The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
MIDWAY PlAISANcE.

Some OF the Leading Features-Plans
That Promise the Best Fair st. Louis
Ever Had.
Persons who attend the great st.
Louis fair in October will see sights
from many foreign corners of the
world. They can hear the m~onotonous
cry of the old muezzin calling the faith
fui to prayer in the Turkish mosque;
they can have a ride on the meek-eyed
camels in the streets of Cairo, and
alight at the theater where beautiful
houris, with dreamy eyes, will appear,
and perform all the evolutions of the
famous danse du ~ventre; they can wan
der through the quaint corners of Old
Vienna and sit in ancient cafes; they
can lose themselves in the labyrinthine
windings of the Moorish Palace; they
can see the lion ride the horse and play
with the tiger and leopard in Hagen
beck's show; they can see Hindoo Jug
glers apparently defy all laws of
gravitation; these and many other odd
and unique sights can be seen by at
tendants at the st. Louis fair. In short,
the Midway of the Worlds fair is to be
reproduced.
An avenue 1000 feet long will be laid
u on the fair grounds, and so feet
wide, on either side of which will be
arranged the building and pavilions
of the following nationalities and at
fractions: Streets of Cairo, Egyptian
Theater, Libby Glass Works, Old Wen
ma, Japanese Theater, Beauty Show,
Persian Theater, New England Home,
Turkish Theater, Moorish Palace,
beck's Arena, German Village, Blarney
Castle, Hindoos and Ferris Wheel.
The interior of these buildings will
contain many of the original attrac-
tions seen at the Worlds fair. The
Streets of Cairo will be supplied with
Egyptian dancers, fencers and musi-
clans. The Oriental marriage cere-
mony will be performed as at the
Worlds fair, and the ''Hot-Hot" man
will also be in evidence.
The Libby Glass Works will be under
the management of Mr.. Libby, who had
charge of the same at Chicago on the
Plaisance. Mr.. Hammesfahr and a
number of the same pinners and weav-
ers from Chicago Midway will enter
tain and delight the throngs who will
see the Midway on the st. Louis fair
grounds.
Old Vienna, with its pretty Venetian
girls, dressed in Austrian costumes,
serving refreshments, is also among the
attractions billed for the st. Louis Mid
way. A good band of musicians, and
seating capacity for 500 people will be
provided in the pavilion.
The japanese Bazaar will be presided
over by winsOme japanese girls, and
at the japanese theater Japanese Jug
CLING and hair-raising acrobatic per-
formances will be given, all of which
will lend a decidedly oriental air to its
japanese architecture and ornamental
lions.
The Beauty Show, with it's typical
beauties, attired in the costumes of
their respective nationalities, is bound
to be a great rage with the ''chappies."
The Persian theater will be equipped
with five of the stars of the Midway
Theater, among whom may be men
toned Carmalita, Thyissa. Dervish, the
only Fatima, and Little Egypt, who de-
lighted the throngs with their graceful
dancing. In addition to these there
will be musicians and singers.
The typical New England home will
be reproduced with its quaint furnish.
ings, its bacon and beans and pump
kins-pies, all served BY charming ladies
in the costume of the colonial period.
The Turkish Theater will be supplied
with singers, dancers n musicians,
with the same queer instruments and
weird strains that We're so prominent
at the Worlds fair.
The Moorish Palace will be repro
duced with absolute fidelity to the
original in its exterior. The maze on
the interior will be somewhat differ
ent from the original, but if possible
more ~perplexing.
In the Egyptian Hall of London will
be witnessed exhibitions of magic illu-
sions, black art, second sight, hypno-
tism. nuemonics and m~ind-reading.
H~agenbeck's Arena will not contain
the original attractions, but others just
as good will be substituted. Messrs.
Bostock & Rosewood, with their trained
dnlIudlS, Will De substituted IOr CnOSe
of Hagenbeck's. The exterior, how
ever, will be a reproduction of the Mid
way arena.
The German Village will be in all es-
sential particulars a reproduction OF
the Chicago village. A band of music.
retreshment tables and German wait
resses in costume will give it most re-
alistic appearance. A seating capacity
of about 500 people will be provided in
this pavilion.
Blarney Castle, Lady Aberdeen's
Blarney Castle, will be reproduced with
fidelity to the original. The Irish piper
who made music for the Chicago peo-
pie will reproduce the same strains
here. Patsy B%rannigan, the celebrated
jig-dancer and Irish singer, will be on
hand, and this pavilion promises to be
among the most attractive features OF
the Midway.
A company of Hindoos has been Sc
cured. which will be an object lesson
in natural history. The women are
very small and they will have with
them a sacred bull from India, only 80
inches high.
The Midway will, of course, be kept
open in the evening, affofding those
who have no time tn attend in the dav