Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-05-04
CARvER'S BIG SHOW
COMING TO LANCASTER
VIII Exhibit at Fair Grounds
May %, "a, Is, 26.
With Many New and Startling Wild
West Features, also the Wonder
full Diving Horses.


are to have an opportunity of seeing
the great diving horses of DR.. Carver
makes it right that they shOuld know
something of the work of those
almost human animals. and we note
from the st. Joseph Gazette, which
tells of the performance in detail.
Carver made good.
''His entertainment was exactly as
advertised, Notwithstanding the many
drawbacks a stranger has to contend
with in Missouri, this show me-
country. The Carver show drew the
largest crowd of the season. Not less
than s 900 person shouted themselves
hosTse over the novelty of the enter
tainInent. They simply went wild
with enthusiasm each act was greeted
with rounds of applause. Carver
eclipsed the widest ideas OF magma
ton. He shot holes through dollars and
smaller coins; shot oranges thrown
into the air. causing them to disap-
pear as by magic; then he wrapped
oranges in paper threw them into the
air. and at the crack of the rifle the
paper came floating down and the
oranges disappeared. Where they
went to no one in the audience could
tell. 1t seems impossible to perform
the difficult feats that the doctor
executes with ease
''At the conclusion Of the shooting
ne introduced the five high diving
horses, one at time, and told of the
sixteen years he spent in training
them. Then he showed the audience
three distinct styles of kissing made
famous by the diving horses. First
came Powder Face, with her sweet
loving home kiss. so true To life that
many an eye filled with tears No
one in that vast audience ever dreamed
of the affection of dumb brute as
we call the horse could be so human.
Carver declares Powder Face tries to
talk. While she cannot say 1 love
you. she shows by her every action
that she does-Powder Face talks
with her eyes. The second horse was
Little Powder Face, with a record of
eighty-five feet, and eighty-6ve feet
is away up in the air, sure enough.
This one kisses like a bashful girl
and by her shy little way won the
hearts of the audience and convulsed
them with laughter when she gave
soly nd hn1d
head down and acted as silly as a
very bashful school girl. The clown
horse came next, with that Merry
Widow kiss, and the crowd simply
hooted as he opened his big mouth and
handed Carver a kiss that will go on
record as the most terrific kiss ever
seen in this city.
"Little Cupid came next, with his
cunning way, and in less than one
minute he was hot favorite with the
audience He played like child for
his sugar and when the doctor
neglected to give it to him, and was
telling of his good qualities, the
cunning little fellow made a big
jump and burtnd the doctor in the
back. he got his sugar and big
kiss, too. The last horse introduced
was Silver King, who bowed his
acknowledgment TO the people, kissed
the doctor and then with his head
pushed the doctor from the field. This
horse is famous the world over, as he
dives exactly like a human being,
striking the water on the end of his
nose.
''OId Powder Face was the first to
make the dive. She was led to the
foot of the long incline, turned loose
and on a run she started for the top
of the platform. When she reached
the summit she stopped long enough
to get her breath. Then, bowling to
the audience, she plunged from the
platform, first making a most beauti-
full curve In the air, and lighting in
the water on her head-a dive that
would do credit to many an expect
human diver. Not one word was said
to this animal from tho time she was
turned loose at the end of the incline
until she came out of the water. The
plunge is exactly forty two feet from
where the horse stands to the bottom
Of the tank. This was most sensa-
tionaI performance for a horse, and
the udience, realizing her superior
intelligence, gave her perfect ova-
ton
% to this point every act had
been truly startling and sensational,
highly educational, pleasing and in
structive. Not one man or woman in
the vast audience but what had learn
ed a beneficial lesson in kindness to