The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-06-24
AS I'HEY saw Us.
Two More Eastern Editors Opinions
of Sacramento.
A Fair Statement of the Reception
Given Them Here-An Informal
and Pleasant One.

The editor of the Lafayette, Ind, Cal,
who was one of the members of the Ma
tional Editorial Association that recently
visited the State, mas this to say of the
party's reception in Sacramento:
Our train moved on to Sacramento, the
Capital. The Sacramento Reception Com
mittee had come on board at Stockton
and accompanied US back TO their own
city. On arrival, at l p. NJ, our party
found q great crowd at the depot and
hundreds of private carriages, sent by
public-spirited citizens drawn up in line
at our disposal. Into these the guests
were loaded and driven TO the various
hotels and restaurants, amongst which
the party had been divided, that they
might be the better taken care of. III
most cases the carriages waited while the
visitors dined, and then took them up
again for drive about the city, The
Capitol and the Art Gallery were centers
OF attraction, and committees of citizens
held informal receptions at each place.
There were no ceremonial proceedings
at either. The Art Gallery was hand
somely decorated with flowers, and there
was music and light refreshments. At
the Capitol building all the State offices
were thrown open, and all had been
handsomely decorated. The State Treas
urel'S Office had prepared quite a novel
exhibit for the guests. The big vault
was thrown open and the guests were
permitted to go inside and feast their
eyes on the thousands upon thousands oil
dollars stacked up there in stout sacks.
But the feature was an exhibit in the
main office, consisting of a glass case in
which $4,000 in SO and $50 pieces We're
arranged in stacks SO as to form the
words: ''W elcome-N. &. A."
The Senate and Assembly Chambers
and the State Library had ali been hand
somely decorated with flowers. In the
Assembly Chamber, in the center OF the
room, was a handsome floral May-pole.
In the Capitol Library was perhaps the
| most elegant floral decoration we had yet
seen, q design in which immense cornu-
copias artistically grouped formed the
center piece, and which bore on one face
the inscription: Sacramento" and on
the reverse, California" all done in
lovelieSt flowers.
In the Senate Chamber and other
rooms were also handsome floral decora-
TONS and the great Railways and rotunda
I were profusely beautiIed with palms and
other large plants in great boxes.
One popularity about the Sacramento
entertainment was its entire lntOrmdiiJV.
There was no assembling of the visitors
together and 10 speech making. There
was ample carriage accommodation tOr
all who wished it, to drive after dinner.
/ The street ears were free to the guests:
and all came and went as they pleased
visiting different places of interest and
seeing the city generally.
ANOTHER REPORT.
The following is from the Weekly TTattI
of Baton Rouge, La:
''The next morning we were at Sacra-
mento, the Capital City, and were enter
tanned most charningly until next day
We visited the Art Gallery, took a brief
trip to Folsom, the great dam, the Ameri-
can River canyon, u ride along the hop
and fruit lands and visit to Represso,
the prison grounds. At night Governor
Markham held an informal reception at
the Capitol, a magnificent structure,
which had been beautifully decorated for
the occasion. Here the beauty and chiv-
airy OF the city were present to Go us
honor. We left Saturday morning with
many regrets, for we longed to linger in
this hospitable city.