The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-10
GRAND FINALE TO
The CARNIVAL
SEvEN-N NIGHT PERFORMANCE
SUCCESS SUCH AS TO INSURE AN
OTHER ONE NEXT SEASON.

Losses from Rainy Weather Last
Week Practically RecOuped by
Continuation of AttractiOn-Hur-
dIe-Jumping Contest by Troop II
Members Was New Feature-Pike
Was Scene of AnimatiOn-ShOws
Leave for Tampa To-day.
Reluctantly and with longing glances
backward, the last of the crowd of
jewellers took their way homeward from
the carnival last night. and soon the
lights were out along the Pike, and
one of the greatest seven-night enter
tainments which Savannah has yet en-
joyed came to a close.
There was only one thing to mar
the success of the entertainment, and
that was the inclement weather last
week, which stopped the show for two
days and nights. and put the box re-
ceipts decidedly to the bad. Fortu-
nately for the Carnival Association,
the decision to continue the show for
three days this week was met half
way by the weather department, and
the public was given full opportunity
to witness the exceedingly good line
of attractions within the stadium.
The four shows this week, in spite
of the extra expenses involved in hold
ing the attractions for another half
week, and the generally bad results
which attend the hold-over perform
ances, have succeeded in bringing the
management to the light. and when
the full returns have been figured out,
it is believed the expenses and re-
ceipts will be very near together. So
much for the first attempt of its kind
in Savannah. 1t is certain that there
will be others. certainly another next
year.
In the stadium at the final perform
ance were more than 1000 people,
while outside in the streets of the Pike
there was a crowd of even greater
proportions. Within the stadium and
outside were twenty-five blue-coats.
under command of Sergt. Woods, who
saw that order was preserved.
Last Stadium Show.
Troop H opened the programme as on
previous entertainments, and the feat
ures which had so delighted the
crowds were displayed, the audience
applauding freely.
For the first time there was given the
hurdle jumping contest, participated in
by half a dozen members of the troop
and their steeds. Previous to the con-
test the following gentlemen were
named as committee to decide the
result: Mr.. w. j. Lindsay, Capt. w.
G. Austin and Mr.. Aaron Ferst.
The highth of the hurdle was grad
ually increased until 1t was a jump of
five and one-half feet. The contest
continued for twenty minutes, and at
the end of that time the following were
declared the prize winners: First prize,
Private Winton second prize, First
Sergeant Conley; third prize, Private
B. F. Kilburn. Following the drill of
Troop H came the usual programme of
attractions.
Lively Times on Pike.
Out on the Pike, both during and
after the stadium show, the fun was
fast and furious. Confetti throwing
and the use of feather busters were
the proper things, and the boys and
girls had the time of their lives. Good
humor prevailed, with very few ex-
ceptions, and the streets proved
greater attraction than the side shows
At times the streets were so blocked
by the crowds which surged back and
forth that progress was made with
great difficulty and slowly. Hand-to-
hand confetti fights often took place
in these mixtures, the dense crowds
preventing the escape of the girl or
boy who was the most popular victim
at that particular time.
On one or two occasions the police
were called on to quell disturbances.
Early in the evening the young men
who were forcing their way through
the crowds in sheer weight of NUM-
bers were ordered to break away and
this cause of possible trouble was
avoided.
Along the Pike the spielers kept up
an unceasing noise, urging the crowd
to come in and see the greatest shows
on earth. The din of the Pike revel-
ers tended to drown the cries, and the
whole mixed i'm a medley of sound in
which everybody took part.
This afternoon the Pike attractions
will leave for Tampa, where a fair
will be held next week, and the week
following. Troop II will leave to-
morrow. The Seaboard and the Coast
Line will handle the aggregations.
In a few days the stadium enclos-
ure will be torn down and all traces
of the carnival will be obliterated, ex-
cept for the memory of the delights
which it afforded to the visitors and