The herald., 1897-01-28

delicate tints of the surroundings, car
rying out the scheme of material. Tha
vases which held the flowers were made
of soap.
The colors of the bottles IN the wine
booth were varied by the green leaves,
while flowers and red roses were used
in its ornamentation The Germain
Fruit company's booth was entirely COW
cred on the inside with feathery pampas
plumes, though much of the inside deco
ration had too much of the air of Gene
Il terry decoration to be really pretty
The Pridham Printing company was
quite too 'shoppy" with it's paper flower
garlands.
The gay colored lamps of the Electric
Lighting company's exhibit were inter
spersed with roses. ~ and marguerites
tastefuly arranged.
The Boston Dry GcQ1s company used
effectively long sprays of red carna-
tons. varied with roses of the same
color and used them with a generous
hand.
The bicycle company were modesty
adorned in delicate heliotrope pink YER
benas and red roses.
The booth Of the Southern California
cracker company was protusely en-
pellished with brilliant ponsettas, bowls
or ferns, carnations and smilax, while
Its next door neighbor, the Los Angeles
Milling company, had it's bags of white
flour enlivened with roses, lilies and
f1eur de lis.
Hill 4 Sons, who have stood patiently
handing out olives by the gallon to the
passing crowds. have carried out the
scheme of color of the fruit in adorning
their booth In festooning smilax and
great bowls Of the purple and white wild
onion and the beautiful purple lupin
that covers our hills
AnrnGG
q Co., in addition to the ivy that has
covered its exterior was profusely and
taste1ully decorated ith a lattice and
garlands of smilax baskets of roses.
lilies and ferns
The Catalina booth, composed entirely
OF products OF the island, had addition
jars BOXES of delicate ferns. loads
ries, to increase it's attractiveness.
Ine Excelsior laundry used effectively
Ierns, IVY, roses and carnations. and
Hayden d Lewis violets and ferns
The Herald. always in the front of
the procession. dida't fall behind on
Flower day. Its booth was gay with
branches of ivy, graceful pepper bo,ehs s
and profusion of roses. lilies and bic
red poinsettas. US
EVENING PROGRAM
"A rainy evering in Los Angeles usna,-
Iy has the effect of keeping people in the
house. but it did not affect the attend
ance a the exhibition to any apprecia- :
bile exr&tlt, the number being up to the
average Of the week
The bicycle races are increasing in in :
terest as they progress The "younp
crowd" of cyclists were out In force Ia sf
evening intently watching the various
events.
The third heat Robinson for the Pos
tails made clean score of sixteen points
in two minutes and eight seconds,
against Sanford's eight for the Union
In the one mile match race for the
Baker & Hamilton trophy, by Brother
ton and Ruess batter known as>"Bow
legged Bill" Brotherton's machine had
ar accident which compelled him to
stop. Ruess kept on pedaling as if the
furies themselves were at his heels and
made the mile in one minute, forty six
and two-fifths seconds, the fastest mile
ever made on the home trainer machine.
The quarter mile exhibition by Hill of
Pasadena and Aldridge of this city, was
won by Aldridge in twenty-five and one
Nth seconds.
After the races the audience was ia