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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25
Ten Acres Solid With
Amusement Devices
and Open=Ai'
ReCfeafiOnS
Investment OF $15O,OOO
In q Great Play -
Ground for the III.
People.

shorten the reflection of your features to
ridiculous proportions If you want you lose
yourself and your cares in crystal maze or you
can get all the laughing you want for nothing by
simply watching people who bumping-the-
bumps, as it is called to slide down hugh banis-
ter, studded with low protuberances that will send
people flying this way and that. ...E
visit to a house of nonsense will give you an
experience Of practical jokes that will induce you to
envegle your friends into investigating it's mys
teries. You explore myth city and witness
some ncanny spectaces furnished by optical illu-
sions which picture young woman, for instance,
comfortably reclining upon couch of red hot Goals.
She appears to be enjoying herself, altho you
feel that the Goals really hot. You will see
woman suspended in INDIAN with no visible means
Of support, have your blood chilled by trip thru
the catacombs, haunted chamber, etc.
There are all these and dozen other fun
making contrvances, and then there are several at
fractions that will need serious attention.
One Of these is the exhibit of infant incubators,
where tiny lives are being preserved by means of
treatment that is altogether scientific and humanl
tartan The incubators are glass cases, ovens they
might be called, in which the air is always fresh
and sterllized and kept at an even temperature
The little dodgers seem to thoroy enjoy their resi-
dence in their glass houses and the sweet sleep of
10 Oil
instructive and interesting ght to all who love
babies, and who does not? The reflection, too is
comforting that the little lives are being saved,
which otherwise would have been botted out for
the resort to the incubators is the last hope.
Visit the fairy theater ard you will what is
an illusion, Of course but beautiful which
gives you look into world peopled with the
brownies, hobgoblins, giants and witches Of the
storybooks, who walk and dance and move about
in the pantomimic production Of the charming lit
tie play Of "Jack in the Beanstalk.' The scene
sparkles with light and color and is so marvelously
surprising, that you can scarcely believe your eyes.
All these attractions, which you can view or not
as you please, are strung along broad promenade.
The passing throng may interest you as much as
anything else, for it will be kaleidoscope review
Of people of all conditions, sizes and ages in their
happiest moods This is called THE Bowery,' and
"a trip along it will be well worth the WHILE depend
upon it.
There will be plenty Of music too. The Journal
Cadet band will give open-air concerts at stand
near the center Of the grounds and there will be
music from an orchestra in the dancing pavilion,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

besides from mechanical instruments in different
parts of the grounds.
The buildings are trimmed with flags and gay
bunting and at night blaze with light from $4,000
incandescent lights, so arc lights and the rays
Of ten Observation-Disclosures marine protector
from the top of an electric tower l2O feet high.
Everybody gets hungry in the open air and there
will be refreshments for the multitude in the way of
cooling beverages, and ices, sandwiches, etc.
served in the cafe or half-a-dozen ornamental
kosks. - 49,. ---. s.. H. r..... -a
Uniformed guards and attendants insure good
order and freedom from the annoyances that some
times in promiscuous gatherings. The vari-
Gus amusement devices can be depended upon to be
time-tested as to safety, so the element Of alarm
should not for a moment shadow the enjoyment, no
matter how surprising an experience you may I'M
expectedly encounter,
There are walks and fowerbeds miniature zoo,
many booths for the sale Of miscellaneous ncknacks
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

y - - ENTERTNG a SCENIC TUNNEE.
and still many other things that cannot here be
recounted. s~u
Remember too, that every afternoon and even
ing there is program Of openair attractions. The
latest cycle sensation, leapng the gap, is furnished
by Marie Vokes who rides down steep incline
and makes leap on her wheel of thirty-fve feet in
mid-air before she connects with continuation Of
the incline. Then there is to be high-wire walking
by Guy foley, noted equiibrist, and several other
aerial sensations This program is to be changed
weekly> On Tuesday and Friday nights there are
fireworks displays under the direction Of Paine.
Wonderland represents an investment Of $780,
600 and six months have been spent in preparations
by large force of workmen. All indications are
that Saturdays opening will find the arrangements
III state Of perfection that will be surprising for
undertaking Of such magnitude. The manage
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

