Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-11
GREATER ALAMO SHOWS, OPENING HERE MONDAY At THE
OLD RIVERSIDE PARK, COMES HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

The Greater Alamo Shows, offering |
one of the best out door carnivals |
now on the road, opens in Boise for |
one week. commencing tomorrow even
| ing, at the old Riverside park grounds
reached via South Ninth street. With
| this show Is a troup Of actors, aero
bats swimmers, etc, and many side
shows of the highest character. The |
carnival will afford fun and amusement |
to both children and adults.
| The Greater Alamo Shows are not
| new to Idaho. In fact they are in
clined to claim this state The shows
wintered at Blackfoot and of them the
Blaclfoot Republican says in a recent
| issue
The Greater Alamo Shows that have
been wntering at the fair grounds are
now assembling their people to get
everything and everybody in training
for the season. There are about 20 peo-
pie on the job now, mostly painters,
carpenters and laborers who are get
ting the outfit in shape for the road.
The string of cars in storage on the
siding on northeast Main street are
being treated to lot of repairs inside
and out and are being reprinted. All
the wagons and equipment at the fair
grounds have been repaired and the
work OF painting them is nearly fin
ished.
OPEN WITH NEW ATTRACTIONS
They came to town last fall with Is
attractions and will open up on April
10th with 20 or % attractions. Mama
ger Waugh says by the 10th of the
month they will have about ESQ people
in town training for the opening events
the week of April 1926. He reports
the following list of attractions: The
trained animals, the Bug House, Ha-
waiian Village, Sikology, Flemming's
diving show, Nigel Mother, Congress of
Fat Women, Some High Life, Circus
side show, Pet Illusion show, ST Gull
Inns wonders, Aliens Bee circus, Chi
nese jugglers, the aerial swing, Ferris
wheel carry-you Fall the whip, athletic
; show, Laungland, the Motor Dome.
some kind of a mechanical show, prob
ably submarine.
WANTED TO WINTER HERE
The Worham show closed the season
last fall with their October engage
ment and said they thought favorably
of wintering in town. They stated 1t
was customary for the town in which
they wintered to raise a bonus for
them, and If Blackfoot raised bonus
of $500 that would decide the question
and they would remain.
RAISING A BONUS
The matter was discussed somewhat
among the business men and some took
the view that it would be a good in
vestment to put up $500 to have that
much business added to the town for
the winter. Others took the view that
nobody paid them to winter in the
town, that the show would stay here II
they wanted to without any bonus and
that it was simply a graft if the money
was raised 1t was a new question to
the Blackfoot men and some of them
knew that other towns would be will
ing to pay the bonus and get the show
to winter with them. A meeting was
called for the purpose of getting the
business men together to reach a. deci-
, sion on the question and only two or
three attended the meeting. They de-
cided that If the attendance at the
! meeting was a fair indication of the
, interest of the business men in tine
bonus that it would not he advisable
, to take any action. The editor Of the
Republican had promised The show
people an answer on the question by
, q certain day and not wishing 20 turn
the matter down without getting def
mite expression from the business men
, he sat down at the telephone and lang
most Of them, asking what they wanted
to do. He headed the list himself with
a subscription of SIS and enough 9TH
y ers responded to make the sum total
, about $3.50.
This was reported to the show peo-
pie and they reported that some 9TH
!, ers had already rendered subscriptions
of several amounts to them sufficient
to make the amount close to $500.
RETURNING A GOOD FAVOR
They expected to have to pay the
Oregon Short Line quite a substantial
sum for storage of their train on the
siding wherever they stayed, and on
taking the matter up with the superin-
. tendent at Pocatello they were offered
a place on a temporary siding to be
specially constructed for them at the
. mere cost of laying the ties and steels.
This very generous offer was made to
them probably because Of a very gen.
erous settlement the show people had
made with the Oregon Short Line fol-
lowing a wreck of their train near Po-
= catello last year. The show people
, were damaged considerably, but still
it was a lucky accident and Manager
Waugh went to the claim agent of the
tOregon Short Line and voluntarily re-
leased them from all claims for dam
ages He said the Oregon Short Line
;, had treated him so nice in all their
. transactions that the show would stand
;, their own loss the same as the Ore
gen Short Line stood their loss. > So
when Mr.. Waugh went to the Oregon
Short Line about the use of siding
for the winter he was happily surprised
and when the work was done the bill
: was only Sll5 for the labor and no
charge was made for the use of the
material for the winter.
PLEASED WITH WINTER HOME