New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-07-27
CARNIVAL COMES TO CLOSE.
Company Pulled Out of Town
Sunday Morning.
Went From Here to Marshall to
Give Exhibition.
This City Did Not Profit Greatly
by It's Visit.

Ills Alty Dld NOT FROM Greatly
by It's Visit.
Six days of noise and excitement and
then, like the proverbial Arab, the
Cosmopolitan Carnival company
folded its tents and silently stole
away" The amusement contractors
pulled out for Marshall Sunday morn
ing and, briefly, Marshall is welcome
to them. While their visit was not
without some beneficial results, it can
not exactly be said to have been a
grand, royal, unadulterated success.
New Ulm tolerated the outfit for a
week but the radiance is something of
a relief.
At no time during the stay of the
company was the attendance as large
as had been anticipated. This is ac-
counted for by the fact that the farmers
were busy with harvest and few of them
felt that they could afford to waste the
perfect days served out by the weather
department. Further, those who were
disposed to spend a day in merrymak-
ing very sensibly decided to wait for
Norris & Rowe's circus, which is here
on July 29th and get more real enter
tainment for SO cents than could be OBJ
tanned at the carnival for twice that
sum. This naturally resulted in small
crowds, only those living near at
hand coming in for the evening, and
in consequence the local business men
did little if any more business than
ordinarily. The carnival itself made
some money but most of it's revenue
was derived from local people.
It was demonstrated during the week
that Sleepy Eye people are believers
n reciprocity. Thursday afternoon
about sixty passengers came down
from that city and the evening tr ain
brought in hundred more. Included
in the latter were number of the
members Of the Sleepy Eye fire depart
ment and all the visitors appeared to
enjoy themselves greatly. The Sleepy
Eye excursion was in the nature of a
return call for New Ulm's patronage
of their street fair last year and the
spirit exhibited vii no doubtencourage
greater intercourse in the future.
1t must be said for the manager OF
the carnival that he controlled his
subordinates admirably and prevented
grating of any serious proportions
AS far as known there was but one in.
stance where victim was 'sfrisked.'
Friday evening a lady went into one
of the attractions and upon leaving
dropped a purse containg several
dollars in silver, a key and other
articles. She discovered her loss al
once and when inquiries were made
one of the showmen gave her the key,
saying that a lady had returned it to
him. The money was not Forthcoming
but the owner decided not to enter a
complaint, preferring to pocket her
loss rather than incur publicity.
While the fiesta was in progress there
was a remarkable absence of accidents.
Thursday evening the heavy wind
storm snapped the centre pole support
ing the cover of the merry-go-round
and allowed the canvas to fall upon
the machine. Several children had
sought the place as shelter from the
storm but fortunately none of them
were hurt by the falling pole.
Late in the week the management
renewed its request to be allowed tc
show on Sunday afternoon and night
The mayor, however, could not see
the logic of overruling his origina
decision and the permission was with
held.