the offer
iugs of all the world and of all this
mighty host which, for five months
will come ana go, there will not bo one
who will not stand transilxed with awe,
with admir- ton before the mighty, the
transcondont. the lofty, the grand, the
pre-emiminent display of Calves
ton, the exponent OF that great
citv's liberality, enterprise, energy,
grandeur and resources. The first OBJ
ject that attracts the attention of the
sight.seer IN the Galveston collection l.
a bust of SAM HoUsToSi the venerated
father OF Texas, whose name Is rever-
enc d by, and whose memory is dear tn
every Texian. Next comes bust oil
Tom ocnILTREE, "only this and Moth
ing more" Side by side with the bust
OF SAN HoUsroS, the great lawyer, tho