Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-05
THE oRloLE.
Its September Festivities I'm BaIti.
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The Order of the Oriole of Baltimore
will hold o general meeting On We'd
nesday evening Of this week, when
plans that have been matured for the
September pageant will be reported,
together with plats, drawings and q de-
scriptive outline ofthe entire procession,
so as to show conclusively in advance
the character of the work which
the young men of the city
propose to present this year. In 1881
the Oriole display was.purely experiment
tai, and owing to the in experience OF
those who had the affair in charge the
result was very far from being as brill
liant or successful as had been anticipat-
ed, though money was not wanting TO
secure far different ends had it been
properly applied. Since then, however,
the Order of the Oriole has been organ
lied on q basis somewhat similar to the
Mardi Gras secret orders of New Or
leans. A large and intelligent COM
mittee was sent to the Crescent City last
March to witness the Mardi Gras pro-
cessions, and a subcommittee pene-
trated the sanctum sanctorum OF the
most exclusive of the orders, Iand the
veil was lifted for the first time to the
gaze of non-residents. This imitation
Otseveral energetic and intelligent young
Baltimore business men furnished the
key for the work which for the past
three months has been steady
pursued in secret. In this work,
too the Order of the Oriole
has been stimulated by an ambition to
present results which will do no discred-
it to the New Orleans sponsors, who
will be largely invited to the celebration
and most royalty entertained without
cost. The pageant will have the raison
R etre that it is for the celebration Of
the anniversary of the defense of Balti-
more, the heroism of those who held
Fort McHenry against the British fleet,
and the birth of the song OF
the "Star-Spangled Banner" In all
the history of Baltimore, the city has
never witnessed such celebration of
those events as this September will pres
ent under the auspices of the Order OF
the Oriole. In addition to this patriotic
foundation business will be combined
with sentiment and pleasure. The cele-
bratiOn will inaugurate the fall business
seasonal time of yea- when the wealth
er and the city are usually at their
brightest and best. Special invitations
have been extended to the boards of
trade of st. Louis, Coicago, Cincinnati,
Louisville, Mobile, New Orleans, Char
Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, Allan
ia, Galveston: Norfolk, Richmond and
Wilmington, y. C.-fourteen leading
cities ofthe West, South and Southwest,
Some of these commercial bodies will be
provided with special through cars to
insure every comfort possible for long
distance travelling, and for merchants
and for business men generally, who
may be coming North at the opening
at the season, special inducements will
be offered to stop i'll Baltimore, where
there will be the certainty OF unrivaled
amusement for the time being. The
celebration will last three days, covering
the anniversary of the city's defense
September II, and the two succeeding
days. The programme will include a
splendid military display, royal day
pageant incident to the reception of
Cecelius, Lord of Baltimore, and grand
night pageant of brilliant tableauX,
comprising larger number of floats
than has ever before been put Oh wheels
in any city of America. There will also
be brilliant assemblage and royal
reception by card at the Academy of
Music, where it is excepted Rex and
perhaps the beautiful Queen of the Car
nival of New Orleans, the maids of hon
or and many of the royal dukes and
dignitaries of the Mardi Gras festival
last year will be guests of the ladies and
gentlemen of Baltimore. 1t is very
greatly desired by all the members of
the Order If the Oriole to extend the
utmost hospitality to dignitaries of the
carnival from New Orleans in return
for the kindness and consideration
shown the ladies and gentlemen of Bal
timOre last spring, and the social aspect
of the celebration will therefore be, no
doubt, one of its brightest features.