Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-01
PURE FOOD SHOW BIC EVENT
Larger and Better Exhibits Will Be
Made This Year.
AUDITORIUM DECORATED FOR IT
BiE Force of Craftsmen f. Mt Work
Completing Arrangements for
Display to he Given
This Week.

A large force of craftsmen was put 10
work Saturday installing the booths for the
annual Pure Food show, which opens
Wednesday night at the Auditorium and
continues for ten days. In order that the
booths will be ready for the decorators
carly Monday morning the workmen will
be employed all day Sunday. Twenty deco
rstors will be employed to trim the booths
and they will have everything in fine shape
for the opening Wednesday night.
Electrical show booths will be used by
the exhibitors. The booths all will be sub
~stantially built and painted white and there
VIII be sufficient light TO make the whole
scene one Of great brilliancy. There will
be condults for the electric light wiring and
on top OF the booths will be a large number
OF opalescent globes which will shed a beau
tiful light throughout the Auditorium.
Apples so big and red and delicious that
New York City takes practically the whole
crop at fabulous prices; prunes, fatter,
p%luErper and julcier than ever grown be-
lore; tomatoes of a juiclness and roundness
to tempt the most blase; potatoes and corn,
wheat, sugar beets. celery, onions-a pro-
fusion Of the things good to eat that come
out OF the ground, described and displayed
in tasteful fashion. make one of the most
interesting eXhlbits-that of the Union Pa
cific Railway company.
Certainly It is the most appetizing. Sam
pies are shown of what the Umpqua val
ley can do-and the Umpqua can do con-
siderable. According to the man VINO
hands out information at this booth, she
can and does grow Baldwin apple trees
that give up eighteen boxes of apples a
~year-which figures some S27 a tree.
The vegetables and fruits of Old Mex
ico are exhibited and shown to vie with
those of California.
And alongside of these are shown the
products of the reliable old Sacramento
and Butte valleys, and the other sections
tapped or reached by the Union Pacific.
Altogether the exhibit is not only a joy
for the investigator of food products, but
IA source of interest to the man or woman
interested in land and its yields.
List OF Exhibits Big.
The list of exhibitors this year already
exceeds that of last year. The big arena
win be entirely filled with fine exhibits Of
all the good things.
There will be a regular army OF neatly
dressed and courteous demonstrators to
wait on the public, and the atmosphere viii
vibrate with the sweet strains of orchestral
music every evening.
Manager Gillian has engaged four high
class vaudeville artists to entertain the
audience each afternoon and evening dur
ing the entire ten days Of the show.
A huge gift box, from which valuable
presents will be distributed every evening,
will be one of the pleasant and surprising
features of the show.
The bread baking contest will take place
Tuesday, November 10. Cash prizes will
be given for the best three loaves of bread
a - 49,
show.
The baby show will take place on Novem-
Der IL. at 3 O'Clock. Babies entering this
show must not be over 2 years of age.
The prizes will be, first $40, second So, and
third So.