The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-19
new KIND OF FAIR.
Street Show Here With No Out
side Gate.
Red Men Carnival Tents Pitched
on Seventh Street.
MANY GOOD FEATURES.
More for Money Than at the
Usual i" Fairs"
Fat Nan Given Scare in the
Snake Tent.
MANY GOOD FEATURES.

More for your money in each show,
and every one Of them better than
the average show which is given at
street fairs, was the verdict of those
who attended the opening of the street
carnival on Seventh street last night.
This affair is under the auspices of
the Red Men and is furnished by the
Nichols Amusement company. It's
many attractions will be open after
noon and evening for the next five
days And although the weather con-
ditions We're anything but favorable
last evenfng-an intermittent rain
falling-there was a good crowd on
hand. and if the applause which greet
, ed many of the acts in the shows can
be taken as a criterion the crowd was
well satisfied.
There are eight main shows with
this fair, and FIVE of them were under
way last night The others opened
their doors this afternoon and evening
night had it not been for the trouble
Lew Nichols, the owner and manager
OF the shows, had in securing locations
for his tents. After getting permis-
sion to stretch them on Seventh
street from the middle of the block
{
Buren, street. he had all sorts Of
trouble with property owners about
putting up tents in front Of their
residences or places of business, and
in one instance he had to change the
position of one tent five times before
he finally got it located.
1t is an open street fairEthat is the
show tents are not enclosed with a
canvas fence and general adnnis-
sion charged for the privilege of get
ting inside and then paying other adj
missions to see the shows. An admis-
sion to each show is charged, and that
is all The tents for the shows are
strung along Seventh street from the
center of the block between the ave-
nue. and Van Buren, west almost to
Harrison street. Between the tents
for the main shows are the usual at
fractions which accompany street
fairs, the ever-present merry-go-
round, doll babies to toss balls at,
canes to ring, q board of tickets to
shoot at with the possibility of get
Der, fortune tellers, ice cream, candy
and lemonade stands-in fact all Of
the usual accomplishments of a street
fair. but so far as could be seen
gambling games, which have been
run here with some street fairs. were
lacking. In fact there was not a single
Objectionable feature in any part of
the fair last night, not a song sung or
a joke sprung which could offend the
most fastidious. All of the shows
were remarkably clean.
Those shows which were run last
night included the Electric theater
where three sets of excellent moving
pictures were shown. an illustrated
song sung and clever illuminated
skirt and FIRE dance given; the Old
Plantation, where eight colored folks
disported with dances and songs, the
Snake House. where Miss Myrtle Rob-
bins made herself at home in a den Of
crawling reptiles; the Roman Col
liseum, where some good acrobatic
work was done and show styled the
Mysterious Edna, where an octette of
young women sang and danced and a
clever Illusion show.
Perhaps the most entertaining OF the
shows was the Old Plantation. The
colored men and women did some fair
singing and good dancing and two or
three of them were pretty clever com
edians. In the Mysterious Edna is a