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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
WHAT THE POLICE ARE DOING
Orders Issued and Enforced Looking
to Preservation of Order During
Carnival Time.

Chief Hayes is doing his utmost toward
preserving order during this, the festival
season of. Kansas City. He gave explicit
instructions 20 the police yesterday to ar
rest incautious youths along the parade
lines who shall make rude remarks to wom-
en- on the floats. Smart boys who stick
pins and knives in the horses will also be
arrested.
II don't care who the offenders may be-
said Chief Hayes last night, II will have
them brought TO the station and they will
be given a choice between a S1OO cash bond
or a few nights in the holdover. The most
strenuous measures will be used in pre-
serving decency."
two firms in Kansas-City had made prepa-
rations to distribute yardsticks to the
populace. An urgent request was sent to
the merchants to reconsider their inten-
tions. They promptly signified compli-
ance.
At least thirty mounted policemen will
accompany the paradeS. Twelve officers
will head the professions. while ten will
ride along the side. There will be other
mounted men for special duty. Patrol
wagons will accompany the line of march
on each side of the parade 10 gather in the
disorderly characters
So far the efforts of the police to fore
warn the public have met with gratifying
results. There were very few arrests yes
terday and these chiefly harmless drunks
or men spotted for investigation
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
ONE OF THE K. K. K. FLOATS
How CuchuIIin, Irelnnd's Theseus,
Conquered the Invading Hosts
of Morse Vikings.

The historical portion of the Irish section
is representation of Cuchullin, the IA
nous Irish chieftain whose greatest deeds
are supposed to have been wrought about
the year A D. $50. Cuchullin was the son
of Semo, but the history of those times is
SO veiied in the mists OF obscurity-there
is such mixture of the real and mytho-
losical-that popular tradition places him
among the giants who We're supposed to
have inhabited the island in the beginning.
The story of his prowess is told in the
legends of Ossian. the Homer Of Ireland,
and he is represented as successfully COM
batting the king of the sea at the place
where the great Giants Causeway rears
aloft its basaltic columns the north
coast.
Cuchullin was really an Irish chieftain.
of the ante-Christian period in Ireland. who
fought at the head of his clan against
! those kings of the sea-" the Norsemen or
Scandnavians, in the frequent expeditions
for territory and tribute which they made
from their homes in the North sea. Cuch-
uilin met and repeled them. and it is the
practical description of this fight at the
Giants Causeway which has been seized
upon as the subject for the float. Ussian
in his epic poem "Fingal,'' tells of the car
of Cuchuiin in the following beautiful de-
scription:
Rise. son of ocean; rise, chief of the
dark brown shields. l see the disk, the
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05

ders in Transforming dark pantalooned
.ess OF ordinary mortals into llthe, slen-
de- limbs of fairy characters with their
bright. fllmy covering of gay colored us-
sues, but there yet remained work to lie
done. The official costumer was in great
demand last night from about half past =
until O'Clock. 1t was, Mrs Kellogg.
went you tie my SASH" and Mrs. kel-
loge, can't you put this pin in for me?'
and Mrs. Kellogg, how do women fasten
things down the back anyway? until th>
Official costumer might have been as dis
tressed as the old woman who lived in a
shoe and whose children gave her SO much
troUDe. But she wasn't.
After the costumes had been finally ar
ranged there were the hair dressers to be
consulted and an introduction to be made
into the mysteries of the facial artists pro-
fesSion. And that was not all. There was
many an odd and end to be looked after,
and -.
''Rustle 'em out" cried the authoritative
for-the-occasion, j. Z. Loomas. as
the hands on his watch pointed to a quarter
of $. There was stir and hustle then
Float No. l." came the order. all ready
now." The maids in the garden gave one
last lingering look at themselves in all
their loyeliness. Old King Cole gave a
final readjustment to his venerable wig. The
three little kittens got their kitten heads
in readiness to put on, when the last mo-
ment arrived. ana noble cock robin had TO
remove his mask in order TO give his itch-
ing nose final scratch. That poor scape-
goat, the Jack of Hearts. in red satin and
silver rushed into line while he awkward-
poor frog. who would a-wooing go had
scarcely begun his toilet when his Sayly
appointed carriage was announced at the
door
Last float. step lively, now
With a dab of powder here d final touch
of the blushing rouge there-one more line
across the eyebrows and little pencil
mark under the lower lashes to give the
eye a clearer outline-the last adjusting
twist of sash. bow, drapery and whatnot,
most of 1t done on the wing, and the den,
which but moment before had been the
scene of gay costuming, was at last de-
serted save for the attendants.
The costumes or the Priests of Pallas
previous to last night had all been tried on
md nnch rnArfnrrner kna1u inst Whit
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
COTS WERE IN DEMAND.
All of the Hotels of the City Filled Up
and Still More Com

