The record-union., 1894-08-16
STATE FAIR PROSPECTS BRIGHTEN.
The Outlook Promising for Good
Exhibition.
There VIII be a Fine Pavilion Display
and a Racing Programme of
Rare Attraction.

Local Directors Cox and Hancock and
Secretary Smith of the State Board of
Agriculture are busy as nailers these
days preparing for the annual State Fair,
which viii open in this city on the Sd of
September.
YES" replied Secretary Smith yester-
day, when asked if the outlook for good
fair was encouraging, "the prospect is
that we will have as attractive an exhibit
ton as in any past year. Indeed, don't
know but it will exceed in merit many
Of our more meritorious fairs. 1t GER
tainly will possess many features very
different from anything heretofore seen
here, and as novelties are what the peo-
pie want, this years fair ought to attract
large attendance and give the best OF
satisfaction.
''Some people," added the Secretary.
''are always looking on the darker side
of everything, and frequently men who
come here ex press doubts of the success
of the coming fair simply because the big
MidwInter Fair closed only recently,
and they take 1t for granted that the peo-
pie are weary OF fairs.
NOW, in nay opinion these doubters
are away off. The same pessimistic
DIOpH6cISS W6I6 UauS Wu6u Luo Odll
Francisco Fair was first talked Of. SO
many persons had visited the Worlds
Fair in Chicago that it was by many be-
lieVed to be the utmost folly to attempt
to carry out the plans for the Mldwinter
Fair, but what was the result? Why, the
Worlds Fair only seemed TO have given
the people an appetite for more OF the
same sort, and the San Francisco EXposi-
ton was great success, financially ana
otherwise.
There is an old saying that one can
have too much of a good thing, but eX-
perlence has shown that il does not hold
true in regard to fairs. Give the people
something attractive and instructive TO
look upon, and they generally respond.
Ihls we are trying our utmost to do this
year, and, as l said before, the outlook
for success is most hattering.
Rare music alone" continued Mr..
Smith, will attract many thousands to
the pavilion, and this year we are going TO
give the people an opportunity to daily
and nightly hear the greatest band ever
heard on the coast-the famous CaSsasSa
Band, that attracted thousands on thou
sands Of people to the Midwinter Fair.
Then we are to have some Of the rarest
foreign exhibits shown at that fair, and,
above all, the best of the paintings that
graced the walls of the Fine Arts build
ing. 1t seems to me that such attractions
large attendance from all over the State.
Some people say the country folks
haven't any money to spend for amuse-
ment, but l have never known them to
hold back on this account when circus
comes along, even if it be the same old
'three-rings-in-one' show they had seen
year after year. The truth is the farming
community are not all hard up. and as
they appreciate good thing as keenly as
any other class of people, you'll find that
they will come TO the State Fair.
Another thing" added Secretary
Smith, in conclusion, ''the day time adj
mission fee to the pavilion this year will
be only one-half what il formerly was
twenty five cents, instead of halt-dollar.
And then there will be some of the best
racing ever witnessed on the coast. Look
at the way the young trotters and PAGERS
are going at the district fairs this summer.
Why. such time as they are making
would, a few years ago, have enthused a
whole nation, and Californians have a
keen relish for good racing"
Quite a number of men are at work
getting the pavilion in readiness for ex-
hibitors, and several enterprising firms
are already engaged in putting up fine
disDlazs