Show CALI FORNIAS GREATNESS SAN march SO 30 when the californians Californi aue do anything that to la likely to lo reflect credit on themselves in tile the eyes even of strangers they usually do it well though I 1 duni dont know that this old pasteboard town with its numberless bay windows corner groceries aud stranded millionaires could be used as a very good example however some of the public buildings are very fine and perform their mission of impressing the visitor with the enterprise of the native sons none of the golden west the city hall is a particularly mag ent structure notwithstanding it is in condemned and must have a million and a half dollars expended expanded on it before it is completed there has been sum some stealing going un on since th the first of dirt was turned for excavating and it is safe to say the steal is not ended yet the city is always in trouble over this building always making expenditures oo on it phe me other day it caught fire aud and then the discovery was made that the abe fire hose was in such a bad condition that the brigade use them but had to ring the alarm and call out the hose cart rhe fhe building build ing covers over two acres of ground and from every side presents an imposing frontage it has thise stories and a basement built of brick aud and plastered in ia grey colored material within its ita walls walla are the offices of the city and county officials the jail the receiving hospital the free library etc there are seemingly miles of marble paved corridors through which people are passing and re passing as in the streets street of a small town the golden gate fork ahl ah that is ia where the californian pride reaches its Cli climax nAX too average californians mind can comprehend no greater paradise with him it is the grand cadenza of a grand finale the capstone of a mighty achievement and indeed there is i cause for their pride as the park is ia certainly one of the elie most beautiful places imaginable only about of the 1200 acres are under cultivation but abeso are about all that nature and arton make them in laying out the grounds they have wisely left as much in its natural state as they coul dleo that the paths wind in and out through be beautifully dutifully uti fully shaven lawns rugged growths growth of underbrush stately decorous evergreens ever greens WI tall wide branched tress trees or through grottos cool and damu damo with sounds of trickling water flowers are everywhere primly bordering the wilks wilka coyly peeping out from ore crevices vices or boldly massed together in huge beds A massive dial plate with a latin in all made of grass and flowers is wonderful to bachold baboid wad aid some artist has arranged a long steep bank so that it looks as ai a i if a beautiful scroll pattern had been emoroy jared in red brown and yellow chenille on green velvet statues of noted men are placed here and there that of starr king being the last one dedicated in one corner of the park to is a playhouse play house bouse which sharon donated to the cu children oui idren ildren here are goats donkeys sw swings ins mer ry go everything to make a child happy an avi aviary lArys a deer park a conservatory and best of all a fine due band of music which plays playa three timet a week all go to make the park a veritable edeo eden we visited the mechanics pair fair a short time ago it is ia really a dress rehearsal tor for the worlds borla s fair all that was on oa exhibition then and I 1 pre presume a great deal more will go to chicago plover county has sent a triumphal arch twelve or fifteen and about twenty five or thirty feet across made of oranges and lemons lemon yuba county has the eiffel tower a big beja bell a biu big windmill and a chinese pagoda dot e in citrus fluet t in the end of the hall against a background representation of the heavens rises an immense cross 0 1 l oranges the words rock bock of ages are made or of the fruit wired together and spread like an are arc against the blue sky this while rather cri or d de e and not absolutely fault faultless leks in coloring Is the very creditable showing of butte battu county people they also have a watch tower flatten or twenty feet high A house built of 01 grain anu and dried fruit to is another of their exhibits the material is placed in boxes with alake sides and cheke boxes are used as atones to make the he while walls the foundation is made of dried grast grasses es and grain and the corner is decorated with corn on the cob in the windo windows wt between the lace curtains are bouquets of leaves and grain A natural sized engine built of the citrus fruit Js ie from sacramento county and I 1 think Is by far the finest exhibit both in regard to beauty and quality of the fruit alter gazing in rapture on the immense bottles of immense fruitt pickles olives grain vegetables oto etc we went into the machinery room we wended lur ur way among the massive pieces of machinery with its highly polished steel buzzing astels w eels and glistening cobwebs of wire and jelt impressed that it was a wonderful display I 1 must dinall humility confess that thai I 1 am not m mauu uch of an authority on machiner yi in the rooms above were the asua usua number durnier of advertise advert adver g schemes and catch pennies the usual brain beail dering lot jot of crocheted and demented bed quilts the usual distracting results in art work of more energy than brains TheAl the Ail splay of native woods is very interesting and instructive the art gallery holds its usual quota of good and bad pictures and I 1 dont think there are any great picture seven though there is a noticeable lack of childish art work with the age of the perpetrator tacked on it and which may be good enough but nearly dearly ai always ways fails fail to interest the observer the driving of the last spike of the Cei itral pacific railroad is represented by one artist on a terrific arn amount of canvas it is a splendid lot of photographs but I 1 think the subject is too new anti and of too bu a nature to permit of 01 the picture beinar a great one Moro eau the photo photograph grap her has bas the finest lot jot 0 oi photon I 1 ever ev r saw swine some of the subjects are positive dreams of beauty and if they are of california women I 1 dont wonder the people here think they have the prettiest girls in the world on our way out we saw a card directing people to the aquarium eo went around and saw some fine specimens of the finny tribe darting hero here aud and there in their glass bound homes we left convinced that aside from their climate one lady remarked to me that they had bad nothing to do with the climate lor for if they had bad they own it now as ae it would have been sold loog long ago which makes it so BO easy to produce many things impossible in utah the californians could not crow over the utopians for this fair gave ave no greater evidence of energy and ingenuity than ours at home ELSIF ELSIE ADA 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