Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-28
MIDWAY WORTH THE MONEY
Pony NOOrs'I Selection of Shows Described
bya Wise Boy.
ALL SORTS AND ALL WORTH SEEING ONCE
Vivid Description of n Saturday Night
Trip with the Crowd Along one
side of the Row and Back
the other.

Bobbie. my boy, come TO omahal Come
uuicki Touch the cashier for a few white
buttons and hike by the first thing headed
this way. The Knights OF Ak-Sar-Ben are
pulling of a carnival that 1 wouldn't have
you miss for a million.
Good? Why, pal, it's one Of those tell
your grand children events with all-star cast
and II there's any thoroughbred this side
Of Cheyenne who isn't entered it's because
there's somebody dying at home.
I vent against the whole works last night
went over with Tom Moore, Doc Pierce
Allie swoboda, Billy Penn and Old Jim
Dumps, and stayed there from milking
time till they snuffed the calcium.
oh, lovely doin'sL I'm measuring my
brain box with the Atlantic cable this beau
tiful Sabbath morning, and talking with my
fingers. I've got my voice done up In
rsmphor and ia wear ear NUTS II l had 'em.
Noisei On the living, / haven't heard
30 many different kinds since Carrie Nation
campaigned In the Third ward.
None OF the Demon d in 1t, mind you.
Bulge dispensaries we're all ruled of. But
Just a free and easy, French and sassy free
for-all with everybody entered regardless
OF weight or previous mark. Miss Phyllis
Pretty h-society was right in the same
play with Hattie Ham-and from the bean
house, you know. and nobody too good to
get on any other body's corns. Do you get
me?
where DeadwoOd freaks In.
To make II doubly fierce last night the
Black Hills bunch showed up. Bobbie, child,
you have never had what's coming to you
till you've seen that herd in action. When
they light, everything else climbs trees.
We butted into them at Roltair's and went
the whole route with them. Roltair's Is
a kind Of delirium tremens p%arlor, Robbie.
You see 'em, only you don't see 'em. The
teaser out In front piped 1t of that his
bill flare included "Phsroah's Daughter,
a beautiful illusion worked with lights" An
old timer from 'Deadwood, away back in
the crowd, thought he said Faro Dealer,
worked with lights and the way he
stampeded that herd to get into the game
was something ferocious. A cop was still
carrying ice to the cashier when we came
out.
Doc Pierce put us against the Eruption
of Mont Pelee, next door. Said Il was in
the interest OF science; that every man
with bad blood ought to see what a real
eruption is like. Billy Penn said he sposed
that was Docs kind OF huaoT," which Is
the first time / ever heard Willie joke. The
show? Well, it's pretty bully from a Young
Mems Christian association standpoint and
a good safe place to take the offspring.
In at the wild animal show we hit the
Black Hills again. Fast music! Colonel
Somebody was on the mat with a bruin,
Graeco-Roman, for gate receipts and a
side bet Of three bourbons. Jim Weaver
was feeding a lion from his naked lunch
hook and Dave o'Brien was boosting the
candy business with the snake charmer.
n shows got its own wind TANNERS and
altogether it's worth looking into.
where Tom wanted to Camp.
Bobbie, why is 1t that a thoroughbred
can no more do q Midway and pass up
the Streets of Cairo than he can do Chi
cago and pass up State street, They've
got one here. and OF course the ButinskI
family had to have a throw at 1t. They've
got two of the humpbacked boys with the
big tanks. a squad Of Egyptian coons and
a full choir OF the tut-tut dancers thai
Judge Cooley is going to introduce me to
some afternoon when It's raining and there
isn't much doing. Quite a show. Ton
Moore wanted to stake out there for all
evening, but We told him nay. Dumps
had sighted the champagne bots on the
tent next door and was in a hurry Il
move. Jim breaks away from the Battle
Creek stun any time you show him the
vineyard gate and he did the hot foot fol
fair this time. On a platform in from
were a pair of buds from the seminary
gardens that Jim said he used to know II
Boston. Maybe he did, but l knew ont
of them myself a year ago, and she WASH
in Boston then. She was doing the h-h
Hezekiah in front Of a bear show RICH
here in Omaha. When we got inside the
tent we saw the performance, which wa