Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-09-30
ALL CONTRACTED FOR ON HAND
PrOfiting by Past Experience, Board
Ties Them Up with Bond.
LIGHTS IN CITY TURNED ON
Omaha Has on Its PrettIest Attire
and Is Ready to Welcome the
Guests of the Royal
Samson,
Samson.
ATTENDANCE.
Wednesday &.

Promptly on scheduled time Samson
touched the button, the gates of the Kings
Highway flew open, the big baIly-ho
band over the triumphal arch played the
opening air and Omaha's fall festival was
on. The time of the opening was at 130
Wednesday afternoon and it found most
of the attractions ready for business. No
effort was made to give any performances
in the big shows until evening, when the
people of the city began to visit the
grounds. The opening was rather quiet, as
1t is usual for the first day, but the even
ing found all the shows ready for business
except the big show which the Board Of
Governors is installing under the direction
of Emil Brandeis, chairman of the amuse-
ment committee This show is nearly COM
pleted.
Spielers barked and their assistants with
the various nosemakers Wed with each
other in their efforts to attract the crowds
to the different shows. One show has a set
Of chimes and another has big Claxton
horn for bally-ho All did good business
for the opening night. The shows are all
clean and high class and will bring no
| reproach on the promoters of the enter
prise
Space Used TO Advantage.
While the space given to the carnival is
somewhat less than last year, the ground
is used to better advantage and larger
shows than ever before use all available
space. A large number of catch-penny af-
fairs which dotted the grounds last year
are missing.
The first show to attract the eye on en-
tering the higheway Is the Human Roul-
| Elite Wheel, a device framed to furnish
fun and amusement for boys as we'll as
| for the spectators who watch their antics
| in trying to ride on the slippery revolving
surface. which throws them off fast as
they can get on.
! Turning to the right there is the usual
| array of booths and at the end of Eight
eenth street is the trained wild animal show
of Big Otto Here are all sorts of forest
! bred wild animals, trained to do the bid
ding of man. There are eighteen cages of
| animals and all are trained to work. -
The feature performance is given by Mile.
Fay with cage of performing leopards
The animal show is housed in the biggest
tent ever pitched on the carnival grounds
Turner's "Seven-in-One" show is framed
up like a side show to a circus and here is
displayed quite a variety of freaks such
as are usually seen in a side show.
Wizards Temple of Music is another big
show in which a bevy of young women
play on all sorts of contrivances such as
alarm clocks, buzz saws, pipe organs and
numerous other devices. A young woman
plays on a bank of flowers by means OF
electricity which passes through her body
The hippodrome circus from Dreamland
on Coney Island will amuse the youngsters
!
Omar Sami has a splendid version ol
Lunette, the human butterfly.
Numerous other attractions make the
Kings Highway place where an evening
may be spent and enjoyed by all.
The members of the board of gov
ernors who look after the business affair
of the merry monarch, King Ak-Sar-Ber
XIV, stood on the Kings Highway and said
1t is good"
The shows IN the amusement court ar
OF a higher grade this year than in an!
Samson has ever undertaken to give 70
the public" said Emil Brandeis, chairman
of the amusement committee. For SOM
time the board has been booking show
only to lose out at the last minute, whel
il was too late TO fill their places. Thi
year, however. a different scheme was trie,
and the shows we're all bought outrigh
and placed under bonds to appear. Tha
the schemes has worked out well is showl
by the fact that they are all here and ii
place.
I'VE have not as many small shows a
heretofore, but we have larger and bette
shows, and plenty of them"
Jap Tea Garden.
Prof Willard Chambers has called for
final full dress rehearsal of the childre
who will take part in the Japanese Te
Garden for Saturday afternoon at 1880 a
the den The boys who will take part an
those who have not received their cos
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