Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-10
A CITY OF PALACES.
THE GENIUS OF ALADDlN'S
LAMP BROUGHT INTO USE.
Electricity and Imitation MalbleDolnS The
Work Of Life Time-What oil
The Tosas Buildingl

Editor Fort Worth Gazette
The Worlds fair within all its environ
| ments. is a city Of palaces, One here finds
sanction to the modern belief, that man Is
not fallen creature, but mas ever been as
pirinp and climbing upward. Hence we
have the great current Of human progress,
| which has carried onward in its flow art
science, literature, religion aud govern
meut all combining to accumulate and con-
| serve the aggregate good. The great az
| prepate Is to DO shown at the Worlds fair
| In Chicago next summer. IL will show that
we do not 'NTalk the path our fathers have
| trod - but spiral like, each round finds
| succeeding generations going higher and
| higher up the scale of human eudeavor and
Accomplishment.
Even in the construction and erection Of
these beautiful buildings mot to say any
thing OF the great multitude and variety OF
| wonderful exhibits to be placed in them)
methods so effective, unique and modern
| arc here in operation that men who have
been Isolated from the living, busy centers
| but few years, cannot help but feel an.
| tiquated. They wake up and view the
changes and improvements that have take
place, and experience the same feeling OF
wonder aud awe as did Rip Van Wrinkle
| after his sleep OF twenty years
Think of a wire, not larger than your In
dex finger, Us oil to permit, artery-like, the
| subtle, vital fluid electricity, to pass
through 1t into little giant motor" and
thus furnish power which when applied
| to machinery lifts with apparent ease
! columns OF constructed timbers four in
number, six by six inches through, lrlced
| together by perfect network OF diagonal
| cross timbers, until when completed, these
monster columns are three feet square and
sixty loot long Now see that little motor
| start an immense derrick which grapples
that gigantic column. Hear the ropes
| tighten and snap. See the rough floor
4 a.
| along. See that half dozen human Insects
| lay their lihputian hands on that massive
| weight, breast high TO them, and swing 1t
| around suspended in air until one end is
| placed where II is wanted, when up II goes
slowly and gracefully; while the little motor
| sputters und whirls round like a buzz saw
and spits fire for sheer spite, look again
at that small black wire through which
| flows all this mysterious power. Not a
| throb do sec. Whatever movement there
may be, II any, among its atoms or mole
cules no outward sign of strain or distress
is manifested. What is III
| Is 1t fire, force, motion or lifel II is
| certainly becoming mans chief servant,
and there seems TO be no limit TO its useful
/ ness.
Some little idea Of the immensely Of the
| buildings on the fair grounds can be had.
| when we learn that the manufactures and
! liberal arts building is so much larger than
| the largest At the Paris exposition, that the
| latter could be built entirely inside Of our
American structure. II is said TO be the
largest building now In the world, and this
| largest under roof ever erected. The floor
area is over forty-four acres. 1t is four
times as large us the Roman Coliseum,
| which seated $1,000 persons. The great
| Pyramid "Cheopsn could be piled into this
building with the galleries left from which
to view the stone, The iron trusses that
| support the roof are twice the size of the
! 1aY. In
streets with long lines Of lamp posts.
| There are fifteen or sixteen fair build
ings proper; then come the large number
| of state buildings. Now Imagine all OF
these white marble-like structures, OF
! every conceivable design in architecture,
so grouped and placed as to be settings
and beautiful parts Of symmetricalwhole,
| massive marble stairways descending from
| every front, TO walks, driveways or water
ways, while on every hand are shady
groves, beautiful gardens, with hundreds
| OF fancy floral designs, Lowell stretches ana
sioping mounds of greensward, all uniting
TO make grand picture, whlch nave
named, "City of Palaces"
Nearly every building is veneered with
n covering OF cement preparation, made
Of plaster OF paris with hemp worked III
for fiber as hair is into ordinary house plas-
ter. When ready for use hundreds Of ltal-
ian artists work IL into moulds, then lay ~
in the sun to dry and harden. II is then
lighter than wood and stronger. A great
variety and number OF designs IN lear
work, resembling hand carving on stone
and marble are thus made with great ac-
curacy and expedition, Vast corrugated
columns. several feet through, are in this
manner prepared IN sections, with immense
round and square bases. Dorlc ana CORN
THAN capitals, panels, molding and iresco-
ing. ali are nodded Of this MATERIAL TO-
gether with archways TO entrances OF great
| magnitude, which If done in solid stone or
| marble would take life time TO complete !
but they are here executed with the rapid
ity that characterized the building OF Alad-
din's palace. ..,... T. -.
| tached TO the wood and iron framework OF
the skeleton buildings one oeholds what
seem to be wonderfully heavy ana sollh
structures. Appropriate aud suggestive
| ornamentation is placed on each building.
Tho columns and srchways, for Instance,
Of tho fisheries building, are covered with
many unique designs Of fishes, sea-shells
and submarine plants, all apparently
carved from solid marble. Inc statue Vi
the Republic, q magnificent female inquire,
to be sixty-five feet high, independent OF
the pedestal, is being made OF ms same
material An along the waterways too,
| for fences or guards, it is brought into use
| in tho form of pretty white cylinders, two
and half feet through, three ieet hibh
and covered with moulded concave and
| convex caps, set apOub t"einS 80 oPa,tt
and connected by bars OF two and hall
inch gas piping painted deep rich ma
In that portion Of the grounds appro,
priated for the state buildings. / looked
wistfully for the Texas building II was
not there. II was not even conspicuous by
| its ohsenca II was not even missed or In
ouired for, only by me. The Worlds fair
will succeed without it. This Texas build
mo nv lis absence works out in an equa-
ton. about like the enterprise of an average
Texas legislature u equals &c, zero .,e lna'
what orght 10 be, is vacuum monument
Of crystalized, self-satisfied, thoroughly or.
ganised well disciplined ignorance. IL
SUGGESTS Texas as a state Of great unde'
yeioped resource, such as the pilgrim ia,
thers found America to be, when they
landed on plymouth Rock, and mark you,
America was then In the hands OF the In
dians. In whose hands is Texls{