The record-union., 1896-03-25
A MATTER NEEDING INSTANT
ATTENTION.

Some weeks ago the Record Union
pointed out that the blazing announce
ments of a pretended California Ex-
position" in Madison-square Garden
were fakes pure and simple. That. the
projected exposition is private
snap is now conceded. Neither the
State Board of Trade, the State Agri-
cultural Society, nor any other reputa-
BILE representative California organiza-
tions have anything to do with the New
York concern.
California reporters who visited the
Office of the New York concern in jan
uary found that it was being run by
a couple of young men who knew Moth
ing all about the State, and had got
ten up the thing for the sole purpose
of doing a good turn for themselves.
They had flooded the country with
circulars and blank applications for
space and dignified appearing classif-
cations of proposed exhibits and sub
divisions of departments, and so on, in
all fullness of the detail of a regular
exposition Of the first order were sent
to all parts of the State.
Tt seems that the men really rented
Madison-square Garden, and really had
arranged to get together some goods
from California, and display them as
"a California exposition" The danger
to California in the whole matter was
that the people of the, East would as
sume-indeed, they would have no rea-
son for any other assumption-that the
private show was an exposition pro-
NOTED by the people of this State. In
case, therefore, it proved to be nom
representative, as most assuredly it
would be, since it was gotten up for the
privy purse, California would take a
great deal of injury, and hence the pub
lie was warned of its true character,
namely, that it was a private concern
and not a public affair.
We had supposed after the state
ments made regarding the matter and
the public disavowaI by the State Board
Of Trade, and the announcement of the
whole affair as a catch-penny concern,
that it had collapsed and gone the way
of failure. But here come Eastern pa
pers with loads of laudation of the great
California Exposition" to be soon
opened in Madison-squareG Garden, New
York City From these accounts, ac-
companied by fattering newspaper pic
lures, we learn that:
A considerable portion Of the Cali
ofrnia Midwinter Exposition is at pres
ent on its way across the continent en-
route for New York City. Many of the
most attractive features are being
transplanted bodily from the Golden
Gate to the immense floor of the Madi-
son-square Garden. This second edi-
ton of the great exposition will be
opened early in May and will continue
throughout the entire month. The
West is making much of this opportu-
nifty to teach the East something of the
magnitude of it's native industries. It
is safe to say it has never before been
so well represented on the Atlantic
Coast.
This paragraph we take bodily from
so reputable a paper as the Cincin-
natl Weekly Gazette" Through two
columns that paper proceeds to boom
1.-THE California Exposition" The ar
ticle may be "a paid write-up," but if
so it is not disclosed upon its face. To
all intents and purposes it is a genuine
Endorsement by the Gazette of a
show that is supposed to be promoted
by California.
The people of the State viii be aston
ished to learn that sections of the late
Midwinter Fair at San Francisco are
being transported across the conti-
nent," to be remounted at New York.
That is pure news to this end of the
world. assuredly.
The article in question is accompa-
MED by large engraving of a wine cas-
cade Illuminated by electric lights that
is to be "a feature at the exposition. .
The Gazette says about it:
The principal endeavor of the expo
sition authorities win be to impress New
York with the magnitude and quality
of California's vintage. To this end the
visitors to this second exposition are
to be treated to the most remarkable
object lesson of its kind ever seen. A
gigantic cascade of claret wine, as large
as river, is TO dash and foam over
rocks of colored glass for a whole month
for the edifieation and refreshment of
thousands of visitors.
It is estimated that fully 5000 gal
Ions Of wine viii flow over these rocks
every minute; and as this stream viii
be turned on when the doors are thrown
open IN the morning, and VIII continue
till the time the lights are turned out