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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 29, 191: 7-B One Night of Samson's Surkus and Great After Concert ,HE secret is out Just what was that affair out there at the den your wifs inferred was a racy, slightly off color entertainment? Hus band, turn this Into the hands jof Friend Wife, tell her to read every .word and then ask her to forgive and re "pent Tou here are vindicated by a de scription as near graphic as space will al low. Here, it will be endeavored to give .her and those who were not there a picture of those glorious Monday nights at the den, those 1 nights that you Innocently en ijoyed to the ut most oftlmes un til the clock struck twelve. After first de nying for. the sake of your wife ( that there was anything in those j shows which might in any way I discolor your lily white , character I and thus again place you in best ' repute with your family, the de- 'sorlptlon will pro- . ceed. Prof. Dimlck, start, your band out there In front i of the Den for, the lady-t hat ' band of yours, brilliantly vested ' 1 n sdntilatlng vermilion coats and hatted with the light yellow mitres or what ever they were. Start them play ing "Everybody's Doin It," "The Ragtime Violin," or some other of ! those pieces you head facing the audience it makes the entire cir cuit as gracefully as a thoroughbred can. Directly behind him Is the red coated band which you saw before the show giving a concert out In front They are walk ing exactly in step and blowing sounds through the various Instruments that are very like some thing you have heard be fore, but you Just can't tell. Probably It could be told that the piece is "Heart and Flowers" If the callope would quit piping for a second and the animals in the dress ing room would hush, their roars for a time. But you don't cars for music, anyway. There's too much excitement and noise. Music is to be heard when there is a long haired man going through Delsart move ments to its time and Prof. Dimlck Is a short pussy person without even the conventional fuzzy hat and the twirl ing baton. All he and his men are trying to do is to add glamour to the auspicious entree .and with the noises Joining In from the dressing room and the blatant howls of approval from the vast audience they do it Yip I Yee! There's an elephant No, two elephants! See them lumbering through the door? My; they're fine the depths of his lungs bellows forth a conglom erated assortment of ver biage you perk up In your seat and prepare for whatever It Is he Is announcing. It may be the famous Another part of the In itiation deals with fire arms. Harry Kvernden, W. Verner and L. II. Borshelm, dressed In khaki uniforms, operate a cannon, which unfail ingly frightens the, oan- Captain Fry, gunman, or didates, who are perched It may be the soldiers with their cannon. In the excitement, although you hear him, you can't catch it. If It is Captain Fr you soon realize that he has announced an act, the like of which you never saw before. The captain Is from South Omaha, upon the circus seats in the ring as It is pointed at them. In preparing to shoot the soldiers drop the leaden cannon ball.t several times to show the candidates at whom the cannon is pointed that real bullets are be ing used. - Then Horny Handed and with native breeiy Hart or j M 0Kal, steps he enters the ring and ' lays his broad brimmed, black hat on a table. He Is then pre pared to shoot the tartar off your teeth without Injuring the enamel. He who has Just concluded a pocket edition of mak ing a bull .lie down In what was called a bull fight or wrestling match. step9 in front of the can didates and takes an at- doesn't do lt, however. In tltude as If he was pre your teeth you haven't paring to catch the canon the same contrivance ball as It shoots from that enables htm to shoot the gun. The candidate out the electrle lights at to of nlm how thplr the other end of the tent uneasiness. They fear he HOGANINSKI THE GREAT THROW! KG THE BULL. They were In a class with he clowns. And by the way, the clowns of the Ak-Sar-Ben circus proved funnier beyond a specimens of elephanthood. Aw say, those doubt