Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1903 — The Street Fair [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Street Fair

I A Nice Bunch of Shows. WBAT THEIR PRINCIPAL FEATURES MAINLY CONSIST OF

The carnival shows have been having a good business ever since their opening, Tuesdav night, and on Wednesday afternoon and entertainment was orowded. Every indication is that, unless continued bad weather should set in, the same liberal patronage will continue to the end of the week. The shows, almost Without exception, are decidedly meritorious, and therefore deserve y g d will hold the publio favor. No objectionable features are offered, and every gambler and other vicious character is fired out of town, bb they appear. The following iff a more detailed mention of the principal shows. The Old Plantation. An aggregation of gen nine oolored peo pie, who danoe, sing, cake walk A and make minstrel jokes. An entirely clean show, and deservedly popular. r The Merry-go-rouud, is a complete and wtell equipped maohine, with a popular management, and always does a big business. Prof- Burger, of the two free attractions, is truly a marvel in his balancing feats, and always has many well pleased spectators. “Uno the suake eater” does just wb at be claims to do, and by his constant large patronage, illustrate "the drawing power of the horrible. At the tent of Lorine the flying lady, is a very meritorious little show. Loriue does the apparent flying aot all right, and besides that is a wonderfully realistio Representation of a fire ftght soene m a big oity. Where * moving pictures, of life size, show several fire engines rushing from the engine house, driving wildly to the fire, rescuing people from the burning building, eto. Two 'popular songs, ‘‘When she was I’Sweet Sixteen” and ‘‘The Little j Boy in Blue,” fire given, illustrated [by numerous life size moving pictures. Very beautiful, both of i them. The oloßing round of the •r-Corbett-McGovern prize fight is also finely given in Ihis tent, by moving piotures. The Ferris Wheel did not get in action until Wednesday, but at onoe proved very popular. It is a ?*tery fine lofty wheel, propelled by a big gasoline engine, and a ride on it is a thrilling but very pleasant experienoe. The Little World has a vast number of miniature automatio contrivances, representing people and machines engaged in all sorts of oooupations and movements. The “Statue Turning To Life” show is another universally popular attraction. A life size, very beautiful marble statue of a woman, changes right before the spectators’ eyes, into a still mors beautiful young woman, then ehe changes "into a statue of flowers, then baok to the living girl and again to the

marble statue. Trilby looping the loop is another feature of this show, and a fine reproduction of Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper, by life size moving pictures. The E'eotrio Palace is another plumb good one. The beautiful serpentine danoe is given here, under constantly ohangiagcolored electric light effects; a fine series of beautiful dissolving views, and life size moving pictures, in vast variety. The Turkish Theater and Streets of Cairo speaks for itself, in the person of F. K. Maynard, of Sans S uce Park, Chicago and one of the greatest speilers that ever worked his bezio. The talk whioh he pats np, when he is feeling jast right, is one of the great free attractions of the oarnivel. But the greatest free attraction is Dana Thompson’s high dive. At 4:30 and 10 p. m. he jumps from a sheer bight of 75 feet into a tank of water, about four feet deep, turning a complete somersault daring every desoent