The Portland daily press., 1897-07-06

III Gn6 line. LII Was d hStSh otaHoe ullet
with pretty girls and good looking youn.
men. The boat had floral oars made o
daisies and all of the people in the fioa
wore white costumes.
II. NJ. Smith, the photographer, put ,
very pretty drag in the line. 1t was deco
rated in pink and white and driven by =,
young man in white, while behind undel
a pink canopy sat two very pretty young
ladies in pink costume.
Then came float No. 8, entitled
Poseidon's craft.
This float represents Poseidon's craft
the mythology Of which Greek god scarce
ly needs reiteration. Poseidon, ruler Of
the seas, bearing aloft his three pronged
car No, 8, represents purely con the
Water-Fanciful, for such horses as
Poseidoh is alleged to have driven in his
canter over the waves would hardly be
put together even by the most rash re-
builders of fossil remains. Poseidon is
seen to be enthroned in an immense sea
shell drawn by these monster horses.
A team from the American Express
company, gaily decorated, with flags,
was loaded with trunks.
Then came Mardi Gras float No. 4, en-
titled Lohengrin's Swan Team, celebrated
alike in some of the sublimest poetry
and the sublirnest music by the sublimest
masters. Preceding the boat in which
Lohengrin stands is the brace of white
swans with gilded crests, resting as spot
less white and as gracefully on the surface
Of the ripping waves as a real swan
might, wings uplifted as If just alighted
or with purpose to catch the impetus Of
the breeze that is ripping the water.
Three wagons of the Fleisch1nann'
yeast company tastefully decorated, fol
lowed the float. The attendants were
dressed in white and carried banners.
Two little girls, all in white, came
next, driving white carriage hauled by
milk white horse. This team was q
great feature of the parade and attracted
lots Of attention. Behind it came one Of
Winslow's big oil tanks adorned with
bunting and flags.
Following this was the ''Warship Of
Carthage" the fifth of the. Mardi Gras
floats. This gilded boat, with flowing
sail and formidable brazen beak, used fol-
punching the sides out of the enemy
vessel, is a faithful material picture Of
the vessel of the Carthagenians. The
STERN of the boat is rounded up with 8
formidable buttress, which was solid
enough except as against the cross moods
of Neptune and the beak of the Roman
galley. Archers and soldiers are seer
upon its decks and in front of the protec
ton guarding his back stands the com
mander Of the craft
: A wagon piled high with paint pail:
and cans represented j. E. Gould & Co.
The Moxie team driven by man il
costume and gay with flags, came next.
The next was float No. 6 of the Mard
Cars display. 1t was entitled In the
Polar Seas" The freezing fancies asso
ciated with polar bears, perpetual icicles
O feeble sun and mountains of ice trooI
up as car No. 6 advances. 1t represents
matters 'tOn the Polar Seas where the
sternness of nature is supplemented by
the compensation of its many beauties
The ship is seen to be in the foes of Thu
icebergs and ice peaks, and has SO many
icicles on the masts and rigging that
there is a suggestion Of them in the whis
kers of the polar bears hard by.
IT. woo r,rottr hot for tho boorc o,,d +Lo,
looked liked boiled Holsters when they
got out of their heavy costumes at the
end of the parade.
The Bloomer club cigar was a hand.
somely decorated white carriage drawn by
a pair of prancing horses.
A big cigar on the top of pretty team
represented the firm of Cook, Everett &
Pennell and advertised the Thomas B
Reed cigar.
Randall & McAllister, the enterprising
prettily decorated and exhibiting theil
different sizes of coal. Two of the wagons
bore big pieces of coal weighing over a
ton apiece.
Car No. z of the Mardi Gras exhibit
came next. This was entitled "Charon' Is
Ferry on the Styx."
.Charon, the grim ferrymanssof the Styx,
for such this river of mythology was
called, has done deal of work in his
time, and his ever-crowded ferryboat in
this superb picture car No. Z, is shown
to be approaching the cave where for1nid.
able, tri-headed Cerberus keeps up his
eternal bark. Forming a background tc
his red and fiery eyes, the flames of the
Internal regions are seen casting up their
glare Charon's ferry comes from bank
Astounding in water rushes and lilies.
Hutchinson & Cain had a team next in
line showing what they could do in iron
work.
Flynn, the painter, had four. handsome
teams which followed along after this.
The drivers all wore white suits and
looked very smart, indeed,
A. R.Wright & Co., another firm Of en-
terprising coal dealers, had nine well
decorated wagons in line next and this
exhibit was very interesting.
G. F. Tibbetts put in team gay with