Middletown transcript., 1893-08-12

stolen articles grieve over, but our exhibits
are spoiled. called on guard to arrest a
man who was caught taking box of wax
matches, but he laughed and said that is
not enough to arrest man for
More blood has been shed at the Lapland
village in Midway Plaisance. This time Ex-
Vice President Emil Arner ofthe company
is the victim of horny fists. There have
been so MANY dissensions in the village
that Mr.. Arner resolved to leave the COM
pany, but refused to give up his stock,
which amounts to one third of the total
paid up stock. Tuesday evening, Mr.Arner
says he was watkins past the village, when
Capt. P. Kenney, the manager. and A. HIT
Moffat, one of the stockholders, called him
inside on the pretense that they desired to
| talk business wirh him. The ex-official of
the concession agreed and walked through
the turnstile. Once inside, Arner was acc
used of having sown the seeds of fdisconten.
that caused the villagers, from King Bull
to the humblest peasant. to go on strike.
Mr. Arner denied that he was responsible
for the row and received blow in the face
from either Coney or Moffat. Which one
struck the first blow Arner cannot say, but
he declares that the two men attacked him
and gave him an unmerciful drubbing.
Wednesday he exhibited two black eyes
and numerous bruises in substantiation of
his story. MIR. Arner has appealed to Pres
ident Cable of the Lapland village company
70 hot ho
home is in Salina, Kan.
August 10th the inhabitants of the plai-
sance are going to give an International
dance. All the nations of the earth will
be represented, but Mohammed Ben
Elisha of the Algerian theater will not be
in attendance unless he recovers from his
injuries. Thursday night, with the view
of rehearsing for the event. Manager Blum
called his performers together and stood
the men and women in separate rows
Then he told the men TO select their part
ners for the dance. Matters went smoothly
for time. Then it was discovered that
there were more men than women. At the
end of the drawing Mohammed Ben
Abdah found that he was about to be left
with no partner. His dusky breast swelled
with wrath and he looked about for an
Algerian on whom to wreck his revenge.
His eye lighted on Mahammed Ben Elisha,
who was complacently standing in a cor
ner With the special object of Abdah's
alteration. That settled it. With wild
yell he sprang at his rival For a few
minutes there was lively mixture of
brown fists, hearty Algerian curses and
tapping robes. When Manager Blum
separated the contestants it was found that
Elisha had sustained the most serious
damaged eyes, leaving his successful ad-
versary in full possession of the field.
Pleasing changes in the music depart
ment will be the first fruits of the economi-
cal spasm which has come upon w orld's
Fair managers. There is to be cheaper
music and more of it. Theodore Thomas
high-priced and uninteligible orchestra is
pretty likely to go to pieces. 1t is proposed
to have from ten to sixteen bands-good
ones-playing in the open air every day dur
ing the rest of the fair. The change, aside
from being vastly popular. is going to cut
down the expenses pretty penny. Good
ordinary bands are plentiful at $50 day
each. The exposition can put in ten of
them and still save $1,000 a day, for the
present expenses of the music department
is $500 daily. What the visitors desire is
more Boom. decay" music and less SYM
phonies.
According to Treasurer Seeberger the
floating debt Wednesday was about 81 ,OO0,-
600, with $400 900 in the treasury, and for
the previous ten days the average daily re-
ceipts were $4,000. The running expenses
will be cut down to $15, 900 day.
There are two main points of interest at
the fair where visitors never seem to tire. |
One is the Midway plaisance, the other is |
Columbia avenue in the manufactures |
building. On the Midway you see the
nations of the earth in all their gaudy |
apparel. On Columbia avenue you see the |
best products of those nations; a gilded |
procession of the most costly and gorgeous
wares, fabrics and trinkets of Paris, Rome, |
Florence, London, Berlin, Vienna, New
York, Constantinople, Madras and Toxic |
A man walked the length of the street the |
other day. 1t was good day for aimless |
promenading. The wooden pavement was
damp and cool underfoot, Refreshing
breaths of lake wind caught him at each |
corner. He saw. first, high tiers of graceful |
statuary ranged under velvet canopies and |
guarded by swarthy Italian marines. He |
saw men from Switzerland leading visitors |
through a recess fairy-land of carv-
ings and jewels. He saw men from |
Norway and Denmark standing at the |
street doorways of their pavilions |
Russians in solemn black coats buttoned I'D |
to their heavy boards, lounged among the |
kiosks. He saw Belgium's heavy arches |
und Frances magnificent doorways. |
Through them he caught glimpses of silks, |
bronzes, porcelains, golden ware He |
leaned on plush ropes and looked into the |
most luxurious apartments known to Eng |
land. He saw Germany 'sminarts, the riot |
ous show of rich colors and foliate decora-
ton, the dripping fountains and the tangled |
grillwork The daintiest and most costly |
products of American mills were fuffed |
and festooned in booths some of which |
seemed carved from ebony and silver. The
peaked roof and sheltering caves of Japan's
airy castle invited him to ramble among
the fre-fes and dragons. He saw many
more things through the glass doorways of
the miniature palaces. yet the best thing he
saw was the street itself.
Spool cotton, cents, at A. S. Adams.