The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-10
PATERSON'S FORGET IT WEEK
"ROSINA THE LIMIT AND "ZC-
LEIkA" KEEP THINGS WARN.

hut Not Vet q Non-Bla me Newark.
PATERSON, n. j.. Sept, 9.-"Forget 1t
Week. Paterson's festival by way OF DEM
onstrating that It has overcome and lived
down it's disasters and moral shortcomings
Of the past. is passing in its own noisy,
cheerful and spectacular way. To-day
the great popular effort was the industrial
parade. There were almost two hundred
floats and five hundred or more wagons
in the procession, and they typiied Pater-
sons stores and other industries most
picturesquely and gaudily But what
interested Paterson most of all was the
difference of opinion between the W. CT. U.
and the management Of the shows on Colts
Hill
Paterson is very moral these days The
object Of Forget 1t Week" is to prove
that Paterson is the Sunday sohoolest
community in the world But In order
to bring a large number of strangers to
the city to appreciate the righteousness
Of the made-over Paterson il was neces-
sary to have shows. The shows which
accepted the overtures OF the Business
Mems associations were shows that had
been touring the West, from fall festival"
to harvest carnival" wherever there
was community which wanted to get
a few strangers within It's confines. None
Of them had ever seen before town that
was celebrating its survival OF food, fire.
anarchy and choral 1t took the show
proprietors a few days to assimilate the
spirit Of the occasion. Unless The Sun
reporter who made the tour Of the Colts
Hill attract ions last night happened
on exceptional performances, there is
still some misunderstanding on the subject.
The two shows to which the W. G. T. U.
objected were those labelled Oriental
Theatre" and -Rosina the Limit Various
persons, including one minister, reported
to Dr. Layton, the chairman Of the Business
Mems Committee, that these two shows
wouldn't do at all Others reported that
| they did altogether too much. DR.. Layton
summoned Mr.. Dobbins and Mr.. Hamilton,
the managers of the two shows, before him
and informed them that the city OF Pater-
son was now a purified and chastened
community, and they must either cut it out
or get out. Both said they would.
Mr.. Dobbns, however. only extended
the cutting-out process to his exhibition.
The lecture with which he invites the popu-
lace to witness the wonders under his tent
still remains a palpitating bit of English
prose, trae too fervid for the ". c. I. U.
He produces the Lady Zueika, brunette,
who Ia old enough to sell newspapers in
New York on the platform in front of the
tent and thus addresses his fellow citizens:
Gentlemen. you see here the most ac
complished female in the universe. She
is the most versatile known adept in the
muscle dance Of the voluptuous and pas
sionate East. You see her-at ease. But
if you could see her in motion Huleika
wriggles one kneel Stop. Stop Not out
here But let me ell yon ladies and gents.
this medal which she wears upon her lovely
bosom pointing TO boom-the-town
brass badge slung around the subjects
neck] was presented to her by his Royal
Highness the Sultan OF T-o-u-r-k-e-e-e.
She won it by the splendid and Ian guorous
dance with which she favored him in the !
presence Of all the representatives Of the
foreign Powers in his great and magnificent |
palace in Jerusalem.
Now gents. you know what an Oriental |
dance is winksl It isn't merely dance !
of muscle You know [winksl Every
ounce of bone and flesh in her entire throb-
bling personality vihrateS with the Joy |,
of living. under the influence OF TINS weird |
Eastern music. Come one and all and for !
the mere pittance. &c"
Whereupon the weird Eastern music. |
produced with a kazoO and a drum, stops |
suddenly and an audience of six or seven |
creCl,lious persons Is admitted to a dusty |
little tent in which Is n platform on which |
Zuleika and others prance sedately back |
and forth three times, touch their trembling
hands to their venerable lips and jump |
down.
The W c. T. L. says that it has no obiec-
ton to this show II is a good thing for
wicked men to be disappointed, and serves
'em right.
But the way things are carried on in the
precincts Of "Rosna he Limit" does not
meet with such cordial approval. II savors
too much of the wicked old Paterson Of the
wicked past The oratory is very tame
but when the faded red curtain within is
drawn back and the gentleman in charge
announces .The Flea Hunt Paterson
shoulders. The picture is, indeed, one 70
stir the emotions, Two fat persons, who
would be recognized by magazine readers
anywhere az advertisements for union
underwear, are depicted in making the
left knee of the latest the object for their
united attention. The curtain was drawn
back into place too soon last night for any
one to know whether they got it or not
Paterson, as reformed. thinks that this is
immoral. The citizens committee ha,, the |
matter under Amusement
Meanwhile. of course, there is NO ohlGl-
ton upon the virtuous folk Of the city 10
wabble in their righteousness by entering
the portals Of question: bic exhibitions.
Colts Hill has BostcCk animal show
and Meville's circus and fifteen or
twenty other moral entertainments to offer.
But so great is the zeal of the Forget II
GEEK" enthusiasts that thoy all make for
Rosina and her competit ors- presumably
to make sure that no injustice is being
done by them to the city's new, fair
name.
There has been only one mishap-the horri-
bic discovery Of the W. c. T, u, of course,
excepted-since Sunday. This was an
accident on Colts Hin yesterday. Mrs.
Mary McAvenny, with her baby. was stand
ing in front Of Cicero Dobbins's rostrum.
so enthralled by his golden words that
she did not got ont OF the way OF a team
driven across the hill at furious pace.
She was knocked down and her arm was
broken and the baby's nose was skinned
Did you catch the driver7" the Paterson
police were asked.
Nav" said the sergeant at the desk,
-but he was drunk; that q all that allied him.
Know who he was?'
Nav. 'cept he was from Newark
The records Of the Paterson Police De-
partment show that there has been no case
Of intoxication within the corporate limits