Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-22
10 the ratIolIc cItIzens Of Tezas.


All Of Texas recognizes the Importance
Of a credituble representation at the
Worlds Fair, and several plans for rails
ing the necessary funds have been tried
and abandoned The organization at
Fort Worth failed; Galveston made her
fruitless attempt TO raise the money. The
Governor has emphatically declared that
appropriation by the Legislature would
be unconstitutional, therefore we need
look for no aid from that quarter, He
this representation by some means, adj
ding. "rhe Importance of this enterprise
should not be uudcrestimatcd by the
people; for, in the great struggle for the
promotion, enlightenment and success Of
progress and happiness among the mass
cs, no State possessed Of grand and
varied resources can afford to fail In hay-
irc proper representation at this Expo
sition, participated in and 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 nc
complishnG much, but they will need still
more, and offer to them and to the State
the following simple and eifectual means
Of raising the money for the purpose. l
will not risk any man for a free donation,
but propose to give quid pro quo for every
! dollar received.
There are in our State two hundred
and forty-seven 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
| rescutation at the Worlds Fair
If two hundred of these counties will
| place 100000 insurance each in the Prov
ident Savings Life Assurance Society OF
New York 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 ut the Worlds Fair. As
the insurance Is received, the portion
thereof which belongs to this fund will
be daily deposited in the Provident Ma
tioual Bank Of Waco, and pnid out month
ly by the following trustees S,W. Sadcn,
w. n. Watt aud w. r. Dunuica, 70 Mrs.
! Tobin. us President of the Worlds Fair
| Organization.
Insurance to be placed to the credit of
this fund must be received at this Office
| 49,. A.. k..u 1000
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 NJ
insurance, 5000.
To the County sending fourth amount
| of insurance, $1,000
An TO be devoted TO making specinl ~.
Play for those Counties at the WorIJ,,
Fair, and TO be paid into the hands nj
the County Commissioners for that nnr.
pose.
also offer like prizes for the per.s
papers influencing the largest amount Of
this insurance.
Should the entire amount Of insurance
not be received, the donations, ana oiso
the prizes win be pro-rated in exact nro.
portion TO the amount that is received
One-half, If only one-half the Insurance
is secured; one.fourth, II one-fourth M
the insurance is placed, etc
could suggest five channels throngI
which this Insurance can easily be ~.
tanned: "p
Firstly the committees. Let eoob
county appoint committee of ave- notify