Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-09
ELECTRIC SHOW
 REVELATION TO
 HUNDREDS HERB
Throngs Marvel at Progress Made, as Shown by Mum
 erous Devices.
Who put the trick in electric? !?

That's the question agitating' sev- eral hundred people who attended, yesterday, the formal opening of Pine Bluffs first annual electric show, and who are wondering about all the new and unusual things they witnessed there.
 Everybody is familiar now with the device whereby an ordinary in- candescent globe. has been made more easily handled even than an or dinary lamp, in that it can be made to give a subdued, or very low, or very bright, light, as is desired. The electric toaster, the electric iron, the little electric motor which operates sewing machines, music boxes and other such things, is likewise con- mon article.
 But now they have gone bit farther-a great deal farther. There isl an electric washing machine, which does the family wash for something like cents the wash, not counting the soap, the clothespins and the dry ing line. There is the electric per colator, which makes coffee while the table is being prepared, and while the toaster is toasting the bread. The electric incubator marks another step forward and onward out of the grip of the Standard Oil octopus.
 Climax Is Reached.
 But apparently the climax has been reached with the new and big cleo tric range. It's an expensive appa- ratus-but it costs just about the same sum as is paid ordinarily fol the same grade and class of gas range or wood range or coal range The cost of operation is said by the demonstrators to be slightly above the cost of operation of gas range based on the charges in Pine Bluff for natural gas and for electricity But the electric range does things the gas range will not do.
 The demonstratOr yesterday made the electric range do all it's tricks hence the question already ,nen- toned. High, medium or low heat can be had, by turn of switch on any or all open burners, or at the top or the bottom in the oven. The housewife can prepare the dinner and place it in the oven, set the start. ing regulator, and the finishing regu. lator, and leave the house. At the hour fixed. the stove automatically starts cooking, and at the othel hour fixed, it automatically stops cooking, and no matter how late the housewife may be in returning home the dinner is still warm, not burned and thoroughly cooked. The same arrangement can be used for an earl! breakfast, and another regulator, i 1 desired, will set off an alarm clock | to awaken folk for an early break fast, cooked the electric way" ii 1 to be eaten.
 Big Crowd Attends. The show opened promptly at thu 1 hour fixed, 2 o'clock, and remaine, open until 10 p. m., these being thu hours at which the exhibition ant demonstrations will be held each da. this week. During the afternoon ant evening, it is estimated there wer between 1,200 and- 1,S00 men ant women to visit the show.
 1 Brilliantly lighted, and artisticall, arranged, the interior of the buildin, was Q scene of beauty. The severa exhibition booths were handsome il arrangement and in color, and the at tractive articles on display added t the pleasure afforded the eye.
 In the rear of the showroom, wa an electric kitchen, where, under tn sllillful guidance and manipulation of Miss Irene Bassett. of the domesti science department of the high school delicious cakes and other eatable were prepared and cooked on an cleo ! trio range, and dispensed to the wis itors. Ices and cold drinks wer served with the compliments of tn Pine Bluff Rottling company, and cof I fee made in percolators fresh fo each individual was served. with in dividually-made toast.
 Miss Bassett was aided in excellen style by coterie of girls who serve the dainty eatables, these bein, Misses Beulah Walker, Eulalie Walk CT, Cornclia Walker. lone Hearin Selma Martin, Marguerite Hoyler an Ruth Simpson.
 The Exhibitors.
 The following concerns have exhi | bitten booths at the show:
 General Electric company, Bur rcughs Adding Machine company Electric Supply company Nesting house Electric company. Hughes Elec tric Range company, Western Elec 1 tric company, Pine City Electric com pany, Pine Bluff company, Conner eial Electric Supply company, Barne Music House, Hollenberg Music com pany, Pine Bluff Bottling company I American Electric company and Ere Sewing Machine company.