The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1898, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1898. 29 RIVERSIDE, HOME OF THE ORANGE Lucky Accident That Sections of 3 is the youngest county the S t mot by . any the least important. The was organized some five go out of portions of San ino and San Diego coun- h time its grow 1 building up along | 11 for t all lines wh ugu \e future and promises to place the county in the foremost rank, both as to population and f the county is about 4,000,000 | rable portion of this territory Tt waste. This desert portion lies in the eastern end of the 7, and while of no value for agri- e or horticulture, filled with able m T s, which are be- ing devel and which promise to make the cot famous for fine mines as ha n end made it by its match- orange crops. It is county where e groves and from which the ple is secured, county so | he world. | he citr eat abund- are to be aim, d and other f elds of gra v lays ¢ during the year te of 100 trees to the 3 sment somewhat than the previous hich, w d reduction of the tax me, put i # IRELAND. MASK means a different th: n of a mask totally d votes his intellect to fri, oy One of the Richest and Most Beautiful fi | ments are owned by the county, and they mak county produce: to the industry lation is about 17 ing. Duri a vy and ¥ of provide tho a large numbe come tention of becoming tion of cities and homes, and it was the | | an exam! i for water, concluded to pitch thelr tents, as it were, and begin to lay for.them- selves and families the foundation of | dividual and county exhibits, thus demon- new homes. Water was the first requi- | strating the undoubted fact site to success, for it was evident at first | fruits lead. terfeit presentments of faces. But maiden aunts. iterested only in the masks of his- of a devil named Calloo-Coomare; he Is a Ceylon devil, hoolboy takes a wider and more @nd ought to be a very exciting person to meet on a ticle will interest primarily “the Quiet, dull Sunday afternoon. It is painful to have to re- If he can succeed in HPutintie: 1 ibiaes cord that the Cingalese, instead of “abjuring the devil Household generally ho will it and all his works,” as they ought, actually worship Cal- = = | that without water it would be impossi- | Riverside City 1s the county seat of | tem has discouraging trials finally completed. Ocean, and is about sixty miles east of | candesce: | appointing delays to determine. Transformed it Into new to these people, and they did not understand it. They found a great mesa | spread out before them, dry and burning | beauty, as well as being well adapted to | Witin the sewer district. | in the sun’s rays, and whether it was of | the location of what the city in time will| The domestic water supply is a very | any value was a question that would | prove to be—one of large size. The found- | complete as well as ample one. The water | are enjoying the advantages offered by | Leing moved east to market. During the | take much experimenting as well as dis- | ers of the city Who laid it out wisely | is artesian, and Is brought from near | the schools for obtaining an education. chose a site that would accommodate | Mound City, fourteen miles distant, in a Where the rcm/ of Riverside and Its | their }?lans {g 20313);!gtlhymes. In 1!333 l[%l;_sl: mg:;z;z:gg glr%e! %’}‘e‘fla :Dh;‘:vr:; 2,000 acres of matchless o the then qu -sized town was in- s s :mw starld, was then a barr;:n;fi:lngr:;:: corporated as a clity, having at the time | SupPply is to be found in the State. The | Fugenle Fuller is assi which sparse sagebrush -and cacti grew | a. population of about 2500, and an as- | System has a capacity sufficient to meet (- i with difficulty, if one was to judge from | sessed valuation of $1,000,00. The city | the wants of the city for a great many ggg" reputations. the very stunted appearance Then came a long series of experiments | Los Angeles, and can be reached on either | power is in crops, in an endeavor to find out which | the Southern Pacific or Santa Fe rail- | facturin; crop would do the best and be the most | roads from that city, or the East. The | one of the most complete sanitary sewer | cost in ti profitable. The land, in character, was | city has a fine and sightly location on | Systems the banks of the Santa Ana River, and | the business portion as well as a large the site chosen is one of great natural | share of ot the | trebled Its population in the next ten | Years to years, and the assessed valuation was in-| A coug Undaunted, however, by the seemingly | creased in the same period to over $5,000,- | ties sul the South. ones named being the most prominent. The mountains are rich in mineral and 2 ry will in-time be regulated drives, and $5,000,000 ing camp. supplied. Southern