^♦ -v^ ^? -v^^ ''-i. '*>. .0 7- -i O •1 o A> '_„ ^ _ o V ".■; = ' -..a'' .^ ^°-n.^ "■ o V .xV >-^ ^o. ^0 '^.•. ••--\ . -^^0^ A*^' '^^ "'/"i^' < ^ .^''"^\ .^*' '^^ .-?>' A ■■^<< .1-^ v^* •I O '^o -4.^ %*> ■'."<' ^^^/ U.V 0' ^b.- " V'-.:^'- V'-'' 'i=.-'Z\'''^P V'-o^^''<^'^ ^*',7,-'vo5 -v'- ^^- '^.^ •• /;^ \,^ ;"^-""'-. \/ --^-^"^'v %/ ^'^•^■V,'^ -p> ^ %. * «> ^s^ ■ .*^'*. =« A.^ 'm^ V .^" o ^. °o '1' °- ;-. %.„^' .-^R-- --.„/ .--^^^x, %/ .:^ ^^°^ V'^.-o'* # ^-^ <> " o /. o ^ ^o. ■■\<>' '^ o > 0' < • ■ . "'^-, ^ » . . , • .0 %*''^'^''/ o, " ■ "-n-o^ >.>, " = .<.•' ^iische Sehweizer Zeiliiii^. New York Womans' Press Club: Miss M. V. Lewis. Miss Lewis joined the party in San Francisco and accompanied it on the three days' trip to Del Monte and San Jose. Chicago German Pre.ss Club: Emil Hoechster and wife. Cleveland Wo.men's Pr mim JliBli . ^ i ^\fk fiiJMO S MJiliiiiJilM, - Tin-: (iMAiiA "hee" lu ilium;. Rosewater. The building in which we were entertained is claimed to cover more square feet of surface than any other newspaper edifice in the world, and it certainly is a splendid as well as a spacious establishment. It is built of granite, and is eight stories high, enclosing a large square court covered over with glass, thus insuring light to every apartment. From its lofty roof an extended view was obtained of the city, which impressed all who inspected it from that point as being the home of a remarkably enterprising and energetic people. Broad, well paved streets were lined with rows of magnificent structures, and traversed in all directions with cable and electric railroads. On every side were bustle and business activity. The welcoming addresses having been appropriately responded to by the travelers, the entire party were rapidly raised by elevator to the Press Club rooms on the upper floor of the building, where an hour was charmingly spent in conversation. A tidy lunch was served, to which ample justice was done, and the punch that washed it down is still fondly talked of by the New York delegates. At four o'clock we re-embarked and were under way again towards the Pacific. That evening on the train was marked by one of the characteristic incidents of the trip, a feature that probably had never before had its counter- l)art. After dinner Mr. J. C. Yager, of the Wagner Company, had the waiters remove all the tables from the dining ear and replace them with camp chairs, produced from some place of storage whose location was one of the many i)ermanent mysteries of the journey. Everybody thereupon repaired to that car and spent the evening in a most enjoy- able manner, listening to addresses and recitations by Mr. J. Seaver Page, Foster Coates, Marshall P. Wilder, Mr. Willie Wilde, and to some excellent vocalization, of which our musical leader, Pearsall, with the stentorian lungs, was the manager and conductor. What the visiting party did not learn concerning the City of Denver, the Queen City of the Plains, is not likely to be 27 acquired by newspaper writers of the present generation. By the admirable arrangements of the Committee of Reception an opportunity was afforded the Eastern travelers to do up that city in exhaustive style, or as nearly so as was practicable within the compass of a single day and evening. The train arrived at the Denver depot at 10.35 a. m. on Saturday, January gth, and the excursionists were welcomed by representatives of the local newspapers, the Chamber of Commerce, the Real Estate Exchange, and the railroad companies that center at that important city. The strong bond of interest existing between the manipulators of rates and traffics, pools, and short and long hauls, was shown by the warm interest taken in the excursionists by the railroad men. Among those who greeted the newcomers were General Ticket Agent Ady, of the Union Pacific ; S. K. Hooper, General Passenger Agent of the Rio Grande ; Assistant Passenger Agent Wadleigh, of the same line ; C. G. Burkhardt, of the North- western ; City Passenger Agent Erbb, of the Union Pacific ; Commodore Trufant, Superintendent of the Union Depot ; J. P. Flynn, C. H. Titus, Editor Arkins and others. Members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Denver Real Estate Exchangfe were: S. M. Allen, Biddle Reeves, R E. Gurley, B. L. Sholtz, John Crawford and L. M. Townsend, of the Interior Land and Improvement Company, an old newspaper man of New York. The Reception Committee had everything arranged on a broad scale for tiie visitors' entertainment. Carriages in ai)undance were in waiting at the depot and the guests were driven rapidly to the elegant Metropole Hotel. Two or three hours were given to the ladies to rest in the sumptuous apartments of that establishment, while their male escorts visited the newspaper offices and took in the sights generally, after which, fortified with a hearty lunch, the carriages were resumed and the procession wound its way 28 rilJ HOltL