Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-15
SOCIETY ATTENDS
THE BARLOW FETE
CANVAS ENCLOSURE SCENE OF
MUCH MERRIMENT
All Booths Do Rushing Business for
Charity, and Workers Win
Praise for Their Success
full Creation

This way to the coffee booth. all
Free entertainment going on all the
time.
Don't forget the membership booth;
every. little bit helps.
Whatever you do don't miss the
minstrel show.
Take a look into the future Don't
go away without seeing Cleo.
This way to the vaudeville, the
finest vaudeville ever seen.
Visit the Midway. All the twen-
tieth century wonders on exhibit
All this and more the "barkers'' at
the Barlow fete offered last evening in
praise of the particular attractions for
which they sought to open the purse
strings of moneyed men, and every
contract was fulfilled.
Barking Par Excellence
Never before were there such orig
inal and enthusiastic barkets, but who
couldn't have barked when there was
such things to bark about as the at
ira ctions of that fete?
Perhaps a few of those who went to
the first Barlow benefit two years ago
had a slight idea of the delights in
store for them at this second affair,
but they could not have known all,
for words cannot tell all or even half
of all
The beautiful grounds on Figueroa
street were a blaze of light last night
Inside the big canvas enclosure hun
dreds of lights glowed brightly. Gay
colored bunting swung in the breeze
and the dark foliage, palms and trop-
ical plants formed striking back
ground for the booths with their
.har ino off
All evening a fashionably dressed
throng passed in and out of the gates
Some came with the intention of get
ting just peek behind the canvas
but they fingered at the pleading of
the barkers and before long they were
searching every corner of the Midway
for new wonders.
Booths Everywhere
The booths were hidden away in all
kinds of secluded hooks and just as
one was sure he. had seen everything
there was turn in the walk which
revealed something undreamed Of
One barker called this way, a sign
pointed that way and a gay maiden
pleaded the charms of another direc.
tion. On every hand were the strollers
Little boys and little girls and big
boys and big girls, all with sweets
spread out on trays in tempting array,
passed along.
Each booth seemed more beautiful
than the last. One allured by it's soft
and restful tones. while another APP
pealed through it's brilliancy of light
and color.
At the entrance the great mission
gates loomed up, and there Mrs. A. L.
Danskin and Mrs. j. S. Slausson, as
sisted by other leaders of the social
world, invited all to enter. Just in
side was the membership booth, fitted
up with cozy seats in the most tempt
ing style.
4 At the Gate
There Mrs. Daniel Murphy, the
chairman and her assistants, Mrs. j.
G. Kays, Miss Marie Mullen, Miss Su-
same Lynch, Mrs. William LoVett,
Mrs Thomas O'Reilly, Miss Ruth
I<ays, Miss Lizzies Lewis, Miss Pearl
Vollmer Mrs. Lewis Ramsey, Mrs. G.
@. Desmond, Miss Agnes Bethune, Miss
Kress, Mrs. Martin Smith and Mrs. p.
Gregory Cotter. received almost $4,000
in memberships and donations during
the evening.
Flags and pampas grass formed a
canopy overhead and gay colored rugs.
chairs and cushions made 1t yet more
Not far away was the picturesque
Mexican house, where Mrs. w. j.
Barlow and her assistants i'm Mexican
costume served coffee at tables arr
ranged under a canopy of flags and
palms.
Coffee Maids
''All the pretty girls in the coffee
BOOTH" was what n. A. Ramish, the
barker for this attraction, said. Per-
haps Mr.. Ramish claimed little too
much when he said all the pretty girls
We're In the coffee BOOTH because all
the pretty girls at the Barlow fete