The Billboard 1904-04-02: Vol 16 Iss 14 (1904-04-02)

THE BILLBOARD STREETFAIRS & EXPOSITIONS) oo ON THE PIKE AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Of the leading concessions on the Pike at the World's Fair none will be more interesting or beautiful thin that of Constantinople, with ite mass of oriental architecture. By the prom inence of lecation it will at once attract fhe attention of the visitor. In design its architecture is strictly oriental, and every detail is as correct as reproduction can accotyplisi. Jeweled with electric lights at night it will resent a most dazzling spectacle of oriental Casts. Inside of this orlental palace you will find a faithful reproduction of the famous streets of this Turkish metropolis. The every day life and mannerisms of these inhabitants will be in active exhibition. Among fhe inside attractions will be found numerous booths. artistically designed and located, inhabited with Turkish merchants showing their wares and manufacturing various articles that will be offered as souvenirs. A portion of this con cession is set apart for amusement featur s and the theatre is beautifully decorated and most inviting. In it will be given the native amusements, dances and feats of this oriental race. Among the two hundrded oriental employes will be found the famous female stage celebrities and ladies most popular in the orient by reason of their beauty and their graceful. ness in the terpischerean art. These are .o be here through special] permission of the su thorities of thelr native cities. Mr. K. E. Neimy. who is rietor and manager of this concession, has his representatives at present en route here with new acts and natives of this Mediterranean-Orienta! country, and as the reputation of Mr. Neimy is not to be disputed and his experience in past expositions, including the Chicago fair, gives the public the utmost confidence in the high plane and the realism of this exhibit. The total cost of this concession wil] reach $10s,000, and the space H occuples ts adequate for all requirements. In conclusion let me say that Mr. Neimy has in bis ““Constantinople’’ one of the features of the Pike, and no visitor will see Ot to pars without entering ‘“‘a fairyland’ in electricity at night. WILL J. FARLEY. FAIR NOTES. Dr. C. De Garmo Gray was a caller at “The Billboard”’ March 23. Ypeflanti, Mich.. tf making efforts to have the state fair located permanently there. The members of the House of Representatives from Jamestown, Old Polnt Comfort, Va., are guests of the Jamestown Exposition Company Martin and Crouch. with the Quaker Concert Company, write that thelr new acrobatic and barrel-Jumping acts are proving a big success Thev will play faire this summer. A movement is on foot to have the privileces of the Midway at the Minnesota State Fair sold by private sale instead of by auction as here tefore done. The change is made necessary to keep up a high standard class of attractions which can not be done by the method of auctioning. Freddy Miller. 11 years. eon of Harry Miller who was severely burnt by gasoline on June 25 hes entirely recovered from the accident and will again be with the Miller Family of serialists Mr. Arthur Adair has joined the Millers for the coming season, doing bis ladder, dancing and barrel ects. The management of the Minnesota State Fair has arranged for the new $30.000 Manufacturers’ Ballu.ng and has arranged for the introduction of gas meine to the grounds. Hereafter no gaso line lights will be allowed. An important change of street car facilities will be the !Installation of a loop running into the groun’s and sidngs for the storage of 100 electric cars Tha year's fair is expected to be the greatest and Wiegest of any previous one. Sixteen men representing five falr associatlons met recently at Beloli, Wis.. to talk over the advisability of forming a permanent asso elation for mutual ald in conducting thelr annual faire Ao organization was effected. The associations represented were Roone county. McHenry county, Lake county, of Illinois, and Walworth county and the Beloit Interstate Fair and Driving Association. of Wisconsin. Stephenson county. Ill. will also be included in the cireult. William Desmond of Woodstock, called the meeting to order, and O. EF. QObarchill of Libertyville was chosen secretary. Director of Exhibits H. E. Dosch, of the Lewis and Clark Fair, has caused the issuance of the first call for exhibits. Ry this call the western producers are invited to take immediate advantage of the opportunity. No charge will he made for floor space. The call was lesued at this early date in drder thet manufacturers and exhibitors might have ample time in which to prepare their exhibits and also secure an early reservation of floor space. Hundredé of letters have been mailed to producers and manofac turers throughout the northwest, west and southweet, WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. The