MEir ILIE — IkWlK through the long, level, unpaved, but smooth, well shaded and watered streets of Denver, and past all the noteworth}^ buildings, public and private, of that wonderful city, located in 1858 as a mining camp in a desolate prairie region just this side of the shadows of the Rocky Mountains, which loom up about fourteen miles to the West- ward. Some of the enormous smelting works on the outskirts of the city were also visited, and an insight was gained of the subtle processes by which rough ores are transmuted into precious metals. Dinner followed, after which the entire party visited the two theatres then in operation in the city, one at the Metropole Hotel and the other the splendid Tabor Grand Opera House, and at the termination of the performances they were transported back to their train, and at i a. m. were again speeding Westward, now on the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Leaving Denver about i a. m., the train three hours later reached Colorado Springs, where, however, it stopped for only a few moments. It had been the expectation of the Pike's Peak Press Club and the Chamber of Commerce that the visitors would be permitted to remain there for a short time to be shown the sights of the locality, but the delay could not be afforded. However, copies of the morning papers were left on the train, and before the breakfast hour was over all the passengers were aware that they had passed through "the Sanitarium City of the West." A similar fact was impressed upon their minds at several other places they visited during the trip. 29 The ride from Denver was refreshing to exhausted humanity. Sight-seeing was ahxady beginning to pall upon the senses. When the party awoke on the morning of Sunday, January loth, they found themselves plunging into the very heart of the Rocky Mount- ains. At seven o'clock they were all routed out from their comfortable berths to inspect the wonderful jiathwav nature had riven through the rocky barrier that forms the continent's liack- bone, the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas, better known to tourists as the "Royal Gorge." Here, between majestic walls two thousand feet in height, wonderful engineering skill had contrived a roadwa\' that seemed to be carved for the special purpose through the solid rock. Gazing ujjwards to the opening in the rift, far overhead, that seemed to touch the heavens, one felt like exclaiming with the Psalmist: "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ve lifted up, ve everlasting doors ; and the King of glory shall come in." At a point where the Arkansas I^iver is spanned i)y a bridge suspended by iron braces from the overhanging cliffs on either side, the train was halted, and the passengers were invited to step out into the freezing cold to be photographed l)V an artist whom Passenger Agent Jerome had enticed for that purpose from Denver. Their pictures being instantlv frozen fast tt) the negative, the i)art\' held a brief Service of Song, under the leadershi]) of Mr. Alfred E. Pearsall, of the New York Press Club, "Our (_)wn," as he is familiaily known by his associates in that organization, who, climbing to a giddy height on the rocky wall of the canyon, sang with power and sweetness "America," in which he was joined with vigorous earnestness by the entire party. Probai)ly that was the first Sabbath service ever held in that remote and hardly accessible chasm. Under way again, the train labored up a steep grade, seeking the crest of the Rocky Mountains. It found it, too, for at three in the afternoon 3° THE PRESS CLUll I'ARTV STllI'l'lM', lO BE I'UOTOGKAl'UICl I IN THE HE CANYON UK THE ARKANSAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY lOTH. Leadville was rt-achcd, at an elevation of ten thousand, two hundred feet above the level of the sea, a fact which speedily made itself apparent to lunys with weak pumping power attach- ments. The visitors having heard much of that famous mining camp were deeph' interested in such portion of it as was not hidden from their view bv the deep snow. Several of the towns- people being at the depot with sleighs, an impromptu invitation was extended to the visitors to take a short ride, which was par- ticipated in with hilarious satisfaction. After leaving Leadville and GI.ENWllcin SPKINCS, col.o., WIIERK TIIF. I'RKSS I.KAllUF. I'ARTY ISATIIF.D IN A SM IW STORM, JAMARV lOTH, 1S92. surmounting the Rockv Mountains at Tennessee Pass, at an eleva- tion of ten thousand, four hundred and eighteen feet, the train resumed its rapid jjace on the down grade, and the run that afternoon through tiie sublime canvon of the (irand River was a most enjovable experience. Shortly after dark the train stopped at TUK CANYON OK THE liRAMJ, COLOKADo. Glen\V()t)d Spring;s. A blinding snowstorm i)revailed, through which tiif party was conveyed in sleighs alwut a quarter of a mile to a luxurious