The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-05-27
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a NEW AMUeE1IENT REATUR3
ON A BIG SCALE.
Erected at Cost Of 4l ,ooo, 900 and
Offers All the Variety Of the St
Louis Exposition Pike -
Opens Nay 81.

A
Opens May "a.
Greater than the Midway Plaisance
or the Pike, a regular Coney Island, is
what Chicago has in its new amusement
feature, The White City, which is to
open May q. The opening attraction Is
to be the Banda Rosa, but the other at
fractions. equally alluring to the pleas
ure seeker, will follow In rapid success
sion throughout the summer.
At an expenditure OF more than $1,-
OOO, 900 the promoters of this vast enter
prise have transformed the green
prairie at Sixty-third street and South
Park avenue into vast pleasure ground
within the last eight months.
Over the minarets and domes rises
the electric tower, 800 feet in height,
which at night will blaze with 10000 in
candescent lights. To the right OF the
main entrance is the Indian congress,
where will be gathered $50 Indians from
many tribes, cowboys, rough riders and
trappers. The massacre OF Fort Dear
born will be represented nightly.
"Have you bumped the bumps?" may
be the catch phrase OF the street after
the bumps" are In working order. Al
most any sort of sensation has been
promised to the patrons of this amuse-
ment.
To those who are sentimentally in
clined, Romantic Venice" will make
strong appeal. On q gondola, swept
along by a gentle current, the visitor
will be taken through scenes Of Venice,
reproduced in every detail. The scene
painting is Of the class seen in the best
theaters. The gondola poles look like
SO many barber signs. The palace of
the doges and the Bridge of Signs are
shown under a modulated light resem-
bling moonshine. Ansel Cook has had
the painting of this spectacle, for which
10000 yards of Russian sheeting have
been used.
The fire show promises to be popular
feature Of the new amusement place.
Here an entire city block is reproduced.
A Liliputian electric car line runs past
the block of houses and hotels. The
line is equipped with one real motor
car, operated by real conductor and
life-sized motorman. Hydrants, trees,
hitching posts, and lamp posts stand
along the sidewalk.
From huge grand stand the specta-
tors will witness typicss street scene.
1t will be acted on stage" 300 feet in
length. The great drop curtain will
rise, disclosing street gamins, police
men, peddlers and pedestrians.
To the left fully-equipped engine
house has been erected. Three complete
fire companies, with the regulation
equipment, are installed there. There
are the fire horses, Buck" and Mac"
which made record for themselves in
Paris. A chiefs buggy, an extension
truck, chemical engines and hose carts
will be ready at moments notice to
answer fire alarms.
At the rising of the curtain cabs and
automobiles are passing by. Newsboys
are crying their late extras. Gossips
hang out of the tenement house win
dows, conversing with each other in
loud voices. A noisy fellow coming out
of saloon is arrested by policeman
and hustled away in patrol wagon.
Then little cloud of smoke appears
from the window of the fireworks store.
A Ali alarm is turned in, and the en-
CINE company responds. Soon the en-
tire row is in flames. Explosions occur.
The jewellers leap from the upper stories
into the fire nets. Others are rescued
by firemen who have scaled the walls on
ladders. Finally the fire Is got under
control and the show is over.
The flying airships will be another
popular feature Of the white City"
These cars are kept afioat by centrif-
ugal force, and the experience of the
travellers, 1t Is declared, is comparable
only to that of Santos Dumont making
a turn around the Eiffel tower. The
scenic railway offers three-quarter of
q miles ride up hill and down dale"
through curious perspective scenery.
The infant incubators which were
shown at the st. Louis fair will be on
exhibition. Such spectacles as were
introduced into America with the st.
Louis Pike-'Hereafter' and "Realiza-
tion." will be produced for the first time
in Chicago. A photograph gallery, an
electric theater, an observation wheel.
and a waxworks show are only few Of
the other attractions that may be seen.
A ballroom with a capacity Of 1000
dancers will adjoin the "Inn," which,
with its German restaurant, will &C
commodate 2.400 persons. A dog and
pony show, a Chinese theater and a
Spanish gypsy camp have been given
concessions.
The White City" Is located at Sixty
third street and South Park avenue. II
can be reached from the South Side IL,
or any of the surface cars connecting
with the SIxty-third street line.