The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-06
Opening Of The Great Exposition at
Infantry Hall Today.
PURE FOOD AND PURE DRINKS.
Cooks and Housewives Join Hands In
Presenting the Various Delicacies-
What to Eat and How to Cook 1t
Domestic Lectures-Electric Cooking.


the auspices of the Rhode Island State
Fair association opened at 10 "A. m. today
at Infantry hall. The fair will continue
until Nov. Is.
The hall today presented an incom-
plete appearance, the exhibitors being
busy getting in their goods and
arranging their booths. The hall Is
very prettily decorated with red, white
and blue buntings ana the American flag,
together with the banners of different
nations.
The hall is lined with booths around it's
entire length, aud down the center Is a
double row OF exhibits. Everything will
be neatly and tastefully arranged,
The Exhibits.
The exhibits comprise every thing that
taste can desire or palate suggest. The
foods are OF the costliest ana best vare-
ties aud are most temptingly arranged
The different booths when completed will
be In this order:
United States Baking Co. Crackers
and cookies arranged In glass cases.
Booth decorated in blue and white bunt-
ing.
Olin Hill, chocolates and bon-bons.
yellow and blue curtains. An exhibit
Of dipping bonbons wilt be given tomor-
row and on woman's day.
Cowdrey's sonp cans. White trim
mings-
Hecker-Jones Jewell-Milling company
Flour in bags sacks and barrels.
Stickney g. Poor's mustards and
spices. Blue and white decorations.
Ayers bygenic coffee and apparatus
for making the beverage. Pink and
Whire decorations.
John Torrey Go. Stovene. Yellow and
black trimmings.
Fleischmann's compressed yeast. Blue.
and white decorations.
Fraser Brothers. Prices extracts teas
coffees, spices Pink aud white decora-
tions,
Chocolate mener booth in pink and
white. Chocolate to be served daily.
Union OilCo. Providence; salad oil in
bottles. Trimming in blue and white.
Corn exchange: Decorated in yellow,
green and white, with bell OF popped
corn surmounripg.
Worcester brand OF salt exhibit. Blue
and white trimmings.
Phosa In bottles. Green and yellow
decorations. Phcsa will be served
Walter Baker a. Co. Breakfast cocoa
Booth trimmed with flags and bunting.
Cocoa will be served. This booth occu-
pies the entire stage.
Cleveland's baking powder and Wash
burns and Cresby's hours. Cooking
utensils. Booth trimmed in white aud
yellow.
Bell spices. Booth handsomely deco
rated with horns and timned with blue
and white
Pettijohn's California Breakfast Food.
Yellow and blue trimmings.
Horsford's Baking Powders in boxes.
Pink, red, and green trimming.
New England Grocery. All classes OF
grocers goods. Decorated blue, white
and yellow.
Swift a. Co., silver leaf lard, butter,
escence Of pepsin and glyceriue pancrea-
tin. Decorated in pink and white
Soapine. Model of whale, "S1aplne
did it,"
J. w. Beardsley's Sons. Shredded cod
fish.
Drake, Payson g. Whittier Electric COM
pany. Electric light fixtures.
Favorite Manufacturing company. Fla
voring extracts. Decorated in pink aud
white.
uJoseph Burnett & Co., Flavoring ex-
tracts. perfumes ana toilet articles.
SPiymouth Rock Pbosphated Gelatine
Trimmings of red and white.
New York Biscuit company, Huge
drum full OF biscuits and cakes.
Fairbanks cottolene. Handsome booth
In blue and white.
Outside the Han.
In the hallway are thefollowing booths:
Soda booth.
Horn novelties. Decorated with the
Auerlcan flag.
Lisbon, ~ Westminster street. Japan
ess and Chinese curious, fans aud
parasols.
Crystallized Popcorn in bars. Red and
white trimmings.
Horner Varney. Jewelry aud pro-
celaique flowers.
Glass engraving booth.
The Program.
The program devised for the various
days of the exposition is varied
and instructive. Marion Orgood's
B' sion Lady orchestra will give enter
tainments each day from to p. m. and
from to 10 y. m this week. Next week
the American band will give concerts
A Domestic Talk will be given each
day.
Inc puDnc Scbool classes Will give
demonstrative lectures each day under
the direction OF Mrs. Marion Mcbride.
Class From Meeting street school.
This afternoon the class from tie Meet
Ing street school gave an exhibition
OF cooking. Twelve cooks and three
housekeepers participated. Fishballs,
brown bread, rye mullins, boiled rice
and steamed custards were made.
An Informal reception 10 members of
the school COMMITTEES will be given from
7tos p. m. Ia the domestic science de
partment
Informal receptions will be given every
eycning.
Tomorrow Miss Anna Barrows. prtncf=
pal OF the school Of domestic science de-
. partment. Boston Y. w, G. A.. will
give lecture tomorrow on "A Break
last Curried veal. stuffed potatoes and
nufiiins will he shown. Ladies are re
Questcd to bring pencils aud pap.r.
Ladies OF the State Fair az oclat on
will reeve 20 the ,ening reccg giions