The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-08
SARATOGA'SB BIG CARNIVAL.
TIE BATTLE OF FLOWERS ATTRACTS
10000 VISITORS.

Tons or Flowers Decorated the Parade ana
Artcrward Cnrpcted the yciists
In Varied Co-fHnes some OF the FIFTY
Floats In Lino0sarntoEn's Largest Hall.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y, Sept. The streets
OF Saratoga are carpeted tonight with flowers
souvenirs OF the fourth annual floral f6te and
the spent shot of the battle Of flowers, which took
place this afternoon. Over these flower.covered
thoroughfares so. 900 visitors and every man, wo-
man, and child of the Ii, o residents are push
ing and pulling and crowding In their efforts to
see and be seen. The music of a score of bands
minglcs with the shouts of street fakirs. and
myriad lanterns and electric lamps make tho
whole town brilliant with light.
The people began coming into the village last
night, and they did not stop coming until 3
o'clock this afternoon. Tho vanguard Of to-
days visitors arrived from tho south by tho
first regular train over tho Delaware md Hud-
son, which reached hero at z o'clock this morn.
ing. Following this other trains, regular ana
special, came in over the same road every thirty
minutes, and toward noon every fifteen min
utcs. Three special trains besides the two rCHu-
lar trains came down from tho Adirondack.
and ten special trains came in over the Fitch.
burg Railroad.
Florists from as far south rs Poughkeepsie
and as far west as Utica were called upon to
furnish material for the decorations, and tho
gardens OF the village and the fields OF the coun-
thing that bore a blossom. Wagon loads Of
flowers began coming in from the country yes
terday afternoon, and the last one was seen CO.
Ing up Broad way Just after the parade started
themunls. hydranRens, asters. and marigolds ar
rived this morning.
The parade was in charge OF Justice William
were. ex-senator Eugene f.. O'Connor OF Brook
lyn; Deman Vail. Capt; Scott rownc. Major John
5. Fassctt and Dr. 4. s. Childs. The parade
moved in three divisions. The irst division was
made OF $40 bicyclists. commanded by John Il.
Yates Of the New York, Athletic club. Two
command OF Mrs. Frank II. Smith. All tho
wheels were most deliberately decorated. All the
rode in n %piatoons o F'" Sixteen saa i tho Bicycles s 9
Of each platoon and the sashes OF the riders
being of different cOlors from every other
platoon. One of tho most effective subdivisions
of the bicycle division was that made up of
Capt; James "; LesE After the soldiers came
tions from the Brooklyn, Bicycle, Club, the
Athletie club. The bicycle floats we're *:
crescent. made entirely of hydrangras, with
Flora sitting In the chariot. which was
dressed in white. In another chariot sat Venus,
the little daughter OF Emmet Harrington. driv:
whom we're mounted on Wheels trilnrncd With
white roses. One hundred carriages FOLLOWED
the bicycles, The floats. about fifty in all; drew
wa a. lia M loib lLl' IN VI
march. The float OF the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company. n representation in flowers Of
the first locomotive ever run in this country;
that Of tho Floral Association representing a
hugo bouquet, each flower being a child's face,
all but hidden in the flower it represented, and
Clement, representing the famous high rock
spring. with native Indians OF the Oneida tribe
carrying the wounded Sir William Johnson TO
battle in its waters, received the favor of the
judges.
The floral ball was held tonight in Convention
Hall, IL was the largest attended function of
the kind ever given in Saratoga. Six thousand
persons were present.