The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-05-04

Held Through the Central streets-stores
in Center of the City Will be in Gala At
tire-Great Rush for Tickets at Dstribu-
ting Stations-A Free Entertainment.
Shortly after 8 o'clock tomorrow
morning the crowds from the surround
ing towns will begin to arrive in New
Haven to take advantage of the many
features to be provided for them on the
occasion of the carnival by New Ha-
ven's enterprising merchants. These
gentlemen have shown a truly laudable
public spirit and desire to benefit the
city in arranging for this novel plan of
calling the attention of residents in
near by towns to New Haven's superior
natural advantages as an industrial
center. At a large expense and with no
small amount of work they have at last
perfected plans whereby the carnival
gives now every promise of being a
grand success and an event which will
not soon be forgotten in New Haven S
history.
For two months the gentlemen in
charge of the arrangements for the car
nival have been actively at work select
ing from the many plans proposed for
the day those which appeared most
feasible and advantageous. At many
points during the preparation obstacles
L.,
getic and determined would have SEEM
ed insurmountable and caused them to
have given up in despair. But New
Haven merchants are not made of that
kind Of stuff. They are men of pur-
pose, and having fixed upon a purpose
they have the executive and admins
trative ability to accomplish all they
design.
The various committees appointed
from members of the executive COM
mittee have done fully and well the
work which lay in their respective de-
partments. The transportation commit
tee was met at the outset of it's work
by a refusal of the railroad to accede
in any way to their request for re-
duction of fares on carnival day and
also to allow the merchants committee
to charter trains and run them free
from outlying points. Nothing daunt-
ed, the committee at once set to work
to evolve new plan, with the result
that it was decided to give out aboslute.
ly free tickets to ladies in surrounding
towns on the route Of special trains tc
be run, and in accordance with this de-
! cision $500 free transportation tickets
have been provided to be given out ir
| nine near by towns.
Perhaps the hardest work that has
been done in preparing for the carnival
was by the publicity committee. This
committee began at once after its ap-
pointment to organize a system by
which the carnival could be most wide
ly advertised with the least expense
Surrounding towns were placarded and
through the medium of the newspapers
they heralded far and wide the ad-
vantages which New Haven would Offer
to visitors on May 5. Large posters
were placed in the stations of smaller
towns hereabouts and In fact no possi-
BILE way of advertising the carnival was
overlooked.
The entertainment committee has
done its work we'll and has arranged fol
a most interesting program to be given
at the Hyperion between the hours OF
10 and 2 o'clock tomorrow, the use OF
the theater having been rendered gratis
to the committee for that purpose by
Manager G.. B. Bunnell, who has CO.
operated with the merchants in every
way possible to conduce to the success
of the undertaking. Through his gen
erosity in giving benefit performance
by first class company, a neat check
was turned over to the merchants and
aided greatly in paying the expense in
cident in the preparations for the carni.
val
The entertainment committee has Sc
cured some of the best local talent to
take part in the Hyperion entertain
ment which will be free to visitors
Frank Fichtl, leader Of the Second Reg
iment band. has generously offered to
furnish music for the entertainment free
of charge and for the performance, his or
chestra consisting of thirty of the best
musicians of the city, will be one of the
leading features of the program. Those
who will take part in the entertainment
are, as follows: FichtPs orchestra
thirty pieces; Miss Margaret Goodyear
Smith, elocutionist and soloist of con-
siderable local prominence; the Davis
sisters, Mona and Elsie, who will give
| a first class exhibition of fancy dane
ing, in which they are performers OF
great merit, although but children; the
Fenton trio of ring performers; the
Olympia quartet, which will sing a num-
Der of its best selections, and Evans
and Devers, two well known profes-
sional dancers and singers of this city
1t is possible that the committee will
add to this program one or two more
numbers to-day.
Another feature to be provided fol-
the entertainment of visitors and resi-.
dents as well is an exhibition by the
fire department of New Haven, to be
given on the old green. This will take
place at about 2:30 p. m. 1t was at first
proposed that a parade of the depart
ment be held, but it was decided that
this would be inadvisable owing to the
insecure condition in which such a pa
rade would leave the city in case of fire
A bureau of comfort will be estab-
lished in the old Mcintyre store at S31
Chapel street, and there attendants will
be stationed to give desired infOrma tior
and to check parcels. The bureau OF
comfort will also furnish al the same