The Republican journal., 1896-10-22
Opening of the Worlds Food Fair.

Opening of the Worlds Food Fair.
Especial correspondence of The Journal.
ooh dear, what can the matter be,
Johnnie's so long at the Fair?
He promised to bring me bunch of blue
ribbons
To tie up my bonny brown hair"
Just as the 1891 Boston Food and
Health Exposition excelled in every way
any ever before held in this country, just
as the 1894 Food Fair excelled that of
1891, and seemed to reach the acme of ex-
cellence, SO the Worlds Food Fair of
1896 marks the browning effort in this
line.
The Fair is under the auspices of the
grocers, and everywhere is the suggestion
of food and its benefits. 1t is more than
| show, it is educational in its purpose,
and this year witnesses the addition of a
Home Congress, in which the leading
minds of the country will participate
men and women from almost every State
in the Union, and representatives of for
| eign lands. In place of the cooking lee
lures ordinarily given at Food Fairs will
be scientific lessons on physical, Mental
and Moral development, -Esthetics and
Organization Work. With the excep-
ton of the weather the Fair opened aus
piciously. The management offer as an
| inducement 1900 souvenir silver spoons
given away every day at the Worlds Food
Fair, to the first four hundred women
who purchase tickets of admission to the
Fair
| The effect reminds one of the Grand
| Opera season, for every visitor to the Fair
before 10 o'clock must take his or her
place in the long line formed daily on
Huntington Avenue, and the writer for
once enjoyed (2) the distinction of being
lone of the four hundred" To add to
the enjoyment photographer appeared,
| to reproduce the scene for the papers.
| The spoons have the Mechanic Building
engraved in the bowl with the words
"World's Food Fair, 90" and the
handles neatly chased.
The musical features of the Fair appeal
to music lovers with four concerts daily.
by Reeves American Band of Providence.
It'll Regt. Band of New York Fadettes
IAN orchestra composed of 20 women. J
Salem Cadet Band, knowlton and Allen S
celebrated singing orchestra, st Angus
tine Band, John Boyle O'Reilly Cadet
Band and Lafricain' S Naval Brigade Band.
The special features are, Bazane' water
color Of Niagara Falls, the largest water
color in the world; the zooscope and cleo
trical invention which throws upon the
screen representations of actual scenes
from real life, which move and have the
appearance of living flesh and blood, the
A-Ray apparatus, photographing the
bones of your hand or the contents of
your pocket book with or without the in.
tervention of block of wood; and the
Subway Plaisance in the basement
catch-penny collection of amusements,
curiosities and games for all
''Johnnie'' can get no ''blue ribbons
at this year Fair, but he can get so filled
physically with the samples given away
by the two hundred exhibitors, that he
will have no appetite for his dinner.
The decorations form feature in them
selves, the flags and seals of this and
other countries being arranged to express
the idea that the whole world is our mar
ket, while interspersed here and there are
such timely sentiments as:
"Our Coinage-Absolute Purity'
''Our Standard-Wholes Food"
''Pure Food Predominates. at a Ratio
of 16 to IT,
''Tell me what you eat and l will tell
you what you are
The outside Of Mechanics Building.
with its many flags, suggests the life
within, and because this is year of
special hardship in business, more praise
is due and more credit should be bestow-
ed upon those exhibitors who have made
the Fair a success.
Waltham, Oct. 10, '96.