The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-06
Butter and Cheese to Be Made
Scientifically in Sight of
Spectators.
MONSTER EXHIBIT OF FRUIT.
Many Varieties Never Before Shown
Are Displayed-Isaac Banyakar's
Misfortune.


thousand people do not begin to tax the
capacity of the wide and lofty pavilion of
the big State Fair. They are swallowed
up in it almost as completely as drops of
water in a desert, though they are not so
completely lost to sight. The first big
crowd swarmed into the pavilion tonight,
and the attendance in the afternoon was
fair. The pass-gate. which up to date has
been the busiest, was tonight riValed in
business by the pay-gates. The races a
the fair grounds have done better in the
way of attendance than the pavilion, but
from now on the latter will get its full
share of the patronage.
The pavilion was in its glory tonight.
The electric tower of the Sacramento
Electric, Gas and Railway Company was
in full operation for the first time. 1t is
an obelisk of flashing, changing lights of
all colors, that would do credit to a Ma
tionaI exposition. The huge water wheel
of iron, erected by a local hardware COM
pany, was studded with bulbs of light and
revoIved by electricity. By way of con-
trast, which shows the rarity of the ex-
hibits in the pavilion, just below this
great, slowly-turning circle of light and
iron little chickens in an incubator pecked
their way out of their shells and perhaps
thought the blaze of electricity was their
first peep at the morning sun.
There is a businesslike odor of milk
and cheese around the State dairy exhibit,
which shows signs of getting into opera
ton some time next week, perhaps on
Monday or Tuesday. The people are Curl
Gus to see how butter and cheese are sci
entifcally made. There is an eye to the
practical in the modern State Fair crowd
1t no longer comes to gap and to wonder;
it comes to inspect and examine and be
instructed. The sugar-beet exhibit is an
illustration of this fact, as well as the
prospective butter and cheese foundry.
The beets attract wide attention, and
many questions are asked about their
sugar-making properties. This new inter-
est in sugar beets has been doubtless slim
ulated by the announcement OF the large
capital that Claus Spreckels of San Fran
cisco is likely to invest in beet-suga fac
Tory here.
The vegetable exhibit is now almost
complete. 1t occupies a sweeping curve
in the pavilion between a charming re-
treat, designed and luxuriantly executed
by local florist, and the stewed-fruit ex-
hibit. A very fine display of red peppers
is making it hot for the other vegetables
in point of attractiveness.
]. D. Lord, q Sacramento harness
maker, has large display of handiwork
in that line. According to this lord of
leather gear the modern horse is not up 70
date unless he has a patent-leather Sun
day and holiday harness.
The unexpected has happened to Isaac
Banyakar, the San Francisco Egyptian
exhibitor. AS they would say out at the
racetrack, he was brought up with a short
jerk by the directors to-day. Banyakar
expected to get sort of Midway perform
ance with sword dancing, etc., off in one
corner of the gallery. He fitted up the
place quite luxuriantly with Turkish rugs
and curiosities from the catacombs of the
Nile, and had some herce-iookirg perform
ers at hand, arrayed in their picturesque
native costumes. He intended to charge
an admission fee, and it was here that the
unexpected happened and Banyakar reck-
oned without his host The show was not
in Banyakar's contract
The directors informed him that thew
would do all the charging for admission
in connection with the building but gave
him permission TO give q free show If he
wanted to. Banyakar made few unin-
telligible ordinations in the language of
the Pharaohs, pulled down the beautiful
curtains and che proposed show is a
wreck. Some of his performers were i'm
The fancy and prize chickens have be-
gun to arrive. Last night several hun
dred roasted in TIE poultry department.
The juvenile department was opened to-
night, and the small boys and girls are in
condition of ecstetic happiness. The
juvenile department consists of a gallery
all by itself, with row after row of peep
holes, behind which are all descriptions of
innocent and entertaining pictures There
were too many youths for the peepholes.
and they stood in long rows awaiting
turns.
Next Monday night the rock-drining
contest will begin. Miners will be COM
petitors and special prizes are offered,
The wine exhibit in the horticulture and
viticulture department is better than has
been shown at any preceding fair, say
those who are familiar with that DEPART
ment.
The vintage of nearly every leading
vineyard in this State, mum bering over
fifty varities of wine, is shown, and the
grapes from which the wine is made are
displayed alongside.
The exhibit of the State Horticultural
Society is this year one of the most inter
esting and most instructive IN the pavilion
One of the features is the row of growing
olive trees, the branches of which are Gov
cred with the green fruit. Alongside in
jars are samples of the fully developed
fruit from these trees together with bot
ties OF oil, the product OF the fruit shown.
Each exhibit is marked plainly by name.
This year numerous varieties OF apples
and pears that were never placed on exhi-
bition before are displayed. There $50
plates OF pears, TO two of which are alike,
are $50 plates of apples of which the same
can be said. These, with many other
kinds of fruit, are classified and carefully
labeled with their proper names. There
are few varieties of tropical fruits, seven
different sorts of pomegranates and every
ual nd
fiberts, not to mention the scores of other
kinds of California nuts.
Cassasa's band rendered an exception
ally fine programme tonight, and the
thousands of auditors, including the many
ladies looking down on the scene from the
galleries, applauded enthusiastically. a
trombone duet by Mr.. ana Mrs. Tobin
was encored.
Neither the race-track nor the pavilion
will be open tomorrow. The next thing
on the programme is The speech at 10
O'Clock Monday morning OF Judge James