The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-18
VNGLEWOOD'S GIANT EFFORT,
-ur PRIZE PLOTTING TENT TEE
1IT or THE GREAT CARNIVAL.

wN.lsNNnmK EAMC W. ~ -
- me Wild vllage Poet. Jim De-
-wn-Prominent Citizen. DlBwuised
Lady, Tels Fortunes q Tanes.
carnival and amateur crcuS which
uIH,.rood. n. j., folks are giving this week
sE, La benefit Of the EneIewood Hospital
sod oT last night With q whoop and q
est The way the dimss and quarters
uI.tod in the money bones as the Jerseyttss
Ishad each other TO enter the Field Club
p.onnds made the promoters rub their hands
~ vas a miniature Luna Park, all tho
.l,,h,s and designations Of Coney Island
oOa,lv compressed into six acres OF ground.
TL.rs was one feature OF the carnival
- had Coney Island beaten several
- the boxing show. frankly adver-
I'D a. the -prizeHght tent to the
-.D, NJ the staid spinsters who
cha, wav. IL wasn't q fake show by any
~oars hut the real ~thing-hve unc
.loyes, three sets OF midgets slambanGtng
sorcslv at one another. seconds waving
torols and handling bottles, eighteen foot
a,c and. most impressive OF all. Mr.. Thomas
Sh,,Lev Of FosTteenth street and Paris.
n, Sharkey was prevailed upon 70
tourney 10 Englewood and give tho Jersey
;oIL a treat. They came from miles around
- Reruen county TO gaze upon the massive
torn Of the sailor, who presided with i'm
nance dignity, although his manner was
,r ced slightly with condescension, an be-
same a great man temporarily sojouning
in the sackwooos.
The prize fighting tent was the hit OF the
carnival 1t held about 400 people and
vas full 10 bursting at every bout. The
carnival managers permitted women TO
witness the boxing bouts, and ths tent held
more women han men. It was q brand
nav show for the women to see the little
nuss hammering a other. and they
sonsaled with delight whenever a glove
smacked hard against a cauhnower ear or
brought a sInuuge Oh CiafoS ArV" - TO
trousse nose.
The frt bout was between a young
harber of Englewood, the village champion.
and a short-haired scrapper from Harlem.
MIR, Sharkey, in shirt sleeves, introduced
the pair impressively: Ladies' and gents,
said he permit me 70 make you acquAinsed
with a prominent citizen OF your beautiful
village, Alphoue Tucker (cheers q ep-
nlanse, known as the champion OF Engle-
Wood (applauseJ. In Inc other corner We
have the Harlem Terror. Are youse ready.
gents. Shake hands.
lD6 mar ltlIl
of EnElewood in the midnh and Dir. Shar-
kew intervened.
;Hens. YOU" he said, BE nice. This
amt no goat club. Don't got rough orith
be twenty-three for you.
John. said a nice old lady in the crowd.
is that one Of those awful PuGilists3 Why.
be wears a shirt and collar
Mother replied her son. did you think
be was covered with hair?"
After the bouts. when Mr.. Sharkey left
- kaa1n1 en@aRH EnttRNRAnfh
street. he was followed by an admiring
crowd Of small Englewooder. who be-
eeeched him to let them feel his biceps.
Tom complied gracefully and became in
SANITY tn e first citizen OF America.
The carnival shows were arranged in
a board walk, the circus being in the centre
OF the oval. At every step on the board
walk amateur barkers for amateur shows
howled and roared in the good old Coney
Island style. Leading citizens OF the
village, f~iamboyantly arrayed IN check
for the shows. The president Of the First
National Bank, Henry P. Dawson, was
puller in for the -Bfuroated Lady There
were lots of people fooled by that Bifurcated
Lady, but The Sun reporter 10 Wiling to
make affidavit that he wasn't.
Out on the board walk, believing into
a meGaphone, Seward Prosser, who is
vice-president Of the New Netherlands
Trust Company, informed h people that
they we're about TO behold "a m~elniuousl
nendacious and miraculous medley OF
Barnum's circus, the H~ippodrome, Coney
lsIard, the Midway, Atlantic Ctty's board
walk and a church fair" He called atten'
ton TO the wild man champing in a cage
The wild man was no other b Jim De-
camp, the village poet and carpenter wnG
is the author of The Son OF the Plane,
Failing Chips" The Lament Of a Gross.
cut Saw" and other poems.
During the day Jim helped put up tents
booths, paint signs. distribute bills and
carry lumber. AT exactly 80 o'clock
donned a hairy coat and a mask and becam'
the most ferocious wild man Bergen county
ever saV.
A prominent citizen Of Englewood dis
guised as a lady sat in a dark and fearsoma
tent practising black art and other devil
tricks. He learned a few card stunts a
Yale or Harvard and he hadn't forgotten
them. He wasn't any SLOUGH at sleight o
hand, either. The museum, which con
tanned curious specimens OF the "u~nderdunk
oolyil. dillyfoy, biltiernee and the only blu
MACON in CT %ptivitv, was the nttractio
for great crowds.
A discerning person might have recog
n!Ecd in the blue mszoon Ned Hurry VI
JeACtt's family cat, yowling at b ind1g
nifty Of a coat of blue paint. The smalles
Lony in Bergen county was the real thing.
There wasn't any josh about the hig
di. inC act, and il made the ~Jcrseyites sit u
and sniyer. 81 eedy, a young Eerson VII
makes A living by revolving through the al
into a pan Of water, mounted an eighty Zoe
tower Illuminated with ~incandescenti
There was a shrih chorus OF indrawn breath
and -ah-h-hs" when he gracefully fell back
ward, swiftly rNvolved and fell kerchun
into three feet Of water.
" dozen Of the leading ~citizens OF EnRi'
wood arrayed in bright red uniforms spec
ally designed for the occasion acted a
ushers, barkers and coin oatchers. The
kert the crowd NOV ing and spending none.
and added measurably to the vayety Of II
show.