The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23
THINGS TO SEE.
Semi-Centennial Is Attracting
Outside Attention.
Many Old Soldiers Will Come to
Topeka.
ON MEMORIAL DAY.
Secretary Taft's Meeting a
Promising One.
Work Commenced on the Parker
Attractions.

Two more spectacular and novel
features have been arranged to take
place during semi-Centennial week.
beginning Monday, May 80.
Today the announcement is made
that the wedding to take place in pub
lie one day of the Semi-Centennial
week is assured though if the names
of the happy couple are known they
are being carefully concealed.
City Clerk Squires arranged for the
wedding which took place during the
street fair held in Topeka two years
ago and he has volunteered to furnish
a couple for the public wedding at this
time. He has not yet announced the
names of the young people who will be
married but he declares that they are
we'll known and popular in Topeka and
that one will be disappointed in
coming out to see the ceremony.
AS reward for being married in
public the young couple will be "set
up in housekeeping" Arrangements
are being made to secure an entire
outfit of house furnishings through do
nations of the principal merchants of
the city.
The list of donations is started off
with two Turkish bath tickets, and in
cludes already practically all the furni-
ture which viii be needed by the newly
married couple.
The other feature will be highly
spectacular. Inc w elIS-f aISO Express
company has kindly loaned the enter
.tainment committee of the Semf-Cen-
tennial the old stage coach which was
first used on the overland trail across
Kansas in the early hfties- The coach
will be driven in the parade on TueS-
day, Territorial day. Mayor Bergund-
thai and other prominent citizens viii
ride in it. They will be dressed in
buckSkins and the coach and the party
will be attacked at some point along
the line Of the parade by a band Of
Indians in full costume of war paint
and feathers.
This feature is being worked out to
be one of the most thrilling of the day.
After the coach is attacked by the In
dams a hand to hand encounter will
follow in which it is more than likely
that some of the participants will be
injured.
The request is made that all persons
having carria ges which they will be
good enough to drive in the parade on
Territorial day of the Semi-Centennlal
week report the same to Henry Nc
Afee in care of the Commercial cluo'
Territorial day a great many of the
old settlers who can count back to the
hfties in Kansas will be in Topeka
and it is planned to give them drive
over the city, Topeka. the Beautiful
Every person who can furnish car
riage or vehicle of any kind is there
fore urged to drive it in the parade
IuGSQaX
and report at once to Mr.. McAfee how
many can be accommodated In the
carriage.
Today Mike Heery the contractor,
began building the enclosure for THE
Pike" on the state house grounds.
The east wall of the enclosure viii
be built along the sidewalk west of
the Santa Fe Office building. The wall
will extend to the street railway track
on Tenth avenue. and from Tenth ana
Jackson to Tenth and Van Buren,,
from Tenth and Van Buren, to the
steps of the state house, and from
the state house east to the corner of
the Santa F'e office building. The
Pike will thus enclose all Of Jackson
street from Ninth street to Tenth AMI
all of the southeast corner of the
state house grounds.
The entrance to 1.-The Pike" will be
at Ninth and Jackson streets. 1t viii
be quite an elaborate affair and is
being prepared by Gillespie, the scene
painter.
The shows on "The Pike" are the
twenty-one shows of the Parker
Amusement company, the greatest
and best carnival company in the
world.
The Parker Amusement company
has all the new and up to date novel
features it is possible to find. The
Parker shows lead all the rest.
The following is the summary of
the attractions of the Parker Amuse-
ment company:
Dainty. desperate "Demona" loop
ing the loop in rolling globe. Al
most too awful to witness.
The whirling wheelers, worlds Won
der cyclists. riding bicycles on d per-
pendicular track. Defying natures
law.
hangers great slide for life.
Grand iridescent electric fountain
''Trixie" the worlds high diving
marvel.
Parker's famous jumping horse,
"Carryusall," the perfect pleasure
producer of the period.
monster all-steeI Ferris wheel.
Parker's Short Line express. Small
est railway in the world.
-Four crack bands of music, picked
from the cream of the musical world.
me Coliseum, grandest of all car
nlNal shows, where all the big fea-
lures are presented Two shows daily.
Trained wild animal arena. a SEQ
600 collection of wild beasts. actually
subjugated to do mans bidding.
A Day IN the Alps. Remarkable cleo
trical creation beautiful beyond ex-
Temple of Music, carrying 5000 pounds
of musical machinery
"Crystasplex," the world in glass.
showing the art of blowing. spinning
and weaving glass on a magnificent
scale
The Foolish House. A correct copy of
the famous Foolish House" on the
Pike at the St. Louis Worlds fair.
Crystal Palace. Mystic maze of en-
chanted mirrors, built at an actual cost
Of $1,000.
Equine, canine and feline paradox.
Pony dog, monkey and cat actors. A
pleasure feast for the children
Lady Minstrels- Famous lady eXpon-
ents of negro minsTelsy, in a meiange
of music. mirth and melody.
high class vaudeville theater enter
tanning, refining and pleasing.
trip to the Moon. An electrical re-
production Of Jules Nerne's great story
Palace Of Illusions. Bewildering, per
picking n9ystifying, astonishing.
Electric Tbpater. Showing realistic