Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-28
HOME AFFAIRS.
GRAND SUCCESS OF FRUIT AUC-
TION SALES.
A Bad Railway Accident-Wife.
Slayer Hanged-SS.OOO for
Brood-Mare-Etc.
ESPECIAL DBPATCHEs TO THE REcoRD-uN1os.l
A GREAT SUCCESS
The Fruit Auction Plan Working GrandIy
in the East

CHICAGO, June 27th.-All the animation
and rivalry and representative character of
the national political Convention were pre-
sented this morning in line stretching
from the railroad depot, Just across the
river from where State street and South
Water street, the two busiest thoroughfares
IN Chicago, cross one another. Honors and
attentions were showered upon the Callfor-
mans at the great national gathering in st.
Louis, and Chicago had equally their coun-
terpart here. California, in fact seemed
the one subject in which for the time being
everybody present was interested. Huge
PILES OF LUSCIOUS LOOKING FRUIT
In boxes, bewildering in variety and ex-
tent, Uttered the floor of the depot in every
direction. Still more fruit was pouring in
from heavily-laden cars drawn up on the
tracks beside the depots many open doors.
while on the other side of the depot,
through other open doors, were seen swear
ing, yelling team tiers, with trucks and
wagons, crowding each other for the first
place in the general onslaught, evidently
eager to commence among the stack of
boxes on the floor.
INSPECTING THE FRUIT.
Little groups of well-dressed business
men were around, pencil and notebook in
hand, carefully examining and making
calculations regarding the boxes that the
stalwart porters about them were pulling
open everywhere. Right in the midst of
rows upon rows of boxes, and exactly like
miniature Convention, number of chairs
were ranged, just in front of what looked
surprisingly similar 10 the Speakers stand
occupied by Lieutenant Governor White.
of California, when presiding over the
Democratic hosts at st. Louis. or that of
the other distinguished Californian, Estee,
in the gathering of the Republican clans at
the Auditorium.
PURE MATTER OF BUSINESS.
There was one notable difference-no
gaudy decorations were visible anywhere,
and the scene, though lively in the extreme,
had an aspect that bespoke business and
nothing else. No horn blowing or cheer
ing or speech making was necessary to stir
things up, and when a brisk young man
mounted a stand and raped for order, the
proceedings began instanter, with regular
hop, skip and jump. 1t was virtually the
INAUGURATION OF THE AUCTION SYSTEM
Of handling fruit in this market, for though
sales have been going on for nearly week,
the experiment was too unfamiliar to the
buyers in attendance to be said, until this
morning, to be really under way. Hereto
fore, one firm has had practically monop-
oily, so far as Chicago and the vast territory
tributary Is concerned, of the entire product
of the great California orchards, purchased
by private sale, and the result was that the
traffic here was stunted almost from its
birth.
Generally, money could be realized and
profits or losses counted by growers in Cal
ifornia, only after weeks of DELAY, when
the final consigaee in some outlying town
from Chicago had been at last rounded up
singe-handed by the sole agent of the Cal
ifornians in this city.