thftn an.y w'th any reffular c,rcu" ain't real elephants. Look at 'em dancing ver la 0maha- Thera t to the music; keeping right in time and evy of them and not a one lacked the atrfno. wu H fihoi,. ' essential qualities of humor required of a Ringmaster Wapplch shouts out a few lines about how the captain once was a brave fron tiersman and In the early days often walked into the village saloon and nhot out the lights to show his marksmanship. After such a lie eh presents the captain to shot out the electric bulbs in the tent, which the cap tain does. At this you ait in amazement and ask yourself why this man isn't traveling with an Itinerant show and re- wlll miss the ball. Of course, he does and the ball speeds past him and lands among the specta tors. When it bounces back there Is a sigh of relief from the crowd. They know then tho ball is rubber and really not a leaden cannon ball. Thus the candidates are made to feel throughout ONE REAL. WRESTLING MATCH. A DREAM. .played every Monday night, wflile the thousands of laughing men crowded by jyour players Into the Den. And the crowd there get them in line. (They're coming twenty-five abreast, pushing and shoving. Why! Where are (they coming from? Oh, can't you see the street ears lined along Twentieth 'street one right, behind the other.' Look! There come some more automobiles. Bay, Mr. Policeman, get them In line. There's a little room down there on tlha corner of the lot Of course, that block .square south of the Den is thronged with them and so Is the fifty feet east of the building and so is the curbing for two blocks down, but there's some (space; put them In there. That's right, let them back in, side by side. Now Lady, have you your ticket ready? The yellow one, printed in red ink. .There It Is, that one ; ' man who is Hired to make a fool of him self. They were captained by Ed Thomp son, with C. R. Docherty, an Inimitable little Irishman, as lieutenant Among the list appears the names: E. O. Peterson, N. F. Hinckley, H. E. Mahaffey, James Swift, U. McDonough, E. O. Royce, E. N. WflnnT. K .f. It Irnmmnnri. William Rtrvker. W. McDonald." That explains it These nonrea .y. .,,, ThMnm. young men playing the roles of elephant Edward j-onngon D. Berlin, H. M, Ander entrails form the mechanism that makes u R H1Idumi T. W- Lauritson, L. S. can't tell me they're honest-to-goodness elephants. They may look It but no elephant can do that why of course, look at the program: "Elephant No. 1 Wil liam Chuda, George Helntze. Howard Day and Harry Cook. Elephant No. 2 P. O. Jennings, I, Levy. Ben Whitney and J, Annual Ticket, 1911. THE KNIGHTS OF AK-SAR-BEN Mrs. Once Suspicious Wife. Is Entitled to a Seat in the Re . served Section Under . the Big Canopy. CHARLES H. PICKENS, President All right come on, just follow this icrowd. Tou don't need to go to the right on entering the door. That slga there is to direct the candidates for Initiation. You may turn to the left; you are a member. Just go through that turnstile' there as you show Mr. Charles Karbach your ticket. He will let you In and tho next man will hand you one of those long colored bills, a program. You can't tell I much from the program. It's Just a lot of nonsense that Robert Manley wrote. partly to snow on nis numor ana partly to give you an Idea that the show inside Is somewhat related to a circus. Get your button from Walter Thomas or L. Beln dorf and follow the short passageway and and there it is, look! The circus! It's about to begin. Gee, the sight almost takes your breath away, doesn't it? i Directly in front of you, in a space 100 feet wide and 300 feet long, is, the re- served section referred to on your season I ticket It is packed from front to back and from end to end with coatless men, .sitting, their mouths wide In wonderment 'and slightly curved up at the corners, all gaping in front of them, Into the big arena, the one ring of the Ak-Sar-Ben ' circus. Their eyes at first fall upon the long 'banner strung across the top of the tent on which is emblazoned In large red let jters, "Visitors Welcome." You bet they (are welcome, and If at first they are not cognizant of the fact, only a few moves 'of the