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Henry T. Chittenden, Jr., inherited 34 acres of Olentangy Park land after his father died. Joseph W. Dusenbury had a 99-year lease on the property, paying $3,000 (over $1.02 million in 2024) annually.<ref>"H. T. Chittenden Estate of $300,000 Goes to Children." ''Columbus Evening Dispatch.'' 8 June 1909. Pg. 1.</ref>
Henry T. Chittenden, Jr., inherited 34 acres of Olentangy Park land after his father died. Joseph W. Dusenbury had a 99-year lease on the property, paying $3,000 (over $1.02 million in 2024) annually.<ref>"H. T. Chittenden Estate of $300,000 Goes to Children." ''Columbus Evening Dispatch.'' 8 June 1909. Pg. 1.</ref>


Japan natives and staff members Shingo Immamura and Toku Magaya were married at the [[Fair Japan|Japanese Village]] on July 4 by Rev. Isaac, pastor of the 10th Avenue Baptist Church.<ref>"Shingo Immamura and Toku Magaya" ''The Columbus Sunday Dispatch.'' 27 June 1909. Pg. 13.</ref>
Japan natives and staff members Shingo Immamura and Toku Magaya were married at the [[Fair Japan|Japanese Village]] on July 4 by Rev. Isaac, pastor of the 10th Avenue Baptist Church.<ref>"Shingo Immamura and Toku Magaya" ''The Columbus Sunday Dispatch.'' 27 June 1909. Pg. 13.</ref><ref name="july2">"Olentangy Park." ''Columbus Evening Dispatch.'' 2 July 1909. Pg. 18.</ref>


==Rides and Attractions==
==Rides and Attractions==
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The Reeves Military Band performed on July 1 for a Canal Dover excursion that brought 3,000 people to the park.<ref>"Canel Dover Outing." ''The Columbus Sunday Dispatch.'' 27 June 1909. Pg. 21.</ref>
The Reeves Military Band performed on July 1 for a Canal Dover excursion that brought 3,000 people to the park.<ref>"Canel Dover Outing." ''The Columbus Sunday Dispatch.'' 27 June 1909. Pg. 21.</ref>


For July 4 and 5, the trumpet corps of the United States Barracks gave concerts in the afternoon and evening.<ref>"Olentangy Park." ''Columbus Evening Dispatch.'' 2 July 1909. Pg. 18.</ref>
For July 4 and 5, the trumpet corps of the United States Barracks gave concerts in the afternoon and evening.<ref name="july2" />


==Activities==
==Activities==

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1909 Season Season
Leadership Joseph W. Dusenbury, president
Will J. Dusenbury, secretary
The Olentangy Park Company
New Attractions Arcadia
Ocean Wave
Automatic Vaudeville
Love's Voyage
Shoot-the-Chutes
Whirlwind
Stock Company Weber Travesty Company
Vaughan Glaser Stock Company
Band(s) The Ferulo Band
Neddermeyer's Columbus Concert Band
Power's Military Band

The Olentangy Park and Theater opened for the 1909 season on Sunday, April 25, 1909. The Ferulo Band of 50 players played during the opening weeks.[1][2][3] The park closed for the season on Sunday, ??? 1909.

The park expanded by 25 acres to the north.[4]

Notable Events

A resolution was passed for Columbus to annex Indianola Park. It was seen as unfair to annex Indianola Park and not Olentangy Park.[5]

Past Olentangy Park grounds superintendent George T. Groce was appointed landscape gardener at Barracks Park.[6]

On Sunday, June 6, the park saw 5,000 more patrons than the heaviest day of the 1908 season, with 40,000 people attending.[7]

Henry T. Chittenden, Jr., inherited 34 acres of Olentangy Park land after his father died. Joseph W. Dusenbury had a 99-year lease on the property, paying $3,000 (over $1.02 million in 2024) annually.[8]

Japan natives and staff members Shingo Immamura and Toku Magaya were married at the Japanese Village on July 4 by Rev. Isaac, pastor of the 10th Avenue Baptist Church.[9][10]

Rides and Attractions

New Rides and Attractions

The new attractions for 1909 included the Arcadia, Ocean Wave, Automatic Vaudeville, Love's Voyage, Shoot-the-Chutes, and the Whirlwind racer rollercoaster.[4][1]

New Shoot-the-Chutes

Main Article: Shoot-the-Chutes

The Shoot-the-Chutes was built in what The Columbus Dispatch called "The Great White Way."[11]

Gypsy Camp

Main Article: Gypsy Camp

Madam Marea performed as a fortune teller. A classified ad said she was a "psychological reader" who had been at the park for the last two seasons.[12]

A larger camp of "Gypsies" was located north of the city, east of Crestview. It had over 100 members and lodged in tents and wagons. [13][14]

Dancing Pavilion

Main Article: [[Dancing Pavilion (Second)]

The floor in the Dancing Pavilion was resurfaced for the season.[11]

List of Rides and Attractions

Theater, Vaudeville, and Stunt Performances

Olentangy Park Theater

Main Article: Olentangy Park Casino and Theater

Prices were 15 cents ($5.12 in 2024), 25 cents ($8.53), 50 cents ($17.05), and 75 cents ($25.58) for evening performances, and 15 cents ($5.12), 25 cents ($8.53), and 50 cents ($17.05) for the matinees.[15]

