Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-22
cortege, and at the Pickwick halt was
made and a hurried supper was dis
patched.

| made and hurried supper was dis
| patched.
Then to Greenwall 3 opera house.
The Fort Worth chamber of commerce
| had secured in advance hun
| dred seats, the reserved por-
| tion beng the middle section
| of the parquet; and every one of the hun
| dred seats was filed by either visitor or
an accompanying member of the cham
| Der of commerce.
1t was fortunate occasion. The OPP
| era house was filed TO standing room
only with the elite of the city. Pretty
women and beautiful costumes
| ahounded. The visitors were given
| fair idea of the Development of Fort
! Worth in local way.
| And the opera was good. The voices
! may have been somewhat weak in spots,
| but the staging of the opera was good, so
were the groupings and the dancing.
| On the whole the evenings ADJUSTMENTS
| SO far were good, and the effect upon
| the strangers must have been pleasing.
At the close of the opera tine visitors
| and their entertainers marched in a body
to the hotel Pickwick. Mine host Hui-
gins had been spreading himself while
| the opera house held the strangers,
and when, at IL O'Clock, they
| filed into the dining room, with
the accompanying Fort Worth people
! making about 100 guests, the vision vas
a pleasing one.
The banquet was q light one. There
had been but short time for prepar-
alton, 80 nothing elaborate WAS at
tempted; but the result was more than
satisfactory. The caterer had shown
fiue taste in its arrangement.
The company WAS select. The intelli-
gence Of Kansas City was represented
there; and the Fort Worth gentlemen
were urged to their best eudeagors.
When the appetites of the guests had
been in @ measure appeased, speaking
was in order.
Mayor Peter Smith welcomed the
strangers to Fort Worth. Col. Smith is
Il man of thought rather than eloquence,
| ind the sentiments he utte-s are
felt by his hearers to lie from
the heart. With few words but
cordial tones ne extended the
hospitality of the city, assuring the vIsi-
tors of the pleasure the citizens feel in
entertaining such distinguished people.
He was responded to by Col. Payne,
president of The Kansas City gas works,
who expressed briefly the thanks
they had received, and assuring
the entertainers that the visitors were
not unmindful of the same. He SAID the
Kansas city people were disposed to be
friendly toward Texas. and desired N re
intimate social and business relations.
1t was with this in view that the present
trip had been undertaken.
Other speeches were made by Col.
Stowe and President Pattisou of the Kan
cas- City commercial club, and by Col.
Thomas j. Hurley of Fort Worth, vice.
prpsident of the chamber of bommerce.
The latter, IN happy strain, al
luded to the progress which
Fort Worth had already made
in the way OF development, and spoke
prophetically of her future possibilities.
The banquet was in every respect a
great success, no little share of thanks
for which is due Maj. Hudgins of tn e
Pickwick for the wines and more solid
refreshments.
The party retired for the night. They
stay in their special cars at the Union
depot, and thther they were dispatched
in carriages after cordial Misunderstanding
with their entertainers.
The roster of the visitors ls not COM
plete without the names of the newspa-
business men. The leading papers of Kan
sas City are we'll represented by Messrs.
Richard Meegher of the Journal, r. w.
Parry of the Times, G. H. Haskell OF
the Globe and w. W. Damon of the
Star. They are wide-awake, clever
quartet, and they are not overlooking
any bets as they go along. OF course
they are cHptIvated with Fort Worth and
everything in it. They want TO remain
here and they ought to do il.
The party will remain here until
o'clock to-day.
Al 9 CLOCK this morning the COM
mlttee of the chamber of commerce will
be st the special train of the visi-
tors with carriages galore, ready
to take them over the city. The
sightseeing will be extensive and
will include as many points of interest as
can be visited in the time at their dis
posal. At the Union stock yards the
party will be we'll entertained.
The rooms and accommodations Of the
commercial club are at the disposal of
the visitors while they are in the city.
Also the natatorium is open TO them Mt
all times, and they may test the efficacy
of q pure artesian water bath.
The strangers o from Fort Worth TO
Cleburne, and last evening the
following leading men of that
city arrived in Fort Worth 10
escort the party thither, viz: Judge w.
PolnGpxter, A. e. Scurlock, W. c. Nc
FarlaDd and Sheriff j Il. Boyd. They
are tine party, and the Kansas City
people will be in good hands with them.
THE LAST DAY.