The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1893-05-22
ABLE BoDIED LoAFINe.

ABLE BoDIED LoAFING.
Mr.. Brewer has charge of the Kern
county bridge, which is to show Kern's
products. His hired man has loafed
five days putting some wire netting on
the corners to hold nuts, and is stiIl at
it. The thing would have been done
week ago il the men who are paving for
it had been here. The mining exhibit
has been completed more than a week
and for that Wirelan deserves credit.
lie has one Of the largest spaces and
shows more specimens than most of the
others. The fountain around the big
palm has not been started because il
took six days to put the palm in the hole,
Alameda's profile map came all broken
to pieces 30 they are not to blame for de-
lay.
The delay in the Mining building was
due to the failure of MIR. Pelton to get
the booth done at the proper time.
Horticulture. @. M. Wells; agriculture.
DR.. N. j. Bird the pampas palace and
Placer county, Robert Jones, are still
all to be done. Miss Bates, the chief
decorator, was not the proper person to
decorate large building of the charac-
ter, and the commissioners made
blunder in selecting her. The work lie
pretty, but too pretty for grand effect.
Director General Davis called the res
taurant men today to meet the wine men
and discuss the proposition to put Cali
fornia wines on their bills. He told
them in plain terms that the exhibitors
who had made the fair were to be con.
sidered, and though the restaurant men
could make any list they pleased, be
would revise it. The wine men. present
were Clarence Wetmore, Captain Shilla-
her. representing Stanford. Estee and
Crabbe, La Rue, Forsyth, Mic Neil and
Meininger. The HipAAranu JffeAst9f
lect when their wine was sold, and
asked the restaurant men if they would
agree on a price that would give fifty
per cent to the wine grower, twenty-five
per cent to the fair and twenty-five per
cent to the restaurant men.
THE RESTAURANT MEN DECLINE.
The restaurant men declined this. The
man who runs the Polish place laughed
at this. Last week he bought 200 bottles
of wine at 121a cents each and is selling
the stuff at $3.50 per bottle. Wetmore
asked what percentage they wanted, and
they told him to make list of wines,
with prices for sale and percentages,
and submit it to them. Cages man
denied that he had an absolute contract
with one California firm, but the agent
of the house bss the contract to show,
though if General Davis interferes it
may not be enforced. Davis is Caifor-
MAS friend in this matter, but the res
taurant men rely on the local board.
They ask why they should sell Californis
wine at 25 per cent profit when beer at
cents glass pays $50 per cent profit.
Wetmore struck the idea when he said
that if they did not act fairly the wine
men would send all the trade to the cafe
in the California building, where our
wines are to be sold on reasonable terms.
! It is not the wish of the wine men to
make money, but they want the country
to sample their products under favorable
conditions. The Directors refuse abso-
lutely to take less than rs per cent on
California wines, go no help can be had
| in that quarter. About the best that
will be done, il anything. is to give the
Fair Is, the restaurants 80 and leave %
for the wine man. The public will then
pay $1.00 for a two-bit bottle of wine
and may not think it any better than
cheap California wine sold for $1.25 I'M
der French label.
A newly organized society was form cd
last week, to be known as The Lib ra