Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-12

AAAc3N%~ was on the other side. It created no end of fun. Another attractive and in teresting feature was Denny hyan's donkey. This animal has been ali over the world and he has done stunts ln every city, but he was tickled to death last night in the parade and az he bounded into the Auditorium he let out bray of triumph that made the young lady canvassers scream with af- fright
 Exalted Ruler Lawlor and Mayor Kilduff led the procession into the Au- ditorium, and all took their places in front of the stage, while the American band rendered an overture. At its conclusion the mayor and exalted ruler stepped toward the stage and the band struck up Hail to the Chief, while the people present applauded. Exalted Ruler Lawlor stepped to the | front and spoke briefly as follows:
 Ladies and Gentlelnen: It is all ways customary with the order of Elks on occasions of this kind to have the chief executive of the city present l and to have him officiate at the open ] ing of this carnival. I therefore take great pleasure in gintroducing to you this evening his honor, Mayor Edward G. Kilduff"
 mayor Ki1duff spoke as follows:
 T can assure you that it is with I much pleasure that I greet this large assemblage of people tonight Water bury Elks, their friends and visiting brothers. I feel highly complimented at this opportunity of being with you this evening and, while not q member of the Elks, I know all of them and have always found them to be good lr.s4 rl,x 111 II lows. It is a pleasure for me to open this bazaar. I understand that the proceeds of this affair will be for the Elks' charity fund. There is no fixed charity with the Elks. Their charity is given out of their pockets. They go by the motto. give all they can and all tsat is needed. l admire the benevo- I lent order. This is city of benevo- lent orders, and I believe that the lodge of Elks takes q very prominent place l in Waterbury. I hope this will be q grand success. I have often been i'll this hall. but I can assure you that I have never seen it look more beautiful than this evening. Again I thank you"
 At the conclusion of the mayors ad- dress there was more applause, and then the band struck up .'Auld Lang Ic stIlO lue ILlhS iltl dtltllcllCC joined in the chorus. When this was over the bazaar was fairly opened and the fun began. To say that the people were surprised when they began to look around is putting it very mildly. They were bewildered and entranced with the beauteous scene presented to them. the work of Charters & Borden.
 Festoons of purple, the color Of the
 Elks, hung from the ceiling and were fntertWined with streamers of white. Ellxs mottoS and ElkS' heads and enl- blems were visible everywhere. Above
 the stage was suspended the largest
 elks head that has ever been seen in this state. It measured seven feet
 from tip to tip of the antlers. The en- trance to the theater as well presented
 q pretty picture, and the first impress sions were pleasing ones. Hundreds sat in the galleries and viewed the pretty scene, while the great majority wandered around the hall and admired the booths and the exhibits.
 Let us now pass to the booths. Sc elaborate had been the decorations of
 the hall that the various merchants who had exhibits stroye to equal the decorations. and from appearances last night they succeeded. The first booth to the right as you entered the hall re vealed one of the great prizes of the bazaar. It was no less than Teddy Biggerstaff's trotter. There was the animal looking as slick as a whistle and showing how kind and gentle he was. Teddy himself sat behind the booth and with his assistant. Thomas
 Maher, manipulated the chains and passed out the books.
 The next booth which created most
 attention and took Ill plenty of money was the glass blowers booth. conduct
 ed by William Hallen and George
 Schmidt of New York.
 A. H. Goombs and J. F. Knox oi
 Providence had the next booth. and
 there were exhibited articles made from shells, consisting of stick pins
 bracelets, rings and other articles. The candy and popcorn booth was
 in charge of William Harper and did
 thriving business. The canes We're
 being rung and were in the hands oi
 IT. E. McEWen of Hartford. Beneath
 the stage was the soda water and other mineral drinks. This was il
 charge of members of the lodge, wh6
 made capable caterers.
 The Benson Furniture Co had very
 tastefuiiy arranged booth and every
 body stopped to have q look and ad
 mire it. A chamber set of mahogany
 with redwood chairs made up the ex
 hibit. which was Ill charge of MT Ben
 son himself. "Rube" Brewer did tho
 decorating on this booth.
 The D. B. Wilson Go presented ar
 attractive display of sporting goods
 and crowd stopped around there al the evening. A bag punching appara ! tus had been erected and Fl. H. Beal gave some clever exhibitions of punch , ing. 1t was q pretty exhibit.
 Driggs & Smith had an exhibition o
 pianos. including the Howard x Iver, . and the Pond makes. Sheet must,
 and copies of the Ellss' March wer, there, and tle sales were many Thi ] also attracted much attention, iron
 the ladies in particular. Next to thi ! was the Lucy & Fitzgerald booth.
 Reid & Hughes forgot to put thei
 name over their booth and many wer, . tue questions asked to find out who i
 was tnat made such a beautiful ex \ rrrf.. l.s- H.