The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1904, Page 9

Hair-Raising ‘‘ Thrillers” Elephants— Geisha Girls-—japanese Tea Houses~-A Three- Swings—Circling Flyif Machines—and Hundreds of Other Appe. - 500,000 ” We HE new or Greater Luna Park that will be thrown open to the public one week from to-day offers to the millions of pleasuro seekers of this city and its en- + virons a show place such as the ingenulty et the showman has never devised before. World's fair, circus, hippodrome, menagerie, pleasure garden, swept with the salt breeze on which the spray of the ocean {s hardly dry, e fairy land for man and Ghild alike, it offers more fo the eye and kindred junketing. Sixteen More Acres and Many New Shows Are Added This Year. ven last year, when this great pleasure resort by the sea was little more than half its present area, the visitors, returned day after day and departed wondering éf ever they could ree it all, ‘And now there are elxteen more acres covered over with as many fantastic wonders as dazzled the cyes of Aladdin in his dream grottoes, ‘This may seem an extravagant phrase until you go. and are com- polled to shut your eyes before the blaze of 100,000 Clectric lights and great lanterns throwing out a Qundred different hues upon towers and mountains that spring up on every hand ae If by enchantment. Sixteen acres of marsh may appear no great are, Dut when you bulld on {t a miniature city of Delhi with mountain ranges slanting off the perspective people it with three hundred natives of India and Burmah, a herd of sixty elephants nd a drove of splendid horses, you have spread upon dt an appear- ance of size that the mind is very apt to measure in miles. The Dazzling India Durbar, with Cavalcades of Elephants. Will Be Reproduced. ‘And within these sixteen, day and night, and as many Ames as there are people to view It, the great Durbar of Delhi, the most gorgeous ceremony of modern times, will be reproduced. ‘When the native Princes of India proclaimed their allegiance to King Edward VII. in January, 1903, the world witnessed in the anctent city of the Moguls the most elaborate ceremony that ever, saluted a monarch of Burope or Asia, From one end of India to ths other, from the Himalayas to Calentta, and even from the jungles of Ysore that lay between, came processions of elephants and native horsemen decked out with the wealth that the rulers of India havo been collecting for centuries. ‘A seemingly never-ending parade of elephants, camels, troops, bands and carriages passed in review before Viceroy and Lady Cursoh, the Nawabs, parajahs and Princes of royal antediluvian lnoage making their humble obelsance before the dais, The elephants carried howdahs and trappings of the pur- est gold and silver. The fittings on some of the great EVENING WORLD Readers Who Buy the Paper Daily Next Week Will Be Given , In THE EVENING WORLD of Monday, May 9, UNA PARK COUPON NO. 1 will be printed at the top of No. 3; on Thursday. @oupon No. 4; on Friday, Coupon No. 5; on Saturday, Coupon No. G. Cut out these six coupons, the main entrance of Luna Park, where they will be accepted on any week day as a ticket of admission. All six coupons, No?1 to No. G, must be presented to‘be of value. fered in any other way will not be aceepied. f em rrr rm eenses than could be absorbed in a week of constant | phants and camels so ingentously as to give the same dazzling effect produced at the historic Indian cere- mony. ° The Famous City of Delhi, f with Its Glistening Streets, Brought from India. The procession will come up from the mountain range stretching away from the miniature city of Delhi, croas a bridge modeiled after a famous fortress in the Mogul city, aff then, slowly winding its way down a devious path, enter the main street of the Asiatic capital, ‘This street is a perfect reproduction of an actual street In Delhi, In fact the facades of the queer houses were brought from India and painted 0 as to appear in the condition in which they were at the time of the universal homage of India to tho British monarch, The proprietors of Luna Park have spent money with almost the same lavishness dis- played Uf the princes they imitate, the Investment in elephants alone aggregating more than @ quarter of a million, This herd of elephants, the greatest in the world ever secured for show purposes, is housed in a mam- moth stable built at the foot of the mountain range back of the strects of Delhy, Oh, the Large Splash When Big Mr. Elephant Plunges Into the Lake. The most remarkable individuals of this big herd are the plunging elephants, Imagine yourself lying t omyour stomach and sliding head first down the “shoot the chutes” with toboggan-llke velocity. It may be a simple stunt for a 150-pound man, but when you get an elephant weighing several tons to take the slide with