Show Chicago California Fruit Fair 8 Success CHICAGO April 13To use a popular expression ex-pression the southern California orange carnival is out of sight Tonight was the opening night and no less than 22000 people were crowded into the southern end of the old exposition building in which the exhibit was displayed The attendance surpassed the expectations of the managers man-agers of the affair and was certainly cer-tainly a surprise to many people I 4 < who were turned away from the doors unable to gain akmittance The fair undoubtedly un-doubtedly scored a tremenduous hit in Chicago and the attendance for the remainder re-mainder of the stay will undoubtedly be very large Five hundred thousand i oranges deftly grouped arranged and constructed 1 con-structed into forms and structures never before seen In this city beamed on the throng which merrily jostled shoulder to shoulder through the evening which was i anything too warm for the season and in cidentially called attention to the glori ous climate of California The Chicago mem Ders of the Western Association Associ-ation of California Pioneers sixty in number num-ber attended the exhibition in a body accompanied by the Second regiment band which during the evening rendered rend-ered a splendid programme to the edification of the great throng assembled Tho old pioneers pio-neers brought with them many young folks to whom they discoursed of tho glorious glor-ious land beyond tho Sierras and its possibilities possi-bilities The view on entering the building was a beautiful one and the perfume of fruits and flowers combined to malt an entrancing entranc-ing effect The Pasadena tower the ore car from tho Ontario the tower of nuts from Rivera and oil other heavy attractions were surrounded all night by a surging throng which apparently could not get enough of the novelties Everybody came away tired but greatly pleased and vowing vow-ing that such an exhibition had never been seen in Chicago The managers of the fair are greatly pleased Both the city council and county board tonight adopted a resolution reso-lution to attend the carnival tonight in a body |