Show J 4 0 4 e 4 1 44 tn 6 e m i e I ii 4 be END OF THE SUMMER a ON THE PIKE FYLES S e G t St Louis Aug 25 TP Pike at Iho end of or the summer has h ha no more mora I than made ready roady tor or the autumn bust busi business bustS S ness noes Few of or tho showmen have aY moro more than balanced their outgo aug income and some same of their theira accounts a would figure out bankruptcy CY If It dosed cl up now hOW But the tardy arg at on to come comel l With the cooler and nd they be as wel como as any azy harvest ever over was after a f famine Tho The stage entertainments s which have lapsed into lan Ian gour gOUr during Lb heat h t are ra already ar ady for tor or the mn season soa on There e Is a sew w embodiment t of Irish Irl h modesty modo ty at the Irish In theatre In tl Kelly a shy 1 colleen who dances as a an Ideal bo should but alas for Cor the illusion Ulu lon She Is billed as the cham champion champion pion dancer of ot all Ireland and therefore must u t be classed among professional artists In pedal culture tid are new embodiments of Turkish Immodesty Immodesty esty caty at the Constantinople theatre eat in the Fatima Twins bold sirens sirons who dance darice With twists and squirms as a aU all tho the co s do I Im mention m these recruits because they represent the ex ax extremes of ef coy and assertive femininity on view here hore hereIt hereIt It may be bo pl pleasant to 00 read that tho the immodesty desty Is confined to the Turks and d East Indians Women of i io no o Bother th r nation are put p t forward here deplorably You Yo have to go SO a mUe mile away in lii one direction dir tt n to see sec I American women Jn n the tho t o dance daneo hall hail of olae an ai Arizona camp and even there the viciousness is IR under dose close clo e rc and Ivan 1011 have to go a mile inne In another an her di direction direction to see ice Filipino women women in the thO vii vil village I lag lage and there you find that the nudity about which so much has hu been said is excessive only onI in the mon men I In passing DS I may let you into int tho the secret There Thore I never neier was wa any thought by tha the authorities of putting rutting I trouser on those titOR fellows fallows from the Philippines Of or course COUlS some prudish visitors were shocked and they thay may have haTe written letters of protest to President President President j dent Roosevelt as u thy they th y did to President Francis Francl but no liD official attention was waa paid Bald totham U thorn The agitation of the subject hi In print was due to lo o a press pro agent and nd I tod were him But 1 the women commissioners lend len themselves f to the advertising device of an investigation Would you 01 going to an g dance and an making a report was waz asked pt pl p M Manning lanning the chairwoman I r can report without a visit the levelheaded Ind replied to put trOU on those innocent legs r would ie be tt wl Hed od A 2 4 It to R a fact f however that the Q pullers of t are not permitted by the official censor of the pike to wear their ordinary working clothes which consist of ot a sash and a breechclout They tell wl of a jovial American girl touring who after be being be lug ing drawn to a 5 S tea In Tokio by a nearly m arly native came back to her hotel with him in inthe inthe inthe the cart art and herself between the For a change she explained I 1 Thou hought ht Id rd rather rath make the return trip with him behind me instead of ot In front The pullers at t the fair arc o as aa fully mully garbed as aa the wheelchair pushers push and anda a Jap In a match race with an American twice around the tSe half mile raile track ackin in the Stadium won by a dozen lengths of ot he Che contrasting vehicles although he ran under the handicap of a passenger in his cart rt while the chair was empty But the chair pusher Is winner a over oer the nril sha puller In the competition for fair fares f res at the fair He is in most cases a collegian ian earning money this summer for next winters expenses and as like likely likely ly as not he is good looking enough to be a hand handsome handsome handsome some figure in his neat uniform It is easy for fira a n girl to Imagine that he Is a mighty oarsman or Qt footballer and that his muscularity becomes sentimental even sordidly employed when it propels her He is a guide too and his duty she is ready to be believe lieve 11 eve becomes a pleasure to her as it Is i Ic to her when he talks with his lips lils lose close to her oar She lolls bus serenely voluptuous In her seat and fancies how bow like a haughty princess adored by a plebeian she would wither the wretch Tetch with regal scorn if jibe he yielded to temptation and kissed her It is a disen disenchanting chanting possibility of course that his 1115 arms ache his feet foot burn bum his back twinges and the uppermost wish of his hi heart is that his passenger weighed one onehundred onehundred onehundred hundred pounds instead of two As compared with him the Jap is no better than a horse and might as well walt be a donkey hitched to one