Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-11

canvas is not keeping the tens of thousands
away from the garden. and during the last
couple of weeks the people who have felt
the old itch for the circus have contriyed
TO see 1t without being gouged so abon-
inably by the ticket spectators as those
VINO went TO the garden during the first
weeks OF the show. An exceedingly clever
scheme has been formulated by the circus
people to circumvent the spectators, who,
until the plan was devised were cooiIy da-
mandng-and getting. for the New Workers
are the easiest of all known 'marks"-as
nish as - for 59-cent seats In the amphi-
.asater: Every seat now sold at the box
once Wlndow Is placed in a sealed enyelope
me tickets must be presented at the doors
sun In their sealed envelopes The ticket
t;a1tn Tips open the envelope. takes out the
uche.' FEARS on the coupon and passes the
ucket holder on. Anybody presenting A
ucket that IS not inclosed In its sealed en-
Veiope Is refused admittance at the doors
no matter whether the ticket is a bona fias
one or not WIN AAAe
This scheme renders II impossible for the
ucket spectators to do business with the
CIRCUS tickets, for the simple reason that
they cannot exhibit their tickets outside the
garden except In the sealed envelopes ara
even New Workers are not quite so "soft''
ticte o "uy a pig In poke in the shape Of
Wes OF which they cannot catch a
sumpse. The ingenuity of the plan has so
impressed the theatrical managers who ara
,s LILY IN earnest in their efforts to suppress
me ucket Spectators that they announces
snat they Will adopt the scheme But there
are great many theatrical manaSers IN
th ew o hork who are only '.fooling'' when
.ney claim that they are as tiesiro,,s of az
terminating the spectators as the nuSi,c :,
10 nave them do So and who actuaily
.ueu secreuy. stand In with tbesa
on paw anu divide the rake
Tips for Customers.
FROM bargains and free lunches for tbs,,
women patrons some of the department
stores OF New York are still progressing.
o"e Oh tnem offers free ice cream to all OF
i.s VISITORS. whether they have anv check
Surviving that they have bought ANYTHING
vi not Another offers free candy for
10y young one brought along by its
10 hne. ana a mechanical toy of some sort
~. ~ ooo.. MOST or the big department stores
had good orchestras on their palm doors'.
year or so ago. and now one of the de-
par.ment stores is furnishing its patrons a
performance that is good deal lilo !,
vaudeville show. A regular staee has bes,
erected, and continuous show composed
OF singers. elocutionists 1ugRIers and tba
IKE. ana all OF them people of quite ac-
ceptable merit, is kept on the go during
all OF the stores business hours aftcr II
ociock IN the morning. Hundreds of shop
ping women are. of course attracted 70
:, ,He =. ess. .a by the innovation, and
~ Is 1alr 10 presume that the store mora
than gets back its outlay In the Increased
custom: Now several of the other stores
are building stages for the same sort CT
continuous performance houses are ticLine
1uriousiy and threatening to blacklist any
performer who permits himself to be en-
saseo Tor the free performances In the de-
partment stores. Inasmuch as there will
PROBABLY be a regular department stora
circuit before very long the performers
perhaps need not worry. The department
n sTuae Sonunuous performance business has
aneaoy seriously cut In upon the profits of
the regular houses furnishing this sort Of
entertainment, but the worst is to com,
one OF the greatest of the department
stores announces that 1t will have In w
Grafton this summer on ton of its enorn,nn.
plant a fine up-to-date roof garden with
the best talent to be obtained for money
LOT the entertainment Of it's patrons A
scheme Is being framed up whereby only
such persons as are known to be patrons
| the garden ~
The roof is to be one Of the largest and
| most gorgeously equipped in this country
ine owners of the regular roof gardens
| nave already set up their plaintive wall
t thra, TINS announcement. and they
threatening fnjunctions and all sorts Of
IrlV1alftes over the Conspiracy" New
forkers who have been gouged by the roof
gardens during the past four or Ave years
VIII be delighted to see the profits of the
established concerns cut into, for the roof
gardens are the very worst offenders in
the matter of standing In with the ticket
Spectators
Opinion as to Shamrock III,
Inc wise people over here. including not q
Few OF the yachting sharps. are quietly ex-
pressing the conviction that Sir Thomas
Upton now has a boat that will come
pretty close to lifting the cup. it, indeed, it
does not actually beat out the American
boat Keen interest is being exhibited in
the trials on the other side and the ease
with which the new Shamrock is defeating
the OLD cup challenger is theme for earn
est discussion at the New York Yacht
Clup. Ihere is very large element over
mere which looks to. the probable lifting of
the cup by Sir Thomas this time as a good
thlng In the interest of the sport of Yacht
racing. Those who hold to this view point
out the fact that it is exceedingly unlikely
that there would be another attempt for
years to come TO lift the cup should Sir
Thomas fail this time, and they picture
what fun it would be to go over to British
waters year or so after Sir Thomas cap
tured the cup and take it away from him
aga1n-which would be easy they say All
the same. when the races are actually on
there viii be twenty rooters for the Re-
lance to one for the Shamrock on the ex.
cursion steamers. and the fact that Sir
Thomas Upton Is one of the most popular
foreigners who ever came to this country
would not dispel the gloom in many souls
If he actually sailed away with the battered
old mug. C. L. e.