The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-11
A THING OF BEAUTY
The Great California Citrus Fair
in Chicago.
A Tower Fifty Feet High Covered with Fifty
Thousand Oranges-Twenty Thousand
Gala Lilies from Pasadena.

| Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch I
CHICAGO, April 1O.-Within a hundred
feet of the blue waters of Lake Michigan
and scarcely stones throw from the great
tower OF the Auditorium, preparations
were begun in earnest yesterday for the
California citrus fair that is to show Chi
cagoans and all the strangers within her
gates the glories of the groves near the
shores of the Pacific. Some idea of the
magnitude OF the enterprise may be guessed
from the fact that the preliminary arrange
ments for the fair have already given en-
ployment to no less than 300 persons. All
the afternoon as well as night the work of
putting the hall in shape for receiving the
public Monday evening, was being pushed
with true western vigor.
A fitting place has been chosen for the
display. 1t is the mammoth Interstate
Exposition building, standing on site that,
exception other structures, was considered
the ideal spot for the Worlds fair. The
location is practically the heart of Chicago
being equally distant from the three SEN
arate residence divisions, and centrally To-
Gated as to the business district, hotels and
transportation facilities
Hammer and saw made the great build
ing resound last evening, and 1t was sight
worth seeing to watch the many deft
fingers unpacking the golden fruit. MANY
curiosity seekers attempted to gain ad-
mission.
| 1t is the intention to keep the carnival
open as long as the fruit holds its shape.
| When it is used in design work, as in this
case, its keeping qualities are impaired and
| it is not expected that the festival will be
open later than May /. Twenty-eiQht
residents of southern California are now
in the city looking after the interests of
| their locality exhibits and more will arrive
Saturday. The fruit will be worked in an
| artistic manner into designs. Among these
will be tower so feet high covered with
$4,000 oranges; a hugh orange covered with
10000 oranges; Turkish mosque on which
4S, 600 oranges are used; the Bear Valley
| dam, taking 10000 oranges to complete; the
! Ontario traction car covered with oranges !;
! San Gabriel's old mission church covered
with $4,000 tangerines San Diego's harbor
with 10000 oranges and 10000 lemons
Rlvera's walnut tower with base and top
of oranges, 1.-The Old Oaken Bucket. J,
Santa Barbara will also present a tropical
scene. This county sends two carloads of
date palm trees 20 feet high; fan palms 3
feet in diameter and 25 feet high; twenty
five palms from s to Is feet high, banana
plants weighing thousand pounds apiece,
oranges, olives, dates, olive oil, chiramoyas,
shaddocks, the century plant in bloom.
bamboo, papyrus, lemons and walnuts, ETC.,
etc. Pasadena has sent 10000 Gala lilies
and these with the 10000 palm leaves, TO-
600 pampas plumes and the eVergreens and
other foliage plants and two carloads of
flowers will, it is expected, make the ex-
position building veritable bower of
beauty Those who have given the matter
attention predict that the fair will prove
such an ye-opener to fruit fanciers that il
can hardly hlep marking few era in the
trade in citrus products.