Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05
SHR|NERs TO SEE
LOCAL PRODUCTS
$1,000 CROWD INTO RINK
EXPOSITION
Everything Made In Los Angeles Is on
Display and Shows Wide Scope
of city's Manufacturing
Interests

one of the largest and best manufac-
turing cities in the country.
! If this claim seems extravagant, the
doubter is respectfully invited to pass
a few hours in the Panorama rink, op-
posite the Belasco theater. One nun
dred and twenty-five booths OF quaint
and novel design, three times as many
interesting exhibits, every one of which
was manufactured in the Angel City
and many of which are made nowhere
| else in the United StateS-or even IN
| the world-give substance to the claim
| of the Queen City of the Angels that
her manufactures have assumed such
size as to entitle her to place among
| the ranks of business citizens. VI
| course she is winter resort! Her
climate makes her claims 10 that Sc
cure, but not even the native son has
ever realized to what great extent
manufactures have doomed within the
| last few years.
1t remained for the made in Los
Angeles" exposition to educate the peo-
Pile, and that the big show is doing so
rapidly is shown by the attendance OF
over Is, 900 people last night. For more
than four hours the great building was
thronged with interested sightseers,
and the campaign of education was
fairly on.
Decorated with Palms
The long aisle to the main building
was itself an interesting exhibit. Red,
white and blue bunting has been used
in profusion, great date palm leaves
bedeck the sides, and thousands of red,
white and blue electric lights gleam in
vitingly on the festive scene. This is
newspaper row." the home of all the
city papers Every stage of the prog
ress of a paper is shown the visitors
in detail at the various booths.
Inside the building the scene is al
most bewildering to the visitor. The
sight of a great modern pipe organ
does not comport we'll with his concep-
| ton of the "woolly west" and some
how a Tourist automobile doesn't cast
| a very savage glamour over the scene.
| R11t the western element is also there.
Mining machinery of all kinds gives the
stranger a hint of what the vigorous
west is doing for the wealth of the
world, and the real Indians and Indian
work at the Indian crafts exhibit at
tract the curious and adds a typical
western" touch to the scene.
Its Artistic Works
Los Angeles is also town OF artistic
works. At the booth of the q. L. Par
melee company an experienced en-
graver is busily engaged in making
hammered art metal. The artist is
Russian exile of rare ability Paul
Monache. The entire process is shown
in detail, the making of the original
drawings, the first rough work, and aft
| erward the finger finishing touches.
A miniature house in a garden of real
grass and palms gives a practical
demonstration of the merits of Pioneer
roll paper, with which it is rooted. A |
constant dripping of water on the paper
puts it to a test more difficult than it
is likely to get in actual use.
wonderful invention of Los An
geles man, M. A Berne, is also attract |
ing much attention. This is a sub
stance called woodstone. 1t is made in
all colors, is hard as stone and is used
for flooring, or much as marble would
be used. The maker is able to lay 1000
square feet in a single piece, the largest
area of such a substance laid any
where in the world. In one San Fran
cisco building the firm installed 121 cool
| square feet.
Electricity Generated
| The Western Gas Engine company is
using it's exhibit to generate electricity
and also to run a beautiful electric
| cascade which stands near the main
| entrance.
Apropos of cascades, the best thing
in that line is the one exhibited by
| the Southern California Wine COM
pany. This concern is running cas-
cade of pure California wine (also made
in Los Angeles), where the visitors can
see and smell the odorous juice.
The Los Angeles Soap company's
show will attract the city's visiting
Shriners. This beautiful booth is made
| ,,l t1xy
of marble and onyx support the struc-
ture but the crowning feature is a
huge Shriners' emblem and a facsimile
of one of the camels which crossed
the hot sands to the Angel City oasis.
H. j. Mercer, with a booth made of
beeswax and honey comb foundation,
| has a hundred or more little camels
| displayed, all of them made of bees
wax. Another feature of his display
is a hive of bees busy making honey
'Made-in-Los Angeles"
Two little fluffy ostriches from the
Cawston ostrich farm-alSo guaranteed
made in Los Angeles-attract the visi-
tor to that booth. Choice feather boas
and ostrich plumes show the finished
product of the farm.
The Silk Industry
The Los Angeles Silk company, with
two charming twins busily engaged at
a loom making silk, displays another
important industry of Los Angeles.
Hundreds of cocoons are hung in front
of the exhibit like a japanese curtain.
The Dentalon tooth powder is another
local product This is made in the only
factory on the coast devoted exclusive
ly to tooth powder.
The Vaughn Ductile company has on
display golden watch springs of %
karat fineness. This firm has discov-
cred the long lost art of tempering the
precious metals and is manufacturing
knives, surgical instruments, ETC., with
in the gates of the Angel City.
One hundred and twenty-five varie-
ties of California gems are on exhibi-
ton at another booth, and rough gems
are being cut and polished on the
grounds.
A potter is turning out clay orna-
ments on a wheel at the Los Angeles
Pottery company's exhibit.
The display of mining machinery is
one to delight the heart of the miner.
Great crushers grind the ore to powder.
Assayers perform their part in assay
ing the gold producing ore. Big tables
show another process, and cyanide