Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-10
TEXAS SPRING PALACE.
That is the Corporate Name Of this
Texas Institution.
The First Board OF Directors Elected at the
Meeting Last Night-The
Proceedings.

mat was meeting OF representative
Fort Worth men at Huffman 5 hall last
night. The $50 gentlemen present were
stockholders in the Texas Spring Palace,
and they came together to organize the
company as the first step necessary after
the important preliminary of raising one
third the capital stock had been accom-
plished. President sommervllle called
the meeting to order aud briefly
stated its objects Col. Wynne said
before anything was done if ther5
were others who desired to take stock
an opportunity would now be offered.
Several gentlemen came forward and
subscribed.
The following resolution was then IN
troduced:
Resolved, that the subscribers to the
fund for the erection of Spring Palace
do now proceed TO organize a corporation
to be called the Texas Spring Palace
company and that Peter Smith, W. r.
SommervilIe, 3. B Paddock, r. NJ.
Wynne, Wallace Hendricks, A. w.
Caswell, w. a. Huffman, j
NJ. Robbins, W. l.. Malone,
Martin Casey, E. NJ Turner, E. b. Har-
rold, Robert Mozart, L. j. Hurley, w.
w. Dunn, Max Elser and James w.
Swayne be chosen as the board of di-
rectors to be named in the charter of
said corporation, 20 serve one year.
After some discussion the resolution
WAS adopted by the vote of every stock
holder present.
Capt Paddock moved that the board
III 1.a; he
holders to appoint a committee of three
with Capt. W. G Veal as chairman, to
communicate with the proper authorities
Of the state Farmers alliance to secure
their co operation IN this effort TO place
the agricultural wealth of Texas properly
before the world The motion was
adopted.
A motion offered by W. L. Malone that
the thanks Of the stockholders be given
the ladies OF Fort Worth for their
successful efforts in behalf Of
the Spring Palace and that all the ladies
of Fort Worth are requested TO organize
permanently for the work to be done and
only to be accomplished by them, was
unanimously adopted.
Chairman SOmmerville read a letter
from j J Kane, architect, offering to
furnish plans for the Palace free of
charge. The reading was received with
applause.
At the close OF the meeting the presi-
dent received the following letter:
FORT WORTH, TEX, Feb. 9, '1SS9.
W. F. Sommerville, ESQ.,, President Spring
Palace.
DEAR STR-In addition to our subscrip-
ton of 500 we will donate design for
the Spring Palace, and do all in our
power to please yourself and the commit
tee having same in charge. Very respect
fully, ARMSTRONG & MEssER.
Architects.
Col Wynne, for the firm of Ball,
Wynne & Mozart, offered to draft the
charter free of charge. Applause.
On motion the directors were instructed
to meet at 4 o clock Monday afternoon
at the law offices Of Ball, Wynne s. Nc
Cart to adopt charter and at once send
same to Austin. The meeting then adj
journed.
1t will be in place now to repeat what
THE GAZETTE has said about the Texas
Spring Palace:
OF all the schemes ever devised to ad- |
vertise this state the Texas Spring Palace |
is at once the most comprehensive, unique |
and efficient. This scheme viii bring men
to Texas through the cooperation of the |
in making Il special eXcur-
sion rate to the state next June. And |
the need of the state is for the world |
to know Texas as it is-for people to see |
for themselves the boundless possibilities |
Of q state which in itself is an empire, an |
empire in area productions and Capable
ties. Texas has been advertised through |
pamphlets, immigration
agents and otherwise, and some benefit |
been largely neutralized by misrepresen-
-ation, by lack of persistent, organized
endeavor on the part of the state itself, |
md perhaps, by the utterances of some
Texans themselves.
Texas has grown in population
and made progress, but not to that
extent which was possible; Texas
will continue to grow and to pro-
sress, but not to that extent which
5 possible through intelligent and ener-
retic effort, and 10 effort viii bring TO
Texas that development and progress
which is possible that is not directed to
Ways and means for slnducing people to
come and see for them
elves. This is the purpose
# the Texas Spring Palace
This Palace will be in all its parts an
exhibit of the productions of Texas, min
raj, agricultural, etc. Nothing about
he Palace or within it viii be used unless
t be Texas product; towers of lumber,
oal, clay, cotton, sugar, wheat, corn,
'ats, sorghum, millet, vegetables and
ruits, and pillars of iron, granite and
building stone-all of and from and for
'eXas-wiIl tell TO every enc who sees the
marvellous tale of this grand empire IS
Inevitable future. The brain of Texas
rchiteet will conceive, the cunning of
'exas artisans viii execute and the fair
and of Texas woman win embellish all.
his exhibit will be Texas Spring
Palace.
And the cooperation of railroads in
nd out of Texas will make a special ex-
ursion rate to the state in June that will
tract men of brain and men of Drawn,
len of money and men of enterprise, to
ee this land about which some whisper of
God or evil report may have reached
hem. And when they come they will
ee for themselves the truth and Judge
or themselves of all that is being told TO !
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