Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-09-14
CERTAINLY
Are the New as well as the Hitherto Mentioned
Features OF the Grand 0riole Festival at
Baltim0re-What the Ii. & o.

Baltinn0re-Nh nal the u. ".
Proposes to do.
Baltimore will certainly look her very
best next week and afford her visitors
such a treat as will for the time being at
the least make the Monumental city the
most popular centre in all the country.
1t is doubtful if so attractive a three
days programme was ever before made
up for a municipal celebration. There
appears almost literally no end to the
new features being constantly added,
and, practically, the whole week will
be given over to n steady series of en-
joyments. Baltimore is a 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 con-
serveratism, it is of that character
which insures a thorough handling of
everything which is undertaken.
The first city in all the land TO inau-
gurate railway construction, the b. and
o. being the pioneer passenger railway
of the world, and now most tittingly
offering all the advantages of half the
regular rates OF fare from every and all
points on Its great line. The first city
lighted by gas, she is also the first city
to adopt as a municipality the electric
light, the entire city being now most
brilliantly illuminated. The first city
to fairly enter the lists against New
Orleans in pageantry; this years dis
play win beyond all comparison excel
any ever made in any city, not even ex-
cepting the very home of the Carnival,
the Crescent City itself. Indeed, New
Orleans herself will render all powerful
aid in accomplishing such a result, for
she sends her four greatest and grand
est mystic societies to participate. In
the matchless pageant will Rex and the
Carnival Court appear in royal splend-
OF. And with the King will come the
Respondent Mistick Krewe of Comus,
the dazzling Knights of Momus and
glittering Knights of Proteus. This
glorious quartette of famous mystic or
CARNATIONS viii all b. represented in
line by magnificent moving tableaux,
the characters being %personated by the
members of each. So, too, will be there
upon the gorgeous car of the majestic
Yelled Prophets of st. Louis, the I'M
pressive float of the mysterious Mem
phil of Memphis, and the beautiful car
of the Knights of Momus, of Galveston
Mobile sends her Cowbellians, the old
est mystic society in the new world, the
Infant Mystics and the Strikers. the
representation of this trio of noted or
CARNATIONS promising to be something
to long remember. The Congress of
Mystics is without a parallel in the his
tory of pageantry in this, if not, indeed,
in any country. Never have any two of
the societies ever appeared in a single
pageant, and never have they appeared
in any way in conjunction.
The pageant of Thursday night, Sep
TENDER 18th, will be aremarkable event
and as the visiting organizations are
composed of the leading merchants and
citizens of the cities named, the gather
ing at Baltimore is a grand compliment
to that city. Those who have deplored
their inability to visit New Orleans and
witness there the marvellous display OF
Mardi Gras times may in one evening al
Baltimore behold the typical brilliancy
of all four of the Crescent City's greatest
societies. More than this, those who
have long desired to look upon the
Yelled Prophets of St. Louis, the famous
societies of Mobile, Memphis and Gal.
weston, here have the opportunity o.
witnessing all in one. Thus much as tC
the visiting societies, and when it is also
remembered that the Order of the Oriolt
being at home cannot for Il moment
think of permitting Baltimore to be
eclipsed by other cities, some faint con.
ception may be CLEANED of what the
pageant as a whole will be. The Oriolt
has for months been closely and most
diligently at work upon its divisions OF
the grand pageant, and they will be the
most imposing and greater in number
than ever before attempted by any Que
society, Last years lesson was q most
excellent one, and those who question
what this years result will be had bet.
ter consider well before coming to q
conclusion. The remarkable division
of the visiting societies will itself be
worth a journey of a thousand miles,
but when is added the divisions of the
Oriole, the general effect will be fairly
beyond description.
Military Day, Tuesday, 18th, Lord
Baltimore Day, Wednesday, 18th, and
Mystic Day, Thursday, 14th, will all
present wonderfully varied attractions.
On Military Day the parade will be a
most memorable one. The entire mill
tary of the State will parade and form
an escort to the visiting military, among
whom will be the battalion of the State
Fencibles of Philadelphia, the City
Guards of Scranton, Pa, the battalions
of the Light Infantry and the National
Rifles OF Washington, the 1st Regiment
National Guards of Virginia, the Tread
way Guards of St. Louis, Companies of
the 9th New Jersey Regiment and of
the 18th and 18th Regiments of New
York, the Guards of Front Royal, Va.
the Light Infantry of Petersburg, Va,
the Norfolk Blues, Richmond Blues, and
numerous other organizations not as yet
reported, together with y. s Army
troops and artillery. The competion
among these splendid companies for
the prizes of 81, $50, $500 and $3.50 will
most assuredly be exciting. The Grand
Army of the Republic, not onlyof Mary
land, but with large Populations from
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other
States, will take part in the grand pa
rade, as will also the Fire Department of
Baltimore, with numerous visiting COM
P"hiCS iiOLh ouJOihiuS Silloo, tuC GUM
petition for prizes being open to all.
The second day will be as replete
with attractions as the first, the parade
being of a different character and in
many respects decidedly novel and uni
que. The reception of Lord Baltimore
will be accompanied by peculiarly strik-
ing and effective details. The military
the uniformed societies and the trades
all parade in honor of Cecellus. The
trade parade will embrace upwards of a
hundred grandly gotten up tableau cars
Illustrative of the city's material inter-
ests. A new feature of Wednesday is
the novel night parade of steam vessels
in the harbor, all of them most bril-
liantly illuminated and discharging fire.
works. This promises to be a decidedly
unique thing in every way.
On Thursday the Baltimore Bicycle
Club has arranged for a grand meeting,
and in offering a most liberal series of
prizes has secured the attendance OF the
most noted wheelmen IN the country.
The clubs of adjacent cities will visit
Baltimore in strong numbers. and it
will PROFESSIONALLY be one of the largest
and most interesting meets known since
the invention of the bicycle.
The exceeding liberality of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, in making so
great a reduction in rates, is most en-
phatically to be commended. Ii is
Baltimore's greatest corporation. and