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THE MtOOKIA'X TLUES, SATURDAY, MAY 7. 1904. 6 With cHew cMost Amazing Yet Open for business Next Week jj Coney Island, ARCHED ANO ELECTRIC AIXY H.LIMI. NATED PATHWAY LEAMNC TO JAPV KESC TEA CARDE.K. LlA PARK.

IL LOFTY TOWER ASO OBSERVATORY. DREAMLAND. IT IS THE MOST CONSPICUOUS OBJECT OM CONEY ISLAND. CIRCULAR S1 AND DOUBLE DECKER STRUCTURES, LUNA PARK. fill 11 JiWkJW I IV.

SHOWING PRESENT CONDITION OP SURF AVENUE TORN UP AND ALMOST IMPASSABLE. V. NEW BOWERY NOW BUILDING OLD FOUNDATIONS REMAINING LITTLE CHANGE IN THE NATURE OF IMPROVED BUILDINGS. (Attractions, The minds of these two men are not under the yoke of tradition or custom or anything else. Tajy are the unpretentious soaking and go about their show park with unshaven faces and wearing dirty and ragged clothes.

But whin they to thinking th way they did at the beginning of last winter, they are pretty sure to evolve tomethir.s picturesque, startling or otherwise, compelling the attention of the public or six months an agent of the Thompson Dundy combination has oeea travelling about the villages of India, looking for those people who walk on air. transform stones into birds and flowtrs, sew up their eyelids for pastime, slick knives into their bodies for the delight it affords them and the mystification of others, make trees grow out of the ground while you arc looking on. and do other things which have made them famous the world over. These people have never before been In the United States doing business on an elaborate scale-Efforts to Secure Heal Fakirs. The Luna Park agent had no difficulty h.

tevcr in finding them. India is full cf th.nt. nut they are religious enthusiasts, for the most part, sod object to braving their native country. They cannot do so, they bay. without losing caste-There Is another class of East Indian en-t rtaln' rs that the Luna Park agent has been in Kotiatlng with, and who are even harder t.wlze from their native soil thwa the 1 "fakirs." They are the Nautch is.

These are attached to the shrines of Indian deities, and dance and do con-u rtltn acts for the giorlncation of the aMks. lleiiable r.emstaper and magazine corre fMndents have told us that they never ran away from the temples, even when they become enamored of some, fine young fellow who Is sacrilegious enough to Invite them to To grt these Nautch girls under contract to come to the I'nlted Siates was Indeed a bard problem, before It was solved by Yankee genius. The I.una Park man did not deal with the fanatical maidens. He treat ed with their masters, the priests, and now some of the holy fathers have agreed to c. me over to the Indian colony of Luna I 'irk.

and there the worship of th. lr gods. Thy will be pretty well at home when they get here, for scores of their kinsmen are already comfortably established among surroundings quite rengental, with elephants r.d camels. aebras. r.nd the para phernalia of their curious existence.

Indian Prince Sixe, Feet, 2. The laconic despatches of this agent in India would do honor to Commodore Perry. lie cabled the other day that a real Indian rrince had joined his troupe a4 all the scnptlon of the fellow be gave was that he was feet Inches tall. The news that a stately personage of the blood noble ts ce.mlng scross the great sea "to receive their homage, has brought Joy Into the Indian colony. Further details as to the origin, rank, and personal qualities of this fellow will be obtainable when he arrives.

A colony of from ate to Ks) East Indians will be gathered at Luna Park. They will give performances of the "Durbar. of In dia." a pageant for which the most gorgeous equipment has been purchased. The scene will be fitted up to represent accurately one of the principal streets of Calcutta. Then there will be aide shows.

of be elephants have been trained to shoot the chutes. The fakirs will be put on, and the N'autch girls will be seen tor the Brat time ln this World-famous Seaside Resort Has Shed Its Last Years Skin and Taken on a New One Novelty and Excitement Enormous Expenditures for Sensational Entertainments at Luna Park and Dreamland Hair-raising Exhibitions in Open Atr Far-off Countries Contribute. New Coney Island became an anmal Bowery show houses iilustratts how the oli alary. Like creatures of the snake variety. foundations are The haltered shed the great amusement rvsort has a nd moksrnir.hed ir.n sign shedding It.

ski. nrf filing one un- "nrin this clear, deroeath. The which is ac- for Business One Week Hence. VI. EXTERIOR OF MIDGET VILLAGE, DREAMLAND.

