The record-union., 1893-03-22
OUR WORLDS FAIR EXHIBIT.
Manager McMullen's Ornamental Plan
for 1t.
Sixteen Hundred Feet of Shelving on
Which to Display Sacramento,s
Varied Products.

George G. McMullen, manager of the
Sacramento exhibit at the Columbian Ex-
position. has given a REcoRD-UN1oN re-
porter glimpse of the plan prepared by
him Tor the utilization of the room ap-
propriated for the exhibit, and which
cover 253 by 26i feet of space.
The main entrance will be through an
arch forming part of beautiful front sup
ported by ten columns, of which two are
on each side of the entrance, and three
each at the corners of the front side.
The ground plan is nearly square, with
an aisle running around three sides and
the wall line on the fourth between the
Sacramento and San Mateo County ex-
hIbits. The front, with its ten slender,
graceful columns, surmounted by the cor
nice and the arch over the main entrance,
will open to the passers-by a vista of
ravlshing enticement.
Mr.. McMullen has so laid out his plan
mat In the 600 square feet of space allotted
To the exhibit he will have I,600 feet of
shelving to utilize in the display of the
products of the county. Four diagonal
frames of shelving run from the four cor
ners about halfway toward the center,
ana leaving an open space there accessible
from the three aisles, as well as allowing
plenty of room for the inspection of both
sides of the shelves by visitors, and leav-
ing, in fact, almost the entire space avail
able for that purpose, so admirable is the
arrangement.
On these shelves the jellies, preserves,
canned fruits, etc, will be displayed,
making, perhaps, the most gorgeous dis
play OF the kind ever seen.
The woods from which the front is
maze, as well as the shelving, will be en-
tlrely OF California growth, cut out and
dressed in the mills here and shipped
with the exhibit, thus giving to the visit
orS an additional object-lesson on our
native woods and making it more dis
tinctively California exhibit in every
respect.
In another space, just across one of the
alsles, and nearly as large as the first,
VIII be the exhibit of cereals, vegetables,
dried fruits, raisins, nuts and other pro-
ductions, and the taste in their arrange
ment, which so captivated those who at
tended the dress rehearsal at San Fran
cisco, Will be displayed in setting them
OIL to advantage in Chicago.
Mr.. McMullen points with pride to the
fact that although Alameda County ap-
propriated $4,000 for its exhibit, and
Santa Clara County also appropriated
$4,000 for its own, while this county ap-
propriated only $500, such was the pub
IIc spirit shown in contributing to the ex-
hibit, at much trouble and expense to
those doing so, and the care and economy
exercised in using the appropriation, that
our exhibit captured all the large prizes
at the Mechanics Institute Fair.
Moreover, the premiums won, both at
the State fair and San Francisco, fully
met the expenses of maintaining the ex-
hibits in both places.
II was expected that the exhibit would
start for Chicago tonight, but although
every effort was made il was not quite
ready. 1t will, however, start on its
journey before the 25th. One of our
planning mills is now at work on the front
and shelving, and will have it done by
tomorrow or next day and it will be
shipped Immediately. Mr. McMullen
will start on April I'd, accompanied by ].
p. Murphy, to whose artistic decorative
ability In arranging attractively at San
francisco so much of its success was
due, and who, as assistant manager, will
lake charge of its arrangement there.