The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1904, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY ’ 1, 1904. CALIFORNIA STANDS IN THE FOREMOST RANK AT THE REUNION OF WWORLD’S NATIONS IN- THE FflIR MISSOURI METROPOLIJ' Exhibit of Golden State Wins Ap- proval. Lavish = Display Attracts At- tention. WIS whe 1 the ONE ONLY LARGER — & which e- rarest the earth e Gould pass her shown ever rtez ever @ the rail. entieth this mantio t hrin Zor e -world to, { the great fajr where and > ail- Her and ¢ourse, -her, byt young as she is, oMt hér mamifactures e .u.»\paA de in_this the rid * thut _greater ng progress w of ut rru. d\anw in it r‘vrla has Kept: abreast vd thé world intellec- her n:sya.a‘y in ‘the Edvcational sKov Here is anothér tri- ’r her apd . a silent -téstimonial western culture, which is n}:o“n to behing-that of the oldést; pulation.”. The progressive the pursuit "of the higher pment ¢f the mind are “what “Californita shows and university work, colony now here- is result snd” feels te” succéss’ has “n ~ atfain Commissioners worked harg' to Becure enlarged # Most of worked glmost un(‘-.u'ngx e instaliink ‘of exnibits-Began, reir mws have,_been- unusyally hi display 15 i completed, which-is to that ‘of any ather er’than most of ‘them. - * tie given The Call for.thé Praises for that. e heard among- Californiang every hand tate’s -resources and ts columng. hns ltimufuted' detivity; that exists there Ted the rneopln on ta greater . and. swelid- their Pride .in. “the' ections in ‘which they reside.” profi (u ‘_prcur\ed !rqlu\ fresh vigetdbles, urang ;- apples, oits, wines, niie, raistng, cere-le B and au me other l'rf-.—d wod‘d‘::ufl:: Its policy of sét: den State in native T huilding Califor- sther magnificent dispiay t show in its, greatest beauty fresh- fruits’ begin coming in sent on from California. STATE IJ FAUORED ABOUE ALL OTHERS Ts tral Brilding Represented of - forma Only C in Ag Counties. other State was given the privj- ¥ g a collective exhibit’ in building. Califorsia State . represented -by fruiis will be added to hér exhibit in-this building. They will b used for .embellishment. She has 22,6 square feet of space for this .exhibit, 4800 feet ‘of which is used for wine dispiay. The space is in the shape of a T, the cross part-of which is against the wall.. The space lies at the front of the buildiag next 1o the cast or majn entrance; which js .at the center of the building and ‘next to the Intermural:railway. The crqoss of the T is 191 feet long and the stem 202 feet long fromi the wail. The facade inc l-’anK the space is m- teen feet high and is decorated with exerything grown m x‘ahr-,r ia. Sur- mounting_each. of the ‘thitty posts is & twenty-four-inch- vase filled with pampas plumes .and over.every arch- way the name California ¥s spelled out m t_“o (y-two-inch letters- made .of ‘oranges. Suspended from the center of eachi of thege ‘arches ‘is a large bell made of papier maché - and covered with: cevemls. Tire pedestais of .the columns supporting the beams are out- lined, with panels of palm-stems. These pedesgals ‘haye a lirge open space, in uhi(h is.shown ‘fruft and vegetables in re* The, coluiins and beams are ¢ov- €red’ with green burlap, outlineqd and érnamented with fancy figures done i vari :lnrhi dried: fruits ‘and nuts Taside this gurgeom! facade with its richriess of green and gold is set a scene whjoli will lvng linger in the vision ot ‘those who.behold it and thé fame of ~Whick: will. ‘doubtless be carried about thé world. .has done- its utino: has produced something that- is beauti- ful gad re“wu credit upqn the State. Each -has -some central feature and handsome, rich and ‘harmoniods deco- tations. The whole- blends into a great Ehow: that iy one of the finest sights of the exposnlon. anen, obellgkz “col- umng,’ pyramids and other structures, of various design, all bearing | the rich fruitage of the sections they represent, rige throughout the. inclosure, and all abous fhem throngh glass and wpon stands ‘and :pedestals are seen the tokens of California’s produc(lvem There are. twenty-four counties rep- resented ifr this exhibit. - Nevada is eprmnted only in‘the Mining bu)ldlug and. Riverside in “the Hofticuitural .buil@ing only. The twenty-four are as iolhms Sncrnn,ema Dev <lopment As- soctation group—Sacramento, Butte, le:er. XYolo, Fehama, Glenn, Sutter, Yfiba. and Coluga;’ ,Ban Joaquin \'nlley the Agriculturat . ing show hy alifornian who ¢ with’ TYPICAL MISSION STRUCTU RI.. WHICH HOLDS C- H JFORNIA'S E\HIBIT With Her Baskets Laden to the Brim Calijornia Makes a Showing Fairer Than Any. —San Jbaquin, Fresno and Kings; Southern California group—Los