San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-31
BExAR COUNTY.

ace Exhibit.
The Fort Worth Gazette has a very
fine description of the opening of the
Spring Palace, devoting pages of its
space to the same. The Bexar county
exhibit came in for the following:
"The historic and illustrious county
of Bexar, with its still more noted
Alamo City, which has three exhibits
at the Spring Palace, besides a gener-
Gus contribution of plants, cereals
and grains, classified and placed in
the various departments to which
they belong. AS the stranger enters
the main entrance of the Spring Pal
ace at the north front, if he will cast
his eye up through the capacious ro-
northern wall, occupying a space
of twenty-eight feet high and
eighteen wide, the main San Antonio
exhibit. From almost any point of
view in the building can be seen in
the center of this space on the wall a
drawing of the Exposition building of
the San Antonio International fair
which occurs next November. This
drawing is seven feet high and thir-
teen feet long, is in perspective and is
made of thirteen different woods
found in BeXar county. The work is
in varied cOlors and is highly polish
ed. Underneath are the words "Ex-
position Building, San Antonio, Tex
as" in gold letters. In the corner are
the words "Made of Thirteen Native
Woods of BeXar County" Over the
picture are the words "Mexico and
America, International Fair, Novem-
Der 9Th to 10Th, 1889, San Antonio,
Texas.n The letters of these words
are made of agarita. The following
are the native woods of Bexar county
of which this picture is made: Maple,
ash, oak, two varieties of gum,
cedar, walnut, hack berry, Usage.
orange, holly, pine, elder and mes
quite. The entire picture is tastefully
and appropriately draped with the
flags of Mexico, the United States
and Texas, and is surmounted by a
pair of OK horns five and half feet
long polished in San Antonio. The
upper portion of the space on the wall
above the picture of the international
exposition building is decorated with
thescereals of the county, grapevines,
agarita and cactus, in the center of
which are the words in moss, "Bexar
county, On the floor around this
wall space is quite variety of pro-
ducts and resources peculiar to San
Antonio and to BeXar county, includ-
ing handsome collection of AngOra
goat skins and skins of various other
animals, also a fine collection of ma
two onI naralc onI
mems of wood beautifully carved by
ladies' in the State art school of San
Antonio. This exhibit is inclosed by a
railing consisting of rope of moss
connecting posts of laurel with the
space between covered with Mex can
and American flags; altogether this
exhibit is as it is designed to be, truly
representative of the peculiar products
of the Alamo city and BeXar county.
On the first floor in the western pOr-
ton of the Spring Palace apd which
can be plainly seen from any point of
the rotunda above is a fac smile min
iaturc of the wOrld-renOwned Alamo.
This miniature is a dead image of the
great and sombre original in San An
tonic. 1t is made of the native cement
of the Alamo city, and in color liter
ally represents the Alamo as it now
appears, so that if any of the thousands
of strangers who visit the Spring Pal
ace have not the time to visit San
Antonio and see the original they can
get accurate conception of it by view
this miniature, which is seven feet
long and five feet wide, and rests
upon a table, the surrounding surface
of which looks like the earth around
the Alamo, the base Ofthe table be-
ing encircled by the flags fall nations,
making the entire pile look like the
grand old mausoleum of liberty which
it was. A bOve this miniature Alamo
are the historic and the thrilling
words, Remember the Alamo, y
and through the bars over the
entrance every admirer of daunt
less courage and patriotism will
have an opportunity to drop his
his contribution towards. the erection
of the grandest monument in the
South, to be built IN San Antonio in q
few years to commemorate that Mecca
of valor in Texas history, of which it
has been said; "ThermopylR had it's
messenger of defeat; the Alamo had
none"
Another exhibit which Bexar coun-
ty has at the Spring Palace is on the
exterior Of the west end of the build
ing, where there appears in large let
tiers of corn, so large that stranger
can see it a block off, the words:
''Bexar County, the Key to South
west Texas This constitutes one OF
the handsomest and most attractive
designs on the exterior of the build
inu