The evening world. Newspaper, May 14, 1904, Page 9

i] | \ a NEW LUNA PARK ~ PENS TOGA Great Resort, Double in Size, with Many Marvellous Addi- tions, Gives Entertainment to Throng of First-Day Visitors. |* SIXTY ELEPHANTS IN THE DURBAR SPECTACLE. Thrilling Fire Scenes, Hair- breadth Escapes and Crash of Falling Walls Add to the Realism of the Show. Thompson & Dundy’s vast pleasure round, Luna Park, was opened to-day. Almost double in size. this great re- sort that entertained millions last sum-| mer has added attractions on an even; ale than those which | mere magnific: were last yea thir kind. fie gtcat Durbar pageant, the plung- ing eteplants and the burning of an considered marvels of that exhaust the genius of the sho’ man; and the plan of the spectacles tilly equals tho Ortental lavishness so admirably imitated. A great fortune has been spent in providing for these three attractions alone, and sixteen acres of land have been added to the wide area that Luna Park occupied in 1903 just to accommo- dato the Durbar and thp herd of sixty elephants which take part in the daz- gling procession. All Greatly Impressed. Of the thousands who went to Luna Park to-day none departed with the impression that the advance notices of | these spectacles, despite the glowing adjectives with which they were paint- ed. had overreached the true display. Though ‘Thompson & Dundy have tausat thelr patrons to expect the| startling, few were prepared for the maze of wonders the streets of the Great show place led through to-day. You may read of the ceremonies that attended the homage o: India’s prince te King Edward in the ancient ci of Delhi over and over again, put y will never realize the spsendor of ‘the scene until you witness the amazing Feproduction in Luna Park. The trap- Pings ablaze with jewes that cover the hides of the mammoth pachyderms of the maharajahs and nawahs of India when they made their obelsance to Britain's King and their emperor are Feproduced with astonishing attention to detail. ‘Though the mililons of Tupees’ worth of gems are not there, their radiance, produced by thousands of tny electric lights, can be seen flashing in the folds of silk and bril- Uant cloths. ‘To complete the pageant there are 200 natives of India, import- ed for the express purpose of this gingle show. dressed in the same gala Faiment they wore in the Durbar in Nhe city of the moguls, Great Task for Trainers, ‘The plunging elephants that will prove an unending source of delight to. young and amazement to the old throughout the summer take their first slide before the public to-day. Tho feat of teaching these huge ani- mals to complacently slide down a pre- clpitous shoot-the-chutes into tank water was probably tl est task ever undertaken by the animal inatinotively isine ro) beasts lumber up to the edge of thelr chute, gently stretch themselves upon their bellies, and with a nolse the gentle ripping of a pine board, go swishing down to the tank, When they emerge a man with one eye can neo that they take the keenest delight their opportunity to wallow in the cool Sehoee who. al ith who sleep, with one ear open for the fire engine's Whistle, and thelr trousers ready at hand ov @ chair, need only to visi’ Luna Park to see'a fire with as many thrills as ever accompa- med a city's conflagration. ir-breadth escapes, leaps from high windows, firemen dashing into the es, to come forth with women and phildren dangling over their shoulders, fFashes of falling walls and scores of sensational incidents be ie great fir at Pai In this exhibition alone more than a thousand persons are em- ployed, ca © specta ret Sea Fights, ‘Then there is the Ngval Spectatorium, with its stirring se hts and bom- Dardments of fortresses; the great cir- cus In mid-atr, which never ceases in ‘{ts round of ent Imment; the Hang- ing Gardens of Babylon, ‘where 70, gan rest in the shade; the Japanese Vil- & score ot! THRE oro'nd M TS more ¢ wore With enthustustio approve al last yeag os HARLEM CHURCH FOR THE MORMGHS Report to Be Made to Utah Body ’ by the Colony Established Long Ago in This City—Mem- bership Increasing. 