The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-07-08
MILWAUKEE CARNIVAL
The Annual June Event Passes
Off to the Satisfaction of
Assembled Thousands.
THE CITY FULL OF PEOPLE.
The Bay Brilliant Spectacle at
Night-The Floral Parade, Grand
Pageant and Other Events

the streets, buildings decorated, bands
playing, carnival rHbbernecks being sold
on the street and being operated by the
rubbernCckS who bought them, special
guides and programmes on sale visiting
yachts in the bay and in the harbor, deco
rated boats and scows and the general
holiday appearance of the city indicated
that the Milwaukee carnival of 1S99-thc
second affair of the kind-was a grand
success as far as the attendance was con-
cerned.
The liberal cent-a-mile rate granted by
the Wisconsin railroads and the system
attic and persistent advertising by the
milwaukee, Carnival association formed
combination that was Irresistible to the
people, and as Il result $4,000 visited the
Carnival city. remnants and drapings of
bunting and grepnery and flags and mock
ing carnival heads made the streets ap-
pear like those Of Venice, Of old New Or
leans, of any place but matter-of-fact
town of the middle West All the build
lngs from top story to plate glass VIII
doWS wore a blaze of color. From the
cornlces wide bands of the tri-coior fell.
draping windows and balconies in their
descent, and ending in the saucy, smiling
head of a Pierrot with a great spreading
coiored collar. The windows were hung
with cut paper in the chosen tnts, and
W. 'hiitS III tlIf NiIluoN uItSSlUH. from
flowers to fabric, We're OF carnva!
Shades. At the street corners high on
the telephone and telegraph poles bal
anced full-length paper mache figure
or cloWn-"a piebald fool, in red and
white. with painted face and pointed cap.
waving Il colored pennant over the
streams of people below, and smiling i'm
partially Oh all And across the asphalt.
from walk to walk, archcd the close rows
of colored electric lights, spanning the
way and enclosing it like a frame.
High over everything the city hall
tower reared its crown of electric lights,
with necklace of the lights like gems
farther down, and below Il blaze of the
lghts-in unfurled flag in the national
colors, and the tall letters to spell wei
come The effect of the city hall was
one of the best marked in ali the city's
Hghtings
All up and down the river the lights
of the various transportation lines hung
ON the steamboats, anchored and they
burned on the bridges, and lined the
shores, and were hung in long gltterins
lines from roofs to street itself Many
81 the shops and stores had erected
framework. covered with c6lored awning
in front, and wound them with green and
set them with lights, and the citrnival
heads and edged the while with tiny fly
ing flags.
Electrical Decorations.
ne feature OF the carnival llIumnnd-
tions, aside from the arches upon Grand
avenue and Wisconsin street, were the
electric lights upon the city hall and the
Pahst building. The circle of are lights
on the top of the Pabst building could be
seen from long distance and were very
beautiful.
The bands of colorcd lights around the
city hall tower blended very prettily and
from a distance were exceptionally beau
tlful. The sides of the Pabst office
building were brilliant with incandesccnt
lights tastefully arranged. Every night
during the week the electric light plants
of the city were drawn upon to their
utmost capacity. The use of electric
lights was much more general this year
than last and the result was that the
street illuminations were superb.
The first part of the programme, the
water carnival on the bay Tuesday night,
was not completely carried out because
Of the rainStorln which commenced about
9:3O o'clock and drove the spectators to
cover, but thousands and thousands nf
people from the bluffs along tile lake
shore and from boats on the lake itself.
defying the weather and scorning to be
troubled by such material things as damp
clothes and wet feet, witnessed a fairy
like spectacle III the bay, which for two
or three brief hours was transformed
into the Adliatic with the great water
fctc Of Venice in full sway. The rain
W
the hopes of those who had the Venetian
night fete in charge We're most firmly
fixed, and it helped to bring the spec
tacle to a Spcedier end than had been
originally planned, but it was. in spite
of these drawbacks. lovely enough to Suit
the most captions taste
Gov. Roosevelt arrived at 1 80 in the
evening on the North-Wcstnrn road and
was taken for a drive to witnes. thr IL
iumnation5 of the city. On Wednesday
morning Il banquet was given iii his hon
or at the milwaukee, club and from there
he was driven To Twenty y-fourth street
70 head the Floral parade, which gave
tn" thousands along the line of march Il
chance to view and cheer the famous
rough rider Gov. Roosevelt left on the
$50 tram TO catch the J:3D train for the
East at Chicago. The exciting fire run
through the principal streets accompa-
med BY special illuminations and search
Hght effects was the feature of the even
ing. Thursday was declared a public
holiday and thousands of people filled the
streets. The bands played in the Court
of Honor and in the parks in the morn
lng. and during the afternoon the street
parade of hundreds Of maskers, grotes-
qUely coStumcd, representing historic.
dramatic and artistic scenes was the
great attraction. After the diSbanding
OF the parade the maSkers We're given
special privileges and for Il time prac
tically ran III" city. In the evening
many Of the city's guests attended the
promenade concert in the Court of Hon
Or, and special musical entertainment
given for them at Schitz park.
The grand finale OF the carnival was
the gorgeous and magnificent pageant Of
twenty floats which passed through the
principal streets Friday evening. The
resident districts We're illuminated with
colored lights. and the music OF bands,
the cheers of thousands aided in the in
spring spectacle which can never be sur
passed. This grand display was fol-
lowed by Il carnival al freSco. the great
out-Of-doors social event of the carni-
val. The grounds Of the Calumet and
IeutScher clubs on the Court Of Honor
were illuminated for this event
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