The hotels had big run of business yes
terday and last evening were all filled with
guests Not a house had a vacant room left
and in most of them cots had been put up
in order to care for the guests that con-
tinued to come. The houses had been pretty
we'll filed up since Sunday when the crowd
first began coming and requests for ac-
commodations had been coming in stead
lily for ten days. Ali of the houses had
made special preparations to care for
guests and as long as they came, efforts to
care for them were continued,
The Midland was supplied with about 200
cots and was able to furnish accommoda-
tions for nearly all comers- The Coates
House had a supply of cots and had to use
some of them The Savoy had all rooms
filled and cots all over the house and all
the other houses were filled up to the limit
with business.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
HIS IDEA OF THE HALL.
The Impression Kansas Cify's Great
Auditorium Made on One
Carnival Visitor.

That there is but Il step from the
sublime to the ridiculous received an
other illustration at the new Con-
vention hall yesterday. Many of the
visitors to the city take pains to go and
see this immense auditorium and many are
the expressions of awe and admiration
which the big building brings out. Stand
ing in one of the galleries and loolSins
across the vast area impresses one much
as does the sight of mountains or the sea.
Simple yet grand in its mighty outlines,
workmen across the great space look like
pigmies engaged in a fruitiess effort TO
build up the home of a giant. Yesterday
among the sightseers who climbed on to the
south gallery was an old farmer, with a
little cluster of whiskers on his chin. He
gazed down into the great abyss OF the
arena, and a look of awe stole over his
face as he realized the immensity of the
building. His lips parted in a smile, his
eyes sparkled and he seemed to draw his
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
ESTIMATED AT $4,000.
The Carnival Visitors Test the Pns-
senger Department of the Rail-
roads Centering Here.

..J think there are as many people in the
city to see the parade as came TO see II
last year. Our business indicates II, SAID
Walton Holmes, of the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company, last evening. Ihe
travel from the depot this evening was not
as heavy as ii was last year, but account
for that because the crowds nave beeh
coming since Sunday morning and very
large number were in the city ahead of the
parade. The travel on the lines IN the city
indicates the presence of very large
crowd
The depot officials were at a loss last
evening to express an opinion as to the
comparatiye crowds of this and former
years. because the travel this year extend
ed over three days, while last year 1t was
punched more. They were satisfied with
the attendance and said it was big enough
to make all the business they cared TO
handle. The trains that reached the city
Yesterday carried large crowds, the santa
Fe alone bringing in over 4.ooo people. Ihe
Union Pacific brought in all It's regular ana
three special trains heavily loaded, ana the
other lines did a handsome business. All
of the lines have had a heavy business
since Sunday morning and not line had
cause for complaint last evsnins ;n,f sest.rdav
and ran ali of its incoming trains in two
sections and then had three specials be-
sides II handed an dov9 hoFi1ops os for as Jopn
The Port Arthur and Frisco lines from the
same territory did fine business ana land
ed large numbers of visitors IN the city
from the same territory.
The baggage department of the depot had
plenty to do and the check stands had their
bundles piled high along the walls as the
stands all overfiowed early in the day.
The best Indications last evening pointed
to the crowd being as large as 1t was last
year and il was estimated then at 5o00O. 1t
was enough to fill the city full last even
ing and there was quite as little space. left
seen at any of the parades of recent years.
The people Of the territory adjacent to
Kansas City have again given their ap-
proval and Endorsement to the Priests OF
Pallas and testified by their presence to
the excellence of the entertainment that
had been provided for them in the years
hat aSf
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
those children and those children's chill
A BenutffuI Pageant.

