San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-08
POOR TEXAS.
Made Burlesque of at the
Worlds FAIR.

Made Burlesque of at the
Worlds FAIR.
AUSTIN TEX, Aug. s, 1898.
To the San Antonio LIGHT.
When the great Columbian EX-
position has closed doors and quit
business we'll may Texas ask her.
self why this thusness. From
time to time letters have been re-
ceived in Austin from Chicago
making some very strange to say
the least, assertion, annent the
presence of the Texas building at
the Worlds Fair. 1t is nothing
but natural that people should
write home when they go off to the
great Exposition; furthermore it
is nothing but natural that
they should say some very
peculiar things and it is moth
ing but natural that the ever
able newspaper fraternity should
drop on these little affairs. The
game has now reached that stage
that is worthy of public attention
however, the assertion has been
made in the past and never de-
MED that Mrs. Tobin and children
are living in the reception rooms
of the Texas building. 1t has
been said furthermore that every
body is laughing at the Texas
building because Of the absence of
any exhibits North, speaking off.
1t is charged furthermore that the
building is devoted entirely to
the giving of amateur, musicales
and the like.
1t is also charged that no end of
sneering remarks are made Of the
fact that Mrs. Tobin stands at the
door of the building and welcomes
what few stragglers drift into the
house with sweeping bow and the
sterotyped word, "Welcome." 1t is
charged that this has reached that
point that is driving everybody
wild with it's monotonOusness. The
climax, however, is reached now,
the news comes to us that Mrs.
TObin is begging, or to make it
milder, requesting a gift from all
callers of so or 25 cents, to buy some
crackers with which to hold the
regular tri-weekly afternoon teas
Now, what worries the writer OIL
these many letters and the public
of Texas as we'll, is what earthly
good can Texas accomplish by per-
hitting these afternoon teas to be
held in the state building at Chi
cago? Can and will these teas and
musicales bring one single home
seeker in the direction Of
the Lone Star state. AS eX-
pressed by one of the lady
managers here at Austin some days
since, the Texas people are tired of
giving money or lending assis-
lance or endorsement to scheme
that is making Texas the laughing
stock of the world, and availing
nothing outside of having "teas"
and little matinees.
The lady managers here at Aus
tin are making no bones of their
dissatisfaction at Mrs. TObin's &C
tions, and they say if such be pos
sible they would like to have
the building pulled down and the
whole scheme abandoned before it
brings any more modification on
the state. The building has not
been dedicated yet and this is the
fourth month of the fair. Yet Mrs.
Tobin has not made any arrange
ments with the fair management
to continue the fair past NOvem-
Der, yet if that is not done there is
little chance for any dedication.
The board of lady managers have
washed their hands of all dealing
with it, the Texas people to unit
are dead sore and Mrs. Tobin hav-
ing drifted in a boat of her own
making is going to be left to paddle
her way out alone. "God bless our
hnrnaD q SMOOT