The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-04
In Every Respect This Years
Exposition Will Eclipse Its
Predecessors.
EVENTS AT THE RACETRACK.
FaVorites Won in Each Of the Con-
teSts-The Entries for
To-day.

been busily engaged in arranging their
owners exhibits of fancy needlework, pin
cushions framed of varied colored cigar
ribbons, dainty robes and dresses and
the thousand other odds and ends of fancy
knick-knack, the very sight OF which
causes old bachelors hearts to thrill with
q more tender regard for the fair ones,
whose active brain and nimble fingers can
frame such a world of beauty from scraps
of nothingness. The wing of the pavilion
containing this class of exhibits bids fair
to become one of the greatest features of
the fair Among the attractions are
beautifully hand-painted specimens of
dinner-services, vases ard other articles.
On the opposite side OF the vast struc-
ture. on the lower floor, is magnificent
exhibit Of fruit, which is assuming shape
and will also constitute one of the features
of the fair. The exhibits of farm products
are as yet small in number but large in
form and excellent of quality, and are
more than fair sample of the whole,
which will be completed within the next
two days, when long blood beets will enter
peculiar combinations with red dutch
and drum-head cabbages, crooked-neck
Quashes, gherkin cucumbers, pod beans,
and all the other lines of garden produce
that gladden. the heart of the frugal house
wife and make heavy the pocket of the
garden truck producer.
The wine exhibits are as yet incomplete,
but promise to be extensive, while the con-
servatory by tomorrow will become
dream of beauty.
The exhibition of preserved fruits in
glass the jellies and the jams, are espe-
cially enticing to the palate of an epicure,
and the booth of Professor Allen, who has
q force dispensing gratis California dried
fruits, prepared in various forms, ready for
the table, is being freely patronized and
will without doubt be an important factor
in introducing this most important product
of the States orchards into thousands of
homes where heretofore the crudely pre-
pared fruit met with little favor.
On the main floor every foot of available
space is fully occupied and the exhibits
are new and variable, but the bicycle is
foremost on every hand. There are exhib-
its of various makes arranged in the
most tempting forms, and it is need
less to add that the numerous
votaries of the public craze devote hours
to the close examination of their different
merits. The displays from the various
carriage firms are fully as large as in
former years, and would seem to indicate
that, reports to the contrary, the bicycle
has failed to drive them from the field.
Several of the electric motors were tested
this afternoon and fully proved their
efficiency, but owing to the fact that all
the betting is new and stretches badly the
various machinery exhibits will not be in
smooth running shape until tomorrow.
The agricultural implement department is
fairly well filed, and there are several new
and progressive ideas in plows, landslides
and the various other implements.
One of the greatest Improvements formu-
lated by the new board of directors, and
one that gives universal satisfaction to the
poultry dealers of the State, is the removal
of their display from the park Enclosure,
where in former years it was relegated to
a retired spot where few people ever pene-
trated, to the interior of the pavilion. 1t
has been given very prominent place in
the south wing, and cannot fail to attract
the attention of the thousands of visitors
who will visit the building during the COM
ing days of the State Fair.
Such poultry as has already arrived is
par excellence and gives token of being the
finest strains of blood of the various species
on exhibition at the present time. The
local exhibition of Mrs. E. 4 E.. hurry is at
tracing special note and two light
Brahma hens, weighing pounds each,
although not in full flesh, are the admired
of all fanciers.
In the art department the hanging of
the various pieces has been completed and
the work of numbering and cataloguing is
rapidly nearing the end. The displays of
electric apparatus are all in place and will
be connected with the power to- morrow.
The exhibits of local merchants are very
complete and IN many cases very extern
siYe.
One of the principal attractions of the
fair this year is the State Fair Daily,
which is ably edited by ]. J. Hoag. In its
columns are to be found some able articles,
both scientific and literary. His booth,
which occupies prominent spot in the
floor space of the building, also represents
THE CALL, and the efficient arrangement
of signs attracts the attention OF all.
The stock exhibits are arriving rapidly
at the park, and the first parade will fully
equal that of former years. Under the
efficient management of Director Terry
there has as yet been not one murmur OF
dissatisfaction from the owners OF stock,
which is in marked contrast with the state
OF affairs in former years. Every want OF
the proprietor of stock is filled Immediately
and efficiently.
EEThe city is rapidly assuming its garb: OF
carnival coIors and business houses along
the line of march are becoming perfect
mass of broad streamers of red, green and
yellow, while in places the CLEAN OF varl-
colored electric lights give faint idea OF
the bath of magnificent electric decora-
tons into which the city will be plunged
on the evening of the 9th of September
Many of the leading business firms will
display allegorical representations. Hol-
brook, Merrill & Stetson's building will be |
surmounted by a representation Of an
electric car, denoting the present method
of locomotion, while the balcony OF the |
building will contain representation, life |
size. of an old-fashioned prairie schooner |
drawn by oxen, conveying family OF
pioneers across the plains, three horsemen |
accompanying the group. These will be