The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-25
Mr. LEVITT ARRIVES
Reduced Rates Granted by
the Railroads.
The City Putting on Holiday Attirt---i Special
Train Of Carnival People En- ROUTE
Stms Of The Attractions.

Mr. Victor D. Levitt. of the Gaskill-
MunIy- Levitt Carnival Company, with
about twenty-five of his staff arrived in
the city yesterday from New York city.
Mr.. Levitt is here to give personal at
tention to the direction of the Raleigh
May Carnival work. From now ON the
work Will be pushed with greater energy
than ever. Mr.. Levitt is very much
pleased with the systematic way in which
the work has SO far been conducted and
predicts that the Raleigh Carnival will
be tremendous success.
A number of stores are already gay
with decorations and others will be beau
titled today. BY the middle of next week
every business house on Fayetteville
street is expected to be decorated, and
the handsome arch at the head OF Fay
etteville street will be completed.
The low railroad rate has been secured.
Yesterday Mr.. Sherwood Higgs received
a telegram from Mr. w. H. Fitzgerald
stating that a rate of one first class fare
for the round trip would be granted on
account of the Carnival for radius
of 100 miles from Raleigh over the South
ern and Seaboard. The A. and n. c.
Railroad will grant the same rate. No
Carnival in the South has been so favored
in the matter of low railroad rates and
Mr.. Higgs deserves great credit for such
concession. This is a most important
factor and means that thousands from
nearby towns will be sure to visit here
during Carnival week.
Herman ]. BerrlI, formerly with the
Bostock Ferari Carnival Company, will
do a novel advertising stunt, for the Car
nival Company. Mr.. Barrill personates
a Dutchman, Chinaman, Indian, and is
one Of the best clowns in America. He
Will be seen on the street in a few days
in one of his original acts,
There is not show on the great Mid
way Of the Gaskill Mundy- Levitt Carnival
Company, that is not worthy of especial
rotc and that does not stand pre- emf
nent and alone in its particular line.
Nothing of the second rate, the cheap
or the tawdry will be found with the
big aggregation, and only the best will be
seen. Novelties never before seen in this
country will be features of eaoh and every
show and pleasing ideas of decorations
and arrangement are to be seen under
every tent.
The new Trained Wild Animal Show
is filed with acts by wild beasts that are
truly startling in every particular, the
Crystal Maze is brand new in every way
and over three hundred o. the finest and |
largest plate mirrors ever imported from
Franco, recently arrived at Baltimore. |
Nd, for it, The famous Blake Dog, Pony |
and Monkey Circus is full of novelties |
this year, among which is daring mon
key aer0naut who goes skyward by bal |
Don and then cuts loose and returns 10
earth by a parachute The Night in the
Orient, will be the most beautiful at
traction of its kind ever presented in
america and will embrace a coterie of
ie most beautiful girls of all nations in
Pe dances Of their native lands. The
ysy German Village will be teeming with
rautonic novelties of every kind and is
u ,e to prove one of the leading attrac-
iols of the big carnival.
7 he House Upside Down in the latest
sen Bation from Paris and as its name
mp les is literally house turned up
ide down, in which the visitors meet with
il orts of queer surprises. The great
'tad UNI or Street of India, is the most
nag aificcnt show for ten cents that has
Yer been seen on earth. High class acts
osting over five thousand dollars a week,
making up performance lasting over
nd hour and half, during which every
ne has comfortable seats are presented
a bewildering succession.
Tho free acts are 4adrvelious and in
he open air can be seen by everyone. {
no Edison Kinedrome. the latest and
reatest moving picture machine, will !