Joe Weber's Travesty Company

Joe Weber's Travesty Company performed for six weeks starting Memorial Day, May 31, 1909.[16]

Members

  • L. J. Rodriguez, director and manager
  • Joe Kane
  • Charles J. Stine
  • Eddie Foy
  • W. Douglas Stevenson
  • Lola Hawthorne
  • Nellie Lynch
  • Grace Griswold
  • Edith Bradford
  • Ernest Wood
  • Lola Hawthorne
  • Oscar Ragland
  • C. C. Mills
  • Hazel Tuffer (or Tapper or Tupper)
  • Neil Walton
  • Fred Sydney
  • George L. Mortimer
  • Hera Hammer
  • Agnes Gilden
  • Mellie Hoffman
  • Lyda Franklin
  • Mabel Evans
  • The American Beatty Chorus
  • The Dancing Dolls

Grace (Hall) Griswold was from Ashtabula, Ohio, and wrote "His Japanese Wife" and "Billy's First Love."[17]

Shows

Week of May 31: "The Merry Widow and the Devil"

Week of June 6: "The Girl from Paris"

Week of June 13: "Hip, Hip, Hooray"[18]

Week of June 20: "In Gay Bohemia"[19]

Week of June 27: "Florodora"[20]

Vaughan Glaser Stock Company

The Vaughan Glaser Stock Co. performed starting July 12, 1909.[21]

Members

  • Vaughan Glaser
  • Miss Courtney
  • Frederick Kerby
  • James Hester
  • Harrison Steadman
  • W. E. Ross
  • C. Edmund Roberts
  • Charles Carver
  • D. J. Sullivan
  • Patrick Garyn
  • F. C. Whittier
  • Dorothy Bernard
  • Jennie Dunbar

Grace (Hall) Griswold was from Ashtabula, Ohio, and wrote "His Japanese Wife" and "Billy's First Love."[22]

Shows

Week of July 12: "St. Elmo" by Augusta J. Evans Wilson

Stunts and Outdoor Shows

A Wild West show performed for the first few weeks[23] along with King Kelly performing balloon ascensions and parachute drops.[2][3]

Buckskin Ben's Wild West Show arrived on May 31 and performed for four weeks.[24] It included dog and pony shows with the Cowboy and Cowgirl Band.

Cleo, a lion tamer, wrestled with a Numidian lion every hour, and Mosi, a Yaqui Indian snake charmer, handled diamondback rattlesnakes and other venomous snakes starting the week of June 20.[25]

Music

The Ferulo Band played during the opening weeks.[1][2]

Neddermeyer's Columbus Concert Band performed on May 23, and Power's Military Band performed for the rest of the season.[26]

The Reeves Military Band performed on July 1 for a Canal Dover excursion that brought 3,000 people to the park.[27]

For July 4 and 5, the trumpet corps of the United States Barracks gave concerts in the afternoon and evening.[10]

Activities

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Olentangy." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 11 April 1909. Pg. 5.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 30 April 1909. Pg. 24.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 1 May 1909. Pg. 10.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Panoramic Views of Olentangy Park Showing Many New Amusement Structures Being Erected on Newly Acquired Tract of 25 Acres to North." The Columbus Sunday Dispatch. 28 March 1909. Pg. 1.
  5. ↑ "Columbus is Now Third Greatest City of the State." Columbus Sunday Dispatch. 3 January 1909. Pg. 1.
  6. ↑ "Barracks Park is to Be Beautified." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 29 January 1909. Pg. 2.
  7. ↑ "At the Theaters." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 7 June 1909. Pg. 12.
  8. ↑ "H. T. Chittenden Estate of $300,000 Goes to Children." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 8 June 1909. Pg. 1.
  9. ↑ "Shingo Immamura and Toku Magaya" The Columbus Sunday Dispatch. 27 June 1909. Pg. 13.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 2 July 1909. Pg. 18.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Olentangy Park." The Columbus Sunday Dispatch. 9 May 1909. Pg. 5.
  12. ↑ Classified ad. The Columbus Sunday Dispatch. 2 May 1909. Pg. 9.
  13. ↑ "Romany Wanderer Loves the Poetry of All Outdoors." The Columbus Sunday Dispatch. 16 May 1909. Pg. 1.
  14. ↑ "What the Dispatch Staff Photographer Saw in the Big Camp of Gypsies Located East of Crestview North of the Corporation Line." The Columbus Sunday Dispatch. 16 May 1909. Pg. 1.
  15. ↑ "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 28 May 1909. Pg. 20.
  16. ↑ "Olentangy." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 17 April 1909. Pg. 10.
  17. ↑ "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 3 June 1909. Pg. 14.
  18. ↑ "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 10 June 1909. Pg. 14.
  19. ↑ "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 18 June 1909. Pg. 18.
  20. ↑ "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 22 June 1909. Pg. 7.
  21. ↑ "Glaser Stock Company." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 28 June 1909. Pg. 10.
  22. ↑ "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 3 June 1909. Pg. 14.
  23. ↑ "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 23 April 1909. Pg. 20.
  24. ↑ "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 20 May 1909. Pg. 14.
  25. ↑ "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 21 June 1909. Pg. 14.
  26. ↑ "Olentangy Park." Columbus Evening Dispatch. 19 May 1909. Pg. 16.
  27. ↑ "Canel Dover Outing." The Columbus Sunday Dispatch. 27 June 1909. Pg. 21.
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