The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-09
sacramento Citizens Tender
Open-Handed Hospitality
to Their Guests.
VISIT TO SUFFERS FORT.
hundreds Survey the Historic
Landmark and Listen to
Inspiring Music.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Sept. S.-Gov-
ernor Budd has abdicated, Mayor Stein
man has resigned all for the time being,
the City Trustees have gone out of bust
ness and every police uniform is hanging
mp in It's owners home. Even the Legis-
lature, if 1t should convene at any time be-
fore next Wednesday, could not get recog-
milton.
The Native Son, whoever he is, as an in
dividual owns the city. All local ordi-
nances have been suspended by the three
days ruler. State law don't count and it
is just as we'll for the Federal Government
that it has no claims to advance at present.
The State Capitol is merely the headquar
ters of so many visiting parlors. The
Mayors Office is the press headquarters
and it is stocked with malt and bourbon
beverages and other things on which news
paper writer's are supposed to live. The
ex-Mayor called there this morning and
knocked at the door. He was told to call
again on Wednesday.
Everything is run by the visitors and
Sacramento was never better governed than
it is to-day The constitution is ''Hurrah
for the Native Sons,'' and ali the law is
'Be hospitable" There is as much free
dom as could be found anywhere on earth
ana not an instance OF violation of the
hospitality has yet been recorded. 1t was
a pretty compliment to the guests that the
trustees hit upon when they ordered that
no policemen should appear in uniform,
and there is no need of uniforms or police.
The boys of California have gathered
again at the Cradle City of their State
They are celebrating in as royal a style as
the people of Sacramento are receiving
them, but beneath all the enthusiasm is a
deep sincerity in honoring the memory of
the pioneers, and pride and patriotism
holds in check the tendency to celebration
that might be expected to go to an ex-
IRENE. Art has been called upon TO dec |
crate the city into gorgeous home of the |
natives, and artistic features predominant
everywhere, but Suffers Fort and Suffers
mill at Coloma and other historic scenes
are depictured in preference to anything
else
This day, Sunday, has been quiet for
such an occasion. Several thousand of the
visitors spent the afternoon at the restored
fort, where the modern California was
built. and almost in reverence they listened
to the sacred music rendered by Romeo
vieri's band. This evening there was
repetition OF the scene in the State House
grounds, where the pines of the far Himi-
layas grow by the side of the sturdy native
redwoods, and California could not have
asked for better homage from its sons.
There could be no better proof of the char
acter of class of young men than their be-
havior when whole city is placed COM
pletely under their control.
Every organization in the order was re-
ceiving its friends to-day at some special,
commodious headquarters, and every
guest of the Native Sons was provided for
in the most generous manner. OF course
the hotels could never have accommodated
the visitors that almost double the popu-
lation, but the citizens have thrown open
their homes, and only those who come late
in the night find any difficulty in obtain
ing excellent accommodations. Last night
the people did not seem inclined to go to
bed at all they were so eager to receive the
new arrivals, and to-day there is no recog-
milton of the presence of Sunday. Stores
are open and business is going on as
usual-rather livelier than usual, so as not
20 cause any inconvenience. There is no
restriction of any kind to-day in the deco
rated Cradle City. The press headquar-
ters at the Mayors Office has all day
been one of the liveliest and best places of
the CITY. Editor j. N. Larkin of the Sun
day Leader is in charge, and with him is
Dr.. ]. S. Curtis, who supplies all sorts of
historical information about Sacramento
County. the Native Sons and the State
The New Sacramento" as everybody and
every newspaper expresses 1t, is doing a
l. -frSY7 k,,% -
this it is the same old Sacramento.
There has been little to-day in the way
of celebration except the grand concert at
Suffers Fort by Roncovieri's S band IN the
afternoon, and the evening concert at the
Capitol grounds. Thousands of people vis-
tied the historic old fortifcation in the
afternoon and strolled through every nook
and corner OF the place. The fort is now
marked according to the use to which the
various sections were put in the days OF
old-the days before the gold. Going to
the right front, the main entrance, the
visitors went through the stores and apart
rnents of C. c. Pichetts, miners supplies;
Henslev, Redding 81 Co., miners supplies;
Priest, Lee & Co., miners supplies; the
Toulouse, the distillery, the northwest
bastion, the wagon-repair shop. Carey's
boarding house, the granary, the black
smith shop, the fort headquarters, the
body-guard rooms, General Suffers apart
ments, the office of the fort, Whites bill
liard-room, the storehouse, Peter slater's
saloon, the southeast bastion, the imi-
grants building, and the central building,
that is now used as museum.
When the fort was dedlcated-two years
ago last Aprll-the museum was of exceed
ing interest to the Pioneers and the Native
Sons. There were relics of General Sutter
and of Marshall, the gold discoverer, that
brought the beholder back to the pioneer
times almost in spirit as well as in his
toricaI record, but the relics were loaned
to the proprietors of the Forty-nine Mining
Camp at the Midwinter Fair. From San
Francisco they were taken to Chicago, it is
ennnosed without permission, and nobody