Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-12
THE LOAN EXHIBITION.
Opening To-Night-txsrcises-A AIaguiH
cent Display.

opening To- ghI-tx 9rciSes-A MagU1tt-
cent Display.
The Lean Exhibition, under the auspices
of the Ladies' Museum Association, opens
at the E. B. Croker Art Gallery tonight at
7:30 for the benefit of the California Mu-
scum Association. After this evening it
opers at 10 A NJ. daily, and closes at 1,
opens at 7:30 and closes at 1890 P. NJ To
night there will be concert music from 7:30
to $50, and dancing for those who wish in
the lecture room, below the exhibition hall.
from $50 to 1890. The first regular pro-
gramme of entertainment will be on Thurs
day night. Entrance to the building is to
be through the lower vestibule and not by
the main door. The exhibits will all be in
place by this evening, and ready for in
spection. They constitute, unquestionably,
the finest collection of laces, mosaics.
broDzes, crystal and rare tableware, vases,
antique ornaments, rich textile fabrics,
elegant metal work, vase designing, ivory
and wood ornamentation, filagree work,
ETC.. ever brought together in the interior,
and rivals similar exhibitions in San Fran
cisco. The principal collections" are from
Mrs +. 3. Croker, Mrs. Chas. Croker Mrs
j. OBJ. Gum, Mrs. VIM. Bixler, Mrs A NJ.
Towne, Mrs. Thos. Scott, Mrs j. T.
Houghton, Mrs. VIM. Irelan, Nathan
Dohrman & Co., Gump & Co., Deakin
Bros. IL Co., and others in San Francisco;
and from Chas. Jacobs, Mrs. Dr.. Simmons,
Mrs. B. r. Crocker, Mrs. Mayor Gregory,
Mrs. Newman, Mrs. Storch, and some fifty
others in Sacramento. In addition is a
host of lesser exhibits in single pieces,
from San Francisco and Sacramento the
exhibit If the Sacramento School of De-
sign, the two Paris Gold Medal Salon pic.
lures "Circe" and The Tempter," Thos.
Hills great picture Driving the Last
Spike" water colors by Mrs VIM. Irelan,
oil eolors by Mrs. Amanda Austin and w.
+. Jackson and several others. There is
enough IL the exhibition TO engage atten-
ton for week of visits if the examination
is given their rare value deserves. The
great mass OF the articles are such as can
not be seen in stores in this State, and are
collections made in Europe mainly and at
great expense. If one visits it to merely
run through and out again he will profit
little by It. There is not in the entire col
lection an article that is not ranked as
product of the fine arts. To-day there
will arrive a rare collection of musical
boxes, jewel cases etc. The walls are now
so full that yesterday the ladies bad to re-
ject paintings, and even Thos. Hill could
not find place for four of his new pieces.
A four horse omnibus. is to run on the
hour, the half and the quarter hours, from
to 1880, between Third and X and the
Gallery, free, 10 accommodate those who
come and go by street cars. Mr.. Carey has
agreed with the management TO run large
o and H-street cars 10 take the last people
who leave the Gallery at 1870, so that the
last car will leave Third and K streets
about 10:45 each night. The admission fee
TO the Exhibition on all three floors is %
cents, and for children, by day, 10 cents At
night the charge is to be uniform This ia
the only mistake the ladies have made. The
Exhibition fee is ruinously low. Whoever
views the display, and considers the great
expense of transportation and insurance of
such goods, the cost Of lighting so immense
building, the orchestra free omnibuses,
programme entertainment, etc., cannot but
conclude that the charge on admission
should have been double that asked. 1t so
struck RECORD UNION representative who
passed through the halls yesterday, even in
their then incomplete stage. The ladies
have resolved that there shall be no
schemes to get money from visitors. One
will not, by getting in for 25 cents, have to
pay four times as much to get out, but
luncheon will be served every evening as
an accommodation