The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-13
LEAVE Cash BEHIND.
The Motto for Visitors to
the Great Tabernacle
Fair.
MYRIADS OF DISTRACTIONS.
Booths and Beauties in Seductive
Array-Simpson Ladies at the
Federal Club.
MYRIADS OF DISTRACTIONS.

The long expected Tabernacle Fair, ( or
which such a number Of church workers
have been preparing for SO long. opened
last night with every prospect of success.
The time and labor spent has borne fruit
In an entirely satisfactory way.
According to the alleged jokes which
appear in the comic papers about this
time of year, a church fair is a place over
whose entrance should be written. Gall
We who enter here leave cash behind"
The attendant is described as a sort of
human spider, lying in wait to drag away
the masculine fly to her booth, and there
make him o~fRciate as sole buyer In a high
priced auction sale. Now there is none
of this at the Tabernacle Fair. The
mattresses are not spiders. But what is
worse, they are sirens. They do not
seize the victim in a fierce clutch; they
simply look ut him and smile. They do
not insist on your buying anything, but
they tell you ia a disinterested way that
things are really cheaper than you could
get them in New York, and then they
smile once more. So the result is just
the same. The young men pay the
freight.
The evening opeued with q brief enter
tainmenb OF which Miss Jessie Parker
sang several Scotch ballads, and a COM
pany of young people disguised in plaid
shawls n Tam-o-Shanters, gave a bur-
lesque of "Lochinvar," in which the
nero rode away with Ellen on a pranciug
SAW horse. There was such a bewilder-
ing maze of booths II such a number of
ladies in attendance, that If one noticed o
wild-eyed person rushing past with a
pencil that was PROBABLY a reporter try
ing to take the census. Here is the list i.
corrected to date:-Christian Endeavor
booth. for can y, Mrs. John l.. Scudder,
Mrs. j. Lester Wells. Miss AlleneIta
Frost. Mrs. K. Feintrall. Mrs. G.
w. Anness, Mrs. Arbuckle, Misses Hattie
and Bertha DuMond, Lille and Ray
Watson, Messrs Stickles and Lawrence,
Misses Alma Nelson, Emma Aitcheson.
Aarons, EVertson. Lou Losey and Lottie
McGowan. Next door is the japanese
booth. where Mrs. w. Fl. Turner, Miss
Florence Turner and Mrs. James Fergu-
son sell teaDots and curios, under The
protection of a row of owls.
The Ladies' Aid Society's fancy table
did a great business last night. 1t was
attended by Mrs. John Ewing, Mrs. 6. L.
Ellington, Mrs. Theodore Parker, Mrs.
Henry Trent, Mrs. George Cook, Mrs.
Russell, Mrs. John Parsons and Mrs.
Horace c. Wait. Up in the gymnasium,
where an officious sign gives some I'M
mes essary advice about the floors, was an
Orange t%trove," where one may pluck
FROM the trees oranges that contain prizes
-on for each. This garden of the Hes
perides is kept by the Misses Houston,
Misses Adele Cox, Gertrude Simons and
Lillian Vance.
REBECCA AM HER WELL.
Miss Louise Longstreet drew gallons of
lemonade from Rebecca's well. Mrs. j.
T. Edwards and her class conduct a vot-
ing booth, where contests were in pro-
gress for everything, from a diamond
ring to a live bird aud a crazy quilt. Miss
WrIght's ard Miss Florence Clerihew's
classes attended a table. Miss Bessie
SpierS appearing in the absence OF the
latter young lady. The fruit table had
Miss Potts, Misses Geneva Longstreet.
Bertha and Gussie Day, Eta Stacey,
Maud Ricketts, and Lille Wenner. Dur
ing the evening a fine basket of fruit was
presented to Rev. DR.. Scudder. There is
a"Mystery table" but what 1t is you must
go to see. The following young ladies as
sist Mrs. A. M. Observation-Disclosures
A. Reed, L. Howell. NJ. Everett, l. PEAK,
6. Young, L. Kotta and L. Hauck. With
the following. they preside at a fancy
table as well:-Mrs. w. Wakefield,
Jennie Whitney and Lillian Plant.
There is no lack of entertainment. The
Christian %endeavorers have a ten cent
show" in constant operation: and up
stairs there is an interesting shadow pau
tomime, which attracts crowds aud Keeps
them i'll commissions of laughter. II is
under the direction of Captain A. L.
Christie. Lieutenant T. A. Ryer, l.. A.
Ryer and Lieutenant H. E. Ramsay, of
the Cadet Corps. The Rev. DR.. Scudder
had charge of the lung TESTER" aud,
needless to say. beat everybody else at it.
Another fancy booth by the Ladies'
Aid Society Showed a beautiful hand
painted silk quilt. Here was Mrs. VIM.
Hunt in charge, with Mrs. Mesereau,
Misses Waters. Ware, Patterson. Altman,
Kelley. Richie, Bush, Heyniger.
Dorland, Harroth. Hills aud Hall. end
Mesdames Russell, Vance and Willis
The supper room was also provided by
the same society. OF which Mrs. George
M. Clerihew is president, and Mrs. II. H..
Farrier Chairman of Supper Committee,
assisted by Mesdames Ingersoll, Lutier,
Noonan. Heyniger, Williamson, Van
Keuren. Powles. Russell. Negus. Err
Itch, Wells and Krouse. Among the
Mattresses were:-Misses Anness, WINS,
Wood, Hyatt. Curry. Ida aud Irene
Smith, Poland and Mrs. Laing.
The fair will continue for three more
afternoons and evenings.