The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-22
KING REX Il.
Psychological Meaning
Of Mardi GraS.
FACTS ABOUT OGDEN.
The Preparations Being Made For
the Great Carnival.
THERE Is MUCH ENTHUSIASM.
a Herald Representative Solves the Mystery
Nellie BY Said to Have Been Selected
us Queen of the Carnival.
The Preparations Being Made For
the Great Carnival.
THERE Is MUCH ENTHUSIASM.
a Herald Representative Solves the Mystery
Nellie Bly, Said to Have Been Selected
us Queen of the Carnival.

There has been so much wild conjecture
in regard 10 Ogden,s carnival that any
thing like fair account of what is actually
being done in way of preparation for the
reception of King Rex / and the browning
of Rex II will be welcome reading to the
people who care to be well informed of
what is happening in the second city of the
territory. While the Mardi Gras is as fam
iliar and full of significance to the people
of Louisiana as the Fourth of July is to
the children of Massachusetts, to the in
habitants of the inter mountain country
King Rex is a foreign potentate of whose
royal prerogative and supertaliVe assump-
ton little is known.
To unvail the mystery that envelops in
hallowed fog the sacred shrine of the
throne of the ReXes, to tear the sacred
linen from the imperial limbs OF the tabled
goddesses and reveal to the ten thousand
readers of THE SUNDAY HERALD the naked
and unvarnished truth and true inwardness
of the kings and their consorts was not
the duty assigned 10 a member of the
reportorial staff, but rather that palmer,
homelicr duty of chronicling what is going
on in Ogden in way of preparation for the
carnival
With this simple duty in sight The
HERALD reporter doubled up'' with com
lnercial drummer in one of the well-lighted,
reclining "Eli'' coaches of the Rio Grande
and made merry run up the valley.
The handy thing about Ogden is that the
best place to put up'' is at the depot, and
without any disparagement to the rail
road CENTER il is one Of the quotes
places in town-the trains coming in and
going out as if running on brussels carpet
and all made up of sleepers.
1t is not necessary to reside in Ogden
more than ten minutes to catch the boom
fever and begin breaking out with RASH
predictions as 10 Ogden's future. In truth
The HERALD reporter had not talked with
d half dozen persons until he grew red in
the face with signs of scarlatina, or some
other malady that affected him in a way
that sent him off in the predicative mood.
This should not reflect to Ogden's injury as
the same complaint was felt in this city,
the fever being at its height in February
when there was scarcely man that didn't
have the frenzy stout enough to predict
that in less than two years Salt Lake would
double the population of Denver. This
rash, caused by an inflow of new blood, IS
productive of biGheadativeness and set of
doctors known as the Census Enumerators
are having some success in fighting off the
ulSHdSG anu CROWN
sane predictions
The capital of the Rexes is hard on the
doctors and joins hands with Salt Lake in
making howl that will only call attention
TO the existence of very pronounced type
of the protective fever.
Ogden, like Salt Lake, is, nevertheless
SHOWING Up REMARKABLY WEI
in the line of new buildings, though the
thought uppermost at the present time is
the carnival The carnival idea sprang
from the fevered brain of a real estate
boomer and was saddled on the city by The
men who were interested in initiating val
ues. The responsibility has been accepted
in good faith by the business men, anC
there is unity and determination among
all classes to carry the undertaking to a:
complete a success as the money at hanC
can make it.
While many men now concede thai
it was a white elephant of toe
great proportions for city of the size
of Ogden to saddle, having undertaken the
task they are pulling together with har
mony and loyalty that is truly admirable
and must lead TO as great degree of sue
cess as the place selected and condition.
existing will admit
Ogden is at the disadvantage of nesting
among the mountains hundreds of mile,
away from base of supplies, in the SHAPE
of populous cities to draw from, e,1cep
Salt Lake, which citys loyalty to KIM
Rex has been somewhat chilled by neglec
and the absence of g proper and pressing
invitation to share in the festivities
Ogden has shown a disposition to go i
alone and gather all the glory.
The conditions to be overcome are the
introduction of reign of fun and folly an,
festivities new and novel to a people Wit
are strangers to the destinations of Ii,
burlesque and the mystic superstitions o
the Mardi Gras. ''The people of the Nortl
take 10 their pleasures sadly" said MATHEW
Arnold and whether their cold blooi
will warm up and boil at the wild extraya
ganZas Of tue carnival masque balls an
knightly contests remains to be seen.''
The originators, perhaps, cared nothing
as to this, as IL was their purpose to use tn
novelty attaching TO the Mardi Gras TO &C
vertise Ogden abroad, and the amount o
newspaper notices already received ha
been quite satisfactory.
Should the Mardi Gras feature of tn
carnival fail TO take, there is such liberi
amount of cowboy sports on the programm
which is a sure winner with western aud
epce, and with a little change in the bi
the whole festivities can be turned into
Cowboy tournament.
However, the Rex business is pein
pushed for all that it is worth, and tn
preparations now under way include ca
nival palace that will seat 10000 people, bt
sides many other expensive arrangement
that require big outlay of heavy cash.
To intelligently understand
TUE EXTENT OF THE TASK
which Ogden has undertaken brief sketc
OF the history of the Mardi Gras is nece:
sary:
or all the mystic organizations the Rex Mar,
Cras a. sOcaIion OF New Orleans is the me
pr-snineni- their DISPLAYS are the richest an