The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-08
The Person Who Estimates Near
est the Number of Beans in a
Jar at the Viking Cycle Club
Fair Gets the Music Box
The CONTEST is THE
FEATURE OF THE FAIR
A Large Crowd and Good Bust
ness on the Opening Night =
Booths PrettiIy Decorated
Drew the Patrons and Once al
the Booth Coin Went Easily

Viking Cycle Club members and
! friends owned Mechanics Hall last
night, and the manner In which the
friends packed the hall plainly showed
the organization to be popular, and one
whose success in life was earnestly
wished for by all who attended.
There were many charms in the
! forms of booths tastefully decorated
and pretty girls with books giving
chances on many articles that never
failed to make one part with the con-
tents of wallet, and in fact about ev-
! cry part of the hall there was some
thing arranged by the committee that
interested the patrons.
The decorations were very elaborate
| and the hand of the artists who did
( the work only added to the artistic
beauty of the hall. Red, white and blue
were the predominating colors with an
! occasional blending of the national col
/ ors of Sweden and Norway.
The decorations conferred about a
! festoon of red, white and blue with a
shield of the city as a centrepiece,
which was hung from the centre Of the
organ In the rear of the stage. Two
| Swedish flags were draped from the
| sides Of the festoon and surrounding
the figure was a large Swedish flag and
| the club colors. Running about the
| sides of the hall on the fronts of the
! balcony were numerous festoons of red,
white and blue, and in each of the
| four corners Of the hall were Swedish
| flags.
| In the centre of the hall on the floor
was erected a booth which contained
| the piano to be given to the person that
/ apf 10 he bat. of NO
! in a jar. The top of the booth, which
is circular in shape, is a large Japan
csc umbrella. Under the balconies on
! three sides of the hall were the booths
| trimmed with the national colors.
The opening night brought out a
much larger crowd than the committee
| in charge of the fair anticipated, and
that the fair will be a success, both
| financially and socially, there is no
doubt. Much of the credit Of the sue
cess of the fair is due to the head COM
mittee, made up of five members Of the
club. They are Edward Sjoblom, chair
man; A. Person Fritz Anderson
Charles Pope and Arvid Svenson.
The fair was opened by Charles f
Hanson, who, in a short speech, well
coined the friends of the club. He also
called attention to the guessing con
test for the piano which from the mum
Der or chances taken last night prom
ises to be the most successful featur
of the fair. The booth where the pi
ano is on exhibition and where chance
on it can be secured is IN charge of e
Sjoblom, Arvid Svenson, John Adams
Carl Norbeck and Gustaf A. Grell.
On the stage in addition to severa
voting contests on a dress suit case
a pair Of slippers, a cooking stove,
sideboard a ladies' gold ring and dia
mond ring. Hjalmar Lundin and H. J
Johnson Of New York gave an exhi
bition of heavy lifting, wrestling an,
a number of interesting feats whicl
only men of such wonderful physica
development could give.
The booths around the hall and thos
in charge are: Stage voting contests
John Anderson Oscar Bloom. Edwar
Johnson; shooting gallery, John Nord
strom, Andrew Norbeek; mystery booth
Arthur Ekberg, Herman Furberg
fruit booth, Marie Bergman, Ami
Bergman; candy booth, Lizzie Olson
Lizzie Hart; fortune telling booth
William Falk; soda booth. Chare
Sandberg; restaurant, NILS " Olson
Miss Sofia Carlson, Miss Chariot
Pahlin, Ellen Werman, Lizzie Werman
Annie Turnbloom, Mrs. N. v. Olson
Miss Jennie Calquist, Miss Annie Berg
lund checking BOOTH Carl H. Hort
games, Oscar Hagberg, Carl Svenson
G. Hanson, Victor Ekberg; CALLER.
booth, John Erickson, Gustaf Pope, Ar
yid Carlson.
The fair will continue tonight and to
morrow night All voting contests viii
close tomorrow night at ~ o'clock.