The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-21


other, are first shown; then nightfall,
moonlight, clouds, storm. and day
break; next the arrival of the Monitor,
and the obstinate fight between the
crude, clumsy forerunners of the great
naval fighting machines of today. Sud-
denly the curtain falls with the foes
afioat, and still firing away at each
other; the hitherto loquacious lecturer
becomes silent, a voice says, This way
out, please" and the show ends with
out arOusing any controversial acri-
mOny.
The mana cement Of the fair endeav-
ors to minimize the arousal of feeling
between blue and gray veterans. In a
shooting gallery, where birds and
beasts are among the targets that
move along to be fired at, caricature
of a Yank and one of Reb were
placed. The sight of either tended to
arouse animCsity among veterans who
had once fought against him, and it
was unusual that the image got across
the firing line without being toppled
over by a shot The Snowman multi
piled his Yanks and Rebs quickly. but
a watchful censorship was as prompt
to eliminate those inharmonious eff
gies. and now the nearest to emblem
attic targets put up are an American
Teddy bear. which gets hit oftener
than anything else, but for fun only.
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No official action was required to
stop the effort to make two lions fight
as champions of the north and the
south. The duplication of the Warpath
that is within the fair grounds by a
Warpath just outside results in two
first-rate shows of trained beasts,
Ferari's and Bostock's, each with its
man-eating brutes under human sub
jugatiOn. A southerner and a north
erner, old enough to know that the war
was over forty years ago, got into a
conversation that became a quarrel. 1t
CHANGED that one had been to Ferari' s
show, the other to Bostock's, and they
agreed that it would be a good thing to
have a lion from each concern engage
in a life and death combat, the two
beasts standing as champions for the
tive sections of the country. The vet
Grams lost their old war hatred in en-
thusiasm for the proposed fight. Why,
they said to each other. 10000 persons
would pay SO apiece to see such an
event Lions come high, but surely
there'd be d fortune in il. They went
to talk with Ferari and Bostock, l am
told
The authorities wouldn't permit
SUCH d USnI between I6GOC1OuS nOnS- ~
said one of the showmen.
why, my dear SIR the other and
more frank one is said to have re-
marked, neither my rival nor l have
d lion that could he induced to fight
another lion. I guess you'll have to fix
up north versus south fight between
two men,"
Truth to tell seriously, the amount
of sectional feeling observable at the
fair is too small to consider. In many
ways the fact that it is a Virginia en-
terprise is obvious. For instance, the
Warpath has a show of Lee and His
Generals" while no token of Grant is
visible anywhere. Again, while there
is a negro building on the grounds,
there is no show of negro plantation
life, song, dance and humor, such as
was conspicuous on the Pike at St
Louis. Hardly any negroes are to be
seen among the visitors. As to assert
i've prejudice, ethnOlogically or geo
graphically, however, I see none here
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The Warpath is my limit in subject,
and that portion of the jamestown fair
bears comparison with the Chicago
and St. Louis Midway and Pike better
than the rest of the exposition: yet to
describe all the shows would be a
repetition of things no longer novel.
All the big cities suburban summer
resorts now have their crystal mazes,
baby incubator hospitals, wild VESTS,
Swiss and Filipino villages gravity
railways carrying passengers to the
remOtest ends Of the earth and to far
away planets all sorts of whirls and
swirls through old mills in boats and
through the air in loop-the-loops and
-the-chutes, along with dime
fakes beyond enumeration, and always
with a piping and humping of cou-
chee-couchee dance houses.
1 have no desire to go into even the
best theatrical grade of the show bust
ness, yet / think l would like to have
the bOssing of whatever the Warpath
portion of the next big fair may be
called. l would save the people from
the needless fatigue, harassments and
sWindles which / have seen at Phila-
delphta, Chicago, st. Louis and James
town. In the interest of the restaur-
ants, nothing that can be sat on without
paying for it is ever in sight. That is
meant to induce the faint and footsore
to stop at the pdViliOns, where they
don't want to drink. All beverages are
dOuble-priced. 1 have yet to cngoun-
ter nickel glass of beer at a fair At
jamestown, if you don't specifically
order domestic brew, you will be
served with an assertedly imported
brand at 10 cents a glass.
All the eating and drinking on the
grounds is priced like that. Even the
well-to-dO feel ugly when, at the only
hotel within the fence of the fair-a
wooden tent sort of structure that mar
rowly escaped destruction in the fire
that swept away half a dozen similar
hOstelries Outside-a man finds that
living by himself in the poorest of the
rooms, without bath, and none too
good table fare, costs So a day, which
would pay his way at the best house in
New York. With such prices prevail
ing at the only hotel licensed by the
fairs managers, you may imagine the
problem encountered by visitors who
come to see the exposition economical
ly. In simple justice, the prices of food
and lodging within the precincts of A
fair should be adjusted to a reason
able consideration OF circumstances
and values. Many who wish to stav A
fortnight get to the bottoms of their
purses in a week, and have to scurrv
off home disappointed.
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To return TO the shows. Visitors
should be protected from the liars who
promise performances at oartoiY ,;-,o.