The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-09
NO MORE
CARNIVALS.
The "Karnival Night Per-
fOrmanceS at Kansas City
viii Be Abolished Hereafter
Say the Police.
ROWDYIsM RAMPANT.
Thousands of People Smeared
With Paint, Clothes Ruined.
All the Tough Element Of Kan
sas City Abroad
And the Merry Making Soon
Became Riot.

DCC1AAAC q AuAOge
Kansas City. Oct 9.-The police and
the promoters OF the carnival night OF
Kansas City's autumn festivities have
abolished the carnival
What began as a revel. harmless and
innocent, degenerated last night into q.
free-for-an revel. AS a consequence,
many violations Of the laws of good be-
havior took place, and even violations
OF city ordinances were noticed
Drunkenness became all too common;
/ vulgarity came to the surface, and
/ breaches of the city's laws We're not
/ only frequent but repeated. The police
! wagons We're on the run all evening,
and load after load of noisy and law
less men were hauled up before the
desk at central station. More than 100
people were arrested last night between
the hours Of and midnight. Most OF
/ them were charged with snirching citi-
zens with grease paint and throwing
/ -four about promiscuously. In a major
/ ity of cases the offenders We're repri-
manded by Chief Irwin, who was on
/ duty at the station, and then released
Women with handsome dresses came
to the station and exhibited garments
/ which the registers had ruined by
i sprinkling filthy stuff upon them. Mem
bers of the police force did not escape,
as several officers showed up at the
/ station looking badly disfigured from
I paint, grease and -four. A large stone
was driving the ambulance past the
/ ives driving the ambulance past the
corner of Tenth and Walnut streets
about 10 O'Clock.
Chief of Police Irwin was greatly ex-
/ ercised over the license which the rev.
/ eleFs took, and in speaking of the mat
ter said,
There will never be another earni-
] val night as long as am chief of po-
/ lice of this city I mean what I say.
/ The parade in the afternoon is all right,
i but when people take charge of the
] streets in open defiance to law and order
] it is time to stop, and / propose to emo
this rowdyism next year il I am in
office 1t is an outrage and nine-tenths
of the citizens of this town, I am sure.
are opposed to it. It is too late to stop
it tonight, or I would do So No time
in the future while am in charge of
the affairs of this department, shah
j rioting be permitted as it has been to-
night.
II win take steps tomorrow to have
| this question brought before the proper
/ committee of the council and whether
I am in Office next year or not. I shall
/ do my best as q citizen to stop it. 1t
is a disgrace
/ Chief Irvin's wishes will be respected,
as far as the Karnival Krewe is con-
/ cerned. In fact, the officers Of this or
/ ganIzation claim that as far as that is
! concerned, it never was their affair.
I Mr.. Eugene G. E. Jaccard, who is king
/ Ki Ki. the head of the Krewe, said last
/ night regarding it;
/ Il did not go down town later than 10
! o'clock tonight, so am somewhat sur
/ prised over the reports of disorder. AS
matter Of fact we turn the city over
to the police at o'clock and have moth
/ ing more to do with the thing. We were
| very successful with our band contest,
/ and expect to have that a regular fea-
ture hereafter As far as the directors
of the Krewe are concerned. we are per
fectIy willing the Karnival night should
be abolished. We never favored it,
anyhow
w Z. Benson, secretary of the Krewe
was equally certain that the organiza-
/ ton would gladly dispense with even
/ its quasi sanction Of the revels of Kzr-
nival night. He said last night
I'VE have nothing to do with the bus
1 mess l was not down town at all, be-
/ low Grand avenue. Our show was there,
at the grand stand, where our band
/ contest took place, and / went there
/ and nowhere else. We are very will
ling the Karnival kavorting should be
/ given up
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of Pallas was also asked regarding it.
He said:
THE Karnival Krewe is a separate
I organization entirely from the Priests
/ of Pallas, and the two have no cOnnec-
ton whatever. We have our show and
/ they have theirs; we do not conflict nor
do we work together. So that officially
I have nothing to say But as citizen
/ and one of the OriginatOrs Of the fall
/ festivities I certainly am opposed to
] such actions as are reported as taking
i place tonight. I have not been down
/ town so can not speak except from
heresay. but it ought to be stopped by
I all means"
Rev. Dr C. B. Mitchell said: "I am
/ positively opposed to the riOting after
/ dark"
SOME OF THE INCIDENTS
Women upon the streets Jared no bet
/ ter than the men Early in the even
/ ing the crowd concluded that all women
/ must have their faces painted. 1t was
! an odd thing. Nothing of the kind had
! ever been attempted on any other Car
/ nival night Somebody. however, daubed
/ some black paint in some WOman's face
! and this struck the humOrists as a good
! thing. There was rush for drug
/ stores and grocery stores. Stove black
/ ing. grease paint, both black and red
/ anything that could be rubbed upon the
/ hands and then smeared upon some
/ ones face was purchased, and in half
/ an hour the face of every woman upon
the streets had been smeared.
Beautiful women dressed in the height