The record-union., 1897-02-20
READY FOR OPENING NIGHT.
This Evening the Pure Food Exposition
Will Begin.
Armory Hall Was Never Before
Made to Look So
Cheerful.

The Sacramento Pure Food and
Health Exposition will open the doors
of the Armory Hall tonight promptly
on time.
A large corps of workers have been
engaged for the last few days and last
night until Il o'clock The booths are
nearly all finished, and the decorations,
under the able management of George
Boyne, are complete and neat and
tastily done They present very
handsome appearance.
The various firms have their corps of
assistants engaged, and to-day will
have everything in readiness for this
evenings opening.
An enormous quantity of food mate
rial was delivered yesterday to Armory
Hall, where it was packed and stored
away to gladden. the hearts of the Wis
itors who will throng the hall tonight
and the coming week. One large firm
has sent 800 pounds Of choice macaronl
to be given away to the ladies as sam
pies. A cracker company will give l5O
half-boxes of fancy crackers to the
first ladies in attendance on Monday,
Thursday and Friday afternoons, and
other firms will give small samples
every day There will be plenty of bis
cults made from the best baking pow
der and coffee served from several
booths All can have plenty to eat and
drink, so that it will be veritable
feast.
Each afternoon, from 2:30 to $3.50.
Miss Tracey will give able and instruc-
tive lectures on cookery, each day TAX
ing up a different subject and giving
a thorough lecture. On Friday evening
Miss Tracey viii give an interesting
and instructive lecture on Diet for the
Sick" on which occasions the doctors
and nurses will all be invited. The lee
ture will include beverages, jellies, beef
tea, custards, delicate puddings, etc,
and how they should be made. These
lectures will be largely attended, as
the season ticket sale has been very
large.
A local firm in the city placed l 600
tickets on sale yesterday morning, and
they were all sold at 4 o'clock, and
Managers Buckley and Pease refused
to sell any more to that firm, though
they wanted to place more on sale.
The attendance will doubtless be very
fractions are very good throughout
the seven days.
All of the leading amateur and pro-
fessional artists of Sacramento will
take part in the excellent programme
provided Tor the entertainment. The
Treble Clef Quartet, under the able di-
rection of Miss Ida Clinch, will en-
tertain the audience on Friday evening.
The Monday Night Orchestra will be
the attraction on Thursday night with
Professor ShepStone as director. while
on Tuesday a pleasing feature will be
the Ladies' Choral Society, under Mrs.
Francis Moeller's direction
Another interesting feature will be
ten minutes with Messrs Block and
Carpenter, guitar and banjo artists.
Among other strong attractions are
Professor Chas. Stever's mandolin club
of twenty members, the Misses IrTna
and Edna Farley, who are very clever
fancy dancers, aged Z and 9 years, re-
spectively; Leoni. in the clever serpen-
tine and Chinese dances, and num-
Der of vocal solos will be rendered.
G.. c.. Hunt, Miss Clinch and Mrs. Noel
Ter, who are well-known professionals
of this city; also Professor George
Franz, who will render a violin solo.
together with many amateurs, will
make a notable week of a feast of fine
music.
The baby show has assumed such
vast proportions that if many more en-
tries come in to-day (the last day Of
entry) the managers will have to get
additional hall room to hold them.
There are seventy-four babies now on
the list No triplets have yet been en-
tered. though the Food Exposition
management offered SO in gold for a
set. A great many and handsome prizes
will be given TO the prize babies Mr.
Noack offers pretty bibpin for some
lucky baby, Hevener & Mier picture,
hroidered picture frame, and Klune &
FIoberg a silver spoon. besides large
number already mentioned.
Already inquiries have come in from
neighboring towns about the Sacra-
mento Food Exposition, and a number
of tickets have been taken by them.
The excursion trains will be well pa
tronized. and Sacramento should be in
gala attire.
The home trainer bicycle will be COM
pleted to-day and ready this afternoon
for the wheelmen to try. The local
wheelmen are taking a great deal of in
terest in the coming races, and will
pedal as hard as possible to win the
valuable prizes. The Stockton boys will
probably be on hand to contest some
of the races with them. There will be
four races every evening, which should
prove very exciting.
The programme for Saturday night
will be a two-mile handicap, in heats,
and a mile scratch in heats. The en-
tries are w Leach, Charles Bauer, T.
Welch, J. Hirsch (the champion Of Sac
ramento). l. Young, L. Payen. Charles
Wilson, c. Hubbard and Charles Davis.
These riders are the best and fastest of
4hn Ianital City Whealrneu and as