Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-30
NOW OR MEYER.
SACRAMENTO MUST DECLARE HERSELF
ON SPRING RACES.
The City Board of Trade Expected to
Take Action on the Matter To-
morrow Afternoon.

meeting of the Directors of the CITY
Board of Trade was held on Friday even
ing to consider the proposition laid before
that body by the State Agricultural Society
to guarantee the remaining s., 800 required
to warrant the Society in adding S., 00C
(making the amount S10,00O) for stakes for
the initial spring race meeting next year
The Directors talked the matter over, and
| appointed committees to interview the lead
| ing business men of the city on the subject,
and report to full meeting of the Board
of Trade, called for three o'clock tomorrow
afternoon. The committees are as follows
First Committee-C. A. Luhrs chairman,
George NJ. Mott and W. o. Bowers. Sec
ond Committed. A. Lindley Chairman,
E. A. Crouch and ]. o. Coleman.
A majority OF the Directors seem to be in
favor OF guaranteeing the amount asked, in
order that the State Agricultural Society
may proceed at once to formulate its stakes
and programme of races. The time is
about at hand when the colts that will
show up in their two-year-old form next
spring must be put through their PAGES,
and it is necessary that nominations should
be made before the wedding out" process
is commenced
Five enterprising citizens and firms-W.
.. Bowers, Hall Lubrs & Co., VIM. Land,
Gardner & Craig and Weinstock, Lubin & Co.
have each subscribed $500, making S., 500
of the S., 200 required before the State So.
ciety will give an equal sum and assume
control of the meetings. Stockton has
already offered $500, and unless Sacra-
mento besttrs herself in lively manner
the latter will, TO use a vulgar phrase ''get
left" There should be no trouble what
ever in the Board of Trade raising the
81 800 between now and next April, and it
would be taking no risk at all in guaran-
teeing that sum. There are many capital
lists, firms and wellto. do merchants, who
would subscribe sums from $50 to 500. and
the Board can well afford to assume the re-
sponsibility at this time. As a business
proposition, the matter should commend
Itself to wide-awake citizens. Once inau-
gurated on the plane on which il is pro-
posed to launch these spring ceilings, they
will pay for themselves afterward, and will
attract to the city thousands of visitors, at
time of the year when our CITY and the
surrounding country are looking their best.
Everybody realizes the advantage that
the State Fair is to Sacramento, and vet
that important event depends for its chief
attraction upon the speed contests. 1t
occurs at the only period of the year that
can be said to entail the slightest discom-
fort to visitors from the coast sections;
and yet they cannot repress their desire to
take in" the grand races, and the result is
that at least 100000 is expended in this city
each year, to be divided up among all
classes of business. The proposed spring
meetings should prove even more attract
i've and remunerative than the State Fair,
for they would take place during the most
delightful season Of the year, when it
would be real pleasure to the residents
of other places to spend week in the
capital city.
The proposition has now been quite fully
discussed-both by the press, on the street,
and in the counting room-and its ad-
vantages should be apparent to all. The
time has come when Sacramento must de-
clare her intentions, and there is reason to
believe that the members of the City Board
of TraGe, who are all practical business
men, will take intelligent action.