The herald., 1897-02-13

tions for space have been refused, in
consequence of all desirable locations
being filled. AS the two years of the
present lease will soon roll round, it be-
hooves this body to begin figuring on
larger and more commodious quarters.
The registration of visitors for the past
year amounts to 10000, making the esti-
mated number of visitors passing
through the exhibit 100000, as COM
pared with 900 of last year. This
yearly increase shows conclusively the
result of legitimate advertising. The
daily inquiry for general information is
also on the increase. This is not con-
alone, but includes all sections of the
state, which is evidence sufficient to car
ry out the assertion often made that
this organization, although supported
exclusively within the confines of South
ern California, is as much benefit to
the whole state as though it were a
state institution.
The counties maintaining exhibits in
the hall, viz, San Diego, Riverside, San
Bernardino, Orange and Ventura, have
kept their tables we'll supplied with fresh
materials, and are now adding such
printed matter as will best set forth the
advantages of their particular sections.
We thought, the early part of last
year, we would be able to induce Santa
counties by placing her products on our
floor, but she at last concluded to oc-
cupy space alongside of Los Angeles
county in the state board of trade ex-
hibit.
The total number of donations to the
chamber of commerce during the year
amounts to $50, an increase of 20 per
cent over last year. OF this number 3S
packages were forwarded to the state
hoard nf fraIa VIC a1cn IN "a q o.
ricultural department at Washington 80
samples of fruit, from which wax casts
will be made for the Fruit display in the
Smithsonian institute. This is the only
exhibit sent out of the state this past
year, although we We're strongly So
licited to participate in the health and
pure food display at Boston last Octo-
ber. an opportunity that should have
been grasped, as public reports of this
exhibition place it at the head of all
previous New England displays.
We are now preparing an exhibit for
Hamburg to be forwarded within a few
days by the state board of trade. The
distance being so great and the manage
ment being other than our own repre-
sentatives, it has been necessary to pre-
pare only such material as will carrv
without detrment and can be installed
with little or no special arrangement,
consisting of dried fruits, nuts, grains,
seeds. photographs, etc., as we'll as
printed matter.
We have been asked to contribute to
the Guatemala exhibition, but for lack
of funds have been compelled to forego
the pleasure. The bills that are now
pending before the state legislature will
soon determine whether we are to pre-
pare exhibits for the state of
Tennessee centennial, to be held
at Nashville, beginning May this year,
and the transmississipp exhibition at
Omaha, next year In the event of the
passage of these bills. work will neces-
sarily have to begin Immediately. For
the former exhibition an exhibit from
here would have to be prepared and
started on it's way by April 10th. The
transmissssippi exhibition, being the
: first held in the northwest, it is neces-
sary to make the California exhibit sec
ond to that at the worlds fair. While
both of these exhibitions will be held
under state management, it is necessary
ample preparations be made whereby
this end of the state will be able to main
tain her we'll earned exposition reputa-
tion.
While many of the features in our hall
can be used for this exhibition work,
many new ones, will be required, and
they should be constructed with refer
ence to becoming permanent fixtures in
Among the attractive displays added
to the exhibit within the past year is
! the present made by Prof. Newton Chit
! tendon of the Pueblo Carreta and the
! William Fruhling iron grill case, where
in the Art Loan association of Pasadena
| has installed the relics of old missions,
especial reference being made to San
| Fernando mission.
| A new department, opened this year
| has added greatly to the interest of the
exhibit, viz. the fruit casts, made from
selected specimen of all choice varieties
of our numerous fruits by Prof. Ma
chuco This is done in order to more
fully Illustrate the color, shape and cor
rect size of fruit that cannot in any other
way be exhibited. For this exhibit spe-
cial cases are badly needed, such as car
be used for general exhibition work.
The citrus exhibit, wherein the cham.
Der of commerce offers premium of Q
| gold medal for the best box of oranges
and lemons grown IL Southern Califor-
MIA, was inaugurated last year and
proved such Q success that the PROPOSE