Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1915 — UMBRELLA TO COVER ACRE [ARTICLE]

UMBRELLA TO COVER ACRE

Amusement Provider Asserts He Has Scheme Nothing Short of Stupendous. Tody Hamilton —the only man who ever lost an elephant in Manhattan and would not be comforted —says— and if Tody Hamilton (who once lost two lions and a tiger near Forty-sec-ond street and Broadway) says a thing is true, then it’s true whether it’s true or not —Tody Hamilton says that Luna park is about to raise an umbrella which no living man can borrow. let alone steal. The umbrella will cover an acre of Luna park ground, so it was said by Tody Hamilton—who for years saw to it that a baby giraffe was born annually in Madison Square garden on the night Barnum & Bailey came to town. First of all, a steel umbrella handle will be constructed in Luna and the handle will be 140 feet high, so it was said by Tody Hamilton —who was the first man to reveal the news that Slivers, the clown, was the first man to strike gold in Alaska. The umbrella will be steel-ribbed, covered with circus-tent canvas, and will be raised and lowered by machinery, according to a statement issued by Tody Hamilton —who once crossed hoop snakes with puff adders while with the Barnum show and raised thereby a crop of living automobile tires. Five thousand persons will be able to enjoy the cool shade under the umbrella. A searchlight with rays shooting for ten miles, an intermittent flash beacon, thousands of electric bulbs and things and stuff to taste will decorate the steel and canvas umbrella at night, the completed umbrella to cost $25,000, according to Tody Hamilton —who added that he had just turned down an offer mad© by Colonel Roosevelt to stock the Luna lagoon with a correspondence school of man-eating fish. — New York Sun.