Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-21
FREEHAND NOTES.
HOW TO GET UP AN AUTHORS CAR.
NIVAL,
What It Is For-The Worry
Of the Workers In It.
Correspondence of the RECORD. UNION. l

Of the Workers in 1t.
Correspondence Of the RECORD UNIoNl
SAN Francisco, October Is, 1882.
Sitting up to see the comet and forget
ting to look at it, or setting an alarm. clock
for half-past 4, and imprecating all comets
and your folly when the trusty mechanism
inexorably whizzed its matutinal song,
were common experiences last week. Still
everyone saw the comet once, and it is
unanimously conceded that it makes fine
appearance. 1t certainly looks as if it had
baleful intention of charging headlong
down upon
This litel spot of erth that with the Sc
Embraced is,
as Chaucer of Indifferent photography is
pleased to call the planet we inhabit; one
half understands the superstitious dread
comets used to awaken in unreasonable
people. Astronomical influences may be
adverse, but the life of the city is bright
For example, Governor Stanford enter.
tanned forty gentlemen at dinner Friday
night. farewell to General Mcdowell I:
and Sir Thomas Hesketh, just before leav-
ing San Francisco, was inspired to pur.
chase Theodore Wores' realistic picture,
ga Shop in Chinatown" for 81, 25G. The
painting has been on view at the studio
and public galleries before being sent to its
owner in England. 1t will be unique,
half-fantastic sight in an English picture.
gallery.
To meet one of Mr.. Wores' little models,
small Chinaboy about seven years old,
shooting out of the elevator and scuttling
down the corridor, confidently reaching
up to the bronze knob of the studio
door, considerably above the red button
On his cap.
Preparations for the Authors Carnival
continue. The opening night has been
postponed to the 231 of October, owing
to the backwardness of the street re-
pairs going on in front of the Pa
vilion building Arthur Clough, in his
poem "Amours de Voyage" finally resolves
sill sentiment into an affair of juxtapos-
ton, and then sets everything back into
vsgueness again by languidly ending the
canto with the question,
"wHAT IS JUXTAPosITIoN ?"
So all San Francisco, having by tacit con-
sent fallen into good. natured interest in
coming show called the Authors Car
nival, would be somewhat perplexed to
answer all in moment the question "Just
what is this Authors Carnival?' Many
cities produce public. spirited men who en-.
dow charitable institutions, many cities
give charity balls, whence we derive that
asylums, shelters, homes and hospitals, not
under the care of the State, need a large
sum of money annually to keep them out
of debt and able to continue to benefit the
needy in an extended sphere of usefulness.
A fair has been the thing resorted TO time
out of mind to provide this ready money,
and an Authors Carnival is fair on a
magnificent scale. There are few
so called rich charities which of
course were not asked to join the
Carnival Association, but at last, by cor.
respondence, or, more effectually, by
talking it up" among the Directors, six
OF the more needy institutions were brought
by u common aim to join themselves in a
corporation known as the Authors Carni-
val Association, having for its object to
give an entertainment consisting of series
of tableaux and scenes from different au.
thors, or picturesque characteristics of
nations and races, the net proceeds of
which entertainment were to be divided
equally among the charities forming the
association. Two persons were chosen
from each charity to form an executive
board and officers were elected. The ex-
ecutive board ID
COMPOSED OF LADIES,
The President and Treasurer are necessa.
rily gentlemen. It was decided at once
that each charity should have four booths,
and the two ladies representing each char.
ity instantly sought those of their &C.
quaintances whom they knew by expert.
ence or hearsay to be possessed of literary
or dramatic ability, and implored them to
think of some author or artist, musical
composer or traveller whose creations or re-
corded observations could be realized by
painted flats and fair women aud brave
men in poses Of grace. The talents of
these clever persons being enlisted, their
names were enrolled as the General
Board OF Managers )" they in
turn procured the assistance of
still more practical directors, whose names
again figured as Booth Managers" The
next important move was to obtain a
guarantee fund for paying labor. A great
stage has to be built and nearly twenty
four smaller ones in the booths, scenery
must be painted, general stage director
and property man engaged at once, and all
these operatives must be paid at the end of
every week. The guarantee fund is
nothing more nor less than subscriptions in
money from rich and generous men. Sub
scription books were put into the hands of
the people willing to solicit donations for
charity's sake, the collected sums are paid
into the Associations treasury, and the
Carnival is started on q paying basis, and
the fond foolish hearts of the mechanics
are soothed to rest. They know they will
be paid. To the task of finding partici-
pants, as they are called-the dramatis
person9 of the Carnival-Executive Com
mittee, General Board and Booth Mana
gers bent every nerve. This year it
proved exceedingly difficult to find the
proper number of proper people to take
part in the booths. One booth made it.
self direly unpopular at the outset by dis
missing good-natured applicant with the
remark that there were only places for
GIRLS WITH CLASSICAL FEATURES.
Be it understood that ali participants go
into the Carnival for glory the longest
dark eyes in the world would not place
their owner in the Turkish booth, nor the
lowest forehead and most pointed chin Sc
cure their possessor the entire of the Egypt.
ian booth, If she expected remuneration for
her services. The unhappy booth man.
ayers, when they come to cast characters,
must apply to their friends and their friends
friends, and then trust to the wandering
stars whom vanity, ennui or curiosity
prompt to file participants applications
with the Executive Committee. Remuner-
alive booths, as they are called, received
great deal of attention this year. Ice.
cream and candy find ready sale among
crowd of pleasure seekers, and each charity
was allowed to make one out of the four a
booth where refreshments might be sold.
The Kenilworth Castle itself is in reality
supper table in baronial hall, where Lei.
cester will give you sandwiches and ANY
Robsart beg you to take some more salad.
The disentangling of expenses to be borne
by the Association az large, from extra ex.
penses to be borne by the charities who
chose to be extravagant in scenic display,
was settled by resolution that the Carni.
val Association should cree. the walls and
scenes of the booths, and