The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-05
CROWDS AT FOOD EXHIBIT
THIRD FOOD AND HEALTH EXPO.
 SITION OPENA AUSPICIOUSLY.


 Carnival Week Also Helps Bring Out
 the Crowd-Formal Opening of Expo-
 sition Last Evening.
 The third and greatest food and health exposition was successfully in- augurated at the Second Regiment armory yesterday, and will be con- tinued until the 14th of the month. Held, as it is, under the auspices of the Retail Merchants association, and under the direct personal management of Lewis D. Chidsey, the success of the present exposition is certainly as- sured.
 To the consumer, and there are few terrestrial beings but what are con- sumers, New Haven for the coming weeks offers opportunities never so great before in it's history and rarely equaled in any city.
 This is trade carnival week as we'll as food exhibition week, and mer- chants are exerting themselves in every way to make it an object for people to do business with them Prices are cut down to the lowest possible figure, return railway tickets are being given with every $500 worth of goods purchased, and the purchasing power of the dollar is increased in so many ways that the buyer must be very hard to please who goes away unsatisfied
 All this outside the armory, within 1c, c.te Iov S1 9 of corn and wine,s it is because some things better have been substituted for them.
 Beautiful and artistic surroundings add greatly to any exhibit, and almost without exception exhibitors in the food exhibit have secured both.
 Some of the booths are unique, some artistic, all models of neat workman ship.
 The arnory was opened for the pulp lie yesterday afternoon at o'clock, at which hour nearly all the exhibits were in place. From that hour on an ever increasing crowd of visitors pour ed into the armory, admired the unique spectacle, got many points about vari- ous kinds of food and their preparation, and many more sample tastes and sam pie packages of food dishes and food preparations. Some famous the world over, some bound to become so famed if they can be as appetizingly cooked under home roofs as they are under the armory roof
 Talk about dollar wheat, to see the city house wives and their sisters from adjoining towns leaving the al-nlory yesterday afternoon with arms piled high with specimen food preparations no one would suspect that wheat had ever ascended to so dizzySa height. < On each side the door at the en- tarnce stand statuettes of that Quaker gentleman who has become familiar to the world by having his picture on the Quaker Oats. The main exhibit of Quaker Oats is farther down the ar- mory.
 On straw matched enclosure at the left of the entrance is perhaps the sweetest exhibit in all the arT1ory. It is that of Robert J. Dickinson of Wood bridge, and consists of some beautiful specimens of honey in comb and strain ed. Unfortunately taste samples are rot given away here, but the clear white honey looks so good that one can nearly taste it.
 The next exhibit is a pyramid built of James Pyle's famous Pearline. Later in the week packages will be given away to thrifty houselSeepers. Buffers popcorn joint furnishes pop- corn cooked all styles for 3 considera- ton.
 ! Stoves, furnaces and ranges ate not food, but they are very essential to human beings who eat their food cooked. A fine exhibit of them is made by Henry H. Guernsey of Church street.
 The Rathgeber Soap works of this city show the public what fine soaps are made here in New Haven. Theirs is the favorite laundry soap, which well deserves the wide popularity it has at | tained They make 1t an object for purchasers to buy of them by giving away fine pastel picture with every l dollars worth of soap purchased. l Van Camp Packing company of In- dianapolis tempt the palate with appe- l tizing Boston baked beans. They also l exhibit several varieties of nicely can- ned goods.
 | The visitor is presented with sample packages of Lavine washing powder. which is manufactured by the Hartford | Chemical works. Premiums are also given away with every package of the washing powder purchased.
 The Stillman Spring Water company i show some of the spring water bottled | by the company, clear as crystal. and i as fine Adams ale as one ever drinks. 1 A somewhat stronger beverage is the l cool and refreshing Williams root beer, which is kept on draught free to every 1 one. This is furnished by the Williams & Carleton Co., of Hartford, who also have many other fine extracts, their vanilla extract having a very wide re- putation.
 J. T. Newton of Westville quenches the thirst of all with fine spring water. He also has as fine an aquarium of brook trout from his trout preserves as one often sees.
 Next door to MT. Newton are more fish, this time snatched from briny depths as we'll as fresh water to grace the occasion. They belong to the Peos ples Fish market. A handsome big striped bass weighs thirty-nine pounds and lobster fourteen pounds. A polished shell which formerly roof ed the back of 3S5-pound green turtle is also shown.
 A representative of the Standard Oil