1 fcSw at aar VII. CIRCUS RINGS ON FRAME OVER LAGOON, LUNA PARK. jt jt the waves can be heard dashing against the piles below, and cool sea breezes are plentiful. It is an arrangement which It would be extremely hard to Improve upon, without an almost impossible combination of clr-cumstunces. The Lid Will Be Lifted.

Ex-Senator Reynolds Is President of the Dreamland Company, and Senator Patrick McCarren Is said to have considerable stock In It. It has been rumored that Senator McCarren did not aprrovc of the policy Inaugurated -by Police Commissioner McAdoa of "keeping the lid down." There wlll be one place to the far end of Dreamland on the pier, where, according to report the "lid will be off." It will be called the Bowery, and will Include something In the nature of a Chinatown. Marie Dressier a "Barker." The actor people seem to have taken an Interest In the Bowery of Dreamland. Louis Mann will present a show called "The Seven Temptations of St. Anthony." It Is further announced that Peter F.

Dalley will introduce a Parisian novelty, which has created quite a sensation sbroafl, and that he will be present In person to explain it. Miss (Marie Dressier Is expected to make her deout as a "barker." She has rented a stand at Dreamland to sell peanuts and popcorn. This is certainly a quaint idea for Miss Drossier. It is stated by those who speak for the company that three and a half millions were spent In the purchase of the ground, erection of the buildings, and In Installing the shows. Two thousand men worked day and night for four months to build Dreamland.

The greater part of It will be open next Saturday. Lofty Observatory by Sea. The tower Is 375 feet -high, and fifty feet square at the base. It IB In the French renaissance style, and four heroic figures surmount the facades, symbolizing light. Light there will be In plenty to bear out the symbols, for It Is the intention of the company that a hundred thousand electric globes will hlne forth with a dazzling radiance from the sides and the apex of the tower.

Two elevators will be provided to carry passengers to the top of the tower, where there will be an observatory. The strength of one's eyesight Is the only limit 4o the view Lin at least one direction out over the wa ter and the range of vision extends for miles over the city. Multitude of Amusements. The attractions at Dreamland will Include Bostock's Animal Show, for which his European end American shows have been consolidated; "Our Boys In Blue," a combination of Infantry, artillery and coast defense operations; some Illusions by J. B.

Morris, Including one of a woman who Is hynotlzed and moves about in the air over the heads of the audiences; a fishing pond, where real and mechanical fish are confined In an electrically illuminated pond, to be caught by visitors, who will be awarded prizes according to their catch; the "Canals of Venice," In the Venetian Building, where people will travel In gondolas through a miniature of the picturesque European city; "Coasting Through Switzerland." which is an arrangement whereby passengers are carried from the itops of the snow-covered Alps, where the atmosphere will be appropriately chilly, to the valleys, where the temperature will be warm; "Fighting the Flames." an elaborate nre show, with scene full of the at. Enormous Cost of the Durbar. The cost of the Durbar UC to date, according to Thompson er Dundy. Although care will te taken that other attractions not draw from it very much, and to that end the free circus will be stopped during th-? Durbar, the proprietors of Luna Park do rot expect to make much profit from that particular branch of the show. They are under contract to return all the Indians at the end of the season.

It is not to be supposed that Thompson at Dundy do anything to lose money. They conduct their business at Luna Park much on the order of a department store, where money is sacrificed! on certain attractions, for the purpose of drawing the crowd- There is one more elephant at Luna Park tban was brought over' from India. A baby elephant app. ared in the colony, six weeks ago. Fire Very like tha Keel Thing.

