Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-15
BALTIMORES PAGEANT.
END OF the ORIOLE CELEBKArION

Tho street, OF the Mosumsntal City In .
Blazo OF GIory-A Procession Of
Splendid Tablesux and Effects.
The three days festival of the Mystic
Order of the Oriole closed Thursday night
with q grand spectacular procession, wit
messed by many thousand visitors and an
innumerable throng of citizens. All along
the route, a distance of four miles, hun
dreds of the stands and platforms which
had been erected for the occasion, the
streets, sidewalks and windows of every
building were filled with spectators some
time before the hour of marcE. The
streets we're brilliantly illuminated and
the building beautifully decorated. Be-
sides the order of the Oriole, the Mystic
Societies of COmus and his Krewe, Mo-
mus and his Knights, Rex and his Court,
and the Knights of Proteus, Of New
Orleans the Yelled Prophets. of St.
Louis the Memphii. of Memphis the
Cowbellians, Infant Mystics, Strikers and
Order of Myths, Of Mobile and Momus,
of Galveston, took part in the procession.
The pageant was composed Of three divi-
siOns, devoted to different subjects. The
first consisted of nine floats, representing
the rulers of revels and envoys from for
eign pOtensates, etc. !; the second division
of eleven floats, representing illustrious
women, aud the third division, of sixteen
floats, was designed to illustrate au epic
poem.
The first tableau OF tho first division
represented Lord Baltimore astride an
Oriole in full flight on his way to tho
OriOle festival. Tho second-Rex, the
King OF the carnival, in Elysium. The
third-Corius, the favOrite of the muses.,
mounted on Pegasus. The fourth
Momus, the Prince of jewellers, after he
was kicked out of Olympus and paturalized
in Louisiana. Other representations were
of PrOteus as sch god on a flying dolphin !;
a contribution Of Mobile to tho entry of
Lord Baltimore liz the Monumental city,
presenting a scene ON the banks of the
Mobile river, in which four mystic societies
of Mobile were symbOlized a figure of
Momus a sacred temple in ancient Mem
phis. The Mystic Order of st. Louis pro
duced "The Yelled Prophet" represented
a massive and lofty Egyptian temple, in
| which WAS seated = colossal figure of the
Yelled Prophet Of Teheran in gorgeous
| robes.
Second division-Tablcau of illustrious
women, preceded by a representation of
Cupid mounted on an immense peacock.
These tableaux were representations of
Semeramis, Zenobia Cornelia, Sapho,
Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth, Joan of Arc,
Mary Stuart led to execution, Isabella and
Ferdinand listening to Columbus, jose
phine as girl aud as empress.
The third division illustrated the HindOO
poem, The Remayana, in which is told
the adventures of Rama, q Hiudoo god
who became incarnate to protect his pe0-
pie from the oppression of the demon Ra-
vana. The poem is said to have been
written about 2, 600 years before the Chris
! ::a.n .:a.n era. Tho first .tableau was in exact
reproduction Of the car OF jusgernaut,
three stories Of the height OF forty four
feet, and thirty-tive feet square, mounted
ON sixteen wheels of sixteen aud Onc-haif
represents tho author of " Ramayana I"
receiving from Brama the poets inspira-
tion. Fourteen other floats followed,
leaux, representing the coronation of the
royal ape Sugriva, was enc of the most
gorgeous pictures of the pageant :; but all
the tableaux were of an extremely gOr
geous character.
| Each float was hanked by torch bearers
with blazing lights. The gorgeous robes
OF the fisurantes and artistic execution of
the subjects represented could not be ex.
celled, being the joint production of all
the mystic societies of the land. 1t was
the grandest spectacle of the kind ever
witnessed in America. The procession
closed about midnight. A grand ball fol-
lowed at the Academy of Music, for which
ten thousand tickets were issued. Major
J Henry Bchan, of New Orleans, was the
Chief marshal of the parade. and to his
of the order at the Oriole.