hotel, resplendent with electric lights, and furnished in the most approved style of modern artistic decoration. Here was enjoyed one of the most remarkable experiences of the entire journey. The hotel stands on the edge of a pool of steaming hot water sup]jlied from a mineral spring whose temperature is one hundred and twenty degrees, and its outpour two thousand gallons per minute. In the bathing pool at the house the temperature of the water is considerably reduced, and the gentlemen of the party, donning bathing suits, plunged in for a warm out-of-door bath, while the ladies on an ui)per balconv, protected bv umbrellas from the storm, threw snow-balls at the bathers. It really was a very remarkable sight. The night was inkv dark, the snow was falling almost in a single sheet, and the electric lights bareh' penetrated the misty atmosphere to reveal the heads of the men swimming in the steaming pool. Every now and then the snow and cold air combined would induce the bathers to whollv sid)merge themselves, but their heads would (|uicklv reappear and in a moment would be again incrusted with snow. Ihe pro|)rietor of the establishment and the |)hysieian resident there had given full assurances that bathing under those incongruous conditions was cntirelv harmless. The water was stronglv imi)regnate(l with salt and sulphur, and open air bathing is practiced there at all times of the day and in all seasons of the year. The participants in the batii, after resuming their traveling attire, found the effect to be rather exhilarating than otherwise, and none of them derived anv ill conse(|uence fiom what would in anv other place in the world seem to be a reckless defiance of hygiene and common sense. An hour and a half were most agreeably passed in visiting this remarkable point and 34 exploring, in spite of tiie darkness and storm, the medicina springs with which it is surrounded. Returning to the train the berths were sought at an early hour, excepting by a few of the more devoutly inclined, who sat up a while longer singing hymns. Thus was passed the first Sunday of the journey. Glenwood, we learned from our railroad companions, is situated in a " park " two thousand, two hundred feet above the sea-level, protected on every side by lofty mountains, and holding within its limits a series of hot sulphur springs bursting out of the mountain rocks forming lakes of large proportions, and making natural bathing places which by artificial means have been rendered very con- venient for the use of man. This hot sulphur water, used as a drink or to bathe in, has been found very efficacious as a remedy in many diseases, and the volume of water is so great that there seems to be no limit to the extent to which it may be utilized, or to the number of people who ma}^ partake of or be benefited by it. Above the springs, as they rush out of the rocks, are large open caves which, somewhere within their recesses, must have communication with the hot sulphur water below, as they are filled with hot sulphurous vapor or steam, which rushes out from their mouths in dense clouds. One may enter these caves, divest one's self of clothing, penetrate as far as the heat will allow, and partake of a natural hot sulphur vapor bath such as can be had nowhere else in the world, and which is claimed to be of great remedial or curative value for many complaints that the human frame is afflicted with. The Press League excursionists did not penetrate the mysteries of the locality further than the pools at the hotel. The region is said to be full of game, and the trout fishing superb, so every delegate in the party determined in his mind to wander out that way again, some time, at a more genial season of the year. 35 On Monday mornino^, January iith, Salt Lake was reached at elcyen o'clock. A delegation of officials, citizens and news- paper men from Salt Lake Cit)- met the party at Bingham Junction in a special train, under the charge of J. H. Bennett, General Passenger Agent of the Rit) Grande cS: Western Railroad. Some time preyious to the adycnt of these hospitable gentlemen there had been placed on the train, at a point one hundred and fifty miles east of Salt Lake City, copies of the Salt Lake City Hcra/d of that date, and cards of welcome, on which was recited the programme of the entertainment prepared for the passengers during their yisit in the City of Saints. On arriying at the deiK)t the yisitors were taken in carriages and stages and man\- in sleighs, as the snow was (piite deep and still falling, and were driven to the Knutsford Hotel, where a brief interyal was allowed them for resting in some of the three huncb-ed rooms which tliis fine hotel contains. The party was increased at this point b\' the addition to its numbers of Mrs. N'oung, a yery lively, Boston-looking young lad\% who enjo)'ed the double honor . of being the grantUdaughter of lirigham N'oung, deceased, and the diyoreed wife of one of that gentleman's sons. After the dust of travel had been remoyed, the \isUors were taken m earriapes G & fTolmes >v 4 S»K,s^^^l^> S5Sii >■'■ '■'■ "' j„-S„-ii|,S.