The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-03
VISIT OVER.
Three Thousand Makers in Car
nivaI Dress Welcome Her.
The Parade a Snowy and Yarie-
gated One.
aHigh Rolling" Began Promptly at
Nine O'clock and Lasted Un-
til Midnight

Topeka is now able to give Rome
pointers.
Several noble, bowling Romans, who
we're in the karnivaI crush last night
said so this afternoon when they
came to-"
And at least 10000 people who were
on Kansas avenue last night and saw
LORNA and the elephant and the 5000
maskers viii back up any noble Roman
that says so.
some short sighted man or set of
men had issued an order that no tin
horns should be blown on Karnival
night before o'clock.
"a regiment Of soldiers couldn't have
stopped 1T.
AT Z O'Clock horns we're going By
o'clock broad Kansas avenue was one
surging mass of tin horns and people.
The pavement was undiscoverable
Never was there such a crowd on
Kansas avenue before
Not even on Thursday night when it
was thought that not another person
could possibly have been wedged in.
The noise was deafening and the red
fire was binding
Who got up this karnIval in the in
terests Of the ear ana eye specialists.
anyway
Who got up this karnival in the in
terests Of the Asphalt Paving com
pany2
The parade did not arrive on Kansas
avenue tin nearly o'clock.
Policemen cleared the way for L0-
rfna, the Beautiful the majestic.
As she came by with her elephant
and her car her willing subjects pros
trated each other that LORNA might
get necks''
cried in their ecstacy-
All right said the police, Eve
won't to- and they didn't.
LORNA. the Beautiful, sat on an
elephant that was enclosed in a chick
en- fence on q car. The elephant was
Of goodly stature and LORNA occupied
d chair.
He was a very ferocious elephant as
became the occasion and the several
attendants and keepers were kept busy
all during the parade holding him UP.
he'd fire was burned along the way
and the oxford crowd in mask came be-
hind and burned more red fire.
-Cleopatra's barge" by Crosby Bros,
was particularly good. Cleopatra was
eolored and sat in a. very dilapidated
boat on a float Her attendants We're
also colored and the flags that hung
from the masts and ropes were the
family washing
The Santa Fe Office boys and their
burlesqua Flora" were also equal to
the occasion OF course Flora" was a
man.
The Bachelors club gave the streets
81 Cairo. dancers and all on a float
The Pennington Band" was also out
and there We're a large number of fea-
lures i'm the parade that were fully
enjoyed by the big jam of people
Batwa en- the features We're sandwich
ed several hundred of the maskers
making night as hideously merry as
possible.
After the parade the real fun began.
For two hours pandGin) emonium
reigned and every body did just what he
or she pleased.
But it was thoroughly well behaved.
There was no rowdyism. and the 200 pO-
Icemen did not get chance to show
their bravery.
The masking" was NOT by any
means confined to young people. There
were old people out. one of the very
highest rollers was a woman of so with
gray hair She wore no mask and
simply had her face painted
There was every imaginable charac-
ter from clowns to priests and from
Indians to japanese.
Iopeka's first karnival was a great
success and the general opinion is that
it be made regular annual feature.