Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-27
TEXAS STATE FAIR
And Dallas Exposition--some Of the 0bser.
vations and Impressions Of an Augusta Man.

In order to judge of a states enter
prise and power, It's necessary to see
her institutions, her wealth, her talent,
and the products of her homes, her
factories and her fields. This is the
greatest of her institutions in the GEN.
trail part of the state. Even to board
the train at one of Dallas suburban
towns and there mingle with her sons
and daughters whose faces beam with
Joyous pride in the plentiful harveStS
and the rich lands, the happy homes
and noble Industries. to look from the
car windows out over Texas rolling
prairies that stretch away for miles on
either side of this artery of modern
civilization and see it's bounteous har-
vests of cotton, grain and vegetables:
it's sorgum fields reminding of her
nearness to the great sugar state Of the
South and of the productive wealth Of
her own lowlands: it's orchards yield
ing the apple, the peach, the pear, the
plum, the fig. the persimmon in such
abundance that the cattle share them
with the farmer: indeed to view all
these signs of wealth and prosperity
mid the happiness of their reapers is
to feel something of power and to
realize the extent of the states agri-
cultural magnitude. And to view all
this in the hum and hustle of her GEN.
trail metropolis meath the blue October
sky, where no chilling blast reminds of
the winter to come. but when all ma
ture is smiling in the beauty and fra
GRANGE of a Southern autumn, and is
happy because of the harvests dis
played in her honor and seems glad to
thank man for his appreciation of her
power, her richness and her wealth
stored high in his temples; this is sure
" of interest to a northerner and
American.
The fair grounds are in the suburbs
of Dallas, three miles out of the great
city. Upon our arrival the many lines
of electric cars were depositing their
hundreds at the gate. Opposite the
grounds is the site of the mammoth
structure built by Dan Stuart to ac-
commodate the expected thousands at
the great Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight,
but which had to be torn down by the
decree of Gov. Culberson. Mr.. Stuart
believes in home industry, for Dallas
is his home; he had the fight on eX-
hibition by vitascope within the fair
grounds. We were surely at the fair. for
above the band music could be heard the
voices of fakirs and hawkers and the
general hum of excitement and ANNA
ton so characteristic of every fair.
Towering above the high board fence
which enclosed the grounds could be
seen the immense exhibition halls with
their floating banners, the numerous
booths for amusement. business, gam
ing and eating scattered here and
there.
OF course we pushed and crowded
about the gate, but we could enter only
one by one through it's several stiles
that recorded the number. We walked
up long graveled pathways bordered
with green lawns and shrubbery, on by
the rows of sleek, well-bred cattle,
horses and ponies standing proud and
content by their masters. Thence past
the Vienna Garden where bloomed the
pear. peach, plum, apple and orange
trees. Here We're the evergreens and
I brilliant-leaved cath Of Texas and New