The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-02
WALlA WAlLA BUSINESS HOUSES
IN SPLENDID DISPLAY At FAIR
Continued on Page Five)

TdtuS mas Deen set up Dy Wnlcn Two.
horse power engine of the Fairbanks
type pumps $50 gallons per minute.
Another six-horsepower engine runs a
5 X. w. dynamo which furnishes
electricity for the 100 incandescent
lights which illuminate the booth.
A fine specimen of Fairbanks medi-
cal scale is in the exhibit and all Wis
itors will be weighed and their COR
rect height found free of charge dur
ing the fair.
In the John Smith exhibit are drills
and Studebaker wagons, new and old.
Of the Melting Kind.
The Walla Walla Produce company
has a showing which is thing Of
beauty and no mistake 1t forms a
tower of fruit in front of the Davis
Kaser exhibit. An imitation train
formed from old fruit boxes is set on
2O-foot booth. The cars are labeled
apples for Boston," ETC., and are full
Of the delicious fruit.
The scheme of decoration is no less
to be commended than the elegant
supply of fruit Great arches of as
paragus overhang the whole thing and
the side posts are also draped with
strings and strings of crab apples. The
fruit shown is of a quality which
makes the command hands off" al
most impossible to obey.
Fiedler's Cigar & Tobacco COM
pany has gone everybody one better
and installed a complete cigar factory
at the fair. Six men are busy all the
time converting strips of the weed
into union made cigars. Every detail
of the process can be seen by a WISH
tor. In front the newly made cigars
can be purchased from an Obliging at
tendant.
In Pretty Display.
The Walla Walla Cloak & Suit
House booth is done in a pretty eff
feet of f1uted white and yellow
cheese CLOTH Inside of this are the
finest specimens of the winter goods
which this firm handles.
Just next door in the center the
Stanley Music house has tasty
booth. In it are some viOlins made by
Walla Walla. John M. Brigham who
lives on Alder street is the architect.
Two pianos and music boxes galore,
discourse sweet music when the band
is still. The trimmings of this
booth are purple and light blue.
The Drumheler display is another
magnificent example of the enterprise
of the Walla Walla firm. The whole
represents the interior of a house.
Green tissue paper is the background
and large, artificial peonies set this
off with a startling effect which is
very striking.
Impressive Elegance.
The sitting room is furnished with
the wicker work style which is now so
popular This is prettily grouped
and produced an effect of great ele-
gance. The bed room is furnished
throughout in mission furniture with
chandeliers and everything in the
best style.
Of no
going back to the machinery depart.
ment the visitor is attracted by the
things doing" effect in the Tierney-
Toner display. A Gilbert chopper is
being run by a six-horsepower port
able engine which is making all sorts
of noise.
An old style Ohio hay cutter is pro-
PEELED by a 15-horsepower engine
manufactured by the International Gas
Engine company of which the Tier
ney-Toner company are agents.
But the most interesting thing in
this booth is the immense quantity Of
water pouring through a long trough
pumped up by a two-horsepower en-
CINE. This little giant is forcing a two
inch stream of water into the trough.
Ice Cream and Beer.
The Hazlewood company has a neat
little booth tucked in next door In
which are samples of the butter, Ice
cream. etc., made by this famous COM
pany.
Next to the Hazelwood company the
Betz brewery has an exhibit. Besides
a. display of bottled beer, a mesh
washer and filtering machine of the
most improved type is decorated in
red. white and blue and in each
corner is a pile of beer kegs. The
whole is surmounted by the motto:
1.-THE beer that made Walla Walla IA
NOUS"
Quinn's harness shop is a nice little
showing. Rows and rows of brides
hang on the top and there are sad