The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-28
FINE SEND-OFF FOR HOOD RIVER.
Wonderful Apple Display Causes Me.
trOpOlis to Open Its Ewes.


trOpOlis to Open Its Eyes.
There are apples-and apples. New
Workers who care to see what the lat
ter sort look like would do we'll to
drop into the display rooms of the
Fruit Auction building at Washington
and Franklin streets, in the heart of
the downtown wholesale fruit district.
and look over the several hundred
boxes of apples from the famous Hood
River Valley, Oregon, the greatest ap-
pie producing district of the world,
which will continue on exhibition
there today and tomorrow.
There have been fine displays of
fruit before in the East, but never
anything quite like this one, in which
more than 60 of the choicest varieties
known to the markets Of the world
and to the human palate are shown
side by side in dazzling array of
color, running all the way from rose
tint to pure gold.
Fruit connoisseurs from all parts of
the city and vicinity streamed into the
spacious auction rooms yesterday, the
first day Of the exhibition, and en-
Enthusiastically congratulated Messrs.
Steinhardt &Kelley exporters, of 1O1
Park place, the man behind the apples,
on theri having given New York one
of the most interesting educational
displays in the history of the fresh
fruit markets in this city.
Oregon apples began to find their
way to New York in commercial guam
titles about six years ago, since which
time their popularity has increased by
leaps and bounds. Realizing that the
demand in the East for these apples
de luxe would be larger this season
than ever before, Joseph H. Steinhardt
went to the far Northwest this fall
and secured for his firm 250,0O0 boxes
of the finest product of the celebrated
Hood River Valley orchards, for sale
in the Eastern markets and in Europe.
This amount includes all of the crop
harvested by the Hood River Apple
Growers Union, except about 100000
boxes, which supply the needs of the
Pacific Coast and Western markets.
The New York firms purchase COM
prises, in all, about $50 carloads of
the luscious fruit, about 80 carloads of
which have already arrived in this
city, and the so varieties of the tempt
ing beauties now on exhibition to the
general public here are merely a sam
pie of the vast amount of high-class
apples from the great orchards of the
Northwest, destined for consumption
by New Workers. during the winter.
The total value of the 25O,00O boxes
coming here is in the neighborhood of
100000.
Just about one-third of the whole
$4,000 boxes is made up of Newtown
Pippins and Spitzenbergs. Every one
who knows anything at all about ap-
pies knows that these are two of the
most attractive apples known to pomo-
logists. but only he who has met up
with the Oregon-grown Newtowns and
Spitzenbergs knows that until he tast-
ed the latter he had as we'll tasted
none at all. Enthusiasts describe their
flavor as being something between
that OF the ol-fashioned Wayne coun-
ty apple of childhood's days and the
supposed ambrosial food of the gods.
For showiness and all-around beau
V both are among the most splendid
OF natures works of art. OF great
size, and smooth and wonderful con-
tour, the pippins are veritable things
of beauty, shading from a delicate
green to a solid yellow, each with one
rosy cheek to add to its blandish-
ments. In a word, they are, as they
are officially called, pippins!
And the spitzenbergs are larger,
shower and much more highly devel-
oped than any Spitzenbergs ever
grown in this part of the country.
Most OF these two varieties, which are
about the fanciest shown, will get to
the New York consumer at prices