The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-23
TEXAS STATE FAIR.
,It Opens Monday-Some OF the Things
Visitors Will See.

tnc Iafiilcrs uau lnclr DlcHlc tHcTc. II,
was astounded at the view which pre-
sented itself. The grounds are roomy
and ample, and are also marvel OF
beauty in their arrangements and inn
provemcnts. There are 1l2 acres OF
land enclosed and as level as floor. II
is the highest.point anywhere around
our city, the level of the grounds be-
ing above the top Of the stand pipe at
the Turtle creek water works, the top
of said stant, nipe being 1856 feet higher
than the level OF HARDWOOD street
On entering the grounds at the south,
through wide and ornate gateway,
you are first attracted by
HORTICULTURAL HALL.
This building is one story high and
50xS0 feet in dimensions. 1t is splen-
didly lighted, and all through it are
stands and shelving for flowers and
shrubs, with proper arrangements for
orchids and other trailers and creep
ers, and for fruits. When all the arti-
cles intended and on hand for this hall
are in place it will be bower of love-
illness, seeming grotto in some en-
chanted land, where the nymphs of the
woods love to dwell amid the buds and
blooms about them, and where some
times even the naiads stray and
the fairies hold revels in the
buttercups, and the deep, rich red
hearts of the roses. In front Of the
hall seven acres of land have been set
apart for outdoor plants and flowers.
This ground has been artistically laid
off in squares, triangles, crescents,
stars, circles and innumerable other
tasteful geometrical figures, and has
already quite number of arbor Wit
ras, young cedars and other choice and
rare shrubbery growing, and by Mon
day it will look very handsome and
pretty.
Proceeding on around the circle we
next came to
THE MACHINERY HALL.
There are twelve individual machin-
cry exhibit buildings on the ground
devoted to this department of the
fair OF these five are 60 by 100 feet,
and seven 40 by 60 feet. These build
ings are all pretty, neatly constructed,
and some of them unique in the con-
ception of their design. They will all
be filled With machinery of every
kind. In the midst of these buildings
stands the machinery hall of the fair
company. 1t is strong, heavy build
ing, one story and half high, so by
200 feet in dimensions, in which is
strong shafting and pulleys, by means
of which steam power will move i'm
mense deal of the machinery in place
within its walls, that visitors may see
and understand the use and design
and manner of workings of the exhib-
its. On the outside, between the ma
chinery buildings and the eastern line
of the fence, there is large open
space so by 1900 feet, on which
will be exhibited heavy machin-
cry, such as large stationary boil
ers and engines, traction engines and
various and numerous other kinds of
heavy machinery. PROFESSIONALLY the
display of labor saving machinery and
agricultural implements of every char
acter and kind, showing the wonder
Iul inventive genius of man and the
skill and art of his handiwork.
Passing on through the machinery
exhibits nearest on the line of the cir
lie we strike next the
POULTRY PARKS.
Here the housewife can stand and
yaze and admire for hours and hours ]
md still not be content. Every known I
yariety of chicken, ginea fowl, turkey, .
luck, goosei pea fowl and pigeons,
rom Greenlands icy mountains 9
o Afric sunny fountains, will 9
here be seen and heard {
Growing, screeching, quack- '
ng, gobbling, honking, squawking and s
ooing. These poultry pens are very '
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