Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-15
THE ORANGE SHOW.
YESTERDAYS FEATURES OF THE
EXHIBIT AT THE PAVILION.
Children's Day Brings Out Multitude of
Youngsters and Their Chaperones-The
Show Open Today--Notes.

Yesterday was children's day at the
citrus fair, and judging from the numbe,
of youngsters who took advantage of that
fact and visited the wonderful exhibition
at Hazards pavilion, the idea of setting
apart one day for their special benefit
met with the approval of very large
per centage of the juvenile population OF
this city. AS many of the children were
accompanied by their elder relatives, the
crowd which populated the vast hall was
not by any means confined to the
younger generation. As the fair
progresses, the interest taken in
it by the public appears to in
crease, for every day since it opened
has the announcement been made that
the attendance was in excess of that of
the preceding day. Yesterday was
phenomenal one, over $500 being taken
in at the doors, thus swelling the grand
total OF the receipts to considerably over
$4,000.
Az regards localities, yesterday was
devoted to Redlands, Riverside and San
Bernardino county generally, and a
delegation from these places came up to
congratulate their representatives and
see for themselves whether their respec-
tive exhibits were such as had been
claimed for them. The Redlands peo-
pie were particularly happy over the
victory of their beautiful exhibit, and
the bright little reception room was
crowded with gaily-dressed ladies and
their escorts, who called to offer their
congratulations to j. Wallace f. Diss
and his fellow-members of the commit
tee in charge.
During the afternoon an excellent
and enjoyable promenade concert was
provided by the Arend string orchestra.
AS had been expected, an immense
crowd visited the fair in the evening,
and every seat in the building was
taken by 7:30 O'Clock, and remained
occupied almost continuously until
nearly midnight. Tickets were in de-
mand and sold as late as 10 o'clock,
long after the usual hour of closing the
box office. The result was that at
times locomotion was altogether out of
the question, and those who stood
In the admiring crowte in font of any
one OF the exhibits were compelled to
wait until the people in front of them
finished their scrutiny of it and moved
on to another. All appeared to be en-
joying themselves, however, and the
best OF good humor prevailed every
where. The various booths devoted to
refreshments were very literally patron
:zed, and those in charge reaped golden
harvest accordingly. The promenade
concert,by the popular Seventh Infantry
band, met with universal approval.
The fair will be open this afternoon,
between the hours Of / and o'clock,
in order to give those of the working
men OF Los Angeles, who are unable to
attend during the week, an opportunity
of seeing the exhibition with their fam
ilies. The idea has received the general
commendation of the clergy and church
people of the city, and will doubtless be
appreciated by those who desired it.
The Arend orchestra will render the
following programme during the after
noon:
Overture National Airs. .Theo. Moses
Sacred SongICornet. ...~.......;: Muller
From Vienna to Berlin. n............... .Wohonka
Overture-Italians in Algiers ........ Rossini
the Princess Gavotte e........r........C .Czibulka
Selection-Faust. t........................G .Gounod
A meeting of the board of directors of
the chamber of commerce, to which the
board Of supervisors and number Of
local capitalists have been invited, will
be held on Monday. for the purpose OF
considering number of propositions
relative to the reproduction Of
the, fair at Chicago Or New York.
The probabilities are that this
meeting will decide the matter definite
ly. A large number of growers and
others interested in orange culture have
expressed their approval of the scheme,
as projected in the HERALD, and the
general idea prevails that under proper
management the affair would be pro-
nounced success. Several officials of the
Santa Fe railroad company to whom the
matter was suggested informally, ex-
pressed themselves favorably, and limited
that it was very probable that their
company would furnish transportation
free.
FAIR JoTTINas.
Henry Elms has an interesting exhibit
of fruit in his Highlands orchard dis
play in the ante-room. One of his
special features is a small pyramid c,
oranges on plate. At the apex is an
orange OF the growth OF 1859, below 1t
are two Of 1890, the base consisting oi
this years fruit, all picked from single
tree recently.
The ladies of Gelcich corps were in
charge of the lunch rooms yesterday.
Duarte and San Diego each presented
them with a box of fine oranges with
their compliments, which courtesy was
much appreciated by the ladies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baldridge, of Covina
have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. G. M
Richardson, of Euclid avenue, during
the fair. Mr.. Baldridge is one of the
prominent orange growers of the upper
San Gabriel valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Gird of Chino
were in town yesterday, and spent sew
eral hours at the fair. While both
were enchanted with the display, Mr.
Gird says he has pinned his faith te
beet culture, and hopes in the neal
future to have beet fair of his own.
Among the prominent Riversiders al
the fair yesterday we're Mr.. and Mrs
C.. E. Grosvenor and a. H. Naftzgar.
Herve Friend, the artist, was heard tc
remark as he stood looking at the dis
play of prize lemons from E. H. Hatch's
Monte Vista grove orchard at Ontario