The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-22
AS THE CROWD SAW us
A GREAT TREAT TO THE VISITORS
WAS THE TEEATERs.
Unhappy Experience of a Bride and
Groom Who Could Get No
Accommodations.

ANYTHING better than a cot" This was the
hand-out many a weary wanderer received
from hotel clerks yesterday. Anyone VINO
had anything 10 sell that could be eaten,
anyone who had anything to sell that
could be slept on, might have found a ready
market. The city was not prepared Tor the
crowd, as 1t is before the coming or a con-
vention. Persons who have lost heavily by
establishing restaurants for enormous DEL
egations TO conventions that didn't come
might have made good If they had ventured
this week. People from the country nave
bigger appetites than delegations toto La
A. w. meets, for instance.
That the state fair is for the country peo-
pie, Indianapolitans are not denying, but
the people of the city have helped to swell
the crowds at the fair and on the streets.
There are some who make IL a rule TO stay
at home when there are great crowds In
the city, but it seems the majority or the
citizens have a desire to be on the streets
at the same time the visitors are. The coun-
try people would resent it If Ii were insinu-
ated that the city people like to study
them. The Circle is having its usual num-
Der of state fair victims, who, after do
ing four or five laps, stop a native and ask
him the way out.
BUSINESS OF THE THEATERS.
The business of the heaters has been OF
the kind that makes road managers rub
their hands and talk about the big attrac-
tions they propose to take out next year.
1t will be remembered that last year theater-
going people from out in the State expressed
a desire to be able to go TO indianapolis dur
ing fair week and see some other show at
E---f;-hsS +hop Honlapsc s.Gurarha ~ This
time "Superba'' is at the Park, and Eng
Iish's has one of the best New York pro-
auctions.
'Ihis is a great sight, said a man who
stood IN the lobby of English's Opera House
going in. 'Thele are all kinds Of people In
this crowd. A minute ago a man and a
woman went up to the door with gallery
tickets. The ~doorkeeper directed them 10
the alley entrance. The woman had a big
sack of apples in her hand. L have seen
country people go to the door without buy
ing. tickets. expecting. ] suppose, TO pay
As he spoke, a farmer with a little boy
stepped up to him. The little boy had a red
balloon in hand. .
asked the farmer, timidly.
Yes" said the lounger, the Empire
Theater Stock Company is playing Lord and
"Oh," said the farmer, and unused a mo-
ment. oh, yes" And he walked over to
the box office, where a throng OF people
waited to buy tickets. The farmer watched
paper money through the window and re-
ceive tickets in exchange.
The farmer walked out on the sidewalk
and round Monument place. dragging the
little boy with the red balloon after him.
AT THE BURLEsQUE SHOW.
The Empire Theater was filed. People
from the country are not supposed to know
what a burlesque show is, unless they read
about 1t in the papers. Two farmers end
their wives who went to this theater last
night do not read about burlesque shows I'm
the papers. The party found good seats
and stayed by the show until the Oriental
scene came on, The amorous music and the
girls in Turkish dancing attire did not Lave
a warm effect on the country people. They
'froze up against the turn" nudged each
other and passed out of the theater with
serious faces. 1t was a great sight. fer the
gang. The VIC men and their wives LETT
a great number Of Observation-Disclosures in
the house, however, and they al were
pleased: they were all men. A sharp OBJ
country would grin and elbow each other,
but were too timid to applaud.
Wa ~ IT, an eIoautl9n tdese d farmers ,en must
ago!" exclaimed the observer, when a young
man In a red vest and white duck coat
and trousers came on the stage, did funny
things with q cigarette, and then sang a
song with this refrain:
Deed l amt seen no messenger boy;
Go away. coon, l don't want to be annoyed.
Go away, coon.
See you gain soon,
You don't trouble my mind.
Told you not to go with a burlesque show,
You done 1t just for spite, an you're walk
in in the snow.
Trot along, honey,
I'd assent the money,
But L amt seen no messenger boy"
M nj - ~
doors with a delighted audience. The an
tics Of the clown and the brilliant stage eff
fects drew roars of applause. The stock
company at the Grand Opera House was
also greeted with a great audience, to a
large extent composed of indianapolis peo-
pie. who have begun their regular patron.
age of the stock company. The play and
the actors were appreciated as much by
the visitors as the home folks, Ii seemed.