Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-09-28
'After October 5.

With the rain curtains on most Of the
booths at the carnival grounds Friday even-
ing several hundred people visited the big
show and amused themselves at Beautiful
Bagdad, the penny arcades, shooting gall
leres and fortune tellers' tents
Rain washed the main thoroughfare
whittier than the streets of Dowies Zion.
but the side streets of the big show were
muddy and workmen were busy covering
them with cinders and straw to insure
comfort for the visitors Saturday. One OF
the carnival bands kept the crowds inside
and outside the gates to Samson's highway
entertained and two ticket windows were
busy during the early hours of the evening.
Rain set the work on booths back few
hours, but Friday evening the lights were
completed and many booths were finished.
The Douglas county fair was completed
and hundreds of the Friday evening Wis
itors spent their time seeing the exhibits
In that department. which they will be
too busy to look at during the more
strenuous days of the carnival.
An eager crowd awaited Mile. La Blonche
who makes the heart-stopping slide on the
tight cable, but the management had called
the act OFF for the evening and Mile. La
Blonche did not appear
Women Take Ten Floats.
Ten floats have been taken by the
womens societies of Omaha for the day
light parade next Thursday afternoon,
leaving but three more available, as It is
planned to have thirteen of these floats
manned" by women in their parade. Three
more are yet to be had and Gould Dietz.
manager OF that section of the parade,
has some splendid Ideas which can be
worked out easily by the societies which
get the three remaining floats. That this
parade will be one of the most popular
now seems assured, for with many women
interested and all working for the success
of the parade it is sure to be a big sue
cess. 1t will be big parade. for besides
the women there will be a comic section,
and In addition the Sixteenth infantry with
all its men, officers and band, will march.
The beauty of having everything well
organized and the wisdom of soubrettes was
shown on the carnival grounds during the
rain Friday afternoon. When other shows
were having their troubles with the rain
Beautiful Bagdad was high and dry and
will be ready to give its performance as
usual soon old Jup. Pluv. lets up and
the clouds blow away and the crowds come.
The high-priced artists who are with Bag
dad insist on having everything in Just
as good shape as in a theater, and this
was allc way luc UldHdbtIS Ol ln6 SHOW
had to prepare everything high and dry
dressing rooms with running water in the
rooms, carpets on the floor and a double
tent over the stage and dressing rooms.
with these the only Inconvenience from the
rain was the fact that it kept people from
coming to the show, for otherwise the per-
formance could have gone on as usual.
Balloon Makes Getaway.
Lost-A balloon, all silk. valued at $500
Last seen going in a northeasterly dlrec-
ton. Reward OF $40 for information leading
TO the recovery of the same.
Harry Brisby, the Krug park aeronaut,
will make the ascent in the other balloon,
and when the lost one is recovered II. La
Thoma will go into the air in It hereafter.
Most OF those on the grounds took a
philosophical, and even cheerful. view of
the rain.
I'm glad it's coming hard" said one of
the showmen. "The way It came down to-
day ought to clear the atmosphere and
clear the way for cloudless weather for the
next week. It's these lingering rains that
cut the life out Of a carnival"
Down in the executive building a man
opened an umbrella to look II there was a
name inside of It.
shut that up. shut that up" cried Super
intendent George swigert. And when the
astonished man had folded the parachute
Mr. swisert hxed him with a stern and
angry eye.
Don't you know any better than TO do
that?" he demanded. do you want to
spoil all our luck? How do you expect this
carnival 10 be a success with you opening
up umbrellas inside OF buildings? You'd
just as well go out and pour kerosene over
the whole caboodle and set fire to IT, Open
ing an umbrella under roof is the surest
hoodoo Of all the hOodoos ever invented"
Friday was a great day for the human
fish" In fact this paradoxical phenome-
non OF natural history was dashed
from his pedestal OF fame by the
commences Of human fishes. Everybody
seemed to be a human fish or a human
duck, or human goose. or some other
species OF human amphlbian Colonel
Welsh and the weather bureau proved TO
be good prophets. for the rain which was
prophesied Thursday descended In torrents
and made the Kings Highway Z river.