4 committec of Mormons, repre ‘ing the Harlem colony, the largest ageregation of followers of the Mor- mon doctrine outwde of Utah, will Meave for Salt Laki City within @ few days to report favorably upon the iThree of Them—Count Them, Three — Met entire city block are added features! | place follows. | Miss Minnie Behler, of Port Riehmond, THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, ODDEST OF TEA PARTIES IS HELD BY THE THREE PFISTER WIYE a pe 5 at the Home of No. 2 in Mount Ver- non, and Here Is a Plain Tale of What Took Place After the Icicles Melted, | Probably the strangest tea party on record was that held in Mount Vernon by the wives—so far as they have been rounded up— |} of Charles J. Pfister, who is in jail on acharge of bigamy. idea originated with wife No. 2, at whose home the novel function took place, and the purpose was the exchange of reminiscences, to, | “Ladies, Iam delighted to see you. We are to be good friends, I hope, even if THAT MAN did marry us all.” ¢ “That man” was Charles J. Pfister and the “ladies” were his three wives, who held the most novol tea party ever recorded at the home of wife No. 2 in Mount Vernon. . Mrs. Pfister, the bnstess, smiling, welcomed her guests with the gentle tribute to ‘that man" who wis kept from attending the tea party by the charge of bigamy which is holding him in jail. The “at home” was informal, but bore the essential characteristics of all feminine teas in the free and unrestrained anvil chorus, tho only differ- ence being that no matter how hard one woman talked the other talked a little harder, and the object of all the conversation was “that man.” | The gathering of the Pfister wives was the inspirution of the Mount Vernon sponse No. 2, “There's no reason {n the world why we three women who have had the same husband should not be friends," she said soothingly. “Personally I bear no jealousy toward efther of you." . + Even this manifest cordiality did not shatter all the icicles. “I feel as if you were the real guest; No. 3. “Why, did your husband ever of honor,” sald Wife No. 3, who was| ako you get up early dn the moming, at 5 o'clock, and sometimes 4 o'clock, do all the housework and then run market? Oh, it was terrible! And de was so STINGY, he wouldn't even give me any money for clothes. My mother bought everything I wore, and es for food, well, I didn't have anything too | much. pretended ‘wanted us to save every cent we as to have something in our old age." Their Joint Charlie Was Close with His Money. “Yes, that's Charles all ovef,"’ broke in wife No. 1, “He certainly was close with the money. “Well, my husband—that {s, our hus- band—never had “a chance to tmpose on ME long, for mother simply wouldn't stand for it," broke in wifo 2 "You know, I was only his wife “iin name: I never really lived with im. Mother wouldn't let me, for he! had courted me under the name of bbs cousin, Charles Miller.” Wite No, % smiled contemptuously and remarked: “I don't Uke to be rude, but you oughtn't to tell us that. after @ painful yause, to Wife No. 1, who was Miss Minnie Upland, of New- ark, ‘You, at least, were the FIRST wife.” “Yes, I am the only one present who bears the legal right to Charles's name,” said No, 1, with manifest pride. : “Well, the honor of that is a question in my mind," snapped Wife No. 3. “Anyway, you may NOT be Wife No. 1, after all. I worked night and day for a week to round up you two, and maybe "11 find some more yet." Meeting Was Somewhat Frosty at Beginning. “Let's to tea,” suggested the hoste hurriedly but diplomatioally. ‘We ca: talk just as well while we are eatin “Yes, it's a pleasure to me to eat I didn't always have it when I was liv: ing with—our—that is my—tbat is your husband," said No, 3. “Wasn't » Charles the stingy boy, though,” broke In the hostess, reminis- cently. I never did see a man who 9O3-9202 FOOSOS e SRE RRR OT? AY 14, 1904 The| - y Miss 3) % pina moe : ister: + He Made Love to Each, Story of Bigamy. y Bessie Jruning after new wives.” cynteally | thing, T guess, and that’s to etve Pfister 71 |broke in Mrs. Bessie Wandall Pfister, | the most punishment we can,'' sald No, ‘andal RB \ebut you are not eating anything. You |1and No. 2, in chorus. “Oh, if we ONLY yourselves after coming all | had him now!" | Can Beat the ‘‘#00"’ in Real Marital Mix-Up. “Well..we can go the Four Hundred one better anyway.” Port Richmond have thelr swell society functions where every man is married to some other man’s wife while his ex-wives are mar- ried to his present wife's ex-husband: they, bat they” can't give afternoon teas,like this, where all the women are wives of the same man at .he “The miserable cu: No. 2 ‘to think of the way he used to tell me his life had been @ blank until he met ME and would continue to be one if I wouldn't inarry him.” “Let's try and forget that have the same husband,” NOVEL INVENTION TO ASSIST MA RIS SIGNATURE TO THE $37,000,000 the can uinced “They ani spouse. can have parties where every- ‘Deen married to overybody els me time." broke in wife we all suggested nf, | liked to\Hang on to his money the way he did, and talk about food Why, hi could eat us all out of house and home egjand I had to take what was left. Didn't you, girls?" "It wags his sneaking ways I hated sald Wife No. 1. “I caught him in so thany falsehoods I neyer was at Peace and when ull this cam@ out about his having both of YOU besides ME I could fit it in with his real character, fHE SNEAK!" The novelty of the wives’ tea