Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-25
TO TICKLE PALATES.
Secretary Rusk Comes Forward With
a Worlds Fair Scheme.
SOME NOVEL EXHIBITS OF FOOD.
Arrangements for the Exposition Almost
Complete.
ISLANDS IN THE LAKE PLAN DROPPED.

CHICAGO, September 24.-It has been
the Worlds Fair is divided one; that hall
the Exposition would be held in one part Of
| the city and the other half relegated to q
distant section, to which access was difficult.
This idea gained ground from the intro
duction into the site problem of the question
of that part OF the South Park system known
as the Lake Front Park. This lake front
is not considered as a park in Chicago. 1t
is a strip of land about So acres in extent,
running along the lake shore from Monroe
street to Twelfth street. For years it has
been the subject of litigation between the
State, the city and the Illinois Central Rail-
road, to be settled by the United States Su-
preme Court.
ISLAND SCHEME DROPPED.
The latest decision given in this matter
vested the title of this strip of land in the
city, and it has generally come to be re-
garded as public ground.
Regarding the Lake Front it has been
claimed that if it was too small it would be
an easy matter to reclaim a few hundred
acres from the lake, either by filling or
piling. but it was found that anything be-
yond the existing lands was unavailable:
jackson Park, Midway Plaisance and
Washington Park, all practically one park,
will hold the great Exposition.
1t now only remains for Chicago to go
through the formality of voting in Novem-
Der for the exposition the s., 900. 900 of bonds
pledged. The President of the United
States will be then notified by the COM
mission that every requirement OF the law
has been fully carried out, and by Christ
mas the official proclamation inviting the
nations of the world to take part in the ex-
position will have been promulgated.
SOME OF RUsK's IDEAS.
Suggestions for novel food exhibits at the
Worlds Fair have been received by Presi-
dent Palmer from the Secretary of Agri-
culture. Mr.. Rusk says:
The agricultural production and exchange
of this country and Europe are out of balance.
European nations do not avail themselves fully
of the food supplies of which we have too much
and they not enough. This is illustrated in their
opposition to- American meat. The laboring
classes in Europe are underfed. The research
of later years is showing clearly how the pro-
ducts of our farms may be better adapted to
the demands of home and foreign markets. 1t
is bringing the information which people need
to help them 10 fit their diet to the demand of
health and purse. 1t is also showing why for
eign nations should. in the interest of their
poorly fed masses, remove the barriers tn ey
now oppose to our meats and other food pro-
ducts
The food exhibits. to show these things at
the Exposition, should, in my Judgment in
clude all substances used for food, and with
them, illustrations of the methods of preparing
them for the market and for eating.
TEACHING THE PUBLIC.
This means, of course displays of the pro-
ducts, home and foreign, of the farm, the
garden. the orchard, the mill, the establish
ment for canning and that form of packing,
the factory, the bakery and the domestic
kitchen. They should be grouped by them
selves in one great building. Food Hall.
physiology and hygiene regarding foods, and
beverages as well, should be presented to the
public by labels, models, diagrams, specimens
and books. The hall might include schools of
practical cookery.