Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-04-19
rHP uIDwlyTER EXPOSITION
CALIFoRSIA MIDwINTER INILhNA s,.r
T1ONAL EXPOSITION - DEPARlMhHi
q Dr-nr 1c.rrX ANn PROMOTION.

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reproduced on April II, IS and ~ Lho
preat Mardi Gras Carnival which mas
attracted multitudes to the city OF Ne"
Orleans and which has made the name
aMardi Gras" and that Of the "Cresceh'
City" synonymous. This idea OF repro
Gucing in the City of the Golden UaUo
the wonderful pageant which has Drawn
people southwark for so many years.
was suggested as an accessory 10 Iio
Midwinter Exposition, and it has Deeh
taken hold of SO energetically by the
business men of San Francisco that not
only is its success assured in this IN
stance. but there is already a strong
probability that the "Mystic Argonauts
of the Golden West" will play their
part every year in tho history of San
Francisco just as the Mystic Crewe or
Comus has played its part in Now Or-
leans.
The material for this great pageant
has been accumulating for several weeks
now in large building temporarily
erected in q secluded part of the exposl-
ton grounds, and force OF workmen
and artists are constantly employed
building floats and carrying out the
plans of those who have the matter IN
charge. The carnival people call them
selves @The Mystic Argonauts OF tho
Golden West" and their beautiful
colors of crimson, green and gold are
beginning to be worn all over the city.
On Tuesday, April II, Tex arrives at
the foot of Market street on his royal
barge and will be escorted to the expo
sition grounds in triumph. There the
keys of the city will be turned over to
His Highness, metaphorically, and from
that time ON the King of the Carnival
wiz have it al his own way. On Wed
nesday, the 18th, will occur the grand
carnival parade in the evening. 1t will
then be seen that not only is the great
New Orleans Mardi Gras being produced
here in San Francisco, but that there
will have been added a great many
unique and original features. 1t is pro-
posed that the parade of floats and ev-
erthing else in connection with the pro-
cession shall be made around the expo
sition grounds and through the great
field that has been prepared for recre-
alton grounds. At that point an i'm
mense frame is to be erected, and each
float or other feature will be halted di-
rectly behind that frame, and the great
search light from the top of the electric
tower will be turned full uponit in view
of the vast concour5e which will un-
doubtedly be assembled upon the grand
stand and upon every available point of
view.
On the evening of Friday, April 10,
takes place the Carnival ball. As to the
success of this ball of all nations there
can be no manner Of doubt, for every
foreign commissioner and the Midwin-
ter exposition, and every representative
OF foreign concession or of foreign
exhibit, have already promised to take
part and to introduce in the grand
march on that occasion the funny and
peculiar people of whom they have con-
troll. Arrangements are being made for
the running OF special trains from all
parts of the Pacific Coast during this
carnival season, and it is confidently e1-
pected that that week of the fair will be
the greatest in the history of the expo
sition. The work that is being done in
the preparation of the floats is already a
guarantee that these are to be no tawdry
accessories. There will be seen on this
occasion some of the most artistic crea-
tions ever presented in street pageant.
An effort is being made to secure the
closing of business houses throughout
the city on the opening day of the Car
nival, and it goes without saying that
little or no business will be done on the
evenings which are to be devoted at the
exposition to the night parade and to the
carnival ball.
The element of romance, which has
doubtless existed under the rose ever
since the inception of the exposition, has
at last manifested itself in no uncertain
terms. On Sunday, April 1, there was
marriage in one of the cars of the
Firth wheel. The contracting parties
were Alexander Won Gunther and Err
nestine Schneider. The interesting part
of the story in connection with this
marriage Is that this was not the first
time that this same couple had be united
in matrimony. Years age they took
each other for better or for worse, and
each decided that it was worse than bet
ter AT any rate they drifted apart, and
they only met few weeks ago on the
platform of the Firth wheel where both
had come to see the sights of the expo.
sition. The meeting was so strange and
the pleasure was so mutual that thew at
once forgot past differences and agreed
to kiss and make up. What more nat
ural than they should decide to be mar.
ried on the very WHEEL whose turning
brought them face to face after 90 LONE
separation? And where was the sense
OF being married a second time without
some novel feature being connected with
IL! Hence 1t came to pass that this
couple were married in the Firth vbeoI
The chimes in the tower of tbe Iiha,ai
Arts building pealed forth the wedding
bells at the moment the preacher pro,
nounced them man and wife All tba
other cars of the wheel were full of
wedding guests, and the wedding iour.
ney consisted of trip twice round
This marriage would seem to have
started perfect matrimonial fever in
the exposition There have been two
Indian marriages and one Eson;maU U
wedding within a week. One Of tba 90"
position guards married a girl who had
been attending soda water booth, and
there have been two vacancies on tbs
staff OF the exposition typewriters occas'
ioned by hasty resignation with -,