The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-17

where he was greeted by that gentleman and the
entire City Council. A good deal OF champagne
and a great many speeches followed, in which
Rex was hidden welcome to New
Orleans, the mayor finally surrendering
the golden keys of the city into
his hands and temporarily retiring from office,
during the period of his rule here. This bust
ness over, the procession moved out st. Charles
and thence down Canal street Here was the
same dense crowd at the Illinois Central
depot on the arrival of Rex, the colored element
largely preponGerating mounted on the tors OF
sugar hogsheads or the pyramids or cotton bales.
At the head of Canal street the royal hotilla was
in waiting to convey the party up the river.
The I'd. Richardson: the largest steamboat run
on these Southern waters, had been chosen for
She flag ship, and every post and pillar was
covered with bunting. and her chlmneys guards
and wheel houses, gaily decorated The earnl-
val'party marched aboard the Richardson, which
slipped out into mid-stream, amid the roar of
the artillery, the ringing of bells and the blow
ing of every steamboat whistle on the river
front. The fotilla then formed in line of
battle the flag snip, Richardson, leading,
surrounded by dozen little tugs as tenders
which frisked around her. and followed by four
teen other steamboats,, crowded with some IT,
900 or Is. 600 passengers and finally by the
United States men-of-war, now here, the Ten
nessee and Galena. In this order the fleet
steamed up the river. Every vessel IN the
harbor was decorated in honor of this event,
their masts and rigging hung with flags. AS the
naval procession passed up the river, lHey UP
ped their flags to show obedience to Rex.
When the exposition grounds were finally
reached, the entire fleet came to- landed at the
warf. and disembarked the passengers, who
marched by the Horticultural Hall and factories
and mills building and entered the main build
ing Here, handsome throne of purple green
and gold had been erected for Rex. The board
of management of the exposition greeted the
carnival monarch, and several speeches OF
welcome were made and responded to- After
he seated
throne for two hours, receiving the thousands of
persons who desired to do their homage The
entire court party then suddenly and mysterl
ously disappeared to refresh and recruit them
selves for the parades and festivities OF TO NOR
row.
Canal street was far more brilliant at night
than in the morning, for the entire population
of the city, natives and strangers, were congre
gated there to see the parade and procession OF
the Crew of Proteus, an organization composed
mainly of members of the Cotton and
Produce Exchanges. All the club-houses, pub
Tic buildings, newspaper offices and stores on the
street were brilliantly illuminated, while down
the center of the avenues ran double rows OF
electric lights
The mystery about the starting point of the
parade had been we'll preserved, and one
knew where or when it would come, and all were
consequently in expectancy until a glare Of light
out Foydras street gave notice that the process
sion was moving. In front of it came gigantic
illuminated Chinese lantern, twenty feet
in height, borne upon the heads of four white
elephants, inscribed with the legend Chinese
Mythology" this being the theme that the tab
leaux were intended to Illustrate. Proteus
himself, the god of change and transformation,
had metamorphosed himself, for the occasion
only, into the Monaghan Jupiter, Tien TIE "the
son of Mauen,' represented flying through mid
air on the Tong Noang, the great yellow dragon
which forms the coat-of-arms of China. Then
followed twenty floats, depicting scenes and in
cidents of early Chinese history.
Thn nth Of no hatp cd he
great egg laid by the universe, amid chaos, fol-
lowed.
The next was probably the handsomest in the
entire parade being +he complete R ear; and em
celebrated porcelain tower, once deemed
one of the wonders of the world but
destroyed, some years ago. in the rebellion of the
Taepings The tower in the tableau was eight
stories high covered with porcelain throughout,
and inscribed on it millions of grotesque little
blue figures sees on Chinese crockery.
: around each story was gilded balcony, On
which were hung hundreds of tiny silver bells that
jingled and tinked In the night breezes. At the
summit of the temple was an immense bronze
> idol of Buddha.
The succeeding tableaux were:
The Twenty sixth He'll of the Buddhists in
which are confined the ASSURE and Las, the good
and evil spirits by whom the Cinnamon swear.
The Burial of Chinese Monarch. The door
of the vault stood wide open, and within were to
be seen the treasures, robes and viands the de-
ceased has prepared for him in the next world,
and the slaves slaughtered expressly for the pur-
pose of accompanying him into the other world,
and attending to his wants there.
Tien Hoang. Sovereign of Heaven" in his
celestial palace of gold and precious stones
The palace of the Grand Llama of Thibet, at
Lha Sa.
The Birth of Kong Fou-Tien or, as known to
us, Confucius, when the sum- moon, stars and
planets came to the lowly hut of his father to do
homage to the illustrous infant just born there.
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very pretty picture of the celebration of this
festival in honor of the new moon. A Chinese
prince and princess are on junk on the Ho-
ang- Ho Hundreds of these little lanterns of
every color and shape, adorn the rigging and
masts of the vessel while within, through the
colored- glass windows of the boat, scores of
other lanterns are seen swinging to the ceiling.
The scene is further enlivened by the discharge
of innumerable rockets fire crackers and other
Chinese pyrorechnics.
Fohi the Moses of China receiving the tablet
of laws from dragon horse, swimming in the
Hoang-Ho.
The Emperor of China. accompanied by his
tributary monarchs paying visit to the ances-
tral sanctuary. to worship his ancestors
kouan-Ti, the Monaghan god of war, driving
through the air in chariot drawn by winged
horses.
The Temple of Fo or Buddha at Canton
This, also, was an exact reproduction of temple
now existing in China and said to be the largest
in that country. Within is the Buddhistic trim
ity, Djarma, Zanga and Buddha. three forms of
the same person, each idol having its separate
altar.
Gen Hoang, the first mortal Emperor of China
with dragons body and nine heads, in his char
lot constructed entirely of clouds. and drawn by
eight birds of paradise.
Min-Va, the Monaghan Venus with bulls
head and dragons tail, in chariot drawn by
unicorns.
The last nine tableaux represented the iuds
ment OF the soul, the reward of the good and the
punishment of the wicked; Te,can or Pluto
weighing the souls of the dead against their bad
deeds; the Buddhist paradise-a beautiful gar
den. full of choicest flowers but into which
woman was never admitted, their sex being
changed before they were admitted into PARADISE:
and the Monaghan hell, or, rather bells, one a
segion of perpetual fire, the other a country
Of snow and ice, where the punishment inflicted
was freezing.
Such was the Proteus procession. 1t was GER