The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-28

OF the Midway mas Deen puDllSneu
heretofore in the Morning News. The
shows will be grouped in a circle and
will succeed each other as follows:
Leslie Carnival Company Ping Pong
Dancing Girls.
Taxa Tama, the two-headed human
freak.
Mummy Show. fttJk u III Eel
House of Trouble.
Bostock Animal Show.
Wild Rose of Yucatan.
Snake Show. .AHEEgXfyMHM.
Old Plantation.
Darkness and Dawn.
Vaudeville Dancing Girls.
willets Riding School and Hippo
drome.
Bernita, the educated horse.
A five-legged calf and six legged
hog.
Kennedy Brothers Indian Village.
The Old Plantation.
The Old Plantation is said to be one
of the best shows of it's class under
canvas. The company is a large one
and a minstrel variety. Mr.. Shaw
listened to several performances of the
troupe and says that the end men are
among the best in the country. The
songs are new and thoroughly up-to-
| date, and some of the trick performers
are excellent.
| The show is one which can be visited
| by ladies and children and is bound to
amuse. There is nothing at all ques-
tionable about any part of the perform
/ h. So, ~.
that would do credit to the best min
| strel company on the road. Many were
formerly with other troupes.
Riding school and HippOdrOme.
The Willis Riding School and Hip
| podrome is one of the most unique at
| fractions that has ever been on any
fair grounds. AS a novelty it is unsur-
passed and affords excellent and high
class amusement for all classes of peo-
pie.
The riding school is, in reality, liv-
ing merry go-round. The whole is I'M
der a large tent with an unusually
large sawdust circus ring in the center.
Around this ring are about twenty or
more horses, all standing as quietly as
though they were the wooden animals
on the customary machine. In the CEN
ter of the ring is large grind-organ,
| which plays the customary tunes and
| marches. No admittance is charged to
| the tent.
| For ten cents those so desiring can
mount one of the horses at the outer
| edge of the ring. When a sufficient
number have been mounted the ring
| master starts the organ playing and
the horses at once begin moving around
| the ring, keeping one behind the other
and moving in a perfect circle. Not
| horse will stop until the music ceases.
| Those horses who have not been
| Ao1 x,rka herr Of
| once leave their places and trot to the
center, where they patiently stand I'M
| til the music ceases. At once they re-
sumo their places in the outer ring.
This gives every one an opportunity
of enjoying a ride on the old never
dying favorite, the rry-go-round,
augmented by the fact that the mounts
are not wooden animals, but real live
horses. No accidents have happened
in the history of the show, all of the
horses being perfectly trained and ac-
customed to their places.
Darkness and Dawn.
Darkness and Dawn is another at
| traction that has been scheduled with
especial reference to the pleasure
the ladies and children. The. part
known as Dawn" is a series of pic
lures depicting the most famous Incl
dents in the life of Christ, from his
| birth to his crucifixion. Lights and
| shadows are thrown upon the pictures,
making the effects unusually vivid and
| realistic.
Darkness" represents a series of il
lusions, peculiarly weird and fascinat-
ing A man is placed in a coffin, and
| slowly, in plain view of the audience
| turns to a skeleton, and then is slowly
| brought back to his normal condition
| again. Later he calls for a drink ard
| the wine is brought to him by skele-
tAn 10 anf en- ln iva -,
spectral goblet but the audience easily
| distinguish them.
| Lastly is a spirit love making. While
| the man sits quietly upon a bench a
| beautiful woman enters and sits beside
him. She is plainly seen by the spec
| tators, but though the man on the
platform can hear her voice. he cannot
see her He reaches out his arms and
| the spectators see them pass through
the woman, and yet the man apparent
| ly knows it not. Mr.. Shaw states that
this is one of the most interesting and
fascinating attractions that he has wit
messed at any place.
The other Attractions.
The freaks are of character shown
by their names. The Snake Show.
the House of Troubel. Bernita, the
Mummy Show, Kennedy Brothers. and
Bostock Wild Animal Show, have al
ready been described in the Morning
News. The Ping Pong Dancing
Girls and the Vaudeville Dancing
Girls will give exhibitions of trick and
fancy dancing. number of the most
famous dances in the world will be
given by these two troupes.
Another show may yet be scheduled
for the midway. Mr.. Shaw did not see
fit to make any announcement as vet
concerning fhis. owing to the fact that
he has not yet come to any definite
conclusion regarding it, 1t is hoped
however, that he will be successful in
bringing the attraction here as II Is
said to be one of the finest in the
world.
Other smaller shows will be con-
tracted with and scattered throughout
the grounds and those seeking anuse-