initiation team, which starts the .lively show, will impress it upon their Iminds indelibly. They look through the wiring that sep arates them from this ring and wonder who are the men placed in seats seem ingly of honor well, perhaps they are seats of honor at the north end of 'the arena. In those seats, are the candidates jfor initiation. In street parlance, they might be described as "the goats." They I are the fellows at whom you are to laugh a little later when the initiation devices I which Gus Renze has rigged up get into , mechanical motion. They sit and stare in amazement and their curiosity at what Is to follow seems to show Itself over their whole outward nervous beings. They fidget in their seats, look behind them and in front of them, any move of any man allowing himself to be a Httle more conspicuous than the others causing their eyes to fas ten upon him .in suspicion. It may be that they expect the rows of circus seats on which they are sitting to fall down; maybe not At any rate they are noticeably nervous, whether It be from tempting effluvium, which Is being wafted down from the dairy lunch dining room on the mezzanine floor" In the north end of the den, or from the shrill stac cato piping of the steam calliope, which ' is being tuned and tested for later con cert They realise they are the goats; probably that is alL, Then watch them straighten In their seats. From the south end of the den, from a room in which they have realized there has been considerable activity, there comes a single bewhlskered horse man. A thrilling whistle blows loudly and reverberates from every corner of the bulfding and hooray the circus has begun! The bewhlskered horseman heads the grand entry' parade. A highbred horsa he has, too, coming into the ring right from, the start, prancing sideways. Throughout the whole season this horse never walked straight, but keeping its them move so. Pretty good, eh? And the giraffes Yes, they are the same way. The program says: "Giraffes C C. Phelps, H. Schraeder, Ci A. Graves, A. W. Johnson, J. G. Glasshoff and E. H. Osborn." Better giraffes never danced the bear cat Neither have better camels swung the cubanola glide than those within which were F. H. Turney, R. Jep sen, A. L. Lemon and T. W. Lauritson. These, though, were not the most con spicuous animals in this grand entree parade. Above all there bucked the wild steer and the trick mule and rocked the rockey boat Equipped with ingenious mechanical device this steer was far superior to any long horn that ever dodged the lariat on the Wyoming plains. Atopped by an Innocent candidate for Initiation Into the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, this maddened beast pitched about the arena violently enough to make Its rider believe on concluding the ride that his heart stomach, liver and lungs had in dulged In a game of pussy-wants-a-corner, The steer was set upon a low, rolling table and pulled about the ring- by a band of handy men, A special crew was re quired to engineer him about and make him go through the agonizing contortions Dan Whitney, Verne Miller, Harry FoBter and V. A. Martin usually did this work. The trick mule was operated by a dif ferent squad, E. L. Potter, H. Peterson, William Schellberg and A. L. Petrle, while the' rocking boat usually was manned by E. T. Gillespie and F. P. Shoemaker. These above named animals furnished most of the action ot the opening pa geant For a real laugh there was the milk wagon driven by Frank Drexel. Where Samson ever got the horse that drew that wagon about during the season is a mad conjecture. Undoubtedly the blast came from nowhere civilized man has lived, for civilized man never before saw such a quadruped moving about slandering horsedom as It did by purport ing to be one of those animals. The ex pression "as crooked as a corckscrew," wouldn't begin to describe the general topography of this beast It was as crooked as as a barrel of snakes and In the sway of its back as much milk could be carried as might, be placed in the Dodds and Ernest Bell. The clowns did not appear in the grand entree parade.' They were in the ring starts. When Captain Fry pulls the trig ger of his