Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-22
KINGS HIGHWAY IS BLOOMING
Ak-Sar-Ben City of Amusement As.
suines Carnival Appearance.
SHOWS ARE NOW COMING IN
Director General Emil rnnOe SAYS
Not One Foot of space WIN
ne Left U~noccupIed when
Gates Open.

Iht camels are coming, hoorah, hooroo!
SHOWS and showmen are arriving for the
big fall festival which opens Wednesday
and the Kings Highway is temlng with
life
Emil Brandeis, chairman Of the amuse-
meqt committee, is authority for the state
ment that not an inch of show space or OF
booth room win be left unoccupied. when
the carnival opens at noon Wednesday.
Since making its last announcement the
boatd OF governors has secured three big
shows which will be attractions Of suf-
ficient merit to draw crowds from near
and far and to entertain those crowds after
they arrive. The Independent system Of
booking is proving most satisfactory this
year and the Kings Highway will have
bigger and better shows than ever before.
A real circus will be installed within the
limits Of the grounds and for a small
charge the visitor will be permitted to see
a genuine country circus. Colonel c.. w. Hall
has decided to come to Omaha with his big
show. He has a dozen cages of wild ami
mails, many of which will perform in a steel
arena. lie also carries a large number OF
ring horses and has as riders George Hol-
land, one of the features of the Barnun
shows for years. Tierena's daughter,
daughter of the renowned ocean bowman
and seven of their children will give bare
back exhibitions and will introduce Il
troupe OF educated horses. These horses
are high school horses of the highest type.
Three dens Of his wild animals will work
in the arena. They are the three lion act,
the leopards, Jaguars and mountain lions
and the bears. 4 huge six-ton elephant,
said to be the largest in captivity, will be
put through evolutlons which are said to
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Popcorn George "a Veteran.
Colonel Hall, known among showmen as
Popcorn George, is one of the oldest show
men in the business and owns several diff
ferent troupes of wild animals which are
with different ones of the large shows of
the country. He came TO Omaha forty
eight years ago witt a eircus when there
was no railroad west of Des Moines and
has been in the show business ever since.
Colonel Hall was simply booked with a
trained wild animal show, but when he
came to Omaha and saw for himself the
gigantic preparations the board of gov
errors are making for the fall ~festlcal he
Immediately made arrangements for his
big circus to come also.
re Filipino village is also booked and
daily the Iggorotes will cook dog meat
Just as they do in their native country in
the far Philippines. Considerable diff
ficulty was experienced by the board of
governors in securing this attraction, but
it was finally landed and the board OF
governors is correspondingly happy.
California Frank and his wild west show
will put on the same show he gave all sum
mcr at Dreamland, Coney Island. He mas
arrived. and II the nature of his show can
be judged from the appearance of his
splendid horses, he has a show of rea'
merit.
in digging for the huge tank into which
the divinS girl will daily plr< ge her horse
from q height of sixty feet, the workmer
s'ruc,; limestone. which makes the work
PROGRESS SLOWLY, but an extra. force, was
put To w4fRs AM las<sn beFfntendent OF the
GROUNDS promises to have all in readiness
when the gates swing open.