Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-29
THE PRETTIEST LADY.
Pains Pyroteehnic Ideal OF. Fort Worth
Femininity.
The largest Attendance of the season-A
Brilliant Exhibition - beautiful AMI
Fantastic Fireworks Displayed.

Pompeii met sad and awful fate some
say that the Last Days of Pompeii, as
produced by PAIN, will survive another
seventeen centuries if it is managed by
the same people, which of course il won It.
Those managers are up to snuff.
They know how TO draw the crowds.
They did it last night.
They advertised to give a representa-
ton of the prettiest lady in Fort Worth
in fireworks last night; and as there
naturally was some difference OF opinion
as to who the pTettiest lady in Fort
Worth might be, everybody turned out
TO see the question decided IN so novel
manner.
Every lady was out with the hope
bounding high that she would be the
favored beauty; every gentleman was
out TO see that the honor was carried off
by none other than his own sweet pretty.
As the result of so much curiosity the
grand stand, immense and capucious
though it be, was densely packed, the
attendance being larger than on Satur-
day night last, when the la gest previous
benches were not able to accommodate
the crowd, and some of ii Tapped over on
the sides, where the standing was good.
The Introductory scenes were con-
Quoted with the usual finish aud effect,
AMI evoked the thorough appreciation of
the throng of spectators. Each of the
sports was accorded cheer, and the
athletes appeared to enter heartily into
the spirit of the occasion, perceiving that
grand things were expected, and only
grand things wouli be acceptable. The
result was highly satisfactory.
This was one of the nights when the
Vesuviau catastrophe broke out in all
parts of the city simultaneously. From
behind the temple of Isis, be-
meath and around the architectural
piles, which represent the ancient
city of Pompeii, burst bombs
and shells, interruptIng with awful sud-
denuess the scene of mirth and frivolity
in which the doomed people were en-
gagged at the time the awful catastrophe
occurred. as set forth by Lord Lytton.
The eruption of the volcano was
thrilling. In the midst of clouds of
flame and smoke hundreds of shells shot
up, which when high in the air burst.
and with threatening rapidity darted
miner ana tnltuer, piercing the darkness
that overhung the city, looking more
like some frightful vision of regions in
ferual than u tame picture got up for the
whiIom entertainment of mortals at SO
much per head.
The fireworks were unusually pretty
and put the spectators in a state of &C.
stacy. suniower in fire was feat
ure. The radiunts were constituted of
revolving jets, and the Tuner color of
small wheels of various colored flames.
But the crowning piece was the pvro-
technic portrait of the most beautiful
lady in Fort Worth.
1t was marvel Of beauty and artistic
skill.
Who was she?
Pam managers would not be entitled
to the reputation for shrewdness gratui-
tously given them above If they were so
egregiously foolish as to antagoniZe every
lady in Fort Worth except one by an
nouncing publicly their belief that that
one surpassed all the others in beauty.
No, the lady was not named. She was
superbly beautiful, sparkling with jets of
fire, and 1t is left with every lady and
her geutlemea friends TO imagine she was
the favored one.
Tonight is Odd Fellows night, and
the pyrotechnie display will be made
with reference to the occasion.
That the attendance grows nightly is
proof positive that the affair is g grand
SUCCESS.