Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-21

which had neither culture. tasts. refinement or
love Of the beautiful.
81 was detained at one point waiting for a
party some three days, and in that time becams
E2tished that we must ind scme way to induce
the best cultured people Of the North and East to
crop down upon as, when We could put our
best foot forward, and At s ssasen OF the year
when tho country showed to the best advantage.
''Te do this no ordinary method would sufnce
Something new, something unique, out OF the
Eterotyped order of things must be produced, .
thing which could combine the grand with the
beautiful, which would please the eye and IN
Etruct the judgment at the same time.
1.-THE corr palace Of Sioux City, the ice pail
ace of St. Paul were in my memory. 1t was easy
then in mental vision TO conceive grand orient
al temple with = central mosaic dome. To evolve
the idea of classified exhibit Of the iron. lead,
copper and and other ores OF Texas,
s4s 1 The the lower door G III the eo.
the pictures Of woods, caves waterfalls, farms,
rooms, houses and buildings, to be made ex-
clusiyely ont of grains, MOSES, grasses and
products Of the state of Texas, for the upper
"The many decorations which could be put on
form, rose in my mind, and the thing seemed
complete IL q city in Texas could be found to
adopt it and put it through. =, ...-.,
"After IL was all conceived 1t appeared
to me too novel, too complex, and
too far from the ordinary state fair methods for
me to ever make any community embrace the
idea But determined before hurried is out
of sight and plodded along in the usual way,
that I would present the scheme to my friend,
Gen, C., z, Meek, now general manager oil the
Union Pacific and Gulf Railroad. It took three
hours TO tell the story and answer more than q
hundred questions. At the end Of that time my
friend said Cameron, that is grand advertising
scheme;, worth untold millions to Texas.
60 to Fort Worth, see Malone and THR GAZxTTB
people, and if they viii Stay with YOU. then let
1t wide open. Stay by the thing until success
is assured.
Al followed the suggestions made. The re-
suits are matter of history"
General asked the reporter, fhas the
Spring Palace met your eLpectatlOnE5''
''As an advertisement, yes. When we were in
Washington last year on visit with the COM
mittee from the Spring Palace, the New York
Hersld had three solid columns about Texas,
lauding her great enterprise, complimenting the
asthetic taste, culture and genius as seen in the
Spring Palace. The Chicago Tribune had two
columns, the st. Louis Globe and Republic two
columns each, and the Boston Herald column
and hall, ali in one day, speaking nothing but
in praise OF the mineral and agricultural re-
sources of Texas as brought to light in the
"It 10 claimed that the excitement brought
about over q deep water harbor for Texas has
SO much attracted the attention OF the people Of
the United States as to have, so far, been worth
TO Texas an amour. equal to twenty five per
cent. advance on the old values. l have no
doubt about this, and know equally well that
the Spring Palace has done for Texas even more
than shat
''Do you think the Palace should be continued
from yeG- to year?''
: Most certainly. It is one OF those things
wliEeh we cannot part with right away. It can
nosBe made Z paying fnstitution. Next year
there are some new features which can be intro
duced which will surprise and delight visitors.
More money must be spent in novel decora-
lions the outside. and more women must
take up the work on the upper Karporama floor.
IF the cities and counties Of the state are
Jealous OF Fort Worth. why, then, let US move
1t o Chicago at once, and have 1t on neutral
ground While 1t does run in Texas it should
be run for Texas, and the men and women of
Texas should have hand in working it to
Popplarize IT.. Putting 1t in the hands of
cess'' Will curtail its powers to do good as the
great advertising scheme for Texas.
at costs money. So do our churches and
schools. Who would give them up2 Earth
would lapse into barbarism without them We
want money; we want manufactorieT and Texas
will be compelled to keep her resources before
the world as long as the wants exist. The Sioux
City Corn Palace has done its work we'll. and -,
found to be for Iowa q necessity. ThAssR
Palace Of Texas is the only thing of tlla44fli6 M
the world. That is IT, great feature. We need
it yet little longer