The record-union., 1893-01-23
THE LARGEST CROWD SINCE THE
OPENING OF THE FAIR
This County's Exhibit the Admiration
of ALA Descriptive Sketch of
Trip to Sacramento in Honor of Her
Day. Performed by Cassasa's Band,
Excites Unusual Interest.
Special to the REcoRp-USIox.

largest crowd yet in attendance. Every
nook and corner of the great building
was filled within an hour after the doors
were thrown open, and at s o'clock there
were still hundreds about the steps en-
deavoring to make their way to the inner
doors, and a great many who were dis
couraged by the mere sight of the crowd
postponed their visits and went home.
Sacramento County had the special
privileges of the evening, and there were
six or seven hundred county delegates to
enjoy the privileges.
Jud c. Brusie and George B. Katzen-
stein were the speakers Of the evening.
During the course of his address Mr..
Brusie paid the following tribute to Sac
ramento:
Each season has with a painful GER
tainty its reigning belle; the blooming
bud frail, tender, delicate and shy, but
beautiful as Venus of Milo may upon
her first approach seem mistress of every
highway which leads to the susceptible
hearts of men; but, after all, for good,
oId-time sensible talk, for substantial at
fractions, for true, real, genuine COM
panionship, full of compassion and fell
low-feeling, the girl of many seasons is
sought for with tendency as natural as
the flow of the river to the sea. So it is
with old Sacramento. She is a belle of '49.
Why, these other counties were toddling
babes during the early reign of Sacra-
mento. She is matronly now, it's true,
but all her jewels are intact; the golden
nuggets placed upon her by the pioneers
are still untarnished, and in the most
modern of decoration the 'old LADY, is still
in it, as is evidenced by this display
her oranges are just as golden, her fruits
just as delicious, and her wardrobe in
general is just as extensive and elaborate
as any OF her younger rivals.
1--WE Sacramentans take pride in our
old county, and after what you have seen
tonight do you blame us? Weare proud
OF her as she is to-day. We are prouder
still of what she has been. We boast of
her traditions. Upon her sands she bears
the footprints of as many lllustrious men
as the State itself can boast from every
quarter of the globe she can claim her
own, for she took men at a time in life
when a months rations, a pick and
shovel, a pair of blankets and a frying
pan were worth more to them than cor
onet. No man, however poor, ere stepped
on .Sacramento's soil who asked and re-
ceived not. Within her domain did the
venturesome immigrant first find shelter
and protection. AS this great State once
stretched out its vast expanse from Sac
ramento County as its center, we justly
feel that whatever strides may mark her
progress now, the pace was first set by
Sacramento County people. The men
who first conceived and carried out the
plan by which California could best dis
close her unfathomable riches to the
world were Sacramento merchants
Many of the greatest commercial and
banking institutions Of this wonderful
city started there.
From a standpoint of to-day, we say
10 you judge from these productions; but
the present condition of Sacramento
County aud her future possibilities can
no more be proportioned to this display
than you could estimate the worth of a
man by glance at his Sunday clothes.
We can show you soil rich in productive
elements as Croesus was in worldly goods.
hopfields whose foliage and product are
as abundant as the leaves of the forest.
Fruit trees so full of fruit that all the
limbs, like weeping willows, arch them
selves until they touch the ground. Vine
yards and golden grain fields as far as the
eye can reach, and in the midst of all of
of this, like castles in the center of some
kings domain, the beautiful homes of
our farmers stand-silent but eternal
evidences of peace, happiness and pros
perity. A more opportune, fortunate and
advantageous place than the one which is
here designed, could not have been con-
ceived."
On the Sacramento programme was
one feature that everybody in the build
ing could hear and all the counties ap-
preciated. That was "a Trip to Sacra-
mento' by Cassasa's Band. The trip was
supposed to be a steamboat, and the
various sounds were we'll initiated The
whistles, bells and gongs were unmis-
taxable, but it required a musical ear to
know that the Hussar Band was playing
Life on the Ocean Wave" in harmony
with the Italian bands waltz in the
ladies' cabin and jubilee song on the
forward deck. At Sacramento a man
with no more money was elected from
concert saloon and the little German
band was heard above the uproar. A
thunderstorm broke upon picnic and
formed a theater party, and the conclu-
sion was reached amid fireworks, grand
opera, the Southern Pacific railroad and
a melody by John Howard Payne.
Sacramento's general farm products
took Two of three prizes awarded on the
opening day-the $500 prize for the most
complete exhibit, and the $3.50 prize for
the most original and attractive display.
Fruits and jellies occupy the principal
portion of the county's space. and these
will be exhibited at the Columbian Fair
in similar arrangement. The list includes
1871 glass jars of fruit, in forty-eight
kinds, and COS glasses of jelly comprising
ll0 varieties. Fruits dried and in natural
form are equally varied. At no other
place in the Pavilion can pears be found
outside OF the liquid. and the county also
claims for its ranch display the biggest of
all the oranges.
Mrs. ]. p. Odbert of Sacramento heads
the list of the jelly-makers with 2l6
glasses and sixty-five varieties. Other
contributors are Mrs. G. H. Kerr, Elk
Grove; Mrs. John Davis, Brighton; Mrs.
p. 3. Green, CORTLAND; Mrs Muddox,
Sacramento; Mrs. r. Kercheval, Court
land: Mrs. Thomas Mcconnell, Mrs.
Sehlmeyer and Miss Ada NJ. Gage, Elk
Grove.