Lewiston evening teller., 1907-10-07
CARNIVAL THE
MECCA TONIGHT
A Street Of Light Filled
With MeritOuS Attract
ions Tonight.

After the first big opening day on
the carnival street will be the mecca
for all tonight.
The cosmopolitan carnival, the place
where everybody knows everybody
else and all join in the royal confetti
battles and pull on the rosin strings of
tickle" feathers, the blare of the
spielers' megaphones and the man on
the corner with the red hots" wiH all
be there to make the outside features
of the magic street complete.
The business section of the city will
be beautifully Illuminated with the
many colored incandescent lights, but
carnival street will be blaze of light.
Lights of all sizes. lights of all colors,
lights everywhere, the effect will be
dazzling.
The visitors to the city and the resi-
dents of both Lewiston and Charleston
are promised one of the best carnivals
this season that has ever been pre-
sented in the city. Some of the at
fractions have been in the city for
several days, some came in Saturday
from Grangeville, where one of the
best interior carnivals in the history
of the northwest was closed last week:
other attractions reached the city
Sunday afternoon and several of the
special features which will raise the
Lewiston carnival above all arrived
this afternoon and are expected to be
in place when the lights in carnival
street are turned on at o'clock this
evening.
The Lewiston Military band. the
crack musical organization Of the
did concerts at the head of carnival
street at Z o'clock. This concert will
last for one hour, after which time the
carnival will be the amusement and
entertainment center for the remain
der of the night.
Immediately off of Main street are
the concessions, where the 'red-hots,"
lunches of all kinds, lemonade that
never saw lemons, candy of which
sugar is a very small constituent, will
be sold; but it all goes to make the
carnival
Eight of the big attractions that will
be 'ablaze with light tonight and made
conspicuous by the ''look!" look
high!" Of the barkers with the megra-
phones were in place at noon today.
The first big tent on the right and
Immediately in the rear of the Bollin-
ger hotel is the electrical moving pic
ture show with THE Unwritten Law"
a human interest story flashed before
the audience with one of Edison's lat
est machines.
On the corner in the same lot are
the Oriental dancing girls, an old att
traction but one that is always pleas
ing.
/ The Mirror maze the laugh creator
where you grow fat, get slim, become
a midget and distorted by the whims
of the magic mirror is on the opposite
corner and Immediately south of the
Taylor shows.
The Taylor attractions with the ia
nous Taylor quintet, Dona Treasa, the
celebrated serpentine dancer, and the
latest moving pictures. This is the
show that was given the gold medal
at the Grangeville celebration.
The ever popular Ferris wheel is at
the intersection of c and Third streets
and on the left is the "Old Plantation"
while on the right is the mysterious
ghost show.
The stadium is in the large vacant
lot at the northeast corner of c and
Third streets and this will be where
the big acts of the carnival will be
| placed.
The last show in the line is the cleo
trio theater, which is one of the best
shows in the line. Different from all
others of this character, the features
most pleasing and only high class pro-
ductions presented.