The Portland daily press., 1894-08-13
THE BOATING CARNIVAL.
Great Marine Pageant at Peaks
Island.

Women-A Dream of the Orient in a
Magnificent Summer Pageant
The annual boating carnival came off at
Peaks Island Saturday under the most
suspicious circumstances. The air was clear
and bracing, the skies were cloudless and
the sun shone brightly. 1t was in fact a
typical autumnal day. The steamers of the
various harbor lines were loaded with sight
seers the sailing craft, and private steam
launches were out in force crowded with
the owners and their friends, and at every
vantage point on the shore along the route
of the parade there were throngs of people,
The rink, the hotels and many private resi-
dences were decorated with bunting, and
the bands disc cursed sweet music that
foated across the water in subdued mar
monies.
At O'Clock the procession started and
went over the published route. the mary
W. Libby led the first division with Merr1-
mans band aboard, followed by sthe lnnes
Louise raft trimmed in nile green and white,
the ladies all carrying ribbons attached to
Mr.. Dowell who stand in the bow represent
ing ssthe only man at the beach," The
ladies were Mrs. Dowell, Mrs. Riley, Mrs.
Jerauld. Miss Nellie lines, Miss Jennie
Hancock, Miss Daisy Williams, Miss May
Donovan, Miss May O'Brion, Mrs. Brady,
Miss Alice Parl, Miss Lottie Jackson. Miss
Agnes Downs, Miss Jessie Downes, Minnie
Downs, Miss Jessie Downs, Maud Bartlett,
Miss GeorgiesFoss.
The Forest City rink had a large seine
boat representing carnival. W. n. Davis
was the ''lone fisherman" and the stern
was fitted up as "a toboggan.sssslide. s., The
decorations were yellow and white, and
there were festoons of Japanese lanterns.
The ladies were Miss Emma Brann. Miss
G. B. Merrill, Mrs. Given, Harmon Given,
Pauline Fielding,::T. D. Phillips and wife.
Mrs. Hudson, Miss Hayes, Miss Mason, Mr..
Sherry, Mr.. AL Sterling, Ed. Burnhan and
W. N. Davis. The.Rink band accompanied
the party.
The Peaks Island House boat represented
Music and the occupants of the boat
were, Misses Duncan, Mills, Bishop. Bigley,
Adams, Bell, Anderson. Mrs. Gerry. sSum-
Ter Fogg and Cupid. Miss Bell represented
Euterpe and was seated under canopy OF
gold. The ladies wore white and gold.
Mrs. j. NJ. Dunhain's boat Roses had
arches of roses and everg1eens, and on
board were Mrs. j. NJ. Durham, Miss Nettie
Showers, Albus Gushing, Miss Alice Doug
lass's rowboat represented Butterflies"
the ladies, Misses Alice Sherman, Ella Bigs-
by, Eva Wilde, Alice Douglass, wore black
and yellow costumes.
Miss May Roberts's boat Peoples" was
dressed with peoples and white bunting,
and Misses May ard Lucy Roberts and Lulu
Hartshorn wore white dresses; red hats
trimmed with poppies. Misses Lizzie Hughes
and Minnie Bracket were 1.-TWO Little
Girls in Blue,'' and their boat was dressed
with blue bunting.
The Fannie G, with Tony Clark's band
led the second division, followed by a
great seine boat representing a Venetian
gondola, which was admirably portrayed.
Mr.. A. G.. Fuller was designer. and the
party aboard, the ladies dressed in white,
were Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Phillips. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bickford. Miss Thompson, Miss Bur-
rowes, Miss Wheeler, Miss Gibbs, Miss How
land, Miss Ellis, Miss Larrabee, Miss Dora
Fogg, Miss Fairbairn, Miss Tinker Miss
Griffin, Miss Tinker, Miss Coolbroth. Miss
Gerrisb, Miss Raymond. Miss Hattie Fogg,
Miss Leayitt, Mrs. Durham and Messrs.
Fish, Reed, Larrabee, Harmon, Lynch, Orr,
Morse, Douglass, Thompson, Snow, Plum
mer and Raymond.
The Mollie Warren row boat, decorated
with golden rod followed, bearing Grace
Harrington, Margaret Burrowes, Ruby
Loomis and Mollie Warren. Then came Phil
LARA bees boat, the oars trimmed with
white rosettes and wild bayberry..s Miss
Elsie Smiths boat was canopied with pink
and bore Elsie Smith. Ruth Burrowes, Elsie
Tucker and Clara Peterson in white. Then
came pretty boat bearing Miss Colye,
Madeline Files and Mr.. Jones. Charles Nc
Donald's boat in Nile green and white,
bore a flag P. H. S., '96, and carried Charles
and Mary Mcdonald. Catherine Twigg and
E. Deyine.
The Winona, handsomely decorated led
the third division. The Valley View house
boat was trimmed with red and bore red
poppies the ladies were dressed in white
and wore red hats trimmed with red
peoples and carried Emma skillings. Amelia
Duran, Lottie Neal, Grace Trefethen, Lucy
White, Lillian Ste wart, Maude Currier,
Emily Trefethen, Annie Craig. Jessie
Trefethen, John Clymer, W. S. Trefethen.
Oak cottage boat was trimmed with oak
leaves and pink roses and carried, dressed
in Nile green. pink and white, Misses Alice
Mire, and Isabel Barton, Mabel and Cora
okillings and Margaret Wallace. The
Central house boat represented full rugged
snip, decorated with golden rod, flags and
lanterns, and carried Mrs. L. and Harold
Skillings, Myrtle York, Gertrude Moore
The Oceanic house boat was decorated.in
Nile green and white with golden rod, and
carried W. c. Sterling, Miss Eva Sterling,
Mr.. and Mrs. Flayel Scoville. Master
Joseph Rogers.
The Ben Hur. Captain Nat Haskell, led
the fourth division, gaily decorated. The
Bay View house boat was dressed in red,
white and blue, and the party aboard was
composed of Mrs. Annie Prescott, Boston
Miss Louise Graves, Boston; Miss Alice
Graves, Boston; Miss Florence Cans, New
York; Miss Irma Cans, New York; D. T.
Isaac, New York; Edmond Russell, Boston
NJ. j. Hart5, S. Robinson, f. Callihan,
Worcester. The Pavilion boat represented