The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-18
The ElkS' Carnival Inaugurated On
a Grand Scale.
The Bostock.Ferari Aggregation of Attractions i'm Possession of tbe
Cty-The Numerous Features of This Great Show-BriIIant
Scenes Down Town-Gafy Decorated Booths
and Business Houses.

] n on the inside the performance was
on. The Arabs and their camels, Holy
Moses Hug Me Tight and Lillian
Russell" were there to give you a ride.
Next were the Turks and Egyptians,
including the whirling dervish who
Whlrles for thirty minutes making 80
revolutions a minute. Then there is the
TurIsh gun spinner, Turks fencing, a
Turkish duel with broad swords, the
Persian magician, the Idol dancer, n
the Turkish theatre where q number of
girls performed constantly, entertain
ing the crowd. One of the principal
features in the streets was La Belle
Armenia whose speciality is Oriental
dances.
ELECTRA THE FLYING LADY.
On Market street at Second is Lunet-
ia the flying lady. Inside there is a
series of moving pictures, and then a
beautiful lady mounts gracefully up
into the air and goes through various
poses, attended by a couple of maids.
1t is a startling and beautiful illusion.
Great crowds went to see her.
THE CHRYSTAL MAZE.
On Market street on the east side of
Front street is the Chrystal Maze.
Great sterams of people went In and
lost themselves in the labyrinthian cir
cult of magnificent mirrors. This was
a very popular attraction.
The WILD ANIMAL SHOW.
Monsieur Ferari's great Wild Animal
show is on Market street west of Front
street. 1t is a great attraction and at
! tracted thousands of people. Princess
| Delaware gives a startling arena per-
Torrance with a den of six lions. The
brave woman make them perform
many wonderful tricks and the crowd
is thrilled in the eXetreme. Mademoi-
selle DeVere enters a den of large and
| fprOrinUC nIImaS or 4 marican lions and
again the crowd is. thrilled. They are
said to be the only performing animals
of that species of the cat family. After
Prof. Lawrence has a bout with the
famous boxing kangaroo, he takes his
life in his hands and enters the Gag
of Wallace, the monster untamable
lion. The beast is a tremendous fellow
and the crowd is awed by the daring Of
the professor who has to fight his way
into the presence of the savage beast.
The big lion stood at the entrance and
disputed his way, hurting himself
! against the bars, growing fiercely and
showing immense teeth and a terrible
) yawning mouth. With his staff and a
fork. the Professor finally fights the
big lion away from the entrance and
! quick as a flash he jumps into the cage.
Three men stand outside with forks to
beat off the lion if he attacks, but the
intrepid man gets the monster on the
: IA l1lt o1ICI llC " passes SA
! times from one end of the cage to the
other Professor Lawrence jumps out
as quickly as he jumped in. He hardly
has time to slam the door before Wal
lace lands against it to tear him to
pieces. He is too late, however, but he
plainly shows that he would not do
a thing to the brave man who had
dared to enter the cage of the king Of
beasts. The crowd cheered the pro-
fessor Justify for his great achieve
ment in taking his life in his hands, for
Wallace has already killed three men.
In the show there is also a den of
~leopards in training, and there is a
funny family of monkeys.
EDISON'S MOVING PICTURES.
On Dock street on the east side of
Front is a fine attraction-Edison's
moving pictures in charge of Mr.. J.. T.
Potter. There is a magnificent repre-
sentation of the fable of Cinderella
carrying out the story in all it's details.
Then there is Carrie Nation smashing
a saloon, and pictures showing Presi-
dent Mckinley at the Pan American
exposition, receiving the homage and
applause of the immense multitude,
making his last speech, and finally
meeting his death at the lands of the
assassin. This attraction was largely
patrOniZed.
THE SNAKE EATING MAN.
On Dock street on the west side of
Front the crowds see ''Os-co the Aus
tralian Snake Eater. He is in a den Of
800 writing reptiles of all kinds while
they crawl and hiss and rattle, "OS-co"
sits in their midst and every now N
then seizes a big snake n begins to
tear him with his teeth. The manager
yells at him, cracks his whip at him
and makes him quit. 1t is said that
"Oc-co' eats II to Is snakes a day and
that his meals are so per cent snakes
and 20 per cent raw beef or raw fish.
) He allows a black diamond rattle to
bite his arm and the blood ooZes out
but the snake eater is proof against the
most venomous reptile of the rattle
snake family. When he eats a snake
he bites his head off, sucks the blood
n then devours h snake before the
public with a keen relish.
THE MOORISH PALACE.
On Chestnut street on the east side OF
Front street is the Moorish Palace OF
Illusions. under the management ol
Benson & TTrgeon, Americas song IL
Illustrators, comedians n vocaliStS
There is a charming programme o.
!, skirt dances, poses and plastiques by
lovely girls, and the fable of Pymbaleor
the statue turning to life. a series o.
beautiful pictures make this attraction
one we'll worth seeing.
THE CHILD'S THEATRE.
On Chestnut street, west of Front, il
the pony circus and child'S theatre. /
is very popular with children and is
wonderful exhibition.
TRIP TO THE MOON.
The Trip TO the Moon is located OIL
Grace street east of Front, but it wa!
not opened last night, owing to som'
, difficulty. 1t will, however, be in fui
blast today and tonight. The shows al
give performances day n night.
THE SMALLEST PONY AND MAN
!. At Front and Grace streets is the Fill
ipino dwarf who is said to be the small
est man on earth. He keeps compan.
with certainly the smallest pony in ex
istence. The man is So years Of age
is 80 inches high, and weighs so pounds
The pony is "A inches high and weigh
between Is n 80 pounds.
THE JAPANESE THEATRE.
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