The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-09-08
Many of the Old Faces Are
Seen in Side Shows.
The Displays in All the Departments
Are Magnificent.
Attractions That Make This The Greatest !.
Fair In Society's History.

The turn stiles at Narragansett Park
had lot to talk about last night and they
kept up their clattering and comparison
of notes long after the last car had left
the city and when the flesh OF the india
rubber woman had ceased to pulsate and
the human lizard had united the last
knot in his leg the talkative stiles were
still talking over their wonderful day OF
work and arguing about their individual
records of revolutions per minute.
Stile claimed that his spindle got so
hot that the wood work of the top Cross
was in danger OF getting afire and Stile
said 40 many bicycles went through MIN
during the afternoon, just before the
great sextuplet race, that the effect OF the
saddle tops was that Of a rapidly moving
leather belt.
This iabbering of the turn stiles was
not idle gossip, they knew what they
were taking about, for yesterday was an
immense day at the State Fair. An at
tendance of $4,000 on the opening day is
something never dreamed of before by
the management OF state fairs. President
Perkins was on the quarter startch yes
terdRy afternoon and looked happy.
Every square foot of ground held. its
badge wearer and just thiuk Of it,n said
the President, "there are two ball games
today at Adelaide Park, big attractions
at all the shore resorts, q bicycle road
race in East Providence, and matinee
performances at three of the city
theaters."
Today's record will be as satisfactory In
proportion. That is, the totals tonight
must be figured up with the fact that
this Is no holiday.
The crowds come early and the con-
ductors.ou the forenoon cars have no
snap collecting fares.
There is variety of State Fair fun
peculiar to O'Clock and IT consists in
watching things get under way in the
various departments and especially In
fakir row.
Director Livesey's program for today's
concert, which began on the quarter
stretch at 10 O'Clock this forenoon, was as
follows:
March, King Cotton, Sousa; concert
waltz, Symposia, Bendiy; overture,
Massanillo, Amber; Poem Of Love.
Batise; solo for piccolo, "rurtle Dove"
Demare, Sig. p. Tanning; medley over
ture, songs of the day, Boyer; Dance des
ADorigines, Boquet; galop, "Like the
Wind" Faust.
Th.re are many familiar faces at the
fair this year, and they are not confined
to the officers of the association and the
attendants at the various booths, but
may be seen on Freak avenue es fire.
quently as anywhere else.
There is no Midway Plaisance this year,
much to the regret of the young people
who like TO be real devilish and lead
double lives on So "a week, but the Mid
way people are here and make up the
casts OF characters in the various side
shows. That is where the familiar
faces come in, although the names may
be entirely different.
For instance, the dark-eyed Spanish
boauty Of a year ago VINO did the dsnse
du ventre Is now the fsir-haired Albino
with another string of titles. But the
mole behind her ear and the seer on the
bridge Of her nose are the same and so Is
the peculiar foreign accent, as after one
show and before the crowd gathers Tor
the next she says TO her stage manager,
$50 chase yersclf."
There is really nothing missing because
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