The record-union., 1892-05-23
SACRAMENT0'S HOSPITALITY.
The General Opinion is That It is the
Right Sort.
What Others Have to Say OF the Capital
City'S Reception to the Edi-
torial Visitors.

The correspondent OF the San Francisco
Chronicle accompanying the Eastern ed
| itorial excursionists sent the following
account on Friday OF their reception by
the people of this city:
Sacramento saw everything that
Stockton had done Tor the Eastern edit
ors and went her few points better in
some respects. AS far as the weather was
concerned it was about a tie, but the Capt.
tai City managed TO have little the most
breeze string. There had gone down to
Stockton to meet the visitors committee
who went through the trains and pinned
upon the breast of each eXcurSionist a
white badge, signitying that its wearer
was the guest OF the city OF Sacramento.
What this meant was partially disclosed
| by the distribution to everybod OF a
ticket for luncheon and dinner at any
hotel or restaurant in the city. Suisse
quent events added further evidence to
| the magnitude of Sacramento'S hospital
ity:
| City, carriages were at the station to drive
the visitors to the eating places which
| they had decided to honor with their
| presence, and each driver, who in most
cases was a member of the family by
whom the carriage had been volunteered,
| asked upon deposit1ng his burden, when
it would be convenient for him to call
around the city. Add to all this the fact
that none of the street railways charged
| fare for anyone with an association badge
on, that even the swimming baths were
free, and that there is also to be free
O'Clock breakfast at the depot tomorrow,
and it will begin to be apparent what a
| royal welcome the people of Sacramento
extended to their guests.
MANY of the visitors took trip by
! special train out TO Folsom under the
| guidance of a committee from that town.
| They were shown the State Prison and
the water power and many were the pre-
dictions haZarded by the people from the
East that the time was not far distant
when that power would furnish all the
| electrical and other motive power for the
Capital City. The Eastern people won
dered most that so much time had been
already lost in this direction.
''Ihose who remained in Sacramento
found very delightful place to spend the
afternoon at the State Capitol. This fine
building was literally transformed by the
abundance of flowers and foliage grouped,
massed and festooned along the stair
ways, in the alcoves, and in fact in every
| available nook apd corner. The greater
abundance of decorating is on the second
floor and in the Senate and Assembly
Chambers, but the stairways reaching it
are veritable greeneries.
| Sat the entrance and foot of the two
main stairways are potted palms. while
| the balustrade is almost concealed with
MOSES and ferns and rushes. The rail-
ing of the rotunda and all the archways
leading to it are festooned with ropes of
evergreen, while the alcoves each contain
some rare shrub in pots. But the most
attractive feature is the great number of
magnificent bouquets with which the
Senate and Assembly chambers are dec
Grated. Upon the desks and window
tnrC MA hi.
flowers, making the rooms, which are
wont to resound with eloquence or
pathoS, as charming and attractive as a
lady's boudoir. There were also very
pretty and tasteful decorations in the
library.
''From to 4:30 P. NJ. the First Artillery
Band played in the Capitol grounds. and
hundreds sat under the spacious shade
trees enjoying the music, but some pre-
ferred to ride about the city. This was
easily possible, for notice had been given
that the carriages set apart for the visit
ors were theirs for the day, and any one
was welcome to hail any reception car
riage on the street and was sure of a
hearty welcome and good ride.
"A noticeable feature of the Sacramento
style of receiving the guests was the alb
sence of formality and the effort to have
the visitors feel at home. This was par
ticularly noticeable all during the day,
|
Croker Art Gallery seemed to have been
planned expressly with the object Of
having the citizens meet and talk with
their guests"
EARLY MORNING HOSPITALITY.
The Examiners correspondent writing
from here on Saturday, said:
There was almost too much of a good
thing to-day, too much hospitality. Sac
| ramento began it with a breakfast at $50
| rlnttc or1r fSN,. Ill,
| starting time of the trains was O'Clock.
and the people Of Sacramento didn't pro-
| pose to send their guests away hungry
! They were up in time to serve cheering
repast, and this fact moved Senator p.
Gray Meek, President OF the Pennsylva-
MIA Editorial Association. to say: you
Californians beat the world. If needed
anything to convince me of that fact this
breakfast furnishes it. don't know any
other place where the people would pet
up at such an unconscionable hour in the
morning to see that crowd of strangers
were fed. In our country Pm afraid the
guests would go hungry. In fact / know
they would"
A SINGLE EXCEPTION.
While all the San Francisco paners
with single exception, spoke truthfuIlv
and in commentator of the reception nv
Sacramento of the National Editorial AS
sociation, it remained for the San Fran
cisco Bulletin to say that the visitors
found this city so populous with mosqui-
toes as to be destructive of comfort. As
matter of fact such a statement is made
out of the whole cloth of untruth. The
mosquito did not interfere with the com
fort OF guests In Sacramento for the very
| excellent reason that the pest is not oh
servable in the city. 1t is barely possible
| that here and there one was heard to sine
his song, but SO, too, he is found along
all the streets OF San Francisco below the
slope OF the hills. 1t is evident that the
Buttet'n is at the mercy of an imaginative
travelling correspondent.