Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1910 — Gary Camel Caravan Alarms. [ARTICLE]

Gary Camel Caravan Alarms.

“Allah, Allah! R-r-r-um! Allah,, r-r-um! Allah, Allah!” This is not a new college yell, but many of the inhabitants of Gary Tuesday thought it was something of that kind. The yell came from the throats of several score of oriental workmen who had been released from a day’s labor in the big steel mills, and who, as they turned into Broadway, were: amazed at the sight of a procession, of some five hundred sheiks, with their ■ Bedouins, camels, Berber attendants, and gun carriers, all in desert accoutrement, marching through thestreet, with the solemnity of a genuine - caravan of the Sahara. Magic and romance, however, were smitten when the Mohammedan steel workers learned that this was an artificial caravan (the camels being the • genuine article)of a Chicago moving picture concern on its w*ay to the Gary sand dunes to get up a series of Jilms. showing a real Imitation attack of nomad bedouins on a peaceable cara--van passing through the desert. .