The record-union., 1891-01-14
NORTHERN CITRUS FAIR.
Marysville Has 0utdone All Previous
Efforts at Orange Exhibiting.
Northern California Wears Her Golden
Girdle of Fruits with Justifable
and Commendable Pride.


MARYsyILLE, Jan. 13.-Marysyille, the
metropolis Of the twin counties of Yuba
and Sutter, grants to her visitors this
week many glimpse of the golden
girdle which she wears SO proudly.
In the gardens which surround her
pretty homes, in the windows of her
business houses, the offices of her hotels,
all along the neatly swept and decorated
streets, the gold of the citrus fruit shines
out from amid its own glossy green
leaves or forms wealth of foliage woven
into odd or picturesque devices. Here,
on street corner, a great golden eagle of
oranges spreads its wings. There in a
shop window a dainty yacht has her
silken sails of gold and green all set for
voyage over sea of green, her cargo of
oranges, lemons, dates and prunes piled
high upon her deck. and her. rigging of
ribbons showing the colors-gold and
green-which, this week, are the s'only
wear' in Marysville.
The hotels are decorated and have
made preparation for a crowd of incom-
ing guests, who will doubtless be cared
for well and courteously.
The weather has been all that could be
asked, the mornings tinge of freshness
being soon dissipated by the sunshine,
and no threatening clouds appearing
above the Buttes which stand guard over
the city and her guests. When daylight
disappears electric lights, both arc and
lncandeScent, and the twinkle of gas jets,
light up the city streets, the slender moon
being still too young for much service in
shat line. 1t will be
SURPRISE TO THE MANY
Who are visiting Marysville this week for
the first time TO find a city of only 1000
inhabitants with broad and substantially
built business streets, numerous hotels,
lines of street cars, an excellent system of
water-works, the provision before men
toned for gas and electric lighting and
many other features of metrOpolitaDiSm.
1t is the large and prosperous area of
country tributary TO it which has helped
the energetic citizens TO build so well. SO
says Mayor j. u. Haulstetter, who has
been resident of Marysville since far
back in the sixties, and whose worth and
popularity are so generally appreciated
that he was the unanimous choice OF the
people as their chief official.
AT THE PAVILION.
The gala aspect of the streets and the
general air of festivity eliminate at the
handsome pavilion on the corner OF a
and Third streets, where the State Citrus
Fair of Northern and Central California of
1891 is now in progress. Here the visitor
finds an exhibition which for artistic
beauty OF design and detail, for variety of
product, and for excellence of the quality
OF fruits shown, easily distances anything
ever held in California. The building is
large and admirably adapted TO the pur-
poses of exhibition. 1t was erected by
the citizens in 1886. The length Of the
main hall, east and west, is 100 feet and
its width, north and south, Y feet, but
great for the needs of this occasion.
Entering on Third street ut the south
ern side of the hall, the visitor finds him
self opposite the handsome orchestra
stand and under gallery. There IS no
better place for q first comprehensive
glance at the exhibition as a whole than
from one of the chairs in this gallery.
Taking this general survey, it is at
once apparent that there has been q har-
monious general design which is artistic
in outline and interesting in detail, and
that the working toward clearly de-
fined plan has saved the exhibition from
1T ScrappineSS OF appearance which
aitlictS SO many tairS-ag agricultural, horti
cultural and floral Heavy ropes OF ever
green are festooned from three points in
the ceiling and caught at the balustrade
Of the gallery and i'll corners by
lunches of scarlet berries, the festoons
being finished with pendants of oranges
and yellow corn. Under the gallery and
the slopes OF the irregular root, graceful
arabeSque patterns are traced out IN Slen-
der lines of green against the white back
ground, and in other places conventional
and geometrical figures and notices are
outlined with hundreds of small red APP
pies, which are used profuSely and with
excellent effect in all the decorations.
Very little drapery of cloth has been used
and but few flowers, but the decorative
possibilities of foliage, fruit and vege-
L /. L Il i
ful way. Oranges have, OF course, 1IrSt
place in this work of ornamentation, and
it is estimated that 100000 were used for
THAT purpose alone.
HOW THEY WORKED.
The amount of the labor expended here
is truly astonishing, and, to the expert
enced eve. it is plain that quite as much
time and trouble have been given TO
making each detail finished and beauti-
ful, as TO the fair, as whole. Almost all
this labor has been gratuitous. The ladies
and gentlemen of MarySville and Yuba
City, approaching keenly the benefits,
present and future, sure to accrue from
the exhibition, have given freely Of their
time, their strength and their talent
Scores OF workers have been busy day
and evening for several weeks, and these
workers have included young and old,
business men and capitalists, and large
numbers of ladies, all of whom have tenn
terestS for the common good.
All agree that to the young men of the
place should be given great credit for the
ardor and perseverance they have shown
in promoting and carrying through the
affair TO its successful elimination. Not
alone have Marysviile and Yuba City
worked. HuDa and Sutter Counties have
welcomed their Northern and Central
citrus neighbors royalty. and the re-
sponse has been generous. In the gen
eral description below Will be found full
credit given to exhibitors from adjacent
counties.
The managing directors are G. W. Han
cock and John Boggs. OF the MarysviIle
Citrus Fair Association, Norman Ride
QUITS President, G. W. Harvey, Secretary,
q. w. Peacock, Treasurer. and James
O'Brien, Jr., Superintendent. The EX-
ecutiVe Committee consists of eleven
gentlemen from each of the two counties.
Iuba and Sutter. Their names are as
follows:
Yuba County.-Norman Rideout, John
c. White, james 0'Brien, Jr., 4. F. Alb
bott, G. w. Harney, w. G.. Murphy. w.
u. Ellis, Jr., +. w. Johnson, w. J. Stew
art, r.. w. Skinner, G. W. Hutchins.
Sutter County.-G. w. Carpenter. r. C.
Kells, II. p. Stabler, c.. \. rharsing, s.
Q. Deaner, j. Il. Bogue, z. l.. Bunce, NJ.
i. Sanborn, b. +. Walton, James C.
Gray, Herman Berg.
Under the direction and inspiration OF
these officials, the whole town has
worked. As an instance it may be men
toned that Company C, of the Eighth
BATTALION, \. q. G., under command. ol
Captain @. B. Baldwin. and COMPOSED OF
many OF the finest young men of Marys-
vile and vicinity, had its business meet
ing in the afmory adjoining the hall on
Friday evening last. After brief time
devoted TO business, Captain Baldwin