Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-15
Preparations for the Coming
Orange Display.
Where 1t Will Differ From Pre-
ceding Fairs.
A Striking Plan for Decorating the
Pavilion.
The Committees in Charge-Application ions
for Space Received Some
of the Proposed Dis
plays.

viii open at Hazards pavilion March
I'd. Four years ago the legislature O.
the state appropriated the sum of $10,-
600 for four citrus fairs, two in the
north and two in the south, the money
TO be used for premiums only. The last
session of the legislature renewed the
appropriation for another two years.
The citrus fair OF the north for this year
has already been held. 1t took place at
Auburn, and seems to have given a good
deal of satisfaction to the northern
growers. The fact that they do not pro-
dnce one-ffteen hundredth part of the
entire crop does not deter them from an
anxiety to make fine display of what
they do have to show.
The citrus fair which was held in 1890
was success financially to the extent
of making something in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000, which money is now
being reserved for the Southern Califor-
mia citrus exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
AT this fair only about twelve different
localities were represented, mainly
owing to the fact that the work of the
was, however, very novel and beauti-
ful spectacle, and was attended by some
25, 600 people.
The fair last year was under the man.
agement OF an able committee, consist.
ing Of E. w. Jones, G. M. Wells and
Supervisor ]. W. Cook: H. Jay Han
chette served as superintendent. The
work of organization began early and as
a result twenty localities took part. De-
signs of striking size and magnifcence
were erected and large amount of fruit
displayed thereon. The attendance was
much larger than in the preceding year,
total of 5000 being taken in at the
door.
The attendance at the fair last year is
estimated at some 10000. The hotels
were filled to overfiowing with tourists
attracted from all portions of the state
and from the east by the information
that the fair was in progress; local travel
\ was very large, as the crowded condition
OF the trains showed.
At the present time the prospect ap-
pears to be that the fair OF 1872 will be
unite IS striking a success as any of its
predecessors, and though it still lacks
nearly half month of the opening of
the fair, more localities have already de-
manded space for exhibits than were
last year ready to display when the fair
opened.
Two counties, which last year stayed
out of the display, are this year to be
included with displays of special excel
hence. These are Orange and Ventura.
Riverside, which last year took no part
IN the fair, proposes to come forward
this time with very handsome display.
The citrus fair management this year
il In the hands of an executive commit
tee consisting entirely of fruit growers,
only one of whom, namely, Mr.. E. f.
G. Kiokke, is a resident of Los Angeles.
The others are E. w. Holmes of Kiver-
side, chairman of the committee, who
is at once we'll known as a citrus fruit
grower and a journalist; George w.
Ford, veteran citrus and walnut
grower of Orange county; F. j. Smith,
one of the best known and most active
of Pomona's young men, and John Scott,
horticultural commissioner of the
county. Mr.. Scott halls from Duarte.
and has had an active hand in enter
prises of this sort. The same NAV be
said of all the members of the commit
tee. Mr.. Klokke, who is chairman OF
the committee on decorations, served in
n like capacity once in Chicago, on a
notable occasion, namely, that of the
reception given to General Grant on his
return from his tour around the world.
There was last year good deal of
complaint among the fruit growers that
the legitimate interests of the fair,
namely, the giving of premiums for the
display OF citrus fruits, and the Judging
between the specimens displayed as to
their standard of excellence, was in
measure subordinatad to the building
of elaborate designs with the view
of striking the public with wonder.
Every possible effort will be made this
year to obviate this objection.
Hazards pavilion will be decorated
ON q scale of magnifcence never before
attempted. ALI the vast dome of the
building will be covered with fret
work of wire netting, interlaced with
ivy and oranges securely fastened in
place. Down the middle of the dome
will run row of incandescent elertric
lamps. At the front end of the build
ing, over the stage, a huge arch will be
constructed OF iron, wire and cloth
covered with palms, ivy and other ever
greens. In this, several hundred elec-
tTic incandescent lamps will glitter,
21i&u btIc s<Scb dICn Va SICcu Will DS lighted
up by splashes of orange color in de-
signs wrought out in the living fruit.
The pillars will be covered with cloth
and vines, and the galleries festooned
with vines and foliage.
For the purpose of decorating the
hall, some 5000 or 10000 square yards
of wire netting, some thousand yards of
cloth and several tons of ivy and foliage
will be required.
The question of the colors to be used
in decorating was submitted some time
ngo to Mr.. Charles H. Ward, of the
firm of Marshall, Field & Co., of Chi
cago, who returned answer that the
only suitable colors to be used at a cit
rus fair were the light and dark greens
which appear in the foliage of the citrus
trees, and the colors of the orange and
lemon, and no other colors except those
viii be allowed in the building.
Wherever other colors occur in the in
terior of the building they will be cov-
cred up. Thus, when the work of dec
Grating is completed the interior of Haz-
ards pavilion will be one vast bower of
green, lighted up here and there by the
colors of the live fruit. and brilliantly
illuminated with many hundred electric
lights
The executive committee meets next
Tuesday to consider the matter of allot-
znent Of space. There is only total OF
something like seven or eight thousand
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