The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-20
Some People Expect to See 1t All
IN a Day.
ARTICLES GIVEN AWAY.
How Couple Managed to Get a Fair
Dinner.
Interest in Utah Day Is Steadily Increas-
ing and 1t win Be One of The Attrac-
tions of the Fair-Our Mineral
Display.

CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-It is great fun to
watch the people at the fair. They come
from all portions OF the United States and
as usual thing do not attract special at
tention. Occasionally some old back
! woodsman and his wife come along and
the show is the biggest thing on earth to
them. They try 10 take it all in in few
days, but give upin despair. Over in the
agricultural building where most all the
| farmers congregate. there is great many
| things to give away. All kinds OF baking
powders are here put to practical test,
and in fact all the latest inventions In the
culinary department are shown in a prac-
teal way.
The other day an old gentleman from
the country came along, and as it was
near noon and he noticed all the different
things on exhibition that were good to
eat, samples of which are given away, he
suggested to his good wife that it was
hardly necessary to buy lunch at
| the restaurant when free lunch was in
sight; SO they started in. The first thing
| they found was a sweet pickle counter
The old gentleman advanced to the coun-
ter and engaged the young lady in con-
yersatlon, and in few moments he and
his good wife sampled the pickles.
| After remarking to his wife that she
ought to get the recipe for making these
pickles, they advanced on the tomato
catsup booth. Here they were RECALLED
With a cracker and a small spoonful of
catsup. The young lady in charge of
this department selected sample of cat
sup that was exceedingly warm-in fact
there was a strong suspicion of an extra
al mt Of
might have been added for the occasion.
The old gentleman disposed of his first.
He wiped his mouth upon his red bandana
as the tears rolled down his cheeks, and
declared that it was the finest catsup he
had ever tasted, and that little of it
would go a great ways, and for that rea-
son he thought it advisable to buy it, and
ne would certainly insist upon his grocer
keeping it when he got home.
The next place they found was free
soup counter where samples of the differ
ent meat extracts are dispensed freely to
all VINO come that way; cup of soup
soon quenched the burning sensation in
their Threats and they were well prepared
Tor an advance on the patent self-rising
buckwheat department. The only fault
the old gentleman found with the buck
wheat cakes was that they were so very
small that it would be a great deal of
work TO bake them for a large family.
The attendant in charge suggested that
the cakes given away were not intended
as sample to go by IN preparing meal
for large family.
The next place was where they adver-
tised the advantages of a good quality of
particular brand OF baking powder. A
small biscuit and lump of butter was
secured here. The old gentleman and his
wife continued the rounds, calling at first
one booth and then another until they
had gone entirely around the upper gall
lery of the agricultural building. and had
sampled every kind of cookery known to
man. He remarked when he got through
that it was very satisfactory meal after
one had gotten it.
A great deal of attention is paid by the
manufacturers to advertising their wares
by giving away samples. 1t is found to
be more effective than printed matter and
people take greater interest in it, Ii is
estimated that more than $5, 600, 900 will
be given away by manufacturers during
the Worlds fair III this way, and they
estimate that it will repay them ten-foid
for their efforts.
The interest of Utah Gay is still increas-
ing. The exposition officials are doing
all in their power to assist the Utah peo-
pie IN making their day one of the attrac-
lions of the fair. They expect large at
tendance On that day on account of the
choir and also on account of the Grand
Army, which will have special exercises
during that week. The attendance now
is steadily increasing and by the 1st of
September the attendance will be almost
or quite zoo, 600 day. A break in rail-
road rates from all parts of the country is
generally expected, which will resultin
an immediate increase in visitors.
The fact that cholera has made its ap-
pearance in New York does not seem to
cut any figure down here. The people
are not in the least alarmed and there
seems to be no fear whatever of a cholera
epidemic. In fact the general sanitary
condition of Chicago was never better
than it is this season, and the health
authorities are on the lookout to prevent
an importation of any contagious dis
ease, and the regulations are so stringent
that it would be next to impossible for