The San Francisco call., 1904-02-19

CLOVERDAIIE, Feb. 1S.-With the
formal opening of it's twelfth annual
citrus fair this evening Cloverdale in
augurated a season of carnival which
will continue until next Monday night.
There are many strangers in town,
and it is confidently predicted that be-
fore the fair closes at least 5000 visit
ors will have been entertained The
California Northwestern Railway and
the stage lines of three counties have
made special reduced rates for those
who desire to attend the festival
In every essential to attractiveness
this fair eclipses the best of it's prede-
cessors. The demand for space in the
pavilion has been more than the man
agement could comply with, even by
holding each exhibit down to the mini
mum, and as a result there are some
disappointments among those who
had prepared displays and are unable
to get them placed. This pressure has
had the compensatory result, however,
of determining the board of directors
to enlarge the building to double its
present area for the fair of 1905.
All the exhibits were not ready for
the opening, of course, but the princi-
pal ones were completed, and to-mor-
row the last of the lot will have re-
ceived its finishing touches. Every
available inch of the floor area is oc-
cupied with the most varied exposition
of Sonoma County's horticultural re-
resources on record. While citrus fruits
oranges, lemons and pomelos-pre-
dominate, there are creditable displays
of other orchard products, notably
olives The art department, too, is bet
ter worth inspection than ever before.
ARTISTIC DECORATIONS.
The pavilion's interior presented a
brilliant sight this evening. The gen.
eral decorative effect is green and yell
low. The walls, pillars and balcony
fronts are hidden by palms and FIR
branches. and StreamerS or green and
yellow bunting are strung from the
ceiling center to caves, While scores
of japanese umbrellas, each carrying
a colored electric bulb, dangle from
the roof Never has Cloverdale seen
such a blaze of artificial illumination,
or lighting more artistically arranged.
There are incandeScent lamps every
where. They glare in profusion from
ceiling, balconies, pillars and walls,
and they twinkle amid the oranges
and lemons of which the set piece
exhibits are built The visitors eyes
are dazzled by the brilliance until they
become attuned- to it. Electrician o.
c. Williams received CONGRATULATIONS
for his splendid work.
Every one comedies that the stellar
exhibit is the reduced fac-simile of the
Italian-Swiss Colonys half-million-
gallon wine tank at Asti. The great
receptacle is faithfully reproduced in
miniature, and is given the position of
honor in the center of the hoor. The
beautiful triumphal arch towering over
the tank is of green and yellow bunt-
ing, and the tank itself and the ap
proaches to it are covered with
oranges, the interstices being packed
with green moss. The people of the
colony have taken great pains in the
construction of their exhibit and the
result certainly is creditable to them.
CREDITABLE EXHIBITS.
The Cloverdale Episcopal Church is
also reproduced in miniature, the walls
being of oranges and moss and the in
terror brilliantly lighted. For this pret-
ty display Mrs. Louise Dominic is re-
sponsible.
Preston is represented by a model of
the general store at that place, also
done in oranges and lemons, and also
prettily Illuminated. Individual dis
plays of citrus fruits are made by Mrs.
Preston, Mrs. Fedora Poole and H. II.
Hubbard of Preston.
A big wheel containing horseshoe
and surmounted by whip represents
the citrus interests of Henry j. Crocker
of San Francisco. The device was de-
signed and constructed by the young
ladies of the Cloverdale Episcopal
Church, and a beautiful exhibit they
made of it.
The Misses Alice and Ethel Caldwell
exhibit a fieur-de-lis of Lisbon lemons
which is very striking, and Mrs. Will
liam Caldwells three links of oranges
and lemons warns the heart of Odd
Fellowship. w. T. Brush has huge
heap of Washington navel oranges
which is topped by a dwarf tree fairly
laden with fruit of that variety. The