Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-05

moved sharply at O'Clock, the floats being
in the following order:
No. 1-Pallas Athene.
No. Mother Goose.
No. 3-The Frog and the Mouse.
No. 4-The Three Wise Men of Gotham.
No. 5-The Queen of Hearts.
No. 6-The Marriage of Cock Robin and
Jenny Wren.
No. The Death of Cock Robin.
No. S-The House That Jack Built.
No. IO-Four and Twenty Tailors.
No. IA Cat Came Fiddling Out of
No. 12-Peter. Peter, Pumpkin Eater.
No. 1S-Mother Hubbard Goes to the Hat
No. 14-simple Simon Fishing for Whale
No. 15-Three Little Kittens Who Lost
Their AIittens.
No. l6-Four and Twenty Sailors.
No. 11-Old King Cole.
No. 1S-Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary.
No. l9-Dickery, Dickery. Dare.
No. 20.-The Matchless Oregon
The following were the bands which were
distributed throughout the parade:
Float No. 1-Mannolds band, Beloit. kas.,
20 men
Float No. S-Concert hand. Rich Hill. No..
Is men; Concert band, Paola, kas., 20 men.
Float No. 6-Mountain City band. Au-
rora, Mo-. % men; Firemens band, Galena,
kas., 20 men
Float No. e-DrexeI band. DrexeI, Mo-,
Is men; Firemen's band, Pittsburg. Kas.,
Float No. I2-Citizens' band, Columbus
I[as., . men; Concert band, Fort Scott,
Float No i5-Concert band. Bolton, Mo-.
10 men; Buxton's band, Paola, Kas., %
men.
Float No. lS-Citizens' band. Webb City,
Mo, 20 men; Union band, Hiawatha, kas.,
"a men.
Float No: 99-Kempsr 2, band, Sloan loan
Girard, kas., . men.
Headed by the Police.
First came platoon Of mounted police.
Mounted police always move in platoons
and these police were as alert and timely
as If they were after train robber clue.
Then came Pallas, by her queenly right.
From the towering height of a gorgeous
car. whose bed was lotus leaves, the royal
flower of dead old Egypt, she looked out
upon the sea of loyal faces through which
she moved. Her robes-they were supposed
TO be fresh from the looms of Thessalian
Olympus, and they looked just as splendid
as if they had. Above her head waved a
towering leaf that eormed a canopy fit to
shelter any goddess that ever ate ambrosia
ard drank nectar pop. The float was a
fitting vanguard for the gorgeous pageant
that was to follow. Her diamondS-how
Mother Goose-she was on float No. .
''as natural as life, and what shouts of
welcome she received all along the line of
march. There she was in the flesh as she
has been in the spirit almost ever since
children We're old enough to listen to her
SO iconoclastic that they have tried to rob
childhood of Santa Claus, and even Mother
Goose. But the latter is no myth. She was
in Kansas City last night and she came
right behind Pallas Athene herself. On a
cloud just next door to the moon she sat,
welding the scepter whose sway has been
children. young and old. And her goose
was there too, the most wonderful goose
whose feathers Were ever renovated. There
was plenty of frost in the scene, but there
was none in the reception which Mother
Goose got. Spangled and glittering in red
and black. she stood and smiled as well
comes were shouted on every hand.
The Frog who would a wooing go. was
depicted in float No. 3, and if marriage
proves a failure in this case, it will not be
because the artist did not give him fitting
send-off on the eventful occasion of his
marriage with the mouse. No more love
iy'' function was ever chronicled in the
society columns. Master Frog and Miss
Mouse in their best bib and tucker" stood
proudly before the assembled thousands,
supposedly glowing with the happiness OF
| their united hearts. The preacher sat un-
der n lily and a grasshopper played the
wedding march from ''Lohengrin." 1t was
an al fresco wedding. but not the less au-
| spicfous for all that. The scene proved very
effective with the crowds
Wise Men of Gotham.
1.-The Three Wise Men of Gotham" who
! went to sea in bowl formed one of the
| most striking scenes in the parade. There
was the bowl. tremendous affair. floating
upon the waves and there were the three
! wise men whose careers came near coming
| TO an untimely end through the medium of
1 a tremendous serpent, who was depicted
| in the act of biting a piece out of the
| bowl The wave effects and the gigantic
| serpent and fishes combined to make a
| very fine scene.
The Queen of Hearts" who made some
| tarts, was the subject of float No. .. and
| this was one of the masterpieces of the
| parade. The queen sat on a gorgeous
| throne and flaming flowers In the shape of
! hearts were in profusion. AT intervals
| about the float were bobtailed heart flush
| es-the ace, deuce, three and four of hearts
| in the sfmiIitude of playing cards. The
| foliage and heart flowers were the features
| of the scene. which was greeted with an
| plause all along the line, as it was really
! one of the finest in the parade. With the
1 queen were court attendants and the knave
| who stole the tarts.
The marriage of Cock Robin and Jenny
| Wren was one of the quaintest effects in
| the parade, and it elected laughter and
applause in abundance. The two principals
| in the marriage scene We're what Artemls
| Ward would call "amoosfn' cusses," and
| they We're married by an old black crow
who was not less comical. The attend
ants were various Inhabitants of the fields
and farmyardS and the setting was all that
| could be desired.
Then came the other side of the story
the sad ending of this little romance If
| nonsense. Float No. showed the death
of Cock Robin. There lay the little fellow
| stretched out on his back with a wicked
| arrow sticking through his poor ornithG-
! logical vitals. He lay under a bell that
| tolled the solemn tidings to the birds and
| beasts-told them that Cock Robin was
! dead. The sorrowing animals and birds
stood about, gazing upon the scene, but
the sparrow that made Jenny Wren a
! widow was not among the mourners.
| THE House That Jack Built seemed tc
| take immensely with the spectators and Il
was in reality characteristic scene from
| Mother Goose" Jack was there with The
| bride for whom he had built the house
both looking foolishly happy. standing amic
the rustling corn. At the back of the fioa
was the house itself and in the center the
| COW with the crumpled horn. tossing a very
| much crumpled dog that had worried th'