Paci in_lin Santa . b ctions, tapping th bringing the crops of the e to the consumer in every ar | The county is also one of irrigating | canals end they are not of the boom kind, either, for running in them at all times of the year are full heads of water, which is used to make the plains to blos- som as the 20se and the flelds return val- uable crops. This county also boasts of its matchless climate and here it is that hundreds come each vear to regain their health in the | invigorating atmosphere, never too cold, | and with the heat of the summer tem- ed by the coast breezes, which blow off the ocean only forty miles to the west, The elevation of the settled portion of the county ies, or rather ranges from | 6§00 to 1500 feot above sea level, fogs are seldom experfenced and rains are . not | heavy and never of long duration, so ‘that | the combination is one that commends e who seek health and pleas- The county has no public debt, but on the other hand has a surplus in the county treasury of $150,000, which will be utilized the coming year very probably in lowering the tax rate as well as the con- struction of public buildings. Good county roads, bridges and such similar improve- travel over them a pl ure. des fruit raising and mining, this| profit a quite a quantity of stock, | set out a ¥ itable boom in ing operations, | side. undreds of homes were added to the | the St sle and profitable homes. past two able grow encountering neat homes and well culti- to forty aci ing t ! of families wh d it is probable that the nex 11 show the county old, and it a4 ques Ith and beau even, | alone, and there must be some profitable | all kinds. Then there is the deciduous ndustry upon which to base the féunda- | fruit, which 1s alse quite a product, |ed in public enterprise theugh not considgred to any great ex- | city in the front rank viongers of Riverside that first blazed | tent as a regular business. hardy pioneers, headed by John G. North, | the late Warld's Fair, held at Chicago, Dr. Shugart and othe: arrived on the | Riverside was awarded the first prize for | site where this city now stands, and after | the finest county citrus exhibit, and in tion of the s by their_self-appointed task and the present Riverside, with its miles -upon miles of orange groves, acre upon acre of verdant alfalfa fields, numbers. of neat haye boe: and modern homes, thrifty city and well | its size in the world. here in such -a manner as to make its cultivation not only a pleasure, vell. At first a few trees were ornaments, and these .soon ney and lumber, while the granite quar- | showed that there was more in the busi- and lime kilns add materially both | ness of growing oranges for profit hers 1 wealth. The popu- | than the use of the trees for ornamental 00 and constantly grow- | purposes, and from that time dated the £ the past vear there has been | upward progress and success of River- ot only did Riverside demonstrate to list in that time. the world that here was the place to In short, there is In this county every | grow good oranges, but here it was that of it a foremost part | the world-famous Washington navel, or and everything needed to | seedless orange, was first grown in this ands of familles with com- | country, and to-day the crop of this variety sent to the market is in the neigh- ears have witnessed a re- | borhood of 2000 carloads annually. 1 all over the county, and | From the time that it was shown that ot go anywhere, almost, without | the orange could be profitably grown the | settlement took on a healthy growth, and vated tracts, mostly in size ranging from | so it has continued until now there is a each, for this is a| settlement of 8000 people, with the num- ity of small ranches and orchards. | ber increasing at a very rapid rate, es- e present winter there has been | pecially in the last year or so. ¥ have | * The name Riverside is coupled with that in from the East, all with the in-| of high grade oranges, 8o that either rmanent settlers, | words- stands, in fact, for the name of census | the place, and will continue to stand to- to possess fully | gether, for while other sections are pro- alation. 3 ducing good fruit none have as yet sur- of Riverside is twenty-eight [ passed the mother colony. Riverside is years don if one | now and has always been the banner sec- could find anywhere @ city.of the same | tion for producing oranges. The prominence, we that has | ments last year were 2500 carloads .and been bulilt up in the me length of time, | this season the shipments will reach the for that matter, in twice the | 4000 carload mark to a certainty, with a y back in.the 70s that a few | in competition with the world. Again at | and facilities | the California State citrus fairs of sev- eral seasons past this city has captured about all the first prizes, both for in- that hep 3 e 1 | 000. In 1893 the city was made the county | $150,000 worth of bonds to improve the | {;T;frfi?n‘z::eng‘nl;glifuradnf 3&';7::3:’;{3& | seat of the new county of Riverside. 