Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-21
THE LOAN EXHIBITION.
A Splendid Success-Close of the Season
Ta-night-New Attractions.

that their efforts had been appreciated.
The success attained has encouraged the
Directors greatly. and they propose to go
forward with the work of the Association
with vigor not before manifest, and to act
right speedily. With the close of the sea-
son of the Loan Exhibition tonight the
new work of the society will begin.
Great numbers of school children visited
the exhibition yesterday, and last night
there was fine attendance. New exhibits
| were sent in Yesterday in large numbers,
! and more showcases had to be ordered to
accommodate them. Hon. ]. J. Ayers will
be the reader for this evening and special
orchestral programme will be presented.
As a special feature Mr. Z. A. Neale, the
accomplished futist, will play, by request,
his hooking bird solo.
Hon. Elwood Bruner was the reader last
| evening of the second canto of Marmion'
He read with deep feeling, clearness of
enunciation and in good taste. Any num-
Der of offers have been madeto the Directory
of special features 10 entertain the audiences
but the desire has been not to distract the
attention of visitors from the exhibits, to
the examination of which it is the sincere
desire to invite all who come into the
building The managers well say: 1--WE
give the people for twenty-five cents a
whole days or evenings inspection of the
finest art collection this side of the Missis-
sippi river; a view of Toby Rosenthal's
greatest picture, to see which alone 10000
people in San Francisco paid twenty-five
cents each; a view of Gerard's great
painting, that attracted thousands of
people in the East for many weeks,
and is alone worth the price of adj
10 TO
nearly 1900 exhibits of greatest interest
and full of food for thought. and that in
themselves are worth the price OF adrnis-
sion grand orchestral concert by musi-
clans who rehearse daily the best of music
for hours, that it may be well presented in
the gallery. What more can be asked,
what more should be expected"
An old San Francisco gentleman yester-
day visiting the hail declared that if
they could be set down in San Fran
cisco as they nov are, the people
of that city would flock to the place for
months and pay half dollar per head" 1t
is the best and most varied entertainment
l have ever seen on the coast of this char
acter, and | have seen them ALL" The Art
Gallery was thronged at all times last even
ing and the demand for catalogues beyond
the capacity of supply. Those used are
kindly loaned to the Association by Mrs.
Croker, and the Society rents them out for
the benefit of its building and museum
fund. Treasurer Felter yesterday opened
an account for the Association in the bank
of d. o. Mills, where the accommodations of
the building fund will be deposited
AS to how much, if anything
will be melted for that fund by
the Loan Exhibition cannot now
be ascertained, and will depend largely
upon the attendance to day and tonight
Very few have any idea of the heavy ex-
pense for watchmen, employees, transporta-
ton, insurance, fittings, music, advertising
messengers, clerical labor, collection and
return of exhibits, etc, inseparably con-
nected with such an affair. 1t is salts
factory to know, however, that nearly every
dollar of the outgo is distributed in this
city-it is an entertainment which carts no
money out ofthe city. 1t is to be hoped that
the attendance to-day and tonight will be
up to the full capacity of the halls.
Among the thousands of exhibits we con-
tinue our notes as follows: Grant of coat
of-arms, and seal, spoons and sugar tongs,
with coat-of-arms engraved, from Mrs. J.
W. Davis brick burned in the first kiln at
Sutterville, for first brick building in Sacra-
mento. Bill of sale of fruit and flowers,
marketed in one week, from Smiths gar
" gardens are, and have for years been,
covered with slickens, and will not grow
10 cents worth of anything per acre per
annum, except in spots leveed and MANFRED
and constantly stimulated. Beautiful pho
tographs colored of the Bridge of Signs,
also Bridge of Signs by Moonlight,
Venice, Italy; also one of the Palaces
of St. Marks, Palace of the Doges, Venice.
Worm eaten wood from piles in San Fran
cisco, Mrs. l.. Bell Bible of lit; brick
from Fort Sumter, George 3. Katzenstein
numismatical collections, c. Day, D. Lubin,
w. NJ. Davis, Mrs. G. III. Cummings and
others; olive soap made at Jerusalem;
cues from the heads of soldiers OF the rev.
dictionary war, cut off to prevent being
scalped by the Indians; one was worn by
Miller Tormyhill, and another by an UNI
known, attached to a nightcap of eighty
years ago, Mrs. Meyer; " Kensington,
eighty years ago" by Mrs. II. c. Hickey's
mother, 9S years; portrait of Raphael, Mrs
G. /. Simmons a Continental bill, LOG
years old; a treatise on the doctrine con-
tanned in the Divine Revelation, 1898, Rev
n, Slater; rare old mugs, from c. T.
Wheeler; spur worn during the Franco
German war by the famous war CORE
spondent, McGahan; collar of rare old
Maltese lace; three pen and ink sketches
on satin, Miss Julia S. Briggs, of Berkeley;
a letter written to a Sacramento lady by
General Berger, commander of the Com
mune forces, who held Paris in a state of
siege; the " Reading Magdalene," a proof
engraving; rare proof engraving OF Dante
and Beatrice; one of four celebrated proof
engravings of the Sistine Madonna. by
Raphael, and supposed to be the only one in
America; proof engraving of the death Of
St. Catharine, exhibited by Mrs. J. L. Glover;
basket of Italian grasses, Mrs. l.. A. Epson
commission signed by Thomas Jefferson
and one signed by George Washington,
from State Library exquisite etchings on
satin Audubon's birds of America
and astronomical plates. from State Ii
brary; shirt not big enough for doll, yet
once worn by prominent citizen of Sac
ramento, secured for exhibition by Mrs. e.
B. Croker, and all the gallery is asking,
"Who is he?" There is nothing finer in
handiwork in all the exhibition than the
medallion head of Christ, etched on silver
by distinguished Pole. 1t is owned by
Mrs. Vaudeville, and is in case on the
main floor midway of the westernInost
wall 1t will well repay examination
there is nothing like it in the State.
Ornamental porcelain heads and polished
stones, Mrs. E. b. Croker A book filled
with cards and badges collected from the
Knights Templar Conelave in San Francis
co, Miss ]. NJ, Power. Oil painting, Chris
tan martyr, from an ancient chapel in
Tuscany; the name of the painter could
not be ascertained, but it is considered by
Judges to be from the hands OF some of the
masters of the sixteenth century It's GER
tainly fine work, and one of great an
tiquity. Pictures of Palestine and the ORR
ent also collection of wild flowers from the
Holy Land, d. Lubin. Two very pretty
French paintings, Tn Marriage de Con-
venance and Tn Marriage de Raisop.
Pin-cushion made by, and a piece of the
wedding dress of, the exhibitors grand |
mother, 60 years old J. A. Barwick Fac
smile of large 500-pound cotton bale from
d" old South, Mrs. ". VI. Lyon. Oriental
carving of a penholder from Egypt, and
guard made from two hair lengths in Ger
many, Mrs J. A. Woodson. Portrait of
Joseph Luckanale, one of Napoleon's coun-
selors painted on ivory in Paris in 1907
exhibited by his granddaughter; shown
by Mrs. j. A. Barrett. Old Bible,
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