Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-30
CHRYSANTHEMUMS.
A SPLENDID EXHIBITION OF ia
PANS FAvORITE FLOWER.
Judge Cheney Addresses the Audience
An Unfortunate Incident-Miss Molie
Adelia Brown Sings Ballad.


The Armory hall last night presented
the appearance of the palace of faerle
queene. The lovely flowers of Japan,
four thousand plants OF which were on
exhibition, made the spacious hall look
as the bower in which Koko made love
to Yum Yum. The illusion was still
further carried by a number Of the
lovely maidens in the Japanese booth
who wore the Kimosho ofthe land of the
chrysanthemum and the jinrikisha. The
attendance was large. The Arend or
chestra supplied the music.
After two selections by the Arend or
chestra, Rev. A. G. Williams, of Po-
mona, offered a short prayer.
On the platform, beside Mayor Haz-
ard, were Judges Cheney and Wade,
Chairman Perry, of the board of super
visors, President Frankenfield, of the
city council, and Councilman Van Du-
sen. The board of trade and chamber
of commerce were represented by Gen
eral Mathews.
Mayor Hazard, who presided, in in
PRODUCING Miss Mollie Adelia Brown,
praised flowers in short address, and
claimed that they drive away from man.
kind all evil thoughts.
Miss Brown, in her usual sweet and
accomplished style, sang German ro-
nance with great success, but could not
be induced, although very much ap
plauded, to respond to the encore.
When Judge Cheney, who was to give
the opening speech, rose to address the
meeting the buzzing of many tongues in
the hall was unpleasantly loud, and the
difficulty in subduing the noise caused a
very unpleasant incident. 1t was not
until after repeated knocks with cane
on chair by Mayor Hazard that some
thing like comparative silence could be
obtained.
The speaker said that, standing in the
midst of all this chrysanthemum beauty,
both animate and inanimate, he won
dered if there is anything ugly in this
world. This is an age of flowers, not an
age of sentiment. Mems hearts are
cold storage rooms for icy facts. They
have little to do with poetry or senti-
ment. Were it not for this periodical
exhibition of flowers got up by the wo-
men, all the poetry of life would be
lost.
Here the noise in the rear OF the hall
became again unpleasantly loud, and
the speaker referred to it. Continuing,
he said that the men of today are given
to the material, to the search of the al
mighty dollar. If there is one argument
in favor of the female element, it is that
we need its counterbalance of sympathy
and purity, almost solely found this day
in woman's heart The speaker believed
that we have lost all the romance of life.
He compared the beauties of the old
modes of locomotion with the modern
steamers and railroads. Judge Cheney
said he loved this beautiful land of Cal
ifornia-yesterday pasturage for cattle,
today full of beautiful orchards. He ex-
tolled the resources of Los Angeles
county.
At this point the noise of some ill
bred people became unbearable, and
the judge begged to be excused. The
of people should cease in Difference to
the eloquent gentlemen who was ad
dressing them, and Judge Cheney was
induced to complete his speech. He
said that the one thought he
most desired to impress upon
his hearers was that we were
growing creatures of the lofty and pure
no longer, but that we were continually
and steadily drifting toward the real
istic. He thanked the ladies for the ex-
hibition, which shows that sentiments
of love and purity are eternol. The
flowers were placed here in the hope that
they would arouse something in man
kind Of .he love, honesty and purity of
the ladies who had conceived the de-
sign of these festivals. The speaker en-
Enthusiastically praised Los Angeles,
where we have all to make it the classic
county of the coast, but he advocated
patience, economy and common sense.
In conclusion he paid a glowing compli-
ment to the memory of John @. FIRE.
mont, the pathfinder and pioneer of
California, upon whose brow he hoped
some of the garlands of these flowers
would be deposited by grateful South
ern California.
The ladies of the Japanese booth were
the center of attraction last evening.
Miss Cochran, lately from Japan, is the
chairman. The assistants are the Misses
Lille Houser, Clara Heffner, Clara Nor
ris, Grace Lyman, Jessie Rhodes, Lottie
Doan, Florence Williams, Clara Elwood
and Abba Houser. The ladies were
charmingly attired in Japanese costumes
and served their tea and Japanese cake
in the oriental style with chOpsticks.
Hot lunch will be served every day
during the fair from 12 to 2.
Mrs. Judge Pieper officiates as chair
man of the candy booth, assisted by the
Misses Minnie Brill, Winnie Pieper, Lulr
Pieper, Lola Emery, Ella Holcomb
Linda Hill.
The ladies managing the fair make .
special call for donations of chrysanthe
NUNS, ivy and smilax.
Descriptions of all the booths and col
lections of flowers will be given to-mor
row.