Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-30
Heartily in
Project,
Business Men Declare That the Celebrate
Be Held.

everywhere ana Dy every ppuy tht
proposition to hold Semi Centennial
celebration and grand exhibition In
Fort worth Is received with enthuslas-
tic support
The Gazettes suggestion has been
taken up By tho business men Of 20
city and heartily endorsed.
Al the people want the exposition.
How can It be secured7
BY going TO work.
Fort Worth can succeed In anything
1t attempts. and when tho brain and
Drawn OF It's citizens arc aroused with
this proposition. It Will make the ex-
position tho greatest event OF the Kind
in the history OF Texas.
There Is Ia tho proposition to hold
a semi-centennIal celebration OF the
diAo Texas was admitted into the
union everything which Inspires the
highest patriotic impulses. The re
sources Of the state have been trashy
developed In the span OF time since the
Lone star nag was merged Into the en-
blem Of tho Union. and nothing shows
this more than the fact that there was
not a railroad or telegraph line In the
Republic OF Texas when tho United
States senate on the 21th or Deeem-
Der, forty-nlne years. ago decided that
81 should be admitted as member OF
the family OF states, It was not until
the February following that the action
OF the senate was rauned by Texas,
and It IL to commemorate this date In
history that the Gazette has thought
II nothing less than appropriate 20
hold a celebration In Fort Worth.
Aside from this historical event
thorc Is another semi-oentennlal aud TO
Fort worth quite as important in many
respects, as the admittance OF Texas to
the Union. II will have been half
century In 1876 since the Fort worth
military post was established mere,
The poat has long sinee passed away
but upon Ito site has sprung the city all
love SO dearly.
The people OF Texaa win no doubt
join Ia making the proposed oslebra-
ton success, The products OF the
state can DO gathered together, and a
grand panorama OF the fruits OF the
eoil, the mine, the min. Workshop and
furnace. be made 20 ten story OF the
advancement OF Texas In language
stronger ana more eloquent than per
or tongue,
Can Fort Worth do this7
IL can. aud WILL II necessary. bu, the
state should lend its helping hand. Tn,
legislature should find a why to MAX,
an appropriation to foster such an ex
hibltlon. A few years ago $4,000 wer,
given for state display at the New
orleans exhibition, ana the money wa
wisely used. as the display OF rexai
products at that time advertised thi
state as nothing else could have done
But there was nothing IN that exposi
ton 20 stir up the patriotic feelings g.
the Texas people such aa the plan &
celebrate the seini-centennial OF ~
admlaaion 10 the Union. and with sue
an event TO celebrate, as well as g.
view OF tho thousands OF strangers viii
WIN be attracted hither by such Si%;.
hibltion as the Gazette proposes. u
would certainly seem Inappropriate 10
the legislature TO refuse to give II al
endorsement With q good ai1cd appro
prlatIon for an executive building.
But 1t remains for the people Of For
Worth 70 stir up the proper lnterolt II
the cNppFitiOn and yesterday the GA
zettc continued the work undertaken
thu Day before TO ascertain what tn
ieSdlng citlsena thought or the plan.
Charles II sllllmnn. president Of III
Fort Worth board OF trade was founl
az his office on the second fIoor Of IN
postoilice building. Whom asked by IN
reporter what he thought Of the prone
sltinn. he replied that he regarded In
proposition with favor MI, Silllmal
stated that he believed It would be n
Important move IN The right direction
especially as a means OF attracting peo
pie ana the building up OF the cit,
o. Fort Worth. What 10 wanted h
Texas. he said, Is the promotion o
manufacturing enterprise, and to brlnl
capital 10 the state for that purposo
me nRht for supremacy Is now be
tween the seouong east and west o
the Mlsslssippi river. An illustrator
cited by Mr. Sllllman Of what coul,
De accomplished was the st Louis lex
position. which has been worth man,
thousands or doilnrs 20 the CITY AM
stats n which Il has been held, AMI
sHoWtu Wnai could be accompllshet
ny legitimate enterprise. The manu-
facturera are turning to the fields q
the raw material At this time IN,
manufacture Of cotton In Texas IA yer,
small whom compared with the vas
amount OF that staple which is pro
duced In this state II does moi beelt
% supply ihe home demand. we Shout,
manuiature enough to supply IN,
home demand and export larcl
amount OF cotton goods This woult
cpen up = large trade az Galveston. We
laseo, Artlnsas and other Texas ports
" would be very appropriate, Mr. snli
man said. that the Soml-Centennin
should be celebrated az Fort WORTH
Ihc establishments Of the old fort her,
admittea Into the Union. ana ihn oc,
cnslon would be ore Of lnterest In 4
historical Sense. The railroad facln,