The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-06
FOOD AT THE FAIR.
Provisions for Feeding the Multi
tude at the Exposition
immense Restaurants and Kitchens
Throughout the Grounds - There
VIII Be Ample Room for
tho Hungry Visitors

To feed the multi itude at the fair next
year has been question upon the solu-
ton Of which the hardest work of the
officials of the exposition has been ex-
pended. After months Of labor and in
vestigation, of trials and interrogations,
the ways and means committee has
arranged a plan by which eatables and
drinkables will be furnished for all.
The most important concession in
the hands of that committee viii
soon be granted, and, although the
names Of the parties who will be
awarded the privilege Of handling the
restaurants In the large buildings have
not been divulged, Secretary Crawford
has intimated that all the restaurants
outside of special concessions will be in
the hands of one company. To feed the
people it is calculated TO take at least
trainload Of provisions per day. 1t
would be impossible to properly oversee
the price lists and to prevent swindling
or bad food if the restaurant in each
building were IN the hands OF separate
persons Therefore the ways and means
committee proposes to have things ar
ranged so as TO be able to place the
responsibility for any laxity, and to
prevent inadequate service to the public.
At the southern end of the grounds
an immense kitchen will be built, capa-
bic of providing for restaurant with
a seating capacity of $4,000. In this
kitchen will be cooked all provisions
for the main building restaurants,
thereby preventing the smell Of cooking
permeating the exhibit buildings, as
would be the case were many kitchens
established.
In the forestry, agricultural, ma
chinery, manufactures, mines, trans
portation, fisheries, electricity and
horticultural buildings space has been
reserved for cafes. In the total space
reserved it is calculated that between
II, 900 and 49, 900 people can be served
at once These restaurants will be
fitted up with warming tables, SO that
meats, etc, will not be cold. In al
lotting the space for restaurants twelve
feet square was figured for each person,
so as TO provide ample room for COM
fort. After the army of cooks in the
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food it will be conveyed to the restau-
rant in wagons fitted up with appli-
ances for keeping things piping hot.
! This service will require about fifty
wagons, and it is the aim of the com
mittee to see to it that there is no de-
/ lay in delivering the eatables.
The WAYS and means committee re-
/ ii c,,1ooSafnyaS 10 G-
/ the prices and the measures. Secretary
/ Crawford and Chairman Butler have
become so expert that they can tell off,
hand how thick a slice of beef should
| be to bring % cents, or how many pea
| nuts legally constitutes pint. The
WAYS and means committee does not
/ intend to have odium cast upon the
! fair by allowing things to run them
/ selves. and restaurants TO reap golden
/ harvests for nothing. While 1T IS the
/ intention to make all concessions pay
/ as well as possible, it is far from the
/ calculations Of the fair officials that
I comfort and fair treatment shall be
sacrificed to gain.
/ Chairman Butler, in speaking Of the
plans of his committee, said the other
! day:
! '1Of course, we are going TO make
/ everything pay, but it is mistaken
/ idea circulated by certain newspapers
/ that we have sacrificed too much space
/ for restaurants aad CONCESSIONS. We
/ have not encroached upon the exhibit
( CTS space Now my idea is'that, if the
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/ tial that the creature comforts Of the
visitors be looked after First, feed q
/ man If you want him to enjoy him
self. The restaurants are something
more than money makers
They are necessary eonvenienees- II
we shut them out we destroy an Gle
ment which is indispensable. As the
matter was originally fixed the space
. for restaurant was marked on the plan
Of each building before any space ques-
ton was considered. In total we have
room enough in the large buildings 70
accommodate 1900 people at one sit
ting. That takes up 10000 feet or
/ thereabours + have seen it in print
that in the machinery building SO much
sp.ce had been devoted to restaurants
( that the exhibitors had left abOu' $50
) coo square feet less than was allowed
that department at the centennial n
1879 You must take into consideration
that We have immense buildings de-
voted to machinery. electricity. mines
/ and t-arsportation exhibits exclusively
At ae centennial all q those depart
ments were comprised uuoer the heec
Of machinery. We have 80 thorough. j
discussed the care and comfort q visit
ors that believe we are now practical
/ n bevond ans addition 20 the arrange
ncnts. There VIII be no objectiouab-,
features 10 the restaurants in the large
: buildings as ,he cooking VII De doa'
outside
In addition 70 the restaurants men
toned there VIII be Others on tht
ground and II Midway P!aisance tina
viii probably seat $4,000 % So.faoe PEG
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