Fair Bank let its contract recently for a $15,000 building. Trafic rates to the World’s Falr are now established for the entire United States. President Roosevelt has decided that he can hot attend the formal opening of the Louisiava urchase Exposition, The first international conclave of lawyers and jurists tu.a¢ has ever been held will be held this year at the World's Fair. Four hundred and thirteen Philippinos have arrived on the transport Thomas at San Franclseo on thelr way to the fair. Ellis Glickman, proprietor of the Yiddish Theatre in Chicago. fs in Charge of a Ruselan exhibit to be made by Chicago Ruasians. The Marine Band will play at the fair for sbout a month. Two companies of the Marine Juard will be on duty at the World’s Fair. Miss Florence Hayward bas secured rare archives relating to the Loulsiana Purchase Territory from various citles, particularly New Orleans, The Gunboat Nashville will safll up the Mississippl in April to be stationed at the fair. Two torpedo beat destroyers will also be 64 signed to St, Louls Alfred ©. Gatbur bade good-bye to the Exposition officials last week. He was the architect in charge of the Russian pavilion, the butldiog of which hae heen discontinued. Twenty seatiors from the Itallan navy have arrived and willl be presented to President Francis this week by Commissioner General Branch. They will be stationed during the exposition in and about the pavilion of Italy. The House committee on industrial arts and expositions bas begun consideration of the bi which has ‘passed the United States Senate, appropriating $1,750,000 for the Lewis & Clark Exposition, to be held in Portland, Oregon, in 1905. The program for the National and Intern+tional Press Congress at the World’s Fair, be ginning May 16, has been completed. Abont 4.000 newspaper men are expected to attend, and of these more than 100 will be editors of foreign papers. Dr. ©. DeGarmo Gray was in Cincinnati March 23. tm attendance at the horse shpw. He will have charge of the horse show at/ th: World's Fair, which, he says, will be o of the largest and most complete ever hel in this country He is promoting a big fall hag show in Cincinnati. STREET FAIRS. The great trouble with most people who advocate the holding of these events is they dweil on the immediate benefit to be derived, be the city holding or from the holding of a street fair. While there is no gainsaying, the fact that a good street fair does help everybody in that place In a financial sense, yet the greatest benefits are derived months after the strect fair is over. In other words, the holding of a successful street fair in a city would be of vast benefit to that place if the merchants did not reap one penny of profit during its continuance. for it brings people to the city that possibly were never there before; and these people, when made acquainted with the facilities for the purchase of goods in that place, will return time and time again, thus creating new customers for the mercbants, new business for the hotels, and, in fact, be iting every one during the rest of the year. It is plain that a city needs as much advertising as any other article of merchandise. The people living adjacent to two cities will go to the place that is boomed to purchase their goods in preference to the place that never says a word about its advantages. Large cities recognize the truth of this and spend large sums of money annually in order to induce people to make a trip to their city. It is the same with smal] cities who give a successful street fair The American people like to be amused, and the street fair gives them amusement and they will go miles to see them. That more gools are sold when a crowd is present in town then any other time is apparent to every one. Whee the American public take a holiday they go «n it with their whole heart and soul; they do not take just enough money with them to pay their current expenses, but slways have a little stowed away to spend for things that strike their fancy. Every merchant knows that a street fair will help to draw trade to their city. Every day in the year they should lend all the help they can to secure one for the city they are located !n and use all of their energy toward making it a success. 