The age-herald., 1900-05-06
MIDWAY FEATURE
 IS TREMENDOUS EIks' Street Fair Will Offer
 Many Attractions. GREAT CROWDS EXPECTED
Twenty Different Nationalities Will Be Represented Contract For Con- struction and Lighting Has
 Already Been Let

1ue HiuWdy WHICH the CODlfflllec Ol tliS Elks Carnival has provided in connection with the Street fair to be given during the week beginning May 14 is by far the most pretentious ever offered at any similar un- dertaking.
 Twenty different nationalties will be represented, comprising, all told, over 200 people. It will require special train to bring the aggregation to the city. Over 75, 1000 yards of canvas have been used in constructing the scenery and the entrances to the different places of amusement, mak- ing a street over 300 feet long, exclusive of the street of India, which in Itself is 250 feet in length.
 In connection with this are elephants, camels, donkeys and burros, and an elk which is trained to be driven in harness. The elephants, camels and donkeys are asosbroken to ride, and the little folks, and those who kindly go along to show them the elephant, will have an opportuni- ty, which may never occur again, of rid ing on one of these ships of the desert.
 One of the elephants is an old war ele- phant which was purchased several years ago by the London Geological Garden, and afterwards sold to Adam Forepaugh, who in turn disposed of it to it's present owner
 National Dancing Girls
 One of the attractions for the Midway secured by the committee is the Congress of National Dancing Girls, who are recog- nized experts in depicting their several na- tionaI dances The French, Algerian. Turkish East Indian Burmese, as we'll as English and American national dances are all rendered in a most artistic manner by beautiful girls carefully selected especially for this feature.
 A student of architecture will recognize at the entrances to the different theaters on the Midway at the Elks' Carnival re- productions of many of the most noted buildings of the different countries of Flu rope, Asia and the far east. The entrance to the Turkish theater Is a correct copy of the entrance to the theater i'll Constantino- pie most frequented by tourists. That of the Moorish theater is reproduced from facade in the palace of the Khedive or Egypt The entrance to the Japanese the ater is copied from the entrance to the Royal theater in Tokio. What is probably the most striking of all the reproductions of ancient buildings is that of the temple facing the Royal Metropolis at Delhi. The artist submitted over a dozen different de- signs of different buildings before one was secured which, in the opklion of the man. agement, properly and sufficiently impress ed one with the antiquity ana massiveness reuuisite to form entrance to as digni- fled and refined an exhibition as the Streets of India present.
 The Pathological Features
 The ethnological feature of the Midway at the Elks' Carnival will appear to all who are interested in the study of the hab- it's, customs and dress of the people of foreign countries. The committee having in charge the selection of attractions for the Midway have been actuated by a desire to make it instructive as well as entertaining, and for that reason have gathered together people of many different nationaliues as possible. Arabs, Turks, Hindoos, Burmese, Malays, Filipinos, Cubans, Spanish Japan csc, Cossacks, Laplanders, Esquimaux, well as all the nationalities of Europe will be represented.
 On the vacant lot secured by the Elks for their Carnival will soon spring into exist ence a beautiful White City, which will eclipse any previous attempt ever made for a similar entertainment. The booths in which the merchants will exhibit their ware will be sufficiently varied in shape and size as to prevent monotony, and all different colorings will enter into the decor ations, making a scene of entrancing loVel1- ness and grandeur. This exhibition street will form fitting prelude and lead up to the glorious effect one witnesses after passing through the entrance to the Mid way. The entrance to the different theaters and museums have all been carefully se- lected with a view to the general harmony and at the same time to be distinctive and characteristic of the country and race, whose customs and pass-times are exhibited. Aweek of Pleasure A week of glorious pleasure is in store for the small boy. The committee has con- tracted for two elephants, three camels and score of donkeys, all broken to be ridden by old and young.
 Imagine a ride on an elephant. Bicycles, 1 hobby horses, razzle-dazzles, switch-backs, roller skates and all other effete means of | pared with the cyclonic pleasures one eX- | perences when taking their first ride on an elephant
 The contract for lighting the Fair has | been let to the Consolidated Electric Light | company, and the contract for tlie fences, | booths and necessary platforms to George l Eyer, who will begin at once the work of 1 construction.
 | A joint meeting of the committees from | the Commercial club Board of Aldermen, l Board of Trade and Street Fair has been | held, at which Sterling Wood was elected | chairman and E. J. McCrossin secretary. | This joint committee has charge of and will arrange for the placing of the Spanish cannon now in the city.
 Second avenue between Eighteenth and Fourteenth streets is being put in condition | for the fair, all low places having been filled with slag, the street covered with chert and is being rolls and made smooth. A meeting of the executive committee is held each night and all arrangements for | the completion and opening of the fair are | being pushed forward