Evening journal., 1909-05-21
BIG CROWD AT
THE CARNIVAL
Confetti Night Brought Out
Ten Thousand Pr
sons \

More than ten thousand people good .
naturedly jostlcd each other at the For
esters' Carnival at Front and Union /
streets last night. Though nearly all
the men wore overcoats and many OF
the women were attired in heavy gowns
the cold weather and the threateing
skies put no damper on the high spirits
Of the merry throng. The crowds have
been growing larger each night and
it is probable that had the weather
been at all propitious the number OF
visitors would have been doubled.
Not a little of the gaiety was due
TO the clouds of confetti with which
eXery man, woman and child, especi-
ally the girls, was covered. Scattered
through the grounds. were many stands
at which the vari-colorcd paper was
for sale by the women members of the
Companions of the Forest and judging
1 from the quantity OF tho sticky paper
/ In evidence they doubtless added a
goodly sum to their receipts from the
/ Carnival. 1t frequently happens that
a confetti night" at a public affair is
seized upon by runruly roisterers as
an occasion for unrestrained license
and disorder But none OF that was
apparent last night.
The forty-mile an hour gale that
swept over the Carnival grounds dur
ing the afternoon and evening. was re-
sponsible for one important drawback
to the pleasure OF the visitors. The
wind was so strong that It prevented
Harry Six. the worlds champion high
diver, from making his nerve -racking
plunge from the one hundred-foot higi
ladder into tank containing thirty
six inches Of water. a feature that
hitherto during the week had held the
vast concourses OF people spell bound.
Prof six himself seemed as crestfallen
over the impossibility Of making his
dive as the most ardent and enthus-
iastic Carnival goer could have been.
In the afternoon he had made all ar
rangements for his headlons flight from
the ladder. even arraying himself in his
diving costume and ascending to tho dimi-
nutlve platform from which he makes the
plunge When he reached the top Of his
lofty perch, however, he found that the
ladder staunchy hraced as it is, quivered
and shook with the force Of the wind 81
that it woud be madness to undertake tho
feat The spectators realized this as fully
as did the diver. They gave him rousnf
cheer when he finally shook his head and
descended the ladder
In spite of the wind. Bertini made as
tensions both afternoon and evening OF
I his unicycle around the hfty-foot splra
tower though it seemed at every momen
that his hardihood might cost his life.
Fresh interest was added to the ami
NAL show by the fact that the cold
s weather seemed to add ferocity TO ths
s powerful and dangerous group OF wilt
5 animals which. Colonel Ferari has as
{ sembled. The Colonel is the head o
s the Carnival Company, but his chic
} ambition in life is to maintain tn
Great Ferari Trained Wild Anima
} Arena as the greatest in the country
) Wilmington has seen some good train
ed wild animal shows, but there is n
one who has seen the Ferari Show
and it has been well attended at ever
performance--who does not conced
that the Colonel presents a most won
derful and thrilling exhibition Of III
human eye and will over the mos
powerful and vicious Of the brute crca
} tlon that has ever been seen here.
All the other shows did the bigges
: business of the week last night and th
corwd thoroughly imbued with tn
Carnival spirit-saw them all. Th
Foresters' Committee in charge Of I'll
Carnival is more than pleased wit
tho success that has attended its ei
forts, despite the unpropitious weathe
and It is confident that tonight an
tomorrow night viii be the banne
evenings.