The age-herald., 1898-02-10
HAVE BEGUN ID DECORATE
Gay Carnival CoIors Float to tho
 Breeze. RULES GOVERNING REX BALL
The Magnificent Floor Will Accommodate Five Hundred Couples on the Floats
 Rapidly Nearing Completion.

Already the merchants have begun deco
 rating their places of business with the Mardi Gras colors and the dry goods stores are selling hundreds of yards of yellow
 purple and green bunting Flags of Rex
 Vulcan IT. are floating from the tops of the principal buildings and the decorations this year will be more lavish than ever. The work of draping the Auditorium has not yet begun, but it has been given out that when finished it will be work or art.
 Work on the building rapidly progresses and all day long is heard the sound of hammer and saw The temporary floor is wanting but wax to make 1t ready for the dancers. The carpenters are now working on the steps and seats. The floor
 space will adequately accommodate 5OJ couples, and there will be sufficient seats
 for the spectators.
 The finances of the carnival society are in excellent condition, and this year there
 will only be small deficit if any. Last year after everything was over the society
 was found to be about s1,700 in debt This has all been paid, the last payment having
 been made Monday.
 The work on the floats is progressing
 rapidly under the direction of Designer German and a number are now ready for
 mounting.
 The rules governing the Rex ball have
 been completed and are as follows:
 Persons desiring admission to the floor
 must be either in costume, or, if ladies, in
 evening dress, if gentlemen. in full dress.
 All maskers must submit to an examina-
 ton by lifting the face mask before the examination committee.
 Persons entitled to admission to the floor, but not appearing in regular dress as stated will be directed to the spectators gallery. Admission tickets to the floor are fur nished by the committee invitation free of charge. To all members of the Birm.ng- ham Carnival society and their ladies, also to their invited guests from abroad. these tickets being mailed by the committee di- rectly to the addresses furnished the com mittee In no instance will tickets issued to strangers be recognized if presented by citizens of Birmingham To Rex's aides, body guards and honored guests, represent atives of the press and such members of the military as participate in the parades. To those citizens of Birmingham who. all though not members of the Carnival so- ciety have subscribed to the carnival fund the sum of at least BIO.
 Tickets to the floor may be purchased for s. each ticket admitting a lady and gen tleman, If application for such ticket is made through member of the Carnival society Under no circumstances can tick cts issued be transferred. will tickets be accepted at the door from any one ex- cept the person whose name appears upon the card.
 Complimentary tickets to the Spectators gallery are issued by the committee on invitation to such strangers as may be in- yted by subscribers to the carnival fund. All such tickets mailed by the com mittee direct to the addresses furnished them by the subscribers, each ticket bear ing the name of the subscribers requesting the issuance of same.
 Complimentary tickets to the spectators, gallery will not be issued to citizens of Birmingham and all such tickets presented at the door by a resident of the city will | be rejected
 | Tickets to the spectators gallery will be sold at the door for $1 each.