The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-06-23
ISLAND PARK
OPENS NEXT WEEK
Dance Hall to be Christened on
Thursday Evening.
MOVING PICTURES AND BOWLING
Managers Have Only Few Touches Re
naming to Complete Big Pavilion
Which Will be Open Every Day and
Evening During the Summer.

The coming week will see the finish
ing touches added to the Island Amuse.
ment company : pavilion and the formal
opening is scheduled TO take place Thurs
day evening with the christening of the
dance hall Leitsinger's 5 orchestra OF
six pieces will furnish music. The dane
ing floor of rock maple 81 by II teet
will accommodate throug OF dancers
Spectators Will find 30 seats ~ the
gallery on both sides and one end OF the
main building. Folding opera chairs
are so placed in the gallery as 10 afford
every spectator an unobstructed view OF
the dancing floor. The orchestra will be
stationed AT the south end of the bulld'
inp in the gallery. Dancers have easy
access to the verandas.
Over 400 electric lights will be used
to illuminate the pavilion, opening
directly from the dance hall Is the re-
freshment room 80 feet square, where
marble soda fountain has been m
stalled. Show cases of the silent
salesman type are placed at intervals
about this room and here viii be offered
for sale confectionery, cigars, souNe'
Mrs, etc Fruit aud light refreshments
will be sold in this room. The room Is
carpeted with a heavy linoleum ana
there is steel ceiling which Is lighted
tric lights are also used in this room for
decorative effect. The box ball bowling
alley will be in operation on the even
inc of the opening. The managers prom
ise TO accommodate the crowd OF Nlsl'
tors who will doubtless attend the open
inp as the seats in the grandstand. over
looking the baseball field, can be utlllz-
ed
Though no special program has been
arranged for Friday the pavilion VIII De
open for business. In fact IT - the ~
tenton of the managers 10 make TINS
resort day and night PROPOSITION from
he opening of the season THURSDAY eve,
ming until the autumn winds bring an
summer recreations 10 an end. The open
inc of the season of the Twin-State
league SATURDAY. July |. promises big
crowd as focal fans have been waiting
with considerable impatience for the
initial game. There will be a concert by
the FIRST Regiment band on sunday
afternoon. July > and on Monday, .Iuiv
3. the second dance of the season u
scheduled. The Glorious Fourth VIII
find Island Park the mecca of old ana
Young for the tentative program outlined
bv the managers not only includes the
second home game of the Twin-State
leaguers, but an afternoon game pc
wpen two strong teams. III II posslp'
that Hinsdale and Brattleboro with
rubber game to play, may decide TO APP
pear al Island Park that afternoon IN
which event local fans may look FOR
something blood-tingling in the way OF
baseball. Boat races in the afternoon
with dancing and fireworks IN the eve
ming, will round ont the days fun. 1t
is likely that the moving picture equip,
ment for the pavilion will be installed
in season for use July 4. The manage
ment of the park have announcements
elsewhere in this issue of The Reformer
telling of some of their plans for the
season Baseball fans wishing a pocket
schedule of the State league games
can get this necessary document by max
ing their wants known to either George
+. Fox or NJ. J. Moran, managers of the
Island Amusement company.
The diamond is ready for use and only
few touches remain to be made here
and there about the pavilion. Brattie-
boro people who have waited the open
ing before visiting the park will be
astonished at the outlay of money and
ingenuity upon the equipment for TINS
amusement enterprise which promises
TO be the recreation spot par excellence
in this part of New England.