of the jaunting cars from rota the Irish village These three diverse hip to give cosmopolitan aspects to the Pike Sometimes they provide comic sights such as a fat woman sleeping ping soundly st In a wheelchair wh like a monster in iIi infant fant feat In a perambulator a hilarious old man whoop whooping whooping ing lag it up in a like a rounder on a spree in ina Ina a hansom or a rustic family of six to say nothing of a baby trying not to fall fal out of a car built for four The Pike in the tho evening is an electrical dream or nightmare New Ne York is wI this summer at the tho illumination of Luna Lana Park and nd Dreamland nd If these two resorts and all aU the others othon at Coney Cone Island were wore placed along a single sl midway they R wouldn t equal C this mil t the fair with Wit hits its archi architecture 1 te ture of many ny countries luminous with a million lamps Some of or the Pike shows bave ave ben been described in this correspondence unfavorably and a tew law de do denounced denounced as no better botter than traps set to catch the unwary nary but Coney Islands best with two p t is not as goodas got good as s the tho Pikes s best bes and the Pikes worst Is not as bad as Coneys worst worn Tho The exhibitions of 9 f Luna Lun Park P rk and Dreamland are the Ute exceptions noted As theatrical shows they beat the one given hero h as s lI 1 has han h a spacious street scene In which a pantomimic farce area is is acted wIthy with many mans people I horses and vehicles be before be before fore the conflagration con 30 However as a dignified M dis die display display play of the methods of a modern fire department the theone theone theone one of the Pike has the best equipment and WId service The director is Chief Halt a western veteran fire 1 r fighter lighter grown rich and he cm Io twenty ex ox expert port pert firemen from several western stern w cities The latest quick methods of getting gatting to a fire re and putting it out are operated binder bader stopwatch time and aud are are kept up to the best record We Ve see a blase bla start sart in a six story stori tenement A policeman sends S in inan an alarm to toan toan toan an engine house use away The non are r asleep in their rooms which h are open Ollen to view At the sound of the gong they th y spring s ring from their lr beds and poles to the main mam floor where whore horses are hitched to an engine and aad a ladder wagon in an in instant instant stant Tho machines Tx me tearing up tho the street to the burning house Inmates 8 are at Ute tie windows cry jug ing for help The rescue r s ue crew climbs un up the front of the building bu with ith scaling ladders adjusts ropes for some of tho the imperilled ones to descend by carry j others down in their theil arms drop a boy lath into a blanket bla ket and perform feats of difficulty and nd danger dancer Mean lIean Meanwhile MeanwhIle while hose has been laid streams atc are thrown t r on the fire lire and there is all aU the excitement ot real conflagration conflagration gration with fighters very busy but calm cairn The realism rouses enthusIast enthusiasm So you see other than frivolous entertainments can prosper roser pT s er here hereIn hereIn hereIn In the matter of Pike gaiety there is a a keen ke lack of a new frisky at Chicago Cl ca evolved the air which based on Ute the and drum beating of the Streets of Cairo has stood tood ever vel since for all aU that is reckless in ili amusements Probably thou thousands thousands thousands sands of or composers amateur and have tried to provide a similarly popular pop mr and profitable tune for the Pike to adopt Hundreds of these efforts have been printed and exploited but all aU in vain Not ot otone one ne is heard at atthe the fair The Phe he couch ti still blow bID and boat beat away on the old ryth but ut other mu musicians arc are ashamed hamed to play pl T an sn more the melody that it inspired The concessionaire might t well w ll have made up a big purse of gold and thrown in a hand ful fit of diamonds for the man who found the wanted air It would have characterized the Pike here bere and advertised it throughout the thO length and breadth of the land In Its absence the Ute musicians get along as aswell well vell ps as s they can with ragtime T Tir lr best success SUC is when well along toward midnight they the throng that theres a hot time In the old oldtown oldtown oldtown town tonight and set the tho sore soles Boloso of the never nevertheless nev nevertheless souls cakewalking n Jv lY CUrlew Curfew rings throughout all aU the rest of f the th fair at early candlelight can After that the enormous places palaces p laces df Q industry and art shut their doors although they permit electric el bulbs to outline their exterior arshi archi architecture Lecture But Bulf if theirs is a 11 curfew bell beU on the tho Pike the maid who says yS it shall not ring is clinging to its clapper every night or else elso has pulled it out ont and thrown it away The Jefferson guards are re under no noe excise e orders to close the restaurants were