The San Francisco call., 1899-08-26
OUTLOOK
FOR STATE FAIR
Every Inch of Space in
Pavilion Taken.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SACRAMENTO, Aug 25.-The State
Fair, which will open in this city
week from next Monday, gives every
promise of being the most largely at
tended exhibition Of State products and
industries ever held in California In
past years State Fairs have not been as
emiIeEtIy successful as the character
and variety Of California products
would seem 10 justify This year re-
newed interest has been awakened, and
the effect is very noticeable.
In the pavilion every inch Of the
more than three acres Of floor space mas
been taken by exhibitors, who under
stand that their booths must possess
artistic merit and that nothing COM
mOnplace viii be allowed. one exhlb-
itOr alone is expending $1,000 upon his
booth; another is eXpending 500, and
others are going 10 an expense Vari-
ously less than these amounts.
The city Of Sacramento displays this
year a marked zeal toward making the
approaching event one long 70 be re-
rneTnbered. The Leading fraternal and
beneficial organizations Of the city have
selected particular da~ during the
two weeks Of the fair, to be known as
their day, and a pronounced rivalry
has sprung up among them as 10 which
Of Sacramento viii take part in the
opening exercises at the pavilion. No
less than tWenty-seven different asso-
Citations, the membership Of, some OF
which numbers over 100, have signified
their intention to be on hand. The
management promises the public that
every exhibit will be IN place at this
time, and the intention is practically to
turn the pavilion over 10 the women.
In the upper part of the north wing,
where the art gallery is situated, room
VIII be set apart for the use Of com
nlittees Of women, and here light re-
freshments will be served to visitors
without cost. On each succeeding night
there will be a musical and vaudeville
programme, which will change daily.
Entries in all departments show that
there will be an immense number and
variety Of the very highest class Of
California products exhibited in the
Pavilion. The variety Of fowls which
will be exhibited in the poultry depart
ment has never been surpassed.
Among the most interesting features
in the Pavilion viii be a silo and ensi-
lage machinery in operation under the
supervision Of Professor Douglas T.
Fowler Of the State University. This
model and, to California, modern meth
Cd Of preparing and preserving green
food for winter ration for stock will
be explained in every detail. A com
plete modern dairy, under the super
vision of Major Alvord Of the United
States Department Of Agriculture, Will
be shown in full operation.
Among the stock that will be shown
at the park there will be representa-
tives of the finest herds Of cattle in
America and Europe. and the parade Of
road horses promises to outclass any
thing ever seen here. While tha man
agement has attempted to make the
agricultural features Of the coming big
State exposition paramount TO ali else
at the same time it has succeeded in
procuring a list Of entries to track
events that gives assurance of an ex-
hibition Of racing the equal of which
has seldom been witnessed in this State
over $50 runners have already been
stalled, and new quarters have been
made necessary to accommodate the
demand.
Special features have been added to
what was already a full programme,
and there will be plenty TO interest. in
struct or amuse all visitors to the fair.