The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-24

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a Mishap Last Night.
The Elks street fair and carnival was
opened in a blaze of glory yesterday
afternoon at o'clock, and from that
time until midnight last night it was
thronged with visitors, especially at
night.
All of the various attractions were
wide open and all did big business,
with the possible exception of a couple
located near the big merry-go-round,
whose powerful orchestrion drowned
the most strident tones the "barkers"
of these two places could bring into
use.
On the Midway the "barkers," or an
nouncers, were the most prominent
figures and right Justify did they work.
Here was the gentleman who recently
described the Jeffries-Sha fight
pictures at the Lyceum, announcing in
beautiful fog-horn voice that in the
Hindoo theatre, Mazurna, the beautiful
odalisque, would do the dance du
ventre, and directly opposite him was
gentleman who announced through
megaphone that "the Streets of
Cairo, ladies and gentlemen, are now
open; come in and see the pleasures
and pastimes of the people of the ORR
ent"
THE TRAINED ANIMALS.
The two exhibitions of trained wild
animals were perhaps more largely at
tended than any other shows yester-
day. In one of these the animals are
put through various tricks in their
cages, and boxing exhibition is given
by kangaroo, who puts up his dukes
just like a man and gives really
wonderful exhibition. In this, also, is
to be seen Wallace, the untamable
lion, who has killed six men in his
time, and who recently escaped in New
York and, after killing a horse, held
over fifty men at bay> before he was
captured.
Captain Lawrence gets into the cage
with him, and this is about the great
est thriller of the show. The animal
becomes furious the moment he enters
and, though he stays in only two min
utes, three keepers on the outside have
to keep prodding at the animal to pre-
vent him from tearing the man to
pieces.
The other animal show is given I'm
an immense steel cage. The feature of
this are the four trained leopards and
Jaguars, who are put through various
tricks by Mile. Morelli a handsome
young French woman. So vicious are
these animals that about the only thing
which can be used to bring them to
submission is a revolver, which she had
to fire in their faces several times yes
terday before they would obey her
They performed several clever tricks,
and one got on a ball and rolled it all
over the ring. She had to keep facing
the creatures all the time, and on sew
eral occasions they would endeavor to
get behind to leap UPON her, but she
didn't give them the chance. Another
feature of this show are the trained
lions under Cordana. These were much
more docile than the leopards and
went through many wonderful feats.
One magnificent lion walked across
board, only four inches wide, placed ten
feet in the air.
STREETS OF CAIRO.
The Streets of Cairo drew large
crowds, as did also the Streets of All
Nations and the Hindoo theatre In
the latter show a clever sleight-of-
hand performance was given by Ching
Foo Lee, a Chinese magician. A won
derful trained horse, called Bonner, is
also to be seen. This animal is pos
| sessed of a human BRAIN" according 10
the lecturer, and really does some as
tonishing things.
There are two moving picture shows,
| piN IN
ries-Corbett fight and the other show
! ing scenes from the Boer war, which
! are said to be genuine. Then there is
/ the Crystal Maze, composed Of mirrors,
| where one may become lost in just
| about two seconds.
There is another Bosco on exhibition,
also, who eats poisonous serpents. Then
there is Great Peter. the largest snake
in captivity, and Leonie, the smallest
horse, wild west show and other fea-
lures too numerous to mention.
An innovation was introduced yes
terday in the shape of a German VIII
lage. Inside this tent the lager flowed,
and vaudeville show of no mean or
der was given.
The industrial end of the show was
also we'll patronized yesterday, and
throngs of people stopped to examine
the many prettily decorated booths of
the various merchants. Several of the
Republican candidates have booths,
and others have men busily engaged
tacking up their pictures in every avail
able place inside the grounds.
/ White-capped Elks have entire charge
OF everything and take the tickets at
the different shows, while others are
posted on the merry go-rounds with
pads in hand, keeping track of all the
passengers who ride. The show will be
continued both afternoon and evening
during the week.