Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
A NOVEL SCHEME.
An Ingenious Method for Getting to the
Worlds Fair,
and oblige


A GAZETTE man. learning yesterday that
| something Of Importance was on foot in
! connection with Worlds fair excursions,
| interviewed ". S. Decker, the secretary
| ard treasurer of the Texas Excursion COM
| pary, who said:
Yes, we have organized the Texas ex-
cursion company and propose to run excur-
sions to the Worlds fair i'll 1898. We will
run solid trains of Pullman, sleeping
| coaches from Fort Worth to Chicago and
return, and make arrangements there to
either run them into the grounds or some
where close by and stay there n week and
then return to Texas.
Our plan is this, for 70 cents week, COM
mencing the first of the present month and
running 100 weeks, we agree to take per-
son in Pullman car and feed him on the
way, TO Chicago, keep him there a week. he
holding his berth in the car and give him
his meals there and ticket to the far each
day for week. We think this is as long
time as person will care to stay there.
''Of course we do not propose to give him
carriage rides ana theater parties, but we
do propose to take him there and board him
in hrss-class style on the way, while there
and on the return trip, so that the person
who subscribeS with US will know that he
can get there, stay a week and get back
home safe and sound all for 80. Whereas,
if he waits and does not join our company
may be he can not go to Chicago and return
for less than $780, besides having all the
worry of having to hunt up a boarding
place, long rides in crowded street cars, etc
If you visited Philadelphia during the
centennial in 1876, you know the great
trouble the people had in securing places 10
sleep Many nights the streets We're
crowded with people who could find no
place to sleep. But with our plan it will
be different. A person leaving here with
us will know that he is sure OF a good bed,
good food, and no crowding while eating
from the time he leaves until he returns.
He also knows that in case he loses ali of
his money or spends it in Chicago he is
sure of his passage home.
And again this will be popular plan for
say fifteen gentlemen and their wives who
are acquainted and may want to visit the
fair together. We can give them Pull
man together which will take the whole
car; they can thus be and stay together all
the time, otherwise, if they went to Chi
cagO i'll any other way they could not secure
rooms at the same hotel and thus might
not see each other again during their stay
there. We propose to give our subscribers
the best food that can be had along the
road, and while in Chicago.
I'VE believe the - cents a week plan will
be a great attraction from the fact that a
man can send US 20 cents week or 81 so for
-
but if he waits until the fair opens, he
knows that he may not have the 800 or 800
handy or if he has it he may not feel able to
give it for trip there
"Our plan also offers a positive guar
antee TO subscribers, inasmuch as the COM
pany will not only be Incorporated under
the laws of the state. but our officers
bonded in a guarantee too, in their favor
We are pretty well-known in this city and
refer outsiders to the Farmers and Me
chanics and Traders National banks of
Fort Worth. Texas.
You understand that this is not local
affair. We offer these advantages to the
people of the state and expect to take thou
sands to Chicago i'll our Pullman specials.
Another guarantee, and quite an i'm
pOrtant on in case of death or any disabil-
ity of a..subscriber, he is privileged to trans
fer his stock up to date of departure of
trains. We know that we can take crowd |
to Chicago and pay all of the expenses for
S15 a head, and leave margin of profit for |
us. and we also know that an individual |
going there and having the same accommo- |
dations that we will furnish our subscrib- |
ers, cannot make the trip for less than 800, |
no matter how careful he may be, besides |
having all the worry and trouble while he |
is there. You can appreciate that if you |
stop and think of the crowd that will be in |
Chicago at this time, it is estimated that |
the Philadelphia Centennial compared to |
the Worlds fair, will be as a small county |
fair, compared to the Centennial
We have selected Fort Worth as our
headquarters and the point from which our
start, for the reason that this
essF is @ Sai,rasais center of the state, and