Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
CLOSE OF FIRST WEEK
Food Show Is Proving a
Gigantic Success.
BIG CROWD LAST NIGHT
Exhibitors Making Ready for New
and Larger Displays.
COMMENDED BY DIR. WILEY
Benefits to the District Consumers
Also Pointed Out by Com
missioner mcfarland.
BIG CROWD LAST NIGHT
COMMENDED BY DR.. WILEY

With a gigantic crowd In attendance
last night al the close Of its first week
and promise for even greater crowds next
week. the food show OF the Retail Gro
GERS Association of the District, which
opened az Convention Hall last Monday
il an assured success. From the very be-
ginning it has attracted the Washington
public as much for its educational as TOT
its entertaining features.
The exhibitors have been unusually gen
erous IN giving away samples and The
managers Of the affair have proven Them
; selves thoroughly capable In every re-
spect They stasted their show on on
time and have kept It running wen every
day. Last night was a sort Of clean-out
night for the exhibitors as they wished
10 be ready for new displays tomorrow
night.
All the officers of the Grocers' AS
ISOLATION have made 1t plain from the
start that no goods were to he exhibited
that did not come fully within the re-
ouirennents Of the pure food law. and as
a result of the stand they take the show
has become popularity known as the pure
food show.
practically all the leading food manu-
featuring firms OF the country are rep
resented, either directly or through WASH
tngton firms which handle their goods,
and their labels show what their goods
are.
distinctive tone was given 10 the
show on the opening evening when DR..
Harvey W. Wiley. chief OF the bureau OF
chemistry OF the Department or Agri-
culture. and Commissioner Macfarland
and DR. W. c. Woodward. the District
health officer. delivered addresses.
DR.. Wiley's Comment.
In talking recently of the attitude of
food manufacturers toward the pure food
law. DR.. Wiley said:
"a most gratifying condition has arisen
also in the adherence to the cause OF
pure foods and drugs Of many manu-
facturers and dealers. who were at least
inclined to look upon the law with sus-
picion.
II think II may he said without con-
tradiction that the vast preponderance OF
influence and sympathy In the trade If
undoubtedly in favor OF the food and
and labels. but also to the advertise
ments. Upon the whole II must be re-
garded that the years work has been sat
isfactory. 1t is true that complaint haf
been made by many that not enough has
been done, that the officials have been lax.
but IL seems to me that when one con-
siders the magnitude of the problem and
the difficulties In the way that these critf-
cfsmS are sCdINtiy utscINco-
THE food and drugs act Is doing good
II is gaining public favor. 1t has come to
stay"
Benefits to the District.
In regard to the situation In the Dis
trict. Commissioner Mcfarland had this
to say:
THE Commissioners through the health
department have done everything in
their power to see that the people OF the
District have pure food products, includ-
ing milk and pure drugs and medicines
by cooperation with the Department OF
Agriculture under the national pure food
act, and also by the enforcement OF such
local laws as Congress has enacted. They
have also asked Congress for additional
legislation which will give the health
department better. control OF the local
situation.
THE milk supply ought to be regulated
according to the principles laid down by
the milk conference called by the Com
rnissioners. as the result of the typhoid
fever investigation. which they set on
foot in the year 1900. have now asked
the milk conference legislative committee
to revise that bill that il may be intro
duced into the coming session Of Con-
gress. when i hope it will be enacted"