party had aroused even quiet little Mount Vernon, but wife No. 1 wes haughtily indifferent to all curiosity. “Tho idea 1s purely @ social aftair,"’ she announced, “and Charles Pflster shouldn't be permitied to throw a dis. agreeable spell over the occasion. “But we'll talk the monster ovei added tho hostess, cheerfully. “W just have a nice social afternoon. I don't see what is so weird about three wives who have all been decelyed by the same man having a little friendly discussion over the tea cups.” “INDEED, we'll talle about him," said Island, ob, fresh from Staten of the trio, “But, wife No. 3, the yatagest wouldn"} I just like to have him here now where we could all get at him, THE WRETCH. Why, you can't !m- uggestion from the heada of the Gitren to build a temple in this ¢ity. It is said options on six plote of und on One Hundred and Twenty- th street have been secured for the » and that the work upon the meek will be begun within a few heads of the Mormon Church in 1 have looked with spread of the fait! New York it. fe sald r suaceation ty erent favor upon in agine how your husband—my husband I should say our ‘husband— well, treated me.” “And wosn't he just the best maker in the world?” “Yes, he was,’ reluctantly assented wife No. 1, “He certginiy. was," echoed wite No, 2 witha sigh. Buddenly the three wives glared at each other, 9 love- “Oh, Dut he was the wretch as soon 44 the ceremony was over," said wife any relation te henisfut’ she can't, ose You see, we know that—ounhuaband ;WAS Dot marrying just for fun. Any- ; Way, there wasn't much in the name. |e Mked women who were sort of uso- ful about the house, And, I tell you, it was nothing for ME to get s good beating when he was angry. “Well, let's not discuss euch un- pleasant things while we are eating,” sald the hostess. Iuttle Mrs, Pfister from Staten Island {8 only twenty-two, and her ve- hgmence in running her deceptive hu bund to eurtt war great. Wife No. 2 is twenty-seven and wife No. 1 is thirty-two. “I remember the day we were mar- red," said wife No, 3, sadly reminis- cent. “It was June 9 2i<a beautiful day! HE BRUTE!" broke in wife No. 2; 0 told me he had a prejudice against marrying tn June. We were married in October, He told ME I was the only woman he ever loved." he told me that too, tho broke in Mrs. Pfister No. 3, ‘es blazing. sald Mrs. Pfister, the origi- nul, “he may have @ prejudice against June, for he married me in that month in 1389,"" “Charles was almost as fond ting married as he was of meat stores,” broke in No. 2. guess whenever he wanted to new shop he got a new wife,” “The! one thing annoying,” said wife No. 1, who was resplendent in a yellow silk dress, “and that is answer- Ing my daughter's questions as to just what rélation YOU are to her. ‘IT have told her that even though you are her father’s wives you are not $OO0-0SS959S-090 9050 090999-409-99-9969-9995 2999900500009 fa Herts too expensive.” a “Why. I've baked cakes for that man ull my face was burnt to a crisp," said |thought burglars were in the house.” No. 1. “He LOVED chocolate cake." | meet, 1 No. 1. “How he used to) ss oA F fe RRO “Well, he isn't getting chocolate cake| talk to me about other men being un- e's safe trom jem not where he js now,” sald wife No. 3.| faithful to their wives! I thought It | hope he always will be,” said No. 1. | “Do you think he'll be sent up for al was beautiful then.’ | This unique Lttle social function Jong time? I'm afraid when he geta| wwei, there's ono thing, tf it had not | woy6 up tat out he'll kill us all, “Tt hope he can't sleep fn Jail. used to get me up before sunlight to ect he hard) cn his) gocka || Tem it bas been a lovely afternoon.” | hostess, though?” broke In No, 1 euddenty. ‘r¢{eaid the real Mrs. Pfater-up-to-date Kept me busy keeping that man butchers’ clean sockes.* They Agreed Pfister Was Hard on His Socks. “I guess he wore holes in his socks bring about a harmonious concert of action against the unhappy best Ae ance to me, Wouldn't] spage No, 3 Get Up jeeistet, and the enjoyment of a pleasant afternoon of social inter- ~ ir ~ 1 = Ti Pfister bo the surprised boy hada it . Z course. The guests were the only and original Mrs, Pfister No. 1,|WhY you are not both her step-| wife No. & “Yes, T will take another ok in and see his three wlyes e ; 9 " jece of cake. I never had it when c 1 eating to-| “He always was a coward,” of Newark, and Mrs. Pfister No. 3, of Staten Island. What took |™°°*" | Printer wan my boas, He sald it was TINGE iiea) qvarcTHE| porcine) erat wer thought we would ever been for—our—husband we would never have met and we never would have had this lovely afternoon,” sald No. 3. He a0 nice to in{tm glad of the chance to hear two. ‘hole father Women say Worse things about my husband than I can. He's deceived us ‘al! and I