The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-10
FINDS GENEYIEVB TN TOWER
roNEY,S DRUNA FARMLAND
ISTIR OVER THE NEWS.

.h,st why Genevieve, the lady hoop
.,ske, who rolled away from Col. Bill
Hull one day in Dreamlaud two years
.oo, should have selected yesterday to
nike another play for publicity will
nsv.r be known. It was rotten ingrati-
,nds on Genevieve's part to let herself
W. found in Luna Park on the very day
A.. NJ. wers Hawks, the man who made
,he Fnars, got on the job at Dreamland
sor the first time. 1t is probable that
NJ stusy Davis Of LAna Park waa at
~. bottom Of q low and undermined
conspiracy to crab Mr.. HAWKES. first
.6orts to boost Luna's chief competitor.
Late in the afternoon when q thick.
damn fog rolled OF the Atlantic and lay
.v.r all Coney like q blanket Of fluffy
~ool. and the hopeful visitors in Surf
s,enue passed "a dim al ghosts. and the
MIR calls Of the bankers sounded curiously
a. away. there came from somewhere
IN, steady pounding OF a gong. a full.
daep ~resonano that attracted the ear.
Won heard the onnnnng-onnnng-onnnng
shove all the other queer noises Of the
catv Of odds and ends and you wondered
vhat II was.
Tadkins along Surf avenue through tho
49, you came to the wide open gate Of
nr,amjsnd, where 9 .a...s.e Filipino sa1. 10
hIshsr than q walking stick and almost
m aim danced In bare legs and q red
.Iin of . skirt. She set OF running at .
rrst olip, her bare brown legs fairly
Thinning Q the board walk. and very
msny people who wondered Why . very
mail Filipino maid should be dancing
=. ~ open cato Of Dresmland hurried
sftar her.
shs fed through q turnsttle away In
Dreamland toward the ocean and after
you bad passed through the turnsttle you
vere clear out Of continental United
skates. All the berkers and roller
-cnsstsrs and hot frankfurter stands and
shoottng galleries might have been 1000
hsiles away. All around the inside OF q
bamboo stockade wero tiny stone and
wood huts with little brown men and
little brown women smoking at the doors.
In the very centre Of the plaza by the
tall palm tree stood old Chomingo, the
chief Of the Filipino village, beating on
tbst Brought out the full booming.
Mr., Hawks was smoking q cigar with
the princess Legmay. wife Of Ofoub. the
var chief, who preferred a pipe. The
Pripcess was tall for a Filipino woman.
and slender as a young tree. Despite
the chill and dampness OF b air he
arms we're bare and her legs below. the
NEE were uncovered. She wore O hlgh
colored blanket Of white striped with red
.r-l.l, rr,onol around hor ahOlildora
Il was the daughter Of the .Pnncess
Legmay. Leguay. who danced before
CAPT. j. R. McRae, who used to be in the
Filipino constabulary, and who has
charge OF the village which is to be the
big feature Of Dreamland this season,
shot out 8 few words in the tribal dialect
At a word from Mr.: Hawks.
.Ag-gansa-cayol' shouted the captain;
.oen. spo.' said old Chomingo. s~ilencing
the gong for q minute.
'itold him to make a dance said Capt.
McRae, .and be said: Yes, my master
Now watch the little brown beggers.'
Chomingo took up the gong. again and
changed his stroke from a slow rubbing
Of the little dog kennel houses around the
bamboo stookade the Filipinos poured
out, forty Of them altogether, and rnged
about old Chomingo. To the beating OF
the gong they began q queer shuffing
dance, backward and forward, first SLOW.
then faster ans faster until rel the
ubings, the babies, were leaping high in
the afr and shouting in an odd singsong;
Pretty good, eh?' said Mr.: Hawks,
rubbing his hands proudly and pausing
for a reply. But at that very moment.
while the Filipinos were still bobbing up
and down and the captain was explaining
al about the dance. there was a great
to do out in Surf avenue, voices calling.
Whistles blowing and a man whooping
through q megaphone. There was moth
ing to do but to beat 1t out to the main
street and see what all the fuss was about.
Out Of the fog popped Mr.. Stufiy Davis:
surrounded by the entire press stan oil
Luna Park.
This way shouted Mr.. Davis. start
ing on a run for Luna. 'Something very
has happened. There's. q
story over in Luna that's got any Filipino
yarn beaten as far as from here
the Knickerbocker. Genevieve has
up!'
Here, that's my SNAKE cried Mr..
Hawks ~angrily. That snake belongs
preamland. It wal bought and paid
for by Senator Reynolds; You have no
uoiiCco W opCoi my oSoh- |
.Ill have you know said Mr.. Davis
csldly 1'that Luna Park opens for bust
ness next Saturday as we'll as this Dream
land joint Of yours. Go on back to your
filipinos."
But Mr.. Hawks. muttering as he ran,
followed the crowd and Mr.. Davis and
went into Luna Park. Carefully avoid
ing piles OF planking and scraps Of tin
that were being made into per
hurried to the Luna Park press office,
threw open the door and spread out his
hands with a prideful air.
There said he. SIS the missing Gene
we've. That snake has been missing for
more than two years. This afternoon
While Jack Binns was fixing up the tower
top for wireless, he heard a faint, thin,
little cry which seemed to come from q
Dark crevioe in the very top Of the tower.
revice, Mr. Binns touched something soft.
though a trife cold, and he felt his hand
stroked gently as II in gratitude"
I, Mr.. Hawks snorted soornfully. but the
Luna Park press squad crowded round
him staring m~enacingly, and Mr.. Hawks
sAut up hastily. though once in a while
De let out a low growl.
1Stroked gently, as il in gratitude
We've appeared. thin and wan. There
IL every reason to believe Mr.. Davis
Concluded ~impressively, that abe has
,efr on the top Of the Luna Park tower
,,or two Years. afraid to venture forth.
NoT; how do you suppose she got there?'
Made herself into a hoop and rolled
;~avagely.
y al all said Mr.. Davis easily.
~ Is a fact, known only TO Frederic
ihYinFson and myself, that when the