Middletown transcript., 1893-08-26

well-known theatrical artists will comprise
the cast of '.As You Like IT, Rose
coghlan, Kate Claxtop, Maude Harrison,
Helon Bancroft, Alexander Salvini, Chas.
Coghlan, John Glendinning, Clarence
Aandysides, Charles Stevenson, John T.
Sullivan, Edward J. Henley, sandow,
James Howell, C. v. seabrook, and Stuart
Robson.
Friday was the birthday Of his apostolic
majesty Emperor Francis Joseph l. OF
Austria. The Worlds Fair filed in another
page of its birthday book with celebration
for the aged monarch has many loyal sub
jects in jackson park and the Austrians Of
Chicago always remember this festival day
of their fatheriand. The day began by the
celebration of high mass at st. James
church, corner of Wabash avenue and
Twenty ninth street, at 9 q. m. His grace
Archbishop L. Katzer, of Milwaukee OIL
ciated. At 1850 o'clock the celebration
was transferred to the Austrian section in
the manufactures building, and at O'Clock
formal exercises were held in music hall.
Court Director C. A. Riehrer conducted the
music and Anton Won Pahtschek- Paimforst
presided. The celebration concluded with
an alfresco festival and concert in Old
Vienna. The Austrian fete was inau-
gurated Thursday evening with banquet
at the Lexington hotel.
The foreign Commissioners who are going
to Dakota to see the 10,000-acre wheat field
harvested will leave Chicago Aug. % at
midnight They will go eighty miles up
the road, where they will wait until day
light in order that they may see the country
At noon Aug. "a they will stop at the dells
of Wisconsin and make two hours excur-
sion in carriages looking, at the scenery.
From there they will go to st. Paul, arriv-
in at $50 in the morning, and will be enter
tanned by the mayor and citizens ofSt. Paul
and shown the sights of the city. On the
26th they viii be en,ertaiiied by citizens
of Minneapolis, leaving on the following
morning forGrand Forks and arriving at
Laramie OH he morning of the 10Th. Here
they will take carriages and go out into the
country and watch The harvesting of the
10 600 acre wheat Aeld At Larimore the
the excursionists, representing. as they will,
the most widespread and far-reaching agri-
cultural interests of the world, will have
ample opportunity for personally judging
of the tests sustained by reaping, binding
and threshing machines used in modern
agricultural work. "a
Dahomey carried of the honors We'd
nesday afternoon at the international boat
race, and Kaugi the big muscular negro,
received from Capt. Ceueas q S. gold piece.
Not satisfied with this he dove for coin and
gave exhibitions of his skill in the water.
The series consisted of heat, races, each
country trying its best men for the final.
The Aenobscot Indians rowed, or rather
padded, the first race. With fair start
Mic Saclibcson shot his birch bark canoe
ahead and was all easy winner. Then
came the Eskimos. with their canoes made
of skin and their easy, graceful motion.
Their bays they call kyacks. and are very
shallow. Caugi Geghatcook. won easily,
and was ihe ''sure thing among the sporty
boys on shore for the final. The Dahomey-
ans came next and those who were present
at the swimming match last Friday covered
all the bets they could get OH the Daho
meyans. lpak won IN close contest.
And then came the final. Dahomey and
Eskimo were even for nearly half the
course. Then the grit of the Eskimo gave
out, and the black Dahomeyan forged
ahead and won easily. Ekimo second,
Penobscot Indian third. At the end of
each heat race the winner was presented
with $3.50, and the first and second man in
the final got $5 and s3 respectively. The
not alone won the race, but he
put up $50 in good, solid money to con
vince the doubtful ones who may have said
he was in gross error.
Lily, the dwarf elephant at Hagenback's
Midway Plaisace "zoo,' died Sunday NOR
ming. The animal never recovered from a
cold that she contracted upon her arrival
in Chicago last April. Tege, her keeper,
did everything in his power to save her but
without success. She was the smallest
elephant in captivety, weighing but 1870
pounds, and was thirty.six inches high.
She was born six years ago in Summatra
A ship captain first saw. her and bought
her for Hagenback. She was first taken to
Hamburg, where she was exhibited, then
sent to Berlin, later to London, and last
spring shipped to America. The carcass
has been sent to taxidermist in Milwau-
kee, who will mount the hide and skeleton
for museum in that city
Paid attendance is increasing steadily. as
will be seen by the following figures. Aug.
IA, 1O5,471; Aug. 15, 125,53O; Aug. 10th;
liz. 1868; Aug. II, 140,404. Total from May
/: 8, 10, 1913.