The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13

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-. .YuI 100 many had to wait for fav.
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lain ". GaDo, lcd = party down early In
~ ,Oernulr md bot q million aGains, q
A.seb .tbirl0as With chs veiHht guessing
-.s that ho .ould mol tell tho number Of
a,nsd. u Gslas he carried into ths park,
IA a. the hand on tho weight machine dial
IN 40 90 FAR and no further the bet had 10
>, declared n Charles Gates had another
..,.v In tow Nrs. Hermann oelricha .
>. ne moon and learned from the fortune
,,gs, that ahe would marry q wealthy dark
,smpleriei mrn,' hut she baked az tbs
.hoo, tho chutas and the holter-skelter.
when The japanese tea girls came out
a, Their -intcr sleep and began TO sauntsr
around the lagoon. and the mysterious
orsn,al women with yelled faces few
/ II which we're IN sad need Of q shavc-and
Inc Spanish students with the Fifty-third
street accents Joined the throngs one realized
hat Il vas the good old summer tina on
he streets Of little old WORK again.
During the afternoon the crowds wandered
around while waiting for the real excite
rent TO begin when the lights wers ready
60 Rlimner. The hand near the lagoon
payed 'f''s All Going Out And Thare's
Nothing Coming In" till tagged, the shoots
4 shot. Bertha tore her skirt and Alice and
Judy, the elephants, carried people around
IN he ir gorgeous howdahs. When things
aged the aft ernoon crowd could busy
/ Themselves looking up the spots where Fred
Ihompson had Just been.
Abig bell over the Thompson & Dundy
ohce this season rings out once with a
boom that can be heard over in Rookaway
wheneyer anybody thinks he wants Fred.
Fred could get through only half sentence
xbn Ding and he vas away; Then Bill
4 Thomson took up the thread Of Fred's
discourse and finished IL
when we opened this park four years
ago Fred began, with only (DingD
Alice and Judy's promenades with the
huudahs during the afternoon were merely
rehsarsals for the proud moment that was
theirs when they led the parade around the
lagoon at 73o o'clock-the real opening.
Then they were stripped Of their red gor-
eeousness and pranced along dalntily in
all their tapering charms.
The cowboy brass band OF THE Great
Train Robbery played "A Hot Time Just
behind the elephants, and strung along
behind were the yelled bearded ladies' OF the
Walt conway's string OF twenty-five trained
mules from Rranch loi the biggest ranch
N the world Everything at Luna lie
'the biggest except Fred Thompson's
new lid and that is the smallest. There are
90 half way measures.
'Twenty:six dollars in our clothes,'
resumed Fred Thompson, about an hour
and $500 900 debt-we had to let a.
DtngD lots Of people in free because
concluded Bill Thompson, we didn't have
enough money to make change
Then the crowded park held it's breath
momentarily because the initial perform |
ance Of The Great Train Robbery was about
10 begin. This is the star attraction Of the
park this year and it occupies the ground
where the naval show and the durbar were
i last season.
stage $50 feet long Is used for the show
and tiers Of seats the same length will hold
?@0 onlookers.
Down where the orchestra pit would
Se N q theatre runs q long lagoon, into
Which the fearless bandits turn their plung-
ihg,|horses at the psychological moment,
and from the stage back Of the lag oon rise
PINK and blue peaks of the Rockies to the
oizy height OF seventy-fve feet. A rail-
toad runs across the stage and the largest
saee locomotive in captivity is painting
u q convenient mountain gorge at right
WEN the seats are filed.
Night falls and bold Jim Dalton riding
Mi ulsty horse comes down the mountain
soei olsmounts near the track and waits
,a as brave followers. Soon they come
wah Jane Rogers, the merriest m ountain
nag mat ever put a notch in a gun. at
'Hist!'
1yt from the gorge sobs the engine,
pulIng one car called the Rockefellow and
another one that Is nameless, because the
Etss agents ina gination had evidently
Peeied out, The train is tagged by the
aness Nell. Bang! And John the honest
eugineer bites the dust.
wut from the cars pour Long Island COM
%lttrs IN scores, With hands raised they
w mnged along the cars like the bread line
A. ! ue merry boys Of the golden West
NV through them and scatter wallets
M ing stage money, collar buttons
~ Gther valuables along the tracks. By
esos,eiing the last car stealthily many Of the
~nmuterS were able to come out again
2sua 70 robbed over again for only q single
Everywhere things are doing. my Godl
~ .ne money, but spare my baby's lifel"
ny Don't be so hefty, Jim, this il only
S T. and Stop ticklin', :" and Throw
tcuie Ja me cliff Nell, into the lake . and
smsnt' and I'm have that gal or my
1,nnees not Mike Mulvey,' and shot
.e wire and send word to Dan Devoe,
N, n snerf " and Would you take a woman's
NJ ~, and Now CbangD you (banRD start
bang "'nS' ana iorset IT. 'nahs'
%uen the train makes it's exit to the de-
Ms MN; cheers Of the robbers the village Of
lie ua a hat slides on to the spot where
a,L uoooery has just IA ken place. Faro
dseass a real estate office and Dan Devoe's
me- ~ nal rise from nothingness, each build
rfh paying a thinking part. The merry
NM come on and pass the idle Western
hsss WIN shooting boards out Of the CELL
IN .ho throwing each other into the lake.
Vord Vne midst OF their simple pleasures,
emhlSVo zones OF the robbery and Dan as
VtnOleS his nosaa rrba .,;N.no l;.on1oo,a