Though the cost to date of the Durbar i somewhat grvater than the amount of money expended on any single entertainment, there is another show planned as one of the atractions of Luna Park which wilL in the end. it Is expected, require a still greater outlay. It is entitled "Fire and a very exciting name, to be sure: but no more exciting than the show will be. if It works out the way its managers have planned it. A brick building some feet high, repre senting the St.

Cloud's Hotel, which was recently torn down, and sixteen stores on several streets have been coastrncted-that ks the front walls have peest pw an. and all that ran be seen at the structures is very substantial. Indeed. A street has been laid out. and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company will lay tracks and run a trolley car along It.

in front of thee numerous tores. To the right Is an elevated station. icre a steam engine, puffing like the real thing, will pun up a tralnef cars to discharge and take on passengers. The whole scene of a busy street in the busy Borough of Manhattaa will be reproduced with a large degree of accwrae-y. Kay Be Burned Kin Times a Da y.

Now all this, or a greater part of It. will be burned two to nine times a day. according to bow often a sufficient number of people assemble to witness a performance- Kirr will break out in one ef the stores on the same side of the street with the botri. The flames will spread rapidly so that they will be beyond control. Frenzied people will rush forth from a saloon, a restaurant, a men's furnishing store, the hotel and ether places.

Next to the hotel is a neakciy store, which will be weB stocked for each performance with crockery, wak-h will be broken to bits by the are. making a russiulaaa racket. The Are engines win dash ap the street at full speed, llose will be turned on- There will be a tremendous breaking of windows. burning of. staircases and furniture, people jumping inte nets from the wrndonrx.

or I ring pushed by anaddeaed ones behind them. Bremen scaling up the waBs of the hotel wtth scaling ladders and carrying people down on pulleys, and all the exciting things that take place at city fires. One would Imagine that this sort of play would be very dancerous. but no one who ts to participate in it seems to worry much about that. It is asserted that the lama Park Fire Department, consisting of four engines with elaborate qulnat or all kinds.

Is even now the heat trained to Greater Krw Tork. Heatrw TV. mcAaaass. who until six months asm trained tha city Bre there are people who won't complain ol that. For those who do, there will be a moderate priced eating establishment downstairs.

DREAMLAND'S VAST PLANT. Multiform Amusements JBostock's Cir cus There Ballroom and Chutes Over Ocean. Dreamland Is down by the sea. Its territory extends clear out to the end of the Iron Pier. Its main entrance Is on Surf avenue, it is constructed In the fashion of a World's Fair, with a tower In the centre, brilliantly lighted with many electric glowers, and buildings of various, styles of architecture.

The architectural features of Dreamland are worthy of the highest praise. They are the product of the work of Klrby, Petit Green, a substantial firm of Manhattan architects, and the space has been used to great advantage. The colors are well blend-etlTln attractive designs, and though It does not always pay to analyze such things, the general effect Is restful and pleasing. The tower has been called a work of art. From an architectural point of view, that Is no exaggeration.

There Is not such art In Coney Island as you would use to decorate a parlor or hayig up on the wall of a picture gallery, but there Is In Dreamland a tasteful arrangement of amusement houses, each of which has some meaning In Its exterior design. For instance, a patriotic and warlike entertainment, entitled "Our Boys In Blue," Is housed In a building which represents a fortress or castle of the medieval period, and the Venetian 3how is In a house made to represent the Doge's palace, and said to bn an accurate reproduction from drawings and models. The Architecture of Dreamland. The entrance Is through a magnificent foyer of the Renaissance period, 100 feet deep, 50 feet wide, and 73 feet high, studded with electric lights. The entrance is surmounted by a heroic size figure of a woman, in a sitting posture, and with a bundle of light in her Inside the entrance are buildings of classic.