graceful ease you huve accomplished, one of the miracles in animal training of the age. An Evening World reporter saw thg elephants plunge down their broad chute into the great tank of water at the bottom, and they seemed to take the e" pleasure in it-that the young rustic takes in the swimming hole when he plays hooky from school. ‘These mammoth divers are led from their vast barn up an incline and over a superstructure, represent- Coming to the top of this her Gre confronted with the precipitous chute, pol- TICKETS Line an Indian hillside. pachyderms fairly blazed with Jewels, and sewed on | ished as smooth as down to their callous hides. the trappings of one of the great beasts alone was fa dazzling treasure of diamonds, rubles, sapphires, Jasper, emeralds and a hundred other gems valued ‘at $30,000,000, There were carriages of puro silver and nedun chairs of gold in this wonderful pageant and other priceless devices that are only known in the pomp of Oriental kings. Carriages of Pure Gold, Priceless Jewels of Rajahs, Great Oriental Splendor. / ‘phis is the great spectacle that will be produced in all {ts.magnificence at Luna Park this summer. A ‘India for the express purpose of the Durbar, and 209 natives who took part in ithe Deiht cétemony have been: imported to Luna Park to give reality to the display. Messrs. Thompson and Dundy have spent tho greater part of the year in having exact coples made of the caparisons worn by the elephants in the origi- nal procession, Howdahs, single and double decked, by the Maharajah of Jaipur, the Chief of Nabhd, the Bikhs and other descendants of tho Mogul emperors. ‘The priceless Jewels; the chairs and carriages of pure gold-and sllv herd of sixty elephants has been brought here from | have been built in exact likeness to the chairs used | In making the plunge ‘they drop their feet over the edge of the declivity and then, throwing out ther hind feet so that they are flattened out like a sprawl- ing child, they give a gentle little heaye ang go down. For the first few feet of the slide they move slowly. By the time they are half way down they Lare ‘‘burning up the board,” and when they reach the water you can barely see the huge body dive beneath in a great wave of spray. i For a few seconds the diver is lost to sight, while swell such as a Sound steamer throws out in Its wake surges across the tank. Suddenly then « tip,of a trunk sticks out of the water and takes a long delicious inhalation, Shrines of Buddha And Wonder-Working Yogis In the Indian Village. Adjoining the elephant barn there 1s a miniature Indian village built to shelter the 300 es. They have brought their iares and penates with them and will worship Buddha and the gods of their fathers with true pagan fervor. Besides the ma- houts and their assistants there live in this little village @ score of snake charmers and Yogis, the mayé’bo wanting, but replicas have! Degn fashioned and tny electric lights of every hue, in the trappings, for the ele-, other mystic miracles NS a of the black arte.' @hese naval famous magicians of the Orient. The Yogis will perform for the’ entertainment of Luna ‘Park's guests the famous mango trick and THE WORLD: SATUR Those who wish to can eee a tiny mango seed planted in a clot of so?, sprinkled with a few drops of water and then shdot up into a luxuriant tree, budding and fronding out into luxurlant follage be- fore your eyes. Then there Is the rope trick, The swarthy-skinned magician stands over a coll 6f rope, ; makes a few passes and drones a few barbaric in-| cantations. Presto! the rope slowly shoots up Into! the vacant alr as af adder rises from Its colls to| sting, finally assuming the perpendicular of a bean-| pole. These are but a fow of the tricks that have never before been seen out of native India Besides the Indiana and Burmese Luna Park has | Imported a band of RiMans, nomad Arabs, who have brought their tents to America from the deserts of Morocco. The Greatest Naval Battles Will Be Fought Over Again With Real Battle-Ships. The Naval Spectatorlum is splendi another td ate traction that has been added to Luna Park this year, | This feature has replaced the Hagenbeck ‘animal | show of last year, It occupies a big circular build- | ing decorated with turrets, from which 10 and 13 inch guns point their threatening muzzles, ‘Tne battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hamp- | ton Roads, the blowing up of the Maine, a torped> \atack on Pprt Arthur and a suppositious bom- bardment of New York Harbor will be reproduced} PTE LTTE PTE TY : eo DAY EVENING. MAY 7, 1904. in the Spectatorium as often as there are spectators to witness It. battles and harbor bombardments PRTG TS LY — Cities of the Orient in Miniature—The Famous India Durbar Repeated in Ail Its Magnitude and Barbaric Splendor —D.ving and