Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-04
FOR THE CARNIVAL.
A Huge Electric Fountain Has Been
Secured.
IT is A VERY BIG ATTRACTION.
A Kaleidoscope of Colors in connec-
ton with Living Pictures-Heaviest
Man and Woman on Earth Will Be
Here-Other Amusements.

These are busy days at the street
falr headquarters. Messrs. Hall and
Hamilton, secretary and manager in
their new office, 200 East Main street,
are smiling and happy, for they have
succeeded in booking for the carnival
line of excellent shows, something
out of the ordinary. A contract was
made with the Kansas City Motor
| Power Co., for their Mammoth Elec-
trio Water Fountain, one of the most
artistic novelties in electric fads.
This beautiful fountain throws water
twenty feet high in over $50 streams,
and by the aid of powerful lens and
electric colored lights kaleidoscope
OF magnificent colors, the water
| changes to all hues; then in the midst
of this grand scene the beautiful col
ors change to mystifying subjects,
showing beautiful sets of statuary,
then again changing to every color
known. What grander sight can be
given to our visitors? 1t will send
them home praising the beautiful
sight, and they will repeatedly talk
of the greatest of all cards, The Mys-
tic fountain.
| Next on the list comes the F. Muths'
magnificent New York carnival, max
| ing one of the most expensive and
novel fronts, 290 feet long with TWEEN
ty foot display banners. AS you pass
in this monster museum, to the right
you see the famous mystifying swing,
a structure of mystery and an act
that mystifies all that ever saw it. Set
ting to the right is that ever pleasing
| palace of mysteries, next the artistic
studio of historic subjects, suberb
| collection of scenes, etc., that are
well worth looking at. In the center
is the arena, styled the college of
American athletes. This feature is
conceded by press and public to be
one of the brightest lessons in physi-
cal culture ever seen in public. Next
comes the monster avoirdupois card
| The greatest heavy weight in the
world, Mr.. and Mrs. CLANCY More
head, who are the heaviest married
couple in the world. Their combined
weight is 1926 pounds. Next is Teales
electric parlors of fun. A temple of
startling laughable scenes. Then
| comes the great grotto scene; the
witch of Delmar, with all her weird
chants and Zingari gypsy camp, one
/
from the old country. This is an i'm
ported novelty, and a wonderful feat
ure.
The master card of all is Uno, the
PHILIPPINE clay and snake eater A
genuine native of the PHILIPPINE Is
lands, who in the presence of his audi
ence actually eats live snakes. This
show in all it's entirety is only one OF
the many that will be on exhibition
at the Ottumwa street carnival. Sep
tember IL to %. We are daily in re
Ceipt of letters from our surrounding
towns singing the praise of the great
est street fair the country has ever
known.
Let everybody in Wapello say g
good word for the Ottumwa street
fair, for its going to be corker. The
merchants have already donated very
literally. The restaurants and bak
cries realize the fact that Ottumws
is going to have big time, and are
making preparations for thousands O
people, and the hotels and other bust
ness enterprises are rapidly coming
to the front with their donations
Manager Hamilton requests all eating
houses, hotels, or boarding houses ant
private houses who have furnished
rooms to rent to send in their names
location and number of guests tina
they can accommodate for that week
as we are now in receipt of many let
tiers from parties who are DESTROYS
of coming and spend week with us
All manufacturers of popular brant
cigars will please meet at 209 Eas
Main street, Saturday afternoon, at
p. M, to further the arrangement
for the display of cigars to be made.