The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-19
OFFICIALS TOOK IN THE MID.
CITY FATHERS SAW THE SIGHTS
UNDER THE TENTS.

They Witnessed All the warm Per-
fOrmances, Including the HOochee
COOchee-The Latter They Regard
ed as an Interesting Scientific Ex-
.hibition-Triek Pony sIandered
Aldermen Understood the Joke.
The Female Snake Eater Enter
tanned Them-They Saw the AMI
mails Fed.
Savannail's city fathers spent three
hours In the mazes of Midway last night
and what they did not see was not there.
They took It all IN, from the snake eaters
tent to the wicked hoochee coochee. Gen.
r. F. Harmon and a committee of Pyth-
ians chaperoned the city officials, and saw
that they kept out of mischief.
The invitation from the general commit
tee of the carnival, which was accepted
by the Mayor and aldermen Wednesday
night, was also extended to the city Of
ficials. Between and $50 O'Clock the
party gathered on the Hall street walk,
near Whitaker street, where they
were met by the Pythlans. The
representatives of the city were Acting
Mayor Tiedeman, Aldermen Dixon, Haas.
Mills and Thomas, Health officer Brun-
ner, City Engineer VIM, Director Gads-
den of the public works and Supt. Ma
guire of the fire department Later the
party was met by Mai. ]. Ferris Cam, ex-
Alderman T. J. Davis, Mr.. Joseph M
Dreyer and Mr.. Jacob Gazan, of the Pyth-
ian Committee who escorted it to the
street entrance, where the party was re-
ceived by Gen. Harmon, Col. John Juchter
and their aides.
After taking a turn around the street
and admiring the trades displays, the par
ty stopped for a moment to witness the
exhibition Of trick bicycle riding Alder
men Mills and Thomas, who are the BIZ
cyclists of Council, admitted that it was a
little ahead of anything they had ever
undertaken to do in the wheel line.
Inside the Midway grounds The visitors
were introduced 10 Col GaskilI proprie-
tor of the show, who assisted the COM
mittee in doing the honors. There was a
large crowd on the grounds and the Of
fetal party could easily have been lost in
the throng, but the committeeman saw 10
it that they kept wen together and saw
every thing that was worth seeing. The
Hagenback trained animal show was first
taken in. Aldermen Mills brother mem
bers entered into plot with the manager
CT the show which put the joke on the
senior member CT Council. Then the train
er called UPON Dandy Jim, the trick pony,
to pick out the gentleman who had Iath-
er take a schooner of beer Than go to
church on Sunday, the pony cantsred up to
where Aldermen Mills and Thomas were
standing together and stood as If uncer-
tain viii h was the guilty one. At the re-
quest of the trainer, however, he picked
out Alderman Mills.
As some of the members of the party
were evidently inclined to stray toward
the other side of the grounds, where the
horrible din of the Oriental music indicat-
ed that the seductive noochee coochee was
in progress, the party was headed in that
direction. Nobody backed out, and the
hoochee coochee corypllees were soon un.
der official inspection. Little Freda, La
Belle Rosa and Babe Rel all did their
turns, while the city fathers kept their
eyes steadily toward the stage. The per-
Torrance was rather warm at times, bu,
nobody blushed. DR. Drummer pronounced
the exhibition interesting from a scientihc
standpoint, and everybody agreed with
him. The performance was said to be fully
up to the standard A member of the
party who had been there before shoo1
his head at the ex-queen of lfle Worlds
Fair.
Probably half an hour was spent in the
Streets of india" where the party had
reserved seats and enjoyed really meri-
torious performance. The japanese girls
the Indian juggler and the acrobats were
ell evidently at their best, while the high
dive from the ninety-foot tower was a
really thrilling exhibition to those who
had never seen it before.
Among other exhibitions the party toos
in the wild animal show, where they saw
the baby lion take his supper from a milk
| " Of ~,
vouring raw beefsteak. What with the
baby lion, VINO was in a playful humor
after getting his supper, and the female
snake charmer, who told fortunes for the
crowd, it took some time to get away from
this tent. BY the time the party had seen
Rosco eat live snake, which she seemed
TO do with great gusto, and watched the
rubber neck man do the giraffe act. it was
growing late The ball and spiral per-
Torrance in the center of the Midway
| grounds was about the last witnessed.
Out in the street again the party stopped
on its way to the exit to watch Harry
Pender an ex-Savannah bicyclist do
some very good work in the contortionist
line. 1t was not far from midnight. when
the acting Mayor and his party babe their
hosts good night on the Hall street walk
The aggregation is the best of it's kind
have ever seen" said Acting Mayor
| Tiedeman. II must say that l was agree
ably disappointed" said Alderman Thorn
as. with the exception of the hoochee
| coochee performance, all the places which
we visited were entirely unobjectionable
! and very entertaining"
| Other members of the party expressed
! themselves as equally well pleased with
| what they had seen, and Ii Is safe to pre-
I dict that the midway will lose nothing in
! the way of reputation from the inspection
| given 1t by the aldermanic party.
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