The oasis., 1899-02-04
Carnival at HermosilIo.

from Hermosillo an item which should have appered in the paper last week, calling attention to the carnival that is to take place in the Sonora capital on the I1th, 12th, 18th and 14th of February. The letter conveying the item did not reach the office until late Saturday forenoon, and in the hurry Of getting the paper upon the press it's importance was overlooked and the item was omitted-much to the regret of the editor, for he had promised the committee in Hermo. sillo to take up the matter last week
 The item here mentioned gave no- tice of the carnival and conveyed the information that the Southern Pa cific, Maricopa & Phoenix, New Mex ico & Arizona and Sonora railway. have arranged to sell excursion tick cts at half rates to Hermosillo from Phoenix, Tempe, Maricopa, Tucson Benson and intermediate points.
 The festivities will extend over foul days, as outlined above, and will ope1 on the evening of the 1lth with s general illumination and grand torch light procession and parade of fire works, which will start from tho Plaza Principal at eight o'clock, trav ersing Gales Carmen and Don Luis and returning to the point of depart ure, where the evenings festivities will end witli band concert, the ex cellent bano of the Fifth regiment having been engaged to discourse mu sic throughout the entire festa season.
 At three o'clock in the afternoon oi the l2th there will be grand car nival procession consisting of ale gorical cars and floats with trades displ avs, carriages elegantly adorned spirited cavalcade and a bicycle parade. The parade will start from the Plaza Principal at the hour named, and will proceed, via Calle Don Luis to the railway station where the King of the CarnlvaP and his magnificent suite, will be re ceiyed with all due ceremony, amid the enthusiasm of the populace. Af ter the ceremony at the depot, the procession, preceded by his august majesty, will return to the point oi departure and disperse.
 h the evening of the l2th grand fancy dress ball will be given in the building of the College of Sonora, the spacious court of which will be con verted into a magnificent ball room, and this and the entire structure elegantly decorated and brilliantly lighted by thousand electric burn CTS, will be converted into a veritable fairy palace.
 On the 18th, for two hours in the afternoon, between and 5 o'clock, the streets of the city will be given over to merry m akers, who will liter. ally encarnadine the thoroughfares in vigorous battle in which the in. struments of az gression will be
 
 the participants in which floral cam paign will be the youth and beauty of the capital of Sonora.
 In the evening of the same day there will be a general illumination and a grand promenade concert.
 On the afternoon of the l4th, at the gates of the Alameda, at the east end of Calle Don Luis, there will be rendered an agreeable and surprising programme, the details of which the committee of direction will keep profound secret until developed for the public editication.
 In the evening the festal season will terminate with grand fancy dress ball at the College of Sonora.
 The commission in charge of the arrangements of this approaching carnival have made every effort to naka tho OccaSiOD me Of marked in-