Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1899-06-16
JULY 7, TO JULY ID.

JULY I, TO JULY 10.
A thrilling 219 hour entertainment.
The finest moving pictures aver shown,
made by the celebrated firm, Lumiere
Bros, of Lyons, France. Read what
the Pioneer Press, of st. Paul, saws of
Lester G. Kent's exhibition:
The first of these exhibitions
of the cycloidotrope, given by Lester
& Kent, filled last night the floor of the
big auditorium and brought many
happy spectators into the gallery.
1t looked as though a railroad train
was going to kill fifty people last night
on Fifth street, between Wabasha and
st. Peter streets. But when the last
coach whirled by in a cloud
of dust, the crowd resumed
it's position alongside the track.
and declared that they were
glad they were almost killed, that they
would be happy to die on the Big Four
express again.
The moving pictures we're better
than anything of the sort ever exhib-
tied in st. Paul. The cycloidotrope,
indeed, gives more, and more satisfac-
tory views of moving life the world
over than any kintescope, animate
graph, acknowledgement or hioscoue.
The rush toward the spectator of the
Big Four Special, whirling past at the
actual speed of eighty-two miles an
hour, was made more adorably awe
some by the stipulated sound of hiss
ing steam and warning bell.
And a moment later, away out in
mid-ocean, could be seen, from the
deck of the Cunarder "Lucania," an
extraordinary contest between a whale
and a sword fish, the monarch of the
ocean leaping far above the waves to
shake loose the slender foe by whose
sawlike sword the mass of blubber was
hopelessly impaled. Descending. the
whales body seemed to cast spray al
most into the eyes of the onlooker
But the big "fish" is now blowing dark
fluid, evidently blood, amid the white
foam of ~upstreamed water. and the
picture halts as furious flippers at last
relax.
But before the photograph whistled
and sung and told stories, the crowd
had admired stationary pictures of the
SIMPSONS squadron of the Havana
Moro castle, of the bay of San Juan, OF
Rough Rider Roosevelt, of Gen
Wheeler, and they howled hoarse hap
piness on seeing Admiral George Of
Cavite.
The st. Paul Globe says:-The at
traction was Lester & Kent's Screen
Novelty and Moving Picture Enter
tainment. The audience sat quietly
in their seats and watched the skillfu,
transformation taking place on the
broad canvas on which flashed pictures
that delighted, puzzled and instructed
The first series of pictures included
scenes from the late war, with pictures
of the men prominent in the recen,
struggle. Dewey, Schley, Sampson
all the men whose names have lately
been added to the category of heroes
beamed on the audience from the
canvas, and the favorites we're loudly
applauded.
The entertainment was something ir
the nature of a climax, for, while the
war pictures were good, the tinteG
pictures which followed we're better
still, and the moving pictures, reserved
for the last, were the most enjoyable
things of the kind ever given in st
Paul.
Lester g. Kent carry the largest anG
most varied list of views Of any concern
in the United States; so extensive that
a new set of pictures can be showr
nightly. Some of the moving
pictures are so popular that the audi
ence demand that they be shown AGAR
and again. Lester & Kent's entertain
ment alone is worth the cost of ar
entire season ticket.
A GREAT DAY.
Monday, July 10, has been set apart
to be known as Farmers Day, and