Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-30
KANSAS CITY'S RESOURCES WILL BE
THOROUGHLY SHOWN.
BIG SHOW WILL OPEN TUESDAY.
SPLENDID EXPOSITION WILL DE IN
COMPLETE READINESS.
of the Opening Is One
Calculated to Arouse Enthusiasm
Many Exhibits Already in
PInce-Reccption Com
mIttee Named.

The home products exposition will open at
10 O'Clock next Tuesday morning in the five
story building at 1221 and 1223 Main street.
The applications for space insure very fun
representation of local manufacturers, and
the success of the enterprise is already as
sured. Only those things which are actual
ly made in Kansas City will be exhibited,
but the exhibition will Illustrate not only
what is made here, but how it is made. y
great deal of interest has been manifested,
and the manufacturers have entered into the
spirit of the event with enthusiasm. Kan
sas City's manufacturing resources will be
very effectively illustrated during the ex-
position. which will last from June l to
L, Sundays excluded.
There will he many surprises during the
exposition. The people of Kansas City do
not know just what is made here. They i'm
port scores of articles and products for no
other reason than that they do not know
these things are made here. This exposi-
ton is for the purpose of showing just
what is manufactured in Kansas City, and
in this instruction lies the chief value OF
the enterprise.
All the arrangements for the show have
been made. except the finishing touches.
The exterior decorations Of the building
have been completed. and the work OF pre-
pairing the booths and the interior for the
reception of the public is being pushed
forward rapidly. The building will be open
to-day ard until midnight tomorrow to
enable exhibitors TO have their booths in
readiness for the opening of the exposition
at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
The Main street front of the building has
been artistically draped with bunting with
the seal of the state of Missouri shown
from the second story and the seal OF Kan
sas City just below the roof. The interior
decorations consist largely of those de-
signed to make the individual booths OF
exhibitors attractive, and are as varied as
are the minds of the exhibitors, yet the
general effect, even at the present stage of
uncompleted development is such as to ap-
peal to artistic taste. The finishing touches
which remain to be put on the work of the
decorators and the artistically displayed
exhibits TO be put in place before to-mOr-
row night, will greatly enhance the beauty
of the interior appearance.
Opening Exercises.
The executive committee of the Home
Products exposition held a meeting 1T the
building yesterday afternoon and promul-
gated the following proclamation in refer
ence to the opening exercises of the Homo
Fl oducts exposition at 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning. June l.
The Third Regiment band of twenty
pieces will meet at thu. rooms of the Com
meIcial Club Tuesday morning at $50
O'Clock and will give a seTenade in the
rO;unda of the building, complimentary 70
the Commercial Club. IL VIII then pro-
ceed down WyandOtte street to Sixth; east
on Sixth TO Delaware; north on Delaware
to the Kansas City paper house, Wnere
they will serenade President Watson, of
20 N lRTr
Ceed by way of Fifth street to the city
han building as compliment to Mayor
Jones and the other city officials who oc-
cUpy offices in that building. The route
of the parade will then be on Main street
to Seventh; east on Seventh to the Midland
hotel, and after Serenading the Midland
street, stopping at the fire department
headquarters to entertain Chief Hale and
the boys of the headquarters. and will then
proceed south on Walnut street and will
render music at the Kansas City World,
the Kansas City Times, The Kansas City
Journal and will then march to Eleventh
street, where it will go to Eleventh and
Grand avenue and serenade the Star. 1t
will then counteTmarch on Eleventh TO
Broadway and go to the Coates House,
giving that hotel a complimentary number
at 9:45 o'clock, and will then cOuntermarch
on Broadway to Twelfth street and 10 the
exposition building at l22l and 12& Main
street, which place they will reach prompt
ly at 10 O'Clock and will play the Celebrat-
ed march composed by Mr.. B. l.. James,
The exercises at the building will be as
follows: An address by David b. Kirk,
chairman of the joint manufacturers com
mittee of the Commercial Club and the
manufacturers of Kansas City. Chairman
Kirk will then introduce NJ. V. Watson,
president of the Commercial Club, and also
Hon. ]. NJ. Jones. mayor of Kansas City.
The doors of the exposition will then be
thrown open by the chairman, and the band
will proceed 10 the band stand playing the
familiar air, Just Tell Them That You
Saw Me and 1 Was Locking Well"
The management expects to show that
Kansas City is noC only the greatest rail-
road center of this country and second as
a packing house and live stock center, but
is also destined to become one of the great
manufacturing cities of the United States,
and the greatest inland city in this coun-
try.
Every Convenience.
The executive committee Of the Home
Products exposition has spared no expense
In endeavOring to contribute TO the con-
venience and comfort of the public.
A complete telephone exchange Will be
exhibited by the Missouri and Kansas Tel
ephone Company. which is done for the
convenience of exhibitors and visitors, and
any one desiring to communicate with any
Of the exhibitors can do so without loss
of time This exhibit will be one of the
great features of the exposition.
The committee has advised the exhibitors
that +. J. Davidson is the official photog-
rapher of the exhibits, and under his con-
tract he is compelled to make picture of
every exhibit in the building. These
pictures will be compiled in a handsome
album and will be presented to the Com
mercial Club, and will become an adver- |
tisement for the exhibitors in the first
annual Home Products exposition of Kan
sas City. No official souvenir has been
authorized, and no advertisements except |
ing those presented by exhibitors will be |
permitted in the building or about the |
premises. The most important of the |
rules and regulations which the executive
committee has announced is that all |
visitors on entering the building must take |
the elevators to the fourth floor and walk |
down stairs. viewing the various exhibits |
via that route. No one Will be permitted |
to walk upstairs or TO ride down, and this !
rule will be rigidly enforced. Chief Val !
linS, of the police department, has rendered |
the services of five policemen, who will be /
stationed at the stairway to see that this |
rule is enforced. Chief Hale has commits |
stoned five men from the fire department to /
patrol the building with BabcOck eXtin- |
Euishers to prevent any contiagration orig
mating from the carelessness of exhibitors |
or visitors.
In addition to this, the executive commit |
tee will have under the control of the gen.
eral management directors of its own and /
priVa te detectives, who will arrest anyone |
found pilfering. The night Waterman will |
be on guard every night. ana the CONNER
cial Telephone Company has placed signal !
boxes throughout the building. The CX- |
hibits are likely to be a surprise not only |
to the people of Kansas City, but to all 1
who visit here. The officers of the Com |
mercial Club announce that this Home /
Products exposition was promoted by the 4
Commercial Club. which unanimously in |
dorSed il by resolution of its members. that 1
organization will take great interest in |
tion, and will do all 1t can to encourage
its motto. Make Kansas City good place |
to live in"
Reception Committee.