The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-12-17
FOOD AT THE FAIR.
for Feeding the Multi
tude at the Exposition.
Immense Restaurants and Kitchens
Throughout the Grounds - There
viii BE Ample Room for
the Hungry Visitors.

To feed the multitude at the fair next
year has been question upon the solu-
tion of which the hardest work of the
4. 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
T, drinkables will be furnished for all.
The most important concession in
the hands of that committee will
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 a
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-
BILE Of providing for a 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
$4,000 and $4,000 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
mammoth kitchen have prepared the
food 1t 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 zee to it that there is no de-
lay in delivering the eatables.
The ways and means committee re-
serves the right on all SUGGESTIONS to fix
the prices and the measures. d Secretary
| hox
become SO expert that they can tell off
hand how thick slice of beef should
be to bring 25 cents, or how many pea
nuts legally constitutes a 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 it 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 Tho
plans of his committee, said the othel
day;
'Of course, we are going to max,
: everything pay, but it is mistaken
4 idea circulated by certain newspaper
that we have sacrificed too much spac
, for restaurants and concessions. w,
p. have not encroached upon the exhibit
I ors' space. Now my idea isrthat, if tn
i fair is to be a success, it is very essen
r tial that the creature comforts of tn
e visitors be looked after. First, feed
d man if you want him to enjoy him
Q self. The restaurants are somethin
4 more than money makers.
'"They are necessary copveniences. !
i we shut them out we destroy an elC
! ment which is indispensable. AS til
matter was originally fixed the spac
for restaurant was marked ON the pla
o of each building before any space que
}, ton was considered. In total we hav
n room enough in the large buildings
Q accommodate $4,000 people at one 81
r ting. That takes up 10000 feet {
y thereabouts. | have seen it in priI
IS that in the machinery building so muc
space had been devoted TO restaurant
i that the exhibitors had left about $50
% 900 square feet less than was allowe
L that department at the centennial
II that we have immense buildings d
voted to machinery, electricity, min'
and transportation exhibits exclusivel
At the centennial all of those depar
= ments were comprised under the hes
Z. = of machinery. We have so thorough
discussed the care and comfort of visi
- ! ors that believe we are now practice
ly beyond any addition to the arrang
i9 ments There will be no objectionab
- features TO the restaurants in the larl
u u buildings as the cooking will be don
- outside.
"a ''In addition to the restaurants me
.. . toned there win be others on Il
~ ground and in Midway Plaisance tn
=. p win probably scat 10000 to 10000 pc
e. pie. Equipped so thoroughly in eve
4. department, can see no cause for {
-, leging that we viii not attend 70 T.
- wants of every one, and think th
=, no one viii find any offensive featu