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The Florists^ Rcvkw 



July 21, 1921 



grain, provisions and cereals are de- 

 termined for the world. 



Food Products Display. 



Some of us wear fine clothes and 

 jewelry, buy flowers, read newspapers, 

 enjoy fine furniture, oriental rugs, 

 musical instruments and fancy shoes, 

 and for that reason will be interested 

 in the exhibits mentioned. But we 

 all eat, and for this reason the large 

 distributors, packers and "canners will 

 show how our food is prepared by them 

 to feed the world. 



Ice cream, on which we all pay war 

 tax, is fast becoming so popular that it 

 may readily be considered a food and 

 not a luxury. A ton of ice cream will 

 be manufactured every hour in the ice 

 cream section. 



Here may also be gained an insight 

 into the process which it seems to the 

 writer takes the taste out of milk. This 

 process is known as "pasteurization" 

 and is applied to all milk sold within 

 the city limits of Chicago. We are told 

 that milk is pasteurized to make it 

 pure. The machinery used to bottle 

 Chicago's milk will l)e highly interest- 

 ing. 



The by-products of milk, cheese and 

 butter, are manufactured in full view 

 of the spectators, many of whom per- 

 haps have carried a doubt for years as 

 to the cleanliness of such manufacture. 



The temple of health, presided over 

 by medical men of the state, including 

 Chicago's health commissioner, Dr. 

 John Dill Robertson, has been worked 

 out in display. Medical colleges of the 

 state have lent their efforts also. The 

 chemical laboratories and processes will 

 be laid open for inspection. 



The greatest baby show in America 

 will be held at the Pageant of Prog- 

 ress in behalf of one of the Chicago 

 newspapers, which is offering big prizes. 

 Babies from several states are now be- 

 ing examined in a glass building con- 

 structed for this purpose. 



Jackles to Show Feats. 



We have now covered one-half of 

 the exhibition hall space and see "the 

 pride of our nation," represented by 

 jackies from the Great Lakes Naval 

 Training Station, located just north of 

 Chicago. The Jackie band, the train- 

 ing and education of these boys, their 

 conduct and discipline, will be observed. 



Captain D. W. Wurtsbaugh, command- 

 ant of the Great Lakes Naval Training 

 Station, Captain Edward A. Evers 

 and other naval attaches have spared 

 no time or effort to present to visitors 

 to the Pageant of Progress the most 

 spectacular insight into the achieve- 

 ments, progress, fascination and educa- 

 tion that go with the service to our 

 country on the waters. They may study 

 the radio school exhibit, arranged and 

 presented at the pageant by Commander 

 Jacobs, which consists of a part model 

 of a torpedo boat with a radio house, 

 bridge and 3-inch gun mast with anten- 

 nae. They listen to the loud speaking 

 'phones which send out from time to 

 time the sound of a submarine going 

 through the water. These officers have 

 scoured the ranks to secure the best 

 type of noncommissioned officers and 

 enlisted men to handle this exhibit. In 

 addition, the Kadio Band will play at- 

 tractive military music. Aviation me- 

 chanic schools and the aviation band, 

 the commissary and its methods will be 

 shown. 



Much more could be said of the naval 

 show; the naval reserve force ball Au- 

 gust 10, the daily exhibitions of sub- 

 marines and their paraphernalia in 

 maneuvers augmented by air craft and 

 large ships will be of unceasing inter- 

 est. 



On the board walk above the exposi- 

 tion hall, electric mule trains will take 

 visitors from one end of the pier to the 



other, a distance of 3,000 feet. This 

 deck of the pier will be especially use- 

 ful on Venetian night, when boats 

 around the pier will carry some 10,000 

 singers, who will join in singing "Chi- 

 cago." 



It might be interesting to insert here 

 that a Chicago newspaper offered $10,- 

 000 in prizes for the best song written 

 portraying Chicago's "I Will" spirit; 

 2,072 contributions were offered in this 

 contest. The contributors included the 

 nation's best song writers. 



Spectacular Features. 



The intensity of the effort of the pro- 

 motors of this pageant is also exem- 

 plified in their obtaining the services 

 of the black horse squadron of the Cul- 

 ver Academy, which will lead 50,000 

 Chinamen dressed in their oriental cos- 

 tumes w^ith all the splendor known to 

 their race. This parade will come from 

 Chicago's Chinatown to the pier on a 

 day to be announced later by the 

 mayor. 



While mentioning things spectacular 

 it is well to take notice of the entire 

 revision of street car service to the pier. 

 Although the main lines do not pass 

 the pier nor do they come within three- 

 quarters of a mile of it, facilities have 

 been arranged so that the street cars 

 can handle 38,000 passengers per hour 

 to and from the pier. Chicago has the 

 best and cheapest taxi service in Amer- 

 ica. One company alone operates 1,160 

 cabs and there are other largo compa- 

 nies. 



Speed boat races, including the de- 

 butante, "Miss Chicago," promise keen 

 competition. Seven of Chicago's big 



men, including William Wrigley, Jr., 

 and the mayor, are donors of this boat. 



Facilities are offered to give out-of- 

 town visitors ready access to Chicago, 

 through the aid of an information bu- 

 reau. 



After visiting the end of the pier, 

 which has a merry-go-round, a gigantic 

 dance hall, pleasure boat docks and 

 many things that make for a good time, 

 including plenty of the wind that made 

 Chicago famous, we may go to the north 

 exhibition hall. 



Wide Variety to Interest All. 



Methods of transportation — the 

 prairie schooner, the palace-like auto- 

 mobiles of today and all that came be- 

 tween them— will interest everyone. 



The extensiveness of Chicago's police 

 and public safety system and its fire- 

 fighting apparatus in the city and on 

 the water, will each occupy a section. 



The progress of building is a question 

 of importance today, second only to 

 the topics of high freight rates and 

 home brew. A reproduction of Lin- 

 coln's cabin has been made. Assistance 

 can here be had to determine how to 

 build a house from start to finish. 



Chicago claims much for its schools. 

 Visitors will be shown the principles 

 of pedagogy today. 



Vacuum cleaners, laundry machines, 

 ironing machines, etc., do the same work 

 with less effort than the old methods, 

 and these will prove of great interest to 

 the ladies and the more thoughtful 

 men. 



Furs, from animals to wearing ap- 

 parel, will also interest the ladies and 

 the more generous men. 



Inserted here and there throughout 

 the halls will be such features as min- 

 ing and the analysis of metals, chem- 

 istry and educational features of many 

 kinds. 



There will be a celebration of Illi- 

 nois day, August 6, and a tribute to the 

 neighbor state, Wisconsin, August 8. 

 It is expected that every day there will 

 be scores of special events to keep vis- 

 itors in awe. 



It will be noted that not much has 

 been said of the item most interesting 

 to the readers of The Review — the 

 flower show — but plans are being formu- 

 lated to distribute prizes to the florists 

 who compete for them in making up 

 pieces in accordance with the premium 

 list to be published in the next few 

 days. Reports from out-of-town flo- 

 rists indicate that there will be many 

 of them here. The exposition commit- 

 tee offers florists valuable prizes and 

 it is expected that many will compete. 

 Seedsmen may offer educational fea- 

 tures and a general effort is in progress 

 to teaeh tlie visitors the value of flow- 

 ers, their beauty and use. 



HALL'S SOLDIER EMBLEM. 



As an appropriate piece for the 

 funeral of a returned soldier who had 

 been gassed in France, Hall's Green- 

 house, at Clyde, O., prepared an eagle 

 over a star, both of white carnations, 

 on a panel of oak leaves, crossed in the 

 center by cycas leaves. Small American 

 flags at either side of the eagle com- 

 pleted the piece. It was an offering 

 from friends of the deceased, named 

 Clifford O'Brien, and business men of 

 Clyde, O. Both the conception of the 

 idea and the execution of the piece were 

 exceedingly good. 