revolver, a hired man on the outside of the tent pushes a button and springs the traps, which naturally shatter the bulbs. In a similar way does he fool the can didates by preparing to shoot a glass bulb from one of their heads. A man who has been trained In the secrets of brass which was charged with electricity supplied by a wire from the ratters. the show that their lives are In Jeopardy. They are always ex- through the doors of the porch, two of dancers, pectlng something, but usually make coor which came out directly in front. As the .ders of celvlng a drayioaa or pay envelopes every guesses at what Is to come. For In- candidates passed through these doors, Saturday night. The secret has been kept stance, when a band Is ohosen from the hung as saloon blinds are hung, their well, but now that It Is out, it is strictly crowd marched upon the platform and arms Invariably jerked away. The Inner legitimate to tell It. By eac electric bulb seated on a long bench, each knows that "ide of the doors had been lined with Is a mouse trap all sprng oerore tne snow he Is having a Joke plaved on him, but never does he guess it. Fifteen or more are placed on this bench as Ringmaster Wapplofo stands by, explaining to the audience outside that they are living pictures; that the spot light from the rafters Is for the pur pose of showing off to best advantage, their respective handsome faces and fig ures. He tin en announces suddenly that thfl Will In m Tfill act Ik always on hand tn theu will lis rhanirpfl frnm llvHnir iilMnrn. volunteer his services. When the ring- to moving pictures. In unison the men mftsned thelr traw nf n bumped their heads against the invisible wires. nounced. It Is not an nounced until the circus Is over, and then, unlike every other circus, the announcer does not end his speech with "a dime, ten cents." Like every, thing else at the dein, it is free. A better concert was never a part of arfy clrcuj that ever traveled, and while you sat and watched it circus hands were not tearing down the tent around you. Of course, there was a concert. What would a circus be without a con cert? It would be but a hollow mockery, and you bet that Ak-Sar-Ben has nn lirwl Iaw "v1 a rnm Rfl iii' uuiiv n a"Ctiw u-'f right when folks were getting most Interested in the athletic stunts that were pulled off by the performers on the tan. bark of the arena, came the stentorian voice of the ringmaster: ' ' L-a-a-d-d-l-l-e-e-s-s a-n-d g-e-e-e-n-t-l-e-e-e-m-e-e-n-n: I am re quested to announce that Immediately 11 after the conclusion of the perfor mance in the big ring be fore you we will give a concert on a stage es pecially erected for that purpose, at which will ap pear some of the greatest performers of the world renowned singers and as well as all the won the world shown you In the smaller pavilions, , and which for this occasion will be presented on the platform before you in all their surprising wonder. . Our performance is not half over, ladies and gentlemen, but I am re quested to make this announcement at More laughable than this was the door this time that you may know of the treat at the end of the Incline from the porch. Tho initiates invariably ran down this Incline to the door being opened to them by a man outside. Strong electric lights above this door blinded them to the screen wiring which filled in and as a conse quence the audience was kept In a con tinual uproar as the innocent candidates that we have in store for you. In honor of our visit to your city, we have reduced' the price of admission for the day and date only, and have fixed, the charge for this wonderful concert performance at half price, only one dime. Gentlemanly ushers will now pass among you, and anyone wishing tickets to remain for the concert may get them from them," Roster of Ak-Sar-Ben Working Crew Alden, Charles Anderson, H. M. Alvord, A. J. Belndorf, L. Berlin, D. Bell, E. Borshelm, L. H. Belden. C. Boyles, Clifford Brennan, John Benford, H. O. Blerman, Ed ' Bonewltz, S. L. Bert rand, Alex Bartlett, W. C. Chuda, William Cook, Harry Corn, James Crawfod, William .Caspar! J. Camprell, L. P. Counsman, H. G. Clch, M. J. Conover, S. P. Cady, Walter