ing gradually swing out the orbit enlarges, until
the occupants high above the heads of the
spectators swinging around and round at great
rate. 1t will be about to the experience Of
riding in an airship most Of will come in this
generation. $50: -
Approach the old mill and you find a rustic
scenic front of trees and rocks, while huge
water wheel churns the water in it's revou-
tons. Enter boat which will hold half
a-dozen people, and a swift current seizes it
and darts you first into dark tunnel along the
sides Of which you will catch gmpes of scenes
from many lands. You go by the ruins of an old
church; you palatial gardens; you catch an i'm
preston Of trip along the seashore with its sky
line set against range of mountains; then sud-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

lion. The Journal Cadet band, which
is to furnish the music at the park,
earlier in the evening will serenade
the newspaper offices.
Minneapolis will be one of the first
cities to have a fairy theater, pro-
nounced to be the most perfect Of all
optical illusions, the possibilities Of
which, are capable of wonderful de-
velopment.
A large number of excursions
from northwestern towns to bring
people to see Wonderland, are pro-
jected.
The platform, twenty-five feet
wide, along which the various at
fractions are arranged, is to be
known as 'The Bowery," and it is
to be to Wonderland what the Pike.
was to the ST. Louis exposition, and
what the trail is to be to the Port
land exposition.
Street car service on the new Lake
street cross-town line, which passes
Wonderland, begins at 6 am. Satur-
lay. Cars on the Hennepin, Lyndale,
Nieollet, Fourth, Eighth, Blooming
ion. Cedar, Riverside and Minnehaha
lines all transfer passengers to this
line
Wonderland park can accommodate
5000 visitors in an afternoon and
evening without overcrowding.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

where there is diversion and enough
of excitement to stir the blood and
break the monotony of the routine OF
life. Furthermore, such resort will
come to them at a cost SO moderate
that all can afford it. >-.'. .....
Wonderland is not to be mid
way, continuous carnival Or col
lection of shows. Neither is it pic
mic ground. It's general plan can be p
said to be judicious mixture Of
open-air recreation and amusement.
1t has a scenic railway on which
thousands Of people will be flying
thru the air on the track that unde-
1ates and curves, takes them up in
clines fifty feet high and runs them
thru scenic loop.
A cable car carries passengers to
the top of a steep incline, where they
embark in boats that slide down a
= hugh toboggan, OF the chutes, to a
miniature lake across which they will
scoot in bounds, as the fat-bottomed
boats. strike the watei1cushion- an
experience that is exhilarating even
to spectators.
A tower nearly hundred feet high
will have projecting arms from which
hang by stout cables, eight cars, each
holding six people. A revolving
shaft to which the arms are attached,
turns faster and faster, and the cars,
which are near the ground at start
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

have been gathered any public occasion in either
the history of Minneapolis St. Paul.
The twin cities have seriously lacked some
scheme of public amusement along the lines pro-
jected at Wonderland A place for open-air recrea-
ton and moderate enjoyment has been wanted.
True there the lakes and woodland resorts in
profusion which few cities enjoy, but these do
not appeal to all, and besides they sometimes
monotonous to even the most ardent lovers Of
Nature.
The thousands of people that one sees lettering
listlessly along business thorofares, willing away
leisure hours will have some place near at hand,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

denly dart into an ice-cave, a grotto of frosted
stalactite columns; then out again by the way of
sudden contrast into the everglades Of Florida. A
loop brings you back your return trip along an
other panorama of scenic vistas with occasionally
some comedy surprises in the way of a witches
cave and caverns inhabited with minions Of the
evil one. r.: -...s...',t +. ~
You can have a dance In open-air pavilion
just if you were at lake resort or ride on a
flying horse to hulry-up music in the $4,000
carousal. 49,
Youcan wake up your risibilities in laughinggal-
lery where convex and concave mirrors will lenghen
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Thirty Attractions on
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ment is under the direction of men who have had
much experience in the big eastern resorts, who
design that Wonderland shall be made to the twin
cities what Luna Park has been to New York,
Willow Grove to Philadelphia and the White City
is to be to Chicago
The location at Lake street and Thirty-first
avenue s will be the third interurban line,
which will be the favorite route for the amusement
seekers going from city to the other. In Min
neapolis it can be reached by ride varying from
ten, fifteen or twenty minutes to half-hour from
almost any point within the city limits. Prior to
the completion of the strengthening of the Marshall
avenue bridge across the river, St--Paul residents
can use the Interurban University avenue, COM
ing out to Lake street via Mnnehaha and Riverside
lines which connect with the mterurban at Seven
Corners in South Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

