Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-03
THE ORANGE SHOW.
A Great Display Opened Last
Night.
The Citrus Fair Opened Most
Auspiciously.
Crowds of People Enjoy the Opening
Ceremonies.
The Addresses Of Governor Markham
and Hon &. M. White-Featurcs
OF the Great Display-6ome
of the Exhibits.

flowers and environed by charming
vistas of poly-chromatic loveliness, whose
golden tints were softened and subdued
by the living hues of tropic foliage. the
sons aud daughters of the fair southern
land of California gathered last night by
thousands at the citrus fair to do honor
to gracious nature, whose sunny
smiles and potential tears had caused
this chosen soil to give forth bounteous
harvest.
As of old in classic days Jason and the
Argonaut band sought the golden fleece
so has it been found in this heaven
favored soil-once in great, glittering
heaps of yellow gold, today in orbs OF
sunny splendor that draw here the
multifarious encourage of commerce, not
the argosies of the purple twilight, but
the practical agencies that breed sub
stance and wealth.
In times past this prosperous COM
munity has spread out its richest offer.
ings to grace the citrus fete, but
the picture of loveliness and variety
presented last evening was one that
transcends all that has gone before. 1t
was the crucial proof of progress, by the
best testimony-a magnificent present
ment of the progress and energy of the
citrus fruit growers of Southern Califor-
MIA.
The picture presented to the eye from
the gallery of Hazards pavilion last
evening when the third Southern Cali
fornia citrus fair was formally declared
opened was one invested with all the
splendor OF vision of tropical morn.
Minarets and pagodas, quantity con-
ceived grottos, frowning battlements,
Brobdignaggian representations of or
anges and lemons, and fantastically
fashioned designs worked out in golden
and yellow fruit, all combined to make
a scene at once striking and typical of
Southern California. The ceiling had
been entirely concealed with masses of
green foliage fecked with orange bios
SONS and dchrysanthemums and the stage
was curtained with trailing ivy and
evergreen. Here and there in lavish
profusion bending palms and other
tropical plants abounded. while imme-
diately on entering the auditorium an
enormous orange and lemon built up of
the fruit named attract the attention,
Then the superb display Of Santa Bar
bara county, of oranges and lemons and
olives and dates, enchains the attention.
Further along is pagoda with splen-
did crown, made of oranges and lemons,
and then on the left hand one sees the
offering of San Diego in the present.
ment of a fortress above which waves
the flag of the baynclimate section.
The fortress is built of the golden fruit,
and through the embrasures the black
mouths of cannon peep forth.
Riverside is brilliantly represented by
monster lemon, at the base of which
is spread magnificent display of the
finest varieties of navel oranges and
lemons.
A beautifully conceived model OF the
proposed high school union depot at
Redlands is another design worked out
in the finest grades OF citrus fruit, that
at once attracts and pleasantly holds the
attention OF all visitors. Another quaint
idea worked out in lemons and oranges
is representation of the famous kite
shaped track. This comes from Rialto.
Orange county is appropriately repre-
sented by pyramid of oranges sur
mounted by an enormous orange, mod
eled of the choicest and most succulent
specimens of citrus fruit.
On entering the hall. the eye is at
once attracted to the image Of fair and
radiant maiden emerging from an
orange grove, the crowning glory of the
ladies' annex. A birchen bark laden with
selected citrus fruit is also another dis
tinctive feature of this exhibit.
Cotton comes in also with remarka.
bly, fine display, consisting of vast
plain of navel oranges and the finest
grades of lemons. A pun on the name
Cotton Terrace is deftly made by plac-
ing the figured representation of an ad-
descent horse standing stridant on a
terrace.
The exhibit from Ontario is likewise
a remarkably fine one as to the quality
of the fruit exhibited.
Duarte looms up into prominence in
letters four fest long, fashioned OF
oranges of superior grade In fact it
the excellences of the different exhibits
in detail. Looking over all of them,
however, it is evident that the
steadily increasing citrus crop of South
ern California is not transitory OBJ
vention, but certain yearly result
that can be reliably depended on, de-
spite rare windstorms or more than
ordinarily bracing temperatures.
At s 80 O'Clock President G. M. Wells
of the chamber of commerce ascended
the stage, and in few fitting words in
troduced Governor Markham, to whom
was assigned the duty of formally open.
ing the fair.
THE GOVERNORS SPEECH.
Governor Markham said:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow
Citizens
1 desire to thank you for the honor
you have conferred upon me in inviting
me to be present with you this evening
and assist in the opening exercises. 1t
is double pleasure, for it affords me an
opportunity of meeting many of my old
neighbors and friends. and also the
pleasure of enjoying with you this mag.
niticent display of the products oi
Southern California.
The pleasure which I always expert
ence in greeting my old neighbors and
friends is greatly enhanced on account
of the length of time since I have met
you.
For the last year or two it has been
my privilege to visit almost every i'm
portant subdivision OF THE great state,
which affords me the opportunity of
studying the resources and natural prod
ucts of our soil most thoroughly.
As the result OF my travels am more
than ever thankful that am Califor-
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