The morning call., 1893-01-08
ALL JARS OF JELLY
An Illuminated Arch of
Preserved Fruit.
Superintendent of Agriculture Dunn to
Begin Collecting the State Crop Ex-
1ibit-The Fish Collection.

The Board OF Lady Managers of the
Worlds Fair are at last satisfied.
They have worried to death the architect
of the commission. j. Page Brown; but at
last he has produced something with which
all the ladies are pleased. In doing so.
however, he wasted more paper aud de-
stroyed more pencils than in making plans
for all the rest Of the California buildings
combined At one time Architect Brown
got mad with the Board OF Lady Managers
and as much as told them that they did not
know what they wanted. He was in de-
spair OF uniting with them on any mar
mOEieus architectural idea and was for
seyeriHg all connection with them or their
plans. But gentle persuasion got the better
Of him and he tried again. This time Ire
succeeded.
Ever since the appointment and erganiza-
ton of the Board of Lady Managers they
have cudgeled their braius for some strik-
Ing and original idea of distinctive Cali
fornia character with which TO make their
quarters conspicuous.
Alter going over the field again and again.
they decided to erect a jelly palace, TO be
built entirely of jelly in glass jars made in
California. This was the most unique propo-
sitiOn they could think of. and they adopted
the idea with alaeriy.
The commission was notified, and it in
strueted J. Page Brown TO draw up plans
and specifications. The architect went to
work. questioned each OF the ladies. ard
from what he could gather from the diff
ferent views OF the different members, he
drew jelly palace.
Alas. il was not what lhe ladies wanted
There was no homogeneity Of purpose or
design in it. The lady managers eriti eiZed
1t, and fcowned. 1t was not what they
wanted.
Poor architect Brown. not yet discour-
Il ,-lo r.
distinct Information. and evolved out OF his
fertile brain another jelly palace. This
the ladies thought WAS worse than the first
There was danger of a rupture between the
architect and the Board of Lady Managers,
when suddenly the ladies, after about ssven
months of Intense thought, came to the
conclusion that jelly palace would not do.
So they abandoned the idea.
But their minds stuck 10 jelly Jelly they
must have in some sort OF an architectural
form, AS il was one Of California's great
products, and one which represented the
industry and skill of California women.
80 after various consultations with the
architect the latter at last struck the key
note Of the ladies' desires, and for a third
time went 10 work.
This time he was successful, and has hap
pened TO please every member of the Board
OF Lady Managers.
Yesterday afternoon he submitted his
plans, and CALL reporter was allowed TO
take a peep at them with the rest. The
architect has drawn most magnificent
arch, superb IN its proportions. OUTSIDE of
the scr0llwork the entire structure will be
built of jelly jars.
The arch is Is feet high BY about the same
in breadth, but the impression of square
ness IL disSipated by tho two side and CEN
ter towers. which rise quite distance
At certain portions of the arch electric
lights will be so placed as to shine down.
ward, upward and sideways, the lights
being focused on the jellies. Each county
in the State will furnish a certain quantity
of jelly jars of the kind Of fruit most promi-
nent i'm the county The strong. bright
light shining through the different colored
jeIles is expected to make a splendid Hum
mated spectacle
After consultation with the architect it
has been decided TO place this Kaleidoscope
jelly arch in the space just back of the ro-
tuuda, which is one IF the most conspicuous
locations in the California headquarters.
Professor Gilbert, the assistant of Presi-
dent Jordan of the Stanford University.
who has charge Of the California Fish Ex-
hibit OF the Worlds Fair, yesterday sent up
from San Diego large collection of the
finest speci chs ne could obtain OF green
spotted rockeod, deep-water roekcod. the
scorpion fish, the yellow tail, the barracuda,
the sleeps head. the perch. the trout and
the whitefsh. These fish will be packed in
ice and Immediately sent to 5. F. Denton, at
y.
ration OF the fish for exhibition for tie
Worlds Fair. His process is known as The
flexible process. Ont of the 100 different
kinds of food fish which California will
exhibit at Chicago about eighty different
varieties have already been secured and sent
on TO Massachusetts.
One OF the most important circulars thus
far issued BY any of the departments of the
State Worlds Fair Commission was issued
yesterday afternoon By II. C. Dunn, SUI
perintendent of the California Agricultural
Department. Dunn was appointed super
intendent at the last meeting OF the COM
mission, and ever since has been looking
over the field
In his circular Superintendent Dunn SAYS
that IN order that the State may have
creditable display Of her agricultural prod
nets it is essential that each county and
district association contribute as generous
ly as possible. He states that all agricul-
tural exhibits will be in charge OF the State
commission. and it is desirable that contri-
buttons be made for the classified exhibit.
After stating that be is required as super
intendent TO collect the crop exhibit of the
State for installation at the Columbian Ex-
hibtion. he sets forth the various agricuI-
turai products which have been decided on
for the exhibition. This information will
be OF great interest to farmers all over the
State The products that will be exhibited
are as follows;
Wheat, rye. white oats. black oats, red oats.
gray oats. wild oats, barley. buckwheat Indian
corn. Egyptian coin rice, cotton, cotton
seed. tobacco, clover alfalfa, timothy, red
tor. mei, melons, gouids. eucumbers,
soils, skworms and silk In the cocoons,
fertilizers. irrigation (models and photo
graphs). statistics from crops. etc. mod Is of
farm buildings. photographs of farm scenery,
grasses other than named above fax, hemp,
1uie, ramie and other nbrous plants, mustard,
sugar-ca sorghum, broom corn, hops. pea
NUS. beans. potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams,
beets, sueaf-beets, artlcbokes, turBips. carrots,
rarsnips. cabbage. pumpkins. squasles.
The circular will be scattered all over the
State and each farmer and owner of ranch
is requested to state as soon as possible
what lie viii contribute for the exhibit
and what quality.