Ange- les, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura and Orange; coast counties—S8anta Clara, S8an Luis Obispo and Monterey; bay countieg—Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano. Besides the county displays there are two exhibits in this space entirely under the State Commissioners. One is of dairy products and the other of dried fruits, honey -and cereals. The dairy display is contained in a space 8x% feet, which Is taken up by a re- frigerator with a front of double plate glass. "At the back is a model of Cali- fornia and her shiéld made of butter. The figure is human size. On shelves are canned milk and cream. Space is allowed at the rear for the judges to enter and test the products. California cheese is exhibited with the caseine products of other States in a special space, 3 Theé honey, cereal and dried fruit space {8 20x70 feet and is located in the northwest corner of the Cajifornia space. There is a wonderful display of these products, gathered from all parts of California. Canned and smoked fish are aleo shown in this space. TEMPLE TO GRAPE IS WINE EXHIBIT Every county- éxhibiting - and every county’ Viticuitural Industry to Be Rep- resented by Magnificent Ex- . hibit Nozwe on the Way. + In the space set aside for the wine industry of California there stands fo- day, handsome in its outline and deco- rations, ©only a_ temple to the grape, surrounded‘ by a circle of ornate panels, but not a bottle, a cask or a decanter is-in.sight. No ruby nectar or sparkllug vintage tempts the sightseer or brings on an acute dttack of cob- webs. * But this great industry, which the State hepes to extend to every cor- ner bf the globe, is not to be neglected. ~There. is' 2 magnificent exhibit on the way--so great. that it could not be &ot_to the -fair on time and it will not be in place befere May 15, so says F. A. Haber, who has bepn here since -diameter of about April 10, seeing that the design for the elaborate display was properly carried out and who will remain in chargé of the exhibit during the fair and teach the,gospel of thé grape to the multi- tude. - There will be no more striking or attractive exhibit in the whole Cali- fornia section than the wine show. It s to be mhade undeér the California Commission by the Viticultural Com- mittee of California Joint Exhibitors, consisting of Charles Bundschu, P. C. Rosii and C. E. Bowen, the latter being represented by C. Wetmore. The space occupied is 44x52 feet and is connected with the main Califorhia space, though its position places it very near the center of the building. The feature of the completed exhibit is a complete circle of panels about eight feet high and two and a half feet’ wide. Fach panel will contaln eighteen quarts- of wine in bottles, each bottle resting on a gilded rosette. There are seventy-two of these panels, represent- ing thirty-four exhibitors. Each panel is surrounded by an ornamental shield and the bottom by a decorated barrel head, the chield giving in giit letters the name of the firm and the barrel head the vineyard, or trade mark of the exhibitors. This inclosure is built of decorated staff and surrounded on all sides by wide aisles, which give access and exit through four highly decorated entrances. In the center of the circle is the temple of eight columns, twenty-eight feet high, the capitals of which form Bacchus heads, supporting a cornice decorated in vines and grapes, with bottles to come, and surmounted by eight festive bears, quafing good old California wine. The legend “Califor- nia Viticulture” is prominently dis- played. This temple is placed on a cir- cular platform three feet from the floor and reached by a series of five steps. This “Golden Wine Temple” has a twenty feet, the inner circle being about eleven feet across and thé openings betweén the columns three and a half feet wide. The four corners of the circle are guarded by huge wine casks of staff fourteen feet high and five feet across, profusely decorated in relief with vines and grapes bearing the legend “Cali- fornia Viticulture” and surmounted by statues of garlanded Bacchi holding wine beakers. The two side entrances to the temple are about eight feet high, surmounted by statues of smiling Bac- chante with wine cups in hand. The four wine casks are roomy and will supply a private office for Manager Haber and also sample rooms for the entertaining of visitors. Garlands of vines and leaves of autumn tints and huge bunches of California grapes of every color will festoon the temple from the apex of the cornice to the tops of the casks. The circle of panels and the temple. will be gilded in solid gold bronze, with