Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-09-09
Certainly Inviting


ARE THE NEW As WELL As THE
HITHERTO MENTIONED FEA-
TUREs OF TIE GBAND ORIoLE
FESTIVITIES AT BALTIMORE.
Baltimore will certainly look her
very best next week and afford her
visitors such a treat as will for the
time at least make the Monu-
mental City the most popular centre
in all the country. 1t is doubtful IL
so attractive a three days programme
was ever before made up for mu-
nicipal celebration. There appears
most literally no end to the new
features being constantly added, and
practically, the whole week Will De
given over to enc steady series Of
enioyments. Baltimore is 4 big
place, ranking high up among the
great cities Of the country in point OF
population, while in many interests
| She stands first. Although having a
reputation for conservatism, 1t Is OF
that character which insures Il
thorough handling OF everything
! which is undertaken.
| Ht llI6I Cit1 III al NAA0 h0Aih ~
inaccurate railroad construction,
the b, and O. being the pioneer pas
senper RI. lway of the world, and now
most dttine " Offering all the advant
age of half th>a regular rates OF fare
from every and !, II points on its great
line. The first c,,ty lighted by gas,
she is also tue first cle, 70 aaoPt as u
municipality the electl,c iight, tae
entire city being now brilb, utsy Il
Illuminated The first city TO AIRY
enter the lists against New Orleap. ;
in pageantry; this years display will
beyond all comparison excel any ever
made in any city, not even excepting
tue very homo of tho Carnival, tho
Crescent City itself. Indeed, New
Orleans herself will render all power
full aid in accomplishing such re-
suit, for she sends her four greatest
and grandest mystic societies to par
ticlpate. In the matchless pageant
will Rex and the Carnival Court APP
pear in Royal splendor And with
the King will come the resplendent
Mistick KreWe Of Comus, the daz-
cling Knights of Menus and glitter
ing knights Of Proteus. This glori-
Gus quartette of famous mystic or |
CARNATIONS will be represented in |
line by magnificent moving tableaux, |
the characters being personated by |
the members of each. So, too, will |
there be upon the gorgeous car Of the |
majestic Yelled Prophets of st. |
Louis. the impressive float of the |
mysterious Memphii Of Memphis,
and the beautiful car of the knights |
of Menus, Of Galveston. Mobile |
sends her Combellians, the oldest |
mystic society in the new world, the |
Infant Mystics and the Strikers, the |
representations of the trio Of noted |
organizations promising to be some |
thing to long remember. The Con- |
gress OF MysticS is without parallel |
in the history of pageantry in this,
if not, indeed, in any country. Never |
have any two of the societies ever
appeared in single pageant, and |
never have they in any way in con-
junction.
The pageant Of Thursday night,
September 18th, will be a remarkable
event, and as the visiting organiza-
tions are composed Of the leading |
merchants and citizens of the.cities
named, the gathering at Baltimore
is grand compliment TO that city.
Those who have deplUred their in
ability to visit New Orleans and
witness there the marvellous display
of Mardi Gras times may in one
evening at Baltimore behold tie
typical brllliancy Of all four of the
Crescent City's greatest societies.
More than this, those who have so
long desired to look upon the Yelled
Prophets of st. Louis, the famous
societies of Mobile, Memphis and
Galveston, here have the opportuni-
ty Of witnessing all in one. Thus
much to the visiting societies, and
when it is also remembered that the
Order of the Oriole being at home
cannot for a moment think Of per-
mitting Baltimore to be eclipsed by
other cities, some faint conception
may be cleaned of what the pageant
as whole will be. The Oriole has
for months been closely and most
diligently at work upon its divisions
Of the grand pageant, and they will
be most imposing and greater in
number than every before attempted
by any one society. Last years les
son was a most excellent one, and
those who question what this years
will be had better consider we'll be-
fore coming to conclusion. The
remarkable division of the visiting |