2 STREET FAIR NOTES. Williard’s Temple of Music has been secured for the Great Parker Amusement Company. Roger ..nt, the well-known promoter, will be In a.vance of the Mundy Carnival Company this season. Austin, Texas, expects to give in October one of the most elaborate carnivals in the history of the state. The Great Bartelmes have signed for the season with the Great Parker Amusement Comy. to work In the Coliseum. The Talbot-Whitney Carnival Company opens on April 18 four of its shows upon the great midway of the Mundy Amusement Company F. M. Myers’ silver cornet band of 10 piecvs has signed with the Hall Carnival Company Their uniforms will be red trimmed in gold lace. Fred P. Shields, who was last year treasurer of the Gaskill-Mundy-Levitt Carnival Company. le back with the Gaskil] Carnival Company this sf ason. Ida May Burch, well known in the carnival business, will spend the heated term at her cottage at Atlantic City, which she recently purchased 1 Cc. W. Parker has just completed seven new @O-foot flat cars at the Parker factories, Ab! lene, Kan. The work was accomplished in less than ten days. ; Frank C. Rostock, the Animal King, has wr't ten his Raltimore friends a letter of condolence from Paris on their losses In the recent great fire In that city. The Barkout-Faust Carnival Co. left Jasor, Ga.. to join the Lockwood Pxposition Co. fr. Doe Allen has charge of the privileges with the Lockwood Co, Madame Planka, the famous Lady of the Liens, of the Bostock Trained Animal Aréna, of Philadelphia, fs recovering from a_ severe attack of rheumatism. Col. Louts Mareuse, the stenographic marvel, who has Invented a new system of shorthand. will again be private secretary to Victor D. Levitt en tour this season. Victor D. Leavitt has rebuilt his beautifal Crystal Maze on a new and spi. did scale. and it will be the feature of the carnivals of the Mundy Carnival Company thig season. Prof. Albert Schneider, recently of Kinloch’s Palace of Illusions, at Ruhl, Minn., has joined Cariiie’s Orchestra for the summer, and is now at Miller’s Pavilion, Eveleth, Minn. Joe La Fleur will be one of the principal fea tures with the Gaskill Carnival Co., opening ot San Antonio, Tex., April 18. This will be Mr La Fleur'’s second séason with the company. Dr. Horace Grant has landed several good shows, Including the Mystic Maze, Dreamland. Aimee, Millican’s O)4 Plantation and A _ Trip to the Moon Adolph Seeman ts manager, and Dr. Horace Grant ts doing the promoting. «, W. Parker ts building a magnificent crystal and gold-carved wagon front for the mammoth giase palace, which will be one of his feature shows this season. Stock and Myers will have T chorze of the exhibition with a company of ten e The Electric Palace of Ferari Brothers, under the management of W. H. (Billy) Williams. the well-known showman, wil] be the grandest show of its kind ever constructed. To muake the show complete they have just received 10,000 feet of special colored motion picture films from London, England. Mr. and Mrs. *‘Jim’’ Porter, with their little danghter, have returned from the south, where they have been wintering, and will rest up a few weeks at their home, Kansas City, before opening for the season with Patterson & Brainerd, with whom Mr. Porter will have his Electric Theatre. Alfred Perrino, the well-known lion tamer. late of the Bostock Animal Shows and Sparks Cireus, who went insane’ over religion at St. Augustine, Fla., recently_and ran out of the lion’s den leavin cas which created in e show, Ww eman and Millican’s Mardi Gras and Free opened their season at Anniston. Ala.. March 7 to splendid business. The comdid excellentiv in Gadsden, Ala., and Pittsburg, Tenn. They carry eight towns for the Seeman and Millican Mardi Gras Co. The company carry ylant. thug avoiding the inconvenience o in many large to The Cragoe: ~-. Ties aad Jim-— closed their carnival season with Blacktop, the London Ghost Show attraction, at Grand Rapids, Iowa, Oct. They rested for four weeks and then toured the northwest and closed Jan. 23 with grand success. They are now resting at their home, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, until carntval season opens. Regards to all friends. James E, Hare. late of the Frank C. Bostock, Bostock-Ferari and Gaskill-Mundy-Levitt amusement enterprises. who is wel] known throughont the United States by reason of his work as press representative and promoter. is in charge of the publicity of the coming big Eagles’ Convention in Raltimore and of the great minstrel show which the Baltimore birds are getting up and which will play a number of leading cities after its opening week in Baltimore. The seventh annual spring festival to be held in Chattanooga, Tenn., promises. to be the most successful of any previous carnival held by the business men of that progressive southern city The Mundy Amusement Company will furnish the attractions, and it goes without saving th:t the midway feature of the big show will be parexcellence. A triumphal feature of the festiv:1 will be the electrical parade, which will surpass any yet attempted in America. The festival is being heavily billed within a radius of 200 miles and great crowds are expected. At the winter quarters of the PattersonBrainerd Carnival Company in Kansas Citr. Mo.. a large force of painters, carpenters and wagon makers are being kept busy preparing the rolling stock of this organization for the annnal tour. Ten pay shows and a number of excellent free attractions will be carried. The massive carved and gilded fronts