The Billboard 1910-09-24: Vol 22 Iss 39 (1910-09-24)

chord In the human body, Mazeppa presents a osmopolitan array of splendidly opulent tricks ef faithful training so massive, so marvelously beautiful, brilliant and gorgeous that | confess I can not picture or describe same. In all the werld Mazeppa has no peer. A. D. (Red) Murray fg on the front of the Mazeppa attraction. There are innumerable small concessions of all sorts, sizes and shapes scattered throughout the grounds. Hon. William J. Oliver, perhaps the most widely and most favorably known man in the entire South, is president of the Appalachian Exposition Company. Mr. Oliver is an exten sive railroad contractor and builder and a manu facturer, employing 1,000 men in his extensive fron and plow manufacturing plants in this city. He bas the contract to manufacture all the dirt dump cars that are being used in the Panama Canal. These care are made in Knoxville. The wide publicity that Mr. Oliver's name carries has been of substantial value to the expo sitien, and he bas put into his work for the enterprise the same energy and determination to succeed that has characterized his private and business career. Mr. Oliver has been assisted by a directory of twenty-one of the leading business men of Knoxville. An organlgation of several hundred others, including men and women, have worked out numerous details as members of various committees, The organization has been perfect and complete, and has been along lines devised by Mr. Oliver. The results of the work of this splendid or ganization are now shown in the magnificent exposition, the like of which the South has never seen. As assistant to the president, Col. Sanford H. Cohen, who came here from Augusta, Ga., bas done most excellent work. Col. Cohen is a born exposition maker and a _ recognized expert in handling amusement attractions. He bas given twenty-seven years of his life to expositions, theatrical and park and other amusement undertakings. This wide expert ence especially fitted him for chief aide to the executive head of the Appalachian Exposition. Working with Col. Coben has been Col. Cary F. Spence, the chairman of the amusement and concessions committee, who has given much of his time to working out the details of the Midway Jungle, which is the center of the amusement section of the exposition. These gentlemen have had many able assistants in committee work and otherwise, as attested by the Splendid successes they are now offering. The daily programs are arranged so that there is something doing continuously, from 10 «. m. until 11 p.m. The thousands who have visited the exposition thus far pronounce it a success in every particular, and especially so in the matter of entertainments. The exposition plant consists of seven large exhibition buildings In addition to the numerous midway and = other concession structures. These buildings are: The main building, which houses the displays of liberal arts, mercantile and manufacturing products, federal government exhibit and the fine arts. This building has over 80,000 square feet of actual exhibit Space. The woman's building presents displays of arts and crafts, domestic science, W. ©. T. U., and suffrage societies’ works, and the finest historic loan exbibit ever seen in the south. The negro exhibit building shows the progress that is being made by the colored race, In exhibits of every character of Industry known to that race. The building was designed by A negro, and it was erected by negro labor and it was pald for by money contributed by negroes. e live stock building, with accompanying sheds are the largest ever built for a southern exposition, and they are filled with stock of high grade and rare values, The poultry and Pet stock building is similarly constructed. In the latter part will be given the first pigeon ’ ever arranged In the South. The minerals sod forestry building has products of the mines *h) Uloberiands of the entire Appalachian reelon, and is most instructive. The coal palace is erected of coal mined from the hille and mountains of Kast Tennessee, The $20,000 arble band stand is a perpetual monument to the In‘ostry of the Appalachian region. The eh m hall will seat 1,500 people, and in * strocture the various congresses and other Sa'herings scheduled for the exposition period Will be held Among the notable days of the exposition Will be those on which President Taft and Col. Roosevelt will be visitors, Gifford Pinchot 1s also coming as a apecial guest, and will be here on October 5. President Taft's date has not Forestry Building. yet been announced. Col. Roosevelt will come on October 7, which will also be Spanish-American War Veterans’ day. The exposition is most beautifully located in Chilhowee Park, a pleasure resort about three and one-half miles north of Knoxville. The improvements on the park and the erection of the buildings represent an expenditure of over $500,000, thus indicating the great magnitude of the exposition. The park is beautifully endowed by nature, and this rare natural setting, coupled with the embellishments made with a lavish band, has wrought the most beautiful spot in all the Appalachian region. This is the verdict of all visitors. HEARD IN THE JUNGLE. Chiquita is a little dream. O. B. Danner said he never had his picture in The Billboard. Caribou Bill has the swellest line of ‘‘dope’’ I ever listened to. E. W. Dozier, talker, with Blanche Whitney's Girls, has some voice. Guy Weadick knows kow to handle a press agent. Guy is some press agent himself. Showed me where the amber fluid is kept. It was all gone before he showed me. chest, though. Sammy Garrett, with Mulhall’s is an eighteen-year-old roper that is a marvel. Big Otto’s two daughters, Loriene and Ruth, are visiting him. Tom Hurd is manager of Big Otto's Show. Big Otto started to tell a big fish story that was big for fair (not Expo.). Think the ‘“‘minnow’’ was eighteen feet long and weighed 1,600 pounds. After the hook became imbedded in the fish's mouth—oh, what's the use. Bir Utto got the fish. It was some fish. “Better put a wire in that left jaw bone,”’ he said to an attendant that was struggling to hold up the head of the fish, it was so heavy. It was some fish. There is a squaw with Mulhall’s Wild West that weighs 275 pounds, and named ‘‘Cute Little Girl.” Joe Spotted Bird