The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-31
Special Features That Draw Wis
itorS From All Sections of
the Country.
SCHOOL CHILDREN HAVE DAY
Exhibitors Who Have Gained Praise for
the Arrangement of Their
Productions.

full moon and the golden displays OF
citrus fruits prove a sort of attraction
which not one of the many visitors or
townspeople can resist, hence the streets
and pavilion are thronged tonight with
pleasure-seekers. The band concert is
going on and the large pavilion is crowded
almost to crush, and the managers are
happy because the greater the crush the
more are the proceeds. Large proceeds
mean greater and more magnificent new
pavilion, to be built in readiness for next
years fair.
From Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Petaluma
and other Sonoma County cities came
hundreds to-day to see the fair. A great
many more are arriving on every train.
Visitors who saw the bountiful array OF
golden fruits, enthusiastically praised the
magnificent display. Indeed, even Sonoma
County is just awakening to the fact that
besides her other countless resources the
orange and lemon can also be grown here
to perfection.
This was school-c hildren's day and the
400 happy-nearted and rosy-cheeked tots
held full sway at the pavilion this after
noon. Tomorrow Is Mendocino County's
day. The pride of the town, the Ukiah
cornet band of eighteen pieces, is coming
and will play both afternoon and evening,
The Cloverdale band gives grand ball to-
morrow night with the assistance of
Professor D. G. Smith and Miss Mabel
Smith of Healdsburg, Professor Charles
Westenhaver and Charles Hall of San
Francisco. Nearly 200 couples are expected
to be present.
The exhibits are as follows:
F. Albertz of Moulton HUI Vineyard has
an excellent display of wines and grape
syrup. 1t is arranged in the form of a
grotto, and is truly work OF art. His
wines received the highest award at the
Worlds Fair in 1893; also bronze medal
at the exposition in Bordeaux, France, in
1895.
The display of the Cloverdale Wine Com
pany is truly an inspiration. Bottle upon
bottle is arranged in fantastic designs as
pleasing to the eye as the wines are to the
taste.
The Italian-Swiss colony did not display
their wines for lack of time, but they have
an elaborate exhibit OF Washington navels
and Mediterranean sweet oranges; also
lemons and dried fruits.
John Field has arranged his display in
the form of a spire constructed of navels,
Mediterranean sweets and seedlings; also
some very fine almonds. His is the largest
display in the pavilion. Mr.. Field has
three-acre tract near town planted in
oranges and lemons.
g. Hagmayer' exhibit is in the form of
a Japanese pagoda, built of assorted
varieties of oranges. large in size.
Mrs. ]. 1. Eastlick's display of navel and
Seeding oranges is very tasty.
J. D. Durham has some well-preserved
winter apples. large in size and handsome
in appearance.
Mrs A. Bentley has on exhibition pretty
bed of violets and lilies surrounded by
some fine Seeding oranges.
Mrs. NJ. J. Stockwell has a plate of seed.
lings. Mrs. l.. A. Domino has a plate of
large smooth and thin-skinned navels and
Mediterranean sweets. Mrs. I. E. Shaw
has dozen varieties of jellies on exhibit
tor, handsomely put up and most tempt
ing to the palate. Mrs. Anna Keller has
one dozen navels of large size.
J. T. Dixon has novel exhibit of ripe
blackberries. green leaves and all, just
picked from the bush.
The Cioverdale Orange Company has
constructed a bridge of lemons and
oranges, which displays much ingenuity.
1t has fifteen acres in oranges two miles
from town.
Fred Whitaker has q display of some
fine seedlings. A. G. Ledger has a tall
lighthouse made of oranges which is a
work of art; also a miniature train, the
cars loaded with oranges and bearing the
sign, 1890, Cloverdale to New York"
Senator J. G. Holloway, whose two-acre
orange grove near the center of town is a
great attraction, has large pyramid of
oranges-navels, Mediterranean sweets
and japanese.
a miniature representation OF the
Tiburon ferry-boat, the work of A. e.
Richards, a resident of Cloverdale. attracts
much attention.
II. J. Crocker's exhibit is artistic and
shows some fine specimens of navels
Malta bloods, late Valencias and Medi-
terranean sweets. A dozen prize lemons
of Mr.. Crocker's are also on exhibition.
NJ. Mcmillan, the proprietor of the United
States Hotel, has display which is really
wonderful. 1t consists of a mammoth
pyramid built entirely of oranges, not
single specimen measuring less than
twelve inches in circumference.
E. G. Farber has a revolving globe four
feet in diameter. made entirely of Med
iterranean sweets and also pyramid of
large Washington navels.
G. A. Yordi's display is the best work of
art in the pavilion. 1t is fancy piece
built entirely of sugar and orange marina
lade held in baskets carved out of large
Cloverdale oranges. Fred Yordi, who is
the proud possessor of a three-acre orange
orchard, transported large orange tree
to the pavilion laden with fine Washing
ton navels. A bed of large navels at the
foot of the tree makes his display one of
the most prominent at the fair.
Henry Hubbard's exhibit consists of a
magnificent spread of Lisbon lemons,
navel and Japanese oranges.
George B. Baer has a magnificent d is
play of olives picked and green; also
oranges.
Mrs. G. Worth has some citrons ON ex-