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132Chicago Globe 6/5 ALL QUIET OUTSID Scenes Along stony Islan Avenue and in That Vicinity. RAIDS PROVE EFFECTIVE Catch-Penny Devices and the Circus Lemonade Man Still Catch Many Visitors. NO GAMES OF CHANCE. "All quiet along the Potomac" was the password on Stony Island avenue and contiguous streets yesterday. Sunday opening has effected a noticeable depreciation in the size of the crowds in that vicinity which has heretofore been the Mecca of all classes. As it now is, only the stragglers of the great throng going to and from the Fair stop by the wayside to indulge in the many diversions there to be found, or simply to watch the others. Within the past week many new places of amusement and catch-penny enterprises have sprung into existence. There are museums galore, with a gaudily colored array of pictures setting forth the charms to be found within, and oily tongued lecturers with stentorian lungs shouting forth the many sights to attract the passer by. Strange as it may seem the hideous distortions portrayed on canvas outside these shows catch multitudes of people who willingly exchange their dimes for the privilege of admission. But these deluded individuals have but one story to tell when they have seen the "elephant," and it swells into a mighty howl of malediction, which even the proprietors do not care to face. The gambling element of these resorts has been pretty well eliminated, owing to the persistent efforts of the police. Fitzgerald's retinue of crooks and museum attaches has been scattered, but their operations have not been entirely stopped. In the O'Brien & Gold [sinitu?] place there are several of these characters, but they are still under the ban of the law and are very quiet. The notorious "art annex" of this resort still flourishes and rakes down a bag of shekels at each performance. This is not the only place now catering to the lewd tastes of many people that frequent Stony Island avenue. Several so-called museums of anatomy, "for gentlemen only," have opened recently, and are to all appearance doing a good business. It is interesting to investigate some o the other fake amusement places in thi locality. Every conceivable freak o nature can here be found on exhibition, within tents an hastily constructed sheds, t be seen upon the advance of a smal fee. Monstrosities, ranging from six-legged calf to the far famed guttapercha girl, make up the collection that invites the public's inspection; satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded (?). The blue stocking lemonade man with his quart schooners of the delusive beverage is not absent, while fakirs with all manner of toys and curiosities fill the air with their discordant shrieks. | 132Chicago Globe 6/5 ALL QUIET OUTSID Scenes Along stony Islan Avenue and in That Vicinity. RAIDS PROVE EFFECTIVE Catch-Penny Devices and the Circus Lemonade Man Still Catch Many Visitors. NO GAMES OF CHANCE. "All quiet along the Potomac" was the password on Stony Island avenue and contiguous streets yesterday. Sunday opening has effected a noticeable depreciation in the size of the crowds in that vicinity which has heretofore been the Mecca of all classes. As it now is, only the stragglers of the great throng going to and from the Fair stop by the wayside to indulge in the many diversions there to be found, or simply to watch the others. Within the past week many new places of amusement and catch-penny enterprises have sprung into existence. There are museums galore, with a gaudily colored array of pictures setting forth the charms to be found within, and oily tongued lecturers with stentorian lungs shouting forth the many sights to attract the passer by. Strange as it may seem the hideous distortions portrayed on canvas outside these shows catch multitudes of people who willingly exchange their dimes for the privilege of admission. But these deluded individuals have but one story to tell when they have seen the "elephant," and it swells into a mighty howl of maledication, which even the proprietors do not care to face. The gambling element of these resorts has been pretty well eliminated, owing to the persistent efforts of the police. |