Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-22
TRE BARBECUE.
A Magnificent Success is
Achieved.
SCENES AT AGRICULTURAL PARK.
The speeohes-The Prooession-The
Chief Events-Namber Of Peo-
pie in Attendance.
SCENES AT AGRICULTURAL PARK

The Republican citizens of Sacramento
YESTERDAY conducted a mammoth barbecue
at Agricultural Park, to which they invited
the people of all the central region OF Cali
fornia. irrespective of political faith-and the
people responded. The arrangements for the
barbecue were made with clese attention to
details, and notwithstanding the fact that it
was gotten up in a very brief space of time,
and upon q remarkably large scale, 1t was
conducted to a successful issue with less fric-
ton than the most sanguine anticipated
Now that it is over it might be criticised as to
some details; but as a whole, it is simple
Justice to say that it was ;sssi1ages throughout
with skill and hospitality which does in
finite credit to the Capital City of California.
1t was the greatest barbecue ever given in
interior California, or probably in the State,
and it drew together the largest number of
people ever seen gathered for a single days
entertainment or the coast outside of San
Francisco 1t is true that the provisions
proved inadequate to the demands of the
multitude, but the intention and effort to
furnish a suticiency was good. The failure
of the food supply occasiored disappointment
and expressions of dissatisfaction, but the
people readily saw, when admitted to Tie
barbecue grounds freely, that the estimate
only as to the capacity Of the average eater
had been too small, and that the willingness
of the committee was all that could be desired,
as it sent to the city and purchased
all the cooked food that could be readily
had. AS to The number of people on
the grounds It is impossible to be exact but
very close calculations made by systematic
methods, and with exceeding care give these
figures. At 10 A. M, 5000; at IL A. NJ,
1900; at noon, $1,000; at P. NJ, $4,000
from to P NJ, 2l.0OO people. The people
were constantly coming in and going out at
the gates in great professions, but the figures
given are those of the number on the ground
at the hours named. 1t follows that a larger
number actually visited the Park during the
day.
ALL THE TRAINS
Game loaded down with people, and beside
the regular trains there were several special.
Every railroad line leading to the city was
taxed to its utmost to transport the people,
and several hundred were unable to obtain
transportation at all, not having given notice
in advance of their desire to come, and ap-
pearing at the depots only to find the cars
over full, and were left behind, utterly
unable to get even standing room upon
the cars. So great was the pressure
upon the Sacramento and Plaoerville
Railroad that an extra train of cars had
to be sent up at a late hour to bring the peo-
pie in. Over |, 800 people came from that
direction alone by rail, and it is not the most
thickiy settled vicinity of Sacramento by any
means. The people of Yolo and Sacramento
counties came in great numbers in vehicles.
At Agricultural Park alone at 2 o'clock the
reporters counted no less than 297 country
wagons and vehicles along the lines u the
stables where the teams had free feed, and
rs outside and near the Park, while over 800
were accommodated at various stables and
yards. A close calculation thus made places
the vehicles driven to the eiSs at net less
than 700. which conveyed 70 the c;sy from
the country 3, 900 people from the Immediate
farming section of Sacramento.
The grand stands at the Parl, hold when
filed to the brim, 1900 people, and the count
has several times been made. Any close Cb-
server at the Park yesterday could see that
the number scattered there over such spacious
grounds. at the hight of the tide, would more
For a meeting of people called by q single
political party, and drawn from an area Of
country so large as that contributing yester-
day, aud which compared to populated sec
tions at the East, is exceedingly thinly settled,
the gathering was immense. 1t came from
an area Of country larger than Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois if combined. 1t was well the
crowd was no larger, for after $500 had
partaken Of food at the tables the meats gave
out, and only bread aAd cheese and pickles
remained, and when an additional 1000 was
admitted at 2:30 P. N. those accessories dis
sppeared