The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-07-07
WORLDS FAIR EXHIBITS AT THE
STATE FAIR.

The California Worlds Fair Com
mission at San Francisco moves often in
a mysterious way. For instance, it
utterly ignores the aid of the State Agri-
cultural Society and the auxiliary organ
izations working with it for State inter-
ests.
Bulletin No. IA of the commission,
issued a few days ago, opens with these
words:
An encouraging feature in the line of Worlds
Fair work is the effort now being made in
practically every county of California to col
lect and arrange displays intended primarily
Tor exhibition at the different agricultural
fairs that will be held during the next four or
five months, and incidentally for Worlds
Fair exhibits. These efforts, for the most
part, are independent of those being made for
the direct purpose of preparing exhibits at
Chicago. A bill passed by the last Legislature
divided the State into thirty-eght agricult-
ural districts, embracing all of the ffty-four
counties, and made appropriations for each
district, averaging probably $500. The
forming of these districts and the monetary
aid provided has given a marked stimulus to
agricultural interests and trade in general, as
each succeeding annual fair brings TO view
new and useful displays of the States agrI-
cultural, mechanical and industrial resources
If steady and persistent efforts
are made from this time on, exhibitors can
win enough cash awards at their district fairs
to pay for the time, trouble and expense of
preparing displays, and after that by little
more than giving their permission these dis
plays can be taken charge of and become O.
part OF California's great exhibit at Chicago.
In this, nor in any of the paragraphs
following, is any mention made of the
State Agricultural Society or the States
annual exposition, or of the $4,000 in
cash premiums which it gives, nor of the
special effort now in progress to induce
exhibition at the State Fair of exhibits
intended for the Worlds Fair Commits
sion. Nor is it explained that the money
referred to as going to district fairs is not,
or very little, distributed in premiums.
and that very few of the district fairs as
yet hold notable pavilion exhibitions.
but confine their efforts mainly to fine
stock exhibits.
Here is the chief fair of the State, a
State institution, offering exceedingly
and unusually high premiums of thou
sands of dollars for county exhibits in
1892 for the very purpose of aiding the
Worlds Fair Commissions collections.
wholly ignored. The fact appears to be
that the commission does not at all avail
Of the important consideration that goods
for the State Fair are transported free of
cost by the Southern Pacific Company.
thus insuring great saving to the COM
mission on all Worlds Fair exhibits
turned over to 1t from the State Fair.
In this city and county an auxiliary
association to aid the State Fair has been
formed, and it has secured a guarantee
fund to meet its expenses. 1t has SUBJ
divided into sections to solicit and gather
exhibits, and has set forth to the people
that all exhibits they wish transferred
shall be sent to the Worlds Fair Com
mission for the dress parade in January
in San Francisco. 1t would seem that so
much gratuitous assistance as the State
Board of Agriculture Qeaving out its
volunteer aids thus tenders ought to
have some slight recognition by the COM
mission.
1t cannot be possible that the California
Worlds Fair Commission is laborino
against the States exposition, yet it is a
fact that its authorized travelling repre-
sentative accidentally came before one of
the sections of the organization aiding
the state Board of Agriculture to gather
exhibits for the Worlds Fair Commission
and was surprised to learn that there was
any such work on foot. He is sent out
TO encourage interior work and ascertain
what progress has been made, but he had
no instructions concerning the State Fair,
and no knowledge of the fact concerning
economy of shipments of exhibits to it
nor any idea of what was being done
here in connection with the State Expo
sition to put California in good position
at the fair in Chicago in 1898.
OF course the work in aid OF the State
Board of Agriculture and the preliminary
display of Worlds Fair exhibits at the