Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-15

Of peculiar taste has just been made at Agri-
cultural Park The outer walls and the
buildings have been whitewashed, but the
artists with the bread brush" have extended
their labors to the trees along Twentieth
street, next to the Park, and every one Of the
handsome shade trees there is now an offense
to good taste. Each tree trunk has been col.
ored to hight of about eight feet in three
broad bands, red, white aud blue, the white
baad forming the ground work for fearfully
regular =prinkling Of blue stars. If this was
an attempt to symbolic the "Stars and
Stripes, il is snal failure, as the orEameu-
tation Heaven save the mark , is far more
suggestive of the 'stars and bars" The first
impression made is that the entire tonsorial
fraternity has taken quarters in the Park, and
that these melancholy trees are the usual
signs of barber shops as certainly as that itisa
barbarous dissertation OF natural growth The
green foliage OF the trees is thrown into sickly
contrast, and the very boughs droop with
shame at the immodest pantslets in which
their miserable limbs are clothed. For the
sake of good taste and to prevent 4 sudden
and inconvenient rush to the insane asy lums.
won't the Superintendent OF the Park. who
is a man of good taste, require the artists in
whitewash to return to the charge and cover
their effort at art with a simple and chart.
table robe OF white? As now decorated t.l
the trees viii be a standing joke for the
thousands who will visit the place next week,
and will be the theme for more incisiye and
lust criticism than has ever been showered
upon any Agricultural Society in the world.
The only wonder is that the Directors ever
permitted this otfense to good taste to be
perpetrated. Already it is the subject Of
such comment among citizens as Is far from
-. ay4d tha
sooner the cause Ct the criticism is white
washed ont, the better for all hands -includ-
Ing the genius that conceived and carried
out the brilliant but Ashantee-lIke design.
METROPOLITAN THEATER. Baldwin
Theater Company Of San Francisco will play
an engagement at the Metropolitan Theater
in this city during Fair week The company
comprises james O'Neill, Adeline Stanhope
cher first appearance in SACRAMENTO, Fred.
de Beleville This first appearance in Sacra-
mento) Jean Clara Walters, \. ID. Bradley,
Virginie Thorne. John w. Jennings, Annie
Adams. L. \. Thayer, Little Maud Adams,
+. q. Ross and the entire company, who viii
appear in the four success fnl plays of the sea-
son. An Orphan of the STATE - Minor"
FORGET Me Not and "Coralie," commenc-
irg Monday evening, September 10Th. The
box sheet is now open at the Theater Candy
Store. Dress circle reserved seats fifty cents
extra. The theater has just undergone a
thorough cleansing. and the auditorium
ne"ly painted. The agent also states that
the scenery will ell be repaired. which will
render the programmes far more acceptable.
The coming engaseme is TO be under the
management Of Thomas Mcguire.
PATENT IssuED.-A. G.. Waterhouse and
B. g. Brewer, of this city, were yesterday
granted by the Patent Office authorities le:
tiers patent for new steam and air engine.