The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-11-26

words given Texas and her exhibit
by the daily press of Memphis. The
Appeal-Avalanche says: awe well
come to Tennessee and Memphis this
moving panorama so graphically rep
resenting our sister state of Texas,
recognizing that this great enterprise
is of southern origin and devoted TO
southern development. AS usual
Texas leads in this exhibit train,
which is to continue on its educational
mission for year. The Appeal-Ava-
lanche extends to the citizens of Mem
! phis and visitors here an invitation
to visit the Texas exhibit today, where
they will be shown every attention by
the gentlemanly attendants who are
pleased to show them through the
cars and furnish reading matter in.
teresting and instructive about Tex
as"
The Mem phis Daily Commercial
also has good words for Texas and her
enterprise as shown by these extracts;
Texas and all her wonderful re-
sources are explained in the travel
ing exhibit contained in two
cars that arrived in Memphis last
night on the Little Rock and Mem
phis railway. The cars were built
expressly for the purpose they are
serving and are twice the size of ord
mary coaches. 1t was not long since
| Texas was almost u terra incognita,
| spoken of as "Out West,n now we
have with us a wonderful and extern
sive display in charge of Col. w. b.
| Slosson of the Texas Real Estate as
ISOLATION, on his staff II. ID. Huff,
press agent; f.. Y. Woodson, advance
agent and advertiser; j. S. Wylie,
secretary, and William Ferguson,
porter. This Texas train is out for q
| years work, and the prevailing senti-
| ment in Texas is to have it continue
in the field until the worlds fair
opens, and thus have the entire
country qui vive for the $500, 900 eX-
hibit to be made there by the State.
The Commercial also says: as there
not lesson for Memphis and Ten
nessee in the train of exhibit cars
from Texas in this city. The enter
|
| hustling, these Texans eXemplify the
root and branch of the word"
The Memphis Daily Public Led ger
says manager Slosson, who has
charge of the Texas exhibit cars, has
reason to be proud of it. Our Memphis
citizens visited it yesterday, and he
and his assistants were busy all day
showing them tn products of the
Lone Star State. Among the visitors
yesterday were $50 pupils of
81. Brigid's High school, ac-
companed by the sisters in
CHARGE The Memphis Daily Semi
tar says: "The people of Memphis
and the state who want to know how
the state should be advertised to the
outside world should pay visit tothe
| Texas state exhibit. 1t affords a good
object lesson. There, in compact shape
are specimens Of everything Texas
produces, samples of its minerals, veg
| etables, even of the fish in its waters
and of it's earths and nOlds. There is
corn seventeen feet high, ten inches tC
the ears and man has to ride OF
horseback to pluck an ear, the largas
ear of corn in the world with thirty
two rows of grain, beet
Weighing thirty-three pounds, wheat
that weighs one and half pounds
more to the bushel than the wheat OF
any other state, a castor bean plant
| twenty-five feet long, % varieties OF
grasses and grains from one county
alone. There are samples of huge
pears, luscious peaches, apples,
grapes, melons, potatoes, squashes,
peas, beans, millet, wheat, rye, corn,
of poplar, gum, walnut, ash, beach
pine, of stone, marble. and topping the
| exhibit is % monster tarpon caught in
Texas waters five feet ten inches long
and weighing 10 pounds. The eX.
penses of this exhibit are borne by the
boards Of trade, the commercial bodies
and by private subscriptions of indi
viduals and firms throughout the
state who know the value of advertis,
ing and are willing to pay for it,"
These extracts are given our Texas
friends to show one only of the diff
ferent styles of advertising our state
is securing without cost. Had we
paid at advertising rates the value OF
the space given us in this one city OF
Memphis, it would have been more
than the cost of running the
exhibit cars for month. The Cali
fornia exhibit cars paid one Chicago
paper (The Inter-Ocean) $1,000 for the
write up received of that paper, while
the Texas exhibit cars received pages
of cuts, printed addresses and de-
scriptive articles without cost to its
management from the Chicago dailies
While in Memphis no rain storms
could prevent the people from view
ing the Texas exhibit. From
morning till night our mer
were as busy as bees
showing visitors through the cars ano
handing out packages of reading mat
ter about Texas, representing all parts
of the state. While in Memphis the
managers of the Southern railroads
held conference to which | was in
vited, and by unanimous consent oul
Texas train was assured free trans.
portation and all courtesies extended
to make it's visit to the Southland q
complete success. We exhibited al
the town of Holly Springs, Miss, to-
day. and the railroad agent informed
me that he had sold seven tickets tc
Texas today and more than dozer
men. many of them heads o