Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-25
e,,,esu City VIII Make a DO"a-
\ sut WIN Not Buy the
Exposition Plant
!, The Interstate inspec'
wv visiting Oregon, Col
crudo and Maine'
co,a--lce aud Frozen Ali
q ~ railroads and ESour,
SION Rates


4 .o,denoe OF the Gazette.
Cores IA. Jan. 22.--The ex-
lf ~ hsd A bad week of it, Tor the
n pa n ,srned off into rain and the
ealllei N consequence, has been
4ange, ,be fact that the railroads
aesp nr,irg ali their influence to get
end md have brought South many
n us s.,i an narties. There were two
fScelsi9s rnm Chicago and big Call
al laorsion. that included persons
eAvu wv, ar more states, bound TO
\ H y sgno took in the New Orleans
n l'is .i o W their way there. Another
.s U circumstance was the re-
i N.Y. Council to make the appro-
4 Wy ,se terms the exposition man
y ~ ia osked. The council refuses
s naN tho plant outright as was
n u INIT Is willing to make a liberal
. which will answer the same
"A IA sneIl had quite an influence on
sas,tion, Lake Como, the large
4 p 1.'a,sr in the center of the park,
IN. w1 frozen over for the first time
Z s,s,oTv of New Orleans, and the
& q states In the New England eX-
&,Sich everybody had laughed ut as
. r'so one for Southern EXPOSE
a,e actually brought into use. a
sSlc incident of the cold was the
Z Z, ssG upon the alligators in the
40 Svhlhit. In the center of this
i n large circular fountain and
,m in which are a number,
ma small. These had never
seen lee or heard of it, and, when
"a came. were wild with terror
.Neriug. They backed and crawled
Erieked with pain, and 1t looked as
81 would freeze to death. 1t was
necessary TO take them out of their
|[d wrap them up in moss warmed
4 water and generally thaw them
IVA ugly animals seemed perfectly
" n nv the cold and allowed the wo-
+ n children to stroke their hideous
without a word of objection,
In the cold spell hot drinks OF all
!. .yere in big demand. In order to
too great a recourse to hot whisky
Anal 9 tom and Jerry" the National
M Temperance union established
"a throughout the building where
.speused beef tea, coffee, etc. All
a stes united in their contributions to
|3Slorado sent tons of beef, Oregon
s, Illinois honey, Iowa butter,
lima syrup, Vermont doughnuts,
I'm other states their chief products,
81 Isl that was purely national in its
|'Iter and including the best of every
y 10 be found in this country.
system of interstate inspections
y commissioners has continued from
day, and nearly half the exhibits
M government building have beer
Inspected and passed on. Among
H Inspected during the past week
|een Maine, Oregon and Colorado
Missioner Ham Of Maine took two
Il through his numerous and credit
Exhibits, explaining as he went each
# sal product as well as the manufac
|bnd other articles. II took an hou
M so, and then each of the visitor
s fresented with a copy of
on Maine, fully describing
its industries, manufacture
products. Mr.. j. Newcom'
bed the Colorado display. HI
Vn the value of the silver mines 0
r. lie, and showed how the mountail
Neld the snow in a reservoir TO
ri bon, demonstrating how this sys
Rabled Colorado to produce splan
\ pin, grasses, fruits and vegetables
miners cabin, in the Colorado eX
PHI. Newcomb pointed out speci
iiom 250 mines in the state, in
4 gold, iron, silver, copper an
res and anthracite and bituminou
S From the Colorado exhibit tn
passed to the display immt
next. 1t is made by the Denve
W Grande and the Chicago, Bul
and Quincy railroads. The diI
n The state OF Oregon was explaine
cturd on by Commissioner Il. v
who is also vice.president
atd OF management. There wei
sixty varieties of grasses, natiN
state, Including the celebrate
grass seed, said to be IL
the world. There were ais
lofty varieties of wheat, averagin
bushels to the acre; corn ninetee
# sa; oats nine feet, and averagir
3-Ave bushels to the acre: eightee
es Of oats, six of rye and four
Inc fruit display of Oregon
Aanle, when the fact of its gre
4 ce from New Orleans is considere,
"s irnlt OF almost every kind pr
W 10 the temperate zone-apple
peaches, cherries, apricots, plum
M and the smaller fruits, al
~ ana cheSnuls. The timber di
OMAlns specimens of fir, spruc
mere are also large mineral e
III, a'il display representative of Il
SCHOOLS In Oregon. These int
= ~ y pections will continue from d
Until every state and territory h
soFoughly Inspected.
4, b Hubbard, commissioner
,'ure, announces that arrangement
ven completed for making t
W me fruit displays of the sever
me Jury of awards will begin {
-sNVh at once, and distribute III
y ine several states and territ
-asag me best displays of fruits,
:" STATE as well as canned a
missioner Chas. S. Hin has ma
-ipuitant additions to his consul
\, especially from Africa and Sou
- accompanying these exhib
49, ~ from the several consuls a
Il agents, pointing out the {
" American commercial 81
N wv WI snowlng how the people of Ii
MIA 'Au increase and extend thu
S,s aaye also been valuable addItio
~ d,sY Of Colombia, Guatem,
4 ~ S'ner Central American stat,
n ~ past two days fourteen G.