Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-16

STAGE SET FOR
BIG INDUSTRIAL
SHOW OPENING
Curtain Rises at IL O'clock To
morrow on Optimists Club
Exhibition.
ADMISSION BY TICKET

Tcmlfnson hall is all set for the open
ing Of the Industrial show of the Optim-
lists club tomorrow morning at IL o'clock.
Decorators were busy all day today plac-
ing booths and installing the color
scheme, green and white, which will be
used at the show. oficials of the club
declared today that indications pointed
to a large attendance and they predicted
that the show would be the most success
ful undertaking ever put on by the club.
More than 10000 tickets have been
distributed by the club members and it
is believed that a large portion Of them
viii be used. Plans have been made for
taking out a blanket insurance policy
to cover the cost of the combined ex-
hibits and a night Waterman will be
stationed in the building each night
from the time the show closes at 10
o'clock until it begins the next day at Ii
o'clock.
COOPERATION ASKED
FROM EXHIBITORS.
Clifford G. Askin, general chairman OF
The executive committee that has charge
~ staging the show, declared Yesterday
that much depended upon the co-opera-
ton the committee received from the ex-
hioitors in the placing of exhibits.
Arrangements have been made through
Felix McWhirter Of the board of safety
to provide parking space for three trucks
ut the Delaware and Market street en-
frances to Tomlinson hall this morning
to enable exhibitors to get their ex-
hibits unloaded. He urged that exhibit
ors get their goods to the hall as quickly
IS possible after o'clock in order that
the show might begin promptly at II
o'clock
Emphasis was placed by him on the
fact that adn1igcfnp ~ -
only. Tickets, although free, will be
demanded at the door and they can be
obtained from any member of the club.
A man viii be employed to take tickets
at the door.
The show will be the first held BY. the
club, but o. D. Haskell. president, said
today that it would be an annual event.
A record will be kept of the number of
persons attending and it is the purpose
TO make each succeeding show a bigger
drawing card
One of the interesting exhibits will be
on the stage, where a miniature house
IS to be built. The house is made nos
si0le by members of the club who are
interested in architecture. building ma
ferials and decorating. It already has
been built and is & replica of the house
adopted as model Of room at minimum
expense by the United States shipping
oeafu- IL was constructed at Bridge
port. Conn, and duplicates were built
to accommodate the large numbers Of
employees in the large shipping Yards.
Il contains six rooms, three on the drst
hoor and three bedrooms above. 1t is
modern
EXHIBITION LIMITED
TO TWO SPACES.
Grouped around the house will he the
exhibitors who handle building supplies
and decorations for the home. Floor
plans win be provided by F. S. Cannon
architect, who will also have figures on
the construction OF the building accord
ing to modern day prices OF construc-
In order to get the greatest possible
number of exhibitors and insure a we'll
balanced show, theN committee has per
mitted only two spaces to be sold to
each exhibitor. Each space is ten feet
square The contract for decorations
provided for a nine foot background for
each booth and side ratings three feet
|. high, but the interior booth decorations
VIII be left TO the initiative of each ex
hibitor