Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-07
NEW ORLEANS In GLORY.
BRILLIANT CLOSE OF THE CAR
NIVAL YESTERDAY.

Grand Parade by Day and Elegant En-
tertatnments at Night-The ReceDtion
OF the King and Queen at the Bottom
OF the Seattle City in Gala Costume
The Shipping Display Their Flags.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 6.-Mardi Gras
was celebrated to-day with the usual fes-
tlvlties and grand street spectacles. The
city was gaily decorated and Illuminated
at night. There was an immense crowd
III the streets. Among the spectators
were about $4,000 visitors from all parts
Oh the Union. During the afternoon the
hlng OF the Carnival appeared with the
grand pageant of twenty cars followed bv
the Phunny PhOrty Phellows, with four
teen cars and the Independent Order of
the Moon with sixteen.
The royal pageant was preceded by
Boeui Gras and attendants, ILLUSTRATING
Atlantls, or the lost continent described
DE Flato- The tableauX presented were
uesigned TO represent the Atlantiaus in
thelr social, religious and political Gus
tOIns' Inc original costumes, made in
farls, were pronounced the finest of their
KIND, but were not received. owing to the
non-arrlyal of the steamer Dryburgh Ab-
Dey, Whlch only reached Port Eads to-day.
mere were about one hundred and twenty
characters in this pageant, and seventy
pieces of papier-mache work. The su6-
Ject Of the fifth representation by
the Phunny PhOrty PhellOws was
as usual OF comic nature and embrace
traVestieS on the drama and opera.
Among the tableauX were burlesque illus
tratiOns of Hamlet, the Merchant of Venice
the Mascotte and Patience. The Inde-
pendent Order of the Moon for their third
procession presented grotesuue iIlustra-
tiOns of familiar rhymes.
About O'Clock the weather cleared off.
ana during the progress of the Rex pro-
cesslOn the sun shOne brightly for two
hours, and for the first time in the past
three days.
AT night appeared the ninth pageant of
!he hnlghts OF Momus, whose sub
Ject was the Moors in Spain. The
cars, Eeighteen in number. illustrated
scenes from legends and romances. and
the conquest of Granada, as described
Dy Washington Irving and other writer's
In thls display were some ten or twelve
hOfses, lie size, Of papier mache, and the
cars were magnificently decorated. The
royal reception at the Imperial Palace
was attended by an immense crowd of
people, the number of invitations being
over twenty-five thousand.
Tne throne room in which the KING and
queen received together with Lord and
Lady Baltimore was painted to represent
the bottom of the sea where Atlantis
sank. The Queen is Miss Susie Richard
son, daughter of Col. Edward Richardson,
a cotton planter. Her maids of honor are
Misses Holland, of Virginia, Hopkins, of
st. Louis, and Lula Bohnmehle and
Alice Aldige, of New Orleans. The
knights of MOmus give a brilliant
ball at the French Opera House
and the PhunnV PhOrty PbellOxvS at 81
Charles Theatre. Numerous other enter
talnments are in progress, closing the
pleasant carnival season of 1888.
The city to-day presented gala ap-
pearance. Nearly all steamboats, plying
TO New Orleans are in port. These.
as well as hundreds of other vessels
ship and. ocean steamers along the whole
city front are gaily decorated, the foreign
vessels displaying the flags of all nations.
Tonight many buildings along the route
OF the procession are brilliantly illumina-
ted