The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-04
THE PURE FOOD EXHIBIT
OPENS THIS AFTERNOON ATSECOND
 REGIMENT ARMORY.

OPENS THIS AFTERNOON ATsECOND REGIMENT ARMORY.
 Tonight Speeches will be Made by well-
 Known Men-The Show Promises to
 Eclipse Anything Given in This Section
 of the Country-souvenirs Galore to be Given Away-some of tho Exhibitors. The great pure food exhibit which in- formally opens this afternoon in the Second Regiment armory bids fair to eclipse anything in this line ever held or witnessed in New England. The big show held here three years ago was a midget when compared with the gigan- tic exhibition.
 The formal opening will be at 8 o'clock this evening, when speeches will be made by Lieutenant Governor Dew ell, Congressman N. D. Sperry, Mayor Farnsworth and numerous others. A band and orchestra will discourse sweet music while the party of invited guests
 
 1 foods furnished by the various exhibit, ors.
 | Mrs. $. T. Rorer of Philadelphia, one of the most renowned experts in the culinary department, will have personal charge of the preparation of this ban- quet. She will begin series of lec- lures on ''The Proper Way to Prepare Food" on Tuesday afternoon. This fea- ture alone is worth the price of admis- sion and those who attend cannot fail to be benefited
 The seventy-f1ve or more exhibitors have their booths very .tastefully ar ranged and decorated, so that the ap- pearance of the armory causes one to consider it as miniature city.
 Every possible foot of the 10000 square feet of floor space has been util- ized. There are seventy7f1 or more exhibitors and many applications for space have been received from firms which had to be refused. The exhibits will all have been completed by this noon and ready for the informal open ing.
 I Souvenirs galore will be given away by the numerous firms represented and tickets will be distributed by one which will entitle the holders to chance in the drawing contests for an elegant silver service.
 Many of the exhibits will have young ladies in charge who will prepare the foods manufactured by the firms they represent and distribute them gratui- tously to the patrons of the show. Very few of the firms represented will not have samples of their wares to give away.
 i Among the exhibitors are:
 The Grist Mill Food company, who will give away Grant monument SOUL venir spoons and small bags, in which visitors can carry the other souvenirs; the Cottolene company, who will dis tribute 13O0O cakes of Fairy soap; the Fairbanks company will give away gold dust, so that New Haven's citizens will not have to journey to the 'Klondike; the Kennedy Biscuit company will give away cakes, crackers and fancy bis cults; the Merwin Provision company;
 Swift & Coz; Hutchins Soup company;
 Babbitt's Baking Powder company, the Hartford Chemical company, with a
 big soap display: S. H. Street & Co,
 with Grandma's Food and Perfection
 Buckwheat; Bosford's Baking Powder company, who will serve Parker House rolls; E. A. Burgess company, who will present a novelty called "Junket," 8 tablet, from which delicious dessert . can be prepared; Rice Food company; Van Houten Cocoa company; Williams
 & Carleton Co.,; Pearline company:
 Groote's Dutch Cocoa company; Wor- cester Salt compAny; the Peoples Fish : and Oyster Market, and Fleischman's Yeast company.
 A unique exhibit is that of a mon- ster COW. which will be filled with 250 gallons of milk and dispensed to patrons. The exhibit is by the Highland
 Evaporated Cream company. Lewis D. Chidsey is the accommodate : ing and energetic manager of the show, ; and was quite sanguine when he stated | that the food exhibit given in Mechan- ics' hall, Boston, would very nearly be ) outdone by the local show. It will con- : tinue until October 16.
 3 At the carnival there will be an elec- trograph exhibition of beautiful statr- , ary, paintings, ancient and modern, by f F. M. Brown & Co. Each purchaser to
 any amount, big or little, from out of
 town or in the city, will receive a ticket
 free.
 This exquisite statuary are reproduce tions from the finest originals in the
 various galleries and art museums of g Paris, Rome, London, Florence and Ma
 pies, and embrace examples of the best sculpture, ancient and modern. Among the statuary shown will be 0 Aurora, Birth of Cupid, Angel and j.. Child, Angel of Peace. Venus in Shell. r Compulsory Prayer Chastity Napoleon I I. Dying, Rispah, Paul and Virginia. f Lymph, and several of the matchless
 pieces from the chisel of the great
 Thorwaldsen.
 All who love the beautiful art will , not fail to see this exhibition, especially :, as it is free.
 2 A single purchase at F. M. Brown & . Co.'S secures you free admission. Ex- hibition hours from a. m. until p. 5 m. Monday and daily thereafter.
 SUICIDE AT SPRINGFIELD. . An Unknown Man Jumped Into the Con- . necticut River.
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