The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-15
REIGN OF THE CARNIVAL
BRILLIANT PAGEANTS IN THREE
SOUTHERN CITIES.
Nineteen Elaborate Floats Represent

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Nineteen Elaborate Floats Represent
ing the Realm OF Flowers Drawn
--Rex's Reign in Mobile-Scenes from
Shakespeare at Memphis.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 14-His Gracious
Majesty Rex, made his appearance on the
streets to-day in gorgeous pageant. Tho
theme Illustrated was "The Realm of Flow
ers.' The weather is most delightful, in
fact could not be more appropriate TO the
occasion, the temperature being 7O' in the
shade and the sun shining brightly. The
streets along the line of the proc ession were
crowded with spectators The car contain
ing Boeuf Gras was the first in the process
sion, the float being decorated with flowers
of every description
Then came tableau No, /, which repre-
sented the King of the Carnival, who, from
his realm in the land Of flowers, gave an
| illustration of their varied loveliness.
Then followed tabcaux representing
| spring-the daisy, violet, honcysuckle, sun
| flower, cornhower, lily of the valley, rose,
pond lily, forget-pe-not, Nile lily, golden
rod Easter lily, convolvulus, ferns, aster
and tulip.
Tho closing tableau was No. 10 and illus
trated fairies at home. Then followed n
| display made by the Order of the Moon in
burlesque illustration of scenes and situa-
tons of everyday life.
| LEGENDS OF THE MIDpLE AGES.
The legends of that epoch, the middle
ages, were brilliantly portrayed by Pro
teus tonight The programme of the
pageant included illustrations Of tabled
deeds of the Lombardan period and Incl
dehts in the story of YThe Quest of the
Holy Grail" together with tableaux from
the stories of "Lohengrin," "Tannhauser'
and Die Walkuren Proteus, in compli-
ment to his cousin, Rex. whose pageant IL
lustrated "The Realm of Flowers, appeared
in the guise of the prince of Flowers
riding butterfly. which lowered over an
immense bed of flowers. This portion Of
the pageant constituted the first tableau
The second tabeau was king Rotber's
departure for Constantnople y the third,
The reception and banquet given by En-
peror Constantine TO King Rother;n the
fourth, Combat between warriors and
tabled animals at Moorland l.a<e;P the
fifth, death of Drusian;" the sixth, Diet
rick of Birn rescues Queen Virginal;"
the seventh, king Taurus Realm"
the eighth, Rose garden flowers in
perpetual bloom, surrounded by eternal
snow the ninth, "Siegfried Stays the
dragon" the tenth, Treasures of the
Niebungs;n the eleventh, awakening Of
Bruenhilde;n the twelfth, "Hajen in the
CIriffens nest" the thirteenth, "Cudrun
and the Mermaid the fourteenth, Bee
wulf, the diver and the she wolf of the
sea-" the fifteenth, "Sir Percival
crowned King of the Holy Grail .
the sixteenth, "Bayard's escape from
Mount Vulcan" the seventeenth, "Tann-
hauser at Gorselberg, the realm of Venus
the eighteenth, "Lohengrin, the Knight Of
the Swans rescuing Else.n
This was one of the handsomest displays
ever made in this city, if it did not eclipse
all previous efforts in this line.
Rex's reception at Exposition Hall to-
night was a very brilliant affair Harry
Howard, it is understood did the honors as
Rex and Miss Jennie cottraux was Queen.
The Proteus tableau and ball at the
French opera house was also a grand affair.
Balls were given as usual at all the
theaters and halls throughout the city.
MARDI-GRAs AT MOBILE.
MOBILE, ALA, Feb. 14-The Mardi-G Gras
celebration here this year was the best that
has been witnessed in a long time. and the
attendance of visitors was the largest
known in the past ten years. The parade
of ''the Mystic Krewe'' last night comprised
seven gorgeous floats, illustrating scenes in
the celestial terrestrial and internal king
doms. To-day the Knights Of Beverly pic
tured the crusaders in series Of
three floats with a large cavalcade
of men in full armor. The
comic Cowboys then caricatured local
issues in seven floats and tonight the Order
of Myths illustrated the origin of color
with eight illustr ations of NEUROLOGICAL sub
jects. The Infant Mystics did not parade,
but gave grand ball in the Princess
Theatre, the interior of which was com
pletely transformed so as to represent a
scene from the picture of Watteau. The
guests were costumed to suit the age Of
Louis QnnZe.
MEMPHIS GIVEN OVER TO PLEASURE.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 1.-THE King of the Car
nival has had reign here since yesterday
noon, when the keys of the city were sur
rendered amid great pomp. Gov. Robert
| L. TAYLOR took part in the ceremonies. Last
night at Gayoso Hotel, the Kings ball was
attended by over 1900 invited guests, and
was one Of the most brilliant social events
in the history of the StatA Miss Eliza
Featherstone, of Holly Springs, Miss,
was crowned Queen. To-day the
spectators from adjoining towns
and cities, and hundreds Of maskers have
been paradiDg through the principal thor
oughfares At O'Clock tonight the Sphinx
pageant moved along Main street amid a
blazs Of fire, the subject being scenes from
Shakespeare's plays, fourteen in number.
1t is estimated that 40, 900 people linod the
route of march. At the thsater tonight,
after the pageant of the Sphinx had dis
appeared, the Mystic Memphi APP
peared in tableaux, presenting the
scenes which led TO the Trojan war.
The audiepco was brilliant and represented
the wealth, intelligence and beauty Of this
city and surrounding country. After the
| tableaux the Memphi executed a series of
| Egyptian military figures. a grand march
! followed, the parquet Of the theater having
! been specially covered for the occasion.
-Four public balls are in full blast tonight,
| and the revival Of the Mardi Gras in
Memphis has been grand success.