The record-union., 1897-02-14
FOOD EXPOSITION FEATURES.
Attractions Varied Enough to Please All
Glasses.
Armory Hall Now Being Prepared
for the Coming Food
Exposition.

Exposition.
It must be borne in mind that the
Food Exposition opens at Armory Hail
February 20th 1t will be open after
the first evening Sunday excepteO
from O'Clock until 1880 at night. Ihe
opening night the doors will be thrown
open at o'clock, with every booth III
readiness 1t is Manager Buckley 5
boast that of over forty exposltlons ne
has always opened them on time, ana
with almost every booth demonstrating
to the public; he does not anticipate
any difference here in this line, as the
exhibitors are having their booths
built and arranging their displays at
this early date.
The Food Exposition management
will endeavor to arrange with the Cap
ital City Wheelmen to have them ap-
point a committee on home trainer b1-
cycle races. 1t is anticipated that these
events will be hotly contested, and VIII
prove an interesting attraction, as they
have elsewhere. Entries should be MADE
either with the Capital City Nheelmen
or at the exposition office, 214 j street.
The complete programme for racing
will be announced shortly.
Several organizations of this city
have endeavored to secure from Man.
ager Buckley the services of the official
cooking lecturers with a view to eStab-
fishing for a time here, after the close
of the exposition, cooking school. 1t
is probable, however, that the lady will
accompany the mana cement to Stock
ton should Food Exposition be held
there, following the Sacramento one.
One of the prominent wholesale gro
Gerry firms will have a most novel eX-
hibit with a pretty booth, tastefully ar
ranged, and from which they will serve
delicious ham sandwiches, cups of fra
grant tea and samples of crackers.
President Joost$ of the Grocers' Union
has secured a handsome exhibit of but
ter and dairy products, one Of the
prominent California concerns.
1t is expected that the two largest ait
be on the days set apart for the baby
show and for native sons and daugh-
ters
The largest booth in the hall will be
forty by ten feet, and will contain six
or seven distinct demonstrating exhIb-
its, in charge of a prominent merchan-
disc brokerage firm of San Francisco
Among the exhibits of this booth viii
be corn starch, demonstrating chewing
gum, chocolate and cocoa, condensed
milk, cereals and soap.
The Executive Committee has ar
| ranged many details fer the opening
The mana gers have been instructed te
send out the badges of the various com
present as far as possible, not only or
| the opening night, but each evening
during the exposition.
Monday night will be retail grocer's
night, and every purveyor of foods il
/ the city and adjacent towns are ex-
pected to be present as guests of tht
| Grocer's Union. A special march fol
the occasion will be arranged by Pro
| fessor Neale, and rendered by the solo
orchestra.
The management have finally selected
an orchestra of scloists on the plan of the
Boston Symphony; there will be violins
viola, cellt, double bass, piano and prob
ably mandolins on certain occasions. i
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Neale, and will embrace the best musi-
clans of the city. This Food Exposi-
| tion Orchestra will render select pro
grammes afternoon and nights, and il
addition to this feature there will be &
number of amateur musician vocalists
a mandolin club and other attractions
sure to please the public.
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| Work was begun last Tuesday on tht
beautiful home trainer bicycle machine
and it is expected to be ready for the
riders by Saturday night, the openins
of the exposition. The machine is built
on the plan of the one shown on tht
Pacific Coast some years ago by Prince
the professional rider. and which at
tracted so much attention; it will permit
two races at the same time, to show the
speed, and large three feet dial with
hands painted white and blue to cor
respond with the colors of the riders
will furnish the audience with informa
tion as to the speed and the winner. Il
| is the work of Mr.. Clark, a Sacramento
machinist under the direction Of Mana.
ger Buckley, who has built a number il
the East.
There is a constant demand on the
part of exhibitors for skilled, demon
strating Ladies who can bake biscuits
| make coffee. bake pancakes and serve
cereals, cocoa and chocolate, etc, car
find good occupation by applying to tht
Office of Exposition Managers, pa .
street.
| One firm from the East will give ou
| twelve thousand sheets of popular music
/ TO visitors, another a number of cook
| books, tape measures, papers Of pins
etc, as advertising novelties Each e6
/ hibitor viii vie with the other in select
ing and giving away splendid advertis
| ing matter, and in this respect the houst
wife can 60 home laden not only viii
samples of food products, but with Other
articles.
There seems to be a lack of under
standing in regard to the season tickets
these tickets have numbers or spot:
which admit punching six times each
covering a single admission to the expo
sition The ticket is sold fer 81, and on,
person can use ii six times, three per
sons two times each, six persons ont