Middletown transcript., 1894-05-05
DELAWARE CITY.
Harry Muiiin was in town last week.

Harry Muiiin was in town last week
| f. Egee, Of Port Penn, was in town Of
Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Hammond, of Wilmington, wa
in town on Monday.
Mrs. Peter Cleaver and Mrs Alex, Jarre
spent Wednesday in Wilmington.
Mrs. William Robinson. of Wilmington
visited friends in town this week.
Miss L. Bradway, of Atlantic City, ant
Miss NJ. Boulden. of Chesapeake City. ar
stopping at the Delaware City House
A. Craig, of BRIDGEPORT. Conn, visited hi
father. George Craig this week. Mr.. A
Craig is contemplating trip abroad.
Robert Mills and family, of Wilmington
visited relatives in town on Sunday Mrs
Mills and Robbie spent several days with
Mrs NJ. Hunter.
The scholars III Miss Ella Cleaver's room
had May party on Wednesday, at the
Battery. We are pleased to see this time
honored custom revive.
Mrs. NJ. Homan, who has been staying
with relatives in Wilmington since early in
the winter, returned to her home in Della
ware City on Wednesday
The entertainment "Adrift in New
York." given by Mr.. and Mrs. Whtner,
assisted by some of our local talent, on
Friday evening in Assembly Hall. will be
repeated on Saturday evening.
he ladies of the Presby terian Church
will hold a Clipping party in the lecture
room on Wednesday evening, May 9th.
Refreshments cream aud strawber-
ries-wll be on hand SO We trust will
large number of our town-people and as
many as possible from the neighborhood
and nearby towns. Fun is the order of the
evening when one attends a Clipping party
Come and clip, come and buy.
The following is an extract from q letter
from Los Angeles, Cal, which cannot fail to
interest our readers:
April 26, 1871 may in my description,
De telling you what you have heard before,
but at all events La Fiesta is new theme.
This is the first year this city has made
merry with q carnival of fun and we came
just in time to enjoy it. The entire city
was ablaze with flags and bunting, red,
green and gold to symbolic the wine, the
olive and the orange. The street cars we're
literally covered with palm branches,
punches of Gala lilies and roses and strings
of oranges. Every night the streets were
beautifully lighted with incandesent lights,
and were thronged with masqueraders and
jolly crowds of lookers-on. For four days
and nights the fun lasted and the fifth
night the revelry on the part of individual
masqueraders and -four throwers reached
its height. On the first day, the Queen of
the Carnival, a buxom society lady, re-
ceived the keys of the City Hall and she
announced through her herald, gay
cavalier, that the city was to give itself up
to mirth and jollity for four days. She,
her maids of honor, and her Courtiers all
wore half masks. That Gay was the grand
parade floats. chariots, outriders, several
bands of music &C. Some of of the floats
were ridiculous; representing boom days,
California or bust &C., and some were
very beautifully gotten up. but the finest
display of all was that of the Chinese Con-
tingent. Two hundred participated, and it
was glowing bit of the orient; those richly
embroidered banners and gowns, those CO.'S
tunes, hats and turbans of different colors
and shapes, those funny bits of humanity,
Chinese babies in gorgeous attire, the
musicians making hideous music and the
long line of carriages filled with dignified
mandarins. A similar procession without
the Chinese and with some additions and
the difference that all riding ON the floats
were m ,skel, paraded the next evening as
that was Carnival night. The third day
was childrens day and 10000 were in that
procession. Even the Grammar School,
the High Scool, the Normal College and
the Methodist University turned out. and
as l heard man say: That was just the
sweetest thing yet. Friday morning was
the floral and military parade and it was
wonderful. Just fancy phaetons and bug
5ies covered, top, sides, and wheels with l
palm branches, flowers and fruit. Callas |
are as common as weeds here. They grow |
every where in great masses, so they graced
La Fiesta from beginning to end.
This is most attractive city, built upon
many hills; there are fine public buildings, |
many handsome mansions and innumer-
erable pretty homes all embowered in roses,
" isteria, iessamine or palms. Fancy an
avenue of palm trees thirty-five on each
tide all as tall as the house, leading up to
private residence. Fancy rose and fuschia
trees full Of blossoms. Fancy bank look
10 feet one solid mass of bloom, lot of ice
,lant used to cover terraces or banks The
ypess and gum trees fill the air with q
weet aromatic odor when the sun shine
ull upon them. The country districts, the
orange groves in blossom and fruit, the
ields of alfalfa and barley, a brilliant
,reen, the foothills broken into as many
little points as the facets on diamond, and
he snowcapped mountain peaks beyond,
orm pictures all that fancy can paint"