Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-11
HOW KNIGHTS WILL MARCH
Streets that the Great Aksarben Parade
Will Move Over.
WILL BE LIKE A METEOR AGRoUNG
What IN to he Done I'm the Way oi
Iliumiuntion-Othcr Features
OF Fair Weeks
Spectacle.

If there are people who suspect that the
knights of Aksarben are mythical person
ages because nobody knows who they are
they should hasten to recognize themselves
mistaken. 1t is the name of a real organiza-
tion. a secret society which just at the pres
ent time is the most popular and prosperous
in the city. Kindred to the Yelled Prophets
of st. Louis and the Priests of Palas of
Kansas City, it is holding meetings every
Monday evening at Odd Fellows hall, its
headquarters. preparing for Its initial spec
tacular parade in Omaha in state fair week.
1t comprises already several hundred of the
livellest business and professional men in the
city and is at every meeting taking In from
twenty to thirty novitiates according to rites
that are said to be very elaborate and very
clever.
The knights have already settled many
things respecting the great procession in
which will move along the famous Mardi
Gras floats recently purchased One of the
latest points decided on was the line of
march, which has been laid out as follows:
Starting from the Knights of Aksarben
den, the Coliseum building, the procession
VIII move south on Twentieth street to lizard
thence to Sixteenth. thence to Douglas
thence to Ninth thence to Farnam, thence to
Eighteenth, thence to Douglas. thence to
Sixteenth and then return to the den"
The parade will be on Thursday evening
September 10, and will begin at 1880. Six
teenth street from Douglas to Cunning Doug
las from Sixteenth to Ninth, Ninth from
Douglas to Farnam and Farnam from Ninth
to Eighteenth, in all twenty-six blocks, will
be illuminated by electricity, lamps being
hung every five feet and fiery arches every
few blocks. Merchants along the line of
march will be urged to illuminate and decor
ate their stores.
On each float besides the driver will be
six men, three on side, each holding two
gasoline lamps with reflector on the out
side so as to throw light on the float Along
the entire line of march red fire will be
burned on both sides Of the street at inter-
walls.
The Coliseum will be painted Venetian red
on the outside and white the inside and
dancing floor will be put down inside of
the bicycle track and on level with it, The
interior of the building will be decorated with
streamers and banners in the colors of the
knights, red, green and yellow.
The work of advertising the event is being
well carried on. The beautiful litAlgraphel
posters which have already become familiar
in Omaha are being scattered broadcast over
Nebraska. Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and South
Dakota. Most of the work of distribution is
being done by the railroads. "a roll of posters
being sent to every agent Every newspaper
N Nebraska has this poster, and man has
been especially employed to tack them up in
the chief towns of Iowa.
A souvenir paper will probably be one of
the pets of the managers of the fete. 1t will
be of eight pages and will have two-page
colored illustration of the parade with an ex-
planat.on of the floats. The paper will con-
tain commercial and other statistics of Omaha
and Nebraska Fifty thousand copies will be
printed to put on sale the morning of the
parade. The proceeds are to be applied ex-
clus.vely toward defraying the expenses of
the undertaking Comics may he i'm
advance of Klopp & Bartlett or Clement
Chase.