and Mrs. Spotted Rird are also ‘‘with it."" Also Mrs, Shot-In-theEye and Little Bird-Shot-in-the-Eye. Frank Red Fish is the interpreter, and has Mrs. Red Fish with him, as well as Little Red Fish. Ob, yes, the fat squaw's name is Lizzie Bull. Ob, you Lizzie. Martin Van Berger, the cowboy baritone singer, is very clever. George Ellison, formerly chef of the Cumberland Club, of Knexville, is now acting in the same capacity with Mulhall’s Wild West. Hannahan has an Irish Goat and Monkey Show, but will not allow his band to play Irish tunes. He respects the tunes too much. Told me the reason the band played so badly was because they were not acquainted with each other. Oh! Big Otto paid $1,260 to move his show from Pittsburg, Pa., to Knoxville. He has 21 wagons, 100 animals, 30 folks and a press agent. Dandy ice Wild West, Congressman Austin arranged with President Taft to push a button and start the wheels a-goin’. Realizing the importance of the Expo., the post office, as well as all local business houses, closed at noon on the opening day. Advance Agent Walters, of The Adventures of Polly, arrived in town at 12:10, and couldn’t get into the post office to get some stamps—well, you know the rest! The street railway has put in operation a one-minute schedule, and the Southern Railroad N KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE @) The Billboard prides itself in its Knoxville correspondent, Mr. Guy Smithson, a courteous, affable gentleman. Blanche Whitney’s Athletic Girls are under the management of A. Strommel. E. W. Dozier is the talker, and A. W. Hoozle handles the tickets. Clever exhibition of athletics, given by Blanche Whitney, the champion lady wrestler of the world: Belle Meyers, lady wrestler; Bartel and Elston, bag punchers; Le Blanche Sisters, fencers; Young Corbett scenes in a training camp; DeVoe, hand balancer, whom the manager claims chins himself three times with his little finger. Oh, you finger! Hannahan’s Original Irish Goat and Monkey Cireus deserves especial mention. Hannahan is Irish, and to show that he is loyal to the old sod, he has painted over the entrance to his attraction, ‘‘Erin Go Bragh.” He is billed as the only show of its kind on earth, blow or bluster. If he hired all the braggers in the world to puff and puff, and blow and blow, and brag and brag, and they blew and bragged until blue in their faces, they could not tell half the glory or describe the greatness = Hannahan’s Original Irish Goat and Monkey Circus. Oo. B. Danner is introducing for the first time in the South a Double Whirl. This 1s the man and the concession that cleaned up $17, at Riverview Expo., Chicago, last season. Mr. Danner is also manager and vice-president of the Double Whirl Mfg. Co. é Scientists say that animals don’t reason, and that their activities are governed by instinct. When you see Deuel’s Dog and Po Circus, you know that animals do reason. It Is plainly proven by the multitude of remarkable displays of animal wisdom shown by the many groups, companies and troupes of the pretty little beasts with Deuel’s Circus. Mr. Deuel takes his show on the road at the close of the Expo., opening October 14 near Knoxville. Mr. R. D. Nicholson will be the general agent. G. R. Deuel. proprietor and manager, is a native of Knoxville. Do Bell. one of the world’s best wire walkers, gives daily exhibitions on the silver thread across the Exposition Lake. He actually skates on the high wire. Two Whitakers make a slide for life down an incline amid a mass of flames daily. View of Lagoon and Band Stand. put on shuttle trains from the city proper to the Expo. Services are the best. OF COURSE ROOSEVELT IS COMING! R. M. Harvey and Frank O'Donnell were in Knoxville September 10, looking after inests of the Hagenbeeck-Wallace Shows, that exhibit in the town September 19. Both looking fine and speak of big business. Chas. Buckley had his Polly of the Circus at Staub’s Theatre, September 10, to two immense houses. Business has been bully so far this season. View of Car Line Exit from Grounds. Among the aerial attractions are Wright Bros., aeroplanes, under directions of Roy Knabenshue; Strobel’s airships, under direction of E. J. Parker, and Coleman’s captive balloon. Concerts are to be given every afternoon and evening by Brooks’ Marine Band. for first three weeks of the Expo. Then comes Weber's Band. Old Sam Burchfield, the reformed moonshiner, who operates the still in the Jungle, has a gun 112 years old. He claimed no notches ornamented same, but the cold glint in his shrewd grey eyes tells a different story. Far be it from me to “‘argufy’’ with old Sem. Capt. W. D. Ament’s Ghost Show was conceived and produced by scientific men in the employ of the British government, and by special permission Mr. Ament was allowed to place it before the public. yond ali description, and as funny as sensational. This show requires a 45-ft. front, and is as magnificently equipped with stage seats and scenery as any opera house. Princess La La kia, who is presenting her troupe of Oriental vaudeville artists, presenting a Night in Egypt and the Cleopatra Snake Dance the same as shown at the Seattle Exposition, was the center of attraction on the train from the East. Mme. La La is an Egyptian of high caste. Capt. W. D. Ament’s Dixieland Minstrels has a beautifully uniformed brass band and orchestra. , a magnificent tented opera house, seating 1,000 people. The entire equipment was built to order to fit the show this season. It presents typical scenes of the South before the war, by genuine Dixieland darkies. “Doc” Stearns, the original big snake man, is on the job with a snake he gloriously describes as 27 feet in length. ‘Doc’? doubted my smile when I smiled, jumped in pit, aggravated Mr. Snake. stretched him out to what looked like fifty feet of snake. N. Salih, who has the Oriental Show, was the Oriental Commissioner for the Seattle Exposition, of Turkey, Asia and India. Mr. Salih is manager of the Oriental Show; Ed. H, Rell, advance agent; Princess La La Turkia, Cleopatra Snake Dance; La Belle Omena, Dance of the Nile; La Beile Salica, Dance of the Turkish Ramem; Chief Bugey. Oriental Gun Spinner; Bros. Sardonia, Sword Fighters; La Hamish All, Whirlwind Dervish. The Perform ance concludes with an Oriental wedding ceremony. ——THE BILLBOARD, Sept. 24, 1910. ) | ene ee ee