Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
Davis, Museum-Thcater.

When Harry Davis Fifth Avenue Museum
Theater is opened tomorrow the patrons Of
the house will be surprised to find what has
been done in the last two months. With an
expenditure of $10 0o0 in money and a great
deal of taste and Judgment, Mr.. Davis has
been enabled to entirely change the appear
ance of this popular family resort The
museum, which was always an interesting
feature of his house, has been increased ten
fold. He will show many animals that arc
entirely new to this city, not even the cir
cuses having such rare specimens as he will
show. The monkey van will be q variety
show in itself. From the smallest monkey
to the stately chimpanZee is long step, but
that step has been taken in the new monkey
department of the Fifth Avenue Museum
Besides the monkeys there will be a number
of animals from the forests of Africa, India
and the West Indies. The bird cage, a
100 gorgeously plumed birds, most of them in
full song. Besides the menagerie, the room
will contain the features Of a roof garden.
1t will be charming retreat for those who
enjoy communion with natures best handi-
work Attached to the roof garden will be
something entirely new in this city In the
shape OF large, luxuriously furnished
tnt for the se nf adiss M ,nS Os
children. The whole house, from top to
bottom, has been painted, papered and
decorated in the most lavish manner. Mr..
Davis believes i'll making his resort not only
capacious, but beautiful to the eye. He has
changed tine arrangement of the platforms
and other furniture of the interior, SO
as to give the most space for his
on exhibition to be SO arranged that the
audience can admire them both from dis
tance and at close range. The Stheatorium
use of light colors on the walls and ceilings
and by the introduction of highly polished
brass electric light fixtures. The seats have
all been thoroughly overhauled and cleaned,
and it is safe to say that the audience enjoy.
ing the specially performances in this de-
partment have more comfort than is afford
ed by any other house of this kind in the
country. The stage has been lifted with
entirely new scenery and so arranged that
any kind of entertainment can be given on
it without difficulty. The entrance to the
the handsome tile walls and ceiling being
specially poticeable. A large art gallery of
cosmoramic views has been placed on the
third floor. This in itself will give
those who seek instruction as well
as amusement. The opening attrac-
tions on tomorrow afternoon will con-
sist of so many features, that it is impossi-
BILE to enumerate them all now. An entire
troupe of Bedouin Arabs with the great
Sheik Ali Ben-den will be one of the novel
features. Then there will be many curiosi-
ties, animate and inanimate and be u vast
museum of rarities from all parts of the
world. To place the entertain mi ent within
the reach OF all, the prices will be 10 cents
for adults and cents for children. Among
the artists this week will be the Lees in the
mysterious Spirit Land" Block Brothers.
the strong men, who offer $40 to anyone
equal to them, Elees Lake, with her musical
glasses Murray & Aldine, sketch artists,
Charles Van, late OF Primrose West,
lightning impersonator, Mack q Lorain in
their trapeze comicalities, Miss Cora Bell,
prima donna, FL. Crawford and the great
musical family. Hughes, Lawton & Lamon,