Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-23
South BROADWAY lIV[IY.
The Elks Street Fair Has Awakened
That Quiet Residence Street.

The ElkS Street Fair has Awakened
That Quiet Residence Street.
HUNDREDS OF LADIES AND GEN
TLEMEN VISIT THE SCENE OF
COMING PLEASURE EVERY AZ
TERNOON AND EvENING-THE
WORK PROGRESSING AT A
RAPID RATE+THE DECORA-
TON OF BOOTHS HAS COM
MENCED- SPECIAL WATCHMEN
ALREADY ON THE GROUND-A
BEAUTIFUL SPECTACLE AT
NIGHT.
South Broadway is quiet, peaceful
and pleasant residence street in the
geographical centre of the southern
portion of the Island. 1t commences
at Zane street, crosses Delaware, Vir-
ginia, Ohio and Fink, and ends in big
field, the site of coming residences.
South of Ohio street it passes directly
through the centre of the old base ball
park of eight or ten years ago, and
will ultimately be continued to the
State Fair grounds, when few more
hundred people make up their minds
to seek Garden Spot homes. A whole
lot Of very good people reside on South
Broadway. ranging in social status
from bank cashiers and wholesale mer-
chants to humble newspaper men, and
the quiet of their almost rural domi-
Giles is rarely broken by anything
more sensational than a milk wagon
or the buggy of physician.
This street, from Ohio south nine
hundred feet to Fink-mark the length
of the 'square"-and thence across
Fink and into a big field of something
like four acres, is the scene of the ORR
entail Street Fair of the local Lodge
of B. p o. Elks, which is to be pulled
off" next week. For ten days past the
street has been swarming with carpen-
tiers, plumbers, laborers and other
workmen by the score, and train loads
of building material have been con-
sumed in transforming the landscape
into an enclosure for the varied pur-
poses of the Fair. This work has
about been completed, and only the fin
ishing touches remain to be applied to-
day, tomorrow and Sunday, when
everything will be in readiness for the
opening next Monday
Along both sides of the street, from
Ohio to Fink, stretch two rows of com
nodious. booths, facing to the centre
of the street. These are floored and
rooted in, and in many of them-all
having been rented-the work of dec
Grafton was commenced yesterday.
Telephone booths have been COM
pleted, public toilet rooms. for ladies
and gentlemen, equipped with the lat
est sanitary plumbing, set up, a dry
goods store is OMEN and doing a good
business in the sale of muslin decora-
tive material, ETC., special police pa
troll the enclosure, an electric light
plant of large capacity is in active
operation, and every afternoon and
evening, the past few days, hundreds
of ladies and gentlemen visit the en-
closure, take note of what is going on,
moot thQj1~ friends md cyjx FOL
forecast of what may be expected in
the week to come. In the big field
south of Fink street there has been
such transformation of the landscape
that one absent for two weeks, al
though perfectly familiar with the
usual surroundings, would not know
the place. Here is to be located the
Midway, the German Village, the men
agerie, and a score of other attractions,
as we'll as refreshment booths. ETC., and
this will be the real centre of the big
show. The work of preparation has
been gigantic one, and yet it has
been accomplished without discommod-
ing residents in the least, and. not a
single complaint has been heard. The
sidewalks are as clear for public pur-
poses as usual, and not a chip or
other evidence of the big work done
is to be seen. In the centre, between
the booths, the street has been freshly
graveled, and last evening, long after
dark, many men and not few women
were engaged in various works of
preparation, while the street was fairly
alive with visitors. When the electric
lights on the two dozen arches which
span the street are turned on in the
evening, the scene is a very pretty
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