The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-20

Exposition at the Pavilion opened the
doors to the public has there been such a
crowd as there was last evening. The
principal attraction was the exhibition
drill of the Veteran Firemen, who turned
out in full force to show the people of to-
day how they extinguished fires with the
old hand machine young America" in
years long gone.
The committee of arrangements con-
sisted OF the following veterans:
President Joseph F. Marshal, First vice-Pres-
ident Stephen Bonner, Second Vice-President
George harrison, Third Viee-President w. II.
Miller, Financial Secretary Gustav Poblman,
Recording Secretary James Pennycoke, Treas
urer William Fahrenberg, Directors w. Raul
btnger, Henry n. Kohn, Thomas Cornell Al
Harris, Trustees F. A. VIII, r. Harold and H
j. Byrnes.
On Monday evening the Germans will
hold forth, the occasion being known as
German night. All the German singing
societies in the City will be present, and
in the grand choruses there will be $50
voices. Professor Franz Fischer will off.
ciate as leader. A special programme of
music has been prepared.
a quiet little Irritation that had been In
progress at one of the perfumery booths
was rudely spoiled yesterday afternoon
by the unexpected arrival of the ag-
grieved wife on the scene. A well-to-do-
appearing man; not very old and not very
young, had been spending much time at a
booth IN which was young woman with
blue eyes and short blonde, curly hair
He was leaning with bicycle crook in
his back over the counter yesterday talk
ing TO the charmer when the whack of an
umbrella across his spinal column caused
him to stand erect very suddenly. He
confronted a stoutly built, determined
looking woman who said: $50, sir; this is
the way you worry your life away over
your business affairs, is it?'
The man looked desperately foolish and
said: "Great Scott, Mary, don't make a
scene here. Let Us go home"
THERE'S another small kick among some
of the exhibitors, and the trouble will
probably find its way into the Health De-
partment. One of the local candy dealers
has concession to make and sell candy.
The discovery has been made that large
mum bers of barrels marked glucose"
have been taken into the Pavilion and
made into candy,
The total vote to date on the most pop
Mar exhibit is as follows:
Johnson Locke Mercantile Company, $780,
Joshua Hendy Machine Works, $3.50; Crown
Flour Company, 1899; Rix Compressed Air
Machine Company, 95S; Tiilmann & Bendel,
Union Iron Works. 476; W. P. Fuller & CO.,
405; Fan Bros, 500; Fishbeck & Glootz, 243 !;
American Biscuit Company, $50.
Light, heat and power, all the product
of electricity, are shown 10 excellent adj
vantage in the display OF the Edison Light
and Power Company at the fair. A num-
Der of novelties are introduced in the ex-
hibit, and the visitors to the fair from day
to day find much that is interesting and
instructive in the companv's display. The
one feature that perhaps attracts the
greatest attention and elicits the most
comment is the methods shown for utiliZ-
ing electric power for cooking and heat
ing purposes. Advances are made so
rapidly in all branches of electrical science
that it will probably not be a very great
while before electricity will be used for
cooking and heating purposes to the same
extent that gas IS at present, and ulti-
mately it may displace all manner of fuel
1t is only a question OF cost, and each
year sees new inventions introduced that
keep reducing the cost of producing cleo
trio energy. The greatest uses to which
electricity has been successfully applied
thus far are in the production of light and
power, and the Edison Light and Power
Company has a plant that enables it
to furnish to the residents of San Fran
cisco all the electric energy that may be
required for any purpose. Electricity is
being utilized for power purposes more
and more each year, and the results are in
every instance extremely satisfactory. 1t
can be furnished in any quantity desired,
from one horsepower upward. 1t is
cheaper than steam power and is also
much safer, and it is these two very i'm
portant factors that have been chiefly
responsible for the adoption in this CITY
to such large extent Of electricity for
motor purposes,
At to the use OF electricity for light
ing purposes comment is unnecessary. for
people are we'll aware OF the many novel
as we'll as useful advantages that cleo
tricity possesses over all known forms OF
illumination. For cooking purposes cleo
tricity furnishes the means for fitting up
an ideal kitchen. There is entire ABSENCE
of dirt or smell. 1t can be turned off when
not in use, and as soon as the current il
turned on an intense heat is the instan-
taneous result. 1t has everything to COM
mend it, and the display at the fair will
perhaps be the means of causing MANY
people in this City to see the advantages
to be gained by the use of electricity Tor
cooking, circumstance which would ma
turally result in the installation of numer-
Gus electric kitchens.
Many visitors to the fair are probably
not aware that the display made. by the
Dairymen's Union of California is repre-
sentative of one of the foremost industriae
not alone of this State, but of the United
States. The value of the dairy products
of the country each year are exceeded only
by the grain products, and therefore this
display is deserving Of the greatest atten-
ton. 1t is magnificent exposition OF
California's extensive dairy interests. and
in the display every county in the State is
represented. 1t is by far the finest and
most complete exhibit of the kind ever
made on the coast, with the exception of
the display made by this same association
at the Midwinter Fair where they received
the highest and special awards on butter
and cheese. California creamery butter
has reputation for excellence that is too
we'll established to require special men
ton. In the production of cheese CaIifor.
MIA now ranks with any of the Eastern
States, and il is due largely to the efforts
of the Dairy mems Union that such is the
case.
Great quantities of cheese are shown in.
the display, and there is not a pound in
the entire lot that is not equal to the best
ever imported from the East. The center
OF attraction of the exhibit is a mammoth
cheese weighing 65S pounds, 1t is full
cream, made by the cheddar process.
This is a particularly delicious variety and
about all of this kind that is sold in this