The record-union., 1893-03-27
SACRAMENHO'S EXHIBIT.
1t viii Leave the City To-day for the
Worlds Fair.
A County Display That is Expected to
be One of the Califos MIA Feat
ures There.

Sacramento County's premium exhibit
which is to open the eyes of the people of
.he East and from foreign countries with
astonishment and admiration, Will start
to-day for the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
1t not only embraces the better part of
the county's exhibit, which so overshad-
owed all others at the late Mechanics In
stitute Fair in San Francisco, but con-
tains many additional attractive features.
George c. McMullen, Manager OF the
County Worlds Fair Committee, has
been laboring late and early for weeks
past in the endeavor to get the exhibit
properly packed and on it's way to Chi
cago, and last it is ready, together with
the mimi re pavilion in which it is to
be shown.
There were four designs presented for
the construction of a pavilion from which
the committee were to choose. David Fal-
cOner of this city planned the one that
met with favor at their hands. AS soon
as the selection was made, MIR. McMullen
lost no time in getting it in such shape
that he would not have to depend on me-
chanics at Chicago to erect IL, which in
the rush he might not have been able to
90, and thus possibly jeopardize Sacra-
mento's chances of winning the first
prize for having everything ready on
time, and which the Manager now feels
pretty certain OF capturing for this
county.
He therefore determined to have the
work all done here, and that it should be
made of California wood. To this end
Messrs. Amsden Il Burnett of the
Telegraph Mill manifested their interest
in the matter by placing their entire force
of workmen at the disposal of MIR.
Falconer, and completed it at the earliest
possibl moment:
Through their eXertions Mr.. Falconer
was enabled to place the material in sec
tlons on board the car in one week from
the time he received the order and it is
stated that this is the only county in the
Stale that will send complete building
for the display of its products to the ex-
position. The exhibit nlled u large fur
niture car and portion of another.
AS the space allotted TO the Sacramento
County exhibit was comparatively small
(other counties with less meritorious ex-
hibits having by some means obtained
more room II was necessary to study
economy of space in the arrangement OF
The pavilion, and that success has been
achieved Will be readily understood from
the description:
The exhibit will be surrounded on
three sides of the 254x261 space by aisles,
anu Will nave lnree dTcueQ entrances,
twenty feet in hight, surmounted by
bearing olive, orange ana lemon trees
The jellies and fruits will be displayed
on ten recessed columns, two and one
hall feet square and sixteen feet in hight.
Around these columns will be 4S0 shelves,
at the back and sides Il which will be
beveled plate-glass mirrors, placed so as
TO redouble the reflection of light from
the jellies and fruits and show to the best
advantage their purity and varied color.
From any point of the three aisles vis-
itors will see a solid mass OF the choicest
fruits and jellies OF California production,
and the effect under the electric lights
will be that of an enhancing fairy land
rivaling Aladdin's mythical cave. The
jellies, fruits, etc. will be displayed in
The clearest of glass jars, varying from
three inches in hight to three and half
feet.
Four rows of shelving will run diago-
nally from the corners about half way to
the center OF the space, allowing visitors
TO stand on each side OF them and taking
up very little room, while they give op-
portunity for displaying a large portion
of the exhibit to good advantage.
The cereals, dried fruits, raisins, ETC.,
are wisely placed in nearly equal space
across the aisle, where their more sub
dued colors will not detract from the gor-
geous combination of hues in the pavil-
ion. They will, however, constitute an
exhibit OF nearly or quite equal interest
10 those interested i'll agriculture, and
demonstrate TO them the fact that Sacra-
mento County can hold its own with any
in the production OF the various cereals
Mr.. McMullen went to San Francisco
yesterday to secure a rate for the trans
poriation of the exhibit. 1t will start to-
day.