The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
The Worlds Food Fair,

This organization opened its exposition in
the mammoth Mechanics Building, Boston,
on Monday, October B, and is now in the
full tide of a great and successful exhibition
1t will continue for five weeks from the
date OF opening. This exposition immensely
surpasses the Food Fair of 1894, just as that
exceeded any previous fair OF this kind
Mechanics Building, with its six acres.of
floor space, is all too small for the EXPOSE
ton, and Cotillion Hall has been secured
for the entire five weeks. Not only this,
but the basement will be devoted to the
purposes OF this fair; to secure more room
the entire restaurant section in Exhibition
Hall has been arranged for the convenience
of exhibitors; the band stand has been
transferred TO the bridge" or center of the
hall; large exhibition space has also been
obtained in the portion heretofore parti-
toned off for Art Gallery conveniences, the
Mechanics Association expanding this sum-
mer 900 on this section of the building
securing to exhibitors and the public better
light, better ventilation and improved con-
venences. 1t is more than a show, it is
educational in its purpose; in fact, its Home
Congress will be an event only equaled by
the famous Parliament OF Religions in Chi
cago. In its deliberations will participate
the leading minds Of the country, men and
women from almost every state in the ma
ton, and repres entatives of foreign lands
This department of the fair has purpose
aud that the education and betterment Of
the people.
Two hundred dealers in food products
will distrib lte samples to the people. The
musical features will include the New York
Seventh Regiment, Reeves Salem Cadet
lubricants Naval Brigade, St. Augustine,
and Boyle O'Reilly Bands; also the Fa-
dettes, Mendelssohn Club and Allen &
Knowlton's Singing Orchestra Nothing
like it since Peace Jubilee. Four concerts
daily.
Bazane's painting of Niagara Falls has
been secured at great outlay, and will be on
free exhibition in Exhibition Hall gallery
1t is the largest water-color painting in the
world, and, framed, is twelve by thirty-six
feet. The wonderful Zooscope is on exhi-
bition in the Art Gallery, and the finest X
Ray machine in the world will photograph
your interior. The consul of Costa Rica
stationed at Philadelphia, has cabled his
ton OF that nations products at the fair
It will be an unique and interesting display
There will also be fine Alabama agricul-
turil exhibit. B. f. Keith, proprietor of
Keith's New Theater, Boston, has erected
at the fair magnificent booth, in which
will be given daily performances by we'll
known vaudeville performers. 1t will be
noticeable feature Of the fair. In the base
ment is the Subway Plaisance," where
visitors can bowl, play pool and billiards,
ride the merry. go-round, shoot the target,
and indulge in the many pleasures incident
to Plaisanceville. All in all, the Worlds
Food Fair for 1896 caps the climax in exhi-
bition annals.
The fall excursion of the railw ways, next
week, will give the people of Vermont an
opportunity to visit Boston, on small ex-
pense, and they will find the Worlds Food
Fair the chief attraction of the city.