The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-04
MIDWAY SCENES:
THEY ARE GOOD.
Show. Are Very Good, Blu,
All Attractive Some
Are Classy.

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Are Classy.
Richmond never saw before and no
other point in Virginia, not excepting
the jamestown show grounds, ever be-
fore saw such a Midway as this years
State Fair offers to the people OF vir-
GINA.
Well. that is all right. The people
who flock to Richmond every year to
see the fair como very largely to SEQ
the Midway" and the curious things
that are assembled on that Midway.
Never before were there more things
OF real interest on the Midway. Son,e
are good and some are not 80 good,
End, of course, some are bad, very bad.
| or course the shows or corn and
wheat and oats and hay and pota-
toes and all the others OF the farm
products are attractive. ana 80 are this
chickens and the ducks and tho turkeys;
and so are the birds and the cattle and
the swine, and so are the farm lmple-
ments and the plows and the hoes
and the harrows and all that kind OF
lstuff; but the farmers and the country-
men see the mall the time. and such
| of them as they do not sec "in the
flesh SO to speak. they do see In
the circulars and the dodgers of the
people VINO have these things to sell.
1. But the Midway" comes only once
q year. and 1t comes only to this State
Fair. and that Is the only time the
country people have to see the things
that conSregate on n real 'Midway.s
4 Certainly many OF the things that a
assemble there are largely on the fake
order, but folks do love to see fakes
and the vast majority OF them love to
be faxed. To tell the simple truth, the
fakes and the takers make very big
attraction for q thing like g. state
| Fair.
There arc all kinds Of fakes and
takers on the Midway, and they are
not among the least of the fair at
fractions. because they are all novel,
and some of them are really meritor-
| lous as curiosities and well worth the
money 1t costs to see them. In fact. all
OF them are. Sonnet times 1t is well
worth a nickle or dime to walk into
a tent or booth to find out how
easily we are faxed, and none of them
cost more than that. The booths and
the tents, however much they may be
Inhabited by takers. furnish study of
many phases Of human nature that
the average country fellow does not
find at home. 1t may be worth ...s time
and his small stipend to learn some-
thing Of a phase, and perhaps several.
phases. of human nature that the green
|
all Of this as 1t may. large ma
1ority Of the people who go TO the
Fair Grounds. be they city folks or.
country folks. flock to the Midway az
soon as they get 10 the grounds, and
that is evidence that they like 1t. The
Fair Association understands and APP
preciates this fact, but at the same
time very earnest effort has been
made to reduce the fake business and
the Midway enterprises to the mini
mum. AS result this years Mid.
Way in its attractions is largely above
the average
j Nobody is required to spend any
money on the Midway unless they
want to. A ticket to the Fair Grounds
entities you to all OF the exhibits tina.
are not plainly otherwise marked and
"a oeled. and You can rest assured that
nothing on the Midway is going to
De marked free. So 1t Is simply
question of taking your choice and
paying your money.
But there are some things on tho
midway that are really worth seeing;
worth the price OF admission, IL for
~ otHer good reason, because It shows
now easily man mentioned In Solo
| mons proverbs and that mans cash
may get separated.
Now don't go to the Midway unless
| you want to, but II you want to. while
you are at It you might as wen sea
me best there is to see.
The trained animals being eyhih,+ad
by George w. Rollins are varv wsI,
worth seeing. for they are really
trained. Rollins has really a good
show and 1t is we'll worth the money
o. folks who are interested in animals.
kentzenjammer kaste1, man with
jaw-breaking name. has q naoss
innocent kind Of a show, ono that OK.
hibits nothing very startling, but VIII
make you laugh every minute you are
IN MS place. The comedians there are
well worth going to a State Fair to
see and laughing over.
The Little Russian Prince" Is
mighty little show, and because it is
little Is the reason 1t Is interesting
Ihey say this Prince" was born IN
Siberia. that is to say, kind Of RUS
Sian prison, and while he was born
thlrty-two years ago, up to date he
weighs only about sixteen pounds and
ne IS only twenty-seyen inches high.
/ hut the little rascal wears white
vest and smokes cigarettes to beat rho
! band. He Is worth seeing, s
Millie-Christine is real curiosity.
! III fact two curiosities. North Carolina
/ produced the Slamese twins and
whole lot OF othor curioslties. but ii
probably never brought forth any
/ greater wonder than that which the
Industrious agent pleases to call "ths
eighth wonder Of the world This
A eighth wonder is female musical
4 twin which is hard to describe You
i Will Just have to go and see 1t ana you
can find 1t on the Midway.
Selby's show is called superb, and i,
! really Is that The man Selby has all
4 kinds OF things to show. things that
are rarely seen on a Midway that is.
A an ordinary Midway but this ono la
not an ordtnlry Midway. That Is tho
reason why Selby Is here Ills gorillas
and his monkeys and his fat children
and his many other curious things are
far beyond the ordinary, hut that Ia
Just selby's way. He is said to have d
way OF doing things beyond the ordi-
nary.
Captain sorche, the deep water diver,
i did not dive yesterday because tha
Fair Association dtd not get sui
ficiently on the water wagon to furnish
/, him with as much of the5pure fluid as
4 lie required for his deep diving but
the hose will be turned on to-day, and
Il all the othar days OF the Fair. and