The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-16
MINNEAPOLIS CARNIVAL.
Some Features Entirely New are to
be introduced There.

The Minneapolis (AIinn) Journal
gives an interesting account of the fall
carnival which is to take place in that
city that will be interesting to the com
nittee of fifteen and others and gives
an idea of what Topeka should emulate
as far as her finances will permit. The
Journal says:
The coming fall festivities will take
place during the entire week beginning
festivities after the nature of the
famous street pageants and exhibits of
a spectacular rather than civic char
acter. There will be a separate and dis
given each evening Of the week, with
the exception possibly of Saturday in
Difference to the wishes of many mer-
chants.
In the parades it is proposed to pre-
sent the most Overwhelming. grand and
stupendOus out of door amusement ESex-
hibitiOn ever attempted in any western
city, with the possible single exceptions
of New Orleans and St. Louis The
main object of the exhibition will be to
cater to the amusement of the thOuS
ands of visitors that will be in the city.
Three of the main streets will be rOped
off and used as one tremendous arena
for miscellaneous features. These fea-
lures will be somewhat as follows:
Tournaments, chronological congress,
regiments of living pictures, caravans
of novel floats, aerial artists, the rarest
kinds of animals, champion riders of
many nations and race representatives
In fact a travelling out of doors exhibit
ton of every business interest and
every country's best and most unique
attractions.
One of the novel features to be pre-
scented will be an athletic and running
contest. participated in by an assem-
blage of the worlds most curious hu-
man beings, such as Javanese, Singu-
lar Singhalese, Moody MalayS, Knowing
r,7Ire-
Audacious AIgerians, Daring Dahomy
Amazons. Suave Siamese, Blythe Bur-
mese, HindOOs, Pagans, Esquimaux,
Nubians, Polynesians, Dyaks, Sil1hs,
Nubian IdOiaters. MOhammedans, Budd-
hists and Cannibals. IN one evenings
pageant it is the purpose to have 5000
vocalists marching in costume and rem
dering such selections as may be con-
Sidered appropriate to the occasion by
the directors of the various singing
organizations of the northwest.
Another feature will be the utilizing
of the famous Partisan confetti and
serpentins. The confetti and serpen-
tins are a curious Partisan invention on
public carnival occasions The former
are not the dangerous, brutal balls of
plaster used at Nice and Italy, which
make it necessary to protect the face
with a wire mask; they are little pei
lets of colOred paper. As it was OBJ
served at the last mardi gras in Paris
that unScrupulOuS dealers gathered
these pellets from the street in order
to sell them again, the public, by a sort
of silent understanding made use of
pellets of only one color. It would
have been too much trouble to sort the
mixed coIors taken from the cutters.
The SerpentinS are long strips of col
ored paper that unroH when they are
thrown, with one end in the hand; they
catch on persons, on trees on balconies
and float by thousands overhead. I'm
luckily the whole effect is spoiled when
the rain falls on them.
Many local singing societies, G. A. r.
posts and other organizations will COM
pete with one another and with the
king of the Festivities himself, to
make this years carnival more gor-
geous than any ever attempted here.
One of the interesting features in both
Europe. St. Louis and New Orleans
each season has been the election of
the most popular and beautiful lady in
these localities to act as Queen Of the
Carnival