St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-10-13

Float No g Faryland.
Float No g. Fairies of Perfume.
Float No f. Fairies of the Wind.
Float No. 5. Fairies of Light.
Float No. 6. Fairies of Fungi.
Float No. Z. FAIRIES of Gnome.
Float No s. Fairies of Malaria.
Float No g. Fairies of Winter.
Float No TO- Fairies of the Months.
Float No. IL. Fairies OF Fountains OF Man
Float No. 12 Fairies of Midsummer Night,
Float No ID. Fairies of Good Luck.
Float No. i. Sleeping. Beauty
Float No. Is. Bonny Kilmenny.
Float No. 16. The Swan Maiden.
Float No. II. Lorelei
Float No 10. The Magic Cage.
Float No. 20. Fairies of the Household.
Float No. 81. Jack the Giant Killer.
Float No. a.. Mother Goose.
The brilliancy of these legendary pit
lures, fully brought out by the aid of the
many colored torches of the attendants,
groon1s, the mounted esquires, and the,
whole moving to inspiring strains of many
bands of music formed a pageant,
that viii live long in the memories
of those who witnessed it, especially
those of the little folks who saw
so wildly portrayed scenes in what had
been heretofore to them but NEUROLOGICAL
stories. The passage of the cavalcade
through the streets was accomplished sue
cessfully and without any mishap worthy
of mention. and everywhere along its route
it was received with demonstrations of
pleasurable appreciation, and at many
points was greeted with salvos of rockets
| and other brilliant pyrotechnic displays.
| In many places where the pageant passed.
| the crowds gathered SO close to it that the
| horsemen brushed those in front in passing
| and an outstretched arm would have touch
/ ed the floats as they passed by, and yet in
| all this bedlam of prancing horses and Wig
| orous torch bearers not single instance of;
q serious accident could be found.
The grand cavalcade FINALLY arrived at.
| the Chamber of Commerce, where the re-
| ception of the Prophet took place, which
was filled with an immense throng of the.
| elite of this and other States. Suddenly
| the orchestra struck up march, the recep-
| ton committee, which had come together
| in some mysterious manner, crowded
stream of people which had been pouring in.
| ceased. The hall was now well filed, there
/ being probably twenty-five hundred peo-
| pie in its confines. The members of the re-
ception committee stepped to either side of
the door, and an old gray haired and beard
ed Prophet, wearing a long robe of
red satin richly embroidered walked
in. Immediately after him follow
ed two gorgeously attired attendants
4 and then they continued to walk slowly in
pairs till about twenty had passed the door.
Members of the reception committee had
1 taken charge of each man as he arrived,
After about twenty had passed the door
they separated, half going to either side OF
the entrance and forming a passageway'
which extended from the fountain to the
door. They carried pixies, axes, banners,
etc, and these implements they now held
aloft Their numbers were soon augmented
by others who did not enter the hall, but
dropped in at the end of the line until it ex-
tended down to the corridor of the Elk
change building. There was a lull in the
proceedings. Everything i'll the vast hall
was quiet and looked expectant. Mr. e. c.
Simmons, President of the reception com
mittee, and MIR. Henry Benecke walked
down the passageway formedby the double
line of gorgeously costumed men. Then the
royal party of the Yelled Prophet up
preached. The old Prophet him
self, clad in his richly er,broid-
cred robe of white, came first. he
was escorted with all due ceremony through
grand promenade of the hall, and finally
drew up in front of the rostrunl, when at
signal the imposing line was broken, and
the royal retinue Of his Imperial ighness
were left to wander at their own sweet WILL
They all Immediately HE'D themselves &c
the seats, where they picked their partner
for the dance, and tue welcome to the
Yelled Prophets was continued in merry
festivities till the morning hours haa. -"eA
advanced.