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a different matter to come forward with
a definite program.
GIVE us suggestions." say the gov
ernors.
All right. Here is a definite line OF en-
tertainment that could be added to by
anyone who will use his head:
Have your carnival grounds as before.
fenced. with gates where the dime ad-
mission may be collected.
Inside have your rows Of show tents.
just as the worthams or the World At
Home people have. but don't have the
fake grab-a-dime spielers and their Co
horts inside of them. Instead have as
much as possible of home talent, that
is-omaha, Nebraska, and neighboring
state talent-to entertain.
What have we that people would care
to hear or seer" says some wise guy.
Say, IL we haven't anything better
than the dancing Turks. (born in Chi
cago), or the diving girls. who can't
swim better than the meanest nut-brown
kid at Carter lake. II we have nothing
more entertaining in Nebraska than the
princess who lives under water, or
rather. stands in box behind a glass
tank of water and looks through the
tank at the suckers; IL we have nothing
more entertaining In Omaha and in the
state than these Things, It is time for
the srasshoppers to return and devour US.
We have Stecher.
All right. Why not Stecher for the
carnival7 Gotch, too. and Farmer
Burns, all in one tent Can't get them3
All right Get any one or any two of
them with their trainers. Let them put
on a fifteen-minute show during the day
as often as the tent will be filled. and
that win be right often. Let each show
the hold that made him famous in the
mat game. Would you pay two bits to
see them7 Ask me.
Again put on a battle royal in another
tent. You can hire ten colored men for
$3.50 apiece a day. Use them in two
shifts, of five men each. Put heavy
boxing gloves on them. say eight ounces,
20 the Ministerial union wouldn't call a
special meeting Turn the five loose in
a roped arena and let them fight or box
It out. Would that get the dimes or
the quarters? What has been the history
of the battle royal? Wherever it has
been staged and has not been known as
q fake Il has drawn all any house could
hold. Remember. make the gloves heavy
enough to duck the wrath of the Minis
terial union.
There are the Teddy Brothers. too.
Slam them into a tent with a good
wrestling mat. Have they not charmed
multitudes in the past? Would people
pay a dime to see them work? have
seen them stage their celebrated ''rube
wrestling match" fully twelve times, and
today I would pay my two bits and take
a half dozen of my friends to see them
besides.
Have we any dancing talent?
Oh, no; we have the paint-smeared
dregs of womanhood from the slums of
the east to come here and wiggle their
silly bodies to the squeaking of Tur-
kish bagpipe before we think we have
entertainment.
Have we not dancing schools in Omaha?
Let Prof Chambers put a dozen OF his
best pupils in a hall with real gowns
and with real steps. Let these people ex-
hibit the latest dances in the most ap-
proved way, and let the public pay their
dime to see these exhibitions. Sure there
are a few so-called men who want TO
see only the Turkish girls with their
dirty rags, but there are moro men and
women who would spend their dimes for
real. classy, modern dancing.
Let Walter Adams, the "Galatea" of the
Den show, stage his celebrated dances in
costume in another tent. The Trench"
Turkish and Egyptian dancers that
have disgraced the carnival grounds for
years. have absolutely no place beside
one whose work has the real class that
the dancing OF young Adams evinces.
Omaha manufactured products and Ne
northumberland products could
profitably be shown in another tent,
either free to the public or for a nominal
admission fee. The matter Of price could
be worked out later.
Then barbecue for one day. There
are plenty of vacant lots where a barbe-
cue could be put on. The Union Stock
Yards company furnished oxen to be
roasted for the Tractor show at Fremont.
Why not at home. Anyway, oxen could
be purchased for the occasion, Just for
a one-dsy stunt.
Another exhibit could show relics of
the European war. There are plenty of
these in Omaha More and more these
relies have been coming across the water.
A public call for them to be- labeled,
classified, cataIogued and exhibited at a
carnival would bring thousands Of choice
pieces out OF their present hiding.
Free attractions?
Well. here is a suggestion: There is
nothing in the European war as spectacu-
lar as an aerial battle. The day has
come when We don't need TO pay 1000 q
day for an aviator TO make two little
| flights as we did year ago. After
Beachey had left Omaha with his 5000
of perfectly good money in his pocket for
three days work. an unknown aviator
| just to be a good fellow. made flights
daily over Omaha for $50 day. and on
one occasion looked the loop sixteen times
in succession, thus doubling. trebling and
Quadrupling anything Beaehey had ever
done for us when he got si000 a day.
All right. aviators of that type may
be had here. About three OF them should
be obtained with about three or four ma
chimes. They should stage an aerial bat
tie daily. One should drop mock bombs
on the city. while the other should rise
from the ground and charge him IN mid
air. attacking him with mock machins
guns and bombs. This diving. charging
counter-charging. plunging and churnine
In the central blue with guns popping In
the Eenith. would be a spectacle thai
would draw as the electrical parade
draws.
For other free attractions, let moving