£[5,l:Sl! BK iJliH ^S»SSs| \viii:ki: \\ i. ukkk r..Mi;ki ainkh in SALT I.AKK cnv. throughout the city and were shown all the attractions of the place, alighting onh' to yisit the Temi)le and the Tabernacle. Owing to the incomplete condition of the former, it was not con- sidered safe to enter it on the slipi)er\' planks that led 36 SOME OK THE BUII.DINCS AND LOCALITIES VISITED AND SEEN IN SALT LAKE CITY. from the sidewalks. This building is, next to the magnificent St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, the grandest and most costly ecclesiastical structure in the United States. Begun in 1853, it was said to have cost nearly seven million dollars when, on April 6th, 1892, the last stone was laid, on the thirty-ninth anniversary of the laving of the corner stone. The edifice is two hunched feet long, a hundred feet wide and a hundred feet high, with four towers, one at each corner, two hundred and twenty feet in height. But figures give only an im])erfect suggestion of its great size. The walls are ten feet thick, and the massiveness and solidity of its construction insure its defiance of the ravages of time for ages to come. It is built wholly of snow-white granite, and, standing on one of the loftiest points in the cit3% it can be seen for many miles u|) and down the valley. The Temple is not intended to be a house of worship, but will be used wholly for conducting the ceremonial rites of the Mormon ))riesthood. The Tabernacle in the same square is one of the architectural curiosities of the world. It looks like a vast terrapin-back or half of a prodigious egg-shell cut in two lengthwise, and is built whoUv of glass, iron and stone. It is two hundred and fifty feet long, a hundred and fifty feet wide and a iiundred feet high in the center of the roof, which is a single mighty arch, unsupported by pillar or post, and is said to have but one counterpart on the globe. The walls are twelve feet thick, and there are twenty huge double doors for entrance and exit. In the same enclosure is still another spacious struc- ture, in which, we were informed, were held the regular church services of the Mormons. It is called Assembly Hall, is of white granite, of (lothic architecture and has seats for twentv-five hundred. The ceiling is elaborately frescoed with scenes from Mormon history, including the delivery of the golden plates, containing the New Revelation, to the Prophet Joseph Smith by 38 the Angel Moroni. The Hall contains a superb organ of native woods and iiome workmanship. The visitors received these facts on faith, as they did not enter the Hall. But the peculiar architectural features of the Tabernacle were thoroughly exploited, including the verification of that enormous structure's acoustic properties. The seating capacit}' of the building is said to be four- teen thousand. The visitors being stationed at the end furthest from the raised |ilatform where the vast organ stands, one of the ASS.lvMlil.\ MAI.l.. Illl, l.,l.l,U..A. I 1 .. :U'.l,.M!i.. It.Ml'LL IN bVLl I AI,I 'IIV, local committee, enjoining silence, dropped a common pin from his hand on a board where he was stantling. The sound of that tiny piece of metal striking the board was distinctly heard by every person at the distant end of the apartment. Similar experiments were made by whispering across the room, the voice being in like manner as distinctly audible as is the case in the world renowned Whispering Gallery of St. Paul's Church in London. Leaving that interesting place, the guests were driven past the Tithing 39 House, the Beehive House and the Liun House, half hidden by the hiiih surrounding wall, the residenee of the late Brigham Voung, and tlie residenees of eighteen uf his numerous wives; experienee evitlentlv having shown liini that domestic felicity, when essayed in such off-hand fashion, et)uld only be approximately achieved by keeping his spouses in separate residences. The ladies of the i)artv manifested a decided interest in the evidences of the peculiar institution which has given Mormondom its notoriety, but they were wise enough to use great discretion in the in(|uiries they made of the gentlemen who acted as escorts on the occasion. On one point the entire party were unanimousl)' agreed, and that was in admiration of the beautv of Salt Lake City, its wide streets and its pieturesipie location in the mounlain- framed valley. The season of the year, however, was not pro- pitious to seeing Salt Lake City at its greatest advantage, and the guests were repeatedlv invited to come again later in the year, when, it was said, the whole city would bear the appearance of a luxuriant llower garden. The place is raj)idl\- i)eing transferred into Gentile hands, from those of the ^L)rmons, who founded it under Brigham \'oung in the summer of 1847. As is fitting to a city built in a vast wilderness, it was laitl out on a scale of majestic proportions, the streets being one hundretl and thirt\-two feet in width and the blocks comprising each ten square acres, the distance from street to street being ever\\vhere just six hundretl and si.