Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-12
SURGING MASSES.
The Spring Palace Flooded With
Visitors all Yesterday.
Dallas Day Did Not Draw Heavily from
the Affectionate Sister City-No
Damage from Rain.
DR.. Hard's Brilliant 0ratoricat Flights-The
Elgin Bands successes-Growing in Beau
ty-An Immense Throng in the
Quiet Evening"

The Spring Palace looked as fresh
bright and beautiful yesterday morning
as if 1t had not passed through the fierce
wind and drenching rain Of the night be-
fore. Its flags and benners were
still there to greet the rising sun and be
kissed by the morning breeze. Beautiful
without, and still more beautiful within
it early became the scene of moving
throng, all bent upon enieyin ing the nge-
nuity, art, skill and taste displayed in
Its exterior and interior decorations.
Those who saw the Palace of last year
examined it with ''critio's eye' to see
whether or not it excelled or fell short
of its predecessor. All were agreed in
saying that beautiful as was last yearls
Palace, the present one Is far ahead of
it. The Palace of last year was an edu-
cational one. 1t was first effor grand
and beautiful beyond description, but
the prentice hands that wrought it have
given to the present one a master S
touch and made it, as indeed it is,
source of pleasure, delight, surprise
and establishment to every beholder.
Rich as is our noble language, it is too
poor to do justice to this ''thing of beauty
and joy forever. Ali the glowing pic
lures that wait on poetic feeling and the
most vivid Imagination assume a COM
monplace hue beside the reality that each
visitor can both see aud enjoy, as he
makes the rounds of this more than fairy
Palace.
Those who wander through dreamlsnd
and fairyland, who revel amid scenes of
enchantment, and forms of enhancing
beauty, awake from their dreams with
sigh, because what they have seen is I'M
real and Elusive. But those who visit
the Spring Palace find their fairyland
VISIONS outdone by that which is as real
slffe is earnest, as beautiful as dreams
rare Elusive, and as enchanting as any
thing ever born of the most poetic
imagination.
Who shall describe this marvel of
beauty, this triumph of artistic taste,
this achievement of mind over matter?
There it stands, speaking with an elo-
quence beyond words, of the magnitude,
grandeur and diversity of the resources
of our magnificent commonwealth; evil
dencing to all the world that
Texas is peopled with men
and women of industry, intelligence,
energy, enterprise, culture, and a
IoFe for all that is best and
most beautiful in art or nature. Those
who see 1t, see Texas. They see her
timbers, her grasses, her grains, her
minerals; all the products of her forests,
her fields, her mines and her quarries;
all the factors of her growth, her prog
ress and her prosperity, and all the
promises of that grand and wonderful
fnt nd Nuhi nh 1hn Sc hna kn fr1rr
with giants stride.
They see all those things, not in a con-
dition of chaos or confusion, but in a
series of beautifully and artistically
wrought pictures, the clever creations of
active brains, the .Vekkeof deft' and skill
full fingers, and thetrfrmphs 6f cultured
and educated tminds. -
A month 1871 too short time to studya
and drink in the varied beauty of this
wonderful Palace. Each picture wrought
with infinite pains and skill, is a lesson
in art and in mind culture. It is a reve-
lation of what the educated mind can
create ont of the common things of
nature. The corn-oob lettering and
scroll work, the floor carpeted in attrac-
tive figures with grains of corn, the
grass seed conceits and fanoies, tie
curtains of strung pop corn;
the various decorations with cotton
the innumerable devices TO be seen in
the main hall and in the county ex-
hibits, where each has striven to excel
the rest in originality and artistic taste
all reveal the fact that while the people
of our cities, towns and farm houses are
busy with their varied employments, they
have not dedicated their time to the
sordid things of earth, but are, on the
contrary, advancing rapidly in educa-
ton, culture and refinement as they are
in the work of developing the untold re-
sources of the state, of which they are
justly SO proud.
But why write more? Words are too
weak to portray picture that so defles
description. Each must see for himself
or herself; must look and think and
Stndy; must go again and again, until
ssle full beauty of those varied pictures
becomes possession of the mind, heart
and memory-a treasure for the years,
and lifelong source of pleasure and de-
light.
That the throngs who poured in endless
procession through the building -yester-
lay and last night enjoyed themselves
need not be asserted. Every face wore
pleased expression, and it was easy to
zee that all regard the Palace aa q
triumph of which Fort Worth and Texas
have right to be proud.