Renaissance, medieval and modem architecture, most of Ihem being constructed of artificial stone, and In light colors. The effect of these colors when the light Is turned on will be to Increase the brilliancy of the electrical display. Ballroom Over Ocean. Perhaps the strongest card held by the Dreamland Company Is the location on the water front. This Is appreciated by the shrewd men who are managing the enterprise, and they purpose to make the vary most of It.

They will have bathhouses of the most modern character, and a bathing. beach for the accommodation of their patrons. They have built their "shoot ihe chutes" out Into the ocean, and they aro using the old Iron Pier In a way Jhat It has rever been used before. They have built a ballroom on one floor, and have put In thousands of electric lights. On tha same floor a first-class restaurant Is being Installed This restaurant Is to be a high-class eating place, so that persons who spend an evening In Dreamland need not be put to the necessity of either going without the popular late, meal or supping at a restaurant Of the kind that prevailed everywhere In Coney Islsnd last summer.

The dance Boor is out over the ocestn, where men, has been employed to manage the department at Luna Park. lie has in constant use all kinds of apparatus, including that which in his official school in New York was used only occasionally. Whether or not this lire show Is the culmination of the trend of Csney Island entertainments toward the sensational and can hardly be said with any degree of ositiveness. but it bids fair to be a thrilling performance. In a Japanese Tea Garden-On quite a different' order is the Japanese tea garuV n.

This is another new attraction, and as the Mikado's people, from the rela tion they bear just at present to things in the Far Last, are watched with great intert-st wherever they appear in this county, it -s expected that the tea garden will be a good irawtng card- They are a most Ingenious people, and so Messrs. Thompson Dundy simply turned them loose upon a reservation set arid for them on the roof of a frame structure near the entrance to Luna Park- A little village began Immediately to grow in the spot where the Japs had been riven free play. Miniature parks, with V.kes and hEls and landscapes, cosy corners where tea may be served and drank by the Hfht of Japanese lanterns, and numer ous decorations of an Oriental character. giving a general effect calculated to draw the mind of the visitor to the Island King dom In the Orient, are fast taking form. Japanese men and girls will be in attend ance in their native costumes.

Some of the Japa Too Smart. The Jans, as has been said, are an Ingenious people. This is particularly true of two young almond-eyed fellows, who are soon to be bounced because of their extra sharpness. They have been drawing a hundred dollars a month from the Lama Park Company, and fating their men Is with their fellow countrymen In the tea garden, and at the same time spending their time and energies In business; on the Bowery. Mr.

Dundy happened to be nearby when a load of lumber came for thesa. marked C. O. and the Japs all caibeted around and tried to get the man to take It to the Bowery. Then the whole "cinch' was given away.

War of th Worlds to Be Ready. One of the attractions which was heralded last year, but did sot materialise during the season, will most probably be ready shortly after th season opens. It ht called the "War of the WorMs. and is a succession ol battles of land and on sea. Models of ships of the American Navy, of sufficient sixe for a man to lie at full length In them and operate them, are ready for launching.

The Intention la to make the show realistic, snd the ingenuity with which the paraphernalia has been man a fact ured Is a guarantee that this win be accomplished. The work is done in the I-na Park sanation. A Decent Eating; Place at Last. Everybody who has been hungry during a trip to Coney Island, and somewhat discriminating tat taste for food, knows that the thins; Coney has needed more than anything else Is a good restaurant. There has never been at West Brighton a place where one of refined taste could eat with any degree of satisfaction, or at least.

If there has swea a place. It has been off In some corner where tew people reached IL Now It is the Intention of the Lama Park people to hare a reataaraat with a high-class caterer and good aeisRaw The arsces win doubtless menswra wp to tha elaborate cuisine, but complisbed by skilled and unskilled labor. working night and day during the winter a n.l spring. Is tru'y marv. K.u 5- me of the thinw Kara) hn learned frnn the big ctr cnse, and nn froai la world's fa.n.