\t\-six and two-tliirds feet. ( )n each side of every thorough- fare is a wide ditch of running water from the mountains — the irrigating system, that at great cost of labor and money converted the aiid waste on which the .Saints plantetl their settlement into a latter da\- Paradise. Lver\- house seems to be surrounded by a lawn and g.irdin or (jrchard. (kit il tlii.' bcLuUv ot the eit\", its possil)ilil\, ill fact, was due to Moinioii perseverance in tlie past, its present development is vviiolly owing to the spirit of modern progress which has actuated it under Gentile control within the last decade. Since 1880 the population has increased from twenty-one thousand to nearl\' fifty-five thousand persons, whose wealth per capita is said to he greater than that of any other comnnniity in the United States. Think of a town on the backbone of the continent possessing sixty-five miles of electric street railways ! Returning to the hospitable Knutsford Hotel, a fine lunch was partaken of, after which the visitors passed the time in looking around on their own account. The newspaper offices, the TrihiDie and the Herald, were visited in force. Many of the ladies repaired to their apartments to rest. Quite a number of the travelers, however, acce]ited an invitation from the Union Pacific Railroad to make a trij) in a special train to Garfield 15each to get a near-by view of .Salt Lake. I^ater in the day an excursion was also made to the recently discovered natural gas wells some miles out of the citv. It was so late in the day that it was dark when the wells were reached. The spectacle, however, was the more brilliant on that account, the Gas Company having run out a line of j)ipe from one of the wells, so that there were ilambeaux at various points along the path leading from the cars, the flames in some cases reaching to a height of fully fifty feet. The Pittsburgh visitors had an opportunity at this point of displaying their familiarity with natural gas, and had there been any Chicago representatives in the i)arty, they, too, might have enjoyed a similar i)rivilege. It was 7.45 v. m. when the excursion train of six cars returned to the city, and the passengers made a bee line from the depot to the Tabernacle, where a grand concert hatl been announced to be given for their special benefit. The Choral Society of Salt Lake City and the choir of the Tabernacle, 41 numl)crini; juinth' five hundred voices, officiated under the direction of Conductor Stephens. Prof. Radcliffe performed on the magnifi- cent organ, said to have cost $100,000 and to he the second largest in the world. It is fifty-eight feet high and contains two thousand six iiundred and forty-eight jjipes. A delightful programme was performed 1)\' the monster combination of local talent, and the visitors likewise took a hantl in the entertainment by pressing Mr. Pearsall into giving one of his excellent recitations, which was followed by Marshall P. Wilder, who amused the audience with a scries of droll anecdotes. 'this circumstance is the more significant from the fact that it was tiie first time that the Tabernacle had been lent to such purely secular uses as those represented bv the two gentlemen trom New York, and it was understood afterward that n'c had just anticipated the date when, by an edict of tiie rulers of the church, the edifice could never again be similarh' used. Messrs. Wilder and Pearsall were accordingly congratulated ujjon being personally concerned in an epoch in the ecclesiastical history of Mormondom. The wliole affair was exceedingl\- enjoy- able, outside of its qualified historic significance. Returning to the hotel, after an agreeable collation, a l)rillicUil reception was given to the visitors, which was participated in i)\- most ol the promi- nent citizens — Gentile and Mormon— of the place. The guests were gathered in a s])acious dining hall ol the hotel, and Judge O. W. Powers, of Illinois, who occupied the chair for the e\'en- ing, delivered a charming welcoming address. lie was followed by Gov. Thomas, after whom followed brief and telling addresses by the President of the League, Mi'. T. j. Keeiian ; Judge Goodwin, in behalf of the "Rocky Mountain i'ress"; Kate Field, in behalf of " Woman as a Business Man": the lion, (icorge O. Cannon, the distinguished Mormon leader, who, as a pioneer 42 printer, spoke for the "Hand-Cart Brigade"; Mr. Keeler, of Boston, in response to tiic toast, "The Salt Lake of the East"; the Hon. W. H. King, for "One of Utah's Best Crops"; Ex-Go V. West, as speeding the departing