Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-04
WASHlNGTON'S FAIR.
The Pure Food Exposition Ready for the
Opening Tonight.
Convention Hall in Gala Attire, with
teal Exhibitions Of Cooking.

Big Convention Hall today looked like
section Of one Of the worlds fair buildings.
and this evening, when everything will be
in place. the resemblance will be even more
startling. This mammoth room is all ar
ranged in aisles and gaily decorated with
flags, bunting and evergreens for the great
pure food exposition, which is to open there
this evening at 7:3O o'clock. A finer place
for such an exhibit could not be found
anywhere, for. on account of the size Of
the hail. there is room in plenty for the
exhibitors. This state of things is taken
advantage OF by the business firms who
have displays to exhibit. and they have
gone TO unusual trouble and expense TO
make the very best showing possible The
result is that when the doors are thrown
open this evening for the general public.
with the electric lights on and music and
flowers galore. the visitors will see the
most elaborate exhibition ever held in this
city.
The exposition is to be given under the
auspices of the Wholesale Grocers' Asso-
citation. and indorsed by the retail grocery
trade of the city. All day long the hall
men, decorators and painters were hurrying
around putting on rhe finishing touches to
the booths and stands. and getting every
thing in readiness for the opening this
be ready. and the people of Washington are
not likely to be slow in approaching the
fine showing. pleasant fact is that some
of the largest and most creditable exhibits
Among the principal exhibitors who have
secured space and erected booths for the
display of their goods are the following:
Some Exhibitors.
Gill & Son, candy: f. S. Keys, salt; An
glo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company; James
L. Barbour & Son: Horleck's Matted Milk;
Boston Crystal Gelatine Company; DIR. c.
E. WEIGH grape Juice; Swift 4 Co.. butter
inc. soups. ETC.; Henderson q Co., wild cher
ny beverage; Clement Valensen, French
fancy goods; II. o. Wilbur & Son, cocoa and
chocolate: F. A. Burden. microscopes: Amer
lean Cereal Company. California breakfast
food; Shapleigh Coffee Co., Helvetia Con-
densed Milk Company. evaporated cream,
etc. New York. n. Y; w. n. Pierce. toilet
Doxee & Son, clam Juice: To-Kalon Wine
Company, American Cereal Company
Quaker oats and buckwheat: Jos Burnett a
Co.. extracts; Diamond Crystal Salt Com
pany, salt; Bartholomay Brewing Co.. j. w.
Beardsley's Sons. shredded Goldfish: New
York Condensed Milk Company, Plymouth
Rock Gelatine Company. Moses & Son. fur
niture; Wilmarth & Edmonston. china and
water filters; Corbin Thompson, pure milk
Columbia Lithia Water, Schmid, birds and
aquarium supplies: Heller Il Merz CO. ball
blue: American Cereal Roasting Company,
cereals: Parish Bros, baking powder:
Kitchen Cabinet Table Company. Harkin,
son; Burnham's Clam Bouillon, Washington
Flour and Feed Company
Artistic Arrangements
With the exception of the exhibitors who
have their stands ranged along the sides of
the halls. each has a stand separate from
any other, so that visitors may pass around
the four sides and get the best possible view
of each exhibit. All of the booths are pref
THY decorated. many of them most elabo-
rately, and in some cases they are fitted
out as completely as would be a show room
IN store. They are, for the most part
arranged like tents draped in bright coIor-
ed buntings, and in many of them, in all. in
TACT, where the character of the exhibits
cans ior II, PRACTICAL experiments will be
gwen TO prove the merits of the articles dis
played. Where food compounds and cook
ing utensils compose the exhibit there will
be cooking done by experts candies will be
made, every baking powder will be proved
better than any other baking powder every
substitute Tor lard in cooking will be shown
TO have qualities possessed by no other
chocolates and cocoas. each and every one
the very best, will have their merits and
virtues demonstrated before the ewes OF nm
believers. and SO on to the end of the chan
ter. a brewing company has on exhibition
miniature model of brewery, all made
OF line polished copper, i'm running order
and with daily capacity of one barrel
These are but a few of the many attrac
tons or the great show. Among the attrac-
lions are several expensive exhibits from
the worlds fair ~
The exposition will keep open until lam
uary %. There will be grand promenade
concerts by the Marine Band each after
noon and evening. and among the various
special attractions will be a series of lee
lures on practical cookery by Miss Helen
Louise johnson, the editor of one of the
Leading magazines devoted to the science OF
domestic economy, and exhibitions of cook
Ing by electricity.