Middletown transcript., 1910-07-02
GREAT FOURTH OF JULY
Block Party and Midway by
Our Town Ladies

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Our 4th of July "Block Party" and
midway PIaisance" as it is variously
styled, is going to be stunner-thanks to
the endless labors, the boundless ingen.
uity and delightfully."- original schemes Of
our town ladies.
The nations natal day celebrations will
be tame by comparison. The renowned
Peter 7. Barnum with bis: "woolIy horse, /"
his "Fiji cannibals" and the rest of his
great show, would turn over in his grave
with envy could he but hear the program
of this stupendous event recited. "Bar.
NUNS Big Show" "Forepaugh's Colossal
Aggregation of Wonders" with "Bufalo
Bills Wild West Show" thrown in for
good measure wouldn't be marker to the
manifold, magnificent, myriad manifesto
tions of marshalled marvels measured out
to every patron on that munifcent Mid.
way.
We can give but few of the many at
fractions that will fill the beholder with
mingled feelings of surprise and pleasure
the moment be passes the boundaries that
shut off this enchanted ground from the
prosy town without and bare nickel
think OF it cents only-to enter the Land
of Wonders. fairer than the Garden of
the Hesperides, filled with more marvels
than the Haunted Chamber of Udolpho
and this trifing tribute of five coppers
or a solitary nickel laid in the palm of one
of the lovely guardians of all this Beauty
and Mystery admits any one.
Since the maze of bewildering sights
and sounds will probably puzzle the un-
tutored visitor, The TRANSCRIPT man will
be pleased to attempt the role of guide.
First, to cool our hot palates, for the night
is sultry, we will indulge an ice cream
cone or two which some unknown fairy
fingers dispend at one of the booths we
encounter; then we will tempt Fate on
the ever-revolviug "Wheel of Fortune"
after which, to calm our perturbed spirits
wrought up little by our bout with "The
Tiger" we willtry the See.Saw, humming
as we do so, stanza from the beautiful
poesy of our childhood "See-Saw penny
day, work for money and throw it away"
If there's any futter left "The Swing"
will surely quiet US.
Next burstiu' with expectations to win,
we will hie US to the "Goose Pond" hop
ing we may prove the ''lucky fisherman"
to win the Burstan lamp prize-whicb
may turn out to be another Aladdin
treasure-who knows. With our pockets
full of purchased "post cards" and our
heads full of ''dirigibles" "bi-planes" and
"mono-planes" and all sorts of balloons
Except the Colonefs hot.air ones) from
our ten minutes gaping at the Famous
Air Ship" run by lightning, we naturally
drop in to see soma of the curious things
in the "Side.shows," the "Great African
Aunt-eater," the "Big Boa.Constrictor,"
both extra fierce for this occasion, though
in the presence of Madame Lavinia La
whisky ''the Famous Animal Traineress"
as harmless as any sucking calf. To calm
the tremors this startling pair of wild
beasts will occasion, we take peep at the
Funny Dutch Doll'' and "OnIy ginny-
wine Gold Dust Twins" this side of Ho-
bokeD, who will do some 'tamoosin'"
terpsichoreans performances never before
presented to the sdmiring public:
With whetted appetites we next plunge
into the vortex of the "Vivacious Vaude-
vile" with its variety of Variegated
Wonders" Questioning whether we can
stand any more, we dutifully hunt up
Prof. Jesse L. Shepherds Mysterious
Performance. new stunt just discov-
cred by that famous Snowman; but since it
is copyrighted, we are cautioned not to at
tempt its reproduction elsewhere.
Filled up by this time in every part OF
US except our gastric, not to say digastric,
region, We blow ourselves 35 cents apiece
for the biggest, vest.button buster of
supper ever laid out in these diggins and
stroll off to fill the only empty space in
our anatomy, to-wit, our ears, with the
sweet harmonies being manufactured ad
lib. by our well known Pool Bros. experts
and soothed by a big cheroot, bought
from fair nymph for the nonce gone
into competition with our town tobaccon-
ists-we seat ourselves and fall into
pleasing revery on things in generel-leav-
ing to the poor married fellows the fur.
ther task of pricing tine vegetables and
other garden truck and loading the kids
with toys and cakes, etc., all to be found
in this marvellous show.