The record-union., 1896-08-29
WILL OPEN TUESDAY NIGHT.
The State Fair Pavilion Will be a
Beautiful Sight.
Information for tho Public Concerning
the System Of Admission
Tickets.

When the State Fair opens up in Ex-
position Hall on Tuesday evening the
scene will be one Of dazzling beauty,
probably suoh as had never before been
witnessed there.
Every foot Of space in the great build
ing has been engaged for more than
week, and carpenters. decorators, pain
ters and others are busily engaged in
getting the exhibits in position. Some
exhibitors appear to be little behind,
as usual, but Secretary Smith says a
wonderful TRANSFORMATION scene will be
accomplished between this and Tuesday
night.
Machinery Hall is fast filling up, and
in the southeast annex there are now
1.200 coops in readiness for the finest
poultry display ever seen on the coast.
Some Of the special features on the
main floor promise to be superb, notably
those of Schaw, Ingram 8, Batcher, the
Sacramento Electric Railway and Gas
Company and Holbrook, Merrill & Stet-
son, have approached sufficiently near
completion to give an idea Of what they
will be, and there are others that are
certain to come in for q big share Of
public admiration.
John Stanton, superintendent of the
Art Department, writes Secretary Smith
that he will be up to-day from San
Francisco with a grand collection OF
paintings and other works of art, and
says he will have a magnificent and at
tractive display.
Cassassa's famous band will discourse
music at both the Pavilion and Park.
At the Park $50 stalls are engaged for
premium stock and upward Of 100 have
had to be erected to accommodate the
great number of race horses that have
been brought in.
ADMISSION TICKETS.
For the information Of those who will
attend the fair 1t may be said that the
ticket system will be the same as that
adopted last year which was found to
work so satisfactorily.
Each life member of the State Agri-
cultural Society will be furnished with a
ticket upon presentation Of his certif1-
cate Of membership, to transfer or loan
which will subject him to expulsion from
the society.
The price of single admission tickets
to the Park is 80 cents; ladies, in the
forenoon, 25 cents. General admission
to the Pavilion during the day, 70 cents;
in the evening, 80 cents. General admis-
sion for children over IL and under l6,
25 cents.
There will be issued fifteen coupon
admission ticket, each coupon being
good. if not detached, for one admission
of one adult, or two children under 10
years of age, to either Park or Pavilion;
price, SO.
Another communication ticket is in book
form, containing 100 tickets, whlon VIII
be for sale to merchants only, and from
which coupons may be taken and USED.
This ticket will be known as THE Mer-
chants Complimentary Ticket to the
California State Fair" and is designed
for the especial use Of wholesale mer-
chants. Price, $50. Merchants buying
| these books will receive a credit OF ~
cents each for any undetached uokets
returned.
Exhibitors ticket-For the use OF per-
sons making an exhibition OF any arti-
Gle or animal at the fair, there shaH De
| issued an exhibitors ticket for the ad-
mission of one person (the owner) only.
This ticket will admit owner to the ex-
hibition each day, as follows: Park
| (morning exhibition, park (afternoon
exhibition, Pavilion (day and evening".
After punching the date for any par
| ticular admission, the ticket will not
be recognized until date calling for next
admission arrives.
| The Entry Clerk, with whom entry is
made, WILL upon payment Of 50 issue
to the exhibitor making entry cert1fl-
cate, which, upon presentation to the
ticket office, will entitle the owner to an
exhibitors ticket for use as above di-
rected.
Under no consideration will an ex-
hlbitor's ticket admit more than one
| person.
Delivery wagon-For the accommoda-
ton of merchants doing business with
exhibitors at the park, a delivery
wagon ticket will be issued that will
entitle the driver and wagon to ad-
mission to park at stated times during
| the fair price, So.
The doorkeepers are required to take
up all tickets presented by others than
the owner.
The members Of the press generally
are invited to attend the fair. Those
unknown to the Secretary win be re-
quired to present letters Of introduc-
| ton from a reliable source. For the
convenience of the duly accredited rep
resentatives of the daily papers and
weekly turf journals, the press stand at
| the park is exclusively reserved; un-
der no circumstances will cards be is
sued to this stand for other persons.
Officiating clergymen and delegates
from agricultural societies will be pre-
| sented with complimentary cards of
admission on application at the office
| Of the Secretary. To lend or transfer
any membership, exhibitors, or COM
plimentary tickets subjects the latter
| to cancellation and the expulsion Of the
member.
| Any citizen of the State being life
member Of the society will be furnished
with a personal badge for his separate
| use, which shall entitle him to admis-
sion to all the exhibitions of the society,
the quarter stretch and grand and spe-
cial stands at the park during his life
time, and a separate ticket for the use
of his wife and minor children only,
| which shall entitle them to admission
to all the exhibitions of the society each
day, as follows: To the park (morning
exhibition), to the park AFTERNOON ex-
hibition), and to the Pavilion AFTERNOON
and evening", and permission to COM
/ pete for premiums in any and all de-
partments.
To loan or transfer membership