The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-09
PORTLAND'S GREAT DAY
Will Be On the Fifth Day Of Next
July,
THE MORNING PARADE WILL BE
GRANDEST EVER SEEN IN MAINE.

The Citizens Committee Are Enthusiastic
Over the Beautiful Mardi Gras Floats
Bring Them Here.-The Schools Will
Form Interesting Feature of the
Parade.-A long List of Novelties and
Attractions Will Be offered.
The glorious Fourth is drawing near
and the city government committee
which has the celebration of Independence
Day in charge is finding about all it can
attend to in completing the arrange
ments and carrying out the plans for this
event.
At a meeting of the committee last
night it was voted to hold meetings every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday eve
nings from now until the Fourth Of July.
The meetings on Thursday will occur
at eight o'clock and the other nights the
committee will meet at half past seven.
All of the military companies in Port
land have voted to parade on the Fourth
and the High scl-4l cadets, Bosworth
l. Ooos ~. a. L., blO fCtC1dh l.
the Portland Fire department and various
other organiza tions and orders both mill
| tary and civic have accepted invitations
to turn out or will shortly do SO. The
Maine Signal Corps will on that day
have as their guests the Signal Corps OF
Mass .asetts and these will also take
| part in the parade. A chief marshal has
been selected and will in few days be
ready to announce his chiefs of divisions,
his aids and the route of the procession.
Mr.. Lewis A. Goudy of the citizens
committee which has volunteered to raise
a sum sufficient to bring to Portland the
Mardi Gras floats which are now in Bos-
ton, has got his committee in working
order and expects the citizens when called
upon to respond literally and subscribe
such sum as may enable the City OF
Portland to put in the parade of July 9th
the biggest show that it has ever seen
| These floats will bring into Portland full
ly $4,000 people as good rates have been
secured on all railroads and the feature
of the parade and the great attractions
Portland is to offer on that day will be
advertised very extensively throughout
the state. 1t is expected that this
pageant of military, sailors from the war
ships, civic orders, trades procession, the
beautiful Mardi Gras floats, the barges
especially decorated by the school, the
carriages containing prominent state anG
city officials, the fire department. and the
other features will be over mile and g
half in length and will eclipse anything
that has beensever before attempted il
Maine.
The teachers Of the public schools hello
a meeting yesterday afternoon in the
office of the superintendent of school anG
decided to put into the parade ten floats
barges or buck boards finely decorated
and carrying children from all of the
| grammar, high and parochial schools in
the city. This feature of the parade viii
be most interesting one and promises tt
be in no ways inferior to the other mag
nifcent features which have been decided
upon.
| For the other attractions of this day o.
days many exceedingly interesting novel
ties will be presented. Something will BIZ
going on from sunri Sc to late in the eve
ming and there will be bicycle illumi
mated parade at night to interest the
| strangers who remain in the city.
Councilman Driscoll who has the row.
| ing regatta in hand has learned of some
crack amateur oarsmen in Bangor an6
Lewiston who wish to take part in the
races here and it is believed that these
races will be hotly contested and the
best ever seen in Portland