Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-11
co MAD WITH M|RTH.
High Carnival in Rock Island
Terminates Harvest
Festival.
BECOMES NEXT TO PANDEMONIUM.

1 TO Ceiebrate-Paraue, Drilis ana ffiHes
| and the Old Fashioned Country Dance
| oa Nineteenth Street.
| High carnival reigned in the streets
of Rock Island Saturday night as the
concluding feature of the harvest
home festival. While the celebration
| started in innocent merry maxim e,
the outbreak of good feeling became
so rampant that it partook of the
nature of misunderstanding, and the
spirit which was intended to be only
demonstrative, approached very
closely to the destructive. Yet it can
hardly be said there was a tendency
! toward vandalism, as nothing suffered
other than the temporary structures
and decorations which signaliZed the
event There were instances, to be
sure, where bunting was torn, and
the main arches attacked, but this
was not the prevailing il clination.
| There is no doubt but what those who
participated in the spontaneous out
| burst of enthusiasm went to greater
extremes tnan they intended to. One
| thing led to another until ii seemed
as if nothing would satisfy the pre-
dominating disposition but the re-
| which typified the main object of the
occasion. The crowd was good
| natured and probably meant no harm.
The demonstration really began Fri
| day night with the throwing of grains
of corn. This was repeated early Sat
| urday evening, and led to the tossing
of wheat tassels in the faces of people
along the street. Then some people
I sha
then corn from the cornstalks, and
then general stampede. If, at the
incipiency, the police had taken the
m tier in hand, probably the whole
difficulty could have been avoided, but
when it was at it's height. it was be-
yond control. As it is there is Moth
ing to be done but let it 90, but it is
n safe assertion that a celebration will
not be carried to such extremes in
Rock Island again.
The Procession.
1t was with much difficulty that the
p, occasion made its way along Second
avenue, which was congested mass
of humanity. The line was formed
on Eighteenth street between Second
aud Third avenues, and included a
platoon of police. Bleuer's and Peter
sens bands, bicycles, WoOdmen for
esters and the brownies. & A Spen-
Ger. Thomas Van Tuyl, Mike Mint
and A. j. Lloyd each had attractive
floats. Sp ncer's was drawn by four
Young men-vellow fellows dressed as
Chinamen-while Van Tuyl's was n
canvas battleship. Some of the riders
were disguised in grotesque makeups.
The brownies made a cute appearance,
while the foresters went through ar
tistic maneuvers during the march
that brought cheers from the specta-
tors
The brownies and foresters, the for
mer the under direction Of Mrs. Mae
Jacobs. gave their drills on Market
square at the conclusion of the pa
rade The little folks, attired in gor-
geously comieal costumes, executed
movements that were clever indeed.
The foI esters' contest was between
the teams of Camps Nos. 20 and 500.
The first prize. $50, was awarded to
Camp 20, and the second, $40. to 500.
The Judges of the foresters' drill were:
Capt. III. A. Mcdonald, of this city;
and Capt. Frank Clendcnin and Lieut..
l.. X. Gaylord, of Moline. The bicycle
awards were made at the Harper
house, the judges, j w. WEIGH,
Charles McHugh and w. II. Mar
shall, distributing the prizes as fol-
lows: Floats--First, Thomas Van
Tuyl; second, c. A. Spencer; third,
Mike MINT; fourth, Edmond Robb.
Decorated wheels: (Artistic) -Ladies,
first, Miss Nettie Freeman; second,
Miss Nellie Rosene. Gentlemen's,
first, A. j. Lloyd; second. Adelbert
Head. Comic wheels: First. Hugh
Burt: second. James Sullivan.
Following are the names of the
children who took part in the brownie
drill: rownies-Masters Virgil ia
cobs, George Ehmke, Ray Daus herty,
Steve Spencer, Gussie Stewart, Albert
Huesing. Frank Young. Stewart Hoff-
man. Willie Leithner, Harry Schroe-
der. Forest Wood. Ben Benson. Otto
Fiebig, Bert Benson, Carl Krell. Harry
Hoffman, Harry Knox, Birdie OIL
weller Fairies-Misses Elsie Linn.
Zetta Benson. Grace Taylor. Edna
Bateman, Edna PfafT. Mary KrOX.
Grace Mold. Bessie Bladel. Cora Pfaff.
Henrietta Leithner. Grace Bladel.
Cora Leidke, Myrtle Wood, Marguer-
tie Jacobs, Mildred Pfaff, Constance
Linn, Myrtle Schroeder.
Country Dance Feature.
The country dance on platform at
the corner of Nineteenth street and
Second avenue was we'll patroniZed
until as late as midnight Many of
those who triPped the light fantastic
were dressed in rural garb, even the
members of the "orkestree' being
attired in overalls ard straw hats.
Corn throwing began early in the
evening. When corn was no longer
available beans were purchased. one
grocer selling 81 worth The hilar-
itv eventually reached the stage
where the destruction OF the decora-
tons vas commenced, and il contin-
ued until sea cely . stalk was left
standing on Second avenue from Fiji