Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-05-15
TREAT FOR GERMANY.
CALIFORNIA; Products to be Ex-
hibited at Berlin.
COL. j. MURPHY's SPLENDID WORK
A New Field for Us-Attempts to Teach
Germans to Chew Gum and
Eat Popcorn.


Europe to educate the people in the
consumption of American products.
Besides introducing Indian corn meal
as wholesome food, he did much to-
ward making market for California
wines on the Continent says the New
York Sun At the Antwerp Exposition
last May he secured gold medal for
the wine growers of that State, and as
result several carloads of American
wine were opened in Brussels and An
twerp, and agencies were started in
Hamburg, Bremen, Christiana and
Copenhagen. In the latter cities
especially. where the climate is cold,
the California wines are preferred to
those of France and Germany because
they have more strength.
The successful result of Colonel Muir
phys labor opened the eyes of the Cal
ifornia producers to the possibilities of
Germany as field for the sale of their
food products, especially dried fruits
to which 100, 900, 900 pounds are turned
out annually on the Pacific Coast.
They were encouraged by the fact that
the German Government had decided.
after thorough test, to use none but
California brandy for army, naval and
hospital purposes. At a meeting at
San Francisco last October it was
agreed to make an effort to educate the
people of Germany and other foreign
countries in the use of American pro-
ducts, and to show their products in
their natural state. They were in.
fluenced largely by the inducements
offered to them by the North American
navigation Company and the Panama
Railroad in the shape of low freight
rates for the shipment of their goods
from the Pacific Coast to Berlin, and
they determined to combine to make
an exhibition of purely commercial
character of their several specialties.
The business of organizing the EXPOSE
ton was intrusted to Walter e. Won
Johannsen. Under his direction the
enterprise grew until there were en-
listed 800 California firms, represent
ing capital of nearly $500, 100000.
The Secretary of the State Board of
Trade, the executive officer of the State
Viticultural Commission. and Governor
H. Fl. Markham Endorsed the venture,
and on November 9th Brgader General
G. G. Allen, Adjutant- General of the
National Guard of California, gave
permission that the Naval Brigade
should furnish the band and guard for
the Exposition. Subsequently Mr.. Won
Johannsen came East and laid the de-
tails of the Exposition before Secretary
of Agriculture Morton. The latter
was pleased with the scheme, and when
Mr.. Won Johannesen departed from
Washington he had been appointed a
Commissioner to Europe of the United
States Department of Agriculture for
the purpose of extending trade in
American agricultural products there.
Mr.. Won Johannsen came to New York
last week and established the Office for
the Exposition on the second floor OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Building, at
Broadway and Canal street.
The first and probably the largest of
the expositions will be held in large
building in the Thiergarten. Berlin,
from May 9th until July 9th. The
building will be divided into octagonal
courts, in each of which there will be
a separate exhibit In one court will
be shown bitter beers and cordials, and
another will be given up to cider, the
orange products and the several non
Intoxicating beverages made in Calior-
MIA. In this court there will also be
an elaborate ice cream soda fountain
for the better education of the Germans
in that drink. There will be courts
for dried fruits, canned fruits, vegeta-
bles. fish, principally salmon and cod,
and real American oyster stand.
1t is said that the Germans know
nothing about fried oysters, and it is
proposed to make them realize what
they have missed. The central exhibit
will be large ornamental pavilion
built of California pampas plumes.
The cafe will be one of the features of
the show. 1t is intended to make it
especially attractive for the students of
Berlin, of whom there are 10000, so
that they may meet there and be
served with all kinds of American
wines. In cafe for women all kinds
of breakfast foods will be served by
fifteen oolored boys dressed in pure
white.
The Germans are also said to be
ignorant of the joys that come from
chewing gum, and the manufacturers
of that article have determined to make
a drive for its introduction into the
realms of Kaiser Wilhelm. Various
efforts have been made without sue
cess to induce the Germans to consider
the chewing-gum habit, but the man.
ayers of the Exposition think they have
a scheme that will produce the desired
result. They intend to organize chew
ing gum brigade of twenty pretty
girls. whose duty it will be to walk
around in squads Of four and keep
their jaws i'll motion during the show.
There will also be glass-inclosed /
corn poppers in the building, with the
idea of introducing this delicacy into
The city of Berlin TT is said that no