Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-13
A MINIATURE MIDWAY.
A Turkish Dance Which the Police
Suppressed Last Night.

A Turkish Dance Which the Police
Suppressed Last Night.
The miniature Midway Plaisance was
opened at the Convention Hall last night
and visited by about 1000 people. A con-
siderable portion of the baggage belonging
to the aggregation and the properties" did
not arrive until midnight, so some of the
advertised attractionswere not presented last
night, and number of performers appeared
in hastily improvised costumes. Indians
doing war dance in store clothes and eth
er incongruities were due to the non-arrival
of the baggage. The large hall has been ar
ranged by scenery so as to represent the
famous Midway. At one end is a canvas
representing the Ferris wheel and its sur
roundings and at the other end one sees
representation of the exposition grounds and
majestic buildings in the distance. Between
these points are canvas reproductions of
various edifices on the Midway. Old Wen
ma, the German village Irish village, Indian
show, streets of Cairo Turkish. Chine and
Electrical theaters and Moorish palace, CO.
lumbar guards. in original uniforms, were
to be seen, while a local flavor was added
to the display by the presence of number
of High School cadets acting as ticket SELL
ers and doorkeepers.
The Irish village is represented with its
straw-thatched cottages and budding pop
pies on canvas, and with the picturesque
Blarney castle looming up in the village
background. On frail platform a gentle
man whose most striking apparel was
pair of gilded slippers a stout man burdened
with bagpipe and green stockings, a really
pretty girl with coal-black hair and skirts
a iorid-faced comedian, wearing a SLOUGH
hat and side whiskers, and a thin youth,
cad in close-fitting red silk garments APP
peared successfully and sang and danced In
Hibernian style.
Adjoining the Irish village was the Moor
ish palace, but owing to 6. difficulty in Sc
curing proper transportation of it's delicate
mirrors, the famous mystic maze has not
been brought here from Boston The Turk
ish theater however. is decidedly realistic
ON the stage inside sat four alleged Turks
beating on tom-toms, and before them aTurk-
ish beauty, whose most noticeable article Of
apparel was pair of flaming red Turkish
trousers, executed at length the famous
muscular dance, that caused so much COM
ment last summer. Some excitement was
caused later when Lieut.. Teeple of the met
ropoiitan police, acting under instructions
from Maj. Moore, announced that the dance
could not proceed. This frightened Little
Egypt" as the beauty is called. She feared
she was going to be placed under arrest and
1t required the services of the interpreter to
calm her. The matter was compromised by
allowing the dance to proceed after elimi-
mating the objectionable portions of the ex-
hibition.
The Indian village smacks of the BLACK
Hills and made much noise. In point of view
of paint decorations, the copper-faced deni-
zens were for the most part like allstage In
dams. When Rain-in the face brandished his
tomahawk and growled and made grimaces
at MISUNDERSTANDING the show began
Half dozen redskins, male and female
young and old, slouched onto the stage
popped up and down and then set up howl
Much weird dancing and grumbling and
stamping ensued, and a person who claimed
to nave been cow puncher for many years
exhibited buffalo horns, Spanish spring bits
hear SlrfnG Ind
clubs and axes, tom-toms and other savage
paraphernalia. Then a long-haired individu-
al. who was introduced as Running Elk
Texas scout, together with young woman
wearing leggings, gave an exhibition OF
rifle shooting, they holding the weapon and
themselves in many difficult positions and
successfully splitting wooden blocks and
even visiting cards.
Three Swiss warblers were the attraction
"In Old Vienna" The Electrical theater
which occupies position at the extreme
left end of the Plaisance, remained closed
because of the non-arrival of q portion of
its machinery. Directly opposite the latter
is located the Chinese theater where five
celestials juggled. wrestled and presented
several other forms of oriental amusement
before n large audience.
"A Street In Cairo" was lined with one
or two oriental booths decked with fine rugs
and mats and worlds fair souvenirs"
which were attended by native Egyptians
A small donkey was the only four-footed
animal on exhibition, but a native girl exc
cuted a sword dance.
Hagenback's animal show was a surprise
The scenery inside and out represented
cages of wild beasts, and in a saw-dust
arena monkeys, dogs and a big bear dis
played creditable degrees of training Be
cause of failure to obtain a license TO sell
beer, the feature of the German village was
absent, but an orchestra played throughout
the evening. Hereafter light refreshments
will be sold therein.
1t is expected that a Japanese troupe and
a woman who exhibits a snake so large
that the strength of two men is required to
lift it will be added to the exhibition. The
man who twirls for forty minutes, and
who was with Buffalo Bill at Chicago will
arrive today, and hereafter can be seen on
the main street. When the crowd was
leaving last night the entire 'front.' of the
Irish village toppled over and caused a
small panic. 1t was caught by few brave
ones and soon fastened securely i'm place
There was much complaint among Wis
itors last night because the price Of admis-
sion at the entrance of the hail admitted
them only to the promenade. A separate
charge of ten cents, and in one case fifteen
cents, was made to enter the places where
exhibitions were given. The show, v hich
is under the management of Messrs. Butler
and Hunt,will continue afternoon and even
ing until the 21st instant.
COpgressman Warner on Jefferson.
Congressman John Dewitt Warner of
New York was the guest of the Crescent
Il, azr..l.