The morning news., 1894-02-06
REX ENTERS NEW ORLEANS
SalVOS Of Artillery Greet His Landing
from His Steamer.

The Three Visiting Companies Given
Warm Welcome by the Populace
as They Marched in the Military
Parade-The Crew of Proteus Gives
9 Brilliant Pageant at Night, Tell
ing the Story of the Persian Kings.
New Orleans, Feb. 5.-The weather
here to-day is bright, but the tempera-
ture is much lower than usually during
the Mardi Gras season. The morning
trains brought many hundreds of stran-
grers from the north, east and west, and
from the surrounding states, and the
streets presented an appearance OF
unwonted animation. Canal street at
noon, being lined with sightseers. The
Albany Burgesses corps reached the city
late last night and were received. Even
as early as O'Clock this afternoon, there
was a tremenderous crowd on the levee
at the foot of Canal street, where the
royal feet was to land. The river was
alive with steaming craft early in the
day, and aotilla of boats gaily bedecked
with carnival flags and crowded with
visitors went down the stream to meet
the King and his party.
FORMING OF THE MILITARY.
The military began to form shortly
after noon, tho visiting commands being
ASSIGNED TO posts of honor in the process
sion. the Continental Guards and the
Boston Lancers serving as escorts OF
honor to his ma esty. In addition
TO the regular military commands,
there were companies OF the uniformed
rank of the knights of Pythias
and ~he Knights OF Honor and full
representation of the national guard.
The Hosehold Guard, the reserve corps,
mounted Armenian cavalry the Kings
Own and other detachments in bright
colors helped to add life to the scene on
the streets
ARRIVAL OF REX.
His majesty reached here at 2 o'clock
and was received with salvos of artillery.
He was escorted to the city hall, where
the keys of the city were turned over to
him.
The carnival season was inaugurated
here tonight in blaze of glory with the
brilliant pageant of the Crew Of PrOteus.
The trains to-day brought many be-
lated strangers and the hotels tonight
were reported to be full, The crowds on
the streets during the day were quite
large-as large as at any preceding car
nival for the past seven or eight years.
The reception of Rex during the day
was attended with the customary cere-
monies of such occasions. The king
reached the city, as has been his custom
for several seasons past, by river and was
welcomed with salvos of artillery and the
screeching noises of hundreds of steam
whistles.
THE PARADE OF THE MILITARY.
The parade of the military was fairly
imposing. 1t was not great display, but
what there was of it was notable in char
acter. There were three visiting com
panies, the Burgesses corps, of Albany ;the
Dubuque Greys and the Boston Lancers,
and each received applause on the line of
march for their excellent marching ma
neuvers and generally creditable military
bearing.
The streets tonight are alive with
people. After the day parade the stream
flowed up town, and then flowed back,
until it packed Canal street from curb to
pro- erty line and overtiowed into the in
tersecting streets, while st. Charles
street was dense with a line of people
running mile in length on either side of
the broad thoroughfare, on both sides of
which the parade passed.
THE ILLUMINATIONs.
The illuminations this year were
brilliant and as numerous as on
any similar occasion, and the street
scenes were animated and interest
ing. The visiting soldiers were on leave
during the evening, and they leisurely
entered the parade from points
of vantage along the route. The
subject treated this evening
in the magnificent pageant of Proteus
was the Shah Nameh, the epic of the
Kings, and was a beautifully illustrated
story, in moving tableaux, of the Persian
kings. Proteus made his firstappearance
in 1882, and to-night's parade was the
twelfth of his existence. There were
nineteen floats in the pageant to-
night, which was pronounced as
equaling in grandeur any similar
effort made by the Proteus crew A hun
dred and fifty thousand people watched
its progress through the streets. Rex
will appear at II O'Clock tomorrow, in a
pageant embracing nineteen floats and
Comus will bring the carnival to an end
to ain