Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-24

Jostling each other and humping ell
bows good -naturedly, q crowd Of 1905
people swarmed IN and out and oven
the street carnival grounds last even
ing. II was a good crowd, willing 70
accept almost anything and ready to
do its share to make the spirit of the
occasion one OF jollity and good cheer
All that crowd asked was that It be
given half chance 10 cut loose and
II would make a southern mardi grass
or a California flower fiesta look like
an Epworth League convention.
But the opportunity was not forth
coming. When an immense cOncourse
Of people gathers at S o'clock to wit
ness program that IS scheduled to
start shortly after that hour, and then
has to wait around and gaze al the
armament until the dial reads ten II
is no marvel that enthusiasm Is minus.
Last evenings feature was the delay,
and II stood out even more prominently
than on the opening night.
There was a plentltude OF waiting
for those who went out TO the
grounds last night, and II patience is a
virtue the crowd that hung around
until late hour for something to start
certainly had chance to cultivate that
quality even 10 faddism, Even royal
~ had to submit TO the inevitable The
fair queen and her pretty maids OF
honor were escorted to the throne by
Prime Minister Blair at about half
past eight o'clock.
That was about the time that people
began to wait. They thought surely
that when the sovereign Of the occasion
had come the entertainment which she
was there ostensibly TO review would
start shortly. But no. Even the
queen had to walt until ten before 1t
came about that there was program,
THE MACHINERY MOVES.
When the machinery OF the evening
finally did get into motion. II was well
worth waiting for. The Zarella
brothers and the Rainere broth
ers, acrobats, gave a very
credltable series Of turns, and
were heartily appauded by the big
crowd Of spectators. Then came
<NHinii' bglllaSt uilu tlullDllSl Win
q turn that Is more than a little bet
ter than anything OF the kind ever seen
here before. His wire is 100 feet above
the ground. and he has no net to catch
him In case he should fall.
With a 2O-foOt pole which was one
blaze OF incandescents he first walked
across the wire. and then stopping In
the middle on his way back arranged
trapeze which hung suspended from
the wire Letting himself down to the
bar, he drew up chair from the plat
form. IS feet below. With this chair he
balanced himself on the trapeze In a
breath-holding manner.
A SENSATIONAL FALL.
Then came the sensation. The chair
went over backwards. Alrion emitted a
sudden cry, Look outr as he and the
chair went on the trapeze backwards
10 what looked would be a certain fall
Both men and women all over the
crowd caught their breaths with gasp
and shudderingly closed their eyes, for
they thought. In the instant they had
TO think. that the plucky aerialist was
going 10 his death.
II was Just part OF the performance,
however, and when the people opened
their eyes, expecting TO see mangled
mass on the platform, there was
Alrion hanging rather flimsily with his
ankles to the trapeze rope. and holdlns
the chair, which he had caught as Ii
fell. Then the cheer that arose and the
applause that came spontaneously from
the big crowd testified only TOO well TO
the thrilling qualities OF the entertain
ment.
A THRILLING RIDE.
But that wasn't the climax of the SEN
sational turn done by AirlOn, king OF
the ozone. Strapplng a bunch OF In
candescents to every available space on
his body. he proceeded 10 ride bicycle
across the wire and back again. As the
bunch OF fire went rolling through the
air. 100 feet above the ground, q muir
muir OF appreciation ran through the
crowd. "T<ts great" was heard on
every Sde. And Il was great
too, with no over use OF SUI
perlatives. II Is part Of the
show which no one should miss,
ON THE DIZZY MIDWAY
DOWN. ON lHt HilNNo9 - Wh'AN So
people had the most fun. As they per
colated In and around the crowd. list
ening TO the spielers call their wares,
they derived considerable enjoyment
from comparing the styles Of the var
rlous bankers Nobody seemed to be
taking the fair seriously at all, and
there was little concealment OF the fact
that most OF the shows along the mid
way are the most palpable kind OF fakes
that ever held forth under chaste can
vas
Come and see Juno, the resurrection
after paradise" yelled the enterprising
barker OF the "Greclan Goddess show
SHE takes her life. in her own hands
at every performance and, OF course
that drew the crowds into the juno
show, which "a nothing more or less
than a series OF plastic poses, with the
glare OF the stereoptican upon a fall
lwoman's white clad form. II Is a
pretty entertainment and a deserving
one. but the spieler is little too orr
gipal.
But the cleanest show on the grounds
Is that OF "Lunette, the maid OF th'