The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-07-01
Lake Woods Park Notes.

Victor Marine, one Of the members
of the Royal Hungarian orchestra at
the park is a band leader of note and
later in the season take an orchestra
and singers and play an engagement at
Union Park in Dubuque, Ia. Mr.. Marine
has played for four years at this park
and is engaged for next season. He is
the cornetist with Mr. Fleischman-
Mr. MoIIner served one of his cele-
brated fish dinners yesterday, the first
of the season at the park. The menu
consisted of fried perch, boiled pike and
baked white fish served with salads.
These fish dinners promise TO become
famous a. the park.
J. w s. McGregor of Gary the de-
signer of the Gary emblem of a section
of steel rail with big letter G is
figuring on putting In a concession al
the park. He has an apparatus for
making "sprungfettern" a sort of bat
ter cake baked in all sorts of fancy fig
ures, and he also has numerous other
novelties. He is also the originator of
the postal card containing a sand flea.
and entitled "Garys First Citizen" of
which he is no having made $4,000.
Manager Berry has arranged for a
beautiful fireworks display for July 4.
water tower in the park for a half hour
before the fire works program begins
on the banks ~of the lake Several
elaborate set pieces have been received
at the park for the occasion such as:
the merry widow fan. mechanical de-
vice which, when first ablaze displays
In outline of varigated color a massive
pillar of fire which finally opens in a
beautiful fan; a revolving planet. a de-
vice revolving on a spindle with great
rapidity and emitting stars of every
hue from every part of the piece; a
diamond jewel reaching fifteen by fls-
teen feet. with golden fire streaming In
every direction and the diamond jewel
star blazing brilliantly in the back
ground; an evening glory. centainin &
an outline of the face of the man in the
moon, surmounted by aluminium ard
golden star fountains. mad good night
piece which burns for three minutes.
besides a large assortment of fireworks
of every description and kind.
Bernard Greenberger. one of the
gatemen at the park has trained a num-
Der of freflies so that they light the
way while he picks raspberries in the
big woods to the east of the park He
says it was nearly hard TO train the
/ bugs DIS IL - " u oAAA meas AOt
a circus.
Isadore Schrier of the Show World,
in Chicago has arrived at the park and
will spend a few days taking in the
sights of Lake Woods, Gary and en-
virons.
The grave has been dug. the rough
| box and the coffin are in place and all
| is ready for the interment of la Sale,
| the great. on Sunday afternoon at Lake
| Woods Park. The grave has been dug
near the front of the vaudeville thea
| ter on little knoll where there are
three large oak trees. The subject will
be put under hypnotic influence on Sun
day afternoon in the theater and buried
/ He will be allowed to remain under six
| feet of earth from Sunday afternoon
until Tuesday night at 1890 o'clock
| when there will be a wierd ceremony
/ of resurrection The subject will be
! taken to the theater and there he will
| be brought out from the hypnotic state
| Willis Busock and John Swart came
over from Lansing, ILL.,. on their mo-