The record-union., 1895-07-29
COIN FOR THE ELECTRIC CARNIVAL
The Committees viii Set Out To-Day
to Seek 1t.
Sacrameuto's Opportunity to Demon
Strate TO the World What
She Can Do.

There is one project now pending
which the people of this city are in honor
bound to see carried out in manner that
will reflect credit on the Capital City
and that is the proposed Electric Car
nival," or demonstration, during the
State Fair.
This is not to be ''carniysp in the
sense that the term usually implies.
There is to be nothing finsy about it,
and nothing of the cheap and gaudy
style of display, YET it is not out of place
to term it carnival, in the absence OF
another and better term. SO carnival
goes
This morning the gentlemen who have
been selected to canvass the city for funds
with which to defray the expenses of the
electrical display will start out on their
mission. Let no citizen dodge about the
nearest corner when he sees one OF the
committee approaching, tor this is an oc-
caslOn when no man or woman whose III
terests are identified with those of the
city can afford tc shirk his or her share OF
the responsibility, 90 1t great or small.
1t is going 10 cost several thousand dol
lars to lnaugurate and successfully carry
There should be no halfway business
about it. Sacramento cannot afford any
thing OF that kind. She has it in her
power to be placed on record as devlsing
and carrying out the greatest demonstra-
tlon OF this character ever attempted by
any city in the world, and would be
Illuminating in the eyes of the State If the
opportunity were allowed to pass.
If the proposed carnival De carried out
on the plan proJected-or if It's scope can
be enlarged-this city will receive de-
gree OF advertising that would not be
possible under any other conditions or
circumstances. People Will come here
by the hundreds and thousands 10 wit
ness that the like of which few of them
may live to ever again see-an electric
display that will beautify the city and at
the same time give practical demonstra-
ton OF the vast power that can be utilized
IN turning the wheels of industry at q
cost of perhaps only one-nalt that of fuel.
AS q matter OF fact, the demonstration
should not be limited to the plan at pres
ent contemplated, If It be possible to OBJ
tain more money than the Executive
Committee has decided to ask for Some
cities would spend five or ten times as
lnuch II they stood in Sacramento's shoes.
and regard 1T as money we'll invested.
Still, If the people of Sacramento will SUBJ
scribe even the moderate sum which the
committee estimates Will be required to
carry out It's project the carnival will be
one OF which we need not be ashamed.
Therefore the committees that go out
to-day on their errand should be met with
OPEN hearted and open-handed liberality.
They can DO nothing without money, and
those who are able to contribute and have
property interests here TO be directly
benefited should make an extra effort on
this occasion and loosen the strings of
their purses more freely than usual.
This is no commonplace holiday af-
fair. 1t means showing OF what the
city has to boast of in the way of the won
der of the century-the application of
electricity for light and power purposes.