Tobogganing Ring Circus in Midair—Arcades, Roves and Showers of Electric Lights —Gilistening Towers:—Whitling als to the Eye and Heart of the Holiday-Seeking Populace. Which THE EVENING WORLD Has Secured and Which Will Open the Marvellous Place to Them. So Read This Page and Be Prepared ~ . Pictorial Glimpses of Sections of Luna Park (Photographed for The Evzning World) Indicating the Variegated Beauties and Attractions of This Marvellous Pleasure Ground. be engineered in a huge tank of water, where minia- iure bactle-ships, horpedo-boats and cruisers will glide about manoeuvfing in squadron for«itions and making brilliant individual dashes over mined chan- nels and under the shadow of fortresses. Twentye five-foot models patterned after the originals will be | used in thls show, and every model will have a crew of men im it to direct is progress’and man ‘ts bat-| terles, An ingenious device of electric lights will produce remarkable scenic effects that should satis’y the most critical, and there will be a prodigal expen- diture of powder in the ¢errifle bombardments and sea fights. | An Entire City Burns ‘ Block by Block, While Thousands Are Looking On A spectacle protably only second in interest great Durbar proc n is offered in the bu dewn of a whole city block. Every night the visit may see at Lunt Park the ¢otal destruction by fi of a row of five-story houses. This spectacie wa first introduced at Earl's Court, London, with Won-| derful success. | ‘The Luna Park conflagration, however, has all the local color that the most loyal New Yorker could d¢- sire. A block of houses In exact im'tation of a row of city buildings {s seen from a raised plane of seats, as if you were among the spectators to a great blaze standing on the opposite side of the street ‘Abutting the end of the rew fs an “1” station with men, women and children ascending and descending} ‘Dhere is the ugual crowd: of pedestrians PAGE 2. On Tuesday Coupon No. 2 will appear; on Wednesday, Coupon pin them together and present them during the week of May 16 at SPT ONT PR eh au Oke oy os lif aaah FOR LUNA PARK Coupons ofs . THE CIRCLE SWING FLYING MACHINE passing to and fro alon@ the street, an automobile shoots by, a trolley car tomes gliding wround th corner, Suddenly there 1s a tiny Jet of flame in the e found in the Japanese tea-houses. This corner o& re gardens bristles with pagodas and tissue-paper jouses, and as you loll in a comfortable. wicker chair |tatn broadswalks and promenades hedged round whh upper stories of one of the houses. This is followed | ou can make your selection of forty bright-faced by a cloud of smoke that catches the eye of a police- ‘geisha girla to serve you tea in the true Ortentas man, A signal box on a lamp-post Is thrown open | manner. and the spring pulled down. | In another second a complete set of fre apparatus The Whirl-the-Whirl, Is on the scene, followed by a Chief's wagon contain- i ing Henry W. McAdams, who for twenty years was Circle Flying Machine and Other Sensations. | the drill master of the New York Fire Department. | And, in a few minutes you are watching a thrilling | fire replete with sensational incidents. | For the seekers of novel sensation there has been | provided this year the Watrl-the-Whirl and the Cirele | Swing Flying Machine. The latier contrivan The Hanging Gardens, ‘of ) only invented a year ago and for the frst time Japanese Tea-Houses |e operated In Luna Park and Mid-Air Circus, | It consists of a 100-foot steel tower tapering from @ | point at the top to a square base at the ground, The The Henging Gardens of Babylon, which cover! apex of the tower supports six cables by which aif twenty-four & nip cars cre suspended. | As soon as the big steel shaft to which the cables Nd/are buckled at the top is revolved the cars swing ses the cars ride out and ars gradually lifted by centripetal force until own to American! they are fifty feet from the ground. They finally by at eltne @|attain a speed of forty miles an hour. giving the exact burdened with boxes of flowers and shrubs, There! sensation of flying through the alr, are innumerable cozy nooks in this great garden! The Whirl-the-Whirl {sa sort of elevator merry-gay where thousands can sit in the shade and watch the! round. Thi rs swing round a pole seventy-four feet: */ Neverending circus above and below. The adding/ high and with each revolution ascend on ® spiral of these hanging gardens alcne has increased the/| screw. capacity of Luna Park for 70,000 more visitors, Prob-| “The Trip to the Moon’ and “Twenty ably the oozlest mook-ia theso hangiig gardens will’ Leagues Under the Sea” of last season remalite es of the new Luna Park, ts anot eplendia + . the great show-place t year, These gardens are built above the lagoon at the foot of th and surr. platts and’ plant life. Long balcontes st