Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-20
THE LOAN EXHIBITION.
Continued Success All People
Should Visit 1t.

! the effort to run loan exhlpltloh mere
| for a few DAYS. If the people show by
| large attendance a lively appreciation OF
the endeayor to found museum here as a
place of study and for general entertain
ment and instruction, it testifies to those
laboring in that direction that their efIorls
have not been in vain, and that they can
go on in the work so well begun Appre-
ciative response by the people means also
expression to those who are capacitated to
aid such works and take pleasure IN them,
that their endowments will be well be-
slowed. Some small help in that way has
already been given, and a disposition man
Tested to do more. But life memberships
cannot be sold, nor gifts to museum So
licited, for a community lndiiierent 70 us
benefits Sacramento has thus lar testlned
to her lively interest IN the matter, 10 tne
taste and culture of her cltlzehs ana TO
| their appreciation of the efforts now being
made If is however noticeable that a
| class of DeoDle who should attend the Loan
Exhibition have been not so largely repre-
scented as they should have been. The price
was placed low, that the poorest might
come and none have excuse for
remaining absent 1t is a cosmopolitan
exhibit. and should attract every one. rich
and DOOR for it is a question OF love OF the
beautiful and a desire for knowledge, and
not one of society or fashion. Yesterday
the attendance was very large. The school
/ children came in large numbers, and none
who observed them could doubt the meas
ure of enjoyment with which they We're
| filled They were well-behaved, orderly
and polite. The Sacramento Grammar
10 nalh 10
the correctness of their demeanOr, and their
| respect for the ..authority of Their instructors.
They were lady-lize and gentlemanly, and
won praise for their conduct. All during
| the dav the boys and girls cheered for Mrs.
| Croker. and the lad who on Wednesday so
| impulsivelv started the cheer racket as
little shaver yesterday phrased it, has
the satisfaction of knowing that he inaugu-
rated very popular thing.
| At noon Yesterday the President and Di-
rectors of the Museum Association enter
! tanned Alex. Badlam and his friend, Mr..
Swan, at a dinner. Ten persons sat at the
table, and there was brief feast of reason
and flow of wit Mr.. Badlam's health was
drank in all heartiness.
The attendance last night was exceed
ingly large During the musical and lite
rary exercises the main hall was so packed
that ii was all but impossible to get through
the crowd. Under such circumstances it
was scarcely possible to view the exhibits
on that floor, and it again became evident
that the daylight. early evening and late
staying visitors are those who reap the
profit of critical examination. Mrs.
n. e. White read from Mar
mion," and though suffering with a
sore throat, gave the dramatic lines
descriptive of Rosenthals great picture,
with grace, force and the finished style of
a cultured reader. Signor Baldanza, tenor,
and Signor Lencioni, baritone, sang solos
and duo, and were warmly encored by as
appreciative and packed an audience as
they could wish, and the announcement
that they would soon be heard here in
concert was received with qualification Mrs
DR.. Pinkham presided at the piano for the
singers. During the evening Mrs.
w. r. S. Foye and Mrs. DR..
G. L. Simmons subscribed for life
memberships One enthusiastic capt.
talist started in one end of the main
hall subscription list to secure 600 800
contributions, in order to put the Museum
Association building beyond question in
the present year, and in time for its use in
classifying products of the State for view
by the expected immigration of this and
next year. He secured 81 500 subscriptions
on that basis in few moments and in
limited space. To-day the museum opens
at and closes at 5; opens at I and closes
at 1890. The orchestra will render choice
selections during the evening, and proba-
bly, some other pleasant exercises will be
introduced, a volunteer committee Of ladies
having set out to secure them, though the
Executive Committee never contemplated
regular programmes or other entertainment
than orchestral music and readings of" Mar
mion." All outside of that that has been
given has been impromptu. The picture,
" A Holland Fish Market by Girard, at
tracted far more attention and thoughtful
criticism last night, and it fairly divides
the honors with its dramatic rival by
Rosenthal Hon. Elwood Bruner is named
by the Bric-a-Brac Club (Which has post
poned its meeting to-night) as reader at the
exhibition this evening. An invitation has
been forwarded to Irving NJ. Scott, of San
Francisco owner of the Rosenthal paint
ing, to visit the exhibition.
Several new exhibits were placed in the
halls yesterday, and among them a pair of
candlesticks, from Mrs. Shllman, that were
made over 200 years ago Mrs. Croker
heard of them in the home of the aged
| lady, On the east border of the city, and
drove out there and secured them. 1t is
evident that new exhibits would come in
each day, even if the exhibition remained
open month instead of week.
1t is a mistaken policy to walk along the
cases and glance in only. Such view will
impress one with the exhibits as of small
| importance But if each exhibit is exam
ined, and little reflection had upon the
| more important, it will be found that here
| is gathered a wonderful collection of teach
| ing things There is, of course, good
deal that is Indifferent and ordinary, but
all these have their use as contrasting with
! the valuable and teaching. For instance,
| the example of The Lost Ant" of Secur-
| ing coloring upon porcelain surfaces with
out glazing them, as exhibited by DR.. Sim
| mons the chronological collection as dis
PLAYED and explained by Matthew Cooke
and his son; the beautiful collection of
California gals and fungi by Dr. Hank
ness, and which play such important parts
| in medicine. chemistry, and mechanics :;
the electrical display by R. a. Fisk, with
motors, electric light scarf pin, annuncia-
| tors, etc; the examinations from Indian
mounds the Fiji Island collections of W
| H. Davis, formerly Government officer in
| Fiji, and George Boyne, once resident of
Australasia; the examples of early manu-
| facture of textile fabrics; the rich bronzes
| in the Ichi Ban department and notably
the inlaid vases, in which art the Japanese
stand alone; the Oriental jewels, carvings
and curios shown by Mrs. Charles Croker :;
the examples of the arts of Egypt, the por-
| traits of types of and the relics of the Holy
Land, by d. Lubin the mosaic picture
shown by Mrs. Crocker, and two cases re-
moved loose mosaic stones from the mosque
of Omar, by D. Lubin. showing how the
stones appear unset and how combined they
| form what appears to be, but is not, rich
painting; the shell and coin collection of
Mr.. Klein; the cannibal island collection,
| by Dr. Gardner the casts of the footprints
| Of the prehistoric man, by DR. Hardness /;
the splendid collection of crystalliza-
tons, by Mr.. Klebitz; the carvings in
! ivory shown by Mrs. +. 3. Crock
er and the lchi Ban; the beautiful
wares shown by Mrs. Foye; the splendid
gallery of paintings on the third floor; the
contrast between modern German and old
| French art as seen in the great pictures
| Constance de Beverley" and The Hol-
| land Fish Market" both soon now to be
removed, never again to be shown here ;
the singularly beautiful lace work by
women of Fayal, shown by Mrs. w. NJ.
| Lyon the bronze ware, 1000 years old,
shown by the Sisters of Mercy; the SPLEEN
did collection of rare books, shown by State
Librarian Wallis; the old books by many
exhibitors relics of the late war examples
of the ORTHODOXY of Sacramento county,
by DR.. PyburI-all these and scores of
others Will repay days of study. It is only