of the +‘arious shows are rapidly nearing completion Time is booked almost solid throughout the Middle West. The season will open April 21 in Convention Hall at Kansas City, the largest anditorium in the country. Jim Porter, the well known moving picture man, will be with the company this season. The Plerce Amusement Statesville, N. C.. April 4. with eight paid shows, Ferris wheel and merry-go-round. A feature attraction will be Plerce’s latest snecess, Dreamland and Lanette which Pierce has run for the last six years. The Electric Palave under Mr. R. M. Peeler, Plantation ander Mr. €. Cooley. Mechanical Eruption of Mt. Pelee under Mr. C. J. Sturgis, Dog and Pony Show under G. H. Martin. Bohemian Glass Show 1»der C. A. Saunders. Five baggage cars, one flat car and two coaches wil) carry the outfit. A band of 12 pieces. Mr. J. W. Dillworth leader. Mr. J. M. Overstreet, of Dallas, Texas is general manager. Seattle, Wash.. is to have a Mardi Gras and midsummer carnival. to last from July 19 to July 30. George W. Blanchard. president of the asseciation. last evening sald: “‘The Marti Gras will be different from anything else th’ has ever been given in Seattle. The La Fies'a and Alfresco Ammsement Co.. of New York. will furnish the shows, the principal feature of which will be a ‘“‘society circns,”” modeled munch after the lines of a first class circus, but with many new features. One of these wil! he a magnificent spectacnlar production called When Knighthood was In Flower. It will be a reperesentation of the tournaments given cy Henry VII. of England and Francis I. of France at Calais. There will be {limminated and floral parades In which many emblematic and h'storieal floats will be seen. These floats will he balit be men brought from New Orleans for that purpose.”’ Notes from Will Hl. Welder’s Carnival Co.: The company will oper in Coalton. Ohio, Moy 9 under the auspices of the Red Men. The tribe at Coslten hsa & membership of 300. whi'e there sre 730 members fn the county. The ortlook for the season fs bright. It is booked solid for the season In the hest cities of Obf». all under the ansnices of the Red Men. The following attractions have been signed: Chas A. MeGulior’s O14 Plantation and Electric The»tre R. L. Aftsburr’s Statue Trrning to Life C. R. Rice's Snake Show and Wild West. J. \. Kensil’s Ferris Wheel. J. W. Murvhy’s Streets of Cairo and Turtle George. John Kramer's Verry-vo-ronnd. and will also have ai Giese Show. Langhirg Gallery and Innette. We w'll feature as free attractions Hich Dive, Slite for Life and a uniformed band of 12 nieces. Will A. Weider ts general manager and R. A. Goodrich is secretary and treesurer. Evervthing Is now ready and fn first-class shape for the opening date. Manager will s. Heck accepts the general management of one of the big concessions on e Pike at the World's Fair Mr. Heek. who has been in St. Louis fer past week, returned Sunday. He was a caller at “The Rillbeard office Mondar. and stated thet his trip to the World's Fair Cite has complete'y chanced his plans for the ecnrrent season. We said: “It had been my firm intention to take ont a carnival company .ais vear, and since the publication of mr ad. in the Street Fair Fdition of ‘‘The Rillboard’’ negotiations began the resnlt was my acceptance Saturday of the general management of one of the largest coneessions on the Pike. I lesve for St. Lorte Thursdar, and expect to be tn St. Lonts anti! the close of the Exnosition. and will therefore temporerity retire from the street fair and carnival fleld until the season of 1905, when 1 will probably beat the head of a brand new earntival aggregation composed of nothing beat World's Fatr novelties. Rut for the present myo atract_requires_my_ presence fn_ St. —_ Company onens st their own electric and my exclusive devotion to the concessions of which I have assumed management. I expr@s my appreciation of many friends who have written me the past two weeks. Joseph J. Conley, director of amusements for the Great Mundy Amusement Company, reached San An.vnio in the private car ‘‘Shamrock’’ Mr. Conley was accompanied by E. J. Kilpatrick, of the Kilpatrick Brothers. Charles G. Kilpatrick is ‘still in the east booking the attractions that the Kilpatrick Brothers will present during carnival week at San Antonio, Tex. fhe Mundy Amusement Compavy will open in San Antonio with everything bright and fresh and only the best attractions. t will require about twenty sixty-foot circus cars to move the Mundy company to San Antonio from their winter quarters. The disposition of Messrs. Conley and Kilpatrick is to give the Daughters of the Republic a voice in the selection of the attractions in order to guarantee the purity and worth of all amusement features that will show under the auspices of the Daughters of the Republic. There will be introduced the Fanceuas family, exponents of physical culture: the marvelous Milman Trio, the far-famed Muncie nd.) Zouaves, the Da Coma family in aerial and ground tumbling: the Hadji Tahr Arabian acrobats, Charles A. Bigney, high divVing from a hundred foot pedestal in to 4 shallow basin of water. There will be several minor acts, and the hippodrome performence will close with the ride through the death trap loop, in which the rider barely touches the bottom in his descent to earth. PARE NOTES. J. N. Swanson, of Boston, has leased Grove at La Porte, Texas. ~ _Monarch Park, Cincinnati, Krippner ana Nicholson, managers, will open Sunday, May 1. Oak Summit a most popular summer park in Evansville. Ind., will open its third season in a few weeks, The Delaware Springs (Ohio) Chautauque is a new venture. 