Frostburg mining journal., 1881-10-01
WHOLE NUMBER, 5gS.
THE GREATEVENT.

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The outlook for the Baltimore Oriole
grows more promising every day.
All that is mystical, splendid and
dazsling in the New Orleans Msrdi
Gras, to which the curious of all sec.
tions annually rush. will form feat
urs Of the event. The moving tab
leaux that have fascinated and charm
ed the Southern fancy will be pre-.
sentsd in richer form, original designs.
and with improved mounting, while
local tablesux will furnish features
not only novel but intensely interes-
ting and charming. The loveliest
features of the Mobile Mystic Momus
will be magni6sd and enhanced for
the entertainment of the Monumental
City. The grandest suggestion of
the Sesqui-C Centennial will be availsd
Of; the competition of local societies
as well as of ambitious individuals is
enlisted, and the skill and taste and
undivided effort of the most accom-
plished and experienced artists are
at command to make the October cell
ebration the most attractive, adnira-
BILE and magnificent that any people
of any country or cline ever gazed
upon.
Baltimore liberality will supply
the means to make the 10th, 18th
and 18th of October spell, dream,
a gorgeous memory to those who at
tend the festivities. And she will
stretch her hospitality way beyond
the bounds attained on any of those
great occasions which have made her
famous for such a virtue. She does
not intend to enjoy all this wondrous
pagsantry herself. She has invited
the people of every county, State and
section to come. She has induced
her grand system of railroads and
all her steamboat lines to issue cheap
excursion tickets, so that the humblest
from the most distant point may come.
Her hotels and restaurants, her board.
ing houses and even private residences
are laying in supplies to entertain
and feed the strangers as we'll as the
kinsman within her gates. Her mer-
chants are increasing their choicest
stocks, and will make their cheapest
and handsomest displays to attract
and charm the visitor. Her streets
will put on their gala dress, and the
days will be active with sightseeing,
the nights brilliant with illuminations
and parades. Altogether the Oriole
will outstrip anything in the way
of a local celebration that this country
has ever witnessed.
A holiday like this is something
worth seeing. A whole city merry
and alive with enjoyment; every form
of innocent and delightful fun in full
blast; parades of the most fantastic
and enhancing description; illumina-
tions producing the most happy effects;
fairs for the displays of mechanical
and agricultural products, all will
constitute one grand whole which it
will be worth years of life to see.
There will be parades of various de-
scriptions besides the browning glories
of the Mardi Gras; there will be local
tableaux as we'll as allegorical ones;
there will be such time, in fact, as
all who witness will never forget, and
all who miss will forever regret.
Baltimore will be metamorphossd in
to fairyland and the loveliest city of
the east will hardly know herself.
Everybody will pay her visit then,
for it will be cheap, convenient, safe,
agreeable and charming beyond the
power of pen to describe.