guests; Mr. Coates, of New York, on behalf of Press Clubs gen- erally, and Fred. Simon, on behalf of Utah in the con- MlbS KAJK FIELD, CJF W ASI 1 1 M, I i iN, 1) .MRS. FRANK LESLIE. Crete and abstract. In addition to the speeches of the evening, some charming vocalism was rendered by Miss Lillie Snyder; Mrs. Frank Leslie repeated a stirring poem on the onward progress of "Columbus"; a recitation was given by Miss Elita Proctor Otis, of New York, and a series of laughable stories were told by Marshall P. Wilder, who, with the recollection still strong on him of his performance 43 at the Temple, was in cheerful vein, and was repeatedly recalled to the frunt. The evening passed quickly in that delightful manner, and it was one o'clock in the morning when the party again found themselves on their train, speeding yet further westward towards the Pacific. Brief glimpses were obtained at intervals of the Great Salt Lake as the train swept along its southern shore, and at 3 a. m. on January 12th our hospitable hosts of the Rio Grande & Western Railroad were bidden a reluctant farewell as we were switched on to the Southern Pacific Railroad, in whose charge we were to remain for the following twelve days. The entire day was passed in overcoming the Sierra Nevadas, ami when evening arrived and we were being whirled through the canyons and the snow-sheds of that majestic range of mountains, the whole party were assembled in the dining car to listen to the reading of a "newspaper," the several contributions to which were prepared daring the day by some of the more enterprising of the delegates, under the editorial supervision of Mr. Foster Coates. It was the first evening paper ever brought out in that section of the conti- nent, and i)rt)bably nowhere else on the continent has a new journalistic enterprise ever made sucii rai)id headwa\'. The next morning fuund us in Auljurn, California. Chapter II. Convention Days. JANUARY 13-20, 1892. 'p AUBURN we were suddenly introduced to California, and to say that our introduction was a revelation to the entire party would be far from exaggeration. Placer County, in which we now were, is called the "Gateway" to the Golden State. With the snowdrifts in full view around us and the Arctic cold of the Sierra Nevadas still fiesh in our memories, we seemed, on that warm, sunshiny morning, to have passed through the gateway that leads directly from perpetual winter to everlasting summer. Here, indeed, was the complete realization of the poet's ideal Auburn, "Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid. And parting summer's lingering blooms dela^'ed." The train passing through an immense arch of oranges and flowers drew up at a depot resplendent with floral decorations. Among a variety of devices the word "Welcome" greeted us above the platform, framed with golden oranges. The decorative possibilities of the orange were visible at nearly every house in the place. A committee of citizens was on hand with carriages, and the party was conveyed to two hotels, the Putnam and the Freeman House, where excellent breakfasts were discussed, which, as we had arisen from our Wagner couches at an unusually early hour, were particularly welcome. The champagne cocktails of native vintage 45 that were set before us as a preliminary to tlie meal might, under such circumstances, have prompted a responsive thrill in the heart of the most unmitigated apostle of Prohibition. But the magnificent flowers and the decorations of fruit with which the tables and apartments overflowed, were, next to the charming ladies who gave the grace of their presence to welcome us to California, the most striking features of that l)rilliant and memor- able morning. Break- fast finished, and two or three short greet- ings having been inter- changed b\' the orators on both sides, to car- riage again, to visit the Citrus Fair in "The Pavilion," a newly erec- ted theatre, where the reality of that land of sun and flowers, in which the fruit harvest reaches from January to December, was dis- played in a manner none of the visitors had ever dreamed of. Besides apples, pears and plums, in great abundance and variety, oranges, lemons, grapes, figs, dates, olives, almonds and other tropical fruits and products were massed about the luiilding in tasteful shapes and in vast quantities, the growth of that section of Northern California comprising ten counties which a few years ago were hardly known of as agriculturally capable. Thirty-six varieties of 46 SA< I;\MlMoS okvMjL AKLil Al ALBUKN, CAL. oranges, and six of lemons, all large, highl\r colored and well rounded fruit, constituted two only of the host of displays on exhibition there, that gladdened all the senses. Among the v^aried devices, a conspicuous one was a monster horn of plenty, made entirely of oranges, and pouring from its capacious mouth a stream of luscious fruits, the exhibit of Sutter County. OJK.NUCwl'IA