Collomer, F. Campbell, C. C. Drummond, B. J. Day, Howard iDocherty, C. R. Dodds, L. S. Dermody, D. D. Dunn, H. W. Duffy, A. W. refold, O. F. Drelbus, P. J. Dillon, M. Drexel, F. Eisele, II. Erickson, E. Evernden, H. Foster, Harry Fitzpatrlck, G. Frost, R. A. Fry, A. H. Fitch, F. W. Graves, C. A. Glasshoff, J. G. GllUspie, E. J. Greer, L. J. Gerke, William Gallaghers Ben Helntze, G. Helntze, W. H. Heyden, R, F. Hinckley, Hogan, J. M. Harberg, R. B. Horte, L. H. Herman, John J. Isberg, H. A. Jepsen, R. Johnson, Jennings, P. O. Johanson, J. W. Johanson, H. R. . Johnson, J. W. Johnson, B. E. Johnson, R. E. Jaoobson, F. A. Judson, H. C. Jackson, A. J. Johnson, Ed Kinney, E, M. Karbaoh, William Kass, C. Karbach, C. J. Klpllnger, E. E. Larsen, M. E. Lemon, A. L. Lauritson, F. W. Latsech. Joe Lapsech, R. D. Leiben, Oscar Lane, W, EL Lehman, E. Uby, I. Mahaffey, H. E MoDonough, V. McShane, EL Millard, V. Martin, F. A. McDonald, J. W. Metz, Herman Maloney, Charles Metz, Charles jr. Melcholr, D. F. Millard, B. F. . Miner, Morrow, Joe McCulloch, Bruce McCune, O. EL McGraugh, B. Newell, A. M. Nelson, F. Newman, Ed Oohsenblen, G.' Osborne, E. H. O'Brien, Ed Price, M. H. Potter, B. L Petre, Peterson, H. Phelps, C. C. Peterson, P. I'affenrath, F. Petrie, H. F. Pcderson, J. W. Phelps, J. Palmer, Ed Reed, Alex Ramm, J. P. Reed, K. F. Reese, R. B. Stryker, Wlllalm Scherllburg, William Schraeder, H. Simpson, F. Swift James Soderberg, A. E. Swoboda, F. Sherwood, W. W. Scott, O. C. Shoemaker, J. R. Snail, George Shaw, 'W. J. Stack, F. Thompson', Ed Turney, F. H. Thomas, W. Verner, W. Van Kuran,' A. J. Whlttemore, F. C. Wapptch, William Wallwey, F. Whitney, D. Weeks, C. Zlmmer, A. ' as soon as they finished making up In the dressing room. Just remember, the parade hasn't passed yet You haven't seen the cage of wild Blmps and boobs, the cornfed hippopota mus and the other animals. Well, they wagon It pulled. Now that's considerable u men' pl(ed out the bunc Bway or canaiaaies in mo ineiineeuo ,uun .u No "wonder tHat animal was taken from locked lnt0 the cages fora .stem chf ' the wagon a short time after Colonel aoterized as "balling out They are in- Theodore's convention was held in Chi- nocent men who "have been thrown into cago and remodeled Into a bull moose. tl cages labeled in those edifying terms. In Its natural appearance it looked as Paraded about the arena thus labeled they much like a bull moose as it did a horso. generally are the targets of their friends anyway. .So, naturally, when horns and derision. That is a part of their inltla- nose glasses were placed upon It and Ed tion. Thompson, disguised at Colonel Theodore, The calliope which you have heard came marching into the ring with it every since first you entered the tent iB now one was dee-lighted with this, the only screeching and screaming Its way back bull moose In extant and captivity. But to the menagerie room, its mission over, the bull moose was only Introduced a few it was somebody's happy thought. Made times. Being a political subject, it was of a line of Inharmonious whistles which, needed only on special occasions when it were blown by compressed air, it supplied was thought some politicians might be sufficient noise to entertain the whole present In the same respect was the life north end of the city. Like the band, and death of Jim Swift's act however, it added eclat to the grand en- Up until the conclusion of the Baltimore tree parade. convenotion, Swift made a great impres sion every perforrtance by parading in front of the audience with a noun' dawg, dragging at the end of the string with the tail between his legs. Swift sang the "Houn' Dawg" song in excellent Voice while the dog cowered at his side. Prob ably more people regretted the defeat of Champ .Clark because It meant the abandonment of this act than would otherwise have mourned the SMissouiian's master announces that a candidate Is Jump from the bench and the audience wanted for a hero, circus hands rush into sees what has happened. Up from the the candidate stand and attempt to take bench there sprays a full stream ot some of them by force. If any beside the water, from end to end. trained men had