3 streets- to a vote of the people, and the | A recent writer in a pamphlat gotten | MIONeY was voted by a large majority. out by the local Chamber of Commerce | VWith these funds the Trustees have aptly hits the mark when he states there | PAved and macadamized several miles of are few, if any, more beautiful cities of | Streets. among t! prominence. Rather is it her miles of and_streets, tree-lined “Z(h;gg ed and sprinkled daily so { the man als and inches: In the new pac handling Durin been bull but a ship- the growth and beauty, for the cit shortly. well as the officers of the cf i < 2 modern one. There is probably no city of | As an ment fig: $1,536,370; all city USED BY DEVIL-DANCERS, CEYLON. MASK OF TORTOISE SHELL, FORRES STRAITS. ER MASKS THAT ARE USED ing to differ- There is the prosy scientific thet{-ry of the “origin” of e student of history and blography masks, which nobody knows, consequently it is quite ifferent’ from “2f¢ to write yards on this subject. Some people have nter of the bals masque of the L(I'CUBHt that the object of the mask was, not to frighten the cook, but to illustrate the Buddhist theory of “Met- tle Tommy when ne is home for empsychosis,” which is a fine word. ghtening the Here for instance, is a splendid one (No. 2). It is the Il masks have something in com. Sk used by the devil dancers of Ceylon, and is to be particularly recommended in the case of very pious old This mask is supposed to be the portrait loo-Coomare. If anybody is ill, the priests of the devil, curbing and sidewalk work has also add- ed to the beauty of the city. irrigation is taken is probably the great- est attraction the city has, however, for | system, with its inexhaustible supply of water, has nearly fifty miles of main can- | cost ‘of laterals and pipe lines. The average amount of water run in the canals is not far from 4000 miners’ is the Gage canal system, which supplies land, and the system has an inexhaust- of houses up to eighteen in the city, all of which are busy at the present time in|and a fine building, whi above packing houses, put up in the city have unit- | improvements made this season have been | thich place the | the new line of track laid by the Southern town lots, $1.160.7( 430; personal property, $582,555; $10,020; total, $4,804,420. The tax rate for just been put in at a cost of $100,- nt lights to private fmrues, ‘while | was all collected, with sohf to several mil | money raised by taxes last year was $45, | ble to produce any kind of crops, so | Riverside County, it is forty-five miles in | 000. Miles upon miles of streets are lighted | 641 99. The bonded debt of ‘the city s eral trains a day run between the city | canals were projected, and after many | a northeast direction from the Pacific | and the system also supplies about in- | about $125,000. The tax levy of last year all through trains through the city. Sev- and San Bernardino, Colton, Redlands, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Ana, the exception of a s and manu- | couple of hundred dollars. in fact, one can find a train for almost establishments. The city has The cltx has eight school houses, which | any of the places named every hour fn to be found anywhere, and all | of these the igh is a handsome brick st the residence part of the place is ¢ome. ut 200 puplis and a le of years ago the city authori- mitted the question of issuing in short, fits the pupils few years this school All the main business streets n asphalted and the main drives, with the public school agnificent water system of the | P3id, Out of the school mpany from which the water for | ¢aineq cach year in all who contemplates investing. This uilt, and the trustees This has e aggregate fully $150,000. One Riverside is proud of its schools, which it maintains at the highest standard. Professor P. L. Lord is principal and Miss universities of the State. During the past garten school is also run in connection A ten months’ term of school is main- reat that a new schoolhouse had to be the day. The city has about twenty miles School ' bullding, | of street car lines, which at the present ructure three sto- | are operated by mule power, but arrurge- ries high and cost about $75,000. Thirty- | ments are under way to utilize electricity. five teachers are constantly employed in| The busy season in the city is from De- the schools and something like 2000 pupils | cember 1 to July, when the fruit crop is months in_the time named several hun- dred men find employment in the packing houses and orange groves, and