Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-12-10
PROMISES FULFILLED The Southern Carnival Company and the Prescott Eagles Fur
 nish a Week of Good
 Entertainment.
The Carnival Proves Great Sue cess and Passing Off Highly
 Satisfactorily to All.

days entertainment can be pretty we'll determined. The universal judgment is that the Southern Car nival company and the Eagles of Prescott are giving the people of Prescott and vicinity all that tley have promised. The supercritical might answer this assertion by sa y- ing they have not3 promised much, hence their promises are easily iul- filled. Not so however. as each have been profuse in promises and have been equally profuse in fulfilling.
 The Southern Carnival company promised a series of interesting and clean shows, and that is just what they are giving. There is nothing connected with any of them, which ihe representative of the Journal Miner has visited, that is of an ob- jectionable character or which con- taiDs even suggestion of vulgarity or anything objectionable. This is the universal sentiment expressed by all with whom he has conversed, who have visited the shows.
 Many expressions have been heard
 rom people who visited the large expositions, comparing very favorahly the attractions offered on the plaza with those furnished at the big expositions.
 At any rate there are scores and hundreds of people in Arizona who were not able to see the big shows of he country, and to them these nov cities and attractions are new and interesting. A few of the leading at fractions are worthy of special notice.
 The high dive, which is free, is one of the most thrilling and iaring feats that human being performs. It is even more so than that of the aero Daut, and there are few who would undertake It even for untold wealth. It is simple probably to the man who performs, and who knows just bow to govern his actions, but even to him a very slight thing might cause the feat to end with disaster. This is witnessed daily by a very large num- Der of spectators.
 Another free exhibition is the bi- cycle feat in which two daring wheelmen ride up and down a sixty-foot stairway. The announce ment on the streets of their perform ance always attracts larg number of spectators.
 or the tented shows, probably Bostock's aggregation of trained ami mals on the northeast corner of the plaza, takes the lead. The name of Bostock is known all over the United States, and that uame in connection with trained animal show is always a guarantee of excellence. Such has proven to be the case here. He has cages of ferocious lions, leopards, tigers and other wild animals, into the cages of which men and women enter, and make them do their bidding. It is a wonderful demon stration of the powers of the human mind and is an entertainment of un- varying interest, a single visit in many cases failing to satisfy the visitor.
 The Stadium, on the southwest corner of the plaza, is another very popular place with visitors. While the trained animals show a living manifestation of the powers of the human mind, the performance in the Stadium are also of an educational character, showing the wonderful possibilities of the human muscles. The entertainment consists of fancy bicycle riding, and acrobatic feats bv Japanese acrobats. Both are very interesting, while some of the gyra- tions of the Japs are simply marvel ous.
 Lunette, located in a black tent near the Ferris Wheel, is another at traction which puzzles those who witness the spectacle of seeing a young woman floating through space without any support in sight. What ever it is that furnishes the required buoyancy to the fair creature to float and dance and pose in mid-air, the performance is a very clever one.
 Near this, facing west on the north west corner of the plaza, is the Statue Turning to Life," very clever illusion. and one which fills the children with wonder and awe at the realistic spectacle.
 The Ferris Wheel, of course, towers high above the crowd and speaks for itself, and its well filled seats throughout the day attest more fore ibly than words its popularity.
 The glass blowers furnish an en- tertainment which is real and as in teresting as it is real. While this form of entertainment is by no means new, it never grows old in interest to all who see it.
 The most uncanny feature to be found is "Easau" in his den of snakes. He lives among snakes, eats snakes, handles snakes and is bitten by snakes-real. genuine live rattlers, too. He has about 200 snakes as his While there is ct ] enough curiosity in the human ma xe- i np to cause one to take look at this freak, few there are who make sec ond visit to it.
 Other attractions are the Mexican | theater, the Electric fhea'cr, Lotta, Old Plantation and Lo,ita, all of | them merit, r!ous in their particular ines.
 The general manager nf the South .rn Carnival company i~ Nat ReisS. whose portrait appears a!soye, a tho )ugh business man as veil as a. ,ffable and genial gentleman. The business manager is J. G. Fem, also m agreeable and pleasant gentle nan.
 The director general of the car lival is W. J. Wilsey, the presiding officer of the Eagles aeIie of Prescott, lnder whose auspices the carnival is being held.
 O. T. Riblet Is chairman of the ex- .cutive committee and A. B. Noxon chairman of the ticket committee of he Eagles. Each of these gentle nen is untiring in his labars, and the redit for the success so far achieved y the carnival is due to the excel ent systematic efforts put forth D, hem. Il
 The Eagles are highly pleased with the falfillment of all promise lade by the Southern Carnival com