23 to August 1. Harry Burke, of Louisville, is having plans drawn for a summer house to be built at Dawson Springs, Ky. Frank Weldon, secretary of the Southern Interstate Fair, at Atlanta, Ga., writes that they are desirous of leasing their grounds and improvements for a summer park. Dr. Harry Redan, of Houston, will have og = | the oy end of the attractions at Por evaca, Texas, on th =a ao co e Southern Pacific Oscar F. Miller has assumed the managemen of Schlitz Park. Milwaukee, and will enetall Several new features, including a spiral tower, 150 feet in height, scenic railway and electric fountain. Monarch Park, Cincinnati, is under the management of Krippner & Nicholson, and will — 5 this — for Cincinnati's patron % ere are thirty-one acer t yg y-one acres altogether in Kennywood Park, Pittsburg, Pa., will be under new management this season. The Pittsburg Steeplechase and Amusement Co. will have charge. Their offices are located at 813 Farmers Bank Bldg. Cleveland and Chagrin Falls (Ohio) business men have secured a long lease on 80 acres of land along the Chagrin river and will convert the property into one of the finest summer resorts of that region. Frederick Warde, of the Warde & James combination, will lecture before several chautauquas the coming season on Shakespeare and the immortal bard’s works, to which Mr. Warde has devoted years of study. Miss Isabelle Boyd, a teacher in the public school at Iowa Falls, Iowa, has attracted attention in Chicago and in the east as a reader, and will be heard at a number of chautauquas in the northwest the coming season. Battle Park Casino, Baton Rouge, La., will open about May 1 under the management of F. F. Miller. The Miller-Bryan Co., whose excellent company played to large crowds last season, will play at the park four months. The Dolling Park Theatre at Springfield, Mo.. will open about May 1. A great many improvements have been made through the park, including a new dancing pavilion and bath houses. The theatre was also remodeled. James G. Roasman, president of the Ponce ¢e Leon Amusement Company, is making elaborate preparations for the opening of Ponce de Park and hopes to have everything in readiness to open April 26. He expects to have some of the best amusements in the country for this season. ; Castilla Springs will be made one of Utah's finest summer resorts. T. Myers, who was manager last year of the Salt Palace, has secured a ten years’ lease and will expend $15,000 on the Springs. astilla Springs are located sixtyfive miles south of Salt Lake City on the Santa Fe Railway. Stebleton and Chaney have been spending the winter at their home, Peru, Ind., and will open their summer season April 9. playing throagh the east. On June 1 they will join the Frank P. Spellman Park and Fair Cirecvit. At the close of the season in October they will go — to the coast, being booked until Apri}, The trial of the suit instituted by Luciano Conterno, of New York, leader and manager of Conterno’s Military Band, against Frank Howe, Jr., Benton S. Bunn and Charles Ellis, trading as the Woodside Park Amusement Company, Philadelphia, Pa.. to recover $3,006 claimed under a contract for concerts at Woodside Park in the season of 1902, was begun March 9. The Athletic Amusement Co.. of Buffalo, N. Y¥., has been incorporated with W. J. Walter, president: R. F. Walter. secretary and general manager, and W. H. Springer. They alm to run a Luna Park for Buffalonians and will expend $100,000 improving Athletie Park. Continuous vandeville performances will be a feature. After an expenditure of over 2 hundred thonsand dollars, Manager Fred Hashagen, of Hashagen’s Park, will be ready to open same about May 1. The theatre has been replenished to the extent that it looks like new and the grounds are rearranged to make things commedious for the attractions and concessions that will be Inaugurated. Last summer the park did the bigest business in town of places of this kind and paved a way to make the future even ater. New and novel ideas are being used m the ceneral makeup of the park, and in all prohabilities the anticipations of the proprietors will more than be fulfilled. The meeting will occur July