The herald., 1894-01-01


Barbara and San Diego counties for or
namentation in the State building, the
roof garden, the horticultural court and
the orange grove in the midway plais-
ance. OF the total number Of cars con-
tanning exhibits sent from the state the
southern counties in this association
cent SIS out of a total OF III.
In the horticultural building, besides
the large orange tower, were installed
the Los Angeles county walnut tower,
30 feet high, display OF fruits and iel-
lies in glass, and 4 walnut display from
Orange county, an exhibit OF glazed
fruit from Los Angeles. and pyramids
OF raisins and several miscellaneous ex-
hibits from San Diego county.
Two-thirds of the entire state classi-
fed exhibit in the horticultural build
ing was composed of exhibits from
Southern California.
The San Diego exhibit in the feh and
fisheries building, attracted very marked
attention.
A great point in favor OF the Southern
California exhibit in the horticultural
building was that it was so arranged,
with the orange tower at one end OF the
curtain and the liberty bell and the
table displays at the other, that the
impression given the average visitor was
that the whole room was occupied by
Southern California, when in fact the
intervening space was devoted to a
dozen displays. The immense forms Of
fruit were not only very interesting
and attractive object, but never fall
ing source of wonder to the multitude OF
visitors as to show under the sun" we
managed to keep up the forms 80 at
tractive and fresh looking to the END OF
the fair.
During the month OF June ballot
box was placed beside the orange tower,
and box Of fine navels offered to the
person guessing the nearest to the num-
Der Of oranges contained in it. over
5000 guesses were made, running all
the way from 500 to 100000 oranges.
The successful person was lady from
Connecticut, who guessed 1872 oranges
within one of the actual number, 49,
S73. She spent one whole day before
voting in mathematical calculations in
estimating the number, with most
pleasing results.
During the six months stay of the
Southern California people at Chicago
$4,000 OF the books, entitled The Land
of Sunshine, 40 900 Los Angeles county
books, 10000 of different papers OF this
section, $4,000 pamphlets compiled by
San Diego, 10000 by Ventura and $4,000
souvenir cards were distributed. Be
sides these advertising features, mis-
cellaneous assortment of SO, 900 sbella,
carload of pebbles from Catalina, 10. 600
yucca cards. the size OF visit
ing cards, 5000 souvenir bottles OF
wiAe and 10000 poppy seed souvenirs
we're distributed and found great favor
with Eastern people, who were only too
willing and pleased to carry away
with them anything that came from
Southern California. To hundreds OF
thousands Of Eastern people who gazed
wondering eyes upon corn 70 feet
singh, huge pumpkins i'll pyramids, the
largest weighing 490 pounds, exceeding
by 10 pounds any ether at the fair sec-
tions of castor bean trees three and one
half years old, Is inches in diameter, the
160-pound beet from San Diego and
other monsters in the fruit and vegetable
line, until then unknown and un-
dreamed OF in the east, is there any
doubt in the minds of sensible people
that Southern California WAS exceedingly
well advertised and that necessarily the
estimated? The ex pense attendant tupon
the associations exhibit at Chicago
was about $4,000, and it was
money we'll invested. The officers and
attendants were continually besieged by
anxious pereons, note books in hand,
greedily taking down facts and statis-
tics concerning the Land Of Sunshine.
1t is safe to cay, entirely within the
bounds of reason, that of the 2l,000,000
of people who visited the fair, fully
1S,000.0 were attracted by more than
one of the Southern California features,
and OF that number every one could
tell you by reference to their memoranda
that the mammoth orange contained
exactly 6782 oranges. From the Illinois
and Indiana farmers who were 10th but
compelled to acknowledge that we could
raise ''Home cUrn,. 10 sho zhvPtfcsl
brother OF the farther east who was GER
tain that our blood oranges were streaked
with some chemical process by the hand
of man, our allowing vas a continual
surprise and object lesson.
In conversation with railroad man
ayers and passenger solicitors who were
present in great numbers in Chicago
during he fair it was readily admitted
that the only enquiries they we're re-
ceiving were for information concerning
California, and the greater number of
these, they were satisfied, was the result
of the splendid showing made by South
ern California.
1t may be interesting to nots in this
connection that olt of SO premiums
awarded to the state of California from
the department OF horticulture So were
awarded to exhibits from our Southern
California Worlds Fair association.
FRANK WIGGNs.