Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-31
IN COILS OF SNAKES.
The News Factory OF Today and the Many
Startling Things that Will. no Doubt,
Happen.

The great show today will, no doubt,
bring great crowd to the city. All the
railroads for fifty miles around give rate
of one fare for the round trip. According
to estimates made by agents in surround
ing towns it is thought several hundred
will reach the city by the early morning
trains.
The public have two chances by cheap
transportation, to reach the park. one by
the Riverside and the other by the City
Railway company The latter has con-
structed its line to the east end of the OAK
street bridge which makes 1t about as near
the grounds as the Riverside line.
The police report some thieves on hand
to spend the day in the city after whatever
they can get their hands on. a delegation
of half dozen arrived last night from
Wellington where they had been taking in
the fair and it is supposed they Will
be joined by some more who will arrive
| this morning, and no doubt met some
friends in the city last evening.
1t is expected that for some days after the
show leaves the town there will be start
ling news coming to the surface from the
vicinity of Riverside. No doubt the clear
$1,000
Of the tent men to take..a swim. And as
reported in the past the historic devil fish
and many huge snakes, long and murder
GUS in practice, will encircle the unsus-
pecting show employees, and after a long,
hard contest the men may be able to get
away. And should they escape no doubt
they will be scared so horribly that they
will only mention it to a few intimate
friends, and will shudder at the suggestion
to report the find to the authorities or even
point out the most dangerous spot IN
in the river. There is no doubt when the
big elephant goes over the Oak street
bridge a few spans will come very near
breaking down; in fact they would break
down if IL was farther out in the country
and there was a chance for only few peo-
pie finding it out. However, the big ele-
plant will feel his way guardedly over
the bridge and possibly after the much
swapping and cracking of the bridge, pro-
ducing in the poor elephant horrible
fright. the strong animal completely eX-
hausted may be unable for the grand open
ing parade. He may later in the day get
very sick at the stomach and DR.. - of the
suburbs will be called and find the poor
tItDiidiII III al bad oeeieO " PAiJ SAdoS
mind He will get back to his car with
great difficulty and 'die some where out
on the road" will come along by and
by under the sub-head of ''futher
particulars" In the park, of course, there
will be many hair breadth escapes; the
leading big shooter of certain part of
the world will see some one he don't like,
then 1t will be war-Oniy prevented by
some most fortunate incident. Then
there will no doubt be many soul-stirring
sensations which will be handed down to
generations and form part OF the file le-
gend Of Riverside park. In the legend
feature will no doubt be a complete ac-
count of the finding of many bonds which
in fact were pitched out of the cages
of the wild animals, but later on
will certainly be shown to have formerly
belonged to some important party of the
east who were prospecting in the west
and never could be traced beyond River
side park. If the show fails to entertain,
some prominent young lady, whose name
however can't be found in the directory,
or anywhere else, will be sad and may at
tempt suicide, but fortunately viii be pre-
vented by some true friend who CHANGED
to see her at the last moment. All these
things it is thought likely 10 occur and
will serve to startle the public for some
time.