The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-08-23


AND EVENTS IN STORE WHICH WILL
GREATLY EXCEED EXPECTATIONS.
The busy note Of preparation In Baltl-
more for the coming Summer Night S Car
nival is heard on all sides, and the city APP
pears to be waking up us never before TO
the determination to make this years cele
bration certainly the biggest event of the
character ever conceived of in this OF any
Other country. The novel features being
steadily added to the already most brilliant
programme speak strongly Of the striking
talent possessed among the good citizens
who spend day and night i'll planning and
executing
The city Examinations promise to be
upon most extensive scale. and almost
altogether III the electric line. Many
buildings will be literally ablaze with bright
lights III all colors, and it is proposed to
demonstrate in hitherto untried fields what
can be done with electricity
The harbor display on the opening night
will be as unique as possible to imagine,
and veritable fairy scene. Every de-
scription Of light will be introduced, and
| the pyrotechnical features novel and OF
great scope of design. Baltimore. as the
nearest Atlantic seaport to an enormous
section Of country, will show her unsrr-
passed harbor to the multitude after fash
ion never before dreamed of. The recep-
| ton Of / ord Baltimore on the night in ques-
| ton with all it's attendant effects, will be
something to remember for years, and am
ply repay journey even across the conti-
nent. Pageant night will also prove an
other memorable occasion, for never in
European OF American cities has a parade
of such magnitude OF of such remarkable
richness and novelty been attempted. Last
years pageant was conceded by New Or
leans mystic experts themselves, as we'll as
those from Mobile, Memphis, Galveston
and st. Louis, to have been beyond all COM
parison the grandest pageant ever witness
| ed in this country. If such was the unani-
nous verdict last year it would be difficult
| to measure the limit of praise this year, as
| the pageant, now in it's finishing stage, is
| inestimably superior, larger, grander, and
in every way finer than that of 1882. ! 1t
will require u regiment Of men and horses
to put it upon the street-upWard of thir-
teen hundred men and two hundred and
sixty odd horses. Thirty thousand dollars
would not begin to cover the expense OF
this one display. From this prospective
visitors may CLEAN some idea of what is in
store for them. Not only will expectation
| during sojourn in the city the second week
in September be more than realized, but
travel to and from will be looked after witt
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.
has arranged series of excursions
which will afford the greatest possible IA
cilities for enjoyment. The visitor can
not indeed find single point to critlclse,
for should he SO chose he need not have al
hour unoccupied during his entire weeks
pleasure hunting. What with trips tc
Harper's Ferry, to Old Point Comfort. t.
Fortress Monroe, to Mount Vernon, tt
Luray Caverhs, to Washington, and thu
Oriole in Baltimore, the man who conll
complain would growl if he had the earth
The b. & 0. has, with characteristic enter
i prise, issued an elegantly engraved pro
gllnme, which can be had for the mer
trouble of an application to any OF it
representatives OF at any OF its Office
throughout the country.
T. Thc 3. & O. excursions announced 10
4 september afford opportunities for pleas
ure-seeking unprecedented of late years
With the solidity of organization mann
tanned by the pool of the eastern lines an
q the rules of maintaining rates so rid1dl
observed, half fare for any event is a bl'
thing, and no telling when it will be offer
ed again.