electric tower 120 feet high which will throw
a light that can be seen for five miles.
The work of construction at Wonderland
begun last October and at times the force Of men
has numbered 300.
Some figures the cost Of the different amuse-
ment devices: Scenic railway, $2500O chutes,
$4,000; old mill, $4,000; arship swing, $4,000;
carousal, $4,000.
DR.. NJ A. Couney, director of the infant incu-
bator exhibit, Of the original inventors and
had charge Of its introduction at Berlin. Since
then the incubator system has been adopted by the
government Recently Dr. Couney held a reunion
of incubator children at Buffalo Forty were pres
ent, some of them years old, and Of them
would have been living but for the incubator.
Tomorrow night Wonderland park will be open
to the newspaper Of the twin cities for inspec-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25
NOTES ABOUT WONDERLAND.
Wonderland, Minneapolis; Wonderland, \

kee, and the White City, CHI
cage; three great amusement
parks, organized along the
same lines, open their seasons
simultaneously Saturday.
= The L. A. Thompson scenic
railway, Of which the one at
Wonderland is fine specimen,
carried five and a half millions
Z Of people at different resorts
last year without single acci-
dent.
The illumination Of Wonder
land includes $4,000 incandes-
cents, fifty arc lights, and a
ten thousand candlepower ma
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

a.
ing themselves in various open
air recreations, when the lights
CLEAN from thousands of mean
descents, when the band plays,
cars flash up and down on the
undulating surface of the scenic
railway, boats dash down the
chutes into the lagoon into the
center Of the park, when a mini
allure train carries passengers
in and out thru a labyrinth of
walks and fowerbeds, sensa-
tional aerial acts delight and
astonish and a score or more Of
fun-factories and contrivances
that surprise, startle and de-
light are going, then what will
the attendance be?
The anticipation is that it
will be very large, as large at
times as on the "big' days of
the state fair. The promoters
of Wonderland expect this,
and the street railway COM
pany is preparing for it by az
ranging for a service sufficient
to carry as large crowds as
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25


with very many. There is doubt but that thous-
ands of people in the twin cities are much interested
in the projected amusement park. For the last two
Sundays the grounds have been open for the after
noon and each time throngs Of people forming con-
course that would much more than fill every place
of amusement in the city have gone to Wonderland
to simply inspect the empty buildings and the
framework for the prospected amusement devices.
When Wonderland is open and its ten acres
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-25

CUMBERLAND will be opened to
the public Saturday afternoon
and evening, beginning a sea-
son which will extend thru the
summer and close with Sept. 10.
The prospect will conjure
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-29
HORNE HAS A BUSY EVENING
Detective Lands Three Suspicious
Characters mt Different
Times.


