Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-24
A NIGHT ON THE DIZZY MIDWAY.
An Immense Crowd Joses Itself Ood Naturedy in an Elo 10
See the Medley OF Good Things and Bad-Bar'
NUNS Keen Foresight

I air" II Is the only show which makes
| much OF q pretense OF respfctaOliilyi
| and the feature OF its barker's lecture
| Is the announcement: This Is no mus
! Gle dance, and II you are coming mere
| expecting TO see that We don want
your money. This IS a refined enter
| tainment for ladies' and gentlemen
| And II IS too.
once inside the average person who
has been TO other midway shows u
surprised at the notice that there rs to
be no smoking In the tedt. The best
OF order is maintained and II Is In such
striking contrast TO other midway at
fractions that Il deserves ana receives
good patronage. once last night an
unruly spectator said something about,
"hurry up the show, and the hypn0tist
who Is more genilemany booking than
ANYBODY else connected with midway
attractions, stopped his discourse and
said. "that party can have his money
back" and the party" was COM
PEELED TO leave the tent, to the satlsfac-
tiOn Of the crowd.
A WANDERING SERPENT,
one Of Bosco's snakes got loose last
night and created something Of q dis
turbance IN the tent Of the Oriental
theater. II was large sized reptile
and as Il came crawling under the cam
vas and made its way through The
crowd there was quick scattering.
The truant serpent was captured by
one of the snake eaters attendants and
taken back to his pit where he was
given an apple.
FOR MEN ONLY"
The show itself in the Oriental thea
Ter was very much improved last nisht
from what II was On the opening night.
Many Of the raw atures were elimin-
ated, but II is st show FOR men
only" II is understood that the pO-
lice quietly told Colorado Charlie TO
make his production o little more de-
cent but there is still room for much
improvement or better still, for COM
plete humiliation.
ON CAIRo's STREETS.
over In the Streets Of Cairo" which
is a counterpart OF the De Kreko show
at the Salt Palace two years ago, there
was an unlocked for diversion, par
ticlpated In by queen Ethelyn and her
maids OF honor. Under the escortage
OF Secretary Hal Clawson, the fair
ladies rode the big camel around the
grounds. and seemed to enjoy the ex-
perience very much. They did not ex-
press feryent desire, however, 10
cross the burning Sahara with that
means OF locomotion.
A SMART YOUNG MAN.
There were one or two little squalls
on the Midway last night that didn't
result seriously As I'D Smart, a young
man, was passing from the grounds
with young lady companion, some in
t0xicated ceebrator threw a handful of
confetti full In the young ladys face.
Smart promptly landed on the h0odlum
with his umbrella, knocking him down.
AS the original offender arose to re-
taiate, the young lady tainted. She
was taken In on the Cairo steps 20 re-
vive, and the intoxicated youth who
caused the trouble took occasion TO dis
appear.
An lncipient riot between two small
boys over bag OF popcorn was stopped
by Sergeant Burbdge, and there were
no other disturbances reported.
PULNERlZED PAPER.
Confetti. which is the technical name
for pulyerized paper, was on the
grounds In profusion last night and
was freely distributed by young men
with facetlous idea OF celebrating. II
clings tenaciously TO ones clothes and
looks like q stage storm. Horrible
sounds from demonac Instruments al
so made their little bids for popularity
and when the celebrators got their
pipes going II was really difficult to
hear the strident tones from the
Streets Of Cairos dinful band.
There was one performer along the
midway who didn't appear as scheduled
yesterday and last night, and that was
prof" A. Dittmann, handcuff manp-
ulator and expert magician. He and
Secretary ClawsOn had some difficulty
regarding terms. with the result that
the deft professor will not make his
bow TO the carnival patrons The
crowds will have TO be content with
"Bosco" and ia Bella Fatma" No
casualties have been reported az "A re-
suit OF the appearance Of the hand
cuff man.
BARNUM WAS RIGHT.
II the people who went out to the
midway on the opening night really
took the marvellous shows seriously.
they didn't show any tendency 10 re-
gard them In that light last evening
| Every show on the grounds drew big
| crowds, but they were crowds Of peo-
| pie who expected 60 be taken In. But
then once Barnum remarked some time
ago that the American people liked 20
be humbugged Barnum guessed right
the very first time; and that, too before
| the Salt Lake street fair had been
evolved from things that were not
Last night the people seemed 20 know
| Just about what shows were fakes and
what were really worth seeing but they
went to all OF the productions and took
considerable enjoyment In ioshlng the
unworthy ones The crowd last night,
In fact. seemed 20 regard the whole fair
as something 10 be joshed about. But
| then everybody seemed TO have a good
time. and patience was, as usual. a
' virtue.
TWIN IN III HuUuu ~