Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-21
THE RESULT OF a LOCAL EFFORT.

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1t is gratifying to know that the people
of Sacramento have proved responsive to
the appeals made to them to manifest their
approval of the schemes of the Museum
Association, by making the Loan Exhibi-
ton success. 1t is not too much to en-
pect that the Association will be early
able to materially aid the incoming tide
service to the Northern California Immi-
grafton Association, and the sooner it is
enabled to begin the arrangement of ex-
| hibits of the growth Of the State, its pro-
| ducts, minerals, woods, soils, flora, geology
waters, etc, the better for the whole coun-
| try 1t is the twin sister and helper of the
Immigration Society, but has a local value
besides, in that its aim is also to gather
in time a collection exceeding varied in
| character and addressing art perceptions,
scientific tastes, the love of the strange and
old and matter suggestive to the business
sense. Added to this is the possibility of
its use as a school for cultivating taste
for art. The success of the Loan Exhibi-
ton may be taken as Il verdict in favor Of
something entertaining being maintained
i'll the Capital city of a broadly public
character, besides skating Kinks, dancing
clubs and theaters. The chances now are
that we shall have here soon museum
building, with its lecture hall and its cabi-
nets, its astronomical rooms and its labora-
tory, its agricultural exhibits and its min
eral examples, results of the mechanic
arts, art collections and school and
its literary and historic depart
ments, etc All this is to come Ewith
time, for museums are not gathered in
day nor in year. Still they are of vastly
more rapid growth now than a few years
ago, for science and the skill of the work
man enable the great teaching objects nee
essary to museums to be represented by ex-
act copies of the originals. Regarding
the Loan Exhibition itself a word is de-
manded. 1t is a strangely gathered mass
Of the curious, useful and useless; of the
rich, the elegant, the coarse and the beau
tiful of the historic past and the prosaic
present. OF course it is without classiti-
cation. 1t is thrown together, but it
must be confessed with greater success in
the matter of attempting orderly arrange
ment, than has attended any like effort in
the State. The chief lesson of the exhibi-
ton, the one prominent and striking thing
about it, is the sermon it breaches and the
truth it enforces regarding the ability Of /
people to accomplish a given end where
there Is unity of purpose and effort, and
seltishness gives place to broad philan- !
thropy and public spirit. This people has
taught itself that its possibilities are
greater far than any citizen has heretofore
suggested. We are shown what we can do |
when, as community, we put aside |
jealousies and suspicion, and doubts and |
fears, and unite for the accomplishment of |
an end for the common veal Many hun
dreds of people in the five days last past
have been gratiied, and, in large degree,
instructed, by visits to the exhibition.
Good has thus been done in more senses
than one, and the intellectual and moral
tone of our city is better to-day for it. 1t
would seem, therefore, since the association
is now secure against probable loss, that
the exhibition might be kept open some
days longer. Not nearly all have seen it
who should. Only just now have the peo-
pie awakened to a full realization of It's
lofty and satisfying character. 1t will
be asking good deal OF the working COM
mittees to continue on in the arduous
labors which are superadded to their daily
duties. But since they have given cause for
the suggestion of continuance, with what
grace can they decline? We know ONO loan
that has closed its doors in five
days after the opening. AT the East
fortnight is the minimum limit. 1t is to
be hoped that the way will be made clear
for continuance some DAYS longer, since it
is the public conviction that the EXPOSE
ton is "a good thing" for all the people.