Hercules, of tabled memory, performed
twelve labors and the last was the great
est OF all the twelve. The Priests of Pal
las have also performed twelve herculean
labors in carrying TO a successful concia-
sion Kansas City's beautiful pageant, and
the last was the greatest of them all. As the
years go by the Priests Of Pallas parade
is not dwarfed by the other events that
have been incorporated into Carnival
week. It stands out as distinctive and
indispensable as ever and will always sus-
tain this relation TO the other events of
the fall festivities. The manner in which
the parade was received showed that the
change from erudite mythology and unfd-
miliar history was n welcome one. The
crowds that thronged the streets were de-
lighted with the selection of the subject
and with the splendid manner in which it
was handled by the artists. While mythol-
ogy and history lend themselves more COM
pletely to gorgeous effects than nursery
rhymes, yet the latter are susceptible of
very effective treatment, as was amply
demonstrated last night. The crowds un-
derstood what the parade was about and
that Is large part of complete enjoy
ment of such a spectacle.
II was enduring testimonial to the
marvellous hold of those remarkable jim
giles upon the memories, IL not the affec-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
FEW LEFT THE CITY.
Nearly All the Visitors Remained to
Witness the Rest of the Carni-
val Features.

Each year since King Ki I<i began his
visits to Kansas City the crowd which left
town after the first nights festivities has
grown smaller. Last night there were a
great many less people went away than on
the first night year ago. AS the rail-
roads all report that they have brought in
fully as many people as they did for the
first days festivities last year. this indf-
Gates that many more people have re-
mained in the city to enjoy another day
of the festival events. There was only a
comfortable crowd at the Union depot, and
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
Oregon voting for senator.

SALEM, ORE, Oct. 4.-Both houses to.
arate session. The vote was as follows.
House-H. w. Corbett. %; McGeorge. 10:
Bennett Dem.) IS. Senate-Corbett. N.
George H Williams. T. s. Eaken. 3; A.
Il; George, s: Williams, L: Eakeu /.
Cotton, 1: Bennett. G. AS forty-six votes
are necessary to a choice, there was no
election.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05

, the special trains were loaded without the
usual iostling and scrambling which oc
ours when the thr5ns about the platforms
Is dense. Indeed, OF those who did go away,
the majority were to towns close by where
the round trip fare was from dollar down.
They could go home as cheaply as they
! could stay here, and they will all be back
to-day. People who live at greater dis
tance seem to be remaining in the city until
the festivities are over.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN
Joseph NJ. Bennett Gives University
of Pennsylvania 100000 to BE
Devoted TO 1t.

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. AT n meeting
to-day of the trustees of the University
of Pennsylvania, it was announced that
Colonel Joseph NJ. Bennett. the late mer-
chant and philanthropist. had bequeathed
to the institution a number of valuable
properties. valued at over 800 900. to be de-
voted to the higher education of women.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
Fort Scott hand serenade..

The Fort Scott Concert band. one of
the many excellent musical organizations
in the city to take part in the festivities
of the week. spent an hour or two after
its arrival yesterday morning IN serenad-
ing the different newspaper offices. The
members of the band are nearly all young
men and their appearance in their neat
cadet gray uniforms is as pleasing as
their music.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05

have 4 fierce struggle on his hands-or fms
The decoration of the chargers occupied
the time and attention of two of the work
men yesterday afternoon.
The float on which the maid of Erin
who, by the way, is TO be the real thing
Will ride is almost completed The fair
Irish maiden will repose on an emeral
couch in a veritable sunburst of golden
tinsel The little Scandinavian chapel be-
fore which the Swedish wedding is to be
performed received its finishing touches
last night. and the high throne where the
mighty Chaiemagne will sit for his re-
crowning was given its final decorations of
gold.
All of the work of preparation is under
the direction of Professor William Weber.
the designer of the floats. He is confident
that the display will surpass all previous
efforts of the X. X. n. The costumes
which the real, live people in the parade
will wear have arrived and will exceed in
splendor any which have ever been worn in
Kansas City.
AS for the floats and the dummies which
will ride on them. the workmen will have
them in readiness before the time for the
parade to start, says Professor Weber.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
Scene at the "Den."

