Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
THE SPRING PALACE.
The Idea Conveyed by the Karporama
the Texas Product Picture.
All the state Invited to be Present In Thii
Grand Representation Of the Re-
sources Of the Lone Star.

called segregating tendency-a collect
ing together of people for the purposes OF
enjoyment, gratitude, and an exchange
of thought and action.
We find the Jews instituting the pass
over as a mark of gratitude, mingled
with Joy, upon their deliverance from
the bondage Of Egypt, when the destroy
ing angel "passed over'' their houses,
sparing the jewish first born.
OF the numerous gatherings of the
Greeks the olympia were the most i'm
portant - chief of all their national
games. A detailed description of these
would be out of place here; they were
mainly athletic - trials of physical
strength, or mere animal proves.
We find the same sports, games and
gatherings among the Romans. OF
these the saturnalia were most impor-
tant, and the most remarkable feature
during the continuance of the period was
the enjoyment of certain untrammeled
freedom. The slave for the time was
upon equal footing with his master.
The characteristic feature of all these,
really trial of physical force. And
through the middle ages the same GUS
toms, varying in details, but essential in
purpose, are found.
Within the recollection of many of our
own people we come to the worlds fairs
and international exhibitions. New
York of these may be said TO be the
pioneer CS52) with her famous Crystal
Palace; visitors 600 900 (then a very
large number). Paris follows (l855)
with 1 ,533 ,469 visitors; London (lS62)
with 8 ,2ll 900; and Paris again (lS67)
with $500, 900 visitors; Vienna (lS73)
with I ,254 1867; Qn visitors Vienna falls
short of Psris) in QS76) our centennial
of independence, Philadelphia, the sec
! ond Of such great gatherings for Amer
lea, enrolls larger number than the
continent of Europe at any of her pre-
! vious exhibitions, having 10 200, 200 vis-
Itors. France (lS7S) breaks even this
record, and claims the presence of l6,
600 ZOO people; and again lsst year q
similar international exhibition was held
in Paris. 1t is with no little pride that
mention the fact that to this the public
schools of your city sent their contribu-
ton, and which was favorably men,
toned.
Upon smaller scale, but in spirit with
these international exhibitions, we have
state fairs, state drills, ice palaces, corn
palaces, and finally, at least to US the
latest and the greatest Of all, in ooncep-
ton and kind, in scope and intent, we
have
THE SPRING PALACE.
As 1 have said, the idea prominently
set before the Greeks and Romans was 8
cultivation of the manly sports-athletic
games-the tests of mere physical
strength
The idea intended to be set forth IN the
Worlds fairs, upon this or foreign
continent, is test of the handicr&ft of
man, aided or unaided by maohinetJ-
his own device.
The ice palace of st. Paul il to show
simply one natural production. 1t s.
true this structure is beautiful, is grand,
isgorgeous, but 1t "melteth away be-
fore the god of day. -
The corn palace of Sioux City is mon-
ument out of, and intended to magnify o
single agricultural product.
Our Dallas state fair is to collect to-
gether the handicratt, the machinery,
the fat cattle and the fast horsest to test
more the speed of the latter than the
exceilencies of. the grains, the adapts-
bilIty of the machinery to the demands
of labor saving, or even the superiority
of one breed of cattle over another.
These fairs, too, whether in or cut
of Texas, come in the autumn-the fall
of tue year, when nature Is in
''The scar. the yellow leaf
Our Palace, born of youthful city,
inspired with, as il is, the anticipations,
the hopes OF youth, the very deoora-
tions will be designed to carry out this
idea.
Hence our Palace viii be opened VIII en-:
1.-THE soft green grass is growing,
DER meadow and o. er dale;''
when:
1.-THE silvery founts are flowing
Upon the verdant vale;''
When.
1.-THE pale snowdrop is springing,
To greet the glowing SUM"
When:
1.-The trees are in their blossom,
The birds are in their song;''
and when:
.'The holy spirit of the spring
Is working silently
throughout natures realm; this is
when our Palace will be opened-iu
the spring time.
'fThe decorations Will be designed to
carry out this idea'' The fruits, the
flowers, the minerals, the produce of
earth are all to be set rs it were-are TO
be wrought into pictures, thus present.
ing to the visitor sample OF all the
products of Texas, aud these In quality
as well as quantity will be the best ex-
ponent of the soil products Of this mighty
empire.
The workers in brass and other metals
have name for the pictures wrought by
hammering from behind. This they call
'trepousse very appropriate, but II Is
unspeaklng. Our collections shall be of
the fresh fruits, the flowers laden with
sweet perfumes, telling of their homes,
whether from Eastern or Western Texas,
whether from the vales of the Rio Grsnde
or the mountain georges of Garlic.
For this picture scholarship has fur
nished the name
KARPoKANA.
This one, or grand whole, viii be made
up of numbsrless little Karporamss, but
the whole shall be in execution as in de-
sigma picture conveying te the mind at
once the produetion. its home, and its
peculiar characteristics.