Detective George Horne of the police de-
partment was kept busy for few hours
last night arresting suspicious characters.
Morris Morrass, who claims to come from
Chamberlain, s. D.. 1t is said told a num-
ber Of people in the Third ward that he
stole three horses from a farmer in Cham
berlain, that he was arrested there and
had escaped and that he was afraid to go
back home. Some one heard his story and
the police were notified and Detective
Horne found the man just as he was get
ting on a car going to the depot to catch a
train for some place in Iowa.
Robert Green. a colored man from Kan
sas City, was arrested by Detective Horne
while sitting in front Of the Arcade hotel.
1t is said that Green shipped $500 worth of
household goods from Kansas City which
were mortgaged. 1t is said that the Kansas
City man who held the mortgage traced the
goods to this city.
Aaron Bowman was arrested on a charge
of petit larceny. Bowman, It is alleged,
took possession of a coat and vest which
was hanging on a fence on South Eleventh
street. The coat belonged to George Nc
Twain, who was playing ball nearby. The
coat was recovered.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-29
GOOD ROADS TRAIN AT CHICAGO
Special Bearing Onicers of National
Association Completes Trip of
Twelve Thousand Miles.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2s.-After an itinerary
covering over 1900 miles, the National
Good Roads special train reached Chicago
tonight The train left Chicago May 25,
carrying the officers and organizers of
the National Good Roads association and
the directors of the office of public in
quries OF the United States government
Eight states in the west were covered
during the Wisconsin, Nebraska,
Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho. Oregon
and Washington, and thirty-eight conven-
tions were held, organization of good roads
associations being effected at all points
This has been the most extended and
most practical campaign for good roads
ever completed in the United States" said
President w. II. Moore Of the National
Good Roads association. "The Good Roads
special has been a veritable college on
wheels and will result in the economical
expenditure OF millions of dollars in the
construction Of earth, gravel and macadam
roads"
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-29
TROUSERS TRADED FOR DOPE
Negro Sells PRntRIOOns to Buy Cocaine
and Wears wife's Dress
TO Court.

The strange and amusing spectacle of a
man wearing woman's skirt was what
caught every eye in police court Monday
morning.
Police court is quite place for unusual
things to happen. but when a man comes
before the magistrate in the neither gar
ment decreed to the fair ones ever since
Eve was the first woman of the land, then
It is that the police judge and everyone
else straightens up and takes notes.
William Robinson, colored, was arrested
with his wife, Anna, on charge of vag-
Tancy. The pair had been working around
the Daniels place at Forty-siXth and Chi
cago street and raising disturbances. Both
are addicted TO cocaine and the story goes
that Robinson sent his wife to town TO sell
his only pair Of trousers and buy cocaine
with the proceeds.
Robinson claims that while he was asleep
a dog ran away with his garment, The
man appeared In court with only flannel
shirt and the skirt, being without either
shoes or socks.
The RObinsonE were each sentenced TO
ten days by Acting Police Judge Foster
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-29
DUBUQUE CLUB EXPANDS SOME
Scope of Organization Extended to
Take in More Residents and
More Cities.

Members OF the newly organized Dubuque
club decided at an enthusiastic meeting
held last night at the rooms OF Leslie
Hoffman & Mace, at $40 North Sixteenth
street, to enlarge the scope of the organ
ization to take in former residents Of
Dubuque and East Dubuque not only in
Omaha, but those residing in South Omaha
and Council Bluffs as well. This means
it is thought, membership roll of about
$50. The objects of the club will be purely
social. Permanent quarters to be open
every evening, will be secured. an annual
outing will be held and once year there
will be an excursion back to the old town
on the banks of the Mississippi.
Resolutions were adopted inviting all
old residents, men and women, of Dubuque
and East Dubuque now living in the three
cities mentioned to join and TO attend the
next meeting which will be held in the
same place at O'Clock. September IL. At
that time the organization will be made
permanent. Last night John Hemmler
acted as temporary president and Leo
Hoffman as temporary secretary. Among
those present were ex-Mayor T. T. Duffie.
ex-Marshal owen Hardie, j. w. Dietrich.
William Brown, Ernest Frankfort, S. S.
Drummy and Mrs. Drummy, Henry Paar,
L. Simones. Miss Elizabeth Finn, Miss
Marguerite Finn, Miss Catherine Hardie
and Mrs. Della Elligan.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-29
PRINTERS MAKE A DEMAND
Chicago typographical Union Takes
Aggressive steps in Matter of
Eight-Hour Law.

