Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-05-29
THE CARNIVAL is NOW Open
List of Attractions For Firemen's
Week And All For $1.47
Marked Down From
$3.50.

Gut OF turmoil and chaos. out of a
tangle of rope and timbers. poles and
canvas, which Uttered ana coyered
the ground at an early honr this MORN.
ing, there grew. rs though by magic
as from the sweep of fairy wand n
village OF pleasure in the rear of the
independent Fire COMPANY house
lnsa few hours a wonderful metamor.
phosis was wrought.
What seemed hopeless tangle was
speedily put in order by perfect hive
of workers who hummed and hauled
jerked and perked and by knowing
where each and everything was Ia 90
reared their tents, set their poles. nr.
ranged this and that exhibit and in a
space of time which seemed exceed.
ingly short. had everything in work.
ing order for the opening of the won.
derful, the colossal, the unsurnassed
transcendal, unapproachable. unreach.
able anu surprising street carnival
and fair given for and under the al
reetion OF the independent Fire Com.
pany.
The haunts of the old world, the Sc.
questered hooks where beauty adorn.
ed, sat in silent waiting. have been
ransacked aud pillaged, torn from the
tendrils of home ties and brought here
TO attract and amuse. To instruct and
caJole and convert the loose change of
the wondering spectator into prioklv
heat. The Jones q Adams Carnival
Company, which is responsible for
this aggregation of entertainers have
gathered together the greatest collec-
tion OF performers which have ever
been presented for an affair of this
kind and even Adams automobile
was hummlng away in silent content
ment this morning, satisfied with it.
self and the whole world.
According to the figures of the Cap.
ital's own mathematician, employed az
great expense ami brought to the city
from the wilds of Chesterfield. il
will cost precisely 81. AZ to see every
thing that there is TO see in the show
unless II be few little things which
are entire nous and not intended for
the vulgar mind. About ten SEPARATE
and distinct shows will be opened to-
night and continue through the week
Ihe barker and the fakir, the pop
corn man and the hoki-poki ice cream
dispenser will be heard loud in the
land. They will turn night into day,
talk the hind leg from a graveyard
rabbit and cause more shekels TO turn
q back handspring than are carried
with the Circassian beauties who in
fest the midway.
Everything will be there to amuse
and laugh gray care away. Nothing,
however, will be tolerated to offend
the most prudish and clean, respect
able but amusing set of shows are sure
TO be seen. As top-liner, the piece
de resistance and the most charming
show on the grounds, excepting, OF
course, the other nine, is the Vendomt
Theatre. where Leona, society's favor.
ite, will hold forth. The show is a
mechanic electrical show, where a
different performance will be given
nightly in which, for instance, will
be witnessed the metamorpbosis of the
cocoon from the chrysalis to the per.
feet butterfly, which, of course, is a
woman, for at the Vendome woman
is the butterfly The kinodrome (that
is French for kinetoscope) will depict
all OF the most recent and wonderful
electrical effects in which will be in
Guided the one entitled personal. .
Then Will be seen, right next door
to the Vendome, the Girls in Red,
who will give one of the latest and
most unique vaudeville shows on the
road. Mamie, the dream of beauty
and JOY forever, for she has bathed in
Rider Haggard S fire of life, will be
another attraction on the grounds. The
fire dance is said TO be the best ever
given and was only secured after i'm
mense labor on the part of the manage
ment. Fighting the Flames and the
Great Robbery will be seen in all III
wonderful scenic effects and histrioniC
delineations. Then the penny arcade
in which will be gathered all sorts OF
automatic machines which simply
need the magic touch of penny tC
put in motion, will be in working or
der ready for the advent of those who
wish TO see all that is seeable, doable
and imaginable.
The Bold Bank Robbery and the
Gamblers Carnival will cause the cold
chills TO race up and down the spinal
column of the audience which will be
frightened into compton fits a. SO
much per fright. All sorts of moving
pictures will be shown. Nina, tht
midget. who is so small that there il
no rule small enough TO measure hel
or scales on which to weigh her, viii
be there with the goods and be the
admired of all admirers. The Ferris
Wheel and the Flying Dutehman, pro
pelled by steam engine which eat
coal will be ready for the edificatioI
OF the populace, both old and young
The old plantation with its sights
and scenes as they were before the
war, never have been since and nevel
will be, will be shown true TO life by
an aggregation of buck and wins
dancers, tambo players and eye-rollinl
darkies. Last but not least, a top
notcher and a winner will be the
trained wild animal show, in which
the beautiful damsel who has already
turned the mead of one young man il
town and caused him to smoke an ex
ceptionally large number of coifiI
nails, will take all sorts of Liberties
with lions and tigers. There will be
the regulation snake chaTmer, who
makes q regular diet Of snakes. II
fact the show promises to be goot
one, better and larger than ever before
and calculated to make everyone wn6
attends wish themselves transported
back to their boyhood days when thu
whandoodle whinethed and the ipso-
Iuncag played tag with his tail.