don't know which is worse off. T've got the name—that's something, though. You two are in the same boat, while I stand alone.” “We will all stand together on one aprons and married Pfister,” The Wives Tell in Frankest Fashion Their Experiences with the Deceiver—How ships He Imposed—Strange to Hunt for Burglars. “I've seen him so scared at night he would make me get up wives over a cup of tea, presenting her bouquets of heartsease as souvenirs. “I'm so glad we've met, even if we! have only one husband between us.” “It's the best time I've had since I an Evening World reporter afterward, “and I know the three of us will al- ways be friends fn spit ‘ward tle that binds - Hard. said No. | when he meet one's husband's said the swith eu said wife No. 3 to of the awk- | M’CLELLAN IN PUTTING “WHE WHEN HE Bea NU) OF NEW CITY BONDS) BOLO EGE LOEB EH19100O D4 GUO DLLPOHOOHE DOG FE DODO HD | ¢ e Ps MAYORS ARM FINISHES. DOOEDLIOGIG IGS BDH HS-D9D: oo at i. POD Hed: She Runs a Brokerage Businegs, |Her Broker Partner Tells About |terday when Belle Strome and tlie In- Manages a Racing Stable and Puts Two 100-to-¥ Shots” Over in One Day. J, P. MORGAN AT BIG LOSS WITHOUT HER SERVICES. Her Wonderful Abilities, Say- ing He Couldn't Find a Man to Equal Her. “If J. P. Morgan knew about her he would grab her up in a minute.” Thus speaketh A. M. Lamar, the Cone solidated Exchange broker, about Mise 8. J. Smith, a partner with him in the brokerage business. and also owner of the string of horses known as the Naw tlonal Stable. It was the colora of: the National | Stable that led the way up the stretch and under the wire at Morris Park yea- vader romped home winners in the, fourth and fifth races respectively. And! this at odds that were as high ag 100 tol. Mr. Lamar and Miss Smith cashed” in @ pretty penny, they say—up in the thousands, according to the broker. Yet with all her business acumen Miss. Smith i's a modest ‘womdn, and only: through her partner would she consent, to speak. Sv in the ease of a cush- foned chair in his home at No. 33 West Sixueth street, Mr, Lamar gossiped freely and proudly about Miss Sm! “I repeat.” he sald, after ti what a great loss Mr. Morgan's lack of knowledge of Miss Smith's abilities’ really are, “that is the most won- derful woman that ever came down into Wall wtreet. She can deal all other’ women four aces and then give herself a straight flush. You know who wins; with that kind of a hand, “Mind you, though, Miss Smith is! Pertuctly ngnest. She is not shrewd the same Wy that some women in tices are. She is simply a wonder it comes to business detail, and there's No getting arpund it. Why, man_alit fe hanules everything In my ofee Breat deal better than I can Ana I know itis Impossible to A0d.@ man who would be so valuable. least, I have yer to run across “AS to her horses. Now, she is : modest to want anything’ said them. She jus: races to offset . the jstrain of Wall street. She needs Tox tion and that's the way she I like horses, too. “In ve always loved them. Not just’ ta°™ I had horses. Not that. Because thin of them from a commercial stander point. If they can't bring me 100 par on the dollar then I ‘woud e cent. have them. Lamar Won a Forte: “Miss Smith has owned horses al three or four years, And they hai won races before, Friday. Northern Star beat the te end, and we cleared up @ tidy sum.Om! Friday, 1 won enough to call ita fort tune. Miss Smith? Oh, she wouldn’ti beta ‘dollar. She races for pleamurefy T for business. That's the difference. “Altogether we nave twenty: horses. We wintered at Brookdale, Steven Lawlor trained for ug We things quietly: we believe ithe best] w So when the spring season RO one was, wise ne. to. what we had, store. But I think Belle Strome and In-) — vader put them next to what to in the future. “Both horses gre two-year-olds, Belle Strome is/ full sister to Ei 4 Burch, owned by Mrs. L. A. fl Our colors are violet, white sash cap, and other horses will have an Op-a! portunity to see them before the season | closes. 4 “How old is Miss Smith? How old does she look? Well, ag women ni like to. discuss those quéstions It mpuld. be ungallant for a mam to voung, though, and pretty. But T doubt, if she ever had a picture ! Down at Mr. Lamar’ Broadway, an effort 3 she’ was 5, guarded by the word “private.” And So it was, for Miss Smith would netther Consent to give a personal talk nor Her photograph. | B “Too bu: was the answer she LPLDY LOD DY PPG YSIS 9O8O94943G0- 204 SPO DY Did you ever play with : a burning glass? It = doesn’t make the sun any hotter. It just brings the rays to a point, so they sizzle. 2 Same with thinking. Weak, spread-out thoughts get nothing * done. . “PORCE” makes your thoughts come sharp to a point—and burn @ hole in things. Lamar's statement iV ETT te RR Si this. aba aaa