The sun., 1900-04-18
WHAT STREET Fair PROPOSES
The Elks' Carnival TO be Ex-
planned at Meeting in Opera
House Friday Night.
ALL CITIZENS ARE INVITED
j. ii. Laine, of the Bostock Midway
Company, Will Address the
Meeting, and the People Will
be Informed just What
the Fair will be.

Everybody in Wilmington will be
given an opportunity on next Friday
night to learn just what the proposed
street carnival contemplated bv the Will
mington Lodge Of Elks s, what adyan.
tages it will offer to the industries of this
city aid the inducements which will
bring thousands of outsiders to Will
mlngton. A meeting will be held on
that night at the Grand Opera House.
IL Will open at s o'clock and the Elks
bave invited every city official, members
Of the Board Of Trade, merchants, clergy
men ana citizens generally to attend
that meeting Tor the purpose Of mutual
consideration OF the proposition to hold
the Street Carnival. The Elks believe
the cafni,'al would prove more beneficial
to business and industry in this city
ttlah any mGNem mt ever attempted 10
tboom city Of like sizA. To fad ont
Just what the carnival is and what al.
vahtages II viii fir the citi1ans must
attend the Gpen meeting at the Opera
dohse on flluay evening. Mr.. j. II.
Lame, representative of the Frank &
6ostock Midway Carnival Company, will
ADDRESS the meeting, explaining the
score ol Street Carnival. The BOstock
Company Will be a feature OF the Elks
ca nlVal II the great street exposition is
given. An idea Of this feature OF the
street Carnival may be had from the
words oil Director General w, z. Wilson
OF the recent Philadelphia National Ex-
port Exposition. Writing to Mr.. Bos.
took he said:
~ was my good fortune to visit your
exhibition in company with MANY dis
tlngulshed men-among them the Mayor
OF Philadelphia. the Governors of various
States, and others of note-and in every
case their opinion coincidpd with mine.
that 1T was the most generally INTEREST,"
ing exhibit on the ground. 1t is attrac-
tive and amusing to the young as well as
10 those OF mature years, and | do NJ I
hesitate to say that it was the greatest
drawing card' of the Ixposition. iii
we are to have another-N hich at this
time seems probable you may be sure
that will leave nothing undone to 81.
cure Tor second tine vour people and
your animals to aid us in instructipg and
amusing our patrons 2
Inc Bostock Company comprising the
picked features of ali continents and is
q verltable reproduction of "Ye Oldp
English Pleasure Faire," with added fpa
lures OF later date 1t travels i'm 40 cars
and and comprises Hagrnbacks Trained
wild Animal Exhibition. Ghauta the
Living Dpll, Gay Pace. S5UU00 V4ne
tian Gondolas, the famed Streets OF Cairo,
The Turkish Theatre, Darkness and
Dawn, Cry stal Maze, the Moulin Rouge.
Electra" reproduction of the j, fries.
ssharkey Fight, German Village, Gypsy
amp, Japanese Industrial Village. 4
Oarkey Plantation, Children's CarnosaI
md Bostock's School OF Highly Educated
Horses and Ponies.
At ! O'Clock this morning the Street
md Sewer Department will receive
ommlttee from Wilmington Lodge of
slks for a hearing relative to the bro.
'osed street fair and carnival. Iii tie fair
given it will be during the week OF
une Is and the lodge wants the use OF
evetal 'qnlrs.
1t is hoped that the mass meeting at
ne Opera House on Friday night Will be
,ell attended. Interest in the carnival
ready intense should increase when
he entire proposition is laid before the !
ublic. The display of the Industrial !
roducts OF Wiimingt IN would be laid +.
efore thousands Of people who wonld |
stend the street carnival. Business men !
no go to the Opera House on Friday :
iening will surely be impressed with :
lie d.srability of the street fair. =