CHICAGO. Aug. 2S.-Having planned to
raise enough funds to carry a small army
OF men on strike indefinitely officers of
the Typographical union here today de-
manded signed agreements from members
of the STypothetae guaranteeing the eight
hour day under threat Of instant strike.
BY aiming to have a general strike of
job printers in all the big cities near
Chicago, from Ohio to Missouri and Min
nesota, local unionsts plan to halt the
importation of nonunion compositers from
st. Louis, Minneapolis, st. Paul, Indianap-
oils, Cincinnati. Cleveland, omaha and
other cities where the Chicago Typothatae
has been advertising for men to work under
"open shop" rules. With these cities them
selves In the throes of a strike, members
of Typographical union No 16 believe there
would be no surplus of printers to be sent
here. In addition to the six shops which
posted open shop notices Saturday and
came under the ban of the union, twenty
seven other members OF the Chicago Ty-
pothetae are threatened. Union officials
expect that about ten of the remaining
firms will declare for war.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-29
DISMISSAL FOR SCALPINe
Discharge for Assigning Wages Of
feTed as Cure of Habit with
City Employees.

Dismissal Of city employees OF all kinds
may follow the assignment of wages II an
ordinance which Il is proposed to intro
duce in the, council passes that body and
receives the approval of the mayor.
Second Assistant City Attorney Ellick has
been requested to draft an ordinance con-
tanning these provisions as a result Of the
indignation felt at the city hall in view OF
recent exposures as to the extent which
the assigning of wages at a discount Of
per cent has been carried on. In other
cities the money lenders have been driven
out of the public buildings and now 1t is
proposed to do the same thing in Omaha.
Assistant City Attorney Herdman is Of
the opinion that the dismissal of employees
caught assigning wages would not stop the
practice, as he thinks 1t would be carried
on covertly. He favors plan Of cash pay
ments to laborers so that the latter may
obtain recompense at the end OF each day II
necessary. He thinks that most of the
street laborers are irresponsibles, who are
unable to wait a week or ten days for the
accumulation OF wages during that time
These, he says, have no means of estab-
fishing credit and must have their pay as
soon as 1t is earned.
Others at the city hall, however, believe
that the dismissal penalty and Its strict
enforcement would go long ways toward
destroying the evil. -...
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-29
POOR SHOW TO GET ACTION
Chances for settlement of Lighting
Proposition Rt,COunciI Tues
day Are slim.

Councilman Peter Back has returned
from his visit TO the Bennington reunion,
but says II is not likely he will be present
at the council meeting Tuesday night, for
which he got a leave Of absence. The
councilman and his wife plan to leave
Tuesday morning for little tour among
old friends living out in the state.
Years ago" says Back. "I kept a
boarding house, at which many railroad
laborers we're fed Most OF these men were
foreigners, Nearly every one OF them now
owns a fine Nebraska farm and is pros
porous and the head OF a large family.
Whenever they come to Omaha they call
on me and l am going out to return, the
courtesy to as many as possible. The sue.
cess of these men is certainly a good re.
Election upon the opportunities in this part
OF the country
Reports from Councilman Schroeder's
home are to the effect that his broken rib
has not yet permitted him to leave the
house 1t is doubtful IL he will attend
Tuesday nights meeting.
In any event the chances for anything
definite happening in the gas contract mat
ter are remote.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-29
WHY HAVEY ISN'T WORKING
One of the stories Told at the station.
to Account for the Desk SER
Eeant's Absence.

Patsy" Havey, desk sergeant at the
Omaha police station, had an experience
with a prisoner resisting arrest Monday
morning which comes to but very few MEM
bers Of metropolitan police department.
and he is still wondering how It all hap
pened. Sergeant Havey Is doing night duty
this month and yesterday morning he and
Detective George Horne packed a grape
basket with cheese sandwiches and betook
themselves to Cut-Oh lake for a days
fishing. The two officers had just seated
themselves on the bank and thrown In their
lines when Patsy got bite" He forth
with started to pull in his captive. when
the fish resisted arrest So strongly did IL
object TO being taken in that the sergeant
was pulled into the water and out into the
lake beyond his depth. Sergeant Havey
cannot swim. and 1t was only for George
Horne to go out into the water and rescue
his companion. He swan bravely out into
the water and brought back the victim OF
the monstrous fish, and It was with DIM
cuty that he was resuseitated. Horne aft
erwards captured the fish, which was still
on "Patsy's" line, and took It home In his
lunch basket. And that is the reason why
Sergeant Haveys face was conspicuous by
its absence from the police station last
night, and that is why Detective Pattullo
will be acting desk sergeant for q few
nights.