The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-25
LOCKERBIE.STREET FAIR
EVERY ARRANGEMENT FOR sEPA-
RATING MONEY FROM PURSES.
Like Hot Cakes-VaudevilIe and
other Features.
be Lockerbie Fair. Have You heard OF its

the Lockerbie FART Have you heard of its
fame
and its fabulous riches. too for a name?
The gold Of the moon of the Junetime refined
To the ent-night, till the eyes and the mind
Are dazed with the sights. in the earth and the
air.
% the opulent splendors Of Lockerbie Fair.
What more fortanate fate might to mortal befaII.
Midst the midsummer beauty and bloom OF 1t all.
Than to beam with the moon DER the rapturous
scene
And twink with the stars they laughingly lean
Ger the luminous revel and glamor and glare
Fused in one dazzling glory at Lockerbie Fair.
james whitcomb Riley.
When people approached Lockerbie street
last night from East street they saw
large sign, Fair" in purple. red and
white electric lights That sign is at the
entrance Of the Lockerbie-street fair.
The fair was opened with an attendance
which portends greater success for the ven
ture than that of last year. The fair Is
being given this year by the residents of
Lockerbie street between East and Lib
erty streets to raise money with which
to furnish the cottage built with t1e pro-
ceeds OF the fair last summer in Fairview
Park for the Fresh Air Mission.
James Whitcomb Riley sat In front of the
Holstein residence, which is in the very
center Of the fair, all last evening, smoking
a big cigar and bowling and smiling to his
friends.
Mr.. Riley always takes much interest in
the affairs of Lockerbie street, and he has
written a souvenir poem for the fair this
year. ''The Loekerbie-street Fair" with
Mr.. Riley's signature, is being sold in large
numbers to patrons Of the fair.
81 have had my literary overalls on for
two days signing copies of this poem," Mr..
Riley remarked to friend.
STREET IN GALA ATTIRE
Lockerbie street has. indeed, come out in
gay and elaborate attire for the fair. All
the homes on the west side of the street
and most of those on the other side are
handsomely decorated in flags and bunt-
ing and japanese lanterns. And the street
itself-it is chuck full of candy booths, flow
e. booths. lemonade booths, souvenir
booths. and all sorts of places where one
can spend few dimes and have good
time. AT the north end of the fair is the
big vaudeville street, and at the other end
boys band.
The first place one reaches where he can
spend dime is lemonade stand. Next
the visitor is greeted with booth full of
greenhouses, on East Washington street.
can produce The booth is in charge Of
Mrs. Bertermann.
Walking little farther NORTH one comes
10 the little red and white booth where Miss
lavinia Cakes sells the souvenir copies of
Mr. Riley's poem, The Lockerbie-street
Fair" The autograph copies are very pop
ular and are being taken by the score.
In the center OF the fair Mrs. Frank Izor.
who lives opposite the Holstein residence,
asks you IL you do not want to go up on to
the bridge-for cents-and fish in the ''old
fish pond" OF course, you go, and when
you pun your line up you have a small
souvenir OF some sort
The bridge is creation OF leaves and
shrubbery, and the masses of green stand
= lights which surround the bridge on all
sides. The bridge reaches across the street
from the Holstein home to the Izor resi-
dence.
Walking farther north on the east side
CT the street one comes to a little tent with
the sign, Fortunes Told" A peep through
with cards, presided over by daintily
dressed women, who will tell you some
thing nice" A stop is made there. too.
vaudeville show. And one misses the
vaudeville show; for 1t is very good and
costs only ten cents. No fewer than LIDO
Following were the persons who were on
the programme:
VAUDEVILLE PROGRAMME.
Roy Lane. a newsboy: Clair Segar reader;
Russell Izor, eornetist; Elizabeth Joyce, in
coon songs; Mrs. Hugh McGibeny, in mu-
steal monologue; Ellis Levy. violinist; Miss
Clara Mills, contralto soloist; Master Claude
Nfedhamer. fancy dancing; Ruth Beissen-
herr, singing and dancing; Miss Josephine
Messing, pianist; Frank Daniels and Mas
ter Louis Segar, Julius Kiser, Isador Kahn
and Little Miss Ruth Kiser, Clara Solomon
ard Mildred Solomon. in Hinke Dee songs,
which contain for this occasion two stan
zas about James whitcomb Riley. The
verses run:
James whitcomb Riley writes for little
Bout boogie man and other spooks.
He's just as good good can be,
And always gives to charity.
whats that mans name?
It's Sunny Jim.
Yes. that's the way we speak Of him,
And he's just as nice he can be,
Has always a smile for you and me-"
The vaudeville is in charge Of DR.. Ed
gard Kiser, who lives at Lockerbie and Lib
erty streets. The stage is neat arrange
ment In imitation Of a plantation cabin
After leaving the vaudeville. the visitor
starts In TO see what is on the east side
OF the street. The first place reached is the
German village. in the rear of the Kiser
residence which is managed by Henry
Runge, Albert Mannfeld and Theodore NJ.
Weiss. II one don't care for the kind OF re-
freshments served in the German village,
he can take seat on the veranda of the
kiser home and be served with coffee and
waters by Mrs. Henry Runge and Mrs. A.
j. Manifold.
And there Is still one more attraction
q twenty-five cent one. This is Zoe Zoe, the
palmist, who holds forth in Oriental sur
roundings at the home of Mrs. Trustin Igoe
between the kiser and the Holstein resi-
denceS.
Miss Lavinia Cakes is the head OF the
committee which planned and carried out
the arrangements for the fair.
CITY NEWS NOTES.