AZ the Priests OF Pallas den the scene
was an inspiring one. Long before dark
those in charge of the parade began their
preparations. The light bearers gathered
in swarms and the lights were distributed.
Oriental costumes were donned and as the
floats were taken from the den one by
one and formed in order the light bearers
took their places
Inside the costume room a merry mas
querade was going on. Cats and mice and
geese. Erotesquely attired characters from
the pages Of Mother Goose. were running
hither and yon. The confusion was bewild-
eringiy fantastic. But out of the be-
spangled chaos there came swift order as
the order 10 mount the floats was given.
1t looked at one time as il there was GO
ing to be a storm. 4 great mass of lower
ing clouds through which the lightning
quivered at intervals formed in the north.
But they passed away and there was not
4 sprinkle 10 mar the occasion.
Though IL seemed as II the parade could
not possibly start on time all the details
We're arranged and the vast crowds were
not kept waiting a minute. The parade
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05

1.0s0 new depositors have opened account,
at the Missouri Savings bank. Seventh and
Delaware, since January I. 1888.
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cat that caught the rat that ate the malt
that lay in the house that Jack built. The
malt was not there. hut Jack looked as if he
knew where some of he manufactured prod
uct into which the raw material was made
had gone.
\ ganishment of huge autumn leaves
formed very effective setting 10 the
picture.
Float No. 3 represented the nursery IA
vorite, There was an old woman tossed
up in a basket" The old woman was there,
peaked hat. spectacles. flowing robes and
all. She was comfortably seated in gilt
basket, Of not very large proportions. be-
Beath n canopy of silver. which appeared
to be supported by spider webs of most
delicate structure. Silver and delicate pink
tints predominated. making an effect that
was most dazzling and beautiful.
Float No. 10 represented the -Four and
twenty tailors." A garden snail of man.
moth proportions appeared to be the master
of the situation, the dininutive tailors. nine
in number, appropriately costumed, being
merely lay figures of a very pretty concep-
ton. Mammoth leaves and foil work in
Frofusion rounded out a picture that
amused the little ones and earned the adj
miration of adults.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05

figure up to its full height and expand his
chest Then he slowly drawled:
Gosh; wouldn't that hold pile of hay?
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05
Points of Vantage.

Any elevated place where Il human being
could hang on served as a point of obser-
walton. Windows were full all along the
line of march Girls dangled their feet
from the lodges of second or third story
windows while more sedate and older peo-
pie contented themselves with merely look
ing out. Along lower Grand avenue chairs
We're placed upon the display benches in
front of the stores and rented early in the
evening.
Bootblack stands with elevated seats
were early out of the market-all taken
Bales OF hay were piled up in front of the
feed stores and the people clambered upon
them and so had position of vantage.
Show windows which We're at all elevated
were filled with chairs and people. The
tempting amphitheaters along Grand ave
nue. were crowded. Every place from
which the parade could be seen was occu-
pied. Even the fire hydrants and the city
trash cans supported people too tired 10
stand, and thrifty teamsters drove good
trade by filling their wagons with chairs
and renting these TO those who wanted to
see.
And then after all these places of want
age had been taken the crowds filed the
sidewalks and surged out beyond nearly 10
the center of the streets. a solid mass of
humanity all along the line OF parade from
Lydia avenue 10 the end. Eight. ten or
twelve deep. in solid phalanx. they lined
the streets outside the sidewalks making
an outpouTiug Of people which in its i'm
mensity has seldom been eXcelled in Kan
gas CITY
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The Fiddling Cat.

