The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-10
RED men ARE COMING
Crowd of Indians and Chiefs
Have Been Secured
FOR THE BIG CIVIC PARADE
All Decorations Must be Fin
ished by Sunday Night.

A band Of real live Indians will be one
of the attractions Of the civic parade Of
the Wichita Street Fair and Carnival to
be held in the streets OF Wichita next
week. The local lodge Of Red Men have
made arrangements for band of Indians
from Ponca City agency, headed by Chief
White Eagle, and accompanied bv other
noted chiefs. The Indians will arse in
time for the great civic parade and. will
take part under the direction of the Off
GERS Of Ouichita Lodge Of Red Men Of
this city They will probably appear in
the parade with their whr paint on and
viii go through all of the war dances and
other Indian gymnastics while in the
parade. This will be great attraction
and VIII enable the Red Men to have as
fine, and perhaps better, representation
IN the civic parade than any other civic
order. The lodge had quite a hard time
getting the consent of the Indian agent
for these splendid red men and they are
quite proud Of their effort in behalf Of the
Wichita Street Fair.
All of the floats have been taken by in
dividuals who are fitting them up in. tasty
style for the flower parade Secretary
Lockwood announces, however, that no
one will be permitted to see the floats
even those who have engaged them, with
out written permission from him, and
no outsiders will be allowed to see them
until they appear in the parade. They
have been stored in the Burton car works
until they are needed.
The work on the booths is progressing
rapidly but there is some dissatisfaction
over the inactivity Of those who have Sc
cured booths. They are not commencing
to decorate them sooIS enough, It is feared,
and II the matter IS delayed too long it
will be impossible to have the decorations
finished IN time for the opening next Mon
day. Fifty men were at work yesterday
on the booths and there is little doubt
but what all Of the mechanical work will
be finished within a day or two. Every
Booth, however, must be decorated. Sec
Rotary Lockwood said yesterday that If
all the decorations were not completed
by midnight next Sunday, such booth not
finished would be closed. 1t is desired that
everything between the magnificent
arches shall be handsomely trimmed in
the Street Fair colors when the gates are
thrown open to the public next Monday at
noon. AS stated before, the opening will
be announced by whistles, bells, cannons
frecrackers and every other conceivable
kind Of noise.
The block south Of the main compart-
ment for booths is being put in order for
the agricultural show which will doubtless
be one of the great attractions of the !
Fair. In this department all kinds of |
Sedgwick county farm products will be ex-
hibited. and the choicest livestock will be
put on exhibition there. The agricultural
exhibit is not being neglected by any
means.
It was expected that telegram would
be received from Ex-Governor Altgeld,
who has been invited by special messen- |
ger, but VI to closing hour last night
the secretary had not received Mr.. Alt |
geld's reply.
The main entrance arch Is about COM
pleted and is certainly one of the most |
beautiful things OF the kind ever seen at |
a street fair. The beautiful streamers and |
flags have been placed on the topmost |
parts Of the arch and give it a gay sp-
pearance, almost as gay as either the Co. |
lumbia or Shamrock yachts that are |
playing for honors off Sandy Hook.
A letter was received from Fritz HUT |
mann yesterday telling Of his progress in |
billing the towns throughout the western |
part of the state along the Santa Fe. He /
is billing thoroughly and says that every /
where he stops people are iudustriously /
talking Wichita Street Fair. He thinks /
every man, woman and child between |
Wichita and the Colorado line will be |