Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-04
,ESCONDIDO IS To
| NOTE GRAPE DAY
Little City Of San Diego County
to Hold Its Third Annual
Fruit Festival
DATE OF THE FETE is SEPT. 9
Visitors Will Be Taken for Rides
Through MusCateI and
Wine Vineyards
DATE OF THE FETE is SEPT. 9
tsneoial 70 The Heraldl

8, Admission day, Escondido Ia pre-
pairing to entertain the largest num-
time In the valley The little city in
the 'hidden vale" celebrates it's third
annual Grape day festival on that day.
) and committees Of prominent citizens
have been busy for weeks making ar
Z y rangements for the celebration, which
Us yearly becoming more popular
throughout Southern California.
Special trains will be run from Los
4 Angeles, San Diego and Oceanside,
land without doubt thousands or people
Twill attend, for Escondido has won
an enviable name for hospitality in the
past and will surpass itself on this
Grape day, which is the fifth 'anniver-
sary of the burning of half million
dollars worth of water bonds-an act
which first brought this beautnul httle
VALLEY into prominence.
All exeursionists will be met on the
trains by representatives of the COM
{mittee and presented with souvenir
buttons. On arriving they will have
an opportunity to enjoy themselves IN
dozen different ways. As the name
Aof the celebration would Indicate, the
celebration was first conceived to I'M
nress upon the public the fact that
This valley is the center of the table
grape and paisin industry OF southern
California Tons Of the sweetest mus
i catel grapes California can produce VIII
I he waiting on ice for the enjoyment
Aof visitors, and every excursionist WILL
when leaving, be presented with pas
Vet of grapes and nicely printed SOU
9nir of the occasion.
RIDES IN VANGUARD
Among the enjoyable features will be
fioy rides through the muscatel and
wine vineyards, which will be sway
I ing under their loads of gigantic
punches of green and red grapes, ana
! Op hAaHt1fNl
orange and lemon groves In the state.
A drive through this scenic little val
: lev is trip never to be forgotten, Tor
one sees Southern California at It's
best. There will be minstrel singing,
music by bands, an up-to-date white
way" with vaudeville shows of every
kind. and dancing at night Under
the ramada, which occupies the MIS-
toric site of the bond burning, there
w will be speeches and a display of hor-
such as can only be seen in one OF
Southern California's most productive
The Santa Fe will make the low rate
of SO for the round trip from Los An
gees. special train will leave there
at $50 and arrive in Escondido at
1880 D. M The return trip Will pc
made in good time, bringing the excur-
sionists home at 1890. This trip is,
bv the way, over one of the most at
tractiVe routes out OF LOS AnSelSS' =.
Escondido, the thriving little city
which originated the unique celegrauon
OF Grape day, is a place of about lSOo
inhabitants and is the second largest
town In San Diego county, II Is me
trading center of rich territory en-
t1racing several productive valleys. 1t
has miles of graded streets, lighted by
n electricity, a $4,000 sewer system ana
two miles of cement sidewalks. Realty
- values have doubled since the burning
of the bonds and the town is now going
ahead rapidly.
since last Grape day the following
new buildings, in addition to a large
number of new homes. including some
exceptionally nice ones, were ereoted:
A gas and electric plant, an $ls,OOO
grammar school, $7bO0 public library;
n large Baptist church ana sunstahtlal
business buildings,
The banks, which consist OF two ma
tional ard three savings banks, nave
combined deposit of over half mil
lion dollars.
GOOD SCHOOL SYSTEM
Escondido has splendid school sys-
tenn with a S400 900 high school build
ing which has a plunge IN connection.
Among the business industries are
three citrus fruit packing houses, an
ice plant. cream separator. hay and
grain warehouses, lumber yard, planning
mill, cement pipe plant and rock
crusher. There Is new electric Light
and gas plant ,q s4Itss
owing to the fact that 1t Is the ter
minus of branch of the railway, Es-
condido has terminal freight rates,
and can ship fruits to the east at
the same rate charged Los Angeles
and San Francisco shippers. The soil
is Deep easily worked and productive,
THE rainfall, averaging nearly seven
teen inches goes through this loose
soil to bedrock, and for this reason
MANY crops, including grapes and
deciduous fruits, are grown without
irrigation.
Grapes thrive wonderfully and pos
sess a larger percentage or sugar than
those produced in the north. water Tor
the Irrigation Of citrus fruits and Tor
the city's uses is brought from the
head of the San Luis Rey river twen-
ty-fve miles away In the mountains, TO
a reservoir seven miles from the city.
From here 1t Is conveyed by ditch ana
An electric line which will be of
great benefit to Escondido and com
munity, is now being built between
hers and San Diego. E
The executive COMMITTEES which has
worked hard 20 make Grape lay the
success 1t will be, is composed of w,
NJ AIexander. J. w Hedges. w. III.
Baidridge, w. L. Ramey, w N. Brad
hurry. sig Steiner, G. w. Wisdom and
r. g. C'KeIley. This COMMITTEES has
been aided by many subcommittee ut
business men.