Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-14

A Successful Opening at the washingtoi
Light Infantry Armory.

A successfui Opening at the washington
| Light Infantry Armory.
| The Warrington Light Infantry Armory was
. scene Of brilliancy last evening on the occa-
sion Of the opening of the food exposition. The
attendance Of interested and delighted people
was very large, so Large, indeed, that locomo-
ton at times was almost an impossibility.
The exhibition is the first Of the kind ever
held in Washington, and some half hundred
exhibitors display the good things Of life in a
form both attractive and novel. These exhibit
ors represent every section of the country and
have spared NO expense in placing their goods
before the visitors. The result Is that visitors
to the exposition are afforded an opportunity
OF inspecting and testing food products which
they never before possessed. This opportunity
was in no instance overlooked Inst evening" for
men, women and children slipped tss. chocolate
and bouillon, ate cake, bread and crackers and
critically tested pickles. preserves and other
Ike delcacies to their hearts content.
ATTRACTIVE EXHIBITS.
The exhibits were displayed in handsomely
decorated booths, over which presided the
obliging agents or managers of the various
firms and pretty girls served the tea and choco-
late and bouillon in dainty cups to the thronSs
Of visitors. Cooks in spotless white prepared
the delicacies. and tea was brewed, bread aud
cake baked, and the overlapping griddle
cakes served hot and steaming the evening
through. Not content with this the exhibi tors
handed out to all samples of their stores from
what seemed an inc xhaustible stock and every one
left the hall bearing innumerable packages of
tea, preserves, pickles, lard, cake, crackers.
canned goods and, indeed, samples of all the
necessaries and Injuries of life.
section Of the Marine Band, under the
leadership Of Prof. Fanciulli, delighted the
visitors by rendering a program Of delightful
music, and during the evening the Troop A
March" composed by Prof. Fanciulli in honor
OF troop of the District National Guard, was
performed in public for the first time. In
recognition Of the compliment the troop. in full
dress uniform, was present and loudly ap
plauded the production. The band will per-
form every afternoon and evening during the
exposition.
THE ART OF COOKING.
This afternoon at o'clock Mrs. Sarah T.
Rorer, editor of the Philadelphia Table Tolk,
will inaugurate q series of lectures on the art
Of cooking, and she will lecture, giving prac II
cal illustrations. at that hour every day of the
exposition. Mrs. Rorer will this afternoon have
for her subject "A Dainty Family Lunch"
when she will discuss the preparation of the
following bill of fare: Cranberry soup, fish
balls, shrimp sauce, Dreaded chops, celery salad,
omelette soufflee.
Saturday next will be "chefs' day." when the
chefs OF the city will compete for gold medals
offered by the exposition for the best designs in
confectionery and also in pastry. The various
designs are now in preparation and will be ex-
hibited on and after Saturday next.
SOME OF THE EXHIBITORS
The following are the exhibitors: Pettijohn
Breakfast Food Co.. Minneapolis, Mimi; James
L. Barbour 4 Son, Washington, d. c., canned
foods Plymouth Rock Gelatine Co., Boston;
80 Oh, A..
Fleischman. New York. microscopes; To-Kalon
Wine Co.. California: Jerome Extract Manu-
featuring Co.. New York. joseph Campbell Pre-
serve Co., Camden. n. j.; New York Biscuit
Co.; E. S. Durham & Co., New York, clam
bouillon; L. A. Borden. New York. household
novelties; Childs 4 Childs, New York, soap; n.
h. Fairbanks Co., Chicago, cottolene; Martin
Gillet Co., Baltimore. teas; Matted Milk Co..
New York; B. Charlton IL Co., Washington. ID.
c., milk; Walter Baker & Co., Boston. choco-
late; Hecker's Buckwheat Company, Phiadel-
phis; 7. A. Snider Preserve Company; Henry
Malllard. New York. chocolate; c. Strauss Il
Co., Washington, ID. c., flowers; Bovrie, limited,
London. extracts OF beef; Menier. Paris and
New York, chocolate; Columbia Macaron
Manufacturing Company, New York; Gill &
Son, Washington, ID. c., candies; Corby Bros,
Washingt ton, d. c.. bread; New York Condensed
Milk Company; W. b. Moses, Washington, d.
c., refrigerators; Anglo-Swiss Milk Company,
New York; A. Loeffier, Washington, ID. c.,
sausage; Sharpleigh Coffee Company. Boston;
II. Brunhil L Co., New York; Worcester Salt
Company, New York; Ale and Beef Company,
New York.