Excerpt from Report of the Twenty-Third Industrial Exhibition of the Mechanics' Institute of the City of San Francisco: Held at the Mechanics' Pavilion, From the 7th Day of August to the 15th Day of September, Inclusive, 1888 Several years ago it was predict-ed by some of the best friends of the Institute, that an annual recurrence of our Exhibitions was too often, and, some time, would be disastrous to its finances, as a failure would require the profits of years to make it good. The majority of the Trustees, however, putting faith in the steady prosperity and progress of our city and State, advocated and have presented, with the assistance of our people, each year an Exhibition that we believe has been generally satisfactory, instructive, and a credit to our State and the Institute. The pecuniary results have been highly remunerative to the Society, and their holding we believe of benefit to the State at large. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.