Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-26

of Thee 1t is the national English air; ais
| Italian, also Swiss and also German, and
| doubt not hut they sing it in China and the FIJI
(, Islands. But that song raised by
| SIX THOUSAND VOICES
was something inconceivably grand and solemn
It was but as one voice. and that voice 1 cal
| compare to nothing but 1.-THE sound of man
| waters flowing into tie melody OF q hymn
Such song as that stirs hottest patriotism TO il.
depths. We did not need the daily papers t.
tell US the won ierfnl effect of the singing, ant
| how those forty or fifty thousand people wer
still as nj CHI during the rendering. Why thu
sound of that one grand, blended voice, 81
| mighty and full, yet SO subdued by the open ali
rings in our ears yet.
On Sunday, those who had won prizes in theil
| divisions contested together for the granc
| prizes, and there was final concert in th'
afternoon. In the evening-oh shade OF Johr
Caiv in-behold the city which YOU ruled with
moral rod of iron! We had Fete Venetienne
on the lake, and all the city was
BLAZING WITH ELECTRICITY
and lanterns, and all the ten thousand musicians
| and their friends had a sudden reaction from
harmony. and the streets were wild with
hideous noises. The bands invested in horns oil
pasteboard which produce sounds like buzzsaw
and the choral unions wandered arm
in-arm through the middle of the way, each in-
dividual member singing diff arent song. | do
not mean to infer that it was riotous. but only a
trife noisy on the streets, especially tor Sun
day evening in blue Presbyterian city. But it
was so pretty! The decorations are attractive
enough in the daytime, hut at night, the bright
blazes of light, the dark corners dimly glowing
with Chinese lanterns add an element of mystic
draperies. The bright colors are softenad in the
gas light. and we look up to see the stars shin
ing down serenely between shadowy evergreens
and floating pillows Of colored bunting. Coming
out onto the quay
WE WERE ALMOST DAzzLED
BY the display of light. The piers and arches OF
the long Rhone bridge were outlined with doub lie
rows of gas jets. and looked like flame of
light stretched over tie dark food. The
whole L,, harboE was banked with lights,
of ships at anchor looked like fairy ships. for
their prows were outlined in colored lights, and
their riggings hung full Of lanterns. We went
out OF the dense crowd on to steamer, where
we had view of the whole vision-lke scene,
and we wondered if even Venice could rival it,
where on this little end OF the lake: some car
ried large anchors, crosses, Tyres. etc., made of
lanterns, which seemed to be floating alone over
the dark water as the boats that bore them were
invisible, One ship snail never forget. 1t is
the one that
SAILS ON TIE RIVER OF SLEEP,
bringing dreams of fairyland to the children.
Now do not know or care how it was made,
Of pale, soft. light emitting green,
emitting mysterious light within; ABOVE this.
like a cargo of radiant dreams. showed a heap
of luminous balls, red. and green, and yellow,
From the mast hung the rigging, like ropes of
coiored mo ,nshine; there was no sail or percep-
tible power OF locomotion. The magic creation
hoated as lightly as II 1t had just sailed down
from the ring of the moon, and was moved along
by power as mysterious as the radiance that
illumiued it.
We had no more than time to become familiar
with all this when the fireworks began. do
not know that they were any different from or
binary fireworks. but thare, in the
sTRANGs, VIVID BEAUTY
OF those surroundings the fireworks seemed
natural part OF the whole unnatural scene Thew
shot off from boats, cannon being fred
simultaneously: the noise excited the
ear Just as the sudden light
of the rockets etc.. excited the eye SO that the
effect was strikingly harmonious. The sudden
illumination of the whole bay with red light
seemed the climax of the fee. We had not
known before that this end of the
lake could be entirely shut off by
breakwaters till the red light on the barriers
blazed in 3 line across the water and turned the
whole bay into sea of cleaning rose.
1t is all over now. The air is full of retreating
music. Aissi we cannot always live with li6
bands but our ideas of the celestial city are en-
larged. Soon the flags will come down and we
will be off in the diligence for Chamonix
In thinking over the fete am reminded to saw
something the orderliness of the streets dur
ing these three days when 20, 600 visitors mostly
men, were in the city. We have not seen a case
of drunkenness. In fact, we have not seen a
really drunken man on the continent Reople
are continually drinking wine at these zes on
the sidewalks, but there seems to be- 5excess
In any of these wine countries
JESSIE CoRIsSE Cha Rim
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