Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-03


the Narrow.Gauge-Apprsciated Opportuni
ties-Forgst Not-Warnsd-A Dime on th
Eyelid as Big as the Moon-Bsware of th
Near Nickle that Shuts OF View Of Far
ther Away-gxposition and Narrow.aaug
System of Narrow Gauges Within the Ex
>..ccrior Narrow-dauge Line-The Interio
Marrow. Gauge Belts of Compton, Laguna
Downey Valley, Anaheim, Garden Grow
and Chino.
EDITOR HERALD: The inhabi.
tants of the exterior and interior
belts of the proposed narrow.
gauges impatiently await the re-
suits OF the late reconnaissance
These people ought, and doubtless
will cooperate in working out re-
suits. The public is one of the
mediums through which to reach
results. Facts are the media
through which to reach the public.
The Exposition is mediuna
through which to present facts and
the illustrations of facts. The Ex-
position may be made a potent
auxiliary pleader for the exterior
and interior systems of narrow
gauges proposed for the counties
of Los Angeles and San Bernardo
no. The fruit-growers and farmers
of the narrow-gauge belts may fill
the Pavilion with exhibits which
will mutely argue their cause with
more effectual logic than u dozen
numbering orators. No argu-
ments convince as effectually and
no advertising is as inexpensive,
in proportion to the effects, as
fruits, cereals, vegetables, butter
and cheese at the Fair. The people
of the narrow.gauge belts will
help themselves, the Exposition,
and the Centennial more effectual-
ly than in any way conceivable,
for the same expensive, by max
iDga
MAGNIFICENT NARROw-GAUGE
BELT ExHIBIT.
AT the Pavilion next week. While
on the Reconnaissance, lost no op-
portunity of impressing the people
with the Importance of demon
strating the fruitfulness of the mar
row gauge belts, by means of com.
prehensive exhibits at the Pavil-
ion. The people seem to appreci-
ate tho inestimable opportunity
which the Exposition affords, and
said they Intended to use it. But
busy farmers and fruit-growers,
like other people on the go for the
main chance, are prone to forget
the remoter for the immediate
main chance-prone to allow
small things nearest the eye to
shut out the view of larger ones
farther away-prone to allow the
NEAR DIME TO SPREAD OUT AND
CONCEAL THE REMOTER DOL
LAR.
Let the soil tIllers of the narrow
gauge belt take warning and reach
around the dime for the dollar. Do
not allow u moral analogy of law
of optics to telegraph delusion
along the pocket nerves. Beware
of that lack of public spirit, which
may leave the private spirit la
mentiug.
If the nsrrow-gauge people would
crowd the Pavilion with specimens
of what is now to be found distrib-
uted over all the belts, in vineyard,
orchard, grove, truck-patch, gai-
den, meadow, field, cheese factory,
creamery, smoke house, granary,
bin, barn and cellar, the narrow
gauge impulse would rise to 65 vig-
OrOus beats to the minute. Such
realities capital has never known
how to resist.
The people along the exterior
line of the proposed narrow-gauge
are certainly coming with exhibits
upon a large scale. Let it be larger.
Pasadena will excel her previous
self. San Gabriel is awake. Santa
Anita is not asleep. Duarte and
AZusa promise. Pomona is all
astir. Serene CucamOnga is bliss
fully minus flea in the ear. San
Bernardino could and probably
will be immense. Sixty miles of
norih-slde naNow-gauge apiaries
are marshalling under President G..
N. Wilson. Riverside and Arling-
ton are plumipg themselves as
they never did before. They will
be irresistible, with grapes fit for
Seraphim, and unanswerable with
syllOgisms, done up
in pomological object lessons.
ORANGE, TUsTIN, SANTA ANA AND
GOSPEL SWAMP
Are coming to the Fair with Frank
Monaghan and with the flavor of
standard gauge smoke, bearing po-
mological delicacies, floral delights
and pumpkin sensations to the Pa
vilion; bearing fruit specimens of
enormous freight yielders that alb
hor magnificent distances between
steam thorougbfares, laugh to
scorn puny horse flesh, and de-
mand reinforcements of steeds of
iropj bearing specimens of the
vast avoirdupois, eloquent to un-
loose fresh titans of fire and iron,
and to hurry on the chimes OF mar
row-gauge tenor and standard
gauge bass. The last word is mu-
sical term and Is used in no inhar-
monious sense, even granting that
it is the gravest part of the tune,
and don't you forget 1t, Col.
Crocker, when Col. Hewitt asks
the fateful Board If he must let
them Santa Ana fellows have half
rates to the Fair.
Westminster and the squash belt
must be conservative, If any other
region is to have room In the Pa