The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-13
Completed from Manchester to That
Vale Of Beauty.
VISITOR DESCRIBES CARNIVAL
Got Lost in the Crystal Maze and Was Afraid
He Would Lose His TraIn-Learned
to Disregard the Future OF His
Sunday Hat While Here.
Especial Dispatch to TIE Times.)


CHESTER, VA, Oct. 12-The SOUND
Of the spikers' hammers has ceased ana
the electric road has been completed as
far as this village; the wires nave peeh
strung and an iron bridge spans the AZ
Iantic Coast Line. Very soon now the
trolley car will be running into TINS peau-
tiful little place OF abode, and Whetf the
Richmond festivities have ceased chester
will be holding high carnival.
Unfortunately, however, the many CIT
liens who have attended the Richmond
Carnival from this point and vicinity nave
been deprived and disappointed az mol
having the pleasure of an electric Tloe
into Richmond to see the h1ns.
though they all seem to have been elec-
trified by the Richmond display and seem
to have been much amused anu enter
tanned by the sights seen there
LOST TO THE WORLD.
The writer, along with others, visited
the scenes there and got so tangled up
in the Crystal Maze that he had to
call on a policeman he found inside TO
help him out, and Threatened to nrlhs
suit on the proprietors if they did not
release. him. He could see himself IN
a half-Gozen rooms at the same time and
still could not get to himself, and people
walking up and down the halls OF the
palace in, every direction that he could
not get to either; and everywhere ne
went he was butting against glass, untii
he almost began to think that the lei
lows had shut him up in a prison, Where
he would be further tormented by seeing
himself multiplied many times; and what
a clown he was making OF himself by
trying 10 get out.
He was still further amazed as well as
| chagrined when he got out to find that
| the whole thing. vestibule and palace. was
! not more than about 20x3o feet
ADMIRED REX.
"Rex,'' with his Knights Of the Golden
! Horseshoe" and his courtiers. and the
| fools that followed behind in his train.
| Acd that other fool, too, that jumped
! backwards up 100 feet in the air into
| little pool of water on the ground, hardly
! large enough for a man to take a good
/ bath in-that was Il graceful feat, II 1t
{ was graceless act. was nightly afraid
! the fellow was going to bust himself
/ wide OPEN but he got UP dripping and
waved his hand to the people.
| It would take me too long to tell all the
/ sights the people saw and talk about the
/ Richmond Carnival" and can only con-
! clude by saying, so there and see for
| yourself Don't wear your Sunday hat
/ or bonnet for some "cuss'' will certainly
| knock it off under your feet and then
YOU will feel like "cussing.' and maybe
! YOU will get into a row. and the first thing
| you VIII knO" SoIHe pollceillahi " III iis' :
! you shut up in another palace Richmond
affords where you will have to pay to
get out, and not to go in, like that other
| wonder-seeing palace you have just read
about.
Mr.. J. W. Clay, treasurer Of Campbell
county with his wife, was on a visit here
a few days ago to their friends, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Friend, and attended the
Carnival They returned to Campbell on
Friday.
Mr.. W. T. Gregory, of Roanoke, also is
on visit here.
Elder Charles T. Russell, Of Allegheny,
Pa. author Of "Mllcnnal Dawn series,
and editor OF ''Zions Watch Tower and
Tract Society," will speak at Monticello
Hall on Broad Street, Richmond. at ana
P. NJ. on Saturday and Sunday, both
the 18th and 18th inst.