the exception of the Bacchus heads, which will be in old ivory and. the backs of the -panels in dark chocolate coler, relieved by etchings in gold. The Golden Wine Temple, when fin- ally complete, will be one of the most beautiful creations in the Agricultural building. To create an esthétic en- vironment mottoes and wine lore from the Bible, and the greatest - Hnglish, French, German, Italian, Latin and Hindoo litérature will grace the col- unmins of the temple, and words of cheerful welcome and statistics of the growth, volume and expanse of the California wine industry, together with the names of every wine-producing county in the State, will be artistically displayed. Commercialism, softened by the spirit of the grape, is bending its knee to art in the erection of this temple. Chair- man Bundschu of the committee has been indefatigable in his efforts to real- ize its success. The exhibit has been got up by the following California firms: California Wine Association, A. Repsold & °Co., the Gundlach-Bund- schu Wine Com v, C. Schilling & Co., Lachman & Jacobi, Frénch-Ameri- can Wine Company, California Wine and Brandy Company, William Hoel- scher & Co., the Rosenblatt Company, Itallan Swiss Colony, P: C. Rossi, Chauche & Bon, C. M. Mann & Co., Napa and Sonoma Wine Company, the E! G. Lyons-Rass Co., the E. G. Lyons Co., Goldberg, Bowen & Co., A. Finke's widow, Schlessinger & Bender, E. Martinoni and Samuels Bres. & Co., all of San Francisco; the Italian Vine- yard Company, H. J. Wallacott, South- ern California Company, Sierra Madre Vintage Company and Ed. Germaine Wine Company, Los Angeles; Brunn & Chatix, Oakville; Dr. H. N. Cross, Dos - estry, supper cut; Sonoma; Califor-" Paul Masson and Dresel & Co. ery, Sacramento; mpagne Company. San -Jose, Keycs, Howell Mcuntain. FORESTS" WEALTH WELL DISPLAYED Attraets “Captains of Great Finan Mesas: Exhibyt Attention of Industry and The great wealth of California’s im- mense fcrests is shown in the For- Fish and Game bullding. This is a display that brings close attention from the captains of industry and the great financiers as weil as exclama- tions of delight and admiration from the 'general visi . Perhaps nothing more beautiful was ever shown in poi- ished woods, nothing meore surprising in size of log and board. The space Is backed by planks from three to 'six feet in width of commer- cial wood. There is @ facade of Cali- fornia redwood showing ‘different ex- preseions and beautifully carved. There is one wide arch and two narrowe ones in'the facade, which is twenty- eight feet long and fifteen feet high. At one end is a canopy with a.-deep panéled ceiling. This contains-a great variety of doors and sashes, There are all kinds ¢f ornamental and commercial woods in the display, the redwood burr and California laurel, highly polished, being among the hand- somest spe¢imens. There ' are mam- moth pine and redwood planks. One plece of fir timber is twenty-two inches square.and fofty-four feet long. There are sixty-three varieties of California cabinet wood exhibited. The total dis- . play contains 300 specimens. Among the logs in the “outside” dis- play, they being too heavy and bulky to go inside the building, are some that would supply lwmber encugh to build a house. There is one yellow pine log 144 féet long, fifty-two.inches in diam- eter at the butt and forty inches at the one sugar pine log seventy- four iches in @iameter, cut alive, and another sixty inches -in diameter, also cut aMve, which means cut ip planks and then put together again, so the size of the log will show. Thomas Hs*~h has charge of this display. In the southwest portion of this building is a space 25x25 feet, devoted to California fish and game. Displays of game birds and ducks are made by Los Angeles and by the Sportsman's Association of Sacramento. Both are excellent. There are about forty varieties of fish shown in casts on plaques rang- ing in size from the half-pound trout of the Sierra to a 525-pound black bass from Catalina. There is also a display of flies. MINERAL DISPLAY BEAUTIFUL SIGHT Largest of Its Kind at Fair, San Dicgo’s Contribution Being - Most Attractive. One of the most beautiful sights the eye of man could rest upon repaid the J'outhern Part. of State Is Well Represented. Giant Elephant Makes Loca- tion Plain. ST. LOUIS. April ‘30.