The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06
THE STATE INDUSTRIAL FAIR
1T OPENS TODAY AND WILL
RUN TWO WEEKS.
Pavilion Exhibits Approaching
Completion-Thi After
moons Racing.

not yet completed, but it is expected
that nearly all viii be in place by
tonight. There is great hurry and
hustle in all departments, and exhibi
tors and their assistants were all busy
yesterday getting things in shape.
Those who are most behind are, as a
rule the ones who could just as well
as not have been ready a week ago.
The city is rapidly filing up with
visitors. Every train yesterday and
last evening brought large numbers Of
strangers, and the outlook is for a
good attendance. The first arrivals
are usually men of the sporting class,
the country people generally deferring
their visits till the fair has been run
ming a few days.
Superintendent Stanton of the art
department has made rapid progress
toward the placing Of the vast number
Of pictures he had selected for the art
gallery, and he declared yesterday that
his department win be ready for WISH
tors this evening. The display is GER
tainly a very attractive one, and is
especially interesting because the work
is that CT California artists.
Not the least among the prominent
features of the Fair will be the music.
Instead of sending abroad for band
to delight the visitors at Park and Pa
vilion, the Directors this year have
recognized home talent, and the per-
formers viii be selected from among
the best in this city, and it can be
safely predicted that the music will
be fully up to the best ever heard here.
c. A. Neale, the veteran leader, has
charge Of the musical features. He has
no superior on the coast. There will
be three big concerts during the Fair,
for which several hundred voices have
been in training. The band programme
for to night is as follows:
Grand march, State Militia Review.
Overture, Fra DiavaIo'' ............A uber
Norspiel, from Manfred" Reinecke
Nalse, Die Hydropaten" .....-.. .Gungl
CaPriice ,herolque' Awakening OF the
Selection, Romeo and juliet 49,. Gounod
PART II.
Overture Barber OF Seville" $3.50. ROssini
Idyll, Pilgrims Song of Hope" 49,. BattSte
Funeral march of a Marionette.- Guonod
Nalse, THE Colonel .............. Bucalossi
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
Joseph Cairn Simpson, the veteran
turfmGn, writes as follows in the
Breeder and Sportsman" of Saturday
last:
A great exhibition that of the Cali
fornia State Agricultural Society, An
no Domino 1874 The first 1 saw, and
fresh from Eastern experiences, there
was no trouble in drawing cOmpari-
sons So much beyond the 'eXpositiOns'
of other members of the grand con-
federation of commemorative as to
elicit surprise and admiration, the only
one superior in my acquaintance being
the St Louis Fair.
And that, too, in many respects in
ferior. Nearly a quarter of a century
ago in an outlying State, not even
border State as two great ranges of
mountains cut it off from it's neigh
bors. when such a display in all of its
departments. was witnessed by a new
arrival not at all wonderful that
he thought that it was an ex-
ceptioral year, and hereafter there
must be a decline. But 1 can safely
assert that were it possible to place
the show of 1874 in juxtaposition with
that of 1894 there would be an increase
of establishment. and. from present in
dications, the one which viii open next
week viii be we'll up, very likely in
advance of any that has preceded it.
Were it not for the pecuniary condi-
tons that have prevailed for the past
four years. quite within bounds to an
ticipate the greatest show on the earth
when the products Of soil, mines and
manufactures are the articles on ex-
hibitioa.
THAT the speed department will be
fully up to that of former years is
shown by the list of entries in the har-
ness races that appears in another part
of this paper, and the racing stakes
that have closed and the race horses in
attendance also prove that the turf viii
be well represented and do its full
share to entertain the people. The ar
Tangement, whereby harness racing and
running races alternate, that is, trot-
ting and pacing on Mondays, Tuesdays
and Wednesdays, and gall0ping con-
tests on the other days of the week,
is preferable to giving a week to each.
The Sacramento course is so easily pre-
pared that good tracks can be given to
each branch.
y great difference from the opinions
that prevailed in former years when it
was held imperative that there should
be deeply narrowed ground for the gall
lopers. Il hard surface for trotters. A
cushion nowadays in place of adaman-
tine soEdity, in lieu of a course resemb-
ling a field fitted for the seed, Just
enough loose dirt to DO away with the
jar the water sprinkling cart at night
and harrow in the forenoon remedy the
impact of the wheels so as to suit
the racers, a lighter watering. a finer
toothed harrow and a smoother trans
forming the race course into very
nearly an ideal track for the pneumatic
tires.
The racing devotee and the enthusi-
asst are provided for. and that large
body Of people who fancy any kind of
racing will have a full opportunity to
crafty their fancies.
Useless to dwell on the attractions
presented. as every hour of the TWEEN
ty-four that can be spared from eat
ing and sleeping, can be pleasantly
filed
From early morning until the races
are called not q minute devoid of in
teresting spectacles at the Park, and
after the racing a dinner, eaten with
the relish which the open air and ex-
element have induced, the scenes at
the Pavilion. A person who cannot en-
joy the State Fair must be strangely
lacking in most of the senses the graf
tficaGon Of which affords pleasure"
AT THE PARK.