The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-22
The Pure Food Show Will be
Opened to the Public
With Music, Speeches and Other
Ceremonies at $50 Tomorrow.
THE HALL is A HIVE.
Exhibitors Working Hard to
Complete Their Booths.
Everything Will Be Ready For
the Crowd Expected.

Tomorrow at 2:3O p. m. the Topeka
Pure Food Exposition will be formally
opened.
The exercises will be brief and will
be held on the stage in the upper room.
President Edward Wilder of the Pure
Food association will make the open
ing address. proceeded by masic from
Watson's orchestra, which will be sta
toned in the northeast corner of the
hall on stand erected for their use.
Following the address of President
Wilder. Mayor Fellows will make a
short talk on behalf of the city and Will
declare the Food Exposition open to the
public. Then there Will be more music
and the procession will start on a tour
of inspection of the booths
In the evening MarshalPs band will
furnish the music for the promenade
r. S Brigham, who is the commission
er of music, has made arrangements to
have musicians on duty all the time
The Apollo Mandolin club, High School
orchestra, Watson'S orchestra, the Mid
Continent band and Marshans band
will all be on duty at different times.
The exposition will be open all next
week at p m and the doors will not
close till IL %. m. The GrOcerS' aSSOcia-
cooking school auditorium when that
place is not in use. The cooking school
will open at p m and will continue
from one to three hours The cooking
school will not open till Monday.
Miss Emily Marian Coliing of Phila-
delphia, demOnStratOr and lecturer of
the cooking school, arrived last evening
to make the preliminary arrangements
for the work of the week A gas stove
will be put in and the stage which has
/ been tastefully decorated by Mrs C s
Sutton Will be turned into miniature
kitchen, in which Miss COlling will ex
plain and demonstrate the science of
cookery.
on Friday of next week the Social
Science Federation of Kansas, under
the direction of Mrs. Willis Lord Moore,
of Hutchinson, will celebrate kansas
Day with appropriate addresses con-
corning the relation of Kansas to pure
food products. These exercises Will be
free to every one and will be held in
the auditorium on the lower floor
On Tuesday afternoon it is expected
that a large number of Kansas editors
will visit the Pure Food Exposition
The State Editorial association meets
here then, and Manager Adams has
made arrangements to entend to the
editors the courtesy of the Pure Food
association.
President Hanley of the Retail Gro
GERS association places the number of
grocerS in the state who will attend
during the week at l. 900 The fact that
the railroads have granted a reduced
rate will have much to do with increas-
ing the attendance from out of the city
and especially among the grocers who
will hold their first state meeting dur
ing the week.
is satisfied that there will be large
attendance from surrounding towns
The fact that a United States senator
is to be elected on Tuesday Will St1mu-
late the attendance, and people will be
able to kill two birds with one stone:
Hamilton hall is the busiest place in
were delayed until this week and a large
force of men and women have had more
booths up for the opening tomorrow
Plumbers are busy making connections
for a large number of booth owners who
will bake bread. biscuits or pancakes
Linemen are stringing the wires which
will furnish the electricity for the large
number of arc lights that viii be put in
Carpenters are working like Turks to
complete the frame work for the booths
Sign painters are trying to I'LL the orders
for signs The kindergarten association
is looking after the erection of many of
of Mrs. Sutton. who personally superin-
tends everything except the minute decor
atoms of the booths in the upper ROOM
The hall is 4 hive of industry All the
exhibitors are making a strenuous effort
to have everything ready when the doors
are thrown open tomorrow afternoon.
The orchestra stand on the lower floor
has been artistically decorated with pop
pies and bunting in appropriate colors
by Mrs. Sutton There is also a pretty
nook on the same floor which is to be used
for an office. More time and money has
been spent on the decorations of the halls
than was ever known in Topeka and they
show the result of the hard work.
The stage of the upper room which win
be a reception room where the tired ladv
may rest a few moments has been banked
with palms. The arches from which hang
white doves with Pure Food banners in
their bills have also been beautified with
palms. There Will be flowers everywhere
and a visitor might think he was in a
garden of palms.
The advance sale of tickets for both
the cooking school and the Pure rood eN-
position has been fiatteringly large. The.
5000 advance tickets issued by the Pure
Food association have been disposed of
and people have been clamoring for more.
The officers of the association place the
attendance for the week at 10000 and
many hope that it will greatly exceed that
number.
Fire Marshal Wilmarth Will take extra
ordinary precautions to prevent accidents
by fire during the Pure Food exposition.
The booths are made of infiammable ma
teriaI so that a fire once started would
| spread rapidly A vestibule has been
built around the front doors which would
greatly retard a rush from the building
were it not for the fact that Marshal Will
marth has had the structure built so that