Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-20
DALLAS.
The Second Day Of the Fair-Weather
Made to 0rder-Large Attendance.
Street Cars Charging Ten Cents Trip to the
Fair Grounds-Ihe People Catch On.
Arrests for Theft.
Special to the Gazette.


DALLAS, TEX, Oct. 19.-The second day, and
the first Sabbath. OF the Texas state fair and
| Dallas exposition was ushered in with dazzle
| OF sunlight. and as the hours sped on not
cloud appeared. If this is the kind of "hand-
me down. weather that is in future store for
the fair there will be no necessity for special
requisition being placed with the weather clerk.
! But in former years fortune has favored the
| fair period with delightful weather that we are
! all holding our breath with the thought of
! possibility that Gods favors indiscriminate
and that nasty weather may be our lot before
November ?. Every one is well pleased with
the start on on opening day. That 1t was
great success is proclaimed by all. The crowd
OF people that assembled az the ground IN
the afternoon was unusually large and as whole
the halls were in much more presentable
! shape than yesterday. A band OF Navajo In:
dams entertained large crowd with a series OF
their native sports, to the amusement OF the
old and the great merriment of the children.
For the frs; time the great organ, buIlt ex.
benefit. Under Professor Pitcher touch strains
of sublime music came forth, filling the great
hall with their melody and holding entranced
the thousands of listening ears until the sweet
strains died away if floating of in spring
time zephyr. Round after round Of applause
the audience. Innis military band not yet
having arrived, Professor ]. Days uniformed
military band was substituted and efficiently
rendered the following programme;
l. March-State Militia Review. Koppitz
2. Tuba Solo Lizzie Polka ............ Hartman
Mr.. j. j. Pierce.
4. Waltz-Sobre Las Olas 49,. .Juventini Rosas
5. Gavotte-The Princess ....-...... Czibulka
PART SECOND.
/. March-MaieStic Harmony Richard Wagner
2. Medley Overture-Jolly Minstrels.. Brooks
g. wallz-My Queen . ............ Bucalossi
4 The First Heart Throbs .Eilenberg
g. Finale-Lightnng Express. ...... Boettger
Stewart, the great female impersonator then
came forward in female costume and entertained
the multitudes with operate music. Stewart
proved himself drawing card. as not one in
twenty recognized his sex. He has rich and
clear voice wiki high range, and it is hoped that
he will appear often.
went through the evolutious characteristic of
military tactics1 and were credit to themselves.
Their uniforms are new and attractive, and the
compar " is Il CREDIT to Dallas.
Charles Caple and Bill Br gil, young bucks
about twenty-three years old, were arrested this
morning. charged with theft of money from
woman living on the northeast corner of the
courthouse square.
The street car companies running to the fair
grounds are charging ten cents a trip. The law
allows them only five cents within the incor-
porate limits, and these limits are about 100
yards before the fair grounds reached.
Many have got on to The scheme and leave the
car at the limits and walk to the entrance, aud
returning walk over the city line to take a car
back to town.
The frequency of house breaking has led the
extra vigilance on the part of the police, and
their work has at last been rewarded Last
night bod bearU store on south ErSay street
was burglarized of sl5 in money, some candy
and other things Franz Dawson, white; Bud
Tension and Jake Lennison, co!oredi were to-
day arrested for the offense. The culprits
aged ten. eleven. and eight years, respectively,
and at police headquarters to-day owned to this
and o her burgaries. The extreme youth of the
culprits makes il hard to know exactly what TO
do, but some action must be taken in order to
insure the safety of property.
Last night Louis Witt colored youth of sew
enteen was Jailed on the charge Of sodomy the
victim being Benjamin Harris.
To-day game of ball between Dallas and
Fort Worth at Oak Cliff parS vas poorly at
tended, and on tue whole was poorly played.
Dallas got in three runs in her first turn a. the
bat, and this somewhat discouraged the opposi-
ton, who only got in two runs during the game,
while Dallas made seven. The official score is
as follows: