Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-22
THE WORLDS FAIR CLUB.


matter of organizing Worlds Fair club
for Sacramento county. A meeting has
been held and steps taken to secure large
working membership for the club. 1t
should be understood that all these county
clubs are to be auxiliary to the State or
8anlzation, whatever it may be, that is
finally to be given charge of the work of
properly representing California at the
fair. The scheme of these clubs is in line
with the excellent policy that attends to
details and trusts to the greater parts
taking care of themselves; or, rather with
the doctrine that if the small affairs of
such undertakings are scrupulously at
tended to the result will be the more
effective character of the greater concerns
of the scheme.
We believe that the fair of 1898 will
prove to be the most decisive and broadest
opportunity for California of the whole
decade. We need, therefore, to take time
by long forelock in the matter of prepa-
ration, and to begin now is not too early.
What we need to do here is to determine
what Sacramento's contribution shall be.
When that is settled, and it is by no
means small matter to arrive at its set
Element, the methods of carrying out the
plans must be agreed upon. This second
phase of the matter will be not less i'm
portant than the first, and will be the sub
Ject for an intinity of suggestion. We
should hear all who have views to adj
vance, consider all propositions deliber-
ately, and when We settle upon the meth
DDS adhere to them rigidly that there may
be preserved symmetry and order in car
rying out the measures adopted. The
next step will be to submit these plans TO
the authority that may be raised up to
determine if our exhibits and method of
showing them will be in harmony with
the scheme adopted for the whole State.
of course, 1t would be better to have a
symmetrical plan laid out for the State
exhibit in the first place, but that cannot
be done with certainty until the Legis-
Jature assemblies and the extent of the
financial aid the State will give to the
California exhibition at Chicago is ascer-
tanned.
When the character of our contribution
US determined and the method of preparing
1t is agreed upon and approved, there will
remain the greater work-that of carrying
out the scheme. For that purpose the
usefulness Of compact, public-spirited and
enthusiastic COUNT organization will be
appreciated Our citizens have taken hold
of the matter with commenda able spirit,
and manifest disposition to have Sacra-
mento take position IN the very front
rank of California communities at the fair.
We have the soil, the mineral products,
the agricultural growth, the manufactures,
the resources in general to make our place
an envied one in the fair, and our exhibit
the best advertising feature that the county
has ever put forward.
VI course, all this preparation is upon
the assumption that California will be
represented in the fair by counties. II
would seem that in no other way can SC
much be accomplished. While there must
be general exhibit, typical of the State
as whole, and in which no county OF
Oother geographical lines will be drawn, il
rs obvious that to secure the active partic
dpation of all the people of the severa
sections Oft the State, as well as to illustrate
our varied climatic and productive condi
tons, the commonwealth must be repre-
scented also by the cluster Of her countie
about the States general exhibition. Gu
climates are so many, our resources s.
varied, and so dependent for characte
upon location, that a true idea of tn
empire of our wealth, resources and posi-
bilities cannot be conveyed except b
grouping the evidences of the capacity Q
each county. While it has been propose
that all similar products shall be groupe
irrespective of the locality of the produc
ton, it is not likely that any such schem
will be adopted and the identity of tn
counties lost, for to do so would be to de
stroy the local interest that is now 5
much auickened, and out of which tn
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