at.the present time this line of industry is quite stant, both being | lively, for it takes a large number of educators of established ablilty and rec- | hands to pick, pack and prepare for mar- The High School has | ket z;my’:nve Parioads of oranges a day. corps of teachers | The wages paid in this work varies cong for the varlous branches which are usu- 3 o ivares or ally taught In such schools. The school | ihr paorntoe Plorors rovides for a four-year course in Eng- d hands make from $1 fish, Latin; history, mathematicas stlences | \LoGw o, 200 good hends the operator. Pickers are paid mos! t0 §2 50 a day. Packing is all done by the for entry into the | pox and- the average wages of packers, who are mostly women, is $250 a day. has graduated & Box making is another big branch of the hem the famous Magnolia ave- high school and city, when they entered worth of h the public buildings and privat o the university. A fully equipped kinder- h en who do property, is the result of their pioneer re’l;]‘.‘qoe‘:fies are of superior consu‘.’mfiin”. B e oA e e ot of rairoads the county s | B ReCt T a® 4 idiizent work in the fem are of superior” j Fe | Vears since the first house was bullt. . | hremmence ldsiowes her Several crops were tried by the earller | heautiful avenucs settlers, and no success came until some¢ | andflower-bord one hit upon.the fact that this was the | as to make driving a pleasure, that have true home of the orange, and that the | secured for Riverside the reputation of | tree and fruit could and would grow | being one of the most charming cities of per hundred boxes and experts make good wages at that figure. Ordinary hands the loading, are paid about 2 a day. Among the more important manufactur- ing establishments in the city are & creamery of large capacity, an iron foun- dry, machine works, a fertilizer works, s and its cost is funds. the departments. sides these, ‘all kinds of trade are repre- rovided one at a | Sented by large establishments. our rooms, all of | An active Chamber of Commerce is one fully 200 miles of distributing | which are fully occupled. This increase | of the institutions of the city and since its In addition to this system there | and Riverside is bound of school children is one of the best evi- | 1eorganization some months ago it has dences of the rapid growth of the city. | done a great deal of good work in pre- Good _schools make good men and women, | senting the advantages of the city and to have the best | county to those who sought such informa- of both, no matter what it costs. The | tion. The chamber has well appointed water to the Arlington Heights and | excellence of the school system has been | rooms devoted to exhibits of the products Highgrove tracts. These are the newer | the means of inducing many a home- | of the city and country, among which are settled tracts of land east of the old part | seeker to locate here. of the city, and comprise 12,000 acres of | There are sixteen churches in the city, | as generally called), a great varlety and nearly every denomination is rep- | of deciduous fruits, all the different kinds ible water supply. resented. ~ The church membership 1s|of dried fruits, grapes, honey and mauy oranges, lemons, pomelos (or grape fruit, East year there have been seven | about 3000 and about $150,000 is invested in | other products, every one of which Is ing houses bullt at a cost of | church property. The Young Men's| grown jn the county. This exhibit gives ,000, which brings the total of that class | Christian Assoclation has an active so- | the visitor a fine idea of the magnificent ciety here of several hundred members | yesources of the county, showing how di- ch cost $25,000 and | versified are its products and the excel- the orange crop. which the society has about free of debt. | jence of them. the year just closed there has Like all well-regulated American cities Every reader of this article will be in- ding {mprovements, including the | Riverside has representative lodges of | terested in knowing something about the berships. The Masonic resented by a big lodge lows also have a fine bi substantial _three-story men, Workmen, Forest are aiso represented by A public library cont volumes is one of the { city that its people poi There is also a fine mo« with a seating capacity in_the city. there are three or four, Press, Republican in R. Plaisted. He also c they are up to date. he success of the settlement has | ilify tha vii the Pacific Coast. . améunting in value to fully a hundred | The hotels of the city are the Glenwood, e S o e natiLy R e T orange 4sed. | “Besides its many attractions ds a place | thousand dollars, and the good work {s | Hollyrood and Rowell, the tatter oy t standing of the southern part| grown in the State this year will be sent | f Sojourn for visitors and as a_home for | still on, for the Southern Pacific Com- | l;m Omfl y CI%S?CL At the present time | of the State, for the reason that previous | to market from here. The value-of this | (D€ resident, Riverside'is a business cen- | pany has just laid the foundation for a | the o ull of guests. Besides the | to the demonstration here that this part | crop will reach considerably beyond $2,- ler]nrf dxfimlnm)q(un d supply for a large | $5000 passenger, depart.