—Ldoming up in the southwest . cormer of Horticultural building is a elephant mounted on, a. pedestal immense animal attracts the glance from most any portion of the Dbig buil ing. It was erected by Souihern Ca fornia and stands in the center of Ca forni: the State makes anothe 1 by it is display, but as npare: 2 not near so great as that in the Agfi- cultural building, as it occupies by ) 8500 square feet of space. C. L. W of Los Angeles is ip charge. of this ¢ play. The corner is rea rough fov great mi »n arches, massi than those of the agricujtural exhibit facade. They are t et wide and thifteen feet high. rs of these arches are surmoun jate palms from eiglit to ten fe h, .sent from Golden CGate Park in San Franecisc Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Ow each arch the name Califosnia stands out in great letters made of oranges, and the whole structure is outlined in oranges, at the base’ being fan touches of palm stems.and CRlifor bamboo. Every county . represented in the Agricultural building is also represent- ed in the Horticultural building. but there is one other-in the latter struc- ture—Riverside.: This county makes i anly display here and it is one of the st important in the California dis- y. Its most-important. feature s a practical demonstration of irvigation as cdrried on in.California. This. ex- ows soil and runmin, water, outlining U tem that uvmzs water from the Sierra -Madre - Mour tains; also the.pumping and artesian systems. San Bernardino also has an irriga- tion exhibit here, showing the. conduec ing of .water by mountain and tunnel. The elephant in the center of the Horticultural building display is made of products of the soil and niot of bones and flesh. It is ten and a half feet n a pedestal veneered.: ing walnuts. On riges a pillar twenty-two feet with bases four and a Ralf feet high and .rests with glass casing ho each -gide high square, one these structu being ered with walnuts “encased in glass, the other with almonds: It took two toms of nuts to- cairy out- “this scheme. last year and oranges were the only fresh fruits in this dis- play to-day, but there.was. every sort n jars ard it had a lusc Apples from There is & wonderful collection of Tn- sect pests in this display and it is of great interest to fruit growers. The processing and handling of or- anges is a feature that proved attrac- tive. Fresh fruits w be displayed here in great profusion during the seasom and fruit trees of all sorts -will be shown. Oranges are now being re- ceived in great quantities. - — - -+ thousands of visitors to Californja’s mineral display, which is under of Lewis Mineralogist supervision fornia’s Stat play is the largest of this by any State. It ¢ 195 feet and the of the most attractiv fair is contributed This dis< made a space 5a entral figure and things sort ne at he > Coun- an and tute a dazzling is twenty-one [ three feet in diam- and.is surmounted by ‘a ball of als five feet in meter. The on the convex top of which the column nests,- is a perfect globe, niné_ feet in-diameter, half of it being belotv the floor. Through an opening visitors can gaze into it and that they will not It seems as if one were look- to a ¥oom full of the brightest the earth, the grotto bei The lapidoiite used hu;h from the eter, ing i gems of illuminated. brought from thé mine at _Pala. There is'-a splendid from Death Val and an adjunct this. is’. a - twenty-maule, team and wagdns, such as were used in bringing out this product. This team is one ot the featyres of the groun as it drives ‘to various points. Nevadg County makes here her -caly display at the expésition, but is one that causes throngs. to linger and mar- vel. - She has a 325,000 mineral cabinet and will soon have on display the $2500 bunch of nuggets presented . by that county to Presidert Roosevelt when he was in California. Gold and gold ores show imw great richness in the @alifornia display. That State exhibits seventy varieties of minerals, forty of which are ‘l)l‘kkd commercially. There is an arch in this d:mmy five feet wide and with pillars six feet square, all composed of indestructibie building material produced in the State —sandstones, granités, marbles, terra . cotta. glazed brick and other matertals. There are twenty contributors to this arch. In the “outside™ mining display Cali- fornia gives a show that will prove one of the great attractions «f the fair. A - ravine runs up from tae southwest corner of the Mines building and in this there are two quartz milis ‘which will be in full operation, three concen- trators, a slaz generating plant and a hydraulic giant, which will throw wa- ter 200 feet against a bulkhead. e —— e ——— The Aeronautic Concourse, where the airship contests for the 3200000 in prizes offered -by the exposition take place, is “in the western part of the grounds.. The Physical Culture build- ing and the Athletic Field and the Stadium with seating arrangements for 25,000 people are also in the western sectiom. - g