Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-11
EDITORS TO SEE TIE COMET
Six Hundred Invitations Sent Out by
Samson.
WILL BE GREATEST AND LAST
season Ends with Monday Nights
Performanee--LIst Of Attractions
for the Festival IL
Completed.

Invitations have been sent 70 500 news
paper men in the state OF Nebraska. an
nouncing that Monday night win be edi-
tors night at the den. and that they are
% expected to attend. Monday night will
also witness the closing initiatory cere-
mony Of the season Of 1910.
Pest ceremonials will pale before the
brillianee of the one which is to wind up
tho initiation season The show will be
the biggest ever, and the players will turn
loose all the dramatic art they possess,
80 the show will leave a good impression
upon those who have PAID $40 to watch It
once a week
q. Samsons Invitations to Nebraska edi-
tors. newspaper men and reporters--all
three are included-are really artistic.
They are printed on wood fiber paper, and
make excellent souvenirs of the occasion.
The invitation reads
Greetings: Once again It is our royal
will to call to our court the honorable
hand of scriveners who spread abroad to
all people the gospel of the good state OF
Nebraska. To which end we have com
manded that within our realm and among
the sir knights in our royal stronghold,
The Dem. the evening of Monday, he
18th day of September, shall be set aside
AZ editors night. and that fitting cere-
monies be devised and enacted by our
Royal Companie OF Court Players TO di-
vert such OF your honorable guild as shall
favor us with their good presence.
"~And we have furthermore commanded
that. though within these walls of our
ancestral and ancient castle, the rites OF
hospitality have been extended to many
Of the great OF the earth, to none has a
warmer welcome been given. for none
was a more gladstone revelrie prepared,
than win be waiting for the men who
labor without ceasing w.,A Grains and pen
r for the well being of this fair demesne
2 that we cali home. BY order OF the king,
Ags SAMSON
Lord High Chamberlain"
's..t LIneOln Invited.
NJ Lincoln is wanted In Omaha for Mon
sday night, Every live citizen in the Cap
ital City is invited and urged to come to
Omaha and spend Monday night at the
Den Messages to this effect have been
sent to the Lincoln Commercial club. the
Ad club and the newspapers, Samson
said in his greeting to Lincoln;
THE editors of the state will be with
us and It needs only the presence of the
live citizens of the Capital City to make
.fhe farewell meeting complete sue
cess. The royal company of court play
ers are brushing up their performances
for the express purpose of giving the
Lincolnites an initiation that is really
worth while, They are confident that
you will find It everything they expect
It to be-"
Samson has completed his list of at
fractions for the festival and he has en-
gagged shows and amusements of every
description. There will be all the old re-
liable forms of amusement, such as the
shows, which are an Indispensable part
of every carnival.
Among the new attractions to be pre-
scented will be first, a moving picture
show, giving films of the notorious JEFF
fries-Johnson fight There will also be
rare animal show, which Samson has
been seeking for some time, in which will
be exhibited animals seldom seen outside
geological garden. Here are a few of
the things which will be on exhibition
along the Great White Way"
Freak horse show, exhibiting a five
legged horse; snake show: rare animal
show; dog and pony circus: vaudeville
show; grounding and small animal show
Oriental show; -four in one" show, Civ
ing four shows for one admission; nov
Ing picture shows; smallest horse in the
world; human roulette Wheel ocean
wave: Eskimo show: creation show.
six hundred newspapers over the state
have been furnished with free plate for a
two-column story on what Ak-Sar-B Ben is
doing for Nebraska and for Omaha In
this way the people of Nebraska get all
the news of Ak-Ser-Ben, and a greater
number can be-reached than in any other
way. Nearly every paper to which this
plate has been sent Ias given it a prom
inent position.
Plan for Decoration.
1ne plan for a uniform decoration of
the business portion OF the city during
the fall festival promises to be go"
Every merchant who has been asked to
join has promised his aid The idea is ia
string long ropes OF red. green and yell
low pennants across the streets, 10C
ropes in eacn block Ropes will also be
hung at the street intersections with the
strings OF electric lights. The territory to
be thus arrayed takes in Farnum street
from Fifteenth to Seventeenth and six
teenth from Dodge to Harvey. Business
houses all over the city are TO be deco
raed with remnants and Ak-Sar- Ben's
colors will wave In undisputed glory dur
Ing the ten days reign OF the king.
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