The record-union., 1897-02-19
TWILL OPEN UP TOMORROW.
Sacramento City'S First Pure Food EX-
position.
Everything Points to Its Being Very
Interesting Affair-Some of
Its Features.

The Food Exposition to be held by
the Retail Grocers' Union will open to-
morrow night at Armory Hall. On the
week following it will be open from
to 1890 p. m daily, except on Sun
day The union has appointed the fol-
lowing Executive Committee to assist
General Manager L. w. Buckley and
Business Manager c. II. Pease in MAX
ing the affair a success: a. A. Jost
chairman, E. Kilgore c. a. Beesley,
o. F. Washburne and S. Fl. Farley
This committee viii wear purple
badges, and will have a, handsome
booth and reception rooms at the lower
end of the hall.
Later the following Honorary Advis-
ory Board, comprising business men
mostly identified with the grocery and
kindred trades, was appointed: Messrs
Bentley, Blair, Black, Grifhths, Metau,
Hall, Coleman, Parker, 4oerk, Martyr,
Barton, Smith and Adams.
A Reception Committe of ten, COM
prising Messrs. Dierssen, Neubourg,
Perkins, Howard, SermOnet, Doherty,
Feldhusen and others was then ap-
pointed, and Monday night was select
ed for retail grocers' and grocery
clerks night.
c. A. Neale was selected to act as
musical director, to engage fine or
chestra of the best musicians of the
city, and also to secure extra amateur
musical talent. How well he succeeded
can best be judged from the announce
ment previously made that the Monday
Night Orchestra, the Ladies Choral
Society, Mrs Moeller director; the
Treble Clef Ladies' Choral Organiza-
tion, the Stevers Mandolin Club etc,
were to appear. These and many other
special features indicate that the expo
sition from the point of ATTRACTIONS Will
surpass expectations.
But the Grocers' Union was not con-
tent with this. Most persons would
consider that an exposition with hne
orchestral music, plenty of singing,
fancy dancing cooking demonstrations
in many of the booths, and plenty of
fine sample packages of goods given
out would be worth paying twenty
five cents to see. Yet these are, after
ALL but features of this widely adver-
tised exhibition. There will be home
trainer bicycle races, magiscope NOV
ing pictures, cooking lectures and pro-
fessional vaudeville acts of a refined
nature.
There will be opportunities whereby
p good guesser, one accustomed to US
ing his or her brains, can obtain a fine
bedroom set There will be days when
each lady visiting the exposition will
receive full half pound packages of
fancy cakes and crackers, and also OBJ
tain packages of choice confectionery.
in hoh hxr oh fIlllu S1iNl
worth of prizes will be given out.
If all this does not pack and crowd
Armory Hall with people, not only
from this city but all points adjacent,
then 1T will be hard to imagine what
would do it,
Challenges to race on the home
trainer bicycle machine have been is
sued ON behalf of local riders to the
racers of the Terminal City Wheelmen,
Athletic Club and Road Club, all of
Stockton, but the boys are perfectly
willing to hear from racing men in any
State organization.
Among the San Francisco exhibitors
that arrived yesterday in the city We're
c. j. Haswell of the Johnson-Lock
Mercantile Company, John H. Spohn,
G. H. Nelson, J. A Parr, c. L. Sprague
r. A. Revalk and Thomas Barry. 9th
ers are expected to-day and to-mor-
row.
The first Southern Pacific excursion
TO be brought in for the Food Exposi-
tion will be next Tuesday, from Stock
ton and intermediate points. A rate of
one fare and one-third for the round
"trip should bring many out-of- town
visitors to the exposition.
Most of the baby show prizes are
decidedly handsome, and many are very
valuable. Besides those beautiful ones
already named, the management will
give a fine loving cup to the hand
soonest baby, whether boy or girl. One
pretty prize is the dainty white cap
given by The Nonparel. The two
twenty y-five-cake boxes of toilet soap
were made expressly for this occasion
and each cake is stamped with cute lit
0le brownies. One of the finest presents
is a "Baby's Biography" a beautifully
bound book given by w. F. Purnell.
There VIII be bib pins, napkin rings.