The record-union., 1898-06-04
HORRIBLE OR NOT HORRIBLE
HOW SHALL WE CELEBRATE
THE NATAL DAY?
Citizens Who Favor Sort OF Mardi
Gras, and Others Who
Oppose It.


several subcommittee and transact
ing such other business as might come
before it.
The Secretary announced that V. ..
McClatchy had been appointed Chalr
man of the Literary Committee, instead
of Elwood Bruner, who declined 10
serve W. H. Sherburn was appointed
to fill out the committee.
Mr. McClatchy, for the Literary Com
mittee, reported that Elwood Bruner
had been chosen for the orator OF the
day, and Thomas c. Heffron for reader.
The report was approved.
A. J. Johnston, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Parade, reported IN gen
eral manner that arrangements are be-
ing made for a big parade, one Oh the
features of which will be companies OF
school children from each Of the schools
in the city and county. Five hundred
pupils have already volunteered to
march in the parade, and he felt that
that number would be quadrupled. Be
sides this. the committee is arranging
for representation of all the trades in
the city Companies representing each
department of the railroad shops Will
be in line, and other features will be
added.
The committee had also decided, he
said, to present each person in line with
small flag, and each school that turns
out any considerable company with a
large flag. The old chestnut" Of floats
will be left out. It was estimated that
10000 flags will be required. the cost
of which has not yet been determined.
The report Of the committee was ap-
proved.
c. NJ Beckwith, Chairman of the
Committee on Evening Entertainment,
reported that while no definite action
had as yet been taken, it was proposed
to give an old-time pyrotechnical dis
play that will be a credit to the day and
to the city.
Then the ball opened. George III.
Clark informed the Chairman-Mayor
Land-that deputation from the Hor-
ribles Committee was present and re-
Quested a hearing.
Charles T. Hughes. Chairman of the
Horribfes, addressed the committee, ex-
planning that the body represented by
him had duly met, organized and ap-
pointed committee to confer with the
General Fourth of July Committee with
a view to arranging for a parade of
Horribles on the afternoon of the
Fourth. A system had been adopted,
he said, which would harmonize with
arrangements already made or that are
being made, and the parade would not
start until after the bicycle races at
Oak Park are finished. In the past any
moneys left over by the General Com
mittee had been appropriated to aid the
Horribles, and that was what he de-
sired to request of the committee this
year. 1t would take at least $500 to
insure good parade of Horribles-the
money to be expended in prizes. If $500
could be had from the General Com
mittee the Horrible Committee would
make a canvass for the rest Of the
amount needed.
]. E. Mayo said the Horribles were
historical in the United States, and had
foundation away back at the time the
people Of Boston disguised themselves
as Mohawk Indians and dumped a
shipload of British tea into the bay.
v. S. McClatchy said that as a por-
ton of a Fourth of July celebration,
particularly in a year Of this kind, a
parade of Horribles did not meet with
his approval. If the Horrible parade in
any way interfered with any other fea-
fure Of the day he should certainly op-
pose it. If considered as a parade en-
tirely separate from and in no wise de-
pendent upon the General Committee
1t might do to fill a gap but he thought
It an improper way to display patriot
ism.
DR.. j. S. Curtis, the genial janitor OF
the City Hail. wanted the Horribles. He
said that while his conversion to Chris
tianity would preclude his taking an
active part in the parade. he had taken
part in many. He knew that the Hor-
rible parade would draw bigger crowd
than any other feature, and the crowd
was what was wanted.
J. O. Coleman said he agreed with
Mr.. McClatchy. He considered a pa
rade of Horribles to be a desecration OF
the day. It had been virtually admit
ted by those who requested aid for the
Horribles that they could not control
the characters represented. He recalled
that two years ago a man represent
ing a hula-hola dancer had been one
of the attractions, and had cast an in
suit in the teeth of the whole city.
Isador Alexander said he could add
nothing to what had been said by
Messrs Hughes and Mayo. He believ-
ed in Horribles, and thought they would
prove a drawing card.
George II. Clark favored Horribles
He thought the business men Of the
city. as a rule, wanted them, and did
not understand now tlleS CodlU UStAea
from a celebration or from pent-up pa
triotism.
Mr. McC1atchy said he did not oppose
the Horribles as an Independent organi-
zation, but that he did object to their
being officially acknowledged by the
General Committee. The committee
had been appointed to devise a patriotic
celebration, and patriotism and Hor-
ribles were widely separated The
wheelmen, who are arranging for a
great meet for the afternoon, are not
an integral part Of the General Com
mittee. nor should they be, and the
same could with equal justice be said OF
the Horrible Committee.
D. w. Carmichael said he was not
tn favor of Horribles on Fourth of
July. and more especially at this stage
of the game. He said people should
show their patriotism, and not their
Stiffness. The bicycle meet at Oak
Park. he said, promises to be great
one. and ought to be seen by everybodl
interested in manly sports. People