The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-09-17
BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
Interesting Detail Of the Pros
gramme Prepared by the
NlOnumen tai City for the Mar
di Gras and Carnival in Octo-
her.

The success of Baltimore's big Gel
ebration last year exhuberated her
citizens, and in mastering all its man
fold details so perfectly, gained an
experience which this year will be
Turned to the best possible account
The Oriole celebration this coming
October will be an immense thing.
Funds ample to meet every require
ment have been freely subscribed and
placed at the disposal of those having
the affair in charge. In most respects
the order of things will be entirely
different from last year, and in the
way of gorgeous and novel features
there will be no comparison between
the two celebrations. For years the
desire has been intense to witness q
genuine Mardi Gras parade without
being forced to go upon a journey of
thousands of miles. The fame of
New Orleans, Memphis and Mobile
as the centres Of Mardi Gras and
Carnival festivities has spread
throughout the entire country, and
when it is promised that Baltimore
shall equal if not indeed surpass the
efforts of any of the cities named it
means much. Contracts have already
been let for the mystic pageant, the
subject illustrated in an extensive
series of tableaux to remain dead
secret until the night of the Mardi
Gras. NJ. De Leon, the gentleman
who has designed and perfected
the mystic features, has had ample
experience, having been at the head
of similar undertakings IN New Or
leans and Mobile. Baltimore pays
him $4,000 for this special feature,
but this represents by no means the
whole of the pageant. AS much, if
not more, will be expended in other
series of tablcaux, some Of them de
signed and prepared by the different
societies of the city, and others got
ten up under the immediate direction
of the general committee. An en-
tirely new departure in this sort of
parade will he the use Of platform
cars upon which the tableauX will be
constructed and which will be run
over the street car tracks. 1t is esti-
mated that the pageant will reach q
length of three miles, and under cleo
trio, calcium and other brilliant
lights, will present scene to be wit
: messed but once in lifetime. The
Mardi Gras will, however, be but one
of the events of the three days festiv-
tiles. On Monday, the 10th, the new
water works are to be formally
opened with beautiful display by
fountains and all that sort of thing.
In the afternoon the grand daylight
parade is to occur and will without
doubt eclipse the grand parade day
of last year, and to do that it
will indeed be great In addition to
the military of Baltimore and ada
cent cities, ii is expected that several
of the military organizations en- route
to Yorktown will stop over and par
ticipate Aside from the soldier boys
there will be a grand display by the
Fire Departments, Masonic, Odd
Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and 9TH
er organizations. AT night, the glo-
rious Oratorio with its almost count
less voices. Tuesday morning is set
apart for the reception Of the French
visitors, and among them the imme-
diate descendants of Lafayette, De
Barras. De Crosse, De Rochambeaux
and other great Frenchmen who
played so grand part as the allies
of Washington during the revolution.
E With them will come some of the most
{ distinguished men of the French re-
republic; statesmen, generals and
naval officers. Two French mef-of-
F war, fully manned, are now on the sea
bound for the Chesapeake; and Bal
tino~e's welcome to her illustrious
guests VIII be memorable one.
; Wednesday will witness new honors
to the French. and general series of
receptions to al, visitors throughout
the city. At night cones the glori-
Gus Mask and Carnival with all its
merry features, it's eccentric costun-
ing and brilliant details. 1t will be
a happy wind-up to the three days
pleasures. and if all corners do not
have the jolliest times Of their lives
none will be blamed for it but them
selves The B. & o., with its accus-
toned enterprise and liberality, has
| joined in the foil spirit of the celebra-
ton and announces rate Of one half
the regular fare from alt stations on
the main line, divisions and branch
es. Tickets are to be good for ten
days, thus affording ample time for
all AS is well known, Baltimore has
an abundance of hotels, boarding
houses and like places of comfort,
and no extra charge whatever will be
made for accommodations during the
Oriole celebration. Nothing will be
spared to make the occasion the hap
piest imaginable. Baltimore people
knowing full we'll that to fail in prov
ing her claim to be the most hospita
BILE city in the country, would leave
a stain upon her fair fame ard name
time could never blot out
The Michigan Fire.
One of the most terrible scourges
which has befallen any section of