The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-04

MIA soil is collected in little clusters on
white tables a block long. Fruit trees
richly laden are also among the exhibits,
there being fine specimens of olives as
they grow.
The cereal exhibit of Sacramento
County is In this department. 1t makes q
handsome and creditable appearance.
One section of this department. is given
up to cooking dried fruit. Mrs. La. France
and Mrs. Holland are in charge of this
work. A prize of 500 is offered by the
fair directors for the best recipe for cook
Ing dried fruits, and these ladies are max
ms the tests on gasoline stove. People
are invited to taste the cooked fruit. Ii
there Is anybody in California who has
large appetite for warm water and dried
apples, apricots, pears or peaches, he can
satisfy 1t here till disaster overtakes his
waistband and it won't cost him cent.
The latest exhibit to arrive is road
roller that looks like luggernaut. 1t is
too large to get into the building and Will
have to roost outside. The directors have
few roads in the park around the pavil-
lon that need to feel the touch OF just such
monster as this, and they will make q
practical test OF it. While the squash and
the pumpkins, the stovepipes and the
bicycles are lying around In lndoient ex-
position the road roller will have to work
Tor Its blue ribbon.
The art gallery grows in magnetic power
and attractiveness. There are pictures on
the wall that one can gaze at for an hour
and consider the time well spent. The
Yosemite scenes, by Hill, are much adj
mired. Poses in 1.-The altogether" are
by no means lacking. Sacramento young
men say the flesh t1nts are alone worth
the price of admission, and they ought to
know.
The rock drill by miners, for which sew
off Ui nlo
early next week.
The cocks shrill clarion" is not yet
heard in the pavilion. There are 100
empty coops waiting for chandeliers and
hens who yet roam in freedom in their
home barnyards. They will roost IN the
chicken department next week.
very handsome and practical hard
ware exhibit is that of Holbrook, Merrill
Stetson. 1t is house built of sheet and
corrugated iron and tin, papered on the
inside. 1t has two apartments, showing a
bathroom and a kitchen.
Baker & Hamilton have an extensive
exhibit of dairy machinery and appli-
ances and farm implements of all kinds.
This is perhaps the largest single exhibit
in the pavilion.
The Benicia Agricultural Works also
has large and interesting exhibit
Most of the visitors at the pavilion to-
day and tonight were strangers. Sacra.
mento people are staying away until next
week and the week after.
Clark Brothers and Stanley have large
force OF men at work making cigars.
Smoking Is prohibited in the pavilion and
the sight of long leaves of Havana deity
rolled into smokers is g hardship on the
man whose mouth is watering for a puff.
Manufacturer A. 7. Ames has a patent
pump on exhibition and in operation that
always has a crowd around it.
To-day the programme at the racing
park was varied by little conflict of
authority between the fair directors and
the city authorities, whose chief executive
Mayor Hubbard is. The directors ordered
the main entrance to the park TO be in
closed with ropes, so as 10 protect women
and children and that class of men who go
to sleep on their feet from being run over
by reckless hackdrivers racing for g fare.
There has been much danger and some
accidents at the entrance in previous
years. The jehus raised such howl that
the Mayor ordered the ropes taken down,
and they were taken down, as obstructing
public thoroughfare. The directors de.
INJURED, bat that was all.