The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-07
THE ELKS' FAIR.
Mayor Hoos in the Role
Of Cupid Will Be One of
the Leading Features

Mayor Hoos consented yesterday to
marry a couple on Thursday night, April
II, at the Elk's fair at the request of a
committee of the nlks. The fair will be
held at Elks Hall, York and Henderson
streets. The fair opens on Saturday,
April 6, and continues for one week, clos
ing on Saturday, April 13. The marriage
ceremony is but one of the numerous fea-
lures that have already been arranged.
The happy couple will be presented with
an elegant suite of furniture. The names
of the bridal pair is not to be made public
until the Mayor ties the knot. 1t is said
that the revelation of the contracting
parties will furnish a genuine surprise to
those who will be in attendance.
All the members of the lodge, their
wives and numberless friends of the
Best People on Earth, are working dali
ly with an enthusiasm that forecasts an
unqualified success. The rivalry between
the members of the lodge to achieve the
greatest individual results has been
heightened by the offering of a certificate
of life membership in the lodge to that
member who brings in the greatest re-
turns before the opening night. Perhaps
no more tempting prize could be offered
Elks to instill in them a desire for vic
tory. Then there is a handsome gold
watch and chain to be awarded that
member scoring the greatest number of
votes in a popularity contest, the privi-
lege of voting being given to any one in
attendance on any night.
There is a most alluring prize offered
in a general contest open to holders of
coupons which the members are dispos-
ing of now. On the opening night, Easter
Sunday eve, the holder of the lucky num-
Der will be awarded a pneumatic ball
bearing runabout. This will be delivered
Immediately after the drawing is com
pleted so that 1T may be useo on the
following day, Easter. The lodge will
also place at the disposal of the winner
horse, harness and a driver so that
everyp reparation will be made for
spin down the Boulevard. There will be
a substantial spread furnished by the
lodge at the end of this initial drive.
Other prizes are a valuable piano, costly
furniture, paintings of masters, tapestry,
masterpieces in literature emhodying the
best of the bookbinder's art, bicycles, a
four-foot fully equipped model of the De-
fender, which prevented Sir Thomas Lip
ton lifting the American cup, two
years ago. The lovers of souvenirs will
have an opportunity of winning fine
specimen of the horseshoer's handiwork,
the gold emblem wrought by Bob Fsitz-
simmons on the Academy of Music stage
when he was here in "The Honest Black
smith" and which he presented to Jersey
City Lodge No. 211 through Mr.. P. T.
Powers, to pe offered as a fair prize. Mr..
Powers has announced that he will give
the winner 800 in gold for the shoe. 1t
is now on exhibition at Bernsteins cloth
ing store and it has attracted a great
deal of attention.
A valuable sterling silver loving cup will
be awarded the club or society scoring
the greatestvnumber of votes in contest
to determine the most popular organiza-
ton in the county. The cup is suitably
engraved, and very beautiful. It is on
exhibition at the piano store of Holmes,
vandyke & Co.
BY no means the least attractive fea-
ture of the fair will be the fact that it
will be the first opportunity for the pub
lie to see the new home the lodge has
made for itself. OF the old Tabernacle
there remains but the four outer walls.
The interior has been transformed as if
at the touch of tie airy's wand.
Not in many years have ladies shown
such interest and enthusiasm in their de-
sire to make fair a success as the aux
iliary forces now engaged are manifest
Ing. Every effort is being made to open
to the public view display OF beautiful
prizes, trinkets. bric-a-brae, and the other
innumerable joys of the womans heart.