volunteered his services, This trickery was a source of much possibly Captain Fry would have been amusement to the regular attendant at somewhat embarrassed. ' the circus. Some knights went every But as was said, the regular man Is Monday night for nothing else than to always there and he gladly prepares to Ket 8d laugh at these men who be a martyr. Captain Fry places the glass received the brunt of the many practical bulb on top of his head, takes Infinite Jcke la tn ritual of the initiation. . eye measurements, then turns to mark The haunted house which brought the the correct number of paces before ready clrcuB proper to a laughable close was to shoot All the time the crowd holds one of the most Interesting devices ever its breath. After the captain has turned rigged up at the Den. To the audience his back to the mark, a handkerchief is tied over his eyes, an added precaution against his seeing the mark. Then slowly raising his revolver above bis head and outside the ring it looked like a house. A porch was stretched across Its front which sloped down on one side. Back of the house was the platform which had lowering It at about the proper grade, he been rolled in place. The candidates were pulls the trigger and the bulb on the man's hat shatters. A rubber bulb In the man's pocket was squeezed by him, the compressed air from which set off the trap that broke the glass bulb. Simple, ushered from their seats In the ring to places upon this platform. They were stood in line ready for the walk through the "haunted house." The audience could see them emerge In that way it may be classed with William Wapplch, who as a ringmaster would lend eclat to any kind of cere mony. He Is dressed in a swallow-tall coat, which, separated by bis enormous embonpoint, allows a glaring show of red vest. To all this scenery about him Is added several diamonds, as the recipes say, "the size of a walnut," and a mus tache that is built on the proportion of loss. But It was a political subject and tn08e of caU wno are 8aW t0 Pess like the bull moose. It had to go. after them tor the Punose of measuring holes Interest id the thing it symbolized had tny m&y crawI tnrouKn. waned. This disguise startles you so you are All these were good "laugh getters," as prepared to receive anything from him, the professional showman would say. and when his mouth opens up and from They had to be pulled out of the runway through a curtained door at the side. These things were prepared for the em barrassement of the Initiates. The trained elephants, Sarah Bernhardt and Lillian Russell, were feature devices In this line. After marching around the ring, Rarah Bernhardt stalked over to seven candi dates standing beside the ling, each carrying a bucket of water. As the band played, "How Dry I Am," Sarah drank all the water from the buckets, backed away and through her trunk' sent the water In a fine spray upon the candi dates. Lillian frightened ten men by .walking over them as they lay on a can vas stretched over the sawdust in the ring. The "oracle" or "modern monarch ot the plains" followed this line of fun, The oracle is several times larger than the life-sited steer, who rides in an auto mobile, which he steers into the ring and stops in front ot the initiates. II. an- ME EQUESTRIENNE. Bwers questions which the ringmaster When Bobby Burns was telling of Tairt puts to him by nodding and shaking his O'Shanter's experience on Hallowe'en at head. He Is asked If he Is the cause of Atloway's 'auld haunted kirk, he came to the high cost of living, and If the op- the dance of Nannie, the young witch, who portunlty Is open to all to raise his kind discarded all garments but her cuttyiark, In Nebraska. As a conclusion he 1s asked and wrote: to "cough up," which he does by opening put here my muse her wing maun lower " his big mouth and blowing corn and Sio flights are quite beyond her power, heavy bran over the candidates. 