Float No. II was feline proposition
throughout. 1t illustrated "a Cat Came
Fiddling Out of Barn" But in this case
there was not fiddle in sight, but grass
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tions, of the people to witness the famili-
arity of the people with tne various SUBJ
jects. Mother Goose is cnudhood's Homer
and her pages have been well conned
There was little cudgeling of recollection
as those wonderful pictures were present.
ed and the people enjoyed them to the
uttermost.
There were two specially pleasing feat
ures to the parade. II started absolutely
on time and the weather was the proverb-
ial Priests of Pallas weather. Taken all
in all. Kansas City's fall festivities were
inaugurated under the most favorable aus
pices.
The age-herald., 1898-11-16
DEATH OF S. I. JONES.
Went to Colorado to Search for
 Health.

Tuscaloosa, November 15.-(Special.)-A telegram was received today announcing the death of s. I. Jones at Rocky Ford, Col MT. Jones was the former editor or the Tuscaloosa American. He had recently sold his paper to Messrs. Brazelton and Someryille and started to Colorado in search of health. It is thought that the l.resome journey was the direct cause or his death, as his friends had no considered his condition as liable to result fatally at least for some time. MT. Jones leaves a widow and three children, who are now in Montgomery.
 The University of Alabama has received from the war department a consignment of ammunition, etc., allowance for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899. This is sent in accordance with requisition made early in the present year.
 E Lewis Weatherford happened to a painful accident Saturday afternoon while playing Boomer girls. He was out on the line and colllded with the baseman the third, fracturing the little finger bone of his right hand. The home team won the game against girls.
 The musical faculty of the Tuscaloosa Female college will give their annual re- cital Thursday evening in inc college chapel.
 Samuel Hinton, Jr. has returned home, having just been mustered out from service in the army. His was among the first regi- mcnts that sailed from San Francisco to Mania.
The age-herald., 1898-11-16

and he said that in one case Chief Quarter master Lee had refused to allow the regi- ment to have tent, which was stored and
 which was it's property. Colonel Lee said that the tent could not be taken out except in the proper military manner, but the regi- ment had never been able to ascertain
 what he required and had never secured
 the tent. The vacancy was supplied by
 taking the officers tent for hospital pur- poses. In this connection Dr. Weaver ex-
 pressed the opinioQ that this conduct on the part of Colonel Lee was an outrage, and the only mistake that the doctor and his colonel had made was that "they had not taken the colonel by the nape of the
 neck and kicked him out of the camp" pr. Weaver said he had been the only
 surgeon on duty with his regiment, the other two being detailed to other service.
 He had been on duty as long as forty-two hours at a time. but he had never made any complaint, because 1t was generally
 known that the surgeons in tha regiment | were over-worked.
 The witness expressed the opinion that | the hospital facilities should be furnished | by the government, adding that not an ar 1 ticle of property in his hospital had been 1 thus supplied, the citizens of Pennsylvania | buying beds, blankets, sheets and all the l food, ice and milk that had been used 1 there. They had expended S2,00o on the
 hospital alone
 Transports Were Overcrowed Major Louis A. LaGrande, regular l army surgeon, who was in charge or the l division hospital at Siboney, said the trans l ports taking troops from Cuba were over 1 crowded and the air was very fetid and | hot. On his steamer, the Saratoga, thir- | teen cases of fever had developed going l over. E5e had received his first patients i on the 1st of July from Aguadores and Fl | Caney, and by the 4th of July four or i've | hundred patients had been received. The 1 majority of them were shipped north as l rapidly as possible. The men sent north l were supplied with all that could be spared, 1 but the hospital authorities felt that those l who went north, even though short of at 1 tendance and supplies. were taking fewer | chances than those who remained, as yell l low fever was even then beginning to make l its appearance.
 l The doctor said that as the patients at l the hospital increased he called for add.- l tional physicians, securing some from corps headquarters, and also the aid of doctors I of the navy, and also Cuban and Red Cross | doctors. There was, however, a shortage l of nurses, as the military necessities were
 such that it was impracticab,e to keep as | many men at work in this capacity as were | needed. There was a sufficient quantity | of medical supplies if they could have been l unloaded. Tn lighters were all used for 1 unloading articles of military equipment. | and it had been next to impossible to get | the hospital supplies landed.
 l Dr. LaGrande had not concluded his tes- 1 timony when the commission adjourned for
 the day.