The record-union., 1896-09-13
It Has Been Apparently a
Great Success,
With an Excellent Outlook for
the Last Week.
Unfortunate Accident to Jockey Cuddy
in a Hurdle Race.
Great Throngs Of People at Both Park and
PaViIiOn-The Special Concert
This Afternoon.

The largest crowd since the State Fair
opened gathered at the Pavilion last
evening to view the exhibits, listen to
the music and study the fashions, and
there was variety enough in all these
to please the most fastidious.
The butter-making plant was in full
swing and the crowds that watched the
process were larger than on the pre-
ceding evening.
Tomorrow evening the dairy depart
ment viii show the process of making
cheesI and give practical Illustrations
OF the same, and this, it is expected, will
arouse considerable interest.
One of the most striking features in
the building is to be seen in the booth
set aside for the cooking of dried fruits.
This is a purely educational matter,
and underlying it a principle which has
for some time agitated the minds of the
fruit growers on the coast. If, they ar
que, a method for cooking dried fruit
such as that taught by Professor AL
len of San Jose-can be universally eX
tended, then the problem of disposing of
the fruit crop is solved, for the method
was scientifically followed by the Pro-
fessor step by step until it is now to be
numbered among the arts.
1t seems scarcely reasonable that any
method of cooking dried fruit can bring
ii back to the state in which it was when
plucked from the tree, but the skeptic
need only step up to the booth and taste
OF the samples which are given out
with lavish hands to become a proselyte.
There may be something lacking, but
if so it takes a connoisseur to distin-
guish what it is, and the general YER
dict from all classes who visit the booth
and thousands visit it each evening
is that the cooked fruit given away each
night is fully the equal of any pre-
served varieties they had ever tasted.
The exhibit is in charge of the State
Horticultural Society, which has Sc
cured the services of Mrs. c. H. La
France TO superintend all Of the cooking.
Mrs. La France has been a pupil of
Professor Allen, and was his right-hand
assistant for a number Of years, and
thoroughly understands each and every
part OF the subject. She has made the
art Of dried fruit cooking the study of
her life, and delights in giving curious
housewives and dyspeptic husbands
pointers on how to overcome their cul-
mary tribulations.
Nor does the attempt to educate the
public in the proper preparation of dried
teal illustrations given each evening.
The exhibit is not a money making
scheme but. as has been said before,
purely an educational one, and it is not
the intention of the State Board of HOr
ticulture to hide it's light under bushel.
Every person that tastes the fruit and
admires the flavor is presented with
neat little pamphlet telling them pre-
cisely how the cooking is to be done in
order 10 secure like results, and no
houswife should be without one. Even
Uncle Sam has realized the Importance
of the method of cooking Gt usually
takes the Government a long time to re-
alize anything), and some of these same
little pamphlets have been asked for
and sent to the several masters of Gov
ernment ships now on the coast.
Those who have tasted of the cooked
fruit say it is all that is claimed for it.
and those who have not yet had
chance should be convinced at the ear
liest opportunity. Numbers of promi-
nent local physicians have, since the
fair opened, given Mrs. La France oral
testimonials Of the excellence of the art,
and one young man. who is a conflrmeu
dyspeptic, after partaking Of the fruit
one evening came around the next, and,
like oliver Twist, cried for more.
Mrs. La France has a happy faculty
for imparting her knowledge, and she
firmly believes that once the proper
method of cooking the fruit is under
stood. the demand will be practically
unlimited. and that the orchardiSt need
never allow a pound of fruit to go TO
waste on his hands. The increased de-
nand will insure better prices, and dried
fruit will never become-as it has dur
ing the past few months-a glut in the
market
SUNDAY CONCERTS.
Grand concert will be given in the
Pavilion to-day from to O'CLOCK py
1assasa's peerless band. There are num-
drads Of visitors in the city who VIII
doubtless be glad of this hne opportuhl-
~ for passing away the time IN an en-
icvable manner, while all home ADMIRERS
of choice music should improve 'he
chance to hear these skilled artlsts at
tbeir hest The price of admission to
the concert will be 20 Genus iiieie
viii he no concert there in the evening
Following is the programme seiecleu
bv cassasa for the concert
! Grand Overture "Rienzi' ...R. Wagner
. "Norceau de Gendre" ..-...-;;- 1esoI iiies
5. Gems from the Most Admired works d go,
4 Praphrase Nearer. My God".....Keeves
al Morning (b) Death Of Ase, ld)
Anita's Dance, te) Dance OF the Noun
tain Imps. -, ..c,ohit
6. Grand Overture to Rossini's StaoiI
Mater ''..... he W..
Written in homage 20 the great master.
T. Duo for from bones .--.,a liz is'
Mr.. and Mrs. Tobin.
g. Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. Z.;:--; i,isA, ~,
O. Waltz, Ever or Never" .--... !" aId III .eo,ei ~
10 Chorus "HalleIujah' -Hahuei
IN THE ART GALLERY.
Rupert Schmid, San Francisco, mas
six examples of sculpture in the center
of the Art Gallery, the best being the
portrait bust of General Grant. flora
Vivian has in the same place porlrail
bust from life that is meritorious ana IN
dicates capacity in modelling OF a gooo
order. Minnie Smegner has an example
of modelling in the form of vase with
sea animals 1t is work OF originality
and has features that strike one as es-
pecially strong. Not without fauits, this
original vase impresses us with Iar
more of counterbalancing merits whlch