oMiUlons of noaer aal It brat of brains, barked by many yean of experience In the larast kind of anrraent rentures. have, been unsparincly vtiied durtr.a: nan six wiontha In the eretin of attractions Curf avenue. As Rrooklynr.es rrtty fVneraLIy art a there are two Coney One ts ta be found In the bit; atnascment pUoes hlch catr to tve more ixpectable whim of the, puMic. and the other ij to be un i on tho Bowery. N.x everybody ks both, of course, but those who limited their vis-Ita to such places as Lana Park and B-tcck's may ba aaTd.

as a matter of bt-fbrmatlon. that the Fowery is a reality, an. If bark agsln In the ime pUce. with hors of dotes a better buin sa tv-an a year ago Tha Same Sort of a Bowery. It will be remember-) that a'vtry m-tnattnjr are burned somethins; ar.e-auares.

tnoludinc praoiicaay -h of tno leva reputable part of rny lUntt. Jest after the seasn c- ut year. The Fusion administration was then In jo. Public lmprovemer is in the burne-i d.strict were promised, and It wa the expectation even of such prsrtk-a! p. li tnin ns Capt Tooley that tha nre had done mjca tj elear that sort of thiar out of Cosey.

Luna Park and suck paces rut lnta the patronac of the low re softs considerable, asd it was predicted that this year there wiuM be of them. That was a bad cwess. The Bowery is built up what kkifc be precisely the same kind of show houses that were there last summer. The administration has not male the promises of rusion in the way of publ'c Improvements Further-more, the Inspection of buildlturs to replace those that were burned has hardly been as Hsnd as miarht have been expected. Oid foundations are used, to a largo extent.

These foundations are in many Instances so bad that the cracks in the stones can be Seen with tse naked eye. Some of them look as if they must surely fall betoro km-, ender the wetht or the new brick work with which they are surmounted Where the oid hri.k work was bad. it has been in many instances shored op with wood. Another fire sou: not make quits as much beaday. for Qt Bowery has been widened, and then Is less wood in the buildinss.

but further than that no precautions appear to have been taken for safety's sako. The accompanying picture of one of the The Una! estimate is tint on? week hone oo Saturday, the part of the amusements will be ready for hutr. si. This prediction should1 be realized, as the work is ow pretty well In hand, nn.f w.innVrs can done In the way of hurrying the finishing touches. The competition on Surf avenue 1 coins to very keen.

Two giant attractions I.hpi and Dreamland, will wrestle with other for popularity, and everyone who has a quarter to spend will find each cf thes. claimants holding out Inducements to him Both have their natural advantage s. and have been engaged: an winter In makln artificial ones. Dreamland is all new. Luna Park is mostly new.

There will, also he an large number of lesser places along Surf avenue which should do a profitable business. Considerable ingenuity has been displayed by scores of foney Inland business men with substantial carltal. though they have not millions to Invest. i The Old Tribe Already Already the sandwich men. peanut pedlers.

frankfurter stands, palmists ner venders of small wares are operating. There Is a certain class of men and women who" wait i on the "L- station, to take the very firt car that goes to Island' each, reason, and so long as the cars continue to go I there, they to too. Th. street, however are torn up by city laborers and other work- a m(. vhwh eludes the filling In of lw Wlng the hotel, and leveli ng of the lands.

ape In Varle.us pla-es. Is (r) rapidity. The Kr. mu bare wooden s.afloldir.g and the Island very evidently "in of construction -Work already In operation promises some improvements. Including more commodious arrangements at the It.

It. T. railroad station. There Is a new hotel course of construction, and from the of It now. It will not be ready receive guest, or several months.

Still, there no, vay. lug as to that, things are done in a hurry at Coney rhf nearer to est Brighton than the other big holt IS: ADDITIONS TO LUNA PARK. Durbar of India, With Fakir, and Xautch Girls, and Hair-Raising Fire Show Features. -rnompson pUndv. the proprietors of pioneers in a kind of Coney Island show giving that has Invited competition this year and has proved a magnificent cwwepuoa.

'got Busy- early last winter 10 worn out some other schemes to hold and increase their patronage in another season..