Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-28
STREET EXPOSITION,
Oriental Midway, Industrial and
Carnival Parades.
To Be Held In the Heart of the BusIness
District of Kansas City, ~. s. A." Under
the Management of the KarntyaI
Krewe, Sept. 2Sth to Oct. 9Th.
The Street Exposition.


ask the hearty cooperation of the citi-
zens of the greatest city of the west
and vicinity in making it a grand sue
cess. Everything will be absolutely
new, and it is the intention to include
only the very best exhibits in the va
riOus lines of business and industrial
art, and to show in a city within city
the progress and advancement of Kan
sas City as a commercial center. Also
the products of farm and orchard in
the tributary country.
The Purpose of This Exposition.
1t is designed to get up great home
products exhibit, a merchants eX-
hibit, a manufacturers exhibit, COW
ering all the multifarious industries of
Kansas City and many from distant
cities 1t will be the purpose to exclude
all foreign exhibits which, in any way,
conflict with similar exhibits of home
merchants and manufacturers 1t is
designed also to have large and pop
ular display of farm products, prizes
being offered to induce q liberal re-
Spouse in this direction by our farmer
friends. A farming implement show
is also being discussed as prominent
feature. A woman's building, or de-
partment for the display of art, fancy
needle work, fancy work of every kind,
kindergarten exhibits, etc. is also to
be part of this enterprise. AS the
work progresses many other important
exhibits, not yet thought of, will be
added.
The street fair and carnival will be
held in some centrally located street or
streets of the city to be set aside for
this purpose. 1t will be easy of access
from all portions of the city, and from
the various street ear lines.
Railroad Excursions.
Arrangements are under way for
special excursions on all the railroads
entering the city during the karnival
season, and it is believed that thou
sands of people from the surrounding
country will take advantage of the low
fares to visit the city and attend the
exposition.
The Midway Feature.
The worlds fair had its Midway,
which was made famous throughout
the world on account of the exhibition
of Oriental people and an eXemplifica-
ton of their customs. Kansas City will
have similar novel features connected
with its great street exposition. which
will include Japanese theater, Oriental
theater, a trained wild animal show, a
Moorish or Persian theater, an Amer
lean theater, wherein will be seen the
people from our new possessions.
Cubans, Porto Ricans, and Eilipinos,
congress of national dancing girls,
street of India with genuine Indian
magicians, fakirs, twirling dancers.
and native huts, trained elephants and
camels on which the visitors may ride,
sacred donkeys, burros and ponies, and
a German village. These are only some
of the features, and many others will
be procured which will prove equally
entertaining and instructive.
The Trades Display.
The entrances to the street exposi-
ton and midway will be SO arranged
that all visitors must pass through the
fair proper in order to. reach the mid
way, and they will have plenty of OPP
portunity to stop and inspect the ex-
hibits by the merchants of Kansas
City and others. 1t is the intention to
make this portion of the street as in
teresting to all as the oriental section
will be.
Wooden booths, fioored, rooted and
sided up, of the dimensions of eight Isl
feet deep. eight (S feet high at back
and twelve 12) feet high in front, will
be provided for the exhibits. These
booths will be built continuously.
joined together, with backs against
curbing and fronting center of street.
The street will be asphalt paved and
as clean as a floor, making the prom
IL s.,
booths The street will be entirely
enclosed with these booths for the en-
tire length necessary to accommodate
the exhibits. One or more grand en-
frances or gateways will be provided
for ingress and egress of visitors The
rental for these booths for the entire
time of the exposition, which will be
ten days, will be S. per front foot.
The exposition will open at one o clock
each afternoon and close at IL o'clock
at night, thus giving all the forenoon
of each day for visitors to do shopping
at the stores and exhibitors to clean up
and rearrange their displays The
street will be lighted by electricity in
the evening when the exposition will
be open, and this will give our mer-
chants and manufacturers a fine chance
to show their wares and products.
Carnival and Industrial Trade Para de.
1t is intended to give grand indus
trial trades parade by the merchants
and manufacturers on the morning of
the opening of the exposition, and the
Krewe also promises the finest and best
karnival parade of its history. to be
given near the close of the exposition.
The Krewe expects to give band con-
certs afternoon and evening, and such
other features as will tend to the eleva-
ton and amusement of the general
public. 1t will be a gala time from
start to finish, such a celebration as
was never before seen in a western
city.