The morning call., 1894-04-18

seen on the grounds than this royal stan
dard of the King of Joy and Happiness.
Flags innumerable of these colors in
combination were run up at sunrise on the
official flag poles OF the exposition, and
every body in and about the grounds was
decorated in one way or another with
crimson, green and gold. Holiday attire
was general, and as the director-general
remarked. IL was great flag picnic.
No such pyrot echnic display has been
seen, even on the recreation grounds of
the Midwinter Fair, as the fireworks ex-
hibitiOn given last night in honor of the
arrival of Rex Felix. Half OF the crowd
OF the afternoon waited for the evenings
diversion. and many made a special trip
TO Sunset City after 6. All were repaid
for their visit.
With even more richness of detail than
than on previous occasions, the pro-
gramme of maroons, rockets, maltese
crosses, stars and crescents was shown, the
fireworks lighting up the heavens. The
piece de resistance was the Golden Argos.
a perfect reproduction of the royal float as
II will appear In the procession this even
ing.
This will be the great day of the Mardi
Gras. The carnival will be at lis height
tonight in the illuminated procession. and
the medieval contest in athletic sports
on the recreation grounds this afternoon
will be well worth seeing.
The admission department expects large
crowd to-day. The full force If men will
be on duty ut the turnsties. and Chief
Fielder says that he can admit $4,000 people
o. the grounds every hour II that number
present emselves. as is devoutiy hoped.
Two hundred eQuestrians will partici-
pate in the royal sports at the grand re-
production of the tournament of the Field
of the Cloth OF Gold at the recreation
court this afternoon. At l O'Clock Rex
Felix Will be received by the populace, and
the outdoor programme, in continuance,
viii be as follows:
Cossack horsenanship by the ClrcassisE
Prince.
Assemblage of knights and salute to the King
Fight with short swords between the Gau
professor Edward M. Cherry and the Gladi
ator professor George Meihing)
Tilling contest for prizes between home and
visiting knights.
Gladiator's ring contest for laurels from The
Queen of Beauty
The gladiaIorS gallant charge on horseback.
Second heat-Race on bareback horses.
Chariot ace.
Third heat-Race on bareback horses.
Growing the yierors by the Queen OF Beauty
japanese day fireworks.
Over at The Den." where the floats are
in readiness for to-night's pageant the last
touches were put upon the trapplngs and
accouterments yesterday. Such magni6-
evening on the recreation grounds, with
red fire and the powerful glare of the
great searchlight, have never been wit
messed on the American Continent. They
exceed in brlliancy, elaborateness and
beauty the finest floats ever seen In New
Orleans, s.. Louis or Chicago.
Twenty-ons of these beautiful floats, de-
pictiBg the triumphs of literature, will be
drawn about the grounds of oun,et City
and will appear in tableaux in succession
on the recreation grounds. Sousa's band
will play on the grand stand, and Rex
Felix. the Governor, the Mayor and the
director-generaI will witness the illumI-
mated pageant.
The Illuminated pageant will begin at 7
P. NJ The following floats will appear in
surces sion:
Float 1-California.
Float 2-Argosy Of the Mystic Argonauts OF
the Golden West.
Float 3-Title car. Illustrations from litera-
ture
Float Rex Felix.
Float 5-Tbe Sylphs' ball.
Float 6-Cahgula and his companions.
Float 7-Freya. Scandinavian mythology.
Float S-Esther before King Ahasuerus. Bib
Float Olives and dwarfs Tales
Float 1O-BajaZet receiving bis bride from
the Prince OF Hermann.
Float 1l-ReiuecKe FOx-Goethe.
Float 12-AniediluvIan Researches.
Float l3-Ihe Talisman. Richard and Sala-
dln-SeorL
Float 14-Marco Polo. Travels
Float 15-Sne- Rider Haggard.
Float l6-Jerusalem delivered-Tasso
Float l7-Merry Wives of Wlndsor-Shake-
spesre.
Float 15-Ulysses. Classics.
Float 19-Tannhauser. Opera. Mount Venus
Float 20-Pandemonlum. Millions Paradise
Lost.
Float 21-SIr Galahad-Tennyson.
In the Franz Joseph Hall of the Vienna
Prater tomorrow the three days Carnival
will be concluded with a bal masaue, TO
which all are invited. Concert music
will. be rendered by the Vienna Prater
orchestra, under he eonductorship of
Court Director Fritz Scheel. between the
mum bers of the dance programme.
Sausa's band Will furnish the music for
dancing. The grand march will commence
at $3.50 and will be brilliant spectacle.
Three hundred Of the Mystic Argonauts