The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-17
A GLANCE AT THE EXHIBITS.
Some Things You Will See When You
Go to the Fair.

When you go to the Fair you had
better do as most of the crowd does-g0
in at the main entrance, cross over
and go down the right, or go around
to the east end of the building and go
down the right to the end and then come
back up the other side. This keeps you
in the push and out of the way and
measurably saves your temper and your
toes. You will have plenty of time
if you go in time, to make the round Of
the exhibits and then get up to the grand
stand for the races which begin at 1870
o'clock.
Ii you start in at the east end the
first thing you strike on the right of
the hall is the exhibit of the Southern
Wall Paper Company of Raleigh and
Mr.. l.. c.. NNeathers will show you
how to make the walls of your castle a
thing of beauty.
j. G.. Hubinger & CO., of New Haven
and Keokuk, through Mr.. II. e. Blakely
will give you samples of elastic starch,
the oldest ON the market-and show
you the handsome bronze medal and di-
ploma their product took at the Column
bia Fair
The Oxford Orphan Asylum has forty
feet of space that is filled with the
handiwork of the orphans and that is
worth being seen by every citizen of
the State Here will be shown work
from the sewing room, the cooking de-
partment, the carpenter and blacksmith
shops, and the general exhibit of the
school. All is in charge of Miss Bertha
Hicks and Miss Lola Rogers.
Department L, with thirty feet or
space, is devoted to pantry supplies
and is handsomely decorated. The de-
partment is in charge of Mrs. Thomas
Harris, Mrs r. H. Cowan and Miss
Mamie Jones.
If you like music you can take your
fill at the next booth-tat of tie Il. NJ.
Andrews furniture and music company
of Charlotte, i'll charge of Mr.. ID. L.
Summey and Mr.. w. Il. Perkins They
have pianos and an excellent performer
to play them if you don't want to, ana
if you don't like either then they have
a self-piano player as a novelty, and
music boxes as big as a piano.
The Wyatt Harness Company of Raj
eigh, can interest every lover of a
horse and smart turnout and surprise
people who think the Yankees of Massa-
chusetts are the only fine workers in
leather, for the display here is all that
leather and silver can make it. They
show harness of all sorts for all pur-
poses, saddles and everything that goes
to equip a horse for the road or for
work, and they make everything they
show.
Messrs Rose & Barrett, the architects,
show fifteen splendid architectural de-
signs including some of the first build
ings of the State that have been erected
from their plans such as the Deaf,
Dumb and Blind Institution and Meth
odist orphanage here, the colonial resi-
dence of Leslie WE'LL at Goldsboro, the
residence of l.. III. Clements at Sails
bury, etc. They also show a number of
fine competitive designs and will have
their Southland Homes" on exhibition
that the intending home-builder may
please himself
Henry T. Hicks will have a novel dis
play of his famous headache cure Gap
udine" that never fails to dispose or
the morning after"
Jacob s. Allen has a hardware exhibit
showing the difference in the then and
the now. There is an old time log
kitchen with its pot and spit and griddle
and spinning wheel and cavernous Chin
ney and the modern kitchen equipped
wit Jewel range and charcoal boiler
and the other things that make glad
the heart of the cook. He shows
general line of his goods beside.
The Julius Lewis Hardware Company
whom all the State knows, greet their
friends with hardware emporium in
small-bicyrles, ranges and kitchen
ware galore.