The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-08
THE NINY LIE tAkADE.

THE bIIl lie PARADE
Tire bicycle parade, as feature o. The
( Fruit Flower and Vegetable Fe uval. vas
/ pronounced success in every detail. Most
/ people Including visitors. knew what to
/ expect in tire ordinary run Of fruits flowers
( AID vegetables, but no one wss aware o.
! ihe beautiful illuminated surprises that
greeted the thousands who thronged tie
[ ST. .; J 81 ight and gave ev,t eace o, her
appreciation b. constant shouting. elaprflg
/ of hands and outspoken words Of praise
! Ii was a surprise even to these who knew
what a bicycle parade was, and even they
| were not pr pared for it IN the glou7us
ma---g in which j. came. There wer@ all
| kinds Of ntiment there for pleasure.
h<se who had no faculty for admiration
/ In the farmers comlcal wheel, with hay
ar4 cow bell decorations could admire
beauty in all its chastity under moonlight
I REELECTION Ia the floats repr senting "Pur.
/ ity' and Queen OF the Carnival"
! NJ committees III ch4rge OF tns work.
led by Mr. r X. Dillingham; as chairman.
work q faithfully and with wise discretion,
/ AID 10 them no small share OF the success
/ - due.
Many 81 The wheels taking part had been
! decorated fully a week befcren and and
| carefully seereted and housed away that no
cne might diyulge the secret OF their ieas
| iT decoration a1d at the same time with
calculation to shoot out at the appointed
! time as A meteor ard b. come d fac;or Of
I tie general surprise.
Aong the streets fires OF red lights
BLENDED with electric lights and gave such
t,nis 70 the shining unstl and tissue paper
used In decorating as 10 make the whole
Veritabie moving tableauN on whees.
Houston people have nsver had night
| Earade for years to equal it, and no ouA
knew the amount OF artistic skill that was
In dormant possession of the bicycle bows,
only waiting fitting opportunity to pre-
sent itself
The wheels decorated ard ready to enter
all except Lighting UP. INST between I 80
ard O'Clock on Crawford street and Nc
Kinney avenue, where large crowd b.
gan 10 gather TO inspec; them rs they came
up Promptly at Sis, at the command of
Grand Marshal Jerome Swinford the par
ade commenced TO move along Mckinney
avenue towards Travis street, h5 AIDED By
the band IN decorated wagoa, and Officers
/ EIichson Smith ard Osborne OF the pol ce
! force in full uniform and mounted on
wheels
The following is a list OF names who en-
tered for the parade. some with and others
without decoration:
Rowland Breaker l.. ]. Stubenrauch
ADRIAN Drexier. Alphonse Stude Master.
FRANK Williams, c. C. Duercr Charley L.
Zapp, Arthur Shelley. Henry Williams.
Lawrence Carr. George A. Rick, j. STAINS
field. NJ Il. Waddeil, f. o. Jones. Jr., Al
bert Chimene, George Bringhurst f. o.
Barmore, Sam Kaiser NJ. c. Harris VIM.
Forte. Ike Keller Frank Fendley. V. NJ.
Kills Louis +. Skeliey. Alex Keller F. S
Rookie. Hamilton Keegans. T.. r. Baxaat.
Waiter Cockroll, o. NJ DAILY. Vim. p. Ca
tero, Adolph Schulze. A C. Haugh. L. H
Meyer, r. a. Bond r. H. Archer. Alex
lliig. Joe Julett, Thomas c. Coping. S.
White, Sol Gordon, NJ. A. Grant, A. C.
Hardesty, Thomas b Lehman, Carl Dubsr.
fhil Holmes, l.. A. Drummer, Robert Cav
thorne. G. A. W. Rulfs, Otto Lamb, w. L.
sahdet' T. T. Sellers. L. Rosenwald. Edgar
Newiand, Leon Lusk. Rudolph KnoIel.
odin NJ Kendall, A. j. Kaelin, A. w
Stude, II NJ. Dudley, Julian Jatzen.
thari's 5 Caplen, Harry W Reynolds.
Arch NJ, Cuimore. Emil Keller. Charles
Erickson, J. Massie Dolen Sam Lewis.
Joe Loeb. a. " Kellogg John Z. Roberts.
EDWIN Hornberger. Abe Harris. Robert
Duerer, j. c. Cayiness. Charles J. New
mar. Ike Kaiser. H S Melvin. Roy Spore.
Arthur Potter, Thomas Z. Gaffney, George
\. CTagin, r. z. Patterson. Lord Chaneel-
lor. w. o. Breedlove, G. e. Wad6ell.
Adair Lcckman, e D. Junkin. John Quail
trough James d. Brightwen. o. Cecil J.
! tlemeut De Lacy, John T.. Dickson Jr.
James W Mckee, Clark ]. Mildly. n. c.
Moore. S, c, Pennington, James NJ. Wheel
Ter w A. Hunter. Henry Dudley R L.
Girard, Henry Michels, J. G. Albert. John
r. Parkhill Earnest Sayre. C. NJ. Kilgore.
r., ~ Estes, c. l.. Boring, Courtney
Huteheson, Ed A. Sellers. T. T. Swearin.
gen. Theodore Boring, Jr.. Bismarck Diizer.
rawes q, sturgts, A. NJ Eastland, Je.
rome SNfnford, Jr,. II, l., Mitchell. o. II
Reed. March Culmore, n. d. Stiles Glenn
eut Kattachie. II. L. Beach. Charles Can
len, j NJ. STEPHENS. c.. T. Sharpe, J. B.
Hlne. c. r, George. n. j. George Sol Cor.
don, j. a. Mckinney. n. r Bsssette Reg
,oinangeauN. Nj, J. Losing r. p. Botts
Henry Han, A. H Vaughn ]. W. Cor
and others whose names could not be
learned
The following is a list OF the prize win.
ners;
Glass B--open to men and boys ever Is
years OF age; for handsomest decorated
| oiekcle or tandem.
| First prize won by H. VIII Rulfs; ser-
ond prize won by FGank Williams,
| Glass B-open to boys under Il years OF
age only; for handsomest decorated BIZ
cycle or tandem.
| First prize won by Joe Juett; second
| prize won by Leon I.usk
Glass c-open 20 men and boys for the
most sttractively arranged decoration in
which two or more bicycles are used.
flrst prize won by the float representing
Huohegson, T. B. Tolman, A. II. Vaughn.
| r. T. Bertram, A. c. Hardesty, W. l.. Den-
mis- and A. NJ. Eastland Little Maud
smith. representing the emblem OF rurity.
| Second prize won by the doat :e, recent
ing Queen Of the Carnival IN wh,ch The
L fnN,r art. I-h.