Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-03
WORL DIS FAIR WORK.
SOME RESULTS OF THE DALLAS
MEETING.
Selection of New President Temporarily
Deferred-A Muuiicent Gift-Plans
for the Building.

President Hurley and Secretary Bryan
have returned from Dallas, where they
were al last week attending the various
Worlds fair meetings and meetings of the
directors of the organization, all of whom
were present.
Bryan yesterday. asked him what had been
ACCOMPLISHED and what there was in the ru-
NOR regarding the removal of the headquar-
tiers 10 Waco.
ITO tell you the truth" remarked Mr..
Bryan, Every much less was accomplished
than we hoped would be. The fact is that
an occasion like 4 state fair is not an appro-
PIRATE one for the holding of a business
meeting. People go there for entertain
ment and enjoyment and there is too much
else to engross one's attention to per-
nit of devOting much time to business
hence it was that our meeting was not as
successful in business way as it would
have been had it been held in Fort Worth,
where all the books and accounts of the or
ganization are accessible.
THE directors appreciati1g this fact ad-
journed their meeting to Fort Worth, and
their session will probably be resumed here
next week, when the affairs of the associa-
ton will receive due attention and some few
changes will possibly be made in the future
management of the organization.
You doubtless know that Col. Hurley
rendered his resignation as president, and
insisted upon its acceptance, and it was
only at the very earnest solicitation of the
other directors that he was finally prevailed
upon to withhold his resignation till some
suitable selection could be made to fill the
vacancy that it would create.
THE directors realizing that they could
not afford to act hastily in such an lmpor-
tant matter or make mistake in their Sc
lection of 4 chief executive, very wisely, in
my opinion, preferred TO defer action until
a worthy successor to Col. Hurley could be
selected They with one accord Endorsed
the very excellent work already performed
by Col. Hurley and were averse to con-
sidering his resignation, experimenting as
they did the difficulty of selecting another
who would ir:every way meet the full re-
quiremea4sof the position. Furthermore
none QI1he directors seemed inclined to af
sumafhe duties OF president, which woulf
nea$ssitate going out OF the board, and the
xres gnation of one Of the directors to make
"a place for the new president. The consid-
GRAFTON of this required time, ana Col. Hur-
ley viii hold over until the directors see
their way clear in selecting his successor,
he agreeing to this only upon the C ndition
that during the interim he was to be re-
Heved of the detail work of the Office,
involving its financial manage
ment in the way of issuing
stock. keeping the books, ETC., which de-
partlnent of the, work, together with the
secretary's 9s1aA and press department.
viii be repssfed TO Waco, where the treas
urer restsEs and where all OF these details
OF thssorlI will in future be attended to.
ThiSShowever, will not be done until after
tAAsdirectors or the executive committee
SAL meet in this city some time next week.
go. Hurley Will. | presume, continue his
SDifice here until his successor shall be ap-
POINTED
lone good result attending the Dallas
. l. :
enthusiasm in the Worlds fair work, COM
missiCners from all parts of the state being
present and participating in the Worlds
fair gathering. The organization of the
state board of lady managers, Of which
Mrs Tobin of Austin is president and Mrs
Sydney Smith of Dallas is secretary, will
have a good effect in enthusing more inter
est in women's work in Texas, and let me
say right here, parentheticdliy, that the
women of Texas are leading the men in
their earneStnesS in this work
lone of the most encouraging features
incident to the Dallas meeting was an as
surance from the lumbermen Of Texas
that they would donate TO the Texas asso-
citation sufficient amount of lumber to en-
tirely complete the Texas building. The
delegates of the Lumbermen's association
who were present donated 100000 feet of
lumber, and as those present represented
about one-tenth of the lumber interest of
Texas, II was estimated that the same lib
eral ratio would result in a donation of
about three million feet Of lumber, aggre7-
eating in value about thirty thousand dol
lars the most muniticent gift the associa-
ton has yeB received.
THE consideration of the plans for the
Texas building brought to Dallas all of the
leading architects of the state, who had
submitted designs, there being nineteen in
all, representing the cream of the archi-
tectural talent Of Texas, There We're so
many very excellent plans presented that
the directors found it impossible in the linn
tied time at their disposal to reach conclu-
sion. so they decided to select four of the
best plans and send them on to the chief of
construction at Chicago, who, with Di-
rector General Davis, viii be asked to make
a selection. These four plans have not yet
been selected, this being another feature of
the work upon which action was deferred
till the Fort Worth meeting.
The directors were fully satisfied with
President Hurley's report of the condition |