‘and lheHfll':s} g‘orkl 2:_;;‘ f-,‘,‘fi.fr;’n{?"‘“‘“” and supports sev- | of the coun as well s | *" | and fertile back country, one that is rap- | on the foundation of the new Hotel Glen- | & \;' "‘“}‘i“ and !"‘r‘gf")\”‘f?""“fflllh:?‘lrlaegsewthgi wgrn;‘og orange crop is not the only pro- mw‘ mrlirl’rig b wng Ll : i wnm]'tw?m: “ ttc'h“m:t 13}00'0?0' ?r?d slgnbel P'{?‘ “;‘s":l“!:‘tlep;figdrafg?fidl;?fl]‘tg:sn'fl,i‘: as little to iné - of C whi & ve! e as a city is one of the finest hostelries in e e, g co cannot subsist on climate | duction of lemons, as well as berries of | 1t g Individual who has contribu ther work on the building will be opened | ' G Gempnay : | has its lne built into the city and 1y se. Other hotable a8 well as costly:| ciring Tight of way. for the sxiaciont the line to a connection with the com- he new line of tr by ihe Southern | pany's: old line &t Pomona, aftor wors Pacific Company in the suburbs of the | {* ) 0" nyrpcee of the. company tohx!:;:: _ i s of 1 s | city. This work cost several thousands the "way and showed to a waiting| It Is upon the orange that the city | this or any other State which fos Zhel | crviolare. The Santa Fe Company also people that the land of the coyote, | stakes its reputation, and to show the | ter municipal lighting system. This sys- | expended. considerable good money in im- {the horned toad and ant was of | excellence of the fruit grown, it may be 2 ; Y57 | Yrovements. They have practically re- some practical value, if only opera-|stated that at the New Orleans World's T built their passenger and frelght depots tions were guided with wisdom and all | Fair the threc gold medals for citrus and relaid all their track within the ecity | energies directed in the proper channel | fruits were awarded to Riverside growers with heavier rails and tles. as aw indication of the financial stand- ing of the city the last year’s assess- ures are appended: Real estate, improvements, $705,345; city and . ; improvements, $809,. money, purposes, including interest on bonds and sinking fund provision, was 8 cents on the $100, and the amount of NATIVE MASK, TORRES STRAITS. wearing his mask, which is made of wooa, painted in va- rious colors, and has a tusk sticking out of each side of a horribly grinning mouth—the devil always grins—two disks at each side, and three cobra capellas on the top, come and perform the devil's own dance. An altar, decor- ated with garlands, Is erected, and the sacrifice, usually a cock, is offered on it, together with rice and all the proper ingredients. We come now to a series of pantomime heads. No. 5 for instance {s supposed to 1epresent a fsn‘ The rude, untutored savage has engraved a pattern on it, inlaid it with white enamel, Aspinal's for preference, and dec- orated it with cassowary feathers. It is made of tortoise- shell, and is five feet long. This is guaranceed to frighten anybody, from fathers downward, at fifty paces. The same may be said of No. 3. This is also of tortolse shell, ciety also owns its own hall, which is a which cost $25,000. There are large lodges | Miles Tt of Knights of Pythlas, Maccabees, Wood- | {'1 d-ve which for a long distance paral- various leading secret orders for women 1000 and $100,000 and i3 e oghbeteen | vost field of trees, give the tract.a The newspapers of the city, of which as any that can be found anywhere in a city of this size. They are the Daily property of an incorporated company (the same company conducts the Press and Horticulturist, a weekly publication); then there is the Daily Enterprise, Demo- ¢ratic in politics and the property of M. paper. All the publishers have type-set. ting machines, which goes to show that about all the leading secret orders, and | vost of land and property in this city. Unimproved lands sell for from $7 to $500 an acre, according to location and water right, for be it remembered that water {s everything here. Land without water is of little value, and where there is a fine level piece of land with ample water supply the buyer will have to put up close to the highest flgure above named. Lower lands, which are not so suitable for citrus crops, range far lower in price, but the best is the cheapest, If one contemplates growing oranges or lemons. Growing orchards sell from 3500/ to $3000 