Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-11
To tho rnaotlc cit.zens Of TOXINS:

~ '4-N "t4NtiN Nfih1NHH VI ANANo'
All Of Texas recognizes the Importance
% creditable representation at the
Worlds Fair, and several plans for rails
iug the necessary funds have been tried
and abandoned. The organization ut
Fort Worth failed; Galveston made her
rruitless attempt 70 raise the money The
Governor has emphaucally declared that
appropriation by the Legislature would
be unconstitutional. therefore we need
look for no aid from that quarter. He
urges us, however, to by all means secure
this representation by some means, aj-
ding, "Thc importance of this enterprise
should rot be uuderestiuiatcd 10y the
people; for, in the great struggle for the
promotion, enlicbtcnmeut and success Of
progress and happiness among the mass
cs, no State possessed Of grand and
varied resources can afford to fail In hay-
iLg proper representation at this Expo
sition, participated in aud supported by
the people Of the United States, and of
the civilized world
The patriotic ladies Of our State have
taken the matter In hand and are ac-
complishing much, but they win need still
more, and offer 20 them aud 20 the State
the following simple and cifectual means
of raising the money for the purpose.
win not rsl, any man for IA free donation,
but propose TO give quid pro quo for every
dollar received.
There are in our State two hundred
and forty-sevcn counties, all of which
are directly interested In advertising
Texas and drawing immigration into her
borders; the more thinly settled the
country the more important this becomes.
There can be devised no better means Of
advertising and making known the re-
sources of our wonderful State than rep
rcsentation at the Worlds Fair
II two hundred Of those counties will
place 500, GOO Insurance each in The Prov
ident Savings Life Assurance Society Of
New Norl, good acceptable risks with
FIRST annual premium paid, sending same
direct to this Office, without the aid Of
any agent, | will donate 100000 to rep
resent Texas at the Worlds Fair. As
the insurance is received, the portion
thereof which belongs to this fund will
be daily deposited In the proyidcnt Ma
tional Bank of Waco, and paid out month
ly by the following trustees: SW. Sladcn,
W. Il. Watt and w II. DWnica. to Mrs.
1obin, as President of the Worlds Fair
Organization
Insurance to he placed to the credit Of
this fund must be received nc this Office
not later than April IS, 1893.
Recognizing the fact that ten or twenty
counties could easily obtain the entire
amount asked for and wishing TO stimu-
late emulation among them, offer the
following prizes;
To the County sending largest amount
Of Insurance, $4,000.
To the County sending second amount
of insurance, $1,000
To the County sending third amount of
insurance, 5000
To the County sending fourth amount
of Insurance, 5000.
All 10 he devoted 60 making sperinI dis.
rlay for those Counties M the WorlI's
Fair and TO be raid into tho hands ~
inc County commissioners for that pur-
also offer like prizes for the news
papers influencing the largest amount ~
this insurance. VI
should the entire amount of insurance
rot bc received the donations. ana oiso
the prizes, viii be pro-uted In exact n,.n'
poruoA TO the amount that is received
Onc-half II only me-half The Insurance
Is secured; one,fourth, II one-fourti NJ
the Insurance rs placed. etc
could suggest five channels tbror,h
Which this Insurance can easily be ~
tlrst-iy the committees. Let oocb
county appoint committee of five, notify