Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-12

e service at the Pavilion last night when
called TO render aid to the committees.
: The Flambeau Club and Marshaus
Military Band left for the East last night.
Assistant Adjutant-G General KewerI has
had the Office of the Adjutant-G General yery
neatly decorated with banners, grouping
OF muskets and sabers. and embellished
with portTaitS of prominent Generals The
effect is very pleasing. The grouping or
INTERVENING OF the sabers into stars was
quite unique
Librarian Wallis will expose the States
cabinet of minerals to visitors to the State
Library to-day.
The headquarters, at the Aztec Club.
! were crowded from noon to night vester-
day A large committee Of ladies furnished
refreshments in the dining-hall to all who
came.
Kohler & VanBergsn sent to the COM
mlttee, ana 1t was used last night, large
number of cases of finest champagne.
During the march of the Flainbeau CIul
| from the Pavilion to the Capitol, last event.
ing, several fires were occasioned by fallin
| sparks from their rockets on some Eees
draped over an upper balcony of the res j.
dence of H. Weinrich on n street bet,ye sn
Eleventh and Twelfth. Members of tEse
family ran up stairs and extiuglished th
flames before any damage resulted To
the house. On several occasions fires
were started in the drv grae,
which were extinguisheo b7 q newspaper
reporter. Some dry grass lud rubl sh iii
the rear of the Capitol was also set on iirsl,
and some of the decorations on The front of
the Capitol building were DESTROYED fFhe
latter was the only real loss sustaineft.
During the banquet Mrs. Tillie 1ohearer,
assisted by Mrs. Captain Robezts, of Fair
oaks Relief Corps, presented each member
OF the Grand Army and = the Nomens
Relief Corps visitors win souvenir made
of oak taken from Sut lers Fort. The SOU
venirs consisted OF small blocks of wood
about three inches IN length, one inch in
width and uuar.er of an ilch in thick
ness To each little historic block card
was tied with a silk ribbon, bearing the fol-
lowing lines
Fair Oaks Relief Corps, Sacramento Cal,
presents this So lvenir cut from piece of oak
taken from Su ters Fort, Sacramento, to the
members OF th.3 Twentieth National Eueamp-
ment, G. A. + visiting Sacramento August il
and Il, 1888 ! his fort was erected by General
John A. St.ttei in 1871. It's erection was the
initial step of he American occupation of the
sacramento Va .leE
The ladies a7stnbuted over one thousand
of these soUvet iTs 10 the guests during the
evening. To show how they were appre-
ciated, it is only necessary to say that many
of the visit asked for extra pieces to
take home with them 70 their friends.
A letter of sincere regret OF inability to
be present was received yesterday from
Congreesmau Jos. Mchenna.
All Grand Army men aud their wives or
members of their family accompanying
them, who visited Sacramento yesterday,
and were not already being entertained BY
friends, or who were not of parties occupy
ing sleeping cars, were provided free of
cost, with places of rest last night, and IN
the vast majority of cases at private houses,
where, in but few instances, breakfast will
be furnished them this morning. The
committee had some sixty or seventy lodg-
ings left over and went to the hotels and
offered to accommodate any overflow free
of cost. 1t is estimated that fully l 800 per-
sons were thus supplied with free lodgings.
No other city in the State has equalled this
in hospitality.
The streets were crowded to their full
capacity as the procession moved last might,
and the enthusiasm of the people was I'M
bounded.