Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-17
Baltimore,s Grand Festival.

The outlook for the Baltimore Oriole
grows more promising every day. ALI
that is mystical, splendid and dazzling
in the New Orleans Mardi Gras, to which
the curious of all sections annually rush,
will form feature of the event. The
moving tableaux that have fascinated
and charmed the Southern fancy will be
presented in richer form, original de-
signs, and with improved mounting,
while local tableaux will furnish features
not only novel, but intensely interesting
and charming. The loveliest features of
the Mobile Mystic Momus will be mag
nifed and enhanced for the entertain
ment of the Monumental City. The
grandest suggestions of the Sesqui-Cen
tennial will be availed of; the competi'
ton of local societies, as well as of am
bilious individuals, is enlisted, and the
skill and taste and undivided effort of the
most accomplished and experienced ar
lists are at command to make the Octo-
Der celebration the most attractive, adj
mirable aud magnificent that any people
of any country or cline ever gazed upon.
Baltimore hberality will supply the
means to make the 10th, 18th and 18th
of October a spell, dream, gorgeous
memory to those who attend the festivi-
ties. And she will stretch her hospitali-
ty way beyond the bounds attained on
any of those great occasions which have
made her famous for such virtue She
does not intend to enjoy all this won
drous pageantry herself. She has in
vited 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 ex-
cursion tickets, so that the humblest
from the most distant points may come.
Her hotels and restaurants, her boarding
houses and even private residences are
laying in supplies to feed the stranger as
well as the kinsmsn within her gates.
| Her merchants are increasing their
choicest stocks, and will make their
cheapest and hsndsomest displays to at
tract and charm the visitor. Her streets
will put on their gala dress, and the
days will be active with sight seeing, the
nights brilliant with Examinations and
parades. Altogether, the Oriole will
outstrip anything in the way of 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 amusement in full blast
parades of the most fantastic and en-
trancing description; Examinations pro-
ducing the most happy effects; fairs for
the display of mechanical and agricul-
tural products, all will constitute one
grand whole which it will be worth years
of life to see. There will be parades OF
various descriptions besides the crown
ing glories of the Mardi Gras; there will
be local tableaux as well as allegorical
ones; there will be such time, in fact,
as all who witness will never forget. and
all who miss will forever regret. Balti
more will be metsmorphosed into fairy
land 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.