Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-21
AT THE CHAMBER.
THE FORMAL OPENING OF THE
DISTRICT FAIR.
The Programme as Rendered-Hon. S. M.
Whites Address-Mr. Mosher's Man
With the Little Tin Pail.

The agricultural and horticultural
portion of the fair was fairly opened at
the chamber of commerce yesterday and
last night, and the attendance was
large. The exhibits kept coming in all
day, but were easily placed in position,
contributing to the general effect of this
magnificent exhibition. As J. P. Jones,
horticultural commissioner tor San Diego
said to Secretary Willard, yesterday,
''the people should turn out en- masse
to see the display. 1t is by all odds the
most varied and perfect exhibit of the
products of Southern California ever
gotten together" The attendance, ves-
terday, showed that people are begin
ming to realize that the efforts of the
fair and chamber of commerce people
this year have resulted in something
| big.
At s 80 O'Clock last night number of
members of the chamber of commerce
took seats upon the stage, and the brief
| formal exercises took place. At the
! time the hall was jammed with people,
and every seat in the galleries was taken.
President L. Lichtenberger welcomed
the assembled visitors to the twelfth
annual fair of the Sixth District Agri-
cultural association in few we'll chosen
remarks. He referred to the difference
between the state appropriation for the
Sacramento district of $4,000 and the
$4,000 for this district, and hoped there
would be unity when the time for action
comes. He complimented the chamber
OF commerce on its noble work.
President Wells, of the chamber OF
commerce, said he thought it better in
stead of speech to let the exhibits
speak for themselves, and he would
make no address. He. made few per-
tipent illusions to the efforts of the
chamber to make the display, and then
introduced Hon. Stephen M. White to
the visitors.
Mr.. White made a short, informal
| talk, out in his inimitable style, in
which he referred to the old times when
| it was not thought that California
could produce such bewildering variety
OF products as here shown. These were
the days when California imported so
much more largely than now. He
spoke of the products of the soil as being
those which can be called into being by
tropic sun, and those which can be
brought to fruition by more tempe
rate cline, as all being included in the
display before the visitors. The popu-
lation, he considered, would grow amaz-
ingy in the future, and he hoped each
year the fair will be repeated and aug
mented, and that they will demonstrate
as an object lesson the truth of the
statement 80 often made that this is the
garden spot OF the earth.
Mr.. L. E. Mosher then delivered the
following vigorous and rythmical poem
The Man with the Little Tin Pail.
The poets have sung of the hero OF wars
Since time first began, until date,
They have lauded his valor, exploited his scars
| And the blood that he shed for the state.
But mine is the theme of that everyday chap
Who wears neither sword knot nor mail
| Whose battle fields everywhere down on the
map
The man with the little tin pail. q
In the broad yellow fields flooded over with
sun,
Where the groundsquirrel fits and the fruited
vines run,
And the furrows are many and long,
He follows the wake of the glittering piow
AS the snowy foam follows the sail
This jumper clothed, valorous hero of now
The man with the little tin pail.
Where. the nerve-racking thresher, high into
the air,
OdSlS CyClOulC DrehbuluSS VI CUdH
On the spot where the seed-sower late ruled its
square,
To the tune of the tickled soils laugh,
He labors with faith in a future benign
faith that no creed dare assail,
And OH Mother Earth's face he emblazons his
This man with the little tin pail.
In the mines dizzy deeps, in the WINES and
drifts,
Where the ore bodies shrink from the view
He flashes his pick, as the creaking cage lifts
The coin in the rough, up for you.
And where he coal ledges their ebon veins |
hide
Beneath the tall mountains of grail,
We find him, this base of all wealth, in his
pride,
The man with the little tin pail.
In the orchards dark depths where the golden
And the apple trees shed their sweet blooms:
Where the musical mocking-b bird lifts out his
line,
And the corn tassels shake out their brooms.
He holds in fee simple the sun and the soil
| Direct from his Makers entail,
| And the lush harvest reaps as the toll for his |
toll
This man with the little tin pail.
In mills where the whirling wheels tremble and |
crush,
And the white-heated furnaces glow.
| Where thro' chute and conveyor the yellow |
streams rush,
r., To be changed TO the dainiest snow,
He come es on the scene a genli in white
Who walks with floury trail
This every day hero, but not less a knight
The man with the little tin pail
At the forge where the iron bars sputter and |
fame W
And the steam hammers baton beats time.
He creates for far lesser man, money and fame
And improves the designers design;
To the throb of the engine he fashions the |
kedge, '-0
While the sparks, pouring out their red hail
Coruscate a salute from this man of the sledge |
This man with the little tin pail
Not tower or pinnacle climbs to the skv
But sounds him pean of praise!
Not harvest-wain comes from the fields loaded |
high,
But exalts him and crowns him with bavsr
Not a keel cuts cash on the breast of the blua
Not barkentine 1utters sail '
Ger the tremul0us surge but exploits him anew
This man with the little tin pail.
So my rhyme it is tuned to the musical ehimes |
That the anvil and trip hammer rings,
Whose cadences beat on the air of all chimes
Like the rhythm of harps and of wings:
Enraptured, see him push into the dawn
A world that without him would fail,
And pledge in these stanzas that hero of brawn
The man with the little tin pail!
AT THE FAIR.
The Features of Most Enjoyable