The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-13
Fun BEGINS At
conveys
ISLE
0ratorial spielers at New
York's Great Summer Re-
sort Busy Once More.
"HEAvEN AND HE'LL"
AMONG THE OFFERINGS
Some Of the Features Truly
Spectacular Musical Flow
ers Shown.
"MAvEN AND HE'LL"
AMONG THE OFFERINGS

Associated Press to The BvenlAg Tines.
New York, May 13.-"Walk right in,
ladies and gents, an be buried alive!
Come in and have spook or two on
us! See heaven and hell" So ran
one of the invitations of the oratorical
spielers at Luna park, which has
opened its gates for another season of
fun and folly on festive Coney Island,
the worlds most famous amusement
resort. Thousands of people swarmed
through the park all day Satur-
day, eager to inspect the many new
wonders the managers had promised
and provided.
Of the bakers dozen of new and
spectacular attractions. the Heaven
and He'll" of the spieler who offers
the allurement of being buried alive"
is certainly the limit of gruesOme nov
city. The invitation to take up your
abode in the grave isn't a joke, for
that's exactly what happens to the
visitor right from the jump. Passing
through the portals, the spectator is
assisted into mammoth coffin. in
which he finds an attractive display
of common garden collins, ranged
neatly alongside open graves. Nu-
merous grinning skulls and leering
grave-diggers add to the cheerfulness
that pervades the scene. After a
short mortuary service by black
ROBBED chaplain, the sightseers are
placed in their individual collins and
the lids placed on and screwed down.
Then the collins are lowered into the
waiting graves, and the immured VIC
tim, as browning horror of the pro-
ceeding hears clods rafting in a sin
lister manner upon the lid. Soon the
traveller finds himself in the lower
regions. where Gustave Dore's illus
trations of Dante's Inferno are repro
duced by means of panoramas and
electrical moving picture effects. The
spectators are released from their
collins and walk through winding tun-
nels, where all the horrors of the I'M
derworld are depitced before them. To
add touch of cheerfulness to the
scene and prevent the possibility of
driving the terror-stricken visitors
entirely insane. some of the cartoons
in Art Young's Snapshots in Hades"
are also reproduced. An inspection
of these serves as preliminary prep
aration for the chamber of skeletons,
where two dozen grisly apparitions,
apparently alive, gambOl eXcitedly
and sing fear-inspiring songs. Then
follows heaven and an utter and sud-
den transformation, where a nightly
choir of white-robed, winged chorus
girls sing in an angelic manner be-
fore great white throne.
Less terrifying but equally inter-
ocfinO 10 thu Youciool A1u,o, rdon
one of the most cunningly contrived
inventions ever shown at Coney. 1t
comprises numerous rows and de-
signs of every variety of flowers, with
a miniature pinnacle concealed at the
roots of every bush and flower bed.
Plucking flower. the visitor is re-
warded by a musical selection COM
ing apparently from the heart of the
blossom. Every kind of flower pro-
duces different tune. and. as most
of the music is of sentimental ma
ture. the place will doubtless become
popular resort for lovers.
Another attraction which has cost
thousands of dollars in its production
is "The Shipwreck," depicting a fish
ing village, the wreck of ship and
the rescue of a crew. The effect is
surprisingly natural and the storm eff
feet is regarded as the most realistic
ever produced.
Other new shows are "The Molly
coddle," mirror illusion of an origi-
nal variety; an autodrone. a Partisan
improvement on merry-go-round,
costing $4,000 to build; 1.-THE Days
of 49," supposed to depict the excit-
ing scenes accompanying the quest
for gold in California; 1.-THE Kansas
Cyclone" more or less realistic IL
bel on the Sunf1ower state, and an os-
trich farm. where races between the
big birds will be a daily feature.
Many of last years successful attrac-
tons remain, including "A Trip to
the Moon," 1.-THE Dragons Gorge"
Niagara Falls by Wire," and the
crasadosa