8o exactly what took place at that . Other features of the show are purely concert will never be told; It may suffice for entertainment without a sellorprac to say that memories of that dear old tlcal joke attached. The drills of the Midway were revived by the entrance of horsemen, and a rube wrestling match In marching column In oriental garb, with pipes and tambourines, the females of the party shamelessly unveueo, auer mo western fashion, but clinging to a scanti ness of garb, after the eastern; and they paraded the arena, the while discoursing that never-to-be-forgotten strain to which, some patriot has fitted the words: She had never seen the Streets of Cairo-. She was but a simple country maid. At last these had gathered on the plat form and here was given a performance, the like of which was not known else where. Even a night of Scheherezade a best effort was but tame compared to this. If the concert did nothing else, it brought fame forever to Bruce MoCul loch of South Omaha, who furnished the lyrics and ditties and ballads sung, the choruses roared, and the quips and Jests sprung on the unsuspecting. As a librettist Captain McCulloch Is the real thing, and when he gets tired of putting down records of live stock sales he can make a name for himself by turning out musical comedy. Part of his serv ices for the season consisted of furnish Ing a new set of verses for each per formance, so that the performers them selves didn't always know what was com ing off, but it was new, crisp and. pat, and enjoyed by all. The foibles of each suoceeedlng set of candidates were touched upon, each visiting town got a bit FLOWER OF THE ZENANA. f Rood-humored commeiuH and all went for the purpose of making the this category are marvels for entertain- concert the best entertainment Samson ment. " ever wt forth at the den. Alex Reed captains the horsemen as Henry w. Dunn forgot to be chief of they ride into the ring, each carrying his poCe in order to give the beauty of his big own horse, and go through drills in the Volce to the concert; Joe Brennan, who center.- In the list are Charles Mets, jr.. won njB aureis as Paprika some years William Karbach, Chester Weeks, R. F. ag0 gathered more glory for himself as Heyden, C. Belden, C. Bergman, George a dark-eyed charmer of the zenana; Con Snell, Albert Zlmmer, M. E. Larson, L., 0yer an(j Thompson, Boyles and Lleben P. Campbell, R. A. Frost and W. J. and many another glistened In the spot Shaw. " ijght at this gorgeous performance, and The wrestling bout, between H. G. ror onca jn his life Frank Fitch was Counsman and H. R. Johanson, was a permitted to go as far as he liked, and headllner. It was a burlesque on the one will ever say he can't go some average wrestling match and good enough when he gets under headway. for the professional stage. Those who assisted in making the con- This, gentle reader, Is the Ak-Sar-Ben cert the biggest success ot the entire DOC FRY'S GREATEST SHOT. isn't it? But few knew but what It was on the square. Captain Fry's act was begun by his ringing the bull's eyes attached to the coat tails of V. D. Dermody, Fred Stack sr.d L. H. Greer, who were brought Into the ring on a rolling stock (rolling stock here does not refer to railroad). What Is meant Is an old fashioned stock such as once was used for punishing witches. With their heaMs and hands fastened in them, these men were carried In on a wagon, the bull's eyes on their coat talis being the targets for Captain Fry. The audience usually suspected trickery lr. this, but after he had shot out tho lights, they credited' him with having sent real bullets at the men. FEAT OF THE TRAINED ELEPHANT, that saw the trick circus. The concert has not been an- history of Ak-Sar-Ben's entertainments at the den were: Mufti W. W. Harmon, H. W. Dunn. Burd F. Miller. First Councillor Executioners I Joe Latsch. B. E. Johnston, Second Councillor Ed Blerman, A. J. Alvord. Dean Berlin, Keeper Royal Se- Burt Miner, PART OF THE PARADE, crets F. W. Fitch. Shade Tree Cliff Boyles. Dancing Girls John Brennan, E. N. Livingston, D. F. Meloher, J. W. Johnson, , A. W. Duffy, B. J. Drummond, H. O. Benford, L. S. Dodds. Retinue M. J. Ctch, F. C Whlttemore, R. B. Harberg, Fan Bearers F. H. Hlnckles, , K. E. Johnson. Oriental Band Burd F. Miller, , E. Dreibus, ' Joe Marrow, 8. P. Conover, Marshall Dillon, Walter Cady, A. M. Newell. Treasure Bearers- John Pedersea, Director . ' Oscar Liebeo