Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-11
SKIP DUNDY IN EASTERN EYES
brooklyn Eagle Prints Estimate OF
Man who Made Luna Park
Famous.

The death Of Elmer 8. (Skip) Dundy in
New York last week took up columns In
the papers Of that city as well as others.
and IL was the subject OF editorial utter
ances. Old friends In Omaha, where Dundy
was reared, may get from the following
editorial in the Brooklyn Eagle an idea OF
what sober journals have to say Of him;
The death of Elmer s. Dundy removes
a man known to few Brooklyn people, but
who has done more for Brooklyn than have
men Of far greater reputation. Mr.. Dundy
was partner In the amusement firm of
the regeneration Of coney Island BY build
ing their Luna Park there Luna Park
demonstrated that there was more money
IN clean and wholesome amusements at
Coney Island than in the shady resorts
which either lodged the police or existed
by police sufferance. The success of Luna
Park made Dreamland inevitable, and the
two great, picturesque out-of-door resorts
made Coney Island the greatest, the most
pIO,urSsane ana one OF me most harmless
The names Of Luna Park and of the Hip
podrome are known the whole world over.
They are the two greatest amusement en-
terprises Of their kind in the world. with
the names OF the creations the name of the
firm which created them has achieved a
of the men who made the firm have been
enveloped in that shadow in which the real
Snowman so often chooses to stand while
he dazzles the world with his creations.
The stage is the land of illusions and to
most people the whole stage world is en-
veloped in a haze OF romance. The Hip
podrome and Luna Park became famous
because they projected illusions upon a
scale of magnitude which had never before
been dreamed of. Their success was pos
sible because the two partners who created
them were so fully Complementary Of each
other, Thompson was the inventive and
lions was recognized by artists as well as
by the general public, and so he has
achieved a certain amount OF the fame
which waits upon the successful artist or
genius, without whose capacity for inspir-
ing confidence and securing money the
plans OF his partner must have remained
merely the dreams of half mad genius.
Once the money was found to realize these
things upon the scale on which their in
ventor saw them. he was found to be emin-
entity sane, but the capacity to understand
them In their inchoat0 and nebuious state
in the inventors brain. required high and
unusual order of mind, just as the power
capital firmly upon their feet required
| financial talent Of a high order.
Perhaps the most notable thing about this
partnership was the perfect accord which
carried II on without bookkeeping and in
full faith that each man was doing his
utmost for the common end and was dvid-
| ing Squarely. The enterprises have reached
| a point of success where they will be car
| ried on under the Arm name. and no doubt
as successfully as in the. past, but the loss
and most felt by the man who Is left. and
from whose side pillar has been taken.
A. B. Hubermann, forty years at south
east corner Thirteenth and Douglas, about
thirty years direct importer Of diamonds
which are sold at two-thirds OF regular
prices all correct.