The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17
FLOWER MISSION FAIR
FEATURES OF THE COMING "FEsTI-
VAL OF HOLIDAYS"
A Living Chess Game rnd Bicycle Fig
ures-M0vements of Prom
ineDt People.

The preliminary work of the Flower Mis-
sion fair has never been so well in hand
thus early in the season as it is this year.
The solicitation is about completed and the
general outlines are finished. The fair will
be a festival of holidays. Tomlinson Hall,
which has presented many attractive fea-
lures in the way of decoration for fairs and
entertainments will be entirely unique this
fall. 1t will be arranged like garden and
hundreds Of yards of Southern smilax have
been ordered. The first evening there will
be an arbor, with numerous colored electric
lights to form a court for the booths. The
general color scheme will be green, and
each booth will represent some holiday of
the year. The first night there will be
band concert and one or two surprises For
this night the ceiling will be rows upon
rows of lanterns, with incandescent lights.
There will be numerous small tables scat
tered about, where ices, ice cream, coffee
chocolate, sandwiches and other delicacies
may be ordered. Between the programme
numbers there will be a special entertain7
ment at the Alice in Wonderland booth
and living pictures at the art booth. The
entertainments for the other evenings will be
quite out of the ordinary, the game of liv-
ing chess being a notable feature, as well
as a terpsichorean figure on wheels. Miss
Emily Garrard, of West Virginia, who has
arranged the chess and who is to be in the
city, will assist the amusement committee
that evening. There viii be special features
also at the lunch booth and at the inn, at
tractive menus and special facilities for pri-
vate supper parties being two of them The
names of the booths, with the holiday rep
resented and the heads of each, appear be-
low. The lists of assistants in each booth
has not been completed
Christmas (the art booth)-Mrs. John c..
New.
Thanksgiving of Puritan Days Gnn)-Mrs.
James NJ. Winters and Mrs. Bement Lyman.
Birthday (dolI booth)-Mrs. Samuel Reid
and Miss Agnes Duncan.
Washingtons Birthday (candy) - Mrs
Charles II. Wood.
New Years library booth, with a post
ONCE, a valentine department and maya
zine)-A1iss Harriet Noble, Miss May Shpp,
Moore
Easter (lowers)-Mrs Augustus Coburn
and Mrs Clifford Arrick.
April Fool tAiice in Wonderland)-Mrs
Preston Bowman
Labor Day (househOld)-Mrs j. II. Loves
and Mrs. Frank M. Talbot.
Fourth of July (beyerages)-Mrs. M. II.
Spades and Mrs George w. Sloan.
ST. Mchaeis Day (ice cream)-Mrs. Henry
w: Tutewiler and Miss Gertrude Goodhart.
St Patricks Day aprons and baskets)-
Mrs. Enrique c. Miller and Mrs. Charles B.
lockwood
Luncheon-Mrs. Emma Louden and Mrs
Charles Johnson.
The amusement committee consists of Miss
Louise Garrard, chairman. assisted by Miss
Elizabeth Dye, Miss Stella Walcott Mrs. j.
w. Beck. Miss Deborah d. Moore, Miss Sa-
rah Willard, Mr.. Gordon Varney and Mr.
Newton Booth Harrington.
The magazine. Once a Year, will be in
charge of Miss May Louise Shipp. The
magazine, will be the size of Modern, Art
and will be representative of the best liter
airy and artistic talent. The list of contrib
utors includes James Whitcomb Riley, j. NJ
Bowles, editor of Modern Art Evaleen
Stein Margaret Butler Snow, Mrs. S. w.
Butler, Mrs. Annie Porter Mason, Miss
Catherine Merrill, Allan Hendricks, Mere
dith Nicholson, Melville B. Anderson of Lee
land Stanford. jr, University Newton Booth
Harrington and Charles W. Moores. The
artists are T. G. Steele, r. b. Gruelle, Will
lam Forsyth and Otto Stark. The cover,
in gray and gold. is the design of Miss Mary
Y Robinson. The fair will open Tuesday
evening, Nov. 8, at Tomlinson Hall.