Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-09-26
THRONGS ON HIGHWAY
Carnival Crowds Are Larger Than for
Last Two Years.
FUN MAKERS IN FULL SWING
Tomtoms, Band and Spielers Call
People Together.
PLENTY TO AMUSE P0PULACE
Shows for Light.Minded and County
Fair for Serious.
POLICE RIGID FOR DISCIPLINE
Omcers Have Barred 'wifc BeRter"
and similar Instruments of Tor
ture from the Carnival
Grounds.
1905. 1907. 1903.
Thursday ......., 5,sls 5,ss7 1908


Wednesday ...... 2'5ss 2,s1s 5's7s
Thursday .,,....: s'sls S,ss7 7'Sos
Kings Highway opens at Ia O'Clock each
day.
Madam Frances and diving horse, a;5o
and p. m.
sullivan and Kilrain, and $3.50 p. IN.
Balloon race and airship flignt, 8 p, m.
Country cirous-exhibitions hourly.
Day parade September 2s.
Night parade September 30.
Taft and fireworks October 1.
Coronation ball october 2.
Cinderella bail, October 3.
One notable and overshadowing fac.
stands out above all others this year, and
that is that the attendance at Kings High
way was larger the first and second days
than It was the first and second days of
1907 or 1905, and that Thursday OF this
year showed a vast increaSe over Wednea-
day Of this year, proving oonolusively that
the popularity OF this city of scenic
beauty and irresistible pleasure has In
gratiated itself forever in the hearts OF
the people.
With bands playing, tom toms beating,
cryers calling the throngs into the show
tents, the third night of the carnival
proved more than ever before the popu-
larity OF the Kings highway. All after
noon and evening yesterday the grounds
were crowded with sightseers, all bent on
| having a good time, and they were having
it,
| The shows along the midway were all
| running in full blast and most OF them
were thronged during the busy parts OF the
day. In the crowds were hundreds from
outside of Omaha, the people from the lit
| tie towns and from the couutry beginning
| their annual visit to the kings realms
| earlier than usual.
From the time Madame Frances and her
trained horse made their thrilling high
dive in the afternoon until the lights were
turned out in the show tents, sightseers
and merrymakers flocked to the grounds
and up and down the highway bent on
having the time of their lives
The crowds find plenty to entertain them
along the highway. The spdelers draw them
hither and thither with their promise Of
wondrous and entertaining things to see
and hear. II they are not frivolous minded
there is the exhibit of the agricultural So
ciety. Larger prizes have drawn larger
hibits than ever and the booths are
rounded day and night. Then the big thrill
ler always draws the attention of the
whole crowd and men hold their
breath and women shrek when the dar-
ing young woman horseback makes
her plunge into the pool.
The Wild West show, which occupies
large plot near the entrance, also drew
good crowds who witnessed the exhibition
of rifle shooting and daring mule back
riding by the westerners..
Rough Work barred.
No wife beaters"
That is the order Carnival Chief of Police
Dempsey has issued as a part of his gen
eral plan for the preservation of peace on
Kings Highway.
To the unInItIated the wife beater" con-
ssts of two slabs about two inches wide
fastened together, one on top of the other.
Some are so heavy that the noise they
make when planted on the shoulder OF some
girl is little more than the pain.
So the chief has placed this amusement
contraption on the black list. In the same
list are the flies" the bugs and the
"squawkers," In fact, the chief will permit
nothing in this line on the carnival
grounds Confetti throwing has been de-
cided upon as the only exercise for the ex-
tremely hilarious
The carnival is for the little boys and
girls and for the women as we'll as for
the old men and big boys and for that rea-
son Sergeant Dempsey and his forty carni-
val policemen have decided that everything
must be made safe and pleasant for the
little folks and the women; the big folks
and the men may make the most OF it.
No Disorder VIII Occur.
1T is the ambition of the police TO so
oversee the carnival grounds that no dis
order will occur at all, The wife beaters
and the sQuawkers and the bugs and flies
I 49,
and ARE responsible TO a great degree of
the arrests made on the grounds said
Sergeant Dempsey. The shows are high
class and the entertainment furnished by
the governors is 50 far above the ordiusry
that the people should be permitted to en-
JOY themselves without interference or an
noyance. When the little children are on
the grounds during The daytime l shall
permit them to have canes and enjoy them
selves to their hearts content, but after {
o clock this will stop and anyone carrying
one OF the forbidden forms of amusement
is liable to be arrested"
There will be no slide for life this year,
though the announcement was made several
days ago that the exhibition OF last year
would be repeated. The girl who made the
| exhibition last year was killed in Canada
! while doing her daredevil act. II waG
/ only due to the efficiency Of the police that
she did not lose her life IN Omaha Ser.
geant Dempsey and his police personally
, inspected the wires ana the net in which
I she landed at each performance. and stood
by to catch her should accident occur
One evening the sergeant discovered one
; OF the ropes which held the net had been
! cut Had the discovery not been made the
( woman would have been dashed TO death
as she was later I'm Canada
J The diving horse ridden by Miss Mamie
. Frances, is considered one OF the most
thrilling stunts ever put on by the gov,
! ernors. A prominent business man who
! was watching the performance THURSDAY
glanced at his store windows and saw sew,
: eral young women looking at the thrillinl
! / event.