Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — NOT SO PARTICUAR HERE. [ARTICLE]

NOT SO PARTICUAR HERE.

The street carnival down at Van Buren, Grant county, ended in a riot Saturday night. The proprietor of the “hootchie” show—probably the same show that exhibited here during the late unpleasantness—went about Saturday afternoon among the boys and yonng men and told them that the closing “hootchie” would be “in the altogether,” and sold a large number of tickets at an advanced price, the boys tumbling over one another to get tickets. The authorities got onto the scheme, says a dispatch to the Indianapolis papers, and told the showman that if anything improper was attempted they wonld arrest the whole outfit, women and aIL The proprietor, one Bailey, still gave ont that the show would be given. At 11 o’clock, the time agreed on, the tent was packed to its utmost. No doubt fearing the threats made by the authorities the “maidens” came out in abbreviated coßtumes instead of the garb of nature, as the buyers of the advanced price tickets had anticipated. Seeing that they had been sold the crowd with a roar made for the stage. Baily was hustled out of the rear end of the tent, but a part of the crowd took after him and chased him clear out of town, where he sought refuge iu a corn field and escaped his pursuers. The rest of the crowd attempted to burn the tent, but it was too wet and resisted their efforts in that line. They then took their pocket knives and cut the canvas into ribbons and destroyed everything belonging to the show, even the clothing of the female attaches, bat no personal voilence was offered the women. The “to men only” given here had no such troubles, and it is said the exhibition was given in all its naughtiness. The authorities were very friendly to such shows, evidently, for we are told that some Rensselaer ladies learned that an exhibition of the sort was to be given and they went to the city marshal and told him they wanted it prevented. He tola them, we are informed, that he could not do a thing to stop it. This is where Van Boren differed from' Rensselaer.