Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-24
wEONEsDAx. APRIL "a. 1850.
A Travcsty of Los Angeles County

WEDNESDAXs APEtL gas 1885,
A Travcsty of Los AnR Reles County.
Mr.. Ward, the Secretary of the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce, has just
returned from San Francisco. While
there he looked in at the Los Angeles
exhibit at the State Board of Trade, and
his account of it is certainly not encour-
raging. According to Mr.. Ward, it is
poor and paltry. Certainly, if it is worth
while to have display at all, it should
be thorough one. The premier county
of the semi-tropic region of the United
States cannot afford either to be misrep-
resented or to be poorly represented. If
che appears at all, che ought TO show up
handsomely. Strange to say, some of
the poorest counties of the State, in range
of products, SO far outshine Los An
geles county that, as she is now rep
resented, it looks like crime
to have her represented at all.
The warmth of our indignation at
her present exhibit is based upon the
fact that it is inadequate, to the point of
imbecility, in management and shows a
most pitiful paucity in display.
This county ought to be royalty repre-
sented in an exhibit which aims to
challenge, in the principal city of the
Pacific Coast, the attention of visitors
from all quarters of the United States
and of the world. Our products en-
brace nearly every range of both the
tropic, the semifropic ard the temperate
zones. At the New Orleans Exposition OF
1885 the Los Angeles exhibit took the
sweepstake premium for apples, while
Riverside took the sweepstake premium
for oranges. These verdicts wers wrung
from Indifferent and even hostile judges
against the world. If Duarte had been
imbued with a competitive spirit,
such as she should have had, the
supremacy of Riverside in the citrus
fruits would have been questionable.
But at all events, the sweepstake pre-
MUM over the oranges of the widespread
earth was awsrded to the limited citrus
territory embraced in Los Angeles and
San Bernardino counties.
The Les Angeles wine and brandy ex-
hibit at the New Orleans Exposition was
something TO excite the pride of our citi-
zens. The most conspicuous thing in the
distinctively United States exhibits at
that famous gathering Of all countries and
races was the booth of Mr.. E. ]. Bald
win. His brandies and wines, in most
attractive array, extorted the applause Of
the visiting hundreds of thousands.
Santa Anita became there as much of o
household word for these Los Angeles
epecialties as the Santa Anita stables
of the United States.
When it Gomez, however, to figuring
on tie exhibit of the State Board of
Trade, now being held in the Grand
Hotel, at San Francisco, our people seem
to have become parslyzed. Mr.. Ward
informs US that, instead of the royal wine
and brandy exhibit of the Santa Anita
and San Gabriel and Sunny Slope
wineries, which one would naturally ex-
pect to see there, there are only twenty
FIVE bottles of wine from the cellars of
Mr.. w. H. Workman. In addition, there
are three small glses jars of walnuts, one
photograph of an orange orchard, six
views of Inglewood, ten poor lemons, one
box of small dried prunes, one box of
dried peaches, one box OF raisins and one
box of dried plums, and all small-all
small to the point of nausea.
This beegarly travesty of Los
Angeles County is all that ap
pears in an exhibition of Los An
eeles products which is visited by quite
five hundred people day.
Surely it is high time that our people
should be aroused to the necessity of
eiit er se1 eriDg themselves from any con-
nection with the State Beard of Trade, or
of being fit'iDgly represented in its collec-
ton One or the other Of the horns of
dilemma presents its point to the most
ohtuse. Here we have the most opulent
region Of California, that section which is
most variously endowed with poesibili- |
ties and achieved realities of production
figuring in a most humiliatipg light.
Eitl er withdraw the Los Angeles ex-
hibits, or make them commensurate with |
cur manifold wealth and production
TLis is the dictate both OF pride and
common sense. W. wonder II the tr4y-
e ling show in the East is regulated on the
same principle. The Angelefio, who is
not an ass, ought to know that the north
srn and central counties are being
played for all they are worth by rail-
ways and newspapers, and that the
E asterner is being sedulously imbued
yi.h the idea that in both climate and
rod uction there is no difference between
,tan islaus and Eldorado and Los Ange-
ss and San Bernardino counties.
1t is high time shat we should take
ONE action in the line of vindicating this
ectioD. We should either withdraw
rom par ticipation in the State Board ex-
iibit, or reinforce creditably our part OF
he display; or, what is still better, and .
sr more reliable, we ought to trganize
ur own exhibits, not only in this State
ut in the United States at large. IL