The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-12
Summer Attractions at COney Island

is no front wall to the structures
single room. Each pictorially costumed
girl is seated at one side Of a small, |
low table, at the other side is chair,
and the boss walks to and fro before
his shop striving, in broken. yet per-
suasive English, to keep those six
chairs filed with customers. Mostly
women cross the gypsies' palms with
coins, and are in earnest: but this
Arabian can't get many of their sex
into his girls chairs. and they are
occupied usually by young fellows for
fun. There's nothing wicked in II,
however, for your fair palmist is in
full view from the street while holding
your hand, and if you wish to talk
tom-foolery it will soon multiply the
original fee of half dollar. An hours
conversation, with a social cup of COT
fee and cigarettes. will cost you nigh
on to 81, l should guess; and wouldn't
you feel silly, with people staring
quizzically all the while? Yet l saw
it done.
The least self-conscious performers
that / have seen are the eleven babes
in the incubator show. There they lie
under glass, making no demand for
| salary, costumes or dressing rooms,
| earning income for their manager and
word of complaint and wholly I'M
| spoiled by public attention. 1t was
while / was there that their number
was raised to eleven by the arrival of
| a physician with three in a hat. That
hat was one of the big sort named after
| the Merry Widow, the infants were OF
! the small sort come in triplets, and the
physician. taking into account that the
mother was poor, that the mites needed
/
man would be glad to get them. nested
! them in the hat and hustled them to
| the show.
The other incident here was visit
| by a bridegroom and a bride who had
been in wedlock since forenoon only,
had come down TO Coney on single
days honeymoon tour, and were to go
back to town that evening. The young
fellow saw the hasty entrance of the
physician with the triplets, and per-
| ceiVed humoI in taking his new little
wife in to see the incubator babies: but
she blushed beautifully, chung to his
I arm timidly. went in reluctantly, and
looked at the eleven exhibits of mater
nifty askance.
Catchpenny devices at Coney must
be new and odd to catch coin readily.
Appeals to childish appetites are in
geniOus and insidious. The peanut
roasters with illumined interiors and
shriII steam whistles have for several
seasons commanded juvenile attention
in spite of all that the candy stands
could do: but 'twiXt last summer and
this some one invented a machine that
winds and wriggles molasses almost
dramatically into the spotlight. The
drawing and stretching was done for
merly by men who threw masses OF II
over a hook and pulled away like a
sailor at a hawser that ever stretched
but never broke. Nothing less than a
genius hit on an arrangement OF
wheels which would pull and roll,
stretch and swipe, caress and spank the
sweet stuff, and all so spectacularly
that il couldn't fail to enrapture the
children. | am enabled, by counting
the m'lass-o-rounds in a certain area
and multiplying the number carefully
. to saw that there are over 300 at Co.
new Island. At every turn you see
great COB of clarified and partially
, candied molaSses being wailopet
around one shaft to another, unit
you'd buy some If it took your las
nickel. This summer it is down witt
the roasted goOber and up with tht
: CANDY of the cane. Hot dog, as brollec
sausages is called, may still hold It's
: own as solid food, and beer may flow
5 as freely as ever, but molasses candA
: beats them with women and children
That's why the handraiis OF ConeA
: Island, the seats. walls and other sur
faces within youngsters reach, are So
e sticky that flies buzz not as OF yore an'
= mosquito bites are known no more
is-. cod