Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
FILCHER DOING THINGS
FOR GREAT STATE FAIR
PREPARATIONS FOR BIG SHOW
AT SACRAMENTO
Striking Spectacle Of Many Floats in
Honor of Session of the National
Irrigation Congress at
Time of Fair

Special to The Herald.
SACRAMENTO, July 20.-The California
state fair and western stock show will
open Saturday, September Z, and continue
until and including Saturday, septem'
ber IA.
| The agricultural, horticultural, forestry
mining and mechanical section of the fair
will open Monday September 2, simultane-
ously with the irrigation congress and the
irrigated products exposiaion, and will
continue until Saturday September Ia.
| Saturday, September Z, will mark the
close of the national irrigation congress
and the formal opening of the state fair
and will be celebrated by a grand irriga-
| ton. parade and other demonstrations,
| making 1t day of general jubilation.
AS indicating what his parade and jubi-
lation will be an article in the Sacra-
mento Bee of July 10, commenting on a
meeting of the executive committee of the
national irrigation congress- and the sub
jects considered by it, is as follows:
1t was decided to commence work on
various floats that are to be In the big
opening parade at once. and Charles It'd
ball, the noted designer and artist, was
selected to take charge.
Those planning the parade declare 1t
will be one of the most striking spectacles
ever attempted in the west They boast
that it will rival in point of splendor the
celebrated Mardi Gras and Yelled Prophet
shows of New Orleans and st. Louis.
The history of irrigation from the days
Of the Pharaohs down to the present time
will be portrayed in a series Of huge floats
Allegorical figures representing the SUBJ
ject through all stages of human progress,
from the very dawn of civilization in the
cradle lands of the race in the orient,
will be grouped in tableaux. This display
is but one of many attractive features of
the festivities being arranged for the en-
tertainment of Sacramento's visitors next
September.
In addition to the irrigation pageant
there will be splendid electrical illumina-
ton and a round of fetes of extraordinary
interest and charm. The board of control,
whose members have assumed the task of
making the congress and incidental enter
tainment memorable page in this city's
annals, are determined that there shall
not be a dull moment for visitors during
the continuance of the congress and the
interstate exposition. Neither labor nor
expense will be spared to effect that re-
suit.
The irrigation spectacle will be in line
with the magnificent display of irrigation
and forestry products in the interstate
exposition. For no similar event in the
United States has there been hung up a
bigger aggregation of costly gold and sill
yer trophies and valuable prizes for COL
lective and individual exhibits.
Capt. J. w. Price, the famous Cali
fornia balloonist, has patented new
aerial feat, and is now building at San
Jose what will be the biggest balloon in
the world for the purpose of carrying it
out. Two men are carried up by this
balloon, one in cannon and one outside
At height of 5000 feet the man outside
fires the cannon, hurting the inside man
into space BY a parachute attachment
which gradually opens the man who has