Evening journal., 1903-07-25
COAST" NOW HAS
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Snake Charmers and Girls
Who Initiate Midway Per-
formers Hold Forth
BOYS AND GIHLS CROWD ENTRANCE
None But Men are Admitted But Youth
Of Locality is Not Benefited by the
Sight Of Performers or Talk They
Hear.

"rherel therel therei 1.oolsl look lookl
Walk IN men, q costs but FIVE CENTS are
soma OF the cries OF the proprietor and
chief barker OF a little side show which
has been In progress for weeks In the lit
tie frame building on Market street just
south Of Front street. II IS only open IN
the evening from until o'clock, and but
few people outside OF those who finger
around the coast know OF Its existence.
Yet the owner has been doing q rushing
businegs. Crowds surround the place
every evening staring at the painted and
world worn girls who are used as bart
60 draw The gunible men inside the doors.
over the door Is a sign bearing the price.
Sometimes 10 cents admission Is charged
and at other times 1t Is possible to get
In for FIVE cents. At the side OF the door
Is another sign which sets forth in glaring
red letters that none but men are adj
mitted.
The flarlng gasoline lamps and the
voice OF the hawker draw large crowds
nightly. A large number OF those who
are attracted to the resort are small boys
and girls True they 40 not get inside
but the sights and talk are not edifying
and DO not have a tendency to improve
the morals OF the children who from force
of circumstances are compelled TO live In
that crowded. hot and dirty locality.
There Is n change OF program almost
weekly Sometimes a greasy looking man
clad in dirty clothes takes his seat on
platform outside the building and picking
away on n guitar. huns "rhe Streets or
Cairo" A dark faced woman and n pale,
thin-faced young girl. who looks as II
she was afraid OF the crowd. stand In
the doorway while the fat and swealting
Snowman tells the crowd that they are
from the hot deserts and give an exhiDi-
tlon of Arabian life inside.
They go inside and a big negro can be
seen grinding out the familiar Midway
air on a squeaky hand organ.
This usually starts the crowd into the
room and the dimes fairly shower into an
.,ia cigar hov until hhe room Is full-
Then the show starts. Tho dark and fat
woman dances on a glass platform 90
lathe hummlng and hand slapping Of two
swarthy companions Then II Is an
nounced that the little girl win appear IN
living pictures. This ends the show. Both
are So bad that no one will pay TO see
them again, but those who come out will
not ten that they have been duped. so II
goes on.
i When this show viii draw no longer the
bill IS changed and some new faces are
seen at the door,
This week the attraction has been a
painted woman IN fimsy and scanty
clothes. a paper flower I'm her hair, VINO
appears on the hox outside the door with
snakes raped around her neck. Two
other pale and haggard looking creatures
wearing short skirts and ldmonos stand
at tho door and look on.
II is announced that they do q genuine
Spanish dance. The proprietor evidently
does not consider this such a good at
traction as but five cents admission Is
charged.
Every night a free show Is given out
side on the sidewalk in which three
negro boys figure. Two half green to-
matoes are suspended from the door on
strings. The hands Of two Of the boys are
tied behind their backs. A third boy,
whose hands are not fastened, is given
two tomatoes. II Is announced that the
boy who eats the tomatoes first will get a
dime. From the way the boys eat the
vegetables Il is n wonder they do not
die. The police on the district say the
= crowd Of boys and girls and rough char
acters who gather in front of the building
give them much trouble.