Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-04
GREAT CHARITY HTE
Magnificent Spectacle in Prog
ress at Friendship.
GATE RECEIPTS FOR FRISCO
Twenty-Five Charity Organizations
Are Cooperating.
"THE PIKE" A BIG ATTRACTION
Favored With Perfect Weather
Continuous Succession of
Entertainments.
"THE PIKE A BIG ATTRACTION

| Seldom has such a magnificent spectacle
| been presented under such favorable aus
pices and conditions. Twenty-one charity
organizations cooperating and all the
| gate receipts to be devoted to the Cali
| fornia relief fund.
Among the Institutions represented are the
| House of Mercy, the Girls Friendly, Chill
| dren's Country Home. Children's Hospital,
| Junior Republic. Barney Neighborhood
| Club, Aid Association of the Blind. the Dog
Shelter Young Woman's Christian Home.
Helen Keller Booth for the Blind, Nordoff
Guild of the Homeopathic Hospital Work
ing and Newsboys Home. Humane Society,"
Camp Good VIII. Eye and Ear Hospital
Columbia Polytechnic for the Blind. Blind
at the Library and the Founding Hospital.
A continuous succession of entertainments
fill the afternoon with The Pike dom
mating attraction conducted by the women
of the Junior Republic. represented by
general committee, consisting or MISS
Eleanor X. Sewers Miss Ruth Halford and
Miss Catherine Culom Ridgely.
In addition. the dog show. under the
management of Miss Mabelle Wells; the
May pole, Camp Good VIII, the Humane
Society refreshment booths, and countless
other shows keep up constant gaiety.
The drill by Troop "A 18th United
States Cavalry, from Fort Myer. Va. one
of the most interesting events, is scheduled
to occur at $50 o'clock, and a marching
chorus of 200 school children will follow,
and the Marine and 10Th Cavalry bands Will
supply music continuously.
The climax of the afternoon is scheduled
for O'Clock, when a fifteenth century
costume pastoral play. which will last for
hour and half will be given under the
management of Mrs. Albert Clifford Bar
ney and in which more than seventy-1ve
ladies and gentlemen known in Washington
society will take part. This will be pre-
coded by parade in costume by the per-
formers.
Medley of Attractions
First in the order of features. it Is stated,
Is The Pike" where medley of attrac-
lions arrest the visitor, and at the entrance
of hitch Taylor Boyd Dixon and a corps
of ,asistants receive the dimes that admit.
within all desire to seek other attrac
lions vanishes. A long vista extends under
the great shade trees which bewilder and
charm. Right and left bankers claim at
tention to special novelties, and through
out the press popcorn wagons, donkey
riders and street singers waylay the trav-
eler and beguile string quartet
contends with the brass and drum corps
of the Marine Band and the 10th Cavalry
Band wins out in neck-to-neck tone Skin
misheS.
Mr. c. A Gill, manager of Luna Park,
plays chief barker and directs attention to
| an Italian lemonade stand under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Alexander Britton and
charming group of gaily caparisoned peas
ant girls. Mr.. Britton as a multi-colored
pantaloon girates about the street selling
popcorn candy, balloons and whistles.
Three gypsy camps. snugly grouped about
camp fire. where a crane and pot give
a Romany flavor, hold the attention of all
WHO would know the secrets of the future.
Mrs Bart Mrs. Matthews and Mrs.
| Crawford are the chief sibyls. The camp
is under the control of a gypsy queen, Miss
Emma Hume, assisted by Miss Roberta
Ker Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Miss Mary
| q
Buster Brown" and yellow Kid"
lust beyond a high stand supports three
easels on which Mr.. Richard Outcalt the
creator of Buster Brown" and the yellow
Kid" produces his inimitable types, and Mr.
Felix Mahony Of The Star. Mr.. c. X. Ber-
ryman of the Post and Mr.. c. l.. Pedler of
the Times take turns in drawing caricatures
of all applicants.
Opposite a photographic barker from
Droop's calls attention to tin-typing es-
tablishment and Photographic gallery under
the direction of Miss Frances Benjamin
Johnston, where post cards and portraits
are produced while you wait.
Plastic art near by asserts Itself in an i'm
promptu studio, where Mrs. Winnie Ream
Hoxie, the sculptress. delights the onlook-
ers by modelling an Indian in plain view
and ''plein air
Among the strolling attractions are Mrs.
Thomas c. Noyes, dressed as an Italian
merfi ED Baldwin and Miss Baldwin.
Clowns, pierrotS and tricksters are every
where, and the crack of the rifles of the
shooting gallery, under control of a party
of cowboys, with Cuthbert Brown as round
I'D boss alarms the tenderfoot. hand
some prize. donated by Shaw g. Berry, for
the winner in shooting tournament is dis
played.
Miss Ruth Halford supervises a multitude
about a INTELLECTUALLY" show where three
babies offer their tender mouths to ambi-
tious assailers and rare Havanas are given
to the successful ones.
Machines Demand a Fee.
Weight machines demand fee before the
theater Is gained. and over its Thespian
glamor the great black tower at the end OF
the street holds mystic Chinese fortune
diyiner There the intimate secrets of fate
are divulged in derision OF those who satisfy
themselves with the merely present pros
poets given by big terrestrial telescope
from the naval observatory.
In the theater Mr.. H Is. Evans, prestidigi-
tateur; Geo II. O'Connor, the singer. and
others. with members OF the .Gallops" and
Columbia Theater companies, will keep Up
a continuous vaudeville.
Clara Morris. Guy Standing. Dorothy
Hammond. John Mason and Hall McAllister
from the Columbia. and Charles Richman
William Abingdon. Brandon Hurst and Miss
Trautman do leading acts.
Outside the Pike an expanse of lawn is
ment booth for the benefit of the Aid Asso-
citation for the Blind is in charge of the fol-
lowing Mrs. John r. Galloway, chairman
assisted by Mrs. C. E. Main. Mrs. H c.
Metzerott. Mrs. Julia C. Pond, Mrs. John
Russell Young. Mrs. c. E. Pepper, Mrs. s.
Benjamin Mrs. ]. E. Gilbert Mrs. j. l..
Jacobs. Mrs. l.. w. Calvert, Mrs. J. r.
Rose. Mrs. A. Woods Mrs G. H. Brown.
Mrs. ]. Auerbach. Mrs. H. 2. Wood Mrs
w. L. Hillebrand. Mrs. T. n. Mclaughlin 4
Mrs. l.. M. Porter. Mrs. Redmond Wander
grift. Mrs. William Spencer Mrs. HORACE
Springer. Mrs. William King, Mrs John
Campbell Mrs. w. Riley, Mrs. William e.
Spier Mrs. Charles Strohman Miss
Metzerott, Miss Jennie Spier Miss Esther
Spier. Miss Ida Beagle. Miss Lynda Beagle.
Miss Eva Casey. Miss Anna Burrows Miss
Rilla Dickinson. Miss e. Mclaughlin and
Miss N. Pepper
Even there the Pike echoes can be heard
and the enthusiasm over the Moro dances''
given by Capt Chandler. Lieut. Wigmore
and Lieut.. Pickering, United States army
and number of other prominent army
men can be heard
Horse Show for Hunters.
AT $3.50 o'clock there will be a horse
show for hunters, consisting of three jump
ing classes-he heavyweight. lightweight and
open class.
Horses may he entered 40 lata nc . IN