The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-13
THE BUSINESS HENS
 EXPOSITION BEGUN
ENTERPRISE WELCOMED BY EN-
 THUSTASTIC CROWD.

Iue SA&ulS-lAOu OA
 Lights Make Scene a "FairyIand"-J
 Fine Exhibits by Local Firms-F'Fra-
 ternaI Day" To-day.
 The exposition given under the au- spices of the New Haven Business Mems association in the Second Regi- ment armory in Meadow street opened Saturday night in a blaze of glory. So large was the attendance and so great the crush that at times the ticket sell CTS could not keep up with the crowd and the doors had to be closed. This only lasted for short time. In the armory is the greatest display of mer-. chandise ever. seen in this city, the largest variety, more Of it, and the in this state.
 Mayor studley formally opened the exposition in a neat speech and was given three rousing cheers. ..
 In Howe & Stetson's booth corsets and cut glass are made, and the tele- phone company has a full fledged ex- change with pretty operators at the switchboard, and then there is the typesetting machine running and a bak- cry shop and fifty just as interesting exhibits. % Among some of the most noticeable were the exhibits aof s. s. Adams, crim- son coffee; Boardman Manual Train ing school; Howe & Stetson company, department stores; Hamilton & O., ladies' suits and coats, Ligftbourn & Pond Co, hardware, paints and farm tools; EdW. Malley Co.,, block gas light; Southern New England Telephone O., telephone exchange in operation with telephones in every booth.
 Fairyland in all it's glory was never so beautiful as the interior of the ar mory. Blending softly, and with utter absence of glare, thousands of lights 1 illuminated the scene, while the varie- gated trapping of the scores of booths still further added to the brilliancy of the tout ensemble. From all appear 1 ances green is the favorite tint of the | season, though pink presses it strong ly, while blue and yellow and other gay hues are also to be seen in glori- ous profusion. ..s..,.s.f Entering through the ample door ways. one is greeted with popcorn on the left flank and canned sustenance to the right, the vista running through borders of various products of soil and factory and fading into the telephone exhibit of the Southern New England company. . .,.v sg . For instance, there is the booth of the Lightbourn & Pond company, with tools of all descriptions and everything down to the old oaken bucket from un- der the spreading chestnut tree, Saws and axes, ten-penny nails and s5 hatch cts, ropes and pulleys and goodness wots what else, all are displayed in studied confusion, forming a whole of unrivalled attractiveness.
 Informally opened as the clock struck | [, the ceremonious inauguration with | the "blaze of glory came off at S:30 p. m., half hundred of guests hav- ing assembled in the room of the Gov ernor's Foot guard to participate in the happy event. Prominent in this as semblage were the officers of the asso- citation, together with Mayor Studley, Controller Rowe, City Clerk Norris and a large majority of the heads of the municipal departments, members of the boards of finance andf aldermen, fire and police commissioners, Chief ] Wrinn, Secretary Hewlett of the board of education, A. Maxcey Hitler, repre- senting the library, and so ad infin- | itum. Marhalled in pairs by Edward A. At water, the guests paraded out into the darkness, sliding gracefully over the ice and into the building, in the center of which 8 small platform had been erect | ed for the accommodation of the speak CTS. On this were grouped President
 S. E. Dibble, Mayor Studley, Chief
 Wrinn, Edward I. Atwater A. M.
 Buckingham and Mir, Julin, private
 secretary to the mayor. .. "-y I Opening with a few words of well come, President Dibble yielded the floor
 to Mayor Studley, who in his usually happy vein voiced the satisfaction of
 the citizens at large in being privil-
 eged to enjoy such an exhibit, and de-
 clared the exposition opened
 | As Saturday evening wore on, the
 crowd kept increasing until the band
 was hardly heard above the din of
 conversation, while the multitude ab-
 sorbed varieties of edible samples, which combined were calculated to in-
 duce dyspepsia, indigestion, gout and
 all the ills that flesh is heir to.
 ! In the line of amusements, Minneha- l ha, Bedelia and the fat babies gave a
 continuous performance, varied at 9:45 with double trapeze act and at 10:3O
 by races on the home trainer bicycle | machines.
 l After the guests at the Business
 Mems exposition left the armory Sat
 urday night they were entertained at
 a banquet served at the Oneco by the
 committee on entertainment The
 guests included Mayor Studley City 1 Attorney Webb, Chief Wrinn, Commis- 1 sioner Veil, Commissioner Cunning
 ham, Commissioner A. M. Hitler of the
 city library, Alderman Ricketts, Super
 intendent Whitaker, Superintendent Rattlesdorfer of the charities depart
 ment and Ensign Peck of the naval militia.
 1 To-day will be observed as ''fraternal day." and the exposition will be at
 tended by members of the various or ganizations in this city.