The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-01
MAHER AND FITZSIMMONS.
Gay New Orleans VIII Begin Lent Wit
. battling Good Prizefight.


The Mardi Gras festivities in the Crescent
City, and, in TACT, In all other cities and towns
where the French as inhabitants predominant,
or where French customs prevail, will terminate
tonight, and when the bells chime the hour OF
midnight telling that Ash Wednesday has ar
rived and that lent has begun, the gay dress OF
the masquerader will be dotted and the garb of
the penitent and the observer OF lent will be
donned.
In the observance OF the festivities of the
Mardi GrSs the patrons OF puglisn will par
ticipate. Few, if any of them, will take part in
the observance of the initial day of lent. Par
ticularly true is this OF those who will visit New
Orleans, !or while the joyous but truly good
Will terminate their frivolity when Shrove
Tuesday ends at midnight the hilarious iudi-
viduals who pstronize the prize ring will con-
tinue celebrating until Ash Wednesday OF 1892
has become memory.
To all who love the pleasant cayortings of the
columbiues. the hiIarity OF harlequIns, the
psroxysms of pleasure OF the pantaloou and the
pTanks OF the clowns, the festivities OF Shroye
Tuesday Will eud III New orleans when the bel,
in the old French cathedral tolls forth the hour
OF midnight And then, when the echoes die
away over Lake Pouchartratn and are lost be-
yuud Aigieys across the Mississippi, only the
voices Of the common roystcrers viii be heard,
and the disciples Of Crib will hold full sway
With the decay OF the festivities Of the re-
Egious which marx the advent OF lent w!ll
come forth the advent OF the ring regulators
who hope 10 ses the birth OF new champion or
that OF 4 possible premier OF pugiIism.
The morning OF Tuesday VIII see Jolly crowds
OF gayly clad figures slipping coffee in the
French market and daylight on Wednesday vii.
see faded but iocuiGr followers Of glove contests
at the stalls slipping tie stimulating fluid in
hopes OF obtaining fresh powers for the day to
come. The change from midnight 10 morning
viii DC greater than the ordinary mortal who
has not been in New Orleans can conceive. The
exciting pleasures OF the masquerade will give
way 10 the pieasuCAh.e anticipation OF tstic
combat. The spor. of chTOSe Tuesday that IL de
all people kin Wi. give way TO the peculiar de
lights OF the PartisaHs OF puS!lism, says the
New York Recorder.
Tomorrow might Peter Msher, champion Of
Ireland. and Bob Fitzsimmons. middle weight
champion of the world. Will fight in New Or
leans. Not since the slayin, Kilrsin fight. on
june is, 1891, hiss such great battle been i'm
pending. There VIII not be ten pounds of dill
ference in the weight OF the two men. and both
are IL magnificent condition.
No other paper in the Northwest will have so
good al account OF the battle as the Posr-IS-
TELLiGESCEE-
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 29-This evening his
majesty. Rex. King OF carnival. entered
his beloved capii&i amid the most
os,eutatioUs display. The reception
was conducted on en- elaborate
scale As soon ss the iotilla was sighted
every vessel in the haroor blew whistles, while
the booming OF cannon and the blast Of
tslmpets coutri buted to his welcome. His
majesty vss aboard the royal yacht GA
weston. The parade then formed AZ the
head Of Canal street, and marched in gorgeous
array through the principal streets to the rove!
citadel. where his majesty was presented with
the keys and the line proceeded to the Hotel
Royal where an informal reception and .evee
was held.
FoFteus and his crew tonight appeared on the
streets IL Pageant remarkable log beauty Of