The record-union., 1893-10-09
APPRECIATED ABROAD.
CaIifornia's Showing at the Worlds
Fair.
The Arrangement of the Exhibits and
How Visitors are Impressed
With Them.

Especial Correspondence RECoRD-UNIoN.l
The old missions of California are the
only bit of historical architecture on the
coast They rank in Importance with
anything of European origin on this con-
tinent. The old-looking plastered wall,
the tiled roof, the plain interior. the We
randas, the little windows deeply set, are
all reproduced in the California building
at the Worlds Fair.
A man came to the door one day and
merely looking inside exclaimed, 'Pve
moind not to come in."
'Why mott 2" asked some one.
"Shure, it's the face av that man Phe-
Ian that he wad put up a church and
niver put a cross on it."
The likeness he noticed of the building
to the missions pleases Californians and
attracts others. The picturesque home Of
the early fathers and their converts does
not disappoint lovers of ruins"
Thanks to Stanford's appreciation, the
style is preserved in the University
building. The Spanish Convent La Ra-
bida, so inseparably connected with the
name of Columbus, is built in this style,
later brought by the fathers to this coast.
settled, has left comparatively little in the
way of relics. For these we go back to
the old Spanish life. Very young people
never want their age underestiInated.
California does not force upon her visit
ors the thought of her wild youth. Red
flannel shirts and rubber boots are rele-
gated to the attic and the State announces
by her exhibit at the Worlds Fair that
she is out of the flower and into the fruit.
She is California, the charming matron.
Her mining camps are mere memories.
Reminders of the rude life of the time are
purposely placed very near the historical
department.
This is as it should be. Readers of
Harte and Joaquin Miller do not take
into consideration that times change.
Such, like the intelligent Britons, who
expect to hunt butfaloes in the State of
New York, are surprised at the exhibit
that California makes at the Worlds
Fair. With the advantages of pictur-
esque and distinctive building, large
enough to show to good advantage the
wealth of fruit and palms, and less
snowy productions, the State is adver-
tised beyond all that circulars and pamph-
lets could do in forty years.
Surely this is the glass age in California
advertising. One great jar of luscious
orange clings or Bartletts says so much
to the visitor with appetite made keen by
mans may yet say of the exhibit, Chicago
people, and the Fasteners as well, have
nothing but praise for Pomona's palace.
The proper remarks with which to greet
q Californian seems to be, "Your State
has a wonderful exhibit of fruits-won-
derful ~ and one overhears even more
enthusiastic exclamations in walking
about the building.
Among county exhibits the six south
ern counties, Fresno and Santa Clara
might represent the State as far as San
Francisco, while Humboldt speaks for
the extreme north and Butte and Sacra-
mento for the Sacramento Valley. This,
of course, omits many meritorious dis
plays, but one may say that it singles out
the distinctive exhibits.
Sacramento County has her redwood
tower well arranged to show, from inside
as we'll as out, the fine fruits and vegeta-
bles in glass. Three sides of the tower
are great arches, and the fourth a cabinet
like wall covered with grains and fruit.
The large wall space north of the tower
contains the most tasteful grain display
in the California building. 1t has already
won medals to be proud OF, and it de-
serves another at Chicago.
Mr.. McMullen is genial and interested,
and every day answers questions con-
cerning California that far outnumDer
those put to the Sphinx. People are con-
Ilnually passing through, anu lew go
without new idea of Sacramento County.
Mr. McMullen's distribution Of Sacra-
mento papers seems good idea. l do
not know that county papers are given
away elsewhere.
1t has often been said, and very truly,
that Eastern people think of Northern
California as best represented by Truckee
suow-sheds. The northern fruit belt they
regard as an imaginary line until ocular
demonstration reverses their opinion.
Olives and oranges are proof positive of a
warm climate. The variety of fruits
shown is quite as important point as
the kinds. Sacramento has done we'll in
its large collection of vegetables, only
equaled by Santa Clara.
The arrangement of the northern coun-
ties in the northern part of the building
and the southern counties at the south
end, is a good plan. although not adhered
to with regard TO some of the central
counties. One may enter at the south
door, just as he might come into Califor-
mia by southern route. and pass through
to Sacramento, Placer, Butte and Hum
boldt near the north exit.
LAURA E. EVERETT.
National City, October 4, 1893.