Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-14

We have it, upon the authority Of many
of our recent guests, that Sacramento
would have had fully two or three times
the number present Wednesday and Thurs
day had it been clear to them that the ex-
cursion was to be such a grand afair-iu
short, it leaked out that misrepre-
sensations had been made to them about
Sacramento at San Francisco. Thus, they
were told that it was the last place on
Gods foot-stool to visit; that dust, heat
and extortionate clearinghouse keepers
compose the Capital City; that no prep
arations had been made to receive that
were suitable to the guests or the occasion
that really Sacramento did not propose to
do much, and could not if she tried. In
fact, our guests declined to repeat all that
was told to them in San Francisco deroga-
tory of this city, and of course they de-
clined to say who made these state
ments. But they admitted that the
GOODNESS and silence of the San Fran
cisco press concerning the trip strength
ened the very unfavorable impression
given them by personal statements. Under
this belief, many Of them left their wives
in San Francisco, and came here as mat
ter of duty to make showing, and hun
dreds Of others went through the city
without stopping.
When those who accepted our invita-
ton came, however, to their astonishment
they found here the broadest hospitality
anywhere extended to them. Governor
Alger, at the banquet, declared the Sacra-
mento demonstration of friendliness and
honest greeting to have eolipsed all others.
They found city overlooking with unos-
tentatious welcome, whose people took
them to their homes and seated them at
their domestic boards. They found our
men, women and children as 4 unit de-
voted to entertaining them. They were
conveyed, by private and public convey
ances, here and there as they desired they
were taken INTO the fruit and vine country
and back by special train, without cost;
they were Toasted and wined and dined
and lodged, and entertained by music, spec
tacular display and by varied exhibitions
of domestic products and of art works;
their sick we're cared for and every per-
sonal attention extended one could show
to member of his ewn family. They
were not marched about and made show
of, and then sent away. In short, while
they we're loud in praise of the liberality
and enthusiasm of all other places visited,
they found here greater breadth and
heartiness of greeting, more personal at
tention and careful ministration to their
comforts, less formality and red tape, less
marching and tramping, and less occasion
for expenditure of money or energy than
anywhere else. They found the weather
not at all oppressive-indeed, just right
and the night, as hundreds exclaimed,
"simply perfect" There were but
three things with which they
found fault; they could not eat enough to
satisfy the hosts, carry away enough to
please the givers, nor find time enough to
"take in" all that had been provided for
their entertainment. We have no DISPOSE
ton to boast overmuch of Sacramento's
reception-it was a hearty and appropriate
demonstration, and the plain and simple
truth Is boast enough. If it was by others
deemed go superior, we have only to say
that it was the result of sincerity and good
taste. We certainly should not again have