The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-25
A SUCCESSFUL CARNIVAL
The Business Mems Jubilee Attracts
Large Audiences.
MUSIC, MIkTH AND JOLLlTY ABOUND
List OF Participants and the Husi.
ness Men Represented. kaiiedo.
scopic Costumes and Pretty Faces.
A Financial success.

The Jubilee at Mason's opera house on
Friday and Saturday nights was a pro-
nounced success. The Kaleidoscope cos
tunes we're brilliant and even gorgeous
and the young folks performed their parts
like old stagers. Stage fright, however,
caused few to forget their pieces fault
remedied on the second evening of the
show. The following is list..of the
PARTICIPANTS.
Mrs. Frazier, Miss Crosno, Miss Pat.
ton. Percy Greene, Mrs. Lesh, Maude
Nash, Nellie Jungst, Carrie Stewart, Jen-
ME Sherwood, Merit Martin, Etha Hen
derson, Minnie and Lulu Leach, Mabel
McEwen, Carrie and Flora Morgan, Al
bertine Rodman, Edward and Georgia
Biehn, Mae Newcomb, Mrs. Tuesley,
Lizzie Ward, Lizzie Berg, Bessie Boyle,
Jennie Young, Eva Smith, Grace Shan
non, Rose Ward, Marie, Alice and Helen
Druse, Sanford Harris. Miss Bass, Miss
Bryson, Josie and Susie Erwin, Maud
Knuppenburg, Miss Yeates, Elsie Leep-
er. Lucy and Marie Schaffner, Marie
Mcdonald, Claudia Spencer, Lucy Mich.
OILS, Lettie Kingsbury, Leslie Rosser,
Maude Null, Miss Wager, Mrs. Lesh,
Mrs. Guthrie, Lizzie Osborne, Ora Forbis.
The queen of the carnival, Mrs. Fra.
zier sat upon her throne with the grace
and lovliness usually attributed to regal
state, receiving her courtiers' homage
with becoming majesty. Miss Ora For
bis, representing the law, was fifty cos
tuned and blindiold as the goddess OF
justice.
The Yakima orchestra discoursed lively
airs and the fifty participants in the
gorgeous parade countermarched up and
down the aisles of the floor, receiving the
hearty plaudits of the people, which
crowded the opera house to the doors.
1t would be invidious to particularize
where all did so well, but space will only
permit individual mention of the charac.
ter representations. Coffin Bros. had
various representatives in the carnival.
The old woman character by Miss Shan.
non was especially fine. as was Miss
Rodman as a Yakima klootchman, or
more properly speaking, an Indian maid.
en-. The dude by Merit Martin was well
attired and much improved upon on the
ancnnA ntuht ~ u.n q, ~
represented by MissCrosno who surmount.
ed by crown OF shoe buttoners carried
a banner Of the house. John Sawbridge
bad for his champion Miss Maud Nash,
with saucepan crown and girdle Of sill.
yer spoons. Miss Nash used some OF
her own poetry to commemorate the &C.
casion. Miss Cary's representative. Miss
Ward, was, perhaps, the most artistically
dressed, sporting beautiful banner. The
Ewing & Mikkelson coal company were
championed by Sanford Harris, wheeling
q barrow Of coal. The North Yakima
Drug Store was we'll advertised by Miss
Minnie Leach, who wheeled q baby
master Frank Schorn) attached to a
nursing bottle to the footligbts. John
W. Thomas was brought to mind by Miss
Lizzie Osborne, in tailor m AIDE suit and
silk hat. Miss MtEwen appeared in a
unique costume for the Otter & Mechtel
bakery. l. II. Dills was charmngly rep
resented by Miss Patton. Maud Null az
the champion OF the Ben ward bakery was
charmingly attired. Carrie Morgan
did the honors for the drug firm of Roaf
& Stout; Mae Newcomb was the chosen
speaker for Madam Conolly's bazaar
Marie Schaffner, appropriately dressed in
green spoke for the Greene Mercantile
Co., and posed for Artist Coombs. Miss
Smith was nicely costumed for Janeck' g
pharmacy; Claudio Spencer, neatly at.
tired in white, represented Rand's meat
market. Miss Nichols with banner sur
rounded with the rim of bicycle, was
Moore d Moore's advocate. Miss Nc
Donald, in coquettish dress and graceful
carriage, with gorgeous banner was the
champion of the Wallace Coburn Hard.
ware company. One OF the mos. taking
characters was Mande Knuppenburg as a
Chinese girl with her laughing song OF
"Ha, ha, me and yon," rhyming with
Lucy's Richelieu. Miss Bass, adorned
with brilliant crown Of tin spoke for
the Yakima Hardware Co. Miss Lettie
kingsbnry with bright banner, orna-
mented with lemons, wittily talked about
the firm OF Mulhollan & Lemon. Otter
Bros. were herslded by Mrs. Lssh, in a
costly and beautiful costume who sweetly