Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-21

phcants for labor, for music, for printing,
The characteristics in the Executive Com
mittee are so marked that, after attending
two meetings of the committee, given the
representative who starts movement and
you can tell to a dead certainty which way
every member will jump. The twelve d.
vide off into these elements Combative,
acquisitive, indolent, conscientious, indif.
ferent, apprehensive. Mr. Martin ]. Burke
presides over this menagerie of dispositions
with tact and judgment nothing short of
inspired. 1t is worth watching when he
comes in with two OF three necessary meas.
ures in his mind which he means to carry
through. He usually has statement made
by some one else, and then says, Ladies,
you hear what has been said now what &C.
ton will you take?" There is
A STORM OF OPPOSITION.
Three minutes recess is given, the meeting
is called to order, majority votes "aye"
on the debated measure. How does he do it !?
On poor Mr.. Gilmore, the manager, the
Coroner's verdict on the 9TH of November
will be: "By the visitation of Carnival
Committees" and all San Francisco will
understand and drop sympathizing tear.
Out in the wicked world the weak are
promptly crushed and the superfiuous
elbowed out of the way; but in the Pa
vilion the twelve of the Executive Com.
mittee and the fifty of the General Board
and the twenty-four special booth man.
ayers, all have equal rights, none are weak,
none supertiuous. and what man shall al BIZ
trate when ladies disagree? We all know
the consequences of Paris rash judgment,
and he did not confront eighty.six goddssses
all DESTROYS of planting Olympian booths
in exactly the same space. The other side
deserves hearing, too-a great many mag.
unanimous concessions of disputed points
have been made. The absurd nickname of
the "Worm Ladies arose for those friends
of the cocoon, the members from the Silk
culture Society, and some one improyised
" Hebress" for the daughters OF Israel !;
but there is very little punning or funning
at the Pavilion;
THE WORK Is TOO HARD FOR THAT,
The duties of the Finance, Ticket and
Booth Committees; the printing and adver-
tising that must be done, and not over.
done; the ordering of the scene painters,
who must be both directed and conciliated :;
the necessary begging for donations, and
reduced rates for sugar, gas, electric lights,
cotton cloth, carriages, and, above all, en-
gaglng, costuming ard posing the twenty.
tour times thirty young men and women
who expect to rejoice the eyes of their
more Immediate circle by distinguished
appearance as the Ghost of the heroine of
the " Mistletoe Bough," or Gothic Graf.
All this, even with much division of labor
experiences, makes an Authors Carnival
an intricate and fatiguing undertaking. and
only the strong excitement which naturally
arises from the massinG together of numbers
of people would give the women nerve
enough to carry it successfully to its end.
But the end is worth while; it gives any
number OF hard-worked, Imagination
starved people twelve nights of gaslight
and glitter, and one or two well-arranged
representations of the celebrated scenes
and paintings of the world. Those to
whom these things are new may perhaps
be stimulated to inquire into them and find
out the work of tie beauty seeking part of
the world, and those who always loved
sill love the more.
THE BOOTHS
At the Carnival OF 'S2 are as fellows ::
Literary and Artistic Cbaucer, Victor
Hugo, Homer, Pre-Raphaelite, Washing
ton Irving, Longfellow, Dore Gallery.
Picturesque-Louis XVI. and Legend of
the Water.Lily, Terra Gotta, Chinese,
Kate Greenaway Military, Japanese Tea
House. Musical-Salle de Concert and
Old Folks booth. Remunerative-Kenil
worth Castle, Oyster Grotto, Cafe des
Champs Elysees, Soda Fountain, Duke of
Warwick's Tenants Festival and Villa
d'Este. A Bonbon booth and so-called
Floral Temple are also remunerative
booths. Unforeseen questions come up for
decision occasionally. An "Old Southern
Home" was contemplated for one of the
booths, where the participants were to be
negroes and rn-huskiDg, cotton-picking
and kitchen scenes were to be given, with
good banjo-playing and singing
SUDDENLY
The rumor was heard, no one knew quite
from where, that all the rest CT the partici-
pants in all the other booths would secede,
depart and be no more seen if colored peo-
pie were to take part in the Carnival. 1t
was understood that this was white
Carnival, and if color was introduced the
contract for Caucasians was off. Twenty
four times forty white people were more
important to the Carnival than thirty
g darkies," though each one were more d.
verting than the preceding. 1t was put to
a vote-the Old Southern Home, good.
night A smoking room, however, has
been promised, and a row of electric lights
for the outside of the building, and if good
natured help from the whole city and hard
work by the Association amount to any
thing the Authors Carnival should be very
gay, and well worth going to see.
PHILIP SHIRLEY.