an acre. The choicest come high. but are cheapest in the end. Young and unbearing orchards can be bought quite reasonable, but there is a loss of time before they bear, which means that in- terest costs bring up the price in the end. A good bearing grove in a good frostless locality can be bought for $1500 an _acre, and it is cheap at that price, when it is remembered that such or- chards produce valuable crops each year. The visitor to this city is not met at every turn with unsightly kept, places or streets. Every one, including the authori- ties, vies with each other in keeping his: premises in the neatest condition possible. and this Is one of the condigions which has brought many a settler here. The streets are hand swept every day, and * all gardens and orchard lands are kept free of objectionable weeds, so that the resident, as well as the visitor, can- not help but admire the surroundings. Riverside has two banks, which take care of the funds of the people. These have a paid-up capital of over $200,000, and deposits amount to over $1,000,000. A well equipped fire department keeps the insurance rates at a low standard, and a paid police department, under charge of a City Marshal, looks after the peace. The city is one of the sixth class and is governed by a board of five Trustees, a City Clerk, Marshal, Treasurer, Re- corder, Attorney and Health Officer. The Trustees are E. F. Kingman (gresldem), J. A. Simms, Bradford Morse, S. La Rue and H. W. Bordwell. The other officers are Marshal F. P. Wilson, Clerk W. W. Phelps, Recorder J. C. Chambers, Attor- ney ‘%V, A. Purington, Treasurer M, 8. Bowman and Health Officer Dr. W. 8. Ruby. There are no_saloons in the city and none are allowed to do business, as a prohibition ordinance governs. rlington Heights, which is the prin- cipal suburb of the city, contains 5000 acres of watered lands, which lie between the upper canal of the Riverside Water Company and the foothills. Of this area about half has been planted to oranges and lemons. The water for this tract is most of them have large and active mem- | Obtained from the Gage canal system ! - | mentioned above. This water supply is fraternity 1s TeP- | obtained partly from the Santa Ana River and the Odd Iel- | and partly from a remarkable system of S artestan wells, Through (he center of Arlington Heights for a distance of six brick structure | JHERENT Viftorla avenue. that beauti- lels Magnolla avenue. What the latter iS to Kiverside city proper Victorla ave- nue Is to Arlington Heights. The groves on this tract are all young, but no finer can be found anywhere, and the English v company whic mproved the tract as int to with pride. | (03" Considerable amount of it, and the Ot ThooPsia house, | purchasers Have bullt fine residences, b, puild- | which, dotted here and there among tho eau- ers, etc,, and the active lodges. taining over 8000 nstitutions of the iful a earance. Sy J. E. SHIELDS. are as well edited — politics and the onducts a” weekly MASK OF TORTOISE SHELL, JERVIS ISLAND, MASK FROM NEW CALEDONIA. MASK FROM NEW IRELAND. and 18 supposed to represent a crocodile’s head. It is decorated with cassowary feathers and nuts. It is all nuts to the schoolboy. But No. 6 represents a really ingenious plece of ugli- ness. Not unlike a Polish Jew in appearance and style, it is made of black painted wood attached to a oylin- drical frame made of coarse stuff or cloth woven across slender stems_of wood and stiffened by a plece of brown bast inside. From the lower part depends a cord net- work,” with long black fowl feathers attached, which covers the body. The hair and whiskers are made of coarse frizzled human hair, and the beard of .plaited round cords of the same. s mask comes from New Caledonia, and with the addition of a hump it would do ver{ well for Punch. There is this advantage about | that the wearer for the time he bas it on i3 “taboo,” ang I[N VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE WORLD can hit anybody he ltkes without being hit in return.. There is considerable doubt, however, in our mind wheth- er similar privileges would be extended to the wearer of such a mask In this tyrannical country. No. 1is what we are tempted to call a high-falutin’ mask. At all events, it measures from ‘‘head to ‘foot’” something® over five feet. We have two views of it: the first is a full-face, the second a profile. The mask proper consists of colored wood; the beak of a bird points down- ward from directly under and in a perpendicular line with, the nose. But perhaps the most striking- part is the superstructure, which is nearly twice as high as the face itself. A melange of carved birds and snakes, of multicolored feathers and bones, supports a native lady, 3:(3_1& half way round & somersault, and tied there for-