Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-15
TEXAS SPRING PALACE.
A Description OF 1t by General R. A.
Cameron of Denver.
To Copy After the Corn Palaee-opens at Fort
Worth June 80, Continuing
Thirty Days
Sioux civ T1bune.


The Fort Worth, Tex, Spring Palace
association has an able representative in
the person of Gen. R. A. Cameron, who
has been delegated to come to this chilly,
wind-swept country from the1and Of per-
petual sunshine to gain points from Sioux
City's Corn Palace. Gen. Cameron was
in the city this morning and it required
but a very few moments conversation TO
develop the fact that the Spring Palace is
the general IS hobby. He is an enthusiast
on the subject, and states that beyond
the possibiIity of doubt the enterprise
viii be a success from the day of its open
ing to its close.
The Palace viii copy after the one that
has contributed largely to the fame Of
this city, but instead of representing one
product win be given over to the exhibit
ton of the products of the earth, air and
water of the empire state. The building
will be 200 feet square with q sixty foot
dome in the center raising 125 feet in the
air Four large towers win rise from the
corners with eight smaller ones surround
ing the dome The dome will be covered
with heads of wheat, which ripens in
Texas in June. The sides OF the buildings
are to be decorated with cotton and
corn, which viii be ripened suffi-
GENTLY for decorative purposes.
The first tower will represent
liking Cotton - and viii be attractive
with q dress OF cotton, the flowers,
stalks, bales and its products. The next
tower viii be decorated with corn, next
with wheat, another with sorghum sugar
cane, while the last three Will be as
unique as they will be handsome. One
will be covered entirely with horns OF
beeves, the next with pelts of sheep as
ground work with the horns as decora-
tions, while the last will glitter like
bright rainbow with hundreds of varieties
of sea shells. Texas has 500 miles of sea
coast, and shells will be gathered from
all points for this decoration, while the
variegated varieties will be used in the
construction of signs.
When the general reached his descrip-
ton of the interior of the Palace his en-
thusiasm fairly carried him away and 50
contagious was this enthusiasm that the
Tribune man, deeply interested in the
subject was removed in thought from
this cold cline to sunny Texas, where he
was a spectator of the wonders of the
Spring Palace. The first floor of the Pal
ace will be given over to the exhibition
of the mineralogy of the state. Texas
has more copper than MICHIGAN, n greater
abundance of lead than Missouri, and q
larger supply of iron ore than Wisconsin,
and it is fit that these products of the
earth, with the industries they represent,
should receive such Importance. Texas
also has the precious metals, and re-
Gently two discoveries of platinum have
been made in Wise and Montague coun-
ties.
The second floor, aside from the bal
comics and Dromenades, viii be decorated
with composite pictures composed OF
fruits and vegetables representing ma
rine, domestic, agricultural and other
scenes. The towers will also be decor
ated, the first win be devoted to an exhi-
bitiOn of the birds and fishes of the state,
another to its history, still another to the
fora, where exotic plants and perennial
fruits viii be shown. The other towers
will receive proper attention, and, as
Gen. Cameron says, the Spring Palace OF
Texas is destined TO be a great success.
If the plans are carried out it certainly
will be, as if it is anything like the gen.
eral s description, people win travel hun
dreds of miles to view It. The Spring
Palace city has the congratulations of
the Corn Palace city of the world.