The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-05-07
rae sTREET EAIR.
Point Pleasant in Full Bloom on
This Occasion.


This Occasion.
The Robinson Street Fair and
Carnival Company arrived Sunday
night in four coaches and five bag.
gage cars, which at once gave an
idea of the immensely of the affair
The organization carries over lie
people. and carries with it long
list of recommendations from ether
cities for neatness, cleanliness and
absolute morality. unequaIled by
any other similar affair. No lady
OF child need have any hesitation
to visit any exhibit on the streets.
In the catalogue of exhibits will
be Matt Gay. the intrepid world
famous backward high diver of the
world. Mr.. Gay dives from 90
feet elevation into #. tank of
water. twice daily at 80 O'Clock and
7:30 evening. This exhibit in con-
junction with the Brown family
are given free by the city. In the
midway a series of interesting and
startling features will be on exhibit
ton. Annie, the sensational fire.
dancer. Lolita in "Roses Plastic
ques" and the sweet-"Rello Gen.
trail Give me Heaven, Lunetto, the
aerial mystery, The Bijou Theater's
where high class vaudeville
performance will be given, the
Palace of Music, when music and
mysticism will be in order; the
Electric Palace, where the visitor
can start from New York and take
a Biographical" town around the
world, with a number of amusing
pictures interpalated. Among the
freaks will be Hannah" the wild
girl from Siam; George" the
dwarf comedian, called the Turtle
Boy" "Ula. Louisiana mystery,
which simply places the "bump"
OF intelligence against stone wall
@Meno," the Alligator Boy; "Osco"
who absolutely makes a daily diet
on Rattlesnakes; 1.-THE Fat Boy, ("
weighing 615 pounds advordupois;
The glass blowers and a hundred
other interesting exhibits in con-
junction with the famous Pan
American Ferris wheel and always
popular merry-go-round.
Too much praise and commenda-
ton cannot be offered the mer-
chants of Point Pleasant for their ar
rangement with this aggregation.
1t means enterprise, push and 60
aheadism.
Street Fairs are popular institu-
tions. There is considerable
meant in their presentation; not
only from a primary standpoint,
which fact cannot be denied as it
invites strangers and excursionists
to the town, who are legitimate
money spenders, thus advancing
profit to all forms of trade and
commercial wares. But it also
means boom-louder than the roar
OF any cannon to a business COM
munity. 1t means that the people
of the town desire to let the world
know that it has place on the
map, town where there is push,
pluck, and Observation-Disclosures fun
dumental principles of success.
1t behooves our merchants to get
into line at once, to organize and
arrange special parades and home
features to add to the enjoyment
OF the week, and interest of the
many strangers who will visit Point
Pleasant during Carnival time.
The Register would suggest a
Trades Display Parade and Flo
raj Parade aud the erection of bal
lot boxes. for the purpose of voting
for the Carnival Queen"
Mr.. Robinson has certainly start
ed on the road to the fulfillment of
his part of the contract. Let the
citizens put their shoulders to the
wheel to do the rest.