The record-union., 1892-05-03
ENTERTAINING THE GUESTS.

ENTERTAINING THE GUESTS.
The National Editorial Association,
which in few days will leave the East
for California, is to be received in this
State in a manner wholly new. Instead
of being banqueted and wined and kept
in towns and cities and brilliant halls,
and given balls and society receptions, it
is to see the State practically as whole.
1t is first to be taken through Southern
California productive regions from San
Bernardino to Los Angeles and to San
Diego; thence to Fresno and Stock
ton, and so on through Central and
Northern California as far north as Te-
hama, as far east as the mines Of Nevada,
as far west as the beautiful valleys of
Sonoma, and south to the waters of Mon
terey Bay, and the fruitful plains of the
Santa Clara Valley; thus taking in foot
hill, mountain, mine, plain, vineyard,
orchard and agricultural sections.
The visitors will be the guests Of the
California Press Association all the time.
While the Southern Pacific Company,
with profuse iberality, furnishes all the
transportation for this very extended
tour of State inspection, it has, in addi-
ton generously given 81 900 to the Cali
fornia Press Association to aid it in en-
tertaining the guests. This money is ex-
pended for an expository volume upon
the State and it's resources and every
county in it, with colored maps, and !
thoroughly authentic and exhaustive ex-
pository matter; for badges and for print
ing, and for other expenses necessarily
incidental to such an undertaking.
At San Francisco the guests will meet
one evening with the California Press
Association in regular session at the
Press Club rooms, when Charles A.
Gardner of Pasadena and r. Beers
Loos of Sissons will read papers.
The next day the guests will, by cour-
tesy of the San Francisco and North Pa
cific Railroad Company, take steamer
rendered to the California Press Associa-
"
during which the San Francisco Exana-
faer will spread dinner and furnish
band in honor of the hosts and guests
alike. That evening the National Asso-
ton will meet, and Mr.. VIM. II. Mills will,
by request of the State Association, de-
liver the welcoming address.
Before leaving San Francisco the citi-
Zens of that place will escort the guests in
carriages to all points of interest, and
while they are in the city see that they
are housed at moderate rates. At Sacra-
mento the visitors will be given lunch
and dinner by the citizens, and the free
dom of the city will be theirs. They will
not be massed at any time during the
day. There will be music at the Art
Gallery day and evening, and at the
Capitol day and evening. In the even
ing they will also be asked to visit the
Assembly Chamber and meet the Recep-
ton Committee and receive flowers. The
Governor has been invited to meet them
there, and the other State officers will
also be asked to be present. At the same
time, at the Art Gallery, the Museum
Association will receive the visitors dur
ing the evening, light refreshments be-
ing provided at each place.
During the day the guests viii have
free use of the electric railways, and
citizens with carriages and buggies will
be prepared to give them rides TO points
of interest.
In the afternoon, some 200 of the visit
ors will be taken to Folsom by special
train to see the fruit lands en- route and
to see the water power above the branch
prison. The guests will breakfast be-
tween and the next morning in city
hotels and restaurants, and depart for
Vacaville and Santa Rosa, and thence to
Oakland and Monterey and back to San
Francisco.
At the conclusion of the session in San
Francisco, they will come again to the
central part of the State by way of Wood
land to Tehama, Vina and Chico, stop
ping at the two latter points and staying
once more over night in Sacramento.
leaving the next morning for Dutch Flat,
to witness mining in various forms.
thence going to Grass Valley and Ne
vada and being there entertained. trans
portation from Colfax being furnished
free by the Nevada Narrow-Gauee Rail
road. They then return to Sacramento
and here disband.
We have gone over the outline of the
tour to show how thoroughly the State
will be shown to the visitors and how in
telligently, for on the entire trip repre-
sentatives of agricultural, horticultural,
viticultural, mining and commercial and
transportation interests will accompany
the guests, 10 respond to their inquiries
and to show them due courtesies. Noex-
cursion to this State has been projected
upon q scale of such magnitude, or