The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-09-17
THE HOUGHTON
|. COUNTY FAIR.
Secretary Randall Has Secured
Q Live Moose and q TobOgxan
Slide to Add to List OF
Fair Side Shows.

Secretary Randall expects to have
q number OF special attractions at
the Houghton county fair, which
opens in the Amphidrome, Hough-
ton, September 9th. Last year he
had bicycle rider, quartette and
an automobile exhibition. They
proved highly successful, showing
that the pumpkin alone would not
draw the crowds sufficient to make
the fair profitable.
This fall he is going to have an en-
tirely new list Of attractions. Chief
among these will be tobogganless
toboggan slide. 1t is a contrivance
similar to the one known as dump
ing the bumbs'" at Coney Island.
The slide will extend from the music
stand up near the roof at the west
ern end of the big building. 1t will
be trough lined with highly pol
ished wood and will extend "out
into the realms of the unknown" as
Mr.. Randall expresses it. No cars
are provided for the slide, the ven-
turesome passenger merely sitting
down in it and sliding over the
route, just as we used to do in child
hoods happy days on the old cellar
door. The slide is described as one
OF the most thrilling, exhilirating
trips ever taken, and its novelty
never wears of. At Coney Island,
hundreds Of people have the bump
ing the bumps habit, and slide down
the chute over and over again, with
all the JOY OF children. Dumping
the bumps is described as being
more exciting than looping the loop,
chuting the chutes, leaping the gap,
or jumping out Of the way'of an ex-
press train.
A second attraction which Mr..
Randall hopes to secure is live
moose from the north shore of Lake
Superior. He has sent for the ami
NAL and expects it to arrive on On
early White line boat. This moose
will be the big attraction at the
stock exhibit. There are very.
few people who ever saw q moose
dead or alive in the copper country,
and as the animal is about the most
grotesque, ungainly, homely, awk-
ward animal OF North America, it
will not lack for admirers. The
moose looks like one Of natures ac-
cidents. 1t has the head OF horse,
the body Of deer, horns big as barn
doors. 1t is the largest of the deer
family.
The Houghton County Agricul-
tural Society has arranged for two
trips from Skanee during the fair.
A steamer will be chartered and
will run on the following schedule:
First trip-Leave Skanee Tuesday,
Sept. 9th, at 2 p. M, returning
on Thursday. Second trip-Leave
Skanee Thursday, Sept. Goth, at 2
o'clock p. M, returning on Satur-
day. All farm products for exhibi-
tion at the fair carried free. Fare
for the roud trip, $l.50. The above
trips are conditioned upon good sail.
ing weather, and in case of bad
weather on day Of sailing, the trip
will be deferred until first fair day.
The steamer will be of ample size to
carry all. At Skanee, tickets may
be secured at Walfred Been's or
Gust Dalburg's.
The management of the fair has
arranged that all shipments of ex
hibits for the fair from L'Anse be
taken to the store of J. B. Smith,
in L'Anse, where they will be prop
erly arranged and sent by freight,
at the expense Of the society, and
everything, with the exception OF
fruit and vegetables. will be returned,
free of charge.