Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-10-02

the parade. Tableaux are to be given
representing travelling in colonial
times; the first engine run over the
road is to be exhibited and all to cost
the snug sum of six thousand dollars.
The Corn and Flour Exchange are
about to procure from New Orleans
the paraphernalia of the Mardi Gras
at cost of 5000, to be exhibited
in procession Monday, Oct. ls, and
no money will he spared either by the
city or individuals in making this the
grsndest affair ever witnessed in a
single city in this country.
And the city herselfl she will shine
out bright and gay, robed and gar
landed with the yellow and black of
the old Calverts mingled with the
American red, white and blue. The
fronts Of dwellings, stores and ware
houses will be completely covered
with bunting banners, flags, etc. !;
garlands and arches will tend across
the streets, and at the corners mag
nifcent quadrangular arches are to
be erected. costing from five hundred
to thousand dollars each. Every
thing available is to be decorated !;
even the stiff, ungainly telegraph
poles are to be wrapped with the
orange and black, and have red,
white and blue pennants floating in
the breeze from their tops.
At the intersection of three streets
down town is to be erected by the
merchants in the neighborhood, an
imitation Cleopatra's Needle, eighty
feet high, to cost 81 900, and displayed
at night by calcium lights.
The City Hall and public buildings
are to be handsomely decorated with
flags and bunting, and illuminated
with gas jets in all appropriate designs
and patterns.
Private houses will be extensively
trimmed with the coat of arms, mot
toes, ETC., embroidered beautifully by
the ladies. and the competition is now
even at greater height than before,
as handsome prizes are offered by the
city for the most elaborate, appro-
pirate and striking designs in decora-
tion and illumination.
The squares and parks will be
lighted at night; bands of music will
send their gay music outward on the
breeze; rockets and elaborate fire.
works will ascend to the heavens, and
altogether the city will present scenes
brilliant, striking and never-to-be-
forgotten
The hctels and boarding-houses are
preparing for large numbers of visi-
tors and no difficulty will be expert
enced by those from Allegany county
in securing excellent accommodations
if application te made to the commit
tee, for every arrangement has been
made to secure places for the visiting
friends. The rates are very low and
the cost from FrostburR to Baltimore,
and the stay of a week would be ex-
ceedingly small, as the round-trip
fare from Cumberland is but $5. 80.
Of all others the people of Allegany
should be fully represented in this
celebration of the growth and pros
perity of the city, for to whom is its
progress and wealth owing 80 much
as to the miners in the western part
of Maryland -? There are other in
duatries about Baltimore which have
helped its rise and progress, but none
to 60 great degree as that accom-
plished in the mines of Frostburg and
vicinity; and why shouldn't the mi
ners, and those connected with the
mining interests, come and take part
in celebrating the growth, prosperity
and greatness to which they have
contributed SO materially
PICKENs.