The record-union., 1899-08-17
PERFECT TING The PROGRAM.
CITIZENS CLUB ROUNDING OUT
ITS WORK.
Special Attractions to Lend Inter-
est During the Coming
State Fair.


zens' State Fair Club held a meeting
last night at the Golden Eagle Hotel
parlors, and settled number of mat
ters and discussed several others.
There was feeling of confidence ex-
pressed throughout that the Fair was
going to far surpass any of late years
and that everything was moving
smoothly toward that end.
L. w. Buckley reported progress and
that he had secured by contract six
first class troupeS for aerial, musical,
acrobatic and cake walk features that
were new to the coast and have never
been seen in Sacramento. The musical
Willards are high-class artists, doing
new and unique acts, their instruments
occupying a space of 15X30 feet on the
stage. For the baby show and baby
coach parade preat preparations have
been made. One set of triplets has been
secured and two more are expected to
come, and ten to twelve sets of twins
will also compete.
In England, at Brighton, July 1st is
known as Baby Coach Parade Day, and
is one of the great European fetes. IL
has also gained a foothold in this coun-
try and been held in several cities OF
this country. The parade will be headed
by juvenile drum majors and fife and
drum corps of four little children. Cal
ifornia possesses great advantages for
decorating the baby coaches and the
parade will undoubtedly be fine one
1t is proposed to have the judges Sc
lected from the California Press Asso-
citation, one from the north, one from
tbo Co11tb and Opa from Central Cali
fornia, assisted by five ladies. The
prizes will be for the handsomest boy
baby and the handsomest girl baby of
California production under years old;
a special prize for the handsomest
baby, boy or girl, to be known as the
State championship trophy; prizes for
the brightest and youngest baby boy or
girl for the prettiest twins, for prettlest
triplets, and merchants prize for the
prettiest baby boy or girl born in Sac
ramentO City.
Emil Markeberg will walk the tight
wire above the beams and cross irons
Of the Pavilion, in the dome, seventy
five feet above the floor, the wire cable
being stretched from one end OF the
building to the other, above the bal
cony line. He will walk in market bas-
kets. with his head and feet enveloped
in gunny sacks, blindfolded: and to
wind up with will carry a man across
on his back (if any one cares TO GO
with him) and returning with a stove,
fasten it to the wire, light an alcohol
lamp in it and fry fiapjacks.
The electric cake walk, which produc-
ed such a sensation at the International
Cake Walk Carnival, will be given, the
performers each carrying a miniature
storage battery attached to their per-
sons
Miss Pearl Hickman will give the fire
dance and the California poppy dance,
with electrical effects, and on Army and
Navy Day will give her famous Dewey
dance. Master Harry Mangels, and
Eta Aronson, the eight-year-old cham
pion cake walkers of the world, will
also appear.
The Flying Bambards and Little
Ozark. the aerial wonders, have also
been engaged for the first week. They
do most remarkak lie trapeze work trip e
summersaults through the air and other
features All their rigging will be in
place by Sunday afternoon.
The attractions offered are all first
given afternoon and evening during the
two weeks.
The Committee on Publicity was in
structed to endeavor to secure from the
railroad company excursion trains re-
turning late at night, at reduced fares,
in order to accommodate those from a
distance who cannot we'll spare more
than a day to come and see the fair
with their families.
The report of the Committee on Re-
ception regarding the meeting OF ladies
of various societies in the afternoon
was read. A report of the meeting Will
be found in another column.
Mr. Coleman reported that the Con-
ference Committee of the Native Sons
parlors had decided to take part in the
parade on Monday night, the opening
night.
Action on the report of the Committee
on Reception was deferred until the
next regular meeting.
Secretary Shields of the Agricultural
Society reported that the Native Sons
had taken up the matter of turning out
on opening night and on Native Sons
Day enthusiastically.
The committee adjourned to meet to-
morrow night