The record-union., 1893-07-11
GOVERNOR MARKHAM HERE.
He Arrives in the City by Way Of Los
Angeles.
His Trip and Impressions of the Great
Exposition - Visit to His
Old Homo.

Governor Mark ham returned to this
city from the Columbian Exposition last
night in fine health and spirits and look
ing as if his trip had been beneficial to
him. In conversation with a RECORD
UNION reporter who called upon him the
| Governor said that he had enjoyed his
visit to the fair, as well as to his old home,
very much.
"Of course" said he, 81 have had very
little time I could call my own, for I
found a programme laid out for me that
kept me employed. 1t is a general re-
union of Californians, where they meet
on the common ground belonging to the
Golden State. They had been waiting
for me, and after the opening of the Cali
fornia building | was made an adjunct of
it, so to speak, and helped to do the hon
orS OF 1t to the many visitors VINO came
to visit it. Californians have very little
idea of how much the attention of the
East, and, in fact, of the world, has been
drawn to us by the building and its ex-
hibits.
Our people who were there do not re-
aliZe it, as it seems to them that it is not
half what it should be. The building is a
fine one; it is well filled and there is
plenty in it. There is no crowding of ar
tlcles and everything shows to the best
advantage. The different counties make
very fine exhibits and the various parts
go to make up a harmonious whole"
Then those who think our display not
a creditable one are at fault in their judg-
ment?"
Il think so. Our own people are dis
appointed because they could not take
California with thnn1 and Irnr, il Il
bodily in the fair grounds as fresh and
beautiful as they are accustomed to see
things here. OF course, the orange trees
which have been sent there do not look
as well as those growing in our orchards,
and the leaves of the palms became dry
and withered, but to the people of the
East, who are unused to seeing such
things, they are a revelation that will not
be easily forgotten.
1T took great many cars to carry the
exhibit to the fair, tar more in number
than our people dream OF, and it would
surprise some Of them to know how
many cars were used in transporting the
trees and plants alone. Set down these
where everything is on so large a scale,
they look scattered and dwarfed to us,
because we mentally compare them with
those which we are accustomed to seeing
but the people east of the mountains and
from foreign countries look on them with
ulIlGIODb eyes, anu CdIuOl nGlD Wishing
that they too were Inhabitants OF our
golden land.
by the way, Florida was nowhere in
comparison to our State i'll the display of
oranges, and that fact attracted much at
tention. Orange culture in Florida can
hardly continue many years longer. The
growers are too heavily handicapped.
For every dollar they take from their
orchards they must return from one-haif
to the whole of it in fertilizers. They
cannot grow crop without so doing
and there can only be one end to that
They must sooner or later 60 to the
wall"
Did you meet many of your old
friends, GOVERNOR"
Yes, great many. When | went to-
Ripon, my old regiment, the Thirty
second Wisconsin, were drawn up to re-
celVe me, and 1t was a source OF great
pleasure to me to meet them once more.
l had couple of hundred orange wood
canes made and sent on to me as memen-
toes to them and they presented quite a
striking ana unique appearance when
they were all supplied with their canes.
| There were few left over, and they were
eagerly sought for by other people as
mementoes OF California.
"A gentleman sent on several boxes
OF oranges and the very children priced
them because they came from California
They were priced too much TO be eaten.
and carried home carefully as being
something wonderful, and that is the way
our products are looked at there.
in our exhibit there are numbers Of
| doors and arches and crowd Of peoDIn
is continually streaming through them.
L think there are very few who 90 to the
fair who do not go through our building.
President Harrison Went through viii,
me and expressed his qualification at the
display. 80 did Vice President Morton
and | think be Will come over here next
winter"
rs our proposed Midwinter Fair mucb
spoken of THEREOF
Yes, there will be no trouble abont if
as far as the exhibitors are concerned
The success of 1t depends mainly on San
francisco and the arrangements thew
make there for it, MIR. Handy, in his
speech at the banquet, said that California
did not know what benefit she mad bean
to the fair by her promptness. Her ap-
preparation Of $780, 900 to promote her ex-
hlbltion OF resources was made 81
promptly that when ne was urging other
States to take hold and do their share
wherever he mentioned it it acted as a
stimulus to them.
1t also had the same effect on foreign
nations. There Is regular set of ex-
| hiOition articles that are carried from
| place TO place Tor different fairs, and
/ they Will come here to the Midwinter
/ Fair Many people VIII also come to our
State next winter; the fair viii give them
a good excuse for coming to see us and
4 our productions. Much attention baG
/ been attracted TO California by our bniId-
/ ing and exhibits and we viii feel the
/ beneficial effects of it for years to come ,
/ And, now, Governor" said the
/ reporter, coming down to home nrodnc-
! tons, our readers will be very glad in the
/ morning to know from us whom you are
: gIOnn5nt SnnararD-5
WELL" said the Governor. with
/ genial smile, you can tell them that be-
/ tween the Columbian Exposition and the
| Midwinter Fair, | shall probably appoint
somebody, but | can hardly tell Won
/ whom just at present.
London makes $4,000 pianofortes annu-