The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-06-21
CARNIVAL WEEK.
The EIks Decide to Give Man.
katO One.
The Lodge So Voted Friday Night, and the
Contract Was Entered Into
Saturday.

this year. 1t will be the real thing-a
sure enough carnival lasting six days,
with fifteen shows where admission
will be charged and five free shows
Fl. B. Potter. promoter for the
Bostock- Ferari Midway Carnival Co.,
has been in the city for several days
working up interest in the matter, and
members of the Elks gave it favorable
consideration. After consulting with
the business men, the matter was
brought up at Friday night meeting of
the lodge, and it was voted to engage
the company and have carnival
week. The following general COM
mittee of arrangements was appointed ::
Mayor Mic Petersen, chairman, Fred
Kron, Ed. Weaver, G. Fl. Saulpaugh,
Herman Wagon, Oscar Bierbauer,
Chas 7. Taylor, G. N. Andrews, E.
1. P. Staede and w. B. Davies. This
committee will appoint a number of
subcommittee.
The committee met today and chose
G. 81. Saulpaugh director general of
the carnival.
An informal meeting of the council
was held and the aldermen promised
to give the carnival the usual street
privileges
The committee then entered into a
contract with the Bostock- Ferari Co.,
to hold carnival in Mankato during
the week from July 10 to Goth.
The company is to give a carnival
at Winona the previous week and goes
to Milwaukee on the week succeeding.
The carnival will be held on each of
the streets crossing Front, from Cherry
to Washington. Nothing will be
given on Front street except the free
shows, which will include balloon
ascension and parachute leap by a
monkey, Japanese acrobats, etc.
The company furnishes fifteen car
loads of show material and 200 people.
The fifteen shows will abut into Front
street in the side streets, leaving
passage ways from twelve to twenty
feet wide for teams on each street.
They will be housed in substantial
frame enclosures, covered with can
vass. Ten cents admission will be
charged to each show except the men
agerie, which is the original Hagen
beck animal show, and to which 10
cents will be charged children and %
cents for adults.
Two bands will discourse music.
Nothing Objectionable will be given
in any of the shows, and no gambling
games or fakirs will be allowed. The
Elks are to dispose of all rights and
privileges.
The animal show will be located on
Main street, and includes twenty-one
performing lions. The Ferris wheel,
sixty feet high, will be set up near the
city hall. One or two shows will be
located on each cross street. The dog,
pony and monkey show will probably
go on Cherry street. There will also
be crystal maze.
The shows will be lighted with arc
lamps on the inside, furnished by the
Elks
The country is to be billed for rs
miles around, and all the railroads will
grant rate of a fare and third.
Each road is expected to run excursion
trains one day during the carnival.
The shows will begin at noon each
day and run continuously until mid
night, some of them being repeated ten
or fifteen times.
The Elks hope to make little
money out of the carnival. The mer-
chants will profit, and it is hoped that
everybody will help it along. Thous-
ands of strangers are expected to be
attracted to the city each day. The
time is propitious, coming just before
harvest