Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-01

FdANl, CAMEIS, DROMEDAR-
les, ARABIAN HORSES, DON
KEYS. THE GIRAFFE, AND THE
ORIGINAL AND ONLY TIGER
STREETS TO BE LINED WITH
BOOTHS LIGHTED BY ELEC-
TRICITY = THOUSANDS OF
STRANGERS WILL COME TO
VIEW THE SIGHTS.
For several weeks past the Wheel
ing Lodge, B. P. o. Elks, have been
perfecting arrangements for a great
Street Fair, to be given in this city
during the coming summer, and on
Monday the contracts were signed and
the plans were fully consummated last
night, with the passage by Council of
a resolution giving the right to use
certain streets on the South Side dur
ing the continuance of the enterprise,
which will last a full week.
1t will be not only the biggest thing
Of the sort ever attempted in Wheel
ing, but the only enterprise of the kind
ever consummated here, and its sue
| cess ought, therefore, to be assured
from the start. A year ago a similar
Fair was given in Canton, Ohio, and
fifty thousand strangers were brought
to the city, to the great benefit of all
elements of the community. Here in
Wheeling We ought to do as we'll, as ar
engagements have already been perfect
ed for reduced rates on the railroads
running into the city, through the
Joint Traffic Association.
The local Elks have closed a contract
with the Exposition Circuit Company,
which will comprise the salient fea-
lures of the Fair. This is the largest
aggregation of the sort in the country,
having a salary list of over $1,000 per
week, and carrying with them not less
than one hundred performers, mostly
of the oriental races. The size of this
company will be understood when it is
stated that the smallest possible space
they can give their performances in is
150x200 feet. They bring with them
Arabian, Egyptian, Turkish, Swiss and
other villages, the Streets of Cairo,
something like a dozen Individual
shows, and a whole menagerie of ami
mails, including elephants, camels, dom
keys, Arabian horses, ETC., and much
scenery and costumes. The company
has contracts to exhibit in twenty
cities throughout the country, and will
| arrive in Wheeling about the middle
of the season, being here the entire
week, from June Goth to July list, in
elusive. In every city the exhibition
is given under the auspices of the local
Lodge of Elks. Leaving here on July
I'd, the combination will proceed to
East Liverpool, for one week, and
thence to Allegheny City, Pa, for two
weeks.
The local arrangements are for a
Street Fair and Carnival, and the site
will be on Chapline street, from. TWEEN
| tieth to Twenty second, east on Twen-
ty-second to Eoff. and south on Eoff
to Twenty-fourth. The Midway pro-
per will be located on Twenty-third
street, from Eoff to Jacob, and on the
vacant Klieves, Kraft & Co. lots, ad-
joining that street. On the other
streets lines of well built and we'll
rooted booths will be constructed, ex-
tending on each side, from the curb
line out toward the centre Of the
street, leaving the sidewalks clear for
| ordinary passage, and a roadway fif-
teen or sixteen feet wide in the centre
| of the streets. The sides of the booths
next the sidewalks will be closed up
the front of each booth being in the
centre of the street. and the most
elaborate arrangements have been
| perfected for lighting not only the
| booths, but the streets as well with
electricity, this to be done by the
| Wheeling Railway Company, which
will also furnish electric power where
it is needed for exhibits. The booths
will be diagrammed, and will be let
to business men and others at a rate
| based upon the actual cost of con-
struction, so that no profit will arise
| from that source, and merchants and
other exhibitors will be let in on the
ground floor. About twelve hundred
feet of booth space has already been
| taken.
Each of the charitable organizations
of the city has been allotted booth
free of expense, and will be given the
exclusive right to sell some one article,
| to be selected by them, thus giving
these deserving organizations a chance
| to benefit by the Fair
Hotels, restaurants, saloons and bu-
siness men generally will profit great
| ly by the large number of strangers
brought to the city by this enterprise,
and will, therefore, be expected to
help the thing along in modest man
| ner. Contracts for the construction
! of the booths etc will he lat aS soon