The Portland daily press., 1895-05-21
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Gardiner, May 20.-Carnival week in
New Orleans, everybody knows what
that means. 1t meaDs decorations, dis
plays, music and good fellowship, gene
rally. Well, that is very much what
carnival week in Gardiner is like. The
decorations are all In place, and the
main street is futter with flags and
is covered with bright-hued bunting,
and Landlord Lowell of the Evans
House has summoned ait to his aid and
adorned the entrance to his hotel with a
huge painting of the city and statment
that this is the week of the carnival.
the lights in many Chinese lanterns. The
Maine Central is not to be outdone, and
the railway station wears gorgeous
holiday garment of red, white and blue
bunting with hundreds Of flags, big
and little, for ribbons and fur bellows.
AS explained to PRESS readers some
time ago. this carnival is given to both
call attention to the enterprise OF this
beautiful city by the Kennebec, and
to raise the funds necessary for the
purchase of the Coliseum building,
built in the Edays. of the roller skating
craze, and afterwards sold to the
Atkinson Furnishing Company. Now,
Gardeners efficient board of trade. has
taken hold of the matter and proposes to
buy the building to be used as place
of meeting, for conventions. entertain
ments, etc. In the Gbuilding is the in
door bazaar, which is feature of the
carnival, and as the building is in
sense the centre of attractions, it has
been, of course. ella aborately decorated.
Hundreds of flags wave in..the breeze
from the roof and walls outside, while
the interior has been transformed into
bower of beauty. Here again are the
streamers of gay colored bunting, with
a glory of American flags at one end of
the building to bespeak of Gardeners
patiotism, and at the other a picture of
a railroad train labeled Gardiner
showing the local pride of the people
here. By this picture, another of
mountain scenery. and between them
is the state coat of arms. Everywhere
among the bright hues of the bunting
one sees the CLEAN Of the evergreen, and
on the platform is the valuables scollec-
tion of stuffed animals exhibited at the
worlds fair. The Maine man smells the
piney odor of the great woods of his
native state. the moose and carl bou he
sees in the midst of other denizens of
the forest, and thus he is reminded
on every hand that Maine is great
state, that she is an enterprising COM
monwealth, and that Gardiner is
particularly enterprising spot in the
good old Pine Tree state.
A bit of the worlds fair has been
imported to add to the attractions of
the carnival, and in the centre of the
hall an electric fountain sends it's
streams of liquid fire towards the roof,
the colors flash and change from
red to blue and green just as the gorge
GUS tints followed in bewildering
Kaleidoscope in the larger electric foun-
tain in the White City.
In the Coliseum, all is not for effect
alone. The displays in the booths are
in themselves both ornamental and in
structive. Many of them tell more elo-
quently than words of the busine
done by Gardiner merchants. Others
are the representations of the business
dCne in Gardiner by concerns whose
headquarters are located elsewhere.
Among these exhibits are those of the
r. W. Bell Manufacturing Company of
Buffalo, N. Y, makers of fine soaps.
Mr.. II. A. Fuller is the Gardiner agent.
W. f. Studley, the Gardiner dry goods
dealer, has two large booths filled with
wares, CD. Libby, tailor and farrIer,
has beautiful and valuable display of
furs. The new leather aboard material,
pedyroid, made by the PHI. Holmes
Company, attracts great attention. 1t
looks like leather, but isn't. 1t is said
however, that you can cover your walls
with it. have it made into sHtchels,
chair seats, table screens and picture
frames. besides other things too numer-
GUS to mention. Dainty china and cut
flowers M the booth OF f. S. Maxey.
The Portland agency of the Singer Sew
ing Machine Company makes hand
fine line Of pianos and organs. 2. de
Forest Wiles is florist, and he is as
well lover OF flowers as is shown By
the beautlfuui selections in hts dis
play. Cook, Everett & Pennell of Port
land, have booth adorned with the
portraits OF Hon. i. B. Reed, and con-
tanning case of the L. B. Reed cigars.
Next to the fragrant Hayapas is a
booth where young woman voIublv dis
courses on the merits of Haskelus wheat
flakes. A. T. Reynolds has display of
photographs, and HIM. Hamlin shows
some handsome harnesses and trunks.
/. The people were early on hand. They
showed Uu6lr lubcrsSG In catherine in
the streets long before the formal
opening of the carnival in the Coliseum.
One patriotic citizen was driving abont
town with his horse's harness decorat.
ed with small flags and a big one in the
whip socket.
At O'Clock this evening, Reeves's IA
nous band of Providence. which. by
the way, will be here all the week,
played" Hail tothe Chief."as Gov. Cleaves
the mem bers of his Council, Secretary
of State Fessenden. Insurance Commits
sioner Carr, superinte1ndent of Schools
Stetsor, DIR. John F. Hill of Augusta and
others. entered the hall and were escorted
to seats in the gallery. The great
building was then crowded with people.
The young men were all there and with
them were the good-looking young
gomsn for Gardner a,sa girls ,ar are ;hd. like their
ty. The young people found plenty of
sources of amusement. There was Edi-
sons kinetoscops. in v which i they could
life. In one corner was new tangled
music box which played when you