The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-17
|nIIsTON'S HOLIDAY CARNIVAL
,r,,rated With an Illuminated Street Parade
p'' Last Night.
an STREET WAS PACKED WITH PEOPLE
,,nty-fve Hundred Visitors Have Already Arrived in the CITY
r Prooramme for Tonight Attractive Entertainment
at Auditorium Pleasant Chats With Visitors

Guard, uniformed In white duck suits and
spiked white helmets. commanded by Cau-
tam Reichaidt. led the military division.
iolioNed by the Emmett Rifles, under com
mana OF Lieutenant j. c. White The uous-
ton Light Artillery. with cannon and Gals
sons, commanded by Lieutenant Ron. and
nhaiiy the cavalry. Rutherford Rangers,
under command OF Captain rowlcs.
ne military feature made IA fine display
The Light Guard being particularly attrac.
tive in their white uniforms.
Inc second division, also led by band,
consisted OF several prettily designed his
torical floats
The first may have been considered as
representing Texas Independence. as It
presented that famous picture in Texas
history, the capturing of Santa Anna upon
the field of San Jacinto. This Goat bore IN
miniature the famous tree under which
Governor Sam Houston rested with u
wounded leg, surrounded by cotcrie of
his brave followers, when Santa Anna WHO
had been captured on the retreat. was ush-
cred into the presence Of the wounded hero
THIS scene was portrayed with living iig-
ures, representing Houston and his brave
| followers. attired as far as possible la
costumes to suit the commonly accepted
! idea Of what was worn by the early Texans
! in this memorable engagement Santa
| Anna was also there looking sufficiently
detected to suit the idea of a vunquished
| foe.
| Following this was a float that was in
| tended to represent Transportation. In
| the front was constructed the pilot or COW
catcher of a locomotive and while the bal
ance of the float failed to carry out the
| idea Of locomotive it was pretty sue
cesson of pyramids upon each of which
was enthroned a pretty maiden as though
guiding the destiny of the INDUSTRIOUS pilot
along the path of progress
| Then came an old-time Southern planta-
tion cotton picking scene. The float repre-
scented Il miniature cotton patch with the
| hollis we'll open and filled with the flcecy
staple. There was quartette of colored
singers upon this float doing double service
Of picking cotton and singing negro mclo-
| dies,
! An appropriate sequel to this float was
another Immediately following II represent
| ing Houston as the cotton queen. Seated
| upon Cauoped throne IN the rear was a
statuesque young lady typifying the queen
! In the front were two large swans which
| the queen guided with ribbon retns as she
| sat upon her throne. This and the trans
portation float combined llouston's dual
claim to being the railroad aud cotton cen
ter of Texas.
Then followed another illustration In
which Houston is particularly Interested
float representing navigation. It, however
CHANGED to be a battleship and was labeled
| Texas" Some observer noting this wal
critical enough to observe that No wonde
the battleship Texas had so much troubl
if she was constructed like that 1t wa
a turrct armored ship and was realistic
enough to incite ideas of marine warfare
This feature of the parade concluded wit
float which was crude and very poo
attempt at representing Santa Claus
to answer all purposes, but beyond til
whiskers there was nothing further sug
gestivo of the idea OF Santa Claus
| Following in the wake OF the parade ver
a number of advertising wagons, digrifie
by the appellation Trades display"
The first was a handsome white hors
with the legend TRY the Model Laundry.
painted upon either side. Some Of the dc
livery wagons Of the Model laundry fol
lowed the painted equine.
Then came Mr. 81 Packard, followed b
six of the delivery wagons for the Tro
laundry.
Mr.. Grunewald's wagon was the best
the trade WAGONS, but it failed to captui
the first prize
After this came three wagons of the Ca
vert Coal company. Chimene's moyin
wagons and several others.
The South Texas Coal company had pre-
pared very pretty wagon for the occasion
E but IL became partially dismantlcd befoi
getting into line and will probably |
permitted to follow the ilremens parat
tonight
The committee on awards gave the fir
prize OF slj to the Model laundry; secor
+, prize, $40 10 Grunewald. and third prizes
4 to tho Calvert Coal company.
II, Each of the floats were illuminated wit
u Roman lights and colored fire as the pa
. AIDE moved it's course up Main street
Rusk and back en- Travis to Congress
> Chairman Abbott Cockrell OF the ente
u tainment committee acted as mounted ma
. shall in charge of the floats, assisted by NJ
John Patrick
y, One great fault that marred the effe
W of the line was that everything was crow
ed too close together.
,tl As the parade on its return turned in
- Congress avenue from Travis, the fir
y works wagon as is usually the csss wi
:, such events. caught fire with all the fir
.s works exploding at once. The result WI
a that the wagon had to be cut out Of Il
a parade and it was left burning in q
street and would have been completely co.
sumed had II not been for the arrival
10 the chemical engine.
in The parade dsbanded in front Of II
IA Post.
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