Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
TEXAS SPRING PALACE.
A Magnificent Exposition of What Texas
Has and Is:
Colossal Temple Composed of Texas Products
and Materials to Be Erected in
Fort Worth.

reSentatiYe of all lines of business, was
held at the office of p A. Huffman s.
Co. yesterday evening to set on foot
project which has for several months past
been thought of, and has now evolved
into a grand undertaking, which will
place the state of Texas before the peo-
pie of these United States in light in
which she has never been seen before.
Promptly on time the meeting was called
to order, and Capt. 7. 2. Martin made
chairman. VII. Post was made sec
rotary. On invitation, Gen. R.
A. Cameron, commissioner of immi-
grafton of the Fort Worth and Denver,
addressed the meeting. He said that all
over the west, north and east people
were talking about Texas and discussing
her advantages. The state was so great
and her wealth so diversified that very
often people were at a loss TO know how
to come to Texas and familiariZe them
selves with what the state could produce,
what its mineral wealth was and what iu-
dustries would be successful. 1t was
almost an impossibihty for a man to spare
the time and the money in acquainting
himself with the advantages of the diff
ferent sections and counties of this great
empire. Therefore it was that it
became an absolute necessity for Texas
to concentrate at one point an exposition,
in the broadest sense of the word, of
what she did and could produce, of what
her great wealth consisted and in what
channels capital could find an investment
with certain returns. 1t was strange
that nothing of this sort had been at
tempted before, but it was not too late to
do so. He had been through the north
and seen the ice palace at st. Paul and
the corn palace at Sioux City, Iowa.
Thousands of people had been attracted
to these displays. The first showed
one of the great products of Minnesota
and the second chief product of Iowa and
Nebraska. Texas would show what no
one state or combination of several states
could show, and it was now proposed to
erect at Fort Worth a magnificent struct-
ure to be called the Texas Spring palace
or Texas June palace, to be built from
foundation stone to the flag floating from
the dome of Texas materials,
the entire building to be
dressed with Texas products. 1t would
be wheat palace, corn palace, cot
ton palace, an art palace, a sorghum,
millet, rye, barley and jute palace. The
woods of Eastern and Southern Texas
would be worked into a temple of beauty,
the coal from q score of counties would
be piled up in unique style, the iron ore
and the iron products, the lead ore, the
copper, the platinum, the granite, mar
BILE, red, blue and white limestone the
many varieties of sandstone would
all be shown. In the month of
June Texas was at her best
golden grain would be waving on thous-
e IL
growing luxuriantly, peaches and other
fruit would be ripe. Potatoes and all
sorts of vegetables would be at their best.
The flowers of the state would all be in
bloom. In short, Texas could show to
the visitor from the north what could be
found here. Her food, fishes, her birds,
her animals, her cattle and horses all
could be shown. The plan e. was
to erect q building with eight towers and
a magnificent dome. The exterior Of the
building and the towers would be dressed
with sorghum, cotton, wheat, oats,
millet, corn, grasses, rye, barley, etc.
The dome to be covered with sheaYes of
golden wheat, while from the flag stats
on the towers and dome would float the
flags of the union and the Lone Star state
made from Texas material worked into
cloth on Texas looms and dyed in Texas
cOloring. Inside the building in
genuiJy and art would combine
i'll displaying Texas wealth. Here a
temple of copper, there one of iron, over
there one of salt, of gypsum, of mica.
The fruits, flowers and vegetable Here
a temple built of the beautiful shells
gathered on the gulf coast of Texas. In
aquariums the fishes found in Texas
streams and in the waters of the gulf
washing the Texas shore. Texas manu-
features displayed. The goods made at
Waco, New Braunfels and Dallas. The
IRON from Rusk, the cOrdage from Calves
ton the leather tanned in different cities in
Texas. All that Texas did make and did
have, but nothing borrowed from another
commonwealth This palace should be
open for three weeks in June, and the
railroads of the country would bring the
sight-seer and the investigator of Texas
TO the exposition at low rate. The RAIL
roads centering at Fort Worth would give
excursion rates to any part of the state,
and when the northern man had
found what he wanted to investigate far
ther he with others of like mind would be
taken to that section of the state, or that
county in which the product was found
or the industry located. 1t was to be
Texas only; it was to show that this
AT the conclugion of Gen. Cameron 8
remarks quite general discussion en-
sued, and it was decided that the plan
proposed was the proper one, and that
steps should at once be taken to put the
machinery TO work.
On motion it was decided to hold pub
lie meeting at Huffman s hall Wednes-
day night at O'Clock, to which all
citizens and their wives AMI daughters
were invited.
A committee of FIVE was appointed to
arrange the details of the meeting and re-
port at that time. The committeeman are
W. F. Somnerville, chairman, A. w. |
Caswel. w. g. Veal, w. H. Post and |
z. NJ. Burrows.
Gen. Cameron was requested to remain |
in the city and address the meeting and |
kindly consented to do so. Let every
citizen be at Huffman s hall Wednesday
night. n
THE BRITISH GRAIN TRKDE. !