ware issued to them recently instead of be because cause the wish to look took like soldiers and md not carry visible clubs dubs like common policemen They have need often of more than bare hands and firsts to quiet disturbances dis s as they are not the physical 1 taI stal stalwarts eta warts that th t police forces f ioTa are made of and late at night the Pike takes tako on en n some of ot the tho manners of ot r the Tenderloin But that convivial section of or Now New never had hall such an international congress con es of Parties of college collage boy excursionists th r col college collee lee lege Ie e yells Partisans of or winners in Ia the th days sports Sv at the stadium are arc noisy nol y and exultant Roughs Rough from om St Louis are less polite in the commotion Welt Well dressed shimmers roam about as 5 they thoy in Go Gotham Gotham o tham them Mingled with these those are aN all aU manner of pf for tor foreigners eigners in their native costumes for more than 2000 of oC them and half as many American Indians are turned loose after their days service nice ae as a exhibits is over Ono One thing strikes the visitor as odd o There r are areno areno areno no bars on the Pike to stand stanel up to Alcoholic AlcO bev beverages beverages beverages are served in restaurants only and at tables I 1 dont d nt mind sitting down to drink said seid an n over o ov r laden Its the getting up that bothers ot me e Visitors wonder that ia none of the Pikes foreign or reig ig countries eS food unknown to us is on sale China provides s s chop c op suey to be ba b sure but the chicken and anti andrice andrice rice in the blond blend is i not strange to us although we may feel some uncertainty as Co to the other ingredients Of course we have no DO misgivings over curry dishes in India or peppered pe per d ones in Mexico or garlic g ones in Spain Spam if th meat meet Is familiar and we wo drink drInks tea in Japan and coffee in Turkey without t a qualm Qu lm but we might buy for our stomachs sake what wh t for all we knOf might ight make our stomachs ache cho So while many nations D have their restaurants their viands lands and beverages offer very little novelty nov If you come to the Fair dont do o any my eating on the Pike anyway for if you do you ou will wUl pay Diy top topnotch topnotch topnotch notch prices for generally low grade food I 1 have liars tried them all ail and In few fe did disI I get half my moneys worth I spent al between costa cents can for fora a sandwich and a jint I ut of or lager beer bee to four dollars for a meal in m courses and a L pint of ordinary etem One fact was wis common co mo l to my IlY experiments The food was always dear and uSO lly poor The beer was wa casall all aU right in quality but nowhere on sele sale at than ten cents a glass and the bottles of brews ble in jn groceries at jit t a half aU dollar doUar a dozen doton were v r ohL here at a n quarter qu of a dollar apiece A ADd d you Oil youa aid aida ald alda a dime for a sandwich made of slices of t f bread and the thinnest shaving of choose cheese or ham that thata a sharp knife could cut cutIn cutIn cutIn In the more pretentious of the Pikes dating houses hous the prices are as M high as ns at Sherry or orthe orthe orthe the in Now N w York but as aa a rule tb the food is ordinary in material mato carelessly anti aad served slapdash I said a savage goOdbye go dhye to t Pike restaurants when I ordered a small man sirloin steak k at ata ata a dollar and got a cut of rump that th t bad had bee a In the tho broiling bro Ung and let stand stant till tin cool before serving H At a hundred places pl on the Fair grounds meals may maybe maybe be had at no more mere than a reasonable on nor normal normal mal mat prices but If there Is ia one on Ute tie PiKe Pille I dOlt doat know It There was a frankfurter man who eold his anus saus sausage age at a nickel nl kel per Jor hot link imbedded in h t a roll with mustard or horse radish I 1 asked him ann why he double his price This was outside the Ule gates atus Coffee was WWi being sold at a a stand ast at hint him at tea ten cents a small cup CUI and the buyer had bed t to drink it up u At his other Bide ide idea a beer boor booth had table to sit down at but the price was a dimo dime a gl The glasseS were big Wi to be bo sure aura but there w wets 41 r no email ones at a nickeL I t II tr I r aint no shine shino said amid the sausage man num in reply to my Im from Coney 1 and if a nickel buys a frankfurter in NoW New Y rt It tt ought ou ht to is u St S1 Louis I aint aln t no hog And raising his vote voe V to the passing throng he ho cried ene l Hare ye re git em Here ye yo git em Long 1 w 1 for to ft tha fis only five That was W 6 fortnight t ago I r pawed pasted pa tint thet way again a ai this afternoon He was still sWI Use the merits menta of his wares But his no mu sore ore bore a live five cent placard and his eloquence ence d Io BO o quotation of price H K had bad gone sone over oval to Ute te dime Ie iii e mAJority I i give his case to show how Ol never policy prevails |