The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-06-10
THE FLAMBEAU BOYS.
They Captured the First Prize
Offered i'm Kansas City Last
Night.

Inc Ceualla rIamDeau cIuD re-
turned from Kansas City this morn
ing at an early hour covered with
glory and smelling of smoke. The
boys captured not alone the first
prize but also the plaudits of an APP
preciative people. The ollowing is
from the Kansas City Times:
Fully 5000 people file the grand
stand at the Exposition park last
night t. witness the tOrchiight drill
and pyrotechnics of the Sedalia fam
beau club. Promptly at $50 o'clock,
after the dress parade, the forty men
of the cl1b, the two officers and two
drummers marched out into the parade
ground in front Of the grand stand.
Each man was uniformed in white,
with steel helmet. Wi h their blaz-
ing to: ches held alOft the club pre-
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they came out In column of tours.
The club drilled for fully three-quar.
tiers of an hour. giving splendid dis
play OF the various company field
movements. Their marching and
countermafching by columns of
tours and In platoons, also their cir
cling and intricate evolutiOns of the
right and left wheels, their right
about and open and close order move
ments were creditably and skIllfully
performed and evoked thunders of APP
piause. AT intervals, In response to
a command of the captain, each man
blew into his fambeau and the light
famed up brightly with blaze two
feet high. Their performance was
enc Of tie finest ever witnessed in
Ksnsas Ciiy.
After concluding their drill, they
to their tens, only to re-
appear again more splendid and mag
niticent than before. Each man.
beside his torch, carried an armful of
rockets aud Roman candles. while one |
man In each four had a bright light
IF red fire. In front of the club |
marched the drum corps, tapping
lively strains. In the rear q number
If four and two wheeled |
7ehicles were hauled along bv
he white uniformed Sedali-
N. One of these Was double-bar-
ell mortar. another was a mou nted
rame work for firing off the large
Oekets, while the Others were supply
arts. The club struck the ground in
rvnt of the grand stand with volley
{ fire crackers, each man lighting
nd dropping several punches. Sim.
ltaneOusly every man of the party
gnited a Roman candle, while the
Oekets on the wagon and the two
loriars charged with bombs, were all
It go at once. The sight was at once
eautiful grand and inspiring. All
be colors of the rainbow were shown
as the thousands of balls of fire
tom rocket and Roman candles shot ,
no the air brilliant and meteor like.
n the background stood the massive ,
xposiiion building, its front ,
windows one magnificent !
laze of Kaleidoscope color :
J it reflected back the pyro- /;
'cnic display of the club. Every ,
n seconds bomb was fired off into
lie air with dull report and hiss
lg, rushing sound, and Its course
'uld be traced against the dark sky
y the myriads of sparks that trailed
ehind. At great length the mis-
lie would explode with the roar of
FOUNDER, sending out the showers '
! vari-colored sparks and long wrig-
ling serpents of fire, vieing in
killarney with the balls of fire drop
al by soaring rockets. Each man
ed off enough crackers and Roman d
indies to supply a small boy with Il
Ourth of July celebrations for
veral years. Add to this display 80 Il
easing to the eve the incessant
'oming of the exploding bombs and +
e sharp rattle of the fire crackers Il
at thrilled and exhilarated the n
rves- and nothing was lacking to h
AXE the display memorable one. fC
lroughout the entire performance st
e Sedalia club never lost step nor n
Is once confused, although it was Ell
lch of the time completely hidden st
I'm view by the rose tinted clouds
smoke from the fireworks, and only A
ef glimpses could be had of them
W and then, leaking like ghosts in b.
iery inferno. "