The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . , pickles,catsup, soups, cannedgoods, preserves,flour, mineral waters,liquors, cigars, to-bacco, chocolates, can-dies, condensed milk,macaroni, wool andkindred thincrs. Va-rious chocolate com-panies make attrac-tive displays, includ-ing Walter Baker &Co., the W. M. Low-ney Co., the Choco-lat—Menier Co., VanHouten & Zoon, andothers. Several ofthese have their ownpavilions scatteredthrough the groundsoutside, where theirdainty wares are sold in great quantities. Here in the AgriculturalBuilding Stollwerck Bros, have a noteworthy pavilion. It is i
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . , pickles,catsup, soups, cannedgoods, preserves,flour, mineral waters,liquors, cigars, to-bacco, chocolates, can-dies, condensed milk,macaroni, wool andkindred thincrs. Va-rious chocolate com-panies make attrac-tive displays, includ-ing Walter Baker &Co., the W. M. Low-ney Co., the Choco-lat—Menier Co., VanHouten & Zoon, andothers. Several ofthese have their ownpavilions scatteredthrough the groundsoutside, where theirdainty wares are sold in great quantities. Here in the AgriculturalBuilding Stollwerck Bros, have a noteworthy pavilion. It is in theshape of a temple, of renaissance style, thirty-eight feet In height,and composed entirely of 30,000 pounds of chocolate and cocoabutter. These are applied over a wooden frame, and a mostartistic effect is produced. The prominent feature of this exhibitis a statue of Germania, ten feet high, modeled after the cele-brated Niederwald monument, and sculptured out of a solidblock of 2,200 pounds of chocolate. The pedestal is decorated. BI^OOKBRS COCOA MII< ^74 AGRICULTURE. with reliefs of the Emperors William I., Frederick III. and WilliamTL, as well as Bismarck and Moltke. The structure rests upon a
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