 Despite attempts to differentiate White City from the other two Indianapolis parks, many of its newer offerings were usually duplicated at one or both of its competitors, from the Wild West theme to albino aerialists to additional animal acts.All three parks offered pyrotechnics for their Decoration Day celebrations, but White City also offered a re-enactment of the Thaw-White Tragedy in which New York City architect Stanford White was shot by Harry Thaw after the latter accused the former of seducing Thaw's wife, Evelyn Nesbit.As the dog days of summer 1907 ensued, White City increased its emphases on water activities and its picnic grounds as weekly promotions "not" involving the mechanical rides appeared regularly in editions of the "Indianapolis Star" and the "Indianapolis News".