New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-20
VISIT TO FOLLYLAND.
Jolly Shoes at Engle1COOd's Little
COney Island.
Ladies' can DO Il as well as men,
Three for five and six for ten
Throw them high and throw them low,
And over the canes they're bound 20 60

Ladies' DO 10 well men,
Three for five and six for ten
Throw them high and throw them low.
And over the canes they're bound 20 60
This is the plaintive chant with which Law
renee KnickerbOcker. the broker. attracts the
curious and lures the unwary at hts ring the
cane booth in the great. the only Follyland.
situate IN the name OF sweet charity and for the
purpose OF making $4,000 in cold cash. for this
week only in the pleasant little city OF Engie-
wood ". j.
TITS all rot that women can't throw straight.
declared Mr. Knickerbocker. emphatically.
when they're throwing for hospital they hit
the bullseye every time"
EngIewood Hospital for whose prospective an
mex Follyland has been created stands Just
across the way. IN a setting Of green lawns and
chestnut trees and coleus beds. IL Is sixteen
years old and is always fun 10 it's present ca
pac,ty of fifty patients. But the women who
rocked 10 Yesterdays "matinee" at Follyland
with their children hocked there because they
knew they would have a good time. AS one
handsome matrOn frankly put II:
I've come 20 see Tom Sharkey and Kid Nc
Gov II they don't turn up this afternoon I'll stay
through the evening. hope TO have all these
leading pugilists presented 10 me before the
week is out"
Me. too" chimed IN the deleats looking
young woman with her. II never saw real
live priZefghter oerore-Or a puRsldN VI q H-A-
derer. Now's my chance"
There was no boxing yesterday afternoon. and
the women visitors. who have made up two
thirds of the audiences az these little friendly
encounters were disappointed accordingly. The
management was besieged with anxious inquL
ries. Long faces were drawn az the news that
Mr. Mccoy would probably not be visible TIL
7:3O when they would bring him down nom
New York IN company with Johnny Burdick and
Tommy Allen.
BEAUTIFUL VENICE.
And then the women turned in to Bostock's.
where Heavy Cream. the elephant. so-called be-
cause he has TO be whipped so much, was going
through his stunts"
The big Mock Coney Island was given over TO
home and mother yesterday IN the words OF
one of the immortal bankers. Round and round
the board walk, with it's succession Of snowy
tents each with its scinttllattng wonder. It's en-
ticing catch-penny. strolled the hevy Of white
robed women and children Here 10 was a lung
tester that claimed the attention: there a shoot
ing gallery, a knife ringing booth the bfurcated
lady black art. the circus. the Incubator baby
show or Beautiful Venice"
Beautiful Venice consists OF pond OF green
ish water six japanese lanterns and some
canoes and rowboats. The only trouble with
Beautiful Venice is the green water smells
so. You can smell Beautiful Venice all over
Follyland. and the smell thereof suggests Jer-
sey "skeeters' and other things that are not
healthful
There was brass band that Kept the air pal
plating and when that died down the carousaI
started in 20 make things thrOb. Speedy, the
diver, mounted his high ladder. and. after play
ing with his perspirins audience like cat with
a mouse made his dive into three feet OF water,
talking all the time.
At the booth Of the international Trading
Company" of EnglewOOd, Europe, Asia China
and Japan. business was rushing
This is the stand for the ladies' and the
babiesr' yelled the jolly man behind the counter.
and the way the ladies and the babies bought
his ticklers. It-Hung -ChangS, baby elephants
and pigs proved H.
THE TENT OF THE FREAKS.
over In the freaks tent the Circassian 'Iady."
who has refused several crowned heads OF
Europe. sat upon her dais decked in a superb
creation OF petunia satin and gold lace that
showed her collarbones. The Circassian lady's
hair a little out OF curl, but W. Tierney.
the balyhOO man OF the freaks. explained. that
is the weather" on her right sat the snake
charmer, her hand on a clothes hamper OF
pythons and cObTas She is the lady who "hyp-
notices their savage breasts by the charm OF her
eyes" Who can doubt tt2 The fat boy whose
waistcOat and trousers are OF the sort that can
be heard several blocks away, and who sleeps
all the time. even when he Is tanning himself:
the tattOoed man, who was captured in the heart
Of Africa by a band Of goriIas; the Ossiied man.
the bearded lady-"dont get jealous OF the
bearded lady is the barker's warming outside
the Chinese giant, and JO-JO. the dOg-faced boy
are all lovely I'm their several ways. The high
school boys who inpersOnate them make very
pretty girls.
Big signs IN red ana white declare the club
house. with its pleasant. broad verandas 20 be-
the "WOmen's Bazaar" There the women OF
EnglewOod have IL all their own way Under
the gay festoOnings OF red and white you NAV
buy anything from walking doll to a pOtted
fern. from a bottle OF liquid soap to a plate OF
ice cream
BUSY LITTLE GIRLS
"A grand plano for 25 cents" importunes Won
on this side: "get grandfather's clock for l.
Graves attention on the other Here the nurses
of the hospital have an emergency table where
dentifrices salves. antiseptics and the like, put
up In the most attractive little pots and tubes
win many a purchaser. Out on the stoop nice
little Englewood girls. their heads In a state OF
eclipse with the enormous bows they sport serv,
the hshtest OF light refreshments. and scowiine
desperately with the importance OF their Office
painfully tick OF the Follyland hves that are
coming 10 them.
What is Follyland hvs2 II sounds like n
drink 10 looks like a subway ticket IL he ira
only legal tender in EnslewOOd's big carnival
circus-fair, and you exchange your good old
SreenoacAs for 40 az any one OF the eight UttIa
bathing house banks located around the srouDds
The coupons. each OF them worth Ave- cents
come In long. long strings and everything In
the show Is priced I'm even five cents the iov
OF squandering One's cash IS made fatally TOW,