Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-08-18
SEPTEMBER'S SURPRISES.
A Lively Fau in Passenger Rates, and Events in Store Which will Greatly.
 Exceed Expectations.

The busy note of preparation in Bal
 timore for the coming Summer Nights
 Carnival Is heard on all sides, and the city appears to be waking up as never
 before to the determination to make this years celebration certainly the biggest event of the character ever conceived Of ln this or any other country. The novel features being steadily added 10 the al-
 ready most brilliant programme speaks strongly of the striking talent possessed among the good citizens who spend day and night in planning and executing.
 The city illuminahons promise to be upon a most extensive scale, and almost altogether in the electric line Many buildings will be literally ablaze with bright lights in all colors, and 1t is pro- posed to demonstrate in hitherto un- tried fields what can be done with cleo tricity.
 The harbor display on the opening night will be as unique as possible to imagine, and a veritable fairy scene. Every description of light will be in- troduced, and the pyrotechnical features novel and of great scope of design. Baltimore, as the nearest Atlantic sea- port to an enormous section of country, will show her unsurpassed harbor to the multitude after fashion never before dreamed of. The recep- ton of Lord Baltimore on the night Tn question, with all its attendant effects, will be something to remember for years, and amply repay a journey even across the continent. Pageant night will also prove another memorable Occa- sion, for never in European or American cities has a parade of such magnitude or of such remarkable richness and nov city been attempted. Last years pa- geant was conceded by New Orleans mystic experts themselves, us well as those from Mobile, Memphis, Galveston and St. Louis, to have been beyond all comparison the grandest pageant ever witnessed in this country. r such was the unanimous verdict last year it would be difficult to measure the limit of praise this year, as the pageant, now in its finishing stage, is inestimably supe nor, larger, grander, and in every way finer than that of 1882 It will requlre a regiment of men and horses to put 1t upon the street-upward of thirteen hundred men and two hundred ane sixty odd horses. Thirty thousand dollars would not begin to cover the expense of this one display. From this prospective visitors may glean some idea of what IS Tn store for them. Not only will ex- pectation during sojOurn Tn the city the secon1 week Tn September be more than realized, but travel to and from will be looked after with most painstaking care.
 The Baltimore and Ohio, not content with making the exceptionally low rate of half fare, or one regular fare for the round trip from all stations on it's great system, but has arranged a series of ex- cursions which will afford the greatest possible facilities for enjoyment. The visitor cannot indeed find a single point to criticise, for should he so choose he need not have an hour unoccupied dur ing his entire weeks pleasure hunting. What with trips to Harper's Ferry, to Old Point Comfort, to Fortress Monroe, to Mount Vernon, to Luray Caverns, Co Washington, and the Oriole in Balti- more, the man who could complain would certainly grOwl if he had the earth. The E. X O. has, with character istic enterprise, issued an elegantly en- graved program, and which can be had for the mere trouble of an application to any of its representatives or at any of its offices throughout the country.
 The B. X O. excursions announced for afford opportunities for pleas unprecedented of late years. With the sOlidity of organization main- tained by the pool of the eastern lines and the rules of maintaining rates so rigidly observed, half fare for any event is a big thing, and no telling when it vii be offered again.