Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-17
rlfteen Mon.h. 10 wa.hlnEton cltr.
ny A FOREMAN.


In former letter referred briefly to
Fairmount park and Grand street. The
area Of the former Is 1850 acres. At diff
ferent places ia the park are several
lakes OF clear water, the largest of which
has been the scene OF many regatta.
Grand street Is properly so named when
IL Is stated that It is more than $50 feet
wide and fourteen miles long, Dick and
owe a great deal to the kindness and
courtesy Of NY friend Sample for taking
us every Sunday afternoon TO all the
points Of interest, numbering hundreds,
in the "Quaker City" Every afternoon
Grand street is the place where the rich
mans carriage, drawn by pair OF bays
ornamented with silver-mounted harness.
and plain barouche or basket phaeton,
may be seen by hundreds. 1t Is brill
liant display of the fashionable ladies ar
layed in silk, satin aud lace, and the
wives and daughters of those who live on
salary, dressed in plain, neat-ttting
lawns or muslins.
In riding through the Quaker portion
of the city, we observed block after block
Of two-story stone-front residences, with
solid green blinds and the front doors
opening upon the narrow streets. There
is in these streets something quaint and
old-fashioned, which is extremely inter-
estiDg, especially to visitors The mag
niileent mansions along Grand street
present vivid contrast to the narrow
streets and uniform rows OF tenements,
Here live the nnllionaires. Most OF
the houses are occupied by what the
French call "non veoux riches" There
is great contrast in the American quarter
of New Orleans and that portion known
as the French quarter. Canal street dl-
vides these two divisions OF the Crescent
city. Ispent the month of March, 1879,
| in New Orleans, and having letter OF In
PRODUCTION to Hon. Henry s. Foote, su-
perintendent of the mint, | took csr on
st. Charles street, opposite Lafayette
square, and from that point to Canal the
mules went almost In gallop, AS soon
as they were across Canal, and aoout 10
enter Royal, they seemed TO recognize
| the fact that slow walk was oil that was
necessary. Every day Dick and had the
same experience with insolent fellows on
| the street cars, and expressed our senti-
ments Of disgust in strong language, and
indeed, felt like pulling the noses Of the
| impertinent dudes. Most OF them wore
eyeglasses and sat in the most.impertur-
liable manner, pulling their cigars and
cigarettes until the ladies' were almost SUI
located.
Dick and | spent the last ten days
In Philadelphia in thorough ex-
animation OF the art department
of the exposition, which was
termed nMemorial hall This contained
only the American exhibit. 1t was neces'
sary before the opening day to build two
nannexesn for the foreign exhibit. We
were both deyotees of art, in fact In love
with the muses., occupied hours In exam
q lining specimens Of etchlngs, crayor
sketches, paintings In oil aud water
colors, statues OF bronze, stone ana mar
HE, executed by American artists. MY
mind naturally went back To the greai
paiuters and sculptors oil Greece, the
wonderful skill Of Praxiteles and Ienxlsi
Who gave life and sonl TO the inanimate
marble, which has not been equaled 10
modern times; and then TO the works OF
Michael Angelo, Raphael, kuoens aho
! Reinorandt, whose WORKS VIII i've
ne art exists, and which may be well com.
nared 10 the works OF the painters ano
seulntors OF Greece. Macaulay, In his es
| sava az Milford's History, expresses, II
! he most eloquent and impressive iah
I gnage. his views Of the literature and ar
/, "a Greece: "What shall we say when We
reeect that from hence have sprung, 81
! rectIv or Indirectly, all the noblest crea
! tions of human intellect; that from hencs
zero the vast accomplishments ant
, militant fancy Of Cicero, the whitening
ara of Juyenal, the plastic Imagination
nsnte. the humor OF Ceryantes